Smallthoughts: Rave of the Week…Aaron Boone

After a exhausting search the New York Yankees finally named a new manager…Aaron Boone. At first I didn’t think it was a good hire mainly because the Yankees made it clear they want a manager they can manipulate as opposed to Joe Girardi who they clearly despite his record felt he didn’t work well with

Smallthoughts: Rants and Raves

Rants: Brian Cashman …there is a Sports Illustrated article on Cashman that says during his contract talks with Derek Jeter he basically said when asked by Jeter who he would prefer at shortstop his answer was …Troy  Tulowitzki. “Sometimes honesty hurts. But if you’re paid to do a job, do the job,” Cashman said in the

It didn’t take long for ARod to get under Cashman’s skin

Either Alex Rodriquez has bad timing or he is a marketing genius knowing how to make news even if it isn’t always good.Maybe you can make a case for lack of communication from ARod to Yankee GM Brian Cashman. But Brian Cashman’s reaction with the four letter word was showed how much disdain he has

ARod could miss the whole 2013 season…

Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman has stated that it is possible that Yankee thrid baseman Alex Rodriquez could miss the entire 2013 season. Cashman says “there’s no guarantees in this stuff” that Rodriguez will be able to play this year. The 37-year-old A-Rod had surgery on his left hip last week. The team said the