these guys are GAMERS. Every last one of them. God bless them, THE MOST STORIED FRANCHISE IN THE UNIVERSE.

I can’t wait to hear what he says next. He is the douchiest.

saying Joba belongs in the rotation BECAUSE he throws 100, or that Mike Mussina should transform himself into Jamie Moyer.

I mean, Jorge Julio threw fast, too. And even the O’s never saw him in the rotation. Dennis Sarfate throws, well, MF’ing hard. And I don’t want him starting, either.

And sure, have Mike Mussina go from a hard-throwing (91-93 mph) righthander with a mean curve to a junk throwing lefty, and do it within candle-blowing distance of his 40th birthday. But Jamie is a WILY veteran, and that’s what the MFY need, right? I mean, Mussina can’t be done – he’s only 39! The record books are filled with guys having career seasons pitching after age 39, right?

And if throwing hard is all that matters, why isn’t he sating Mo Rivera should have been a starter all along? The man’s cut fastball has usually been the best pitch in baseball for the better part of a decade, he should have been starting, right?

Did this man not learn a thing about baseball watching his dad own this team since 1973? The Decline of the Yankee Empire is gonna be fun to watch.

I have August 3 on the Brian Cashman Unemployment pool, by the way.

had Pee-Wee Hermans bike stolen?

that this guy is an even bigger idiot than his father?

Hank is a second-generation talentless rich kid (his father being a first generation talentless rich kid who ran all of his family’s other businesses into the ground). Perhaps much like George destroyed his father’s shipbuilding business Hank will destroy the Yankees.

Per The Times, Cashman fired back (politely) this afternoon.

"We discussed this extensively this winter about how things would unravel or unfold," Cashman said. "Right now, that can’t change. There’s no reason for that. Hank knows that."

Steinbrenner, who is sounding more and more like his demanding father, George M. Steinbrenner, said that only "an idiot" would use a talent like Chamberlain as a reliever.

"I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now," said Steinbrenner. "There is no question about it, you don’t have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don’t do that. You have to be an idiot to do that."

After reading Steinbrenner’s comments, Cashman decided to focus on the part of the statement in which Steinbrenner said the Yankees are working on Chamberlain’s transition , not the part of the statement in which he intimated that team officials are idiots.

"He said there are plans for this and we’re working toward this," Cashman said. "I suppose he understands that we’re following that plan."

the yanx will probably have some pains for a year or two before they regroup and win another world series.

now what are the Os gonna do?

The O’s haven’t exactly had a model owner. Hopefully the Yankee fans are in for what we’ve endured for far too long. I hope Jeter is late for a team flight someday soon.

this is all i get to hear about all day, and i love it. did anyone catch any of the girardi interviews after the 2nd game of the o’s series? he’s freaking out already, snapping at the press and all, and now THIS!

remember when girardi told his owner in florida to sit down and shut up? the possibilities…

Excellent work!

At least not this season. He’s on a strict inning count this season. They’re not gonna eat up 2-3 weeks worth of those innings in AAA getting ready to start.

With suck-ass 7th-8th inning options like Hawkins & Farnsworth they would need an innings eater as a starter, which for this season, Joba by definition is not.

Things started to collapse in NY with the departure of the 3-headed set-up monster of Nelson, Mendoza & Stanton and the arrival of the crap parade that followed making sure Rivera had fewer leads to protect.

No one on the face of this earth, not even Fredo Steinbrenner, is dumb enough to throw away the solution, a better solution than anyone could have imagined, to their most glaring weakness.

I am glad Brian Cashman has simply said Hank its not your place to tell me what to do with this team. You are the part owner not that manager or scout of this team.

I am positive this will not be the last time this fat lard opens his mouth. I think the baseball fans would not hate the yankees as much if fat lards named steinbrenner would shut up.

Lets go o’s

...on how long it takes Hank to ruin the Yankees, clean Cashman and co. out of the front office, and hire a bunch of yes men?

I don’t think it’ll happen this year. I’m calling June 12, 2010.

this guy is the gift that keeps on giving. I wish I still lived in NYC to see the complete meltdown Yankee Universe™ is going to go through.

Who’s up for a field trip to the Bronx to bury a Tony Tarasco jersey under the new Yankee Stadium? Anyone know where I could find a Tony Tarasco jersey?

There was a sad 20 minutes there when the MFY’s were just a bunch of overpaid, old players finishing out the Torre era.

Enter Hank Steinbrenner, and it’s like a young George warming up, just waiting for his Billy Martin.

A few drinks in him, he gets even smarter, I bet. Kinda like Fredo Corleone.

Any chance we are going to do any better when the next generation of Angelos takes over from old man Peter?

This is whole thing is like watching a slow-motion, dumbed-down version of the Godfather.

Yankee’s they’ve been a bunch of over-hyped has beens since 02. And don’t worry boyz, my Tribe has got this one covered this weekend. We’re gonna crush ‘em like ripe fruit.