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Originally Posted by DéjÃ* Bru
Glad to have some company! I use this thread as a sort of diary of Yankees thoughts, hence my multiple posts, but for some reason I like to record my impressions here. It's as if they have a measure of permanence.
It's funny you mentioned Boone for MOTY. I'm watching the replay of last night's game (after having peaked at the online newspaper for results) and they just said that although Rocco Baldelli deserves some consideration, Boone has by far and away done an outstanding job managing this ballclub given what has happened this year.
I'm not a rabid, narrow-minded fan, but if there is a General Manager of the Year Award, Brian Cashman would deserve that as well. He also has made all the right moves this year.
One other thought about what I just read: The Yankees finished 14-5 against the Red Sox in 2019, a stunning turnaround from last season and recent times in general. Very gratifying, I must say.
Which does not lead me to gloat over Dave Dombrowski being fired, however. Late in the 2015 season, he takes over a team that finished last in the American League East. The next three seasons, they finish first, they win 108 games in 2018 and win a world championship. The team stumbles in 2019 and he's fired. There's even a headline out there about whether Alex Cora will be fired.
My allegiance to the New York Yankees is indelible. It has to be quite strong for me to keep coming back year after year to follow them, considering how dumb MLB is; that and my love of Baseball in general. I say "MLB" but I could say the same for all professional sports these days.
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I absolutely agree about Cashman winning the GM of the year award, if such a thing even exists. I know corporations often present their best, most loyal executives with an "Executive of The year" Award, but I think the scope of a sports GM's job, especially a NY Yankee GM, goes beyond the sort of administrative tasks normally associated with executive work.
And yeah, I'll admit, I can be a rabid, frothing, jackass of a fan at times. I've called for Cashman's cabeza many a time over the past 20+ years he's been the GM following bad trades, questionable signings, and for deals I thought the Yanks should've made (e.g. Losing the Yoan Moncada sweepstakes to the Sawx for a lousy $1 million dollars) that he just couldn't seem to put the finishing touches on. However, the job he's done over the past several years rebuilding this team into one of the superpowers of the MLB (and in record time too) is worthy of boundless praise. In particular, the job he's done this year cobbling together a winning team with a .650+ winning pct from what was, at times, spare parts and retreads is nothing short of stellar.
At any rate, like you said, this is no time to gloat. If the (seemingly inexplicable) Dombrowski firing a scant two years after he helped fashion yet another WS championship club proves anything its that all glory is fleeting. That could just as easily be Cashman's or Boone's head on a pike 6 months or a year from now.