THE YANKEES' BIG PUSSY

I have always admired and appreciated the work Brian Cashman has done.  Being a General Manager is a tough gig and he has to deal with ownership, players and fans who will crap on him whether the move he makes is genius or not.  It's thankless. If we win, it's the players who win it.  If we lose, it's Cashman's fault.  Again... tough gig.

I have to say though, the bull that Cashman pulled 2 days ago addressing the media and telling Alex Rodriguez he should "Shut the F--- up" publicly for giving "excited" updates about his progress was not only out of line, it's a double standard and I wrote about it in CASHMAN CLEARLY DOESN'T LIKE AROD... You can't go after a player for giving a status report on social networks and NOT go after other players like Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson and even former Yankee Clay Rapada for doing the same.

Six more AB's today and later going to hang with my #Yankees teammates at the Trop. Big series vs #Rays this weekend!
— Mark Teixeira (@teixeiramark25) May 24, 2013

Hell, even our pal Ty Hensley will give us an update once in a while. (Read BYB EXCLUSIVE: TY HENSLEY TALKS POST SURGERY.)

Updating the fans is NOT wrong, it's the right thing to do in this day and age. After all, it's 2013, not 1994.  The fans want a return on their investments and sure, Alex has been a dud of late, but we still want to know when he's coming back...if he's coming back and how he can contribute.  There's nothing wrong with getting "some" type of information from the horse's mouth... or in Alex's case... a Centaur. I kid, I kid.

Not to get off track, but there is actually a point to to all of this.  It's double standard with this public humiliation brought out by Cashman.  Why humiliate a player and then claim that he's going to "call Alex now" like Alex is a 5 year old kid who just cheated on his math test?  Read that HERE.   To make matter's worse, he's a big pussy about the situation.  As the story has been reported, Alex Rodriguez called Brian Cashman yesterday. Whether Brian called Alex first is still confusing in this time line, but Andy McCullough of the Star Ledger tweeted:

Alex Rodriguez called Cashman back this afternoon. Randy Levine was also on call. Team says they patched things up. Convo was "constructive"
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughSL) June 26, 2013

Now look.... Bleeding Yankee Blue was one of the first to suggest that this whole thing with Cashman was stupid and it just gets worse. If you claim to "make a mistake" for flying off the handle like Cash did, then that's an automatic 1 on 1 meeting... Cashman vs. Alex.  A phone call between Cash and ARod and Levine should have never happened.  It's the equivalent of wearing a wire... what's Cashman afraid of? He started this, finish it like a man.

So what should happen? Cashman should apologize. I say that because it's still unclear if he was apologizing to Alex or not.  He has apologized for his "F Bomb" as reported by NESN (HERE), "

"The Yankees GM has since apologized, saying, 'I regret the choice of words I used yesterday.' But the apology doesn’t answer the question of why Cashman was so overly upset, and it feels like we’re just scratching the surface of this whole thing. For all of Rodriguez’s faults, his Twitter announcement hardly seemed like something to get upset over."

Cashman should have apologized on the phone to Alex and if he didn't do that, than he should do it publicly today for singling him out!  Hey and while you're at it Cash, stop adding to the already chaotic Bronx Zoo and start making moves that count.  Sure, we had a good April and an OK May, but we're sinking like a rock in a pool.  If you don't want distractions... maybe you shouldn't have been so public.

Now look, I'm over this as fast as this is written.  I want my Yankees back.  I want my Yankees winning and you know what? I want to know how my Yankees are progressing in their rehab... in their season and trust me... there ain't nothing wrong with that, be it Alex Rodriguez or anyone else.  This story is silly... stop the distractions.  As long as Alex is signed to the Yankees let the guy come back and play.

And there's a lesson to be learned here... If you humiliate someone in front of the world for doing nothing wrong... you should bury the hatchet, extend an olive branch and say "sorry". Then if you're truly that unhappy about it, discuss a new policy about the Yankees and Twitter. You won't though, because that would cause an uproar among us fans and you know it.

Oh and stop setting up "conference" calls like a Big Pussy.  Deal with your mistakes like a man, after all, you're the General Manager of the New York Yankees.  Get it together.

OK, my rant is complete... if I'm being too harsh... "I'm Sorry."

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