HAL SPEAKS! BUT PROVES HE IS OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY

Lesson learned. I asked WHERE'S HAL? QUIT HIDING & FACE THE MUSIC! but he didn't own up to anything. It's now obvious now more than ever that Hal is out of touch with everything. He just doesn't get it and I don't think that will change.

Hal rejects reality. That's the only way to put it after his last interview, you can read details HERE if you didn't get to hear it on YES Network. The Yankees are stuck in a rut and in a pattern of doing the same things over and over again expecting different results instead of evolving and progressing. "We get accused of being a stagnant organization sometimes. We’re not, it's just not accurate. If it was, then we would make changes," Steinbrenner said.

Okay Hal, you are not stagnant from a business sense. The Yankees make plenty of money and will continue to do so even with fans growing increasingly unhappy. However, from a baseball sense, the Yankees are as stagnant as they come. Their stagnation is as clear as day when you breakdown that they've had the same GM for two decades an haven't won since 2009, no managerial leadership in the clubhouse, no baseball smarts about how to win games and build a great lineup. What about the questionable signings? Seriously, Jacoby Ellsbury and Aaron Hicks worked out marvelously, huh?

I think we are all tired of getting into the postseason and then falling short so but Hal's words weren't inspiring there either. After a depressing ALCS sweep Hal said it was "unacceptable what happened" and didn't want to make excuses....but then did. "I'm not going to make excuses, but they did go into the playoffs a bit healthier than us," Steinbrenner said of the Astros. "But like I said, they're a great team. I don’t believe they're doing anything that we're not doing." 

Except they are doing everything we aren't doing...winning and without spending a ton of money. They develop players which allows them to have a payroll under $200 million and be down in payroll 15% year over year. That speaks volumes alone! Cashman hasn't done a good job of getting quality players who not only contribute but will also be reliable building blocks for the future. Instead, he wastes money on aging players past their prime, journeymen and band-aid fixes instead of real solutions. The Yankees were third highest in payroll for 2022 and it still resulted in an ALCS exit. The Yankees only know how to rely on their deep pockets, and nothing else. Again, not evolving.

Hal's interview was itself the voice of stagnant, unimaginative mumbo jumbo coming from upper management. We're all tired of the same old song and dance from this group of baseball minds. The Astros just fired their GM and their assistant GM just after they won the World Series! Mind boggling....yet Hal won't walk away from Aaron Boone and Cashman after a string of losing seasons.

MAKE THAT MAKE SENSE!

--Jeana Bellezza-Ochoa

BYB Senior Managing Editor

Twitter: @nyprincessj