I can’t believe, what I just saw.

Oh man, what a Super Bowl. I mean, what can you say about it? I’m a big Giants fan, have been for years, and watching them come from nowhere to get to the Super Bowl, and then knock Tommy Handjob, err, Handsome all over the field last night, wow. Good times.

 Ok, baseball.

 So I have this weird fascination with a blog you may be familiar with, called   Was Watching.

It’s written by this guy called Steve Lombardi who pretends to be a Yankee fan, but all he does is take shots at Brian Cashman, Phil Hughes, Giambi, and…come to think of it, I can’t think of anyone he seems to really be a fan of. Here’s a post I made on his blog today. Then I remembered I have my own blog, so I’m reposting it here.

Steve, I’m not really sure I get your agenda. It’s pretty much understood that if you have 12 hot pitching prospects, like 10 of them are going to wash out. There’s nothing groundbreaking there.

So what is your point? That Cashman is/was wrong to emphasize stockpiling young pitching talent because it isn’t a “sure thing?” What’s the alternative? The “old school Yankee way” of overpaying for every past his prime free agent?

How would YOU run the team if it were your job? Your ad hoc cherry picked skepticisms are kinda pointless because you offer no alternative blueprint.

I’m really tired of the petty and foolish Cashman bashing. When the Yankees used to go out and trade for or sign every Kevin Brown, Javy Vaszquez, Felix Heredia, Aaron Boone, Jason Giambi, etc. people used to moan about the fact that the team was just a bunch of hired guns, and “oh my wouldn’t it be nice for once if we had a team full of home grown fellas we could all rally behind.” So now that Cashman is doing more of the latter than the former, where are the fucking ticker tape parades in his honor?

Where are all the small market beat writers thanking him for staying out of the Santana circle jerk?

Where are all the bloggers who pissed and moaned about the Yankees buying championships?

Are you happy that you are the ringleader of the new breed of Yankee basher? Because that is what you are. I would HATE to be a “fan” of your ilk. Who takes issues with almost everything the team does, yet doesn’t have a POV on how to plot a true alternate course.

If you would come out and say,

“look, I think Cash is full of shit. The Yankees should forget this ‘build the farm’ nonsense, and instead get the best available free agent, no matter the cost in prospects. Then you are trading unknowns for knowns, and that’s the way to build a winner.”

I’d respect that. I’d disagree with you, but I’d respect that you have a real idea of how you would shape the team’s future. But you don’t, you just snipe and snipe and snipe.

So, have fun “rooting” for the Yankees, if that’s what you call it.

Right?