Yankee ghosts of Christmas past

Peter Abraham's LoHud Yankee Blog published an article titled: "Yankees should say no thanks for Santana." Peter believes the youth movement philosophy should be adhered to, Baseball Hot Corner agrees completely and has advocated this approach since last spring.


There was one sentence in Peter's article that left a particularly strong impression: " Cashman has some how made it cool for Yankee fans to care about Jose Tabata even though 99% of them have no idea what he looks like." Well, that's true but it's no mystery how Brian got us enthused in the next generation. He did it by signing a long list of over-rated, over-paid mediocrities who couldn't handle Gotham. Here's something from Yahoo Sports written this time last year:"The Yankees' winning bid comes one day after New York re-signed Mussina to a two-year, $23 million contract. Igawa would join Mussina, Chien-Ming Wang, Randy Johnson and Carl Pavano in the Yankees' starting rotation if he signs with New York." Ouch, if there was ever a reason to drink the youth-movement cool aid Cashman gave it to us.