Yanks hear from the Boss

Hank Steinbrenner responds to the Yank's anemic start by issuing a statement straight from his Dad's infamous playbook. Peter Abraham has details on the latest tirade: "This is going to get turned around. If it’s not turned around this year, then it will be turned around next year, by force if we have to.”
"By force? What does that mean, executions at dawn for anybody not trying hard enough?"
Anybody else get the idea that this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better?" (Hat tip to Baseball Musings)

I agree that all the ingredients for ugly debacle are in place. It's not necessarily all bad. The prospect of having some dead weight removed--Igawa, Giambi-- rather then the constant reinventing charade may help ease our pain and send a message.