15
2011
A Bronx Tale
An article by Former Writers
As many of you have heard by now, after being dropped to the No. 9 spot in the lineup, the struggling Jorge Posada went into manager Joe Girardi’s office and asked out of Saturday’s lineup.
“The conversation was really short,” Girardi said. “He came into my office and said he needed a day, he couldn’t DH today. That was basically the extent of the conversation.”
After the game, Posada said that he was dealing with back stiffness and told Girardi that he needed a day to “clear his head.”
However, Girardi said Posada never mentioned the back injury to him.
Then in an unprecedented bewildering move, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman met with reporters during the third inning of the game against the Red Sox, sending the drama spiraling into bedlam throughout the internet and the Twittersphere.
Soon after, Posada’s wife was adding to the drama, as were his agents, other Yankee representatives as the rhetoric was flying back and forth and absolutely out of control, all while two teams were still trying to play a ballgame.
Cashman said that Posada was not injured, which infuriated Posada.
“I don’t know why he made a statement during the game. I don’t understand that. That’s the way he works now, I guess. You don’t do that. You’re not supposed to do that.”
Cashman then spoke to reporters again and said he told Jorge Posada exactly what he was going to do an hour before he made the announcement.
Now the Yankees are threatening to suspend the remainder of his contract and terminate his deal for asking out of the game without just cause. They are currently discussing the matter with the commissioners office and the Yankees want a quick resolution that will end the career of Jorge Posada with the Yankees. He is owed approximately $10 million dollars of his $13.5 million dollars this season.
“Jorgie knew exactly what was being said”, Cashman said. “This is not a surprise. I’m disappointed about what he said.”
When Posada learned of this today, he said he “feels disrespected by the team”.
We all know that a batting average of under .200 is unacceptable even to a child. And that is exactly how Jorge is behaving – it may be a good thing that his wife, Laura, is an attorney although I don’t know what kind of law she practices – however I’m sure she expects Jorge to continue receiving his daily $71,978 pay.
So again we have an athlete who really doesn’t understand his position either on or off the field. Mike Piazza was a similar case, not wanting to be told how he could help the team at first base when his catching ability was waning. His quiet defiance was so unlike him – finally he simply retired.
I wrote earlier about the many empty seats in stadiums across the country not just the Mets’ Citi Field. The American people seem to be returning to the TV and calling for pizza to watch their sports.
All athletes who play professional sports should realize that they are still kids who grew up and were able to keep playing because someone would give them a lot of money to do so.
However, playing by the rules and listening to your manager is absolutely necessary for the team dynamic to thrive and function properly.
Stay tuned for Day 2 of the Jorge Posada saga tonight when the Yankees and Red Sox complete their three-game series with the Sox going for a sweep. The nation will be watching on ESPN and I can’t wait to hear Bobby Valentine’s take on the matter as a former manager himself.
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OK, so Posada is a proud man who is having trouble dealing with his decline and being dropped in the lineup. Nothing we haven’t seen before. But why is Cashman making this public in the middle of a game and humiliating the guy? Bizarre as it sounds, I’m starting to think that Steinbrenner was actually keeping Cashman under control, and now Brian feels free to throw his weight around.
JPM – I tend to agree with you, Cashman did the same thing to Jeter over the winter – of course Jeter never said a word.
Oh what a Big Baby! Posada forgets he gets paid $13M to PLAY baseball. Give me a break and get to work. Shape up and do some work to get your BA over the Mendoza line. Can’t do it and don’t like to bat at the bottom of the lineup, then retire softee.
As far as Cashman goes, he’s the boss and is entitled to call out guys who lose perspective and forget where their paycheck comes from. I guess Posada somehow got the message and realized he liked the paychecks when he asked forgiveness. The hypocrite likes his paycheck, aw poor baby never will grow up!
Oh good…A Yankee story on a Mets blog site.
Heavens! Are we not maintaining our P.O.E. (Purity of Essence)?
Right, one less blog about the Mets where you can spread your hatred and tell everyone how bad the team is.
Uh oh, baby needs his bottle again.
genius
again, annie will write about anything, as long as it isnt mets baseball.
and you have to post a reply – move on if you don’t like the title…… wah wah wah
If you don’t like it so much, why do you keep responding and whining on Annie’s articles? Your bickering is getting very tiring, martin. Even when it’s something good that indeed doesn’t have anything to do with baseball but what’s a bigger issue than baseball like that Ground Zero article which you wrote an unnecessary, tasteless post like that other idiot Will. Let’s see YOU write something.
the reason i am whining is that i hope joe will realize most of us dont care and get rid of her. he already knows her articles dont generate traffic. he knows that the articles that generate traffic are about baseball, specifically mets baseball. thats why we are here. we can go to a thousand other sites to read about the yankees. i dont care about the yankees. and baseball is an escape i dont want to read about 9/11 here, or connecticut politics or whatever else she has. if joe wants his site to suck, thats his business, seems like the polite thing to do is let him know.
I didn’t mind reading a NY baseball Story. In fact I was glad that for once it wasn’t another negative buffoon story about the Mets.
Good to see.
But if you don’t care, just don’t read her! Why is it your concern whether somebody generates traffic? Does having something appear on the site that doesn’t appeal to you personally somehow offend your sensibilities? Read other threads, ignore Annie, and give Joe credit for being aware of what’s on his own site.
hey man, like i said, if joe hates money and traffic, good for him. but i am pretty sure he likes traffic, thats why he encourages dialogue about OBP and moneyball, because it gets tons of views and comments.
Say what you want guys, but as my banner has always said, this is a “Baseball Site” for Mets fans.
Annie was specifically invited to write for this site by me to cover any baseball news unrelated to the Mets. That is what she does for my site. And she does it well.
As always, thank you Annie and keep on keepin’ on.
I’m playing the worlds smallest violin for the YankMees. No sympathy what-so-ever. When you elevate a guy to a “legendary status” while he’s playing, you eventually end up with a statue on your roster.
Now THAT’S a great line!
This is hilarious to see Posada cry like a whimp. Heart of a champion my butt. He should be embarassed and so should his wife. And I dont blame Cashman for calling him out as soon as he caught wind of Posada asking out of the game when he saw the lineup card.
There’s so much to agree with. Annie’s good expansive article which is especially relevant to Big Apple area fans, who after all are part of the bigger domain of baseball. Then there is the quantitative view of Martin who sometimes runs on a bit without wheels. While I’m addressing the issues most important to digitizing and encoding our great game of baseball, I enjoy Martin’s views relevant to analyzing the game on the field, but the game of baseball also includes the business of the game and the personalities of the game.
Keep up the good work Annie, as I’m sure I speak for many who enjoy your posts.
as much I I don’t want to see us Help the Yankees in anyway shape or form,, wouldn’t this be the perfect time for the Mets to approach the yankees to trade them Beltran they are in MAJOR NEED of a DH…. and are one of the only team’s that could take on almost all the salary and still give us a decent level prospect in return
First order of business is to help the Mets. If it comes at the “expense” of helping the Yankee or Phillies or Braves or anyone, then so be it. Remember, teams don’t make trades if it doesn’t make sense for them. Whether it works out or not, both sides of the deal feel they improved in some way.
Interesting idea, but with Pagan on the DL, is this really the “perfect time”?
Getting old…happens to the best of us. Get used to it, Jorge. There is no stopping father time.
Where else can you get paid for 15 odd years multi millions of dollars to play a kids game and retire early enough to start another career or just do whatever the hell you want?
That being said, I have to agree with a previous poster about Cashman and his comments this year. That and – not that I’m in the habit of defending the Yankees but – this probably would have been played out better had they moved him down in the order before or after this Red Sox series this weekend. Could Girardi have picked a worse time to do that?