From the mouth of the loudest quasi-owner in sports, Mr. Henry (Hank) Steinbrenner:
“The bottom line is that the team is not playing the way it is capable of playing. These players are being paid a lot of money and they had better decide for themselves to earn that money.
“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.”
“We have good professional hitters and I have a lot of faith in them. I’m not saying they are not giving the effort, but they need to be playing harder.”
“We’ve got to forget about all the injuries and start playing our butts off.”
“They’ve got to start playing the way the [Tampa Bay] Rays are playing.”
“[The Yankees] need to start treating it like when they were younger players and going after that big contract, like they’re in [Triple-A] and trying to make the majors,” he said, according to the report. “That’s the kind of attitude and fire the players have to have.”
Ok, so that wasn’t really general-ish. But when Hank makes these long winded, public evaluations of the Yanks, I cannot help but remember his father’s, George Steinbrenner’s timeless Patton-esque rants.
Filed under: MLB - Yankees, Writer - Tim Sharobem
Surprisingly, that is one of the more rational things Hank has said tis season