Note from a frustrated Yankee fan. Yeah!!!!!

It is finally dawning on the fan base of Yankee Nation that their team is utterly without character and heart. They do nothing better than any of the teams they would have to catch to nab the wild card: defense, baserunning, situational hitting, clutch hitting, rising to the occasion, effort level. They are a $200 million dollar embarrassment. And Hank’s comments are deeply mistaken. They are not losing because of injuries; and they will not be dangerous next year if they simply add one or more high-priced stars to the ill-fitting roster. They have to go back to the drawing board and build the foundation of a new dynasty almost from scratch. The problem is that they are moving into an enormously expensive new park which they want to fill with wealthy suckers who will demand immediate gratification. And the second problem is that they are committed long-term to ARod, Posada, Cano and Jeter: all of them are not worth what they will be paid. The best thing that could happen to the Yankees is the sale of the team. Some New York multi-billionaire should step up and save us from our owner-tormentors. Winning teams are not made up of highly compensated “superstars”; they are assembled from hungry, overachievers like Paul O’Neill (and Kevin Youkilis, Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury, Mike Lowell and Jon Lester). We are entering a dark age. My friend Harmon — a Red Sox fanatic — calls it “the curse of the ARod”. Sadly, he may be right.