Monday, January 5, 2009
ESPN: Yankees will be must-see TV
The home clubhouse at the new Yankee Stadium is enormous, significantly bigger than the one at the old Yankee Stadium. That’s good. It needs to be as large as possible to accommodate all the talent, the egos, the money and the pressure that will be in that room.
Those damn egos.
Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner warned us of this, claiming the Yankees would do “whatever it takes” to return to greatness in 2009 after winning 89 games, and not making the playoffs for the first time since 1994, in 2008.
Any team making the playoffs in 1994 was damn good.
“I still don’t have a good feel about their club,” one former Yankees player said. “They’ll have a great statistical club, but I still think they’re so away from what made them great. They don’t have enough down-and-dirty guys like (Scott) Brosius, Tino (Martinez) and (Paul) O’Neill.”
Is that you, Tony Womack?
There are even questions about the aforementioned home clubhouse in the new stadium. One Yankee recently whispered that it’s too big, each locker is like a little apartment, with too many amenities; he worried the players won’t ever talk to each other. Even that dynamic will be interesting to watch.
Oh heavens! Locker size will tear this team apart!
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