Newsday: Davidoff - Depleted Yankees are hardly in crisis mode

Brian Cashman’s job security is tenuous. But it’s apparent that neither he nor his players will lose any sleep over that. Cashman might walk by his own accord at the end of this season, anyway, if Hank Steinbrenner maintains his verbosity.

So whose crisis is this, anyway?

The Steinbrenner boys? Of course they want to win it all. But Hal Steinbrenner understands Cashman’s big-picture idea. And Hank, for all his tough talk, has yet to show that he’ll actually blow up that plan.

The YES Network? If there are actually meaningless September games—and I’d bet against that—then perhaps they’ll print a few less millions in the YES basement. Boohoo!

The fans? Oh, please. With all due respect, if any of you cancel your tickets for the new ballpark next season, there will be a line from Yankee Stadium to Albany to pick them up.

As you know, when Cashman and Hal Steinbrenner convinced Hank Steinbrenner to pass on the deal that would have sent Hughes to Minnesota in a Johan Santana trade, the Yankees made it clear that they were thinking about a longer-term project than 2008.
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“I say no on crisis mode,” Cashman said Thursday afternoon. “I say this is what every team that wants to get to the Promised Land has to deal with at one point or another, and you deal with it. And if you can’t, you’re not championship-worthy.”