![]() ![]() This summer, Zuckerman tried to sell the paper, but last month pulled it off the market.Īs CNN reported, Colin Myler, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, will be departing in the coming weeks. The rival paper also reported that the Daily's circulation across print and digital has fallen 41 percent over the 12 months ended in March, and that the paper lost $30 million last year. The New York Post, the Daily's rival newspaper, reported that Lupica was given a new, low-ball offer by owner Mortimer B. Much of the paper's sports staff were laid off along with Lupica, including Bill Madden, the longtime national baseball columnist, Filip Bondy, Wayne Coffey, Roger Rubin, Hank Gola, Stephen Lorenzo, and Teri Thompson. I’m not sure what their parameters or their rationale was," said one writer who lost his job. Having said that, it was still a jolt to get the call today and even more of a jolt to see some of the names on the list. "We all know that these are not exactly robust times for the newspaper industry so it’s hard to be surprised. This is the time for the Yankees to wake up, out of that bed Cashman says they’ve made, before their owner does.Mike Lupica, longtime sportswriter for the New York Daily News and ESPN commentator, was among dozens of newspaper employees axed in a round of layoffs this week.Īccording to The New York Times, Lupica began work for the Daily News in 1977 and also hosted a daily afternoon radio show at ESPN Radio until it was canceled last month. The Yankees lost five of six to the Red Sox over the past two weekends, and they just got themselves swept at Fenway Park. It will be interesting, considering his owner’s financial constraints, to see what Chaim Bloom of the Red Sox does at the deadline. June 19th, 2023 Mike Lupica MikeLupica Everybody knows the bad news right now for the Yankees, the run of bad news that began with Aaron Judge injuring his right big toe running into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium. They stopped looking like a team that can run away with the AL East. We saw this week what happened to the Rays when they got rocked by losing Tyler Glasnow. The Yankees produced a series sweep against the Blue Jays this week they badly needed. It is why, in so many ways, this might be the most important trade deadline that Cashman has ever faced. And there is still time for DJ LeMahieu to be the hitter that the ’21 Yankees fully expected him to be. Is there a chance that Judge and Stanton can stay on the field and cover the Yankees lack of balance and versatility in the batting order with all that right-handed power of theirs? There is always a chance for that. But he didn’t assemble this team.Ĭan the Yankees turn this around? Of course. There are things for which Boone has to answer, particularly the sloppiness the Yankees have shown on the bases this season, when occasionally they were the ones looking like a bar league team. “The ultimately responsibility is on me.” He concluded that particular thought this way: And we’re going to make sure that we find a way to fix this together.” But things really could have gotten a lot worse for them than the 8-10 record they have put together since Judge’s injury. We made this bed, and we’re going to sleep in it. “I think losing invites scrutiny on us all,” Cashman said the other day, “and the best answer is that we’re in this together. The Red Sox, as much fight and as much stick as they have shown as they have been one of the surprises of the sport, they aren’t going to keep winning games 10-8, the way they did twice in Atlanta this past week, even if they do expect to get Chris Sale back before the summer is over. The Rays finally got smacked around this week. But they don’t look like that or feel like that these days. The Yankees are supposed to be the big game in town, especially now that the Giants have hit the skids over the past few years. Since 2008, the Rays, who throw nickels around like cinder blocks (that means the cinder blocks without Spider Tack stuck to them), have made it to one more Series than the Yankees have. ![]() But in fairness to Steinbrenner, and as often as Prince Hal seems asleep at the switch, how much money does he have to spend? Over the past two decades the Yankees have spent roughly four billion dollars on baseball players and have won one World Series in that time while the Red Sox have been winning four. It might have cost the Yankees one World Series, and maybe two, when Cashman couldn’t get into play when the Tigers were moving Verlander and before the Astros got him. Has Cashman been handicapped at key moments by Steinbrenner’s mandate about the tax threshold and all the rest of it? You bet he has. ![]()
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