You may recall that a few years back David Roth wrote a piece in Deadspin asking when MLB would take the Mets from the Wilpons.
I think it is time we ask the same thing about the Steinbrenners and the Yankees.
The Yankees just completed the entire decade without a single World Series appearance. The last time anything like this happened (correction from earlier – the Yankees were in the 1981 WS before having a bad decade) – was the bulk of the 80s, before George Steinbrenner became Saint George, the Kindly Old Man Who Just Wanted To Win. It took MLB removing Steinbrenner from running his own team to fix the Yankees. Without a Steinbrenner at the helm, Stick Michael was able to build the core against which legends were made and two generations of kids became Yankees fans.
Now, with the complete failure of the 2010’s, a generation is lost to Fortnite.
The Yankees did not make a single world Series. Even the Mets were able to accomplish that!
The Yankees have unwisely spent crazy amounts of money on combinations of players that don’t win the big prize.
They cannot keep their stars healthy. Judge has played 112 and 102 games the last two seasons and has seen his HR total drop to half of that of Pete Alonso.
The Yankees invested HALF A BILLION DOLLARS in one player and got 18 games out of Giancarlo Stanton this season.
The Yankees have let their new ballpark go to waste…in the era of 25 year stadiums, Fake New Yankee Stadium suddenly is middle aged and feeling old.
The Yankees have wasted all the advantages of playing in New York City and come away with nothing. The had fewer World Series appearances than the Mets.
If the goal is to win championships, and not just run a team at a tidy profit, then clearly the current generation of Steinbrenners have failed. The Yankees have not won since Saint George passed on July 13, 2010.
If Mr. Roth’s premise that MLB must take the Mets away from the Wilpons , then clearly MLB must clearly take the Yankees out of the hand of the Steinbrenners.
When will Manfred do something? (#WWMDS)
