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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 4704581, member: 2133"]
$65m is a lot of chicken teriyaki.  He said in September that he wanted 10 years and didn't want to have to get a new contract in his late 30s.  They offered 7 and said take it or leave it.

But my point has nothing to do with the Cano money, but with the fact that it's been 10 years since then and we're still getting a rotating cast of cast-offs, never has beens, and washed up former stars to replace the injured superstars.  Then it was Jeter's penultimate year and ARod's war with mgmt over his hip and roids.  Then they went out and signed Ellsbury with Cano's money and ran back the same players with different names.  Instead of reading the writing on the wall and GASP, taking a year off to flush out bad contracts, and re-set the farm system, Cashman went after band-aids in order to secure an 85 win season.  Whoopity do.

I'm probably biased though.  I started following the Yankees as a kid in the 80s and saw the same crap and then when Gene Michael and Bob Watson re-vamped the team in the 90s, they built a juggernaut.  Cashman has just been repeating the 80s and not the 90s.  But I know that it's not as easy as just collecting some prospects and magically turning them into a 4-time championship team, most prospects never turn out to be anything.  But after a decade plus of Cashman's band-aid rosters churning out teams who can win just enough to make the playoffs, but look pedestrian next to good teams, I've had enough.
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