Let us go back to March. Down in Tampa. A few weeks before this debacle of a Yankees season began.
“I will say that you shouldn’t have to have a $300 million payroll to win a world championship,” Hal Steinbrenner told members of the Bombers’ press corps.
We drag this quote back up five months later not to inflame, but to inform. Because it sums up the Yankees’ current disastrous state in tidy fashion.
Steinbrenner is right. And wrong. It should not take that much money to win the World Series. But if his team is serious about winning one, that is exactly what he has to do.