Randy Levine Has Strong Words for Reporters, Not Yankees
By SETH BERKMANJUNE 27, 2016
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As president of the Yankees, Randy Levine can be a feisty defender of his team. And he seemed in a particularly combative mood Monday when asked about the Yankees’ struggles to get above .500 and whether the team would end up a buyer or a seller as the July 31 trading deadline approached.
It is a question that General Manger Brian Cashman is often asked these days but is not the kind of query Levine usually fields. And in this instance, it was posed during a news conference to announce a business matter — the Yankees’ new ticket deal with StubHub.
Still, having been asked, Levine jumped right in. He said that he was not frustrated with the team’s performance and that there was a lot of baseball still to be played.
And then, in reference to the reporters present, he added: “When we decide to become sellers — if we decide to become sellers — or if we decide to become buyers, you’ll know about it. But I guess the difference is, most of you guys have never run anything, and we have a lot of history here of knowing what we’re doing, a lot of confidence in our baseball operations people. So we’ll see what happens. All the rest of it right now is just noise.”
SETH BERKMAN
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." ? Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
