This Week in Bill Madden

Terrific insider "confidential" stuff by Bill Madden. Not one, but two columns in which Madden reminds the Yankees to follow the strategies of the teams that are in the World Series.

Which would also be good advice for the 30 teams that are not in the World Series.

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Win World Series


It's difficult to describe Madden as a "hypocrite," because a hypocrite first needs to have a coherent point of view in order to violate the tenets of that point of view.

Madden's garbled nonsense does not even qualify as a coherent opinion, it seems more like a random word generator ... a baseball_ebooks twitter account, or something.

But if a mushbrain can be a hypocrite, I suppose this is pretty close:


Madden on 9/21/2013:

"And there is also this to consider: In years past, the Yankees had an added advantage in the free-agent market besides just money: As a team that was always assured of being a World Series contender, players wanted to come to the Bronx. Now they are back to where they were during George Steinbrenner’s manic ’80s, a purgatory the Mets have been mired in, seemingly forever, without a championship-caliber team and having to overpay for free agents in order to get them to come to New York."



Madden on 10/19/2013:

"With the Yankee high command left little choice but to fill their multiple holes through the free-agent market, it was interesting that Scott (Avenging Agent) Boras should suggest the other day that they’re going to need to prove to the major free agents they will be competitive next year. Coming from Boras, the ultimate 'money talks' and 'sold to the highest bidder' agent, this is laughable."

So Boras is "laughable" when he comes to the same conclusion you made a month earlier.