Yankees’ Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner is running his mouth again – this time he’s attacking the entire team.
“The bottom line is that the team is not playing the way it is capable of playing,” Steinbrenner said. “These players are being paid a lot of money and they had better decide for themselves to earn that money.”
“We have good professional hitters and I have a lot of faith in them,” Steinbrenner said from Tampa. As for the team in general, he noted, “I’m not saying they are not giving the effort, but they need to be playing harder.”
Steinbrenner needs to let the players play while he does whatever he does. He’s not someone the players are going to listen to, so attacking the publicly doesn’t make any sense. And despite what many think, salary has nothing to do with performance.
