Yankee brass blind adoration of Chamberlain trashes entire team

Joba Chamberlain is mediocre, has a bad temperament, and bad make up (according to scouts per Francesa, 6/19/09). Sometimes people like this never make it. The Yankees insist on treating him like a prima donna which makes things worse. Keith Hernandez said he should be sent to the minors.

• Not long ago he was arrested for speeding while drunk, was drinking as he was speeding, spent a night in jail, has a young toddler son who could have been
• left without a father.

• He shows no sign that this event humbled him in the slightest. In other words, nothing gets through to him.

If he follows his mother's unfortunate path, nothing ever will. There are many people like this. Chamberlain needs to be shaken up badly by the Yankees. Even that might not help. He is an embarrassment, a joke, and hurts the Yankee team.

• The Yankee brass forgot. The 'Yankee name' did not pay for the new stadium. Big attendance came only from 13 consecutive years in the post season. Most of which happened with no stars. Remember:

Reference: Nobody will come to the Bronx.

• "Pettitte, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera go back far enough to remember weeknights with

• fewer than 20,000 in the stands."...posted on this blog from Hartford Courant, 9/20/08

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