Cut the crap, Hank.

The Yankees won another championship this year– the 2007 payroll title!!! In fact, the Yanks set MLB’s payroll record, coming in at a cool $218.3 million. Now I’ve become accustomed to– no, even welcoming of– the Yanks’ willingness to blow money like an Orange County housewife. But recently Hank Steinbrenner suggested that the Bombers have turned over a new fiscally responsible leaf, and that Johan Santana is now unobtainable because of it. Well Hank, after watching your father squander all the money I shelled out on Yankee tickets/gear to purchase a gaudy handbag (Carl Pavano), a boob job (Roger Clemens), and botox injections (I’ll say Jason Giambi here, but Clemens would work too), it’s time to spend some loot FOR ME. The Yanks are looking a little hagard these days and could use some nipping and tucking. Supposedly this Santana guy is pretty good with his hands and I’m thinking he’s more than capable of reversing all this middle-agedness. So bring him down to Tampa, get some work done, and then hopefully this October the Yanks will finally have something to show for all the loot they’ve been burning in the Stadium’s fireplace these last few years.