Brian Cashman: The Yankees' GM is an iconic and fearless figure - SI.com
Not officially: Officially, the four-letter bomb remains undroppable before mom or minister, and must hit the mainstream defused by dash or bleep. Still, a part of us, the 10-year-old part, enjoys a good f-bomb explosion, its unspinnable, blast-wave honesty. How can he. As general manager of the Yankees he oversees the most-storied franchise in American sports, a job many would call far more serious than Vice President. So, no, the fact that during the team’s incendiary 2013 medical/legal/public relations war with its star slugger and serial PED abuser, Alex Rodriguez , Cashman delighted headline writers by snapping to a reporter, “Alex should just shut the f---... “I blew my top,” Cashman says one Saturday last month in his office at Yankee Stadium. “I got calls from managers, general managers, agents, players. I conduct myself, for the most part, at a much higher standard than that. Of course, he says this amid the bizarre matter of A-Rod and the Yankees now: Still together and, even stranger, peaceable and winning. Sure, there’s been a rise in f-bombs among the pinstriped faithful over the last three weeks, when New York’s seven-game late-July lead in the American League East dissolved, but who figured these Yankees to even have a lead to lose. Source: www.si.com
