Craig Carton has often said that the New York media has a tougher reputation than it deserves. On Thursday, Brandon Tierney said his WFAN colleague was proven right when Yankees general manager Brian Cashman met with reporters the previous night.
When reporters asked Cashman about the Yankees’ slow start to the 2023 season, he blamed injuries for the team’s disappointing results. Tierney told his partner Tiki Barber that he heard almost no pushback.
“Brian Cashman is right there, right in front of you for 25 minutes or so,” he said Thursday on Tiki & Tierney. “And when he leans on the injuries, how is a question not posed this way? Here’s how it should have been asked: ‘Brian, I hear what you’re saying about the injuries. For a team that is constructed with many players that have injurious histories, why would you expect this season to be any different?’”
No direct questions about the roster construction let Cashman skirt any blame. Tierney said answering a question like that forces the GM to “take the L or he has to obscure the truth.”
Yankee fans have certainly let their frustrations with Cashman be known. The people that wait on hold at WFAN to vent about the team are supposed to be able to rely on reporters to ask those in power hard questions.
“To me, it’s a horrendous job by the media there and they let Cashman off the hook,” Brandon Tierney said.
He told listeners that he has no doubt that if Brian Cashman ever came on his show, he would ask whether or not the Yankee GM is as good of a talent evaluator as he seems to think he is.
“He might get mad, He might not answer it, and I’m not saying I would try to punk him, but I would ask him again,” Tierney said.
