Kevin Cash Needs To Practice What He Preaches

I’ve been having a hard time staying focused on the Yankees this season. I know I’m not alone and I don’t know what has caused it but….it hasn’t come as easy. The injuries, crazy format and strange rule changes don’t help but Tuesday night’s brawl between the Yankees and Rays only made it worse.

I’m not going to defend or debate what happened with Masahiro Tanaka‘s pitch or what happened with Aroldis Chapman, that’s done and over with. At this point, both teams have been punished, read more HERE. What’s done is done and we should move on from it. I know I want to. I could have easily if it weren’t for Rays manager Kevin Cash‘s comments HERE.

Kevin Cash was pretty upset after he was ejected from the game Tuesday, so I expected he would be upset but I wasn’t expecting this:

“It’s poor judgment, poor coaching, poor teaching. … I have a whole damn stable of pitchers that throw 98 miles per hour,” Cash said. “Period.”

It’s one thing to be upset at the Yankees coaching staff or Aaron Boone, but how is he publicly reacting any better than what he is accusing the Yankees of doing? He’s not.

This is quite ironic and even hypocritical. What happened to the idea of “being the bigger person” or “taking the high road,” Cash? He gets upset because he believes the Yankees intently threw at his team so he decides to fire back with a threat? So he decides to exercise the same “poor coaching, poor teaching” that he accuses Aaron Boone of. 

I did like to see that Boone responded without escalating the issue even further, “that’s a pretty scary comment,” Boone said. “I don’t think that’s right at all, but I’m not gonna get into it right now.”
I have no issue with Boone calling the comment scary, because Cash’s comments were in the same “poor judgement” he accuses the Yankees of.

There’s a lot of civil unrest in the world right now, the last thing we need is for sports to contribute to that. All of these people are supposed to be role models whether they accept that responsibility or not. Cash can have bad blood with Boone and the Yankees if he wants….but he has just allowed this problem to get worse because now his own team is feeding into it.

“I’ve said it before, we don’t like them, they don’t like us,” Kevin Kiermaier said.

This is a bad look for baseball, it doesn’t make one side the villain here. It’s time to shut up, play baseball and keep the battles related to the score and division titles. It’s also time for Cash to be the good example he clearly thinks the Yankees aren’t being…..

Practice what you preach, Cash and please…..just shut up!