No news is just boring

Well, so much for all the rumor and innuendo that said a decision on the new manager would be announced yesterday. According to Peter Abraham over at The Journal News, the decision's probably been made, but the announcement won't be made until after the World Series. Normally, I'd be in favor of such a decision, as it's better for baseball as a whole for the Yankees to let the World Series have the public's full attention. That, however, is because normally that delay wouldn't affect the rest of the Yankees' agenda. Unfortunately, this is not a normal offseason.

You have to figure that the identity of next year's manager will end up factoring into A-Rod's decision making process, so every day that goes by without an announcement is one less day the Yankees' have to negotiate. Again, this normally wouldn't be a problem since there's usually plenty of time to negotiate with players who can become free agents, but according to his contract A-Rod has only ten days after the World Series ends to decide whether or not to opt out of his contract and effectively become a free agent. That's an awfully small amount of time to negotiate what could be the largest contract in history.