"Maybe the 2005 Yankees are paying a price for years of mistakes."

"These were the same guys who could not get a deal done with total pro Miguel Cairo and overspent for Womack. The same guys who a year earlier saw Williams' defensive liabilities; overpaid for Kenny Lofton; and a year later ignored Carlos Beltran, deciding Bubba Crosby was enough of a safety net. The same guys who traded Damaso Marte for Enrique Wilson and included Yhency Brazoban in the Brown deal — or in other words gave away what would be the majors' best lefty-righty set-up tandem for essentially nothing." - Joel Sherman

http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/23698.htm

-JG