Last week, a single mother was arrested and charged with harassing and stalking Yankees general manager Brian Cashman amidst her claims that she had been Cashman's mistress since last April. Cashman is far and away not the first person Louise Neathway (who also goes by the last name Meanwell) has allegedly stalked—in all, 13 people have filed orders of protection against her since 1998. more ›

The bizarre case of the woman accused of stalking Yankees GM Brian Cashman exploded into the tabloids last week and yesterday, the Daily News revealed that Louise Neathway (sometimes referred to as Louise Meanwell) claimed she was pregnant with the married Cashman's baby and had an abortion. Now the News' rival gets word from Neathway's mom about her apparent bluff. more ›

This week, a single mother was arrested and charged with harassing and stalking Yankees general manager Brian Cashman amidst her claims that she had been Cashman's mistress since last April. Cashman's life has gotten increasingly messy since then: his wife has filed for divorce, the Post has been trailing him everywhere he goes, and now, emails between him and alleged mistress Louise Neathway have been released, including one which contained an ultrasound picture "proving" Cashman got her pregnant: “What Brian Cashman has done to me is both incomprehensible and unforgivable...I am going to the press and informaing [sic] them of the preganacy [sic] and the abortion. And everything else.” more ›

A single mother was arrested yesterday and charged with harassing and stalking Yankees general manager Brian Cashman. But before she was arrested, Louise Neathway, who also goes by the last name Meanwell, claimed in an interview with Deadspin that she had been Cashman's mistress since last April. In court yesterday, prosecutors portrayed the 36-year-old British national as an unhinged con woman out to extort Cashman: "The defendant extorted approximately $6,000 from the victim and attempted to extort over $15,000," prosecutor Eric Iverson said. more ›

Ah, the Yankees. Never has a pro sports team so effortlessly blended success with pretentiousness. The latest example of the latter comes courtesy of General Manager Brian Cashman. Apparently Cashman thought so little of the Trenton Thunder's uniforms for Derek Jeter's last game with them on Sunday, he felt the world should know it. more ›

After sitting out Saturday's game, Yankees catcher Jorge Posada apologized to the Yankees organization. Posada was upset about being placed ninth in the lineup (his performance hasn't been great lately), but he apparently felt awful about his stunt— yesterday, he told nearly tearfully told reporters, "I just talked to [manager Joe] Girardi. I kind of apologized to him. I just had a bad day (Saturday) and, reflecting on it and stuff, it's all the frustration, it came out. I'm trying to move on." more ›

Now that pitcher Cliff Lee has snubbed an absurdly rich seven-year offer to come pitch in NYC for Frilladelphia, and outfielder Carl Crawford similarly rejected the team for the Red Sox, the Yankees are reconsidering their options for free agents to fill in the gaps in their lineup. Most prominently, the Yankees only have three starters locked-in to their rotation, and one of them is coming off a disastrous year (which may have been caused in part by a very nasty divorce, it seems). So what does Goliath do when he doesn't look so much like Goliath anymore? more ›

What's it called when something that's universally acknowledged as a done-deal doesn't get done, but you still know it'll get done, so it's just kind of dragged out for weeks? Derek Jeter's contract negotiation! more ›

It's been a busy week of awards and off-season hustling in that gated-community that is Yankeeland. Three Yanks infielders, Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano, all won Gold Gloves for their sterling defensive play this season. It was Jeter's fifth such award, Teixeira's fourth, and Cano's first. Even though some think Jeter, who only had six errors last season, is "not a brilliant defensive player," everyone agrees the award will add more ammunition to his current contract negotiations. more ›

In the aftermath of Friday night's Game 6 loss to the Rangers, the Yankees are feeling mighty disappointed in themselves and their flat performance in the ALCS: “They outhit us, they out pitched us, outplayed us and they beat us. You take away one inning and one game, and it was very one-sided. We just didn’t get it done," manager Joe Girardi said of the series. The team now faces many question marks about their aging, bloated roster heading into the off-season. more ›

Last night, the Yankees paid tribute to their late bombastic leader, George Steinbrenner, by unveiling a monument of him at their new stadium. And, in fitting fashion, his monument is the biggest at Memorial Park, "measuring 7 feet across and 5 feet high across its bronze face and weighing 760 pounds...With 35 square feet across its face, and looking like a wide-screen television, it dwarfs monuments to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Manager Miller Huggins, which are 2 feet by 3 feet, or 6 square feet," according to the Bats blog. more ›

LeBron James made an appearance at his LeBron James Skills Academy camp in Akron, Ohio yesterday —and he was wearing a Yankees cap! Maybe Yankees GM Brian Cashman knows something when he says, "LeBron James is going to be a Knick... I'm convinced of it. New York is the place that will allow LeBron to be the player and person he wants to be, and it's all coming together. Just listen, LeBron James will be a Knick." more ›

Surprise, surprise—Lady Gaga's scantily clad visit to the Yankees' clubhouse on Friday was news to Yankees brass. The Post reports that Yankees co-chairman Steinbrenner, manager Joe Girardi, and Cashman about Gaga's presence, and president Brian had no idea the performer was visiting the players: "In fact, when a Post reporter told Cashman about Gaga's presence, Cashman said, 'What? I didn't know that,' and stormed off." And now, by Hal's edict, she's permanently banned from the clubhouse! more ›

The Yankees are sitting just a half game out of first place this morning with a sparkling 21-8 record. They are winning games convincingly, but they are also winning them without any significant contributions from their offseason acquisitions. Flash back to the start of 2009. The Yankees brought in three big pieces, CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett and Mark Teixeira. more ›

Coming off a four-game sweep of the Red Sox, the first since 1985, life in Yankeeland hasn't been so sweet since Aaron Boone went deep off Tim Wakefield to send the Bombers into the World Series in 2003. So what could possibly rattle any sense of complacency among the team with the best record and biggest division lead in baseball? How about the Times questioning the long-term security of their captain, Derek Jeter, whose ten-year contract is set to expire at the end of next year? After telling a reporter that there's been no talk of an extension, he was asked if that concerned him. He said, “I haven’t even thought about it. It’s 2009. It’s not 2010. Or 2011.” While no one has seriously suggested the Yankees would ever let Jeter walk before his 3,000th hit with the team came, the paper couldn't resist taking the bait of his somewhat surprising mention of the year he could test the free agent waters. Hopefully GM Brian Cashman won't lose sleep over the quote after all the praise he's receiving for the integral roles played in the sweep by his big acquisitions Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett. more ›

It’s deadline time and while the Mets and Yankees are going in very different directions, it is clear that they both need to do something at the deadline. For the Yankees, currently in first place, they have one clear and pressing need, adding another starter to the rotation. C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett are a formidable tandem, but behind them are serious questions. Joba Chamberlain has been great his last two times out, but his overall work this season has been inconsistent. Andy Pettitte has a 4.67 ERA, a slightly below-average number in 2009. And with Chien-Ming Wang most likely gone for the season, the Yankees are using Sergio Mitre as the fifth starter. Mitre may have won his first start, but he has a 5.35 in over 300 innings in the National League. Brian Cashman doesn’t have to get Roy Holliday, but he needs to find someone who can give the Yankees some innings while keeping them in the game. more ›

The Yankees are almost a quarter of their way through the season and their manager is excited that the man who was supposed to be the biggest bat while A-Rod was on the shelf is now hitting two points over .200. Apparently seeing it as a sign that Mark Teixeira is about to turn things around, Girardi called the first baseman's two-for-four performance the most promising development in the team's 8-2 win over the Blue Jays last night. Only two other regular starters in the AL are hitting lower that Teixeira and the closest recent Yankee slugger with nearly as bad of a start was Tino Martinez hitting .254 at same point one season. GM Brian Cashman is spinning the bad start as the 180 Million Dollar Man dealing with the "pressure" of his big contract and new environment. But Teixeira is taking the high road for his performance, saying, "You can always try to find excuses...Yeah, more people are watching, no doubt. More people are writing about it, no doubt. But those are things I can't control...There are no excuses. If you start making excuses for yourself, you've got something wrong with you." more ›

A day after Alex Rodriguez's uneven admissions of the "specifics" of his steroid usage during a half hour of answering questions, today he is being held to task by media outlets everywhere. None seem too satisfied with the version of events they got yesterday. Reporters don't seem particularly interested in figuring out the identity of A-Rod's unnamed cousin who allegedly provided and injected him with steroids, possibly because as one major leaguer put it, "I wonder if his cousin even existed. That was my first thought. Is his cousin made up? I don't know." more ›

After yesterday's local headlines screaming that Joe Torre had ripped his former Yankee associates in his new memoir "The Yankee Years," today scribes continued to dig for dirt between the two sides. They weren't getting it from GM Brian Cashman, who told them that Torre called him from Hawaii to smooth things over yesterday, unsolicited. The GM emphasized, "He was a fantastic manager and you couldn't ask for any more than what he did for us." Then there's A-Rod, Derek Jeter's superstar stalker and pre-Madonna prima donna, who suffers a few digs in Torre's book. Torre reveals he told Rodriguez to at least get his own coffee, only to have the slugger then show off his self-purchased cup of joe to his manager. Torre says, The point was to just be one of the guys. He didn't get it." A friend of ARod's tells the Post that the book is a "final act of desperation" and that "Alex's reaction is he hasn't received a signed copy yet." more ›

The local tabloids are foaming at the mouth with the first revelations from former Yankee skipper Joe Torre's soon to be released tell-all book about his time with the team. Torre was famous for his stoicism in his decade as manager and for keeping drama to a minimum, a notable feat among the New York sports media. But initial word is that Torre's memoir lets off some steam after his unceremonious exit last year by taking swipes at ARod, GM Brian Cashman and not surprisingly, the Steinbrenners. more ›

The whispers said CC Sabathia wanted to play in California. They said he wanted to play in the National League, where he would get to hit. But the deal he has agreed to with the Yankees says he wants $160 million over seven years. A late-night visit by Brian Cashman to San Francisco on Tuesday apparently persuaded the left-handed free agent that New York is a fun place to play, too. The Yankees now have a bona fide ace at the top of their rotation. In his last three seasons, Sabathia has thrown 190, 243, and 251 innings. He has posted ERAs among the best in the league. Will he be great for the lifetime of the contract? Therein lies the rub. But for the first few seasons, the Yankees will be pleased. And they may not be done. Derek Lowe could be next. more ›

What the Yankees need to avoid doing is overpaying for any of the other starters out there. A.J. Burnett has been injury-prone throughout his career and will still probably get a huge deal. Derek Lowe has enjoyed pitching in the NL the past few years and may have a rough transition back to the AL and Ben Sheets makes Burnett look like a picture of health. more ›

The Carl Pavano era is over in the Bronx, or is it? Yesterday, the Yankees declined their option on Pavano’s contract making him a free agent. Over his four years with the Yankees, Pavano spent more time on the DL than in the Bronx and he leaves New York $40 million richer in exchange for nine wins and 146 innings. If Cashman tries to bring him back, they both should be run out of town. more ›

Brian Cashman is staying with the Yankees. Yesterday, Cashman agreed to a three-year contract extension that keeps him in the Bronx until 2011. And, Cashman will have his work cut out for him, as he needs to rejuvenate an aging lineup and rebuild his starting rotation. On the plus side, he has all the Yankees’ money at his disposal, $75 million in expired contracts, and with the move to the new Stadium the money should pour in. Will Cashman invest it in CC Sabathia and Mark Teixiera? Expect the Yankees to be mentioned as a possible destination for every big free agent, but based on recent history it would be prudent for Cashman to be a selective shopper. more ›

The Yankees just won’t go quietly into the offseason. Last night controversy erupted between Joe Girardi and the press corps over the status of Mariano Rivera, who had left the team yesterday to return to New York for a checkup. Girardi insisted it was just a end of year physical while Brian Cashman told the press Mariano had felt something in his shoulder and was having a MRI. The press conference included Girardi banging his fist on his desk and telling the media they could stare at him if they wanted to. more ›

A payroll of $209 million should at the very least guarantee that a team is in the thick of the playoff race until the very end, but barring a miracle run, the Yankees won’t be. While George Steinbrenner is no longer in charge, the failure of the 2008 Yankees demands someone to be held accountable and fans are well within their rights to expect changes. more ›

When Yankees’ season ends, their most important free agent re-signing will have never hit a home run, won a game or driven in a run for them. He will never have even worn the uniform because their most important piece of offseason work will be bringing Brian Cashman back to the Bronx. more ›