Who Needs a GM? Not Hank Steinbrenner!

If the season ended today, the Yankees would finish fourth in the AL East. Not surprisingly, Hank Steinbrenner isn't happy. What's his solution? Trampling all over his general manager's turf. From the Bergen Record:

"Suffice to say, there's not going to be any more, on my part, of trying to keep everybody happy. If I want somebody, I'm going to go after him," Steinbrenner told The Record by phone [Thursday] afternoon.

Not content merely promising to second-guess his general manager in the future, he also threw Brian Cashman under the bus for the team's current failures. From the New York Post:

"We're going to have to look at what has been done wrong over the last five years, which I've had one year to try and figure out," Steinbrenner said. "Clearly, a lot of mistakes were made. I'm going to be reviewing the entire organization. We're going to do everything we can to win next year."

Cashman's contract expires at the end of the season, and as recent as last week, reports citing unnamed "MLB sources" indicated that the Steinbrenners wanted him back. Were those reports premature? Because if that's really the case, Hank has a lot to learn about the art of persuasion. I'd be surprised to see Cashman walk away months before the debut of the new stadium, but I'd understand if he's at least tempted to look around before signing ~~away his sanity~~ to work for such an impulsive, overbearing boss.