LOS ANGELES — It was a mess. The former GM, Gene Michael, was helping to pick his successor (sound familiar to Omar Minaya and John Ricco?). Legitimate candidates for the job such as Tom Grieve, Bill Lajoie and Jerry Walker did not even want to interview because they felt the owner was overly involved and would never let them do the job (sound familiar to Ben Cherington, Mike Chernoff and Thad Levine?).
There is not enough room in this newspaper to do justice to how disheveled and unprofessional the Yankees’ search for both a GM and manager was after the 1995 season.