[blog] Hal: We’re ready for free agency

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Hal: We’re ready for free agency

OK, quite a bit of news to get to. We’ll categorize it:

Baseball: Hal Steinbrenner said that there have not yet been negotiations
with Andy Pettitte. But he expects that there will be. … Hal said the
organization will be ready for the start of free agency on Friday. He
would not reveal any details about payroll. “We’re going to do what
we’ve always done and that’s field a team that can compete for the
championship,” he said. … I asked him about getting personally involved
with free agents and he said that he planned to, after stressing that
Brian Cashman’s job is to negotiate the deal. But Steinbrenner expressed
an interest in getting to know the key agents. Steinbrenner that as far
as incorporating young players from the farm system goes, “the goal is
balance.”

You sort of get the impression with Hal that he would rather he someplace
else. He clearly doesn’t enjoy the media give-and-take or being the public
face of ownership. But he understands his duty to his father and he’s doing
his best to carry it out. He met with Cashman yesterday and will again today.
Hal is clearly the guy shouldering the responsibilities.

The new Stadium: The team will start to move into their offices in mid
January, the 16th or 23rd. Lonn Trost said that the Stadium is 12.5 days
ahead of schedule and is now now built beyond the point of bad weather
being a factor. In other words, everything now is being done inside. The
last part of the field to get done is the mound, which will be built this
weekend. … The Metro North Station is expected to be done by the third
homestand. … The Yankees have seven suites they haven’t sold yet, which
is a result of the slumping economy.

The new technology: The Cisco people are very sharp and gave a great
presentation. The 1,100 flat screen, HD monitor around the Stadium can
be individually programmed with real-time stats, traffic information,
weather, etc. The entire Stadium will have high-speed wireless. The
long-range plan is that once we’re all toting around smart phones,
you can use that to access concessions stands, merchandise, get highlights,
 stats, chat, etc.

From my standpoint, it’s a great thing. I can envision this blog
community incorporating a lot of that technology and the social
networking aspects pulling in people at the Stadium. I’ll bet in
a few years the Yankees will have an in-house blog to foster their
own network.

The Cisco people stressed that the Yankees are way ahead of the curve
with this stuff. No stadium in North America will be more advanced in
terms of delivering video to fans. It’ll start in the suites and spread
to the seats in time. There is $17 million worth of wiring and other
hardware in the Stadium.

The other interesting feature they showed us was telepresence, a highly
advanced video conference system. Not to do a commercial for Cisco here,
but it was like you’re actually in the room with people across the
country. The Yankees will use this to communicate between the Bronx
and Tampa. They also plan to install it in Bronx libraries, schools
and hospitals so players and team officials can talk directly to kids.

I’ll have some more later on, including some audio from Steinbrenner
and Trost.

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/11/11/hal-were-ready-for-free-agency/

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