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Yankees president rips media for asking if they'll sell at trade deadline

Mike Oz

Since many contenders around baseball are already dreaming of adding either Andrew Miller or Aroldis Chapman to their bullpens, it's safe to say a good chunk of the league thinks of the New York Yankees as trade-deadline sellers as we getting closer to July.

The Yankees are 37-37. They're eighth in the AL wild-card standings and 2.5 games out of the postseason going into play Monday. So, they're not horrible but not great. And selling? Well, it's at least a possibility at this point.

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New York Yankees president Randy Levine called questions about the Yankees selling nonsense. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
New York Yankees president Randy Levine called questions about the Yankees selling nonsense. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

In Yankee-land, it's at least an interesting topic, mostly because they're the Yankees and the Yankees don't sell all that often. So on Monday, when the New York media got some face time with team president Randy Levine, the question was asked: "What do you think of the suggestion that the Yankees should become sellers?"

To say Levine was not pleased would be an understatement. He ripped into the media while flaunting the Yankees' tradition of success. Here Levine's response, via Brendan Kuty of NJ.com:

"I don't pay attention to any of that. That's for you guys, obviously, (with) nothing more important to write about than to write nonsense about that.  When we decide to become sellers — if we decide to become sellers — or if we decide to become buyers, you'll know about it. But I guess the difference is that most of you guys have never run anything and we have a lot of history here of knowing what we're doing, a lot of confidence in our baseball operations people. So we'll see what happens. All the rest of it is just noise."

Ahh, yes. Insults and bragging. That sounds like it's straight out of the Donald Trump public-speaking playbook. Of course, Yankees execs haven't had a problem being pompous before, have they?

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