Long live Hank!

You gotta love the Steinbrenners...if you're a Red Sox fan. The father seems to have passed along to the son lessons from his early days of managing the Yankees: lots of noise, and ego flying as fast and furious as the spittle.

"I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now," Steinbrenner told The New York Times. "There is no question about it, you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a set-up guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that."

If you're a Red Sox fan, the thought of Brian Cashaman being driven out of the Bronx is the foundation for Christmas wishes. The guy took the Yankees back to the top of the heap and has shown INCREDIBLE humility and discretion in the way he's dealt with his bosses (and his bosses friends). Now he's got to suffer the fool known as Georgie Porgie's little Hank the Crank.

And for all his bluster and ego about his team and ours, it's clear what he really wants is what we have.

Steinbrenner has high expectations for Chamberlain, comparing his potential to that of Boston ace Josh Beckett.

"We need a Beckett, we don't have one, and he's the one that can do it." Steinbrenner said. Through Sunday's games, the Yankees stand at 10-10 and are closer to the bottom of the AL East than the top. New York is three games behind division-leading Boston and just 1½ games ahead of cellar dweller Tampa Bay.

Steinbrenner also took issue with how the Yankees handled Chamberlain's situation last season, before the eldest son of George was in a position to make changes.

"The mistake was already made last year switching him to the bullpen out of panic or whatever," Steinbrenner told The Times. "I had no say in it last year and I wouldn't have allowed it. That was done last year, so now we have to catch up. It has to be done on a schedule so we don't rush him."