Time to reflect on a great season and enjoy the fruits of your hard work. No, not the Red Sox...I'm talking about A-Rod. But not every one agrees:

"It’s a shame," Hank Steinbrenner, who is now running the Yankees, said late Sunday night. "But we are all in agreement: myself, my dad, my brother, all the baseball people. If you don’t want to be a Yankee and paid what you’re being paid, we don’t want you, that's the bottom line. You’d be hard-pressed to argue that point. If you don’t understand the magnitude of being a Yankee and understand what that means, and being the highest-paid player in baseball, I think it’s pretty obvious."

In the rather excellent book about the making of the Brooklyn Brewery, Beer School, there is a chapter on the difference between a merit-based small business and a family-based one. The Yankees are now rapidly learning that a family-based business is subject to certain obstacles...like not understanding that being MVP of a league is sorta up there with "the magnitude of being a Yankee". As their wheels come off in 2008 and there's no A-Rod to get the Yankees back in contention, I am sure magnitude will be all that is keeping a lot of people warm at night.