David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players.

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.