Looks like George Steinbrenner could be selling his most prized possession. No, not the Yankees, but the YES Netowrk. Rumored to be worth about 3.5 billion, the YES network is the local home to the Yankees and New Jersey Nets, as well as original programming which mostly consists of (gasp) Yankees’ shows. Comcast is rumored to be one of the buyers, and this makes sense since they already have CSN New York. They are trying to compete with ESPN by buying up regional networks. So far, they have Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, Sacramento, and New York. Pretty good start. If they bought the YES network, they would have a virtual monopoly in New York with local sports.

CSN already trades stories between cities. By adding another network in New York they would be in a good place to begin putting together a national show using all of their dispersed talent.

Stay tuned for more on the possible sale, but an interesting development for the sports media world.

Maxim has an interesting article about the 10 worst managers in baseball. I disagree with some of their assessments. How can you make Phil Gardner the worst manager in baseball? He took a team with no offense to the World Series.

Here is a really good article about the 10 cushiest jobs in sports. They should add sports blogger to that list…

Think Yankees fans have a tight leash with A-Rod?