Yankees general manager Brian Cashman admitted on Wednesday that he couldn't leave the team and his job on a down note. "I'm a competitive person," Cashman said. "Sometimes I don't like what I see that shows up in the newspapers. I don't like that some people forget that I've been here since 1986, that I was here when this franchise was no good or it wasn't very good. That I was a part of the rebuilding process as an assistant GM for six years ... I was an assistant farm director when we got all the core that's here today." Cashman, 41, has been the general manager since February 1998.