The New York Yankees are in the middle of a 17-year championship drought. The longer they go without winning their 28th title, the less fans and the media seem to hear from the team's owner, Hal Steinbrenner.

In what has become the annual postmortem presser after falling short again, Steinbrenner showed up. Unfortunately, it didn't take long to realize he may as well have stayed off everybody's Zoom screen, because he ended up contradicting his main points.

A walking contradiction

Steinbrenner played back the hits, saying the Yankees deploy a championship-or-bust mentality, while also undermining that sentiment by citing that 90+ wins and another ALDS exit are still examples of success.

Steinbrenner also pinned the blame on the players while also praising Brian Cashman for doing a brilliant job putting the team together .…