"Glen finally convinced everyone that that’s the way to go,” Schoenfeld said. “He kind of wanted to start from scratch when he first came to New York.”

Oh, so that was the problem! Poor Sather was brought in, wanted to change the NYR culture of high spending and low resulting, but NO ONE LISTENED TO HIM! He just wanted to draft some quality young products, but They wanted Bobby Holik! They went out, hired a hall of famer, and then ignored him! This explains it!

Mirtle didn't include the rest of Schoenfeld's quote, but I managed to make it up:

"In fact, I remember how Glen cried when told he had no choice but to sign Dave Karpa in 2001," Schoenfeld said, his voice cracking with emotion.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/broadway-blueprint-has-rangers-riding-high/article2302669/

If Paul Annacone wants to earn his money, he needs to teach Federer how to better read a match.  Against Tsonga in the Wimbledon QFs, Federer played about as good a technical match as anyone who's ever lost.  He was hitting balls cleanly throughout.  He had a 5-1 winners/UE ratio.  I don't think he has a single double fault.

But for all that skill and execution, he played a horrible tactical match.  He had his game plan, and he didn't vary. He needed to mix things up. Serve and volley. Chip and charge. Some off-speed junk now and again. Move around on the return of serves.  Serve and volley (which he did, I'd wager, no more than 3 times all match).  Anything to keep Tsonga off balance and get him out of his rhythm.  If he had done that, he likely would have won.

This has been a Federer problem for years now.  When Annacone came on, they talked about him getting more aggressive, especially on the return. And he has.  But that's not all he needs to do. He needs to recognize when his game plan going in needs to be adjusted and respond on the fly.  You simply should not lose a match where you play so well, without more of a fight.

In my view, Federer should have even more majors than he has. He should have won the Nadal AO/Wimbledon 5-set loss finals, where his unwillingness to do anything but chip returns back into play came back to haunt him, and the DelPorto US Open final, where his desire to try and match pace with DelPorto backfired.  I'd even bet he could have even pulled off one of the early French finals against Nadal, when Nadal served *exclusively* to his backhand, if he had just tried to give Nadal a reason to mix it up on serve.

 Federer still has time to win more Slams...but its running short. DelPorto is almost fully back. Murray/Nadal/Djokovic aren't going anywhere.  You've got Soderling, Berdych, and Tsonga capable of pulling the upset.  And in a few years, Dmitrov, Tomic, and the next wave are coming.