Yanks GM Cashman on being held at gunpoint:
‘What Am I, Pablo Escobar?’
(L-r) RADIO dot com podcast host Anthony Scaramucci, New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, RADIO dot com podcast host Deidre
Scaramucci, and podcast producer Neil A Carousso. Photo courtesy of RADIO dot com
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, SEPTEMBER 2 BTR 0-26, 2019 17
BY JACQUIE CADORETTE
Yankees general manager
Brian Cashman sat down
with Anthony Scaramucci
and his wife, Deidre Scaramucci,
to open up about his
experience with being nearly
arrested for driving a ‘stolen’
car. Turns out, the situation
was more embarrassing than
anything else.
The Scaramuccis recorded
their RADIO.COM
Original podcast, ‘Mooch
and the Mrs.,’ live from New
York City’s Hunt & Fish Club
in Times Square on Tuesday.
When Cashman took the
stage, Deidre couldn’t resist
asking him about the details
of his near-arrest.
Cashman began by explaining
what happened.
Back in August, he went outside
in the morning to take
a cruise in his convertible
Jeep, only to fi nd that the car
had been stolen. The car was
soon recovered without damages.
Upon retrieving the car
and driving back to his home
(in Connecticut), Cashman
quickly learned that the vehicle
had not yet been taken
off of the ‘stolen’ list. He was
pulled over, held at gunpoint,
and asked to raise his hands
above his head.
As terrifying as the situation
sounds, Cashman remembers
one overwhelming
emotion: embarrassment. “I
wasn’t scared, I was embarrassed,”
he explains. Patrons
of a nearby Starbucks saw
the whole thing.
The Yankees GM could
only imagine what they must
have been thinking. He continues,
“They’re thinking,
‘What am I, Pablo Escobar?’”
Still, Cashman lauds the
Connecticut police for their
fast acting, despite having
mistaken Cashman for a
thief. “I give a huge applause
to them,” he says of the incident.
Cashman’s got one confession
regarding the whole ordeal.
“I just didn’t want the
body cam footage coming
out,” he explains.
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