If the Yankees owner had any reaction, it did not show.

"I don't want to hear the operation went well," the Yankee owner said.

Not everyone thinks that the Yankee owner has changed his stripes.

"I really don't know about keeping the team together or not," the Yankee owner said during a phone conversation yesterday.

The current Yankee owner would do well to listen.

"Put the blame on the guy who signed him," the Yankee owner said in a telephone interview.

Kaufman declined to say whether the Yankees owner will call on others to testify or do so himself.

With the Yankee owner, it's usually not very long.

The baseball commissioner, seeking more information from the Yankees owner about his activities, will hold a second session today.

The Yankee owner would like to substitute the original two-year sentence for the life term and return no later than three months from now.