Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein squaring off on a stage at William Paterson University. Sounds interesting, right? Tickets were $37 a head. Ok, a little less interesting. Depends on what they talk about.

The New York Times has a write up of the event. According to the story Cashman, who is an alum of WPU, reiterated his “strong recommendation” to keep the likes of Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy and not make a deal for Johan Santana, to which the people in attendance clapped.

Boring. Cashman has little or no say in this matter and everyone knows that. And why the clapping?

When a fan asked Cashman and Esptein which player each would take off the other’s roster if he could, Cashman initially said David Ortiz. But he changed his answer to Jason Varitek. Epstein sidestepped the question, saying he would take Cashman, make him the scouting director and hope that the Yankees signed a bunch of free agents.

Yuck. Varitek? C’mon, what a dumb pander to Red Sox fans. And then Epstein manages to come off as even more of a knob and says he’d take Cashman. I think at this point I’d have started considering what else I might have spent that $37 on.

Another woman lobbied for a job for her husband, a masseur, and asked Cashman to take the man’s business card. Cashman did, but said that the team has someone in that role.

I think I might have tried to get a hold of that mic to directly ask what the hell I’d just spent $37 on.

“Ater a fan mentioned the memorable Yankees games that are repeated on the YES Network, Epstein said: “always watch those Yankee classics hoping they will lose. They win every time.”

I may not have heard this because I might have been somewhere in the parking lot looking for Cashman or Epstein’s vehicle, attempting to inflict $37 worth of damage.

Hopefully people got some kind of gift bag with the purchase of that ticket.