(US Army)
OH, CHUTE! His leg broken and ankle dislocated, Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman winces in pain yesterday after botching the landing during a sky dive in Florida. (
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Brian Cashman has as much luck with parachutes as he does with the ladies.
The newly divorced Yankee general manager grimaced in pain after breaking his right leg yesterday while sky diving in Florida.
Cashman, 45, “felt a pop” after crash-landing after his second tandem jump of the morning with a member of the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team.
X-rays showed he had broken his calf bone and dislocated his right ankle.
“Rookie mistake,” joked the first-time sky diver, who nailed the first jump.
Before undergoing surgery last night, he vowed to return to spring training as early as tonight’s game.
Cashman’s exploits at the US Air Reserve base in Homestead were meant to drum up attention for the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity for veterans.
He said he had “no regrets whatsoever,” calling the experience “awesome.”
“I jumped twice, landed once,” Cashman said.
His unlucky break came a month after his divorce from Mary Bresnan was finalized. She filed last year after Cashman’s purported ex-mistress, Louise Meanwell, was arrested for allegedly shaking him down for $6,000 in exchange for keeping mum about their affair.