Dear Co-Owner Dr. York,

I am responding to your letter posted on SFGate.com. I've never questioned your interest in fielding a winning team. Likewise, I don't doubt your passion for a new stadium. I trust your desire to run the 49ers like a business. Please understand that none of that is in dispute. If you would take a moment, I'd like to tell you why you should accept that you are a failure as a leader in the NFL, fold your hand, and sell the team.

At the press conference, when you should be projecting an image of a leader busy executing on a well-conceived plan, you float Pete Carroll. Next, we find out you haven't even contacted Pete! You sound like a bewildered fisherman, "Yeah, I'd like to BAG a
BIG ONE this time!" Someone should send you to a leadership seminar.

Concerning the stadium. You have often made it sound as if the reason we are losing is because we don't have a new stadium. Your passion for a stadium appears to surpass your passion for the team. You've destroyed any goodwill and fostered a deep suspicion among the fans that your motivation is the money a new stadium would put in your pocket, not the player's payroll. I don't think you have earned the privilege of spending $100 million of the taxpayer's money. Eddie successfully launched five Super Bowl campaigns from the Stick. Why can't you?

Concerning your business acumen, you gave a GM a four-year extension and fire him four months later. You acquired an $800 million franchise and have turned it into a $300 million franchise. And, lest we forget, you aren't the multi-millionaire--your wife is.

And lastly, your ability (not desire) to create a winning team, let's just sum it up: STAMPS, GATORADE, OWENS, MOOCH, DONAHUE, TRAVEL POLICY, CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR PLAYER'S CHILDREN, Ö JED!!!!!! Man, you just have a talent for sucking the fun out of football.

Concerning your assertion that "nobody expected a 2-14 season." Wrong! Some of us expected the worst. The Dump York bunker and many, many local sports writers knew this was likely outcome.

Earnestly, I can't believe a man who would order two bottles of wine for sixteen people at his own dinner party, then announce that after that everyone is "on their own tab" is seriously worried about what others think of him.

If you believe that you are "steadfast in your desire to create a winning team" then sell it to somebody who knows how to build a winning organization. Because, Co-Owner Dr. York, you don't.

Dr. York and Mrs. Debartolo-York, this is now bigger than a 2-14 record. You aren't welcome here.