Beckett Outduels Sabathia as Sox Top Yankees, 6-0

He hates the Eagles for some reason, it’s never what they did right to win, it’s always how the other team screwed up to win. And he goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and… you get the picture.

I don’t understand how he finds work every year, is it the legacy of his father? No one will tell him no and they need to.

Never met a bald hobbit. Or elf, for that matter, although the Elves come closer. . . .

Maybe Pedey’s a baby Elf.

That isn’t how we handle things, if there is a disagreement among management and players, management and owners, whatever, it’d have been handled differently. Cashman seems to be more of a loose cannon these days, especially after the Soriano signing this off-season, it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out considering his contract is up this year.

There is always going to tension in any MLB clubhouse, it shouldn’t be leaked halfway into a big game. No matter how lame Posada’s excuse was to sit out, Cashman really blew it by going to the press and threatening to void Posada’s contract.

taking a day off, the organization would have been more than accommodating, and there would have been no reason for Jorge to call a press conference about it.

and I think that Posada did not end up doing what he originally planned.

I think that if all he needed was a day to get his back better and take a personal day, the organization would have been more than willing to let him do that. But, really, is there any reason to call a press conference to announce “I’d like a day off, and my back is a tad tender from some reps at first?” Absolutely not. He would just tell Girardi and Girardi would give him the day off. This leads me to the conclusion that Jorge had every intention of telling everyone who would listen how displeased he was about the “disrespect” being shown to him.

In the end, though, after he cooled his head and talked to some people about it, he backtracked as much as he could and fed the media some guff about his back and needing a mental day. And, what essentially happened with Cashman was that he was asked if Jorge pulled himself out of the game because of injury, to which he said “no, it’s not injury related,” which is something everyone already knew or had a very good reason to suspect.

Cashman definitely played the bad cop to Girardi’s good cop, and they seemed to have (at least publicly) put it behind them, but it’s hard not to find the vast majority of the fault with Posada. It could have probably been handled better by all parties, and yes, the NY media certainly blew it up, but I really don’t mind Cashman being the only person in the organization who doesn’t bend themselves into a pretzel to appease the egos of True Yankee Legends ©.

because he failed some neurological tests this off-season and it was determined that the blows to the head that catchers take could result in serious long-term health problems. He wasn’t happy about it because he likes to catch and he has never really liked DHing, but he was quoted as understanding the risk and saying he owed it to his family to take care of himself.

Now, considering the level at which he plays defense and the level at which Russell Martin have been playing, I don’t think the Yankees mind having him not catch, but there’s more than just the organization taking it from him.

He shouldn’t be playing. He can do some bullpen catching, but it is silly for him to play at all, if he is at risk for some serious brain damage every time he steps up to the plate to bat.