Just a quickie... ok there's more

I don't understand what the big deal is. I mean, it's not like he gave anyone herpes or anything.

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Then there's this from espn.com. Apparently Rangers manager Buck Showalter pulled some of his starters for pinch runners part-way through the Rangers/Angels game on Sunday. The Angels won and, as a result, have home field advantage over the Yankees in their series. Evidently the Yankees are attributing the loss of home field to the pulling of the Rangers players.

"There's a code of honor when so much is on the line," Rodriguez told the New York Daily News. "You hope people do the right thing. But you can't control what people do."

That's from Alex Rodriguez? Code of honor? He must not have been thinking about that one when he girly-slapped the ball out of Bronson Arroyo's glove during the ALCS last year.

"It's surprising," Torre told The New York Times. "If his team was in the playoffs, I could understand it a little bit more. It's just surprising he pulled them so soon."

Joe Torre. You don't manage the Rangers. Who are you to question what Buck Showalter does with his players? Surprisingly enough, the sound of sensibility does come from someone in the Yankees organization...

"If we had won one more game, we wouldn't have to be worried about what anybody else did," Cashman told The Times.

Wow. That's exactly what I was thinking. I wonder who or what Torre and Rodriguez will blame when they fail to win another World Series.