Greeneyed,

The only reason you lived to tell about it is that you're a woman. We don't beat up the fairer sex down here in the big city.

Foreign concept?

Actually, Joba did go into spring training preparing to be a starter. After they determined that Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes were ready for rotation spots (what? who said that?) they decided to start Joba in the bullpen. But that wasn't the only reason.

As was previously mentioned, they needed to limit his innings, so they decided to start him in the bullpen, then move him to the rotation mid-season to keep his innings down.

In case I’m not being clear here: The plan all along has been to do exactly what they are doing now.

You might argue that Hank Steinbrenner changed the course by forcing them to do it earlier in the season than they wanted to, but this was always in the cards for Joba this year. If you follow the Yankees all year round, none of this should be a surprise.

Never ever EVER trust ANYTHING that Mike and the Mad Dog say.

Ever.

They are the most notorious flip-floppers in the game. In one breath they will criticize moving Joba to the rotation, then in the next, when they have Joe Girardi on the show, they will say what a great move it is to put Joba in the rotation.

If you don't believe me, read Phil Mushnick's columns in the Post every Friday (I think - it's sometime on or around the weekend). He's been chronicling this stuff for years.

I absolutely do not trust the Post to accurately report on anything, unless it has to do with area men chopping off their penises and throwing them at cops. They've got that market covered.

That being said, Phil Mushnick is a different animal. All he does is obsessively follow the media's coverage of sports and point out the foibles of the biggest personalities in sports journalism.

That's it. That's his entire job. I'm not sure it's the most honorable of professions, but if you want to find out which sportscaster is making an ass of himself, he's your man.

Considering he has about 14 days in between each game to recuperate, I'm sure Paul Pierce will be in tip top shape in no time.

Plus, we all know Boston athletes have a history of exaggerating injuries in order to boost team morale.

I expect Mr. Pierce to participate fully in all 7 games of this series.

"Watching Lawrence and Garner pleasure each other, those two officers must have understood at some level that they, too, could be entered and dominated. And if they weren't careful, they might enjoy it."

What?

This opinion might have some basis in reality, but to just throw it out there, without any sort of evidence, at the tail end of an article that up until this point was a straight-laced book review...that's just sloppy.

Much like a good ol' fashioned blow job.

But seriously, if you're going to strongly editorialize, make it an editorial. I understand that book reviews necessitate the critic taking a personal, subjective stance, but the timing of this conjecture within the piece itself, and the out-of-nowhere harshness of the statement (however warranted it might be) just seemed odd and misplaced.

Cut him some slack. The name of this article is "Kiss My Ass," after all.

Can we please retire the phrase, "disingenuous at best"? It's like the cynical, bloggy equivalent of corporate blowhards trying to shoehorn the term "synergy" into every meeting over 5 minutes long.

So are black people who want to compose classical music "silly" because they didn't invent the form?

What kind of a basis is that for criticism?

I find it disheartening anytime idiots like you are allowed to make their views available for public consumption.

He has never been wrong, EVER!

He even pulled a John Sterling last night, declaring many balls to be outs that were, in fact, home runs, then pretending as if nothing had ever happened.

If we ever created a Ministry of Truth, ala 1984, I would fully expect Joe Morgan to hold a managerial position.

Pointless Ban Found in Futureless Stadium

That's all I got. Anyone else want to try to carry on the venerable Post headline-writing tradition?

I had NO IDEA the Olympics were coming up, and then YOU had to come along and completely effing ruin it for me.

Normally I like to just sit around, blankly staring at the television, and every few years or so get delightfully surprised by the seemingly out-of-nowhere appearance of (almost) every country on Earth coming together peacefully to vie for athletic glory.

Thanks a lot, jerk.

Holy mother of God. You think Dick was one of the funniest movies of the 90s?

I don't even have a clever quip for this -- I'm completely floored.

Wow.

WOW!!!

DICK!!!!!!!

Anyone who would switch from Clinton to McCain deserves to be sent to room 101.

You don't like good defense or smash-mouth football?

Brandon Jacobs burying LaRon "g place at LaRong time" Landry mid-run wasn't fun enough to watch for you?

Don't worry, you can keep sleeping. I'll wake you up after the Giants' second consecutive Super Bowl victory.

I usually don't like to make flippant comments like this, but you're an idiot.

"All this," is not for the fourth place Yankees, it's for Yankee Stadium.

And if I have to enumerate the myriad reasons Yankee Stadium is a national treasure, then you have no business calling yourself a sports fan.