No, Just Incomprehensible

Here is one more reason, perhaps the most compelling, that this move makes no sense whatsoever and should drive every thinking Yankee fan fucking crazy with the obtuseness this organization can display. On Tuesday, Robinson Cano is set to come back, returning Cairo to his role as infield utility man. Nick Greene will at that point have lost his function and could be optioned to Columbus with no conceivable loss to the team, as he, unlike Bubba, could always be brought back. If the Yankees simply must have Veras on the big team, for reasons passing understanding, surely they could wait until Tuesday for his grand arrival and thus hold onto one of the few reliable defensive factors on the team. Once you think about the implications of Cano's return, you just can't beat this move for inexplicable, uncompensated stupidity. Sometimes all the luck in the world can't indemnify you against your own reflexive self-destructiveness. Such is the relation of the post-dynasty Yankees to the dimensions of baseball beyond hitting and pitching, i.e. baserunning and defense. Joe never thinks, when he thinks as all, I "need another glove," I "need another pair of legs." When you bring up a Veras in preference to bubba, when you keep a Greene in preference to Bubba, when you keep a Beam in preference to Bubba, when you imagine Williams as a baserunner or a defensive replacement in preference, don't come talking to me, Joe-Bullshit, about your committment to small ball. That committment, which won you a most unlikely championshipo in 1996, is as distant a memory as the one George is currently having about today's breakfast.