Bob Klapisch is a sellout.

I am not even going to spend too much time on Klapisch's typical "Yankees aren't as good as you thought they were," wherein he claims the weekend trip to Boston will tell you a lot about this team, but the rest of the season doesn't count too much because of the small sample size.

This is standard Klapisch stuff and not very convincing in whatever it's trying to say.


Instead, I want to transcribe a portion of an article from Yankees Magazine.

I purchased this magazine when I visited Yankee Stadium because it's part of the scorecard. Yes, I kept score, and, yes, I misspelled Albaladejo.

Anyway, while Klapisch is contributing hard-hitting journalism to the pro-Yankees rag and sucking from Steinbrenner's teat, you know what he claims? Ready for this one?

Klapisch suggests that ARod/Teixeira could combined for 100 HRs this year and that the 2009 Yankees may have the greatest infield of all time.

Flat-out embarrassing:

"But even more than a power surge, Teixeira represents the start of an infield renaissance that could make the Yankees' quarter one of the best in modern history.

Talent evaluators from both leagues say it's true: The Bombers' infield alignment, both on defense and at the plate, is incomprehensibly loaded and worthy of comparison to the best in the last 50 years.

Think about it. The Yankees now sport two Gold Glove winners -- Derek Jeter and, once he returns from his surgery, Alex Rodriguez -- on the left side, and Teixeira, who in addition to being the game's premier switch-hitting first baseman [Felz note: Even more feared than Tony Clark and Dmitri Young?], has also won two gold gloves. And finally, there's Robinson Cano, who, after a long winter of intense workouts, is ready to make good on the projections as a latter-day Rod Carew."

I know Klapisch's work, for the most part, and he damned sure hasn't spent too much time comparing Robinson Cano to Rod Carew.

Ironically, though, Klapisch spends a lot of time complaining about the soft, free agent mercenaries in the Yankee dugout.