Mike Lupica droppin' mad knowledge.

Revisiting an article Lupica wrote just eight days ago:

"Does that mean that it is impossible for Johnson to end up with the Yankees?

Absolutely not. Johnson is greedy, the Yankee are pigs when it comes to a payroll that might end up $100 million clear of the field before Steinbrenner and his money spenders are through this winter, maybe this thing is as inevitable as the Yankees wanted it to be. But it will not be as easy, especially if the Yankees have to get a third team involved.

Because getting a third team involved means finding a general manager willing to be as stupid as DePodesta nearly was."

The Yankees got it done eight days later, without a third team, and without demanding the back page coverage that Lupica seems to think they crave so much.

You know, that Johnson trade was kind of easy after all, and it only took eight days. Including time off for Christmas.

Common sense would tell you that the Yankees were going to get Randy Johnson soon, I never doubted it for a minute, I thought the roller coaster fake drama coverage was quite comical.

So why does Lupica paint such a dire picture? An embarrassing and difficult scenario for Cashman and Steinbrenner? This is man who's paid cash money to specifically know about the Yankees and NY sports in general. This is a man who cites seemingly made-up baseball "sources" to push a non-existent point with which to argue or just to support his own anti-Yankee views. This is a man who -- guaranteed -- will be mocking Cashman on April 20th if Vazquez starts off 3-0, but conveniently change the topic as Javy's ERA approaches 5.00 in August. (I broke my promise! I mentioned his name!)

Why does Lupica ignore common sense so frequently? I know why. Because Lupica is rooting so hard against the Yankees that his judgement is deluded. He hopes that Cashman will struggle to get Unit; he writes that Cashman will struggle to get Unit; he thinks by virtue of writing it down, that it makes it true. It doesn't.