Up is down.

The up-and-coming Brew Crew pummel Roger Clemens, Fatty Fatso beats the Red Sox and is a legitimate Cy Young candidate, and Mike Lupica criticizes Joe Torre. All in the same day.

The paraphrase Phil Rizzuto on July 1, 1990, when Jesse Barfield dropped the second fly ball in an inning, which was the third error of the inning, thereby allowing Andy Hawkins to lose a game in which he threw an eight-inning no-hitter, "What's coming off here?"

Of course, it wouldn't be Baseball According To Felz if I didn't rip Lupica for something:

"Everyone will say that Torre will never be fired as Yankee manager, that Steinbrenner never got over the backlash from when he got rid of Buck Showalter after the '95 division series loss to the Mariners. Everyone will say that Steinbrenner would never fire the most popular manager in the history of the team, a manager whose success at Yankee Stadium is now properly discussed with Miller Huggins' and Joe McCarthy's and Casey Stengel's. People will say he especially won't do this at a time when he, the owner, is so desperate to be loved, even as he carries on this charade that he is as dynamic and forceful as ever.

I'm not so sure. Neither are smart people around the team. They still think Torre will be back, no matter what happens. They're just not nearly as sure as they once were."

Earth to Mike Lupica: Nobody thinks Torre is going to back next year.