Afternoon Baseball

Bronx Banter

All you could want to know about the Yankees and wannabe Yankees who will be in Florida this spring, including the dismal (and old) state of most of the minor-league prospects, the inevitability that 29(!)-year-old Andy Phillips will be screwed in favor of what Cliff Corcoran calls "The Ghost of Bernie Williams," and wait for it...wait for it...Carl Pavano's back is acting up.

It's almost like having Kevin Brown back. Those were fun times -- at least, the first 10 days of 2006 when he beat the Devil Rays singlehandedly and then was never good again.