Coyne's Clippings

Bob Ryan - Backup keeps popping up (from Sunday) In addition to BR's crazy quote, I didn't realize Mirabelli caught three pop ups, COOL!

"(Ah, the good old days, before managers started using PCs and drinking bottled water instead of scotch)."

And C.H.B. has some interesting stuff at the bottom of his article Sunday. Any hear Pedro drop an F-bomb live on NESN after Friday's game as Shaughnessy asserts?

Meanwhile, Martinez is never going to live down the "Yankees are my daddy" quote. In one expletive-interrupted midnight confession (the f-bomb heard live on NESN), he said the Yankees owned him. He provided back-page headlines for the rest of his career. It sounded like he quit.