Posada hubbub could be the first of many Bronx

 The days of Jorge Posada a Yankee are counted. The time that he said his manager would sit over the success of the hole No. 9 sealed it. The real shame is that it is probably just the first in a long line led by the door in New York.

Posada was not in range against the Red Sox, by design, as opposed to Saturday night Sunday when he simply missed. He and manager Joe Girardi, insisted no bad feelings carried over.

"Anything that happens for a reason." "You learn," said Posada, smile and laugh that he made his way around the cottage.

Girardi was not in the mood to Flash-backs, not more, beyond to concede that he saw less than 24 hours earlier, was not the typical face of Jorge Posada. "Yeah, it was a little emotional." There I was emotional because it is one of my guys. ?

"I feel for what it crosses," Girardi said.

The funny thing is that Posada, for all this fuss is thrown about, it might be to reveal the slightest of headaches for the Yankees. It is at 39, making it $ 13.1 million and cannot hit a lick against left-handed. But it is also in the final year of a four year contract. So if you still believe that the Yankees are rich enough to keep bury the occasional error, maybe it's all that this proves to be.

In any event, Posada has disappeared fairly quickly. And every time that that turns out to be, the heap will seem like little more than a hiccup in a career filled with moments of Championship. A piece of selfishness could not change the way New Yorkers to show him jumping into the arms of teammate early in all these celebrations. But the resentment could grow once that fans of same begin total actual costs that the Yankees have spent to consolidate most of the faces in these photos.

If you place an ear to the ground outside the Palace of billions of dollars, the franchise opened across from the original, just two years ago, you can almost hear the Foundation cracking all those dollars. Derek Jeter, who turns 37 next month, is not quite hit its weight and its agreement has two years to run. Alex Rodriguez, 35, is hovering around 0.250, and he had about $ 24 million per year until it is 42. Throw in ace c.c. Sabathia, 30, who is due to 23 million per year until 2015 and you can see how nostalgia gets expensive-pressé.

"It's sad, because you always want these things to last forever", former manager Joe Torre said earlier this week. "They were part of something unique."

They were also part of a time where we were lulled into thinking that the best players in each game could blow past their expiration dates as they were stamped with invisible ink. For decades, the players simply aged, not better, when they were wrong in their mid-30s and beyond. Easy explanations were better food and packaging patterns. The revelations of cam performance-enhancing drugs, and we have learned so many were not flying father time as cheating him.

There is no reason to attack the reputation of one of these names above, unless A - Rod, who admitted what he calls a flirtation with SAP a few years ago. Similarly, we can acknowledge the efforts of baseball to maintain SAP out of the game while remaining suspicious that some players and some drugs are still beating the system. What seems to me undeniable, it is that the combination of factors led to guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens to have the game at an age where he should have owned their.

Front-office of the Yankees were far from the only people suffering from buyer's remorse, of course. Lot of other great athletes, Michael Jordan to Brett Favre, Lance Armstrong tried to return on the trend and they all have ending evil. Yet it is often the greatest athletes that are the last to understand that.

"It is not the first time that someone has come to the range," lay said on Posada, a good friend. "If you need a day, you will need one day." ... If I thought that he did something wrong, I would be the first to tell him. ?