Maybe if we could have kept Mussina’s smarts and grafted Joba’s younger arm on to it we would have something. Think Joba is somewhat lacking in the game smarts department, the catcher really has to call a thinking man’s game for him. And that might not be enough.

Saw in Newsday Gardner was supposed to be running on Posada’s Double Play yesterday. Missed the sign and admitted it. He is showing the baserunning intelligence of Bernie Williams but has none of Bernie’s spendid offensive tools.