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ANAHEIM - If you are going to put a big-picture title on this Yankee postseason, right now it would have to be Revenge of the GM.
Brian Cashman protested when I suggested it to him Wednesday, insisting this isn't about him, but I have a feeling that deep down he's getting quite a last laugh about how this all worked out.
That is, he was right and people like me were wrong for writing that he was out of his mind to pass on trading for Johan Santana two winters ago.
All along Cashman clung to what he believed was a better idea, a long-term vision that is materializing right before our eyes as CC Sabathia pitches the Yankees toward the World Series while players such as Phil Hughes and Melky Cabrera, who would have been dealt for Santana, contribute as...
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