The Yankees are still in the process of mending fences in the wake of a weekend that began with yet another tirade from an angry old man, Rich Gossage, who seems to delight in coming to Spring Training every year with his same agenda. That episode washed itself out rather quickly when most people saw through the thin veneer of Goose Gossage’s annual attach on Mariano Rivera.
But what followed on Saturday cannot be washed away, and its effects will linger like a bad odor in the air when the wind isn’t blowing.