Instead, Rivera and Pettitte will open the year as lonely icons, trying to build a team from disparate parts and squeezeone more run out of what's left of this tired, beat-up crew.
The Yankees have been forced to field a cast of minor leaguers and past-their-prime vets, yet have found ways to squeeze production out of nearly every single one.
What makes Mr Brown such a marvellous chancellor, on this view, is that he has worked out how to squeeze the well-off and help the poor without anybody really noticing: he says one thing but does another (and as good enlightened democrats we are asked to admire this fraud on the electorate).