Long Relief, No, Comic Relief, Yes

This year, the Yankees decided to break camp at the end of Spring Training without a long reliever on their roster. If they didn't think it would cause a problem this early in the season they were proven decidedly wrong last night. It appears they assumed, wrongly, that the rotation would be off and running right out of the gate. But Chien-Ming Wang's up-in-the-zone pitches had other ideas.So the Yankees finished the game using four short relievers, including Jonathan Albaladejo, who was stretched to his max. You know by now who the fourth pitcher was: Nick Swisher. Swish went out there and had fun, which is what he's done since he got to New York, which is probably what he has done his whole life. He walked around the mound with a bounce in his step, a smile on his face and laughter coming out of his mouth. A lot like Mark "The Bird" Fydrych. Hearing about Fydrych's death today was shocking, to say the least. "The Bird" took MLB by storm during 1...