Keyboard Quarterbacks

By Mark La Monica

Thank you, Susanna Hoffs and the rest of The Bangles for those slightly modified lyrics from the 80s pop hit "Manic Monday."

Manic is a bit of understatement right now. More like just another insane, crazy, bonkers Monday in New York sports. Just when it seemed the right play to lament Boston's dominance over New York in the sports world, New York delayed the pain with a monster of a day.

Follow this little chain reaction:

The Yankees chose Joe Girardi over Donnie Baseball for their vacant managing job.

Donnie Baseball, somewhat perturbed for getting passed over for the top spot as if he was Fredo Corleone, left his position as Yankees bench coach.

Then, in the moments before midnight and the actual changing of the calendar day, buckets of rumors hit the Internet that Joe Torre is going to be named the next manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, replacing the soon-to-be-canned Grady Little.

Just to add to the chaos, Mattingly is rumored to join Joe Hollywood at Chavez Ravine. Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long is also possibly rumored to make the move. But that's slightly more speculative than the Torre-Mattingly thing.

And there's the ripple effect of A-Rod opting out of the last three years of his contract and hitting the free-agent market.

Oh, wait we're not done.

The Jets announced that Kellen Clemens is their new starting quarterback, replacing the ineffective Chad Pennington.

Supposedly, the Red Sox won the World Series somewhat recently. You wouldn't know it today, at least not in New York.

Crazy, crazy day.