David Chalk of BUGS & CRANKS connects the dots like Donald Sutherland in JFK and realizes the Tampa Bay Rays will hand out the award for best rookie in spring training for the year on the day the Yankees come into town for the first time since their spring training battle.

(We will break you. Squeeze you until you break. Or juice.)

Who’s getting the rather meaningless award in front of the Yankees? Why, it’s Elliot Johnson. He would be the fellow that broke Yankee Francisco Cervelli’s wrist on his hard slide and started the whole affair in March.

Now that award seems fraught with meaning. Perhaps the award will be in the shape of a middle finger and Johnson can hold it up to the Yankees’ bench.
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