"There must be something missing from this Brian Cashman story, and it ain't a player to be named later.

It's a tale of sex, stalking, betrayal. It has nearly everything sports talk gas bags were yakking incessantly about when Steve Phillips' made-for-tabloid affairs were revealed and dissected inside the Valley of the Stupid and other media precincts.

Cashman? The talkies have gone Cashmum. As a matter of fact, so have normally opinionated columnists and TV commentators.

Maybe the Giants ran interference for the beleaguered Yankees GM during their drive to the Super Bowl. Then again, all the coverage that compelling story produced couldn't hide loud, up-front headlines about Cashman."