The Yankees would witness Tino Martinez marching up and down the bench on this sun-splashed, ball-bashing Wednesday at the Stadium, listening to him telling them, "Look around, there's no better place to play." He comes out of a championship yesterday, where it was about winning, about whatever it took for the greater good of the cause. Whatever Joe Torre has needed him to do, he's delivered.

That's old school on the Yankees. That's the expectation of a champion. When something's asked of you, something's done. Sometimes, you have to leave to come back again. Martinez can tell Jason Giambi all about that.

Giambi must have been listening in the Yankees' dugout Wednesday, but it's doubtful he heard Martinez. For Giambi, everything is about self-preservation and selfish interest. Strangely, the man that Giambi usurped three years ago is sparing him the greater scorn of the public, because Martinez keeps doing the job that George Steinbrenner paid Giambi to do. Martinez keeps hitting the home runs, keeps getting those curtain calls so often that Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada nicknamed him "C.C." [adrian wojaksjfdabfabfjaanowski]

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