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Signing Crystal turns Yankees into jokers

Look, we've never taken spring training games too seriously. Otherwise, we'd write about wins and losses and openly question why pitchers are allowed to do their running on the warning track during games.

But just because these are exhibitions doesn't give the Yankees - and commissioner Bud Selig - the license to turn the Yankees' camp into a bad joke for a few days.

Come on, seriously,...

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