Yanks start process of disassembling Granderson

Our biggest winter acquisition -- which caused the sequence of calamities that brought us Javier Vazquez while shedding Hideki and Johnny -- apparently needs a diamond chip planted in his cerebellum, so he can become a new happy Yankee zombie.

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Curtis Granderson is about to be Kevin Longed -- which is not like Big Papi being Dixie Chicked or Arod being Madonnaed. It means his swing is going to be, well, tinkered-with. It means that the happy talk about his great play in Detroit needs an asterisk -- which means whatever he did as a Tiger won't be what he is as a Yankeee. Maybe in New York, he's Curt Granderson.

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Hey, when a guy hits lefties like Victoria Jackson, you gotta do something.

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But some baseball people still claim Kei Igawa wasn't hopeless before the Yankees changed his delivery and made him the all-time wins leader at Scranton. We'll never know, of course, because the last thing the team will ever do is let Igawa go somewhere else and show them up. But everyone in Yankee Land once touted Ron Guidry as the great pitching guru -- until one day he was gone, along with our bullpen.

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One question: If Granderson is so great, why tinker?

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And what if, psychologically, he doesn't take well to it...?