Let's see if I have this right.

Major League baseball players all claim that it's a business, and that if wearing someone's else's laundry gets them a fatter paycheck, so be it. We didn't create the system, and we didn't ask fans to get emotionally attached. You got a problem with that, email Marvin Miller.

But when a team treats it likes a business and a player's nads get squeezed a bit, it's a lack of respect -- business be damned.

Jorge Posada was so ticked off at the Yankees on Saturday night that he made believe he had a back injury and pulled himself out of the lineup. The team's egregious crime was dropping him to No. 9 in the batting order, which Posada apparently felt was humiliating, his .165 batting average notwithstanding.

The Yankees, who have enough problems with an offense that can't hit and a pitching staff that could burn out by late June, figure that Posada should pretty much do what they tell him, especially considering that they are not getting much of a return for a player who's cuffing the team for more than $13 million a season. Seems reasonable enough.

Girardi's defenders -- Boston's David Ortiz among them -- say that the team isn't treating Posada fairly. But the team is in the business of winning games, and as Posada and the players like to say, it's just business.