New York?

So, when a washed up New York Yankees catcher having an awful season as a DH gets dropped to last in the line-up -and then proceeds to remove himself from the line-up- it warrants national coverage and almost 10 minutes on SportsCenter??? Seriously? Why do people care so much?  Line-up changes and scratches happen all the time, but apparently it's more important in New York. It's almost as bad as the Brett Favre and Lebron James coverage, which made me want to shoot myself.

I'm talking about Jorge Posada of course, who also has no chin: