The Manager is...

JoeDon Girardingly...or is it DonJoe Mattinardi? Depending on whose opinion you read, Don Mattingly will definitely be the next manager of the Yankees. Or Joe Girardi is definitely the next manager. The King and his pretenders to the throne, related and unrelated, need to make an announcement soon so that the collective press can stop spinning their wheels.

Brian Cashman knows how much Don Mattingly means to the Yankees tradition, so he's behind Mattingly for manager.

Brian Cashman knows the Yankees need an experienced guy who knows about decision making and leading a team, so he's clearly backing Joe Girardi.

And so it goes.

Whomever is named manager will be subject to a plethora of second guessing once the season starts, as will ownership. Get off to a good start, we told you we picked the right guy. Get off to a bad start, we told you, you should have picked the other guy.

As of early Sunday, neither Mattingly or Girardi had been contacted by the Yankees. At least that is what their public response is. With the World Series a very strong possibility to end this evening, the announcement of the new manager could come as early as tomorrow.