Nothing else matters, it comes with the high-expectation territory.What about the pitching coach? Let's take a trip down memory lane: Mel Stottlemyre's championship resume was dismissed when the incessant chore of re-inventing the mechanics of a long list of relics didn't produce enough miracles. Yankee pitching legend, Gator Guidry was discarded to make room for pitching savant Dave Eiland who would groom Generation K to the promised land. "Back where it all began."--(Allman Brothers .)What do Torre, Girardi, Sttotlemyre, Guidry and Eiland have in common? They have all tried to make mountains out of GM Brian Cashman's pitching mole hills. The front office Teflon Man's track record for talent acquisition and development is infamous. The facts speak, Cash's resume swears. A never ending list of gaudy underperforming purchases, castoffs, and not-ready for-prime-time neophytes clutter Cash's track record. For every botched plan there's a deftly connived excuse and a core of press lackeys willing to spread the dubious news. The Yankees' mushrooming issues go beyond the GM's chair. Accountability starts at the top. The brothers Steinbrenner fell into Dad's fortune and staggered out of the gate with folly. Hank's bluster was replaced with Hal's reticence. For those of you scoring at home: Santana's losing sweepstakes ticket, youth-movement hoax, closing the old Stadium with a whimper, Cashman's contract extension, bloated free agent-frenzy and new Stadium debacle document a pratfall of epic proportions. The facts suggest that the new men behind the curtain are incompetent. It starts at the top and ends at the bottom. ILLUSTRATION/TIRICOSUAVE.COMNewstex ID: 34794073