How dare you inconvenience the mighty Yankees!

From ESPN.com, the headline says it all: Yanks angry at Showalter for pulling stars vs. Angels.

The Yankees are incredulous that Buck Showalter took Mark Teixeira, Hank Blalock and Michael Young out of a game that the Rangers eventually lost. Had they won, the Yankees would have the tiebreaker advantage against the Angels, thus giving them home field advantage for the ALDS. Now the Yankees have to travel to Anaheim for Tuesday's game.

The Yanks were somewhat surprised that Showalter would do such a thing, especially since pulling his stars didn't really give him any sort of advantage going forward. It's especially suspect given the fact that Showalter is supposedly still miffed at New York for firing him in, what, 1995?

The validity of the conspiracy theory notwithstanding, Buck's defense of the move is...well, let's let him say it:

"Those guys posted up every day," Showalter told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "They deserved that cookie."

So not only did Showalter rest his boys just to stick it to the Yankees, but he's also letting them play basketball in the clubhouse after games AND giving extra snacks to his favorites!