Nobody is going to make the argument that Cody Ransom is going to approach Alex Rodriguez in any manner, shape or form if he winds up being the April Band-Aid to the Yankees’ third-base hold in the wake of A-Rod’s surgery this morning in Colorado. But as this column by my friend Ian O’Connor points out, Ransom has already been through hell and knows what the other side looks like.

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Well, we are 1-2 so far in our “Best Case” game-by-game which tried to get the Knicks to 40 wins and the last slot in the Eastern Conference playoffs, and since that helpful screed had them 3-0 and at this point … well, the best to be said about that is that they’re still a game ahead of the “Worst Case” grid, which of course would have had them at 0-3 now on the way to an 0-23 finish.