NEW YORK -- He weaves his way through the crowds and the cameras without much notice, stepping around discarded piles of tape and over some dirty towels and through a scrum of media types who are waiting to ask A.J. Burnett why he had just plunked two of his teammates. If a Martian had landed on this little slice of heaven at this moment -- and Kerry Wood sometimes feels that's a fine way to describe his current, surreal existence -- he'd be confused by all the fuss.
"Hey, A.J., should Yankee fans be worried? Can you explain why you were so wild? You sure your head is on straight?"
Wood smirks at all the melodrama surrounding Burnett, a fellow Yankee pitcher. It was just a simulated game, a friendly warmup at the Stadium Wednesday designed to get Burnett back in the groove now that he's been named -- deep breath, Yankee fans -- the No. 4 starter for New York in the American League Championship Series against the Texas Rangers. But Wood has been a Yankee for a little more than two months, and he's learned that what might have been small blips in Chicago or Cleveland quickly turn here into raging, sky-is-falling crisis.
"You ask me what the difference is? That's the biggest difference," Wood says. "But I'll take it."
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