Sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 yesterday afternoon as Jorge Posada and the Yankees were getting ready to appear for their Saturday night game against the Red Sox, the following songs appeared on Q-104.

The classic rock station played “Under Pressure” by Queen with David Bowie. A few songs later “Alive” by Pearl Jam appeared and that was followed by “Badlands” from Bruce Springsteen.

Obviously none of these songs pertain to baseball, but they could be in that context when the state of the Yankee hitting woes is mentioned, especially with the news as it pertains to Posada.

By now you may have seen the numbers and you might be wondering are the Yankees feeling "Under Pressure" to do something with Posada. You might also be wondering when Posada's will come “Alive” and finally you might wonder if the Posada will emerge from the “Badlands” and perform better than his .165 average.

About an hour later, Jim Morrison told Q-104 listeners to break on through to the other side and when the lineup was revealed there were some subtle changes to it, especially as it pertained to Posada.

And when Posada reported for work, he found himself as the last man listed in the starting lineup, a place where he hadn’t been in exactly 12 years. At 4:00 he told the assembled media near his locker towards the back of the clubhouse the following:

"I've put myself in this spot," Posada said. "It is not like I want to hit ninth. It is not like I want to hit a hundred and whatever I'm hitting, just a matter of really coming out of it."

Two and half hours later an announcement came over the media public address system: Attention media, please note a lineup change for the Yankees. Now batting ninth, Andruw Jones and new lineup cards will be distributed.

It was at that point, about a half hour before the first pitch that this nationally televised game between the Yankees and Red Sox morphed into the game that nobody in the press box watched because nobody knew what why Posada asked out with what he would repeatedly said was "insignificant back stiffness".

Before that happened, the speculation was rampant.

Was he hurt? Was he infuriated with batting ninth after all his years being a catcher with a good bat? Did the fact that he was batting ninth in a nationally televised game against the Red Sox?

Simply put nobody knew, not on the FOX broadcast, not in the clubhouse (at least that's what Joe Girardi and Mark Teixeira said) and not in the press box.

The announcement was made because of what Girardi said was a short conversation between manager and player in his office. The exact wording was not made public, though perhaps we might find out someday, but it involved a player asking for a "mental health day" - the kind of day we notify employers (if we're fortunate to have one or are not self-employed) that we won't be coming in for work.

Except the only difference between the most of us, is that our employers are not presenting their work day on national television in front of nearly 50,000 people in a big office and paying a salary that many will not make in our lifetimes.

So while the early stages of Posada's "mental health day” were going on, people kind of watched as CC Sabathia and Josh Beckett seemed destined for an outstanding duel of aces. Both pitchers escaped having two on and nobody out situations with strikeouts.

Then at around 8:00, another announcement came over the airwaves:

"Brian Cashman will be available in the print workroom"

This was after Brian Cashman had spoken briefly to FOX and when that announcement was made, the print media emerged from their seats, left their stories and tweets and assembled into the room to listen to Cashman.

What they heard was a preview of Posada and Girardi except with one major difference. At no point did he mention anything about an injury or physical problem. He simply stated that at 6:00 Posada walked into Girardi's office and asked to be removed from the lineup, nothing more and nothing less, just that fact.

So when that announcement was made, print media people emerged from their seats and into the room to listen to Cashman say that at 6:00 Posada went into Girardi's office and asked to be removed from the lineup. There was not an injury and there was not a comment on anything else, other than that he expected Posada to address this after the game.

Then came the more speculation, was he going to retire, was he upset at such a demotion? If it is the second how would the Yankees handle it?

Since the media outlets (POST, Daily News) plus ESPN New York always brings out the heavy artillery for these games, they all huddled and planned their ways to attack a major story about a longtime Yankee, whose decline is being treated different than that of Derek Jeter.

Eventually the speculation died down because what else could be done until Posada spoke and that wasn't coming until after the Yankees lost their fourth in a row and it was sometime after Derek Jeter made final out at 10:40.

When he spoke, they all briskly walked to the elevator or stairs. Then they waited on a line of epic proportions even for a regular-season Yankee-Red Sox game.

Their destination was set; the back locker on the left side of the vast clubhouse directly opposite the Yankee captain. When the group was assembled, they waited a few seconds as Posada made his way in front of the cameras.

For roughly nine minutes, Posada spoke slowly though not necessarily with conviction. He talked about needing time to clear his head and that the group knew him better than that to be the type of person who would ask out of a game.

When the topic of retirement was brought up, Posada offered an incredulous, "What".

Eventually as the conversation to a wall of media humanity continued, Posada talked about a little disrespect from an organization taking away his catching responsibilities and was especially pointed when he found out that Cashman had spoken to the media during the game.

When the conversation headed towards its conclusion, Posada offered this:

"You guys know me better than that. I love to play the game, I love to be out there and today’s just one of those things. I couldn’t be there."

Then the media moved across the room to hear Girardi, who seemed tense during a 9 1/2 minute discussion on a man struggling with a new job title.

On it went.

It was a short conversation, he was not made aware of his back; I'm not going to talk about this much; players go through difficult times and said he needed a day.

If there was anything beyond those words, Girardi was not revealing and hoping to talk about the Yankees' 17th loss in 37 games.

Except nobody wanted to talk about the events on the field (Josh Beckett dominating, CC Sabathia allowing a season high six runs, the lineup going 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and 5-for-39 in the last four games, Adrian Gonzalez hitting a home run in his fifth straight game, Dustin Pedroia hitting .650 off Yankee pitching this year, the strike zone of Mike Winters that Girardi was sent to his office for disagreeing with).

Nobody wanted to talk about those topics because it was the game nobody watched.