Hallucinating, Confusion, and Loss of Consciousness

Brian Cashman's confirmation that Joe Girardi actually "made a special call to the public address announcer... to request that Alex Rodriguez not be named when Girardi pinch-hit Eric Chavez for A-Rod" raises a couple of intellectually stimulating questions:

• WTF was Girardi thinking? Did he think no one was going to notice A-Rod was being pinch-hit for?
• WTF was Brian Cashman thinking when he confirmed this story?

After much pondering, the best explanation is that Yankees management has some sort of Oxycontin problem. Oxycontin's side effects include hallucinating, confusion, and loss of consciousness. Now I don't want to stereotype - most Oxycontin users would not do something as stupid as Girardi and Cashman have teamed up to do here. However, if there's a better explanation of this debacle than hallucinating, confusion, and loss of consciousness, please let me know.