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YANKEES IN 08

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Vince I always enjoyed your posts and your P.O.V over at your website and this wasn’t any different. Great job.

More importantly can you tell me if the “Red” house is still standing?

ok, it’s really not that hard.

he had 3 horrible starts in late august. that is undeniable. something was very wrong with him in those 3 starts.

outside of those 3 starts, he pitched 142 innings to a 4.31 ERA.

in other words, despite what you think you “saw”, Mike Mussina was a very servicable #4-5 starter last year up until the middle of August.

no one here is arguing that he will be returning to the top of the rotation anytime soon.

but i don’t see the evidence that he is “done” either. unless we are giving 3 bad starts more weight than his entire body of work in a borderline Hall of Fame career.

Jeff
(the Sox part of Sox and Pinstripes)
http://www.soxandpinstripes.com

Yeah, perhaps Girardi can finally be the one to crack the Farnsworth mystery, but I’ll be content with his upgrade of bullpen management.

Yes! We still keep in touch a bit, but my husband used to play cards with Mr. Bondi and Mrs. Bondi and I bowled together.

For the last 4 years I was driving on Ridge Road to Route 27 to bring my daughter to school in Princeton!

Small world.

Regarding Farnsworth — So it means he really messed up the “schedule” last year! I’m just hopeful that Girardi is able to get something special out of him. Sometimes it is simply the tone of voice or the level of expectation from the manager/coach. He throws so hard, and he did have a few good outings last year – sparks of what could be. I almost feel like whoever is in charge of that bullpen is going to have to be like a chemist – knowing exactly how to mix things up in the exact quantities (as opposed to a chef, who has more freedom to fool around with the ingredients).

I’m finding it very difficult to understand how people who actually watched Mike’s starts last year could argue that he was anything but washed up and over the hill.

So after a 3 week break he had a couple decent starts against bad teams…

That should give us all hope?

Godbless him but he’s cooked. The man has lost 6 mph on his fastball and throwing 84 and 83 will not work unless Tim Wakefield teaches him to throw knuckleballs.

Please excuse my lack of required effort but I have no interest in digging up stats. Since statistical evidence is what I assume you are after I’ll ask you if you’d like to dig up evidence that could somehow persuade me to forget all I watched from M&M last year?

Sorry but it’s Saturday if I wanted to work I’d have chosen a different profession.

Thanks for the link. I loved that story. Alex got burned talking about his workouts a few years ago, so he’s been pretty private about them since. I hope he has another monster year.

in other words, because i said so!

i have no way to explain his last few starts and playoff appearance, so i will just repeat my opinion louder and make a steroids joke!