Today in The Journal News
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Aug 18, 2008 
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Mike Mussina moved closer to 20 wins as the Yankees finally got their bats going and routed the Royals. Josh Thomson has the story.
Hideki Matsui is close to returning. This notebook also has updates on Phil Hughes, Carl Pavano, Joba Chamberlain and Derek Jeter.
Carl Pavano has a great opportunity to make up for four years of butt injuries and papercuts. If he goes 5-0 down the stretch, that’ll be a great story.
I have great memories of what Kevin Brown did with his great opportunities…
In this debate of whether or not to keep Brian Cashman, it is pretty obvious that he has signed some underperforming pitchers over the years- Kei Igawa, Jeff Weaver, the aforementioned Kevin Brown, Denny Neagle, the American Idle himself, the Roger Clemens rental of last year, Jose Contreras (but he found some success in Chicago), Randy Johnson (in fighting form when WCBS cameramen are involved), and Hideki Irabu.
Hmmm. Seems like there are some pretty good pitchers on that list that just couldn’t handle New York. What can you do about Medical Record? Can’t hang that one on Cashman. That’s all on Carl. Clemens was probably a deal with the Steinbrenners (what did Roger tell George S. anyway?). Igawa turned out to be an ace. Hey! They need aces in AAA, too.
Isn’t it great to see the bats batting! Hey, the baseball gods owe us many, many more hits for this year!
I went to Ireland last Friday and came back late yesterday.
What the hell’s going on?!? Five-game losing streak last week? Nine games back?
I shoulda stayed over there. Sad!!
Good job bashing the Royals, now it’s time to break Baltimore and Toronto down.
Well, it looks like they will see both Burnett and Halladay this week. YIKES!!!. Gotta hope Rasner and Ponson can keep the yanks close in those games. Baltimore has been a thorn in their side all year, so this week will certainly be a big test.
I think it’s cool that the Yanks hit for the homer cycle yesterday. (Okay, that’s something I just made up, but it could be a legit stat.)
Grand slam: Giambi
Three run homer: A-Rod
Two run homer: Ransom
Solo shot: Nady
How often does that happen?