Shaken not stirred
By lefty
Stuck with $208 million worth of poorly performing baseball players, the Yankees shook-up their team with an infusion of youth and bold moves Tuesday. Then they promptly lost two games in a row, making the Tampa Bay Devil Rays look like contenders. Just to put this in perspective, The Devil Rays entire team payroll for 2005 is $29 million. A-Rod will make $26 million this year. Hmmm...
The performance tonight of two players just brought up to the big club, Robinson Cano and Sean Henn, was yet another disappointment for the Yankees. Henn, whose new nick-name should be "Rocky," threw 2.1 innings giving up seven runs and two hits. However, two of the seven runs were unearned. The problem is the costly error was by Cano, the other "Yankee hopeful."
Off to their worst start in over a decade, the 2005 Yankees appear to be "Cursed." Their ace, Randy Johnson, should have been on the mound tonight, but his injured groin scared the Yankees and they cautiously decided to rest their "Unit." Johnson didn't seem happy about the move and said he could have pitched. "I feel fine. I could have pitched..." Having scored 8 runs in their 11-8 loss to Tampa Bay, it's hard to imagine the Yankees loosing this one if he did start.
Yankee fans wondering how such a rich and talented team could be playing this poorly should look at this interesting stat. So far this year, having won 11 games and loosing 17, the Yankees have scored 147 runs, and given up 161.z The poor start cause the Yankees to move Tony Womack to left field (bizarre), and kick Bernie Williams off the starting line-up.
Also Jason Giambi, who is pondering his future as a pinstiper hit by a pitch in the eighth, left the game blurry eyed, with ringing in his ears. These days, I'll bet he's not the only Yankee experiencing those symptoms.
The Bronx Bombers are playing so bad we're thinking of changing the name of this site to "HolyCowTheYankeesRealyDoSuck.com"
