Crybabies
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I’ve said it before on this site and I’ll continue to say it until I’m blue in the face- the Yankees are the biggest bunch of crybabies in sports when things don’t go their way.
The latest example of this occurred after yesterday’s loss to Toronto, which dropped the Yankee’s lead to only 4 1/2 games over Boston. After the game, we all got to hear the musings of losing pitcher Mike Mussina, the biggest Yankee crybaby of them all.
Mussina was complaining that part of the reason for his ineffectiveness was that Toronto had delayed the start of the game for a ceremony honoring their long-time broadcaster, Tom Cheek. He said the Blue Jays went 15 minutes longer than they promised with the ceremony and that it contributed to him being a little off.
Of course, this ceremony followed a delay right before that when Skydome experienced a power outage, delaying even that pre-game ceremony. I suppose Mussina blames the Jays for the thunderstorms that caused the outage too.
I mean if Mussina isn’t a case of the pot calling the kettle black I don’t know what is. He has the nerve to say the Blue Jays went too long with the ceremony when he plays for a team that is famous for making seventh inning stretch breaks longer than some football half times. Yankee Stadium seventh innings have more singing than some Broadway musicals.
The fact is that Mussina just wasn’t that good yesterday. And don’t try to tell me that the delay at the start of the game threw him off. He pitched pretty well until the seventh inning when Carlos Delgado hit that titanic home run to start Mussina on his downward spiral. That was long after the pre-game festivities.
To me it’s just more Yankee excuses as the Red Sox close in on them. Hey, Yankee fans, Boston is 24-9 since Varitek punched A-Rod in the face. I guess I was right. That’s the moment that woke the Red Sox up. 4 1/2 games and the clock is ticking. Can’t you just feel George’s turtleneck tightening?
