"You know, it didn't work"?

I needed to digest this for a while.

This is what we get as a reason for Mike Mussina pitching to Manny Ramirez and turning a pretty good outting into garbage and a loss? Not, "boy, I made the worst decision possible there," or, "Wow, I can't believe I'm the only one on Earth who thought Mussina could get Ramirez out."

Leaving Mussina to pitch in that situation was the absolute wrong move, hindsight or no. Mussina simply doesn't have the stuff to get by. And, oh yeah, Ramirez went deep his first time up. He wasn't locked in or anything, was he? At least walk him and face Youkilus. That's makes a little more sense. But no, let's let the idiot savant stick it to us again. Usually it's Ortiz killing the Yankees in those spots.

What a wasted game.