Wednesday, June 11, 2008

West Coast trippin'

Usually the Yankees look like buffoons against young lefties they haven't seen much, but they scratched out two runs early and Chien-Ming Wang appears to have straightened himself out after a very shakey May.

Wanger gave them length for the first time in what seems like forever, 7 1/3, inducing (that's another one of the baseball words that is very much out of place) four doubles.

I used to welcome West Coast swings. It was something to watch late when I was working nights. Last night I made it to the 3rd inning.

Jason Giambi is still sporting that awful mustache, although he doesn't appear to shaving much of anything these days. It makes me wonder what happened to the Yankees notoriously stringent personal grooming policy. Most of the guys are clean, but I notice Mike Mussina goes to the mound scruffy, Giambi, of course, and Wanger's hair is usually beyond the collar. Brian Bruney was even working on a quasi-mullet for a while. Guys, you make millions of dollars, invest in a Fusion Power, they work very well.

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