First off, I'm a little peeved the Yankees' pie celebration has been unashamedly stolen by the rest of the league. Sure, the Yankees weren't the first pie people, but they rejuvenated the activity ... now word comes that the Marlins have banned pies because a player blew out a knee. Really?
Let's recap some other idiotic baseball boo boos:
Sammy Sosa's sneeze
Carl Pavano's everything, leading to a bad bum
Various wall punchers .. two Yankees on that list, Kevin Brown and now AJ Burnett
Kendry Morales jumping on home plate and breaking both his legs and his spine and killing six children in the crowd
Chris Coughlan tears a knee delivering the aforementioned pie
Tangential to this is Nats phenom Steven Strasburg was scratched from his start. Nothing major is wrong with him, but what is up with these fragile pitchers/players? Guys just shouldn't break down this easily.
I've watched two full Yankees games in the last two days. This is more uncommon than you might think.
That said, watching the Yankees swing helplessly at the pitches of a guy they've never seen is getting old. Last night it was Josh Tomlin, 25, making his first start. He went 7-plus and was helped by miscues, errors and some bad luck for the Yankees.
CC's start was good enough to get a win, but apparently not when so nobody kid is on the bump making a lineup full of stars and vets look like clowns. Argh. Maybe Girardi should bench every guy with more than a season of service the next time a rookie goes against them.
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