New York _ Following the roadside breakdown of their 1973 Gran Torino, Sergio Mitre, the Yankees announced Friday they will launch a "Cash for Clunkers" program in search of a more innings-efficient fifth starter.
"We're going green, and that means recycling," general manager Brian Cashman told reporters Friday night, after Mitre pitched three innings and somehow lost 13 hubcaps. "We intend to bump start the rotation by finding something in the scrap heap."
Among the possibilities, a seldom driven 1994 Tercel, Kei Igawa, and the recently acquired 1998 minivan, Jason Hirsh.
Cashman defended the team's decision not to trade for a hurler Friday, before the deadline ended.
"It's true that we didn't get anything," he said. "But we didn't give up anything either. So it wasn't a loss. We didn't help ourselves, but we didn't hurt ourselves. We treaded water. We stayed where we were, which is where we are. But we're getting there."
Saturday, August 1, 2009
In search of 5th starter, Yanks to restart "Cash for Clunkers" program
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It shows you how little the Yankees think of Kei Igawa.
What idiot signed him anyway, and does he still have a job with the organization?
If any of us pissed away $50 million of our bosses money, for a national joke, would we still be working?
I think, by the way, the entire major league problem with Igawa is his teeth.
The man is humiliated everytime he is in public. Fix his damn teeth. Then, rename him and bring him up.
Swisher is a better pitcher than Marti.
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