Not so fast El Duque. Here's numbers 7-9 of your real original: 7. John Lackey will lead the Redsock pitching staff and become a notorious Yankee killer. He is a great pitcher and competitor, the closest to a Teixeira-type mentality that was on the market. I said it in December: Cashman is trying what Theo Epstein attempted in 2009 -- to be too clever with his tinkering and outsmart everybody. The Penny/Smoltz/Baldelli/et al follies blew up in Epstein's face, even though, just like Cashman's moves this year, they were roundly cheered by the "experts." This may be the year Cashman learns his lesson: If you got the cards, lay them down.
8. Nick Johnson will hit .300 and 20 home runs, but with nagging injuries to other key Yankees, his fulltime DH presence will prove a poor fit, and he will end up platooned. We will often lament the fact that he is slow on the bases, and we will look for a base-stealing benchplug, a Freddie Guzman, for the late innings, which will mean having to pare our outlandishly large pitching staff down to 11 or 10. This is the folly of a full-time DH on an old team.
9. Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes will pitch hot and cold, finishing the season as question marks for the 2011 rotation. Seriously, can you imagine either of them ever being a sure thing? Even though it seems as if they must be pushing 30, they are still years away from their prime. That's because we long ago began marketing them as future stars. Hell, we treat them as if they are all-stars. We turned them into china dolls. They'll come of age around 28, and I think they'll be good. But that's two-three years away. Question: Will they still be Yankees? Or will we be sick of them?
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Not so fast El Duque. Here's numbers 7-9 of your real original:
ReplyDelete7. John Lackey will lead the Redsock pitching staff and become a notorious Yankee killer. He is a great pitcher and competitor, the closest to a Teixeira-type mentality that was on the market. I said it in December: Cashman is trying what Theo Epstein attempted in 2009 -- to be too clever with his tinkering and outsmart everybody. The Penny/Smoltz/Baldelli/et al follies blew up in Epstein's face, even though, just like Cashman's moves this year, they were roundly cheered by the "experts." This may be the year Cashman learns his lesson: If you got the cards, lay them down.
8. Nick Johnson will hit .300 and 20 home runs, but with nagging injuries to other key Yankees, his fulltime DH presence will prove a poor fit, and he will end up platooned. We will often lament the fact that he is slow on the bases, and we will look for a base-stealing benchplug, a Freddie Guzman, for the late innings, which will mean having to pare our outlandishly large pitching staff down to 11 or 10. This is the folly of a full-time DH on an old team.
9. Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes will pitch hot and cold, finishing the season as question marks for the 2011 rotation. Seriously, can you imagine either of them ever being a sure thing? Even though it seems as if they must be pushing 30, they are still years away from their prime. That's because we long ago began marketing them as future stars. Hell, we treat them as if they are all-stars. We turned them into china dolls. They'll come of age around 28, and I think they'll be good. But that's two-three years away. Question: Will they still be Yankees? Or will we be sick of them?
What did you have to say about the war in Afghanistan; the economy; interest rates; job creation; the health care bill; Sarah; witchcraft; and snow balls?
ReplyDeleteBUSTED!! I knew it was too good to be true
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