I Want To See His Teeth !

Okay, I'm back.

Kicked by a wild horse in a rodeo while recruiting rancheros and cabbelleros ( who can spell in a language they don't speak?) for my South Mexican dirt field league team, I suffered a temporary setback.  Broken this and that.  Fractures here and there.

It was also necessary that I disappear in the hills for a while, due to some ( rumored ) illegal trafficking of something or other at the rodeo, of which I had no part. That is my official position , and I am sticking to it.

Prediction number one:  My team in the South Mexican dirt field league this season is:

A.  Younger than the Yankees ( although there are numerous, former major leaguers on the roster just as there are this season in the Bronx).

B.  Would beat the Yankees in any playoff wild-card game ( which the Yankees won't be in ).

Prediction number two:  Pineda will not pitch at Yankee stadium this year.

Prediction number three:   He will be just as useless in relief as he was as a starter.  Logically, that means he won't be coming north, either.

Now to the the main point.  The one about dentistry.

When I first saw Kei Igawa, he looked like an under-fed horse who's lips had been injured in a fight with a barbed wire fence.  I knew immediately, that his face ( the portion below his nose, most
 notably) was so embarrassing to him, that he would not be able to pitch in front of ;

A.  People
B.  TV cameras
C.  Microphones
D.  Chris Christy

Other than the money pissed away annually on our " farm " system (" farm" in the general sense of drought-infected fields, and scrawny, infected bovines ), the investment in Kei Igawa was Cashman's greatest public disgrace.  A panic move ( pants were soiled ) in response to Boston's signing of Dice K.

THE BRILLIANT Cashman made Igawa the King of our farm system after appearance one, and we never saw him again.  I always maintained that if the Yankees had taken him to a good orthodontist, he would have a shot.  They didn't so he didn't.

Which brings me to the point;  This new guy from Japan.  This orca ball specialist who never loses;

Show me his friggen teeth.  If he looks good in front of a camera, we can at least have hope for a week or two.  If he ( his teeth ) reminds anyone of Kei Igawa's pearlies, take him to Scranton now.

You always look at a horses' teeth before you buy, right?