Thursday, October 2, 2008

Another Day, Another Set of Former Yankees in the Playoffs


Two-thirds of the dreaded Randy Johnson trade (see below) faced off today.


For the White Sox of Chicago, Javier Vasquez proved to be in pure playoff form:

4 and 1/3 innings and six earned runs. All he needed was a grand slam from Johnny Damon (there it is, to your right) to bring back the pure golden memories.

For Tampa Bay, catcher Dioneer Navarro went 1-4 with a strikeout. He threw out a runner.

Oh, let's not forget Octavio Dotel, the great Yankee rehab experiment of 2006. He pitched to one Ray and struck him out.

And finally, what Rays round-up is compete without mentioning first-baseman Carlos Pena, who languished in our Columbus Clippers dungeon for most of 2005, while we squeezed out a final season from 37-year-old Tino (.245) and awaited the coming of the then-28-year-old Andy Phillips. Carlos went oh for one.

They're like the ghosts of Halloween past.

Wait a minute; Anybody want to put together a line-up of ex-Yanks in the post-season?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Soriano
Lowell
Ted Lilly
Juan Rivera



Seeing Navarro makes me so depressed.

Anonymous said...

We can do that after Hank sue Torre and his gang for Animal Abuse.

Anonymous said...

I think a greater challenge is to start a pool toidentify which players on the current Yankees, or in the Yankees minor league system as of end-of-season 2008, will ever see a World Series game in a Yankee uniform.