Alright, I don’t know who gave Mussina the time machine but please let him keep it through the end of the year. Last night he didn’t even get in any trouble, which was completely amazing. The Orioles are not a good team, but a lot of that is the pitching as they have some very capable hitters. Not even getting into any trouble with them if you are Mike Mussina in 2007 is a minor miracle as far as I’m concerned.
I would especially like Mussina to keep this up because it basically assured him a spot on the post-season rotation if the team gets there. Which terrifies me, because then I assume his inevitable meltdown will happen at an extremely bad time, such as Game 7 of the ALCS at Fenway Park or something.
Today’s reading:
This is probably the only place I approve of the “Everybody Wins” way of doing things. Warning: article is sappier than anything involving Joba Chamberlain’s father.
Completely random Doug Mienktiewicz love piece from Vig Siegel in today’s Daily News.
Major League Baseball’s preliminary 2008 schedule has the Yankees finishing up on the road. Hopefully this will be changed, or the Yankees finish out the season winning the World Series there. The latter sounds better to me, of course.
Barry Bonds still a jerk, but this time it’s funny.
“He’s stupid. He’s an idiot,” Bonds said, according to the newspaper. “He spent $750,000 on the ball and that’s what he’s doing with it? What he’s doing is stupid.”
He is referring to Mark Ecko’s purchase and decision to “democratize the the debate” over what to do with the ball. It’s a dumb publicity stunt, just send the thing to the Hall of Fame. It won’t be there anyway unless Alex Rodriguez goes the way of Ken Griffey Jr or something (that hopefully won’t happen).
