Vintage Moose

Yankee's 39 year old starting pitcher Mike Mussina looked like the moose of old last night against the White Sox. He gave up 2 earned runs on 4 hits through 7 strong innings of work. He has been highly criticized lately because of his poor pitching performances, but last night showed that he might still have some left in the tank.

The Yankees went on to win the game 6-4. Jorge Posada and Johnny Damon each drove in 2 runs and Mariano Rivera earned his sixth save of the year while he has still not given up a run this year.

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Steinbrenner on Joba: "I want him as a starter"

Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner told The New York Times that Joba Chamberlain is being wasted in a reliever role.

Steinbrenner told the paper, "I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now. There is no question about it, you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that." He says the notion of having Chamberlain spend part of the season in the bullpen won't last forever.

"The mistake was already made last year switching him to the bullpen out of panic or whatever. I had no say in it last year and I wouldn't have allowed it. That was done last year, so now we have to catch up. It has to be done on a schedule so we don't rush him."

I feel that they should wait and see what is happening with the other starters before they make a decision on Joba. If the starters get their acts together, then I would go with the if it aint broken don't fix it approach. Then next year Joba will be in the starting rotation and see how it works out then. If the starters continue to be mediocre, then they should send Joba to the minors this year for a few weeks and bring him back up as a starter.

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Arod 15th on All-time HR List

In the first inning of last nights game against the Sox at the stadium, Alex Rodriguez followed Abreu's 2 run shot with a blast of his own. Arod's homerun was estimated at over 450 feet and it was his 522 homerun of his brilliant career. That shot put him ahead of Willie McCovey and arguable the greatest hitter of all-time Ted Williams. Arod is now in sole posession of 15th place all-time and by the end of the season he could move ahead of Jimmie Fox, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, and Reggie Jackson.

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Marketing Homework Assignment

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Wang, Joba, Mo Shut Down Rays

Yankees starter Chien-Ming Wang dominated six innings while giving up no runs, scattering four hits and fanning six batters. Chamberlain came in for the seventh and eighth and struck out one batter and not allowing a hit or a single base runner. He opened a lot of eyes when the radar gun had him clocked at 101 mph. The energy at the stadium at that point was similar to when Rivera would come in the game in the World Series years back. Then River entered the game in the 9th and struck out 2 and allowing zero base runners.

The Yankees won the game 2-0 with the runs coming on a 4th inning two run home run by Hideki Matsui. The Yankees are currently at 3-3.

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