Ah, how great it is to wake up in the morning and see the Yankees tied for dead last in the AL East with the highly spectacular Devil Rays.
A columnist in Albany saw the return of Roger Dodger meant bombers now maintained the best rotation in baseball (circa 1999, maybe). Clemens is a HOF, obviously, as are Rivera and Jeter. Let's revisit Chien-Ming Wang in 15 years. I also think it's safe to say, playoff miseries aside, that Alex Rodriguez will go down as one of the greatest players ever to grace the diamond.
As for the rest, I think Posada and Damon are solid players, and Bobby Abreu has had a few good years. But overall, this is not a great team - not even in the same league as their 2003 World Series-losing Yanks.
Yankee fans often put on the blinders - firmly believing that adding the 68-year-old arm of Clemens will somehow get them back to postseason glory. They may well get there, even if they are 21-28 right now. It'll be a lot more difficult in the American League. My Cubbies are 22-27 and in second place in the NL-Central (I hear the entire division is going to be demoted to the international leage sometime after the All-Star break).
In their own division, the Blue Jays and Orioles each look much improved, and the Devil Rays can throw Kasmir at you every fifth day. Of course George still has the purse and he's willing to buy whatever it takes to get this team to the postseason. But after seeing Rivera fail repeatedly in '07, you can't be happy right now if you cheer for the Spankees.
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I just cannot get into baseball until the playoffs. There are so many games during the summer to get excited about any of them.
Baseball is a pretty cool sport though. You can pretty much measure every aspect of the game. Including how many times Man-Ram wears a pear of IPod sunglasses.
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