Tuesday, May 18, 2004 |
Amezega: He's A Floor Wax And A Dessert Topping! Angels 1, Yankees 0
That thought permeated my mind like a mustard gas attack the second I saw Alfredo Amezega warming up in the Angels dugout. Why was this oh-so-horribly wrong?
- Because he takes out the one of only two credible power threats at the top of the lineup.
- Did I say "power threats"? I meant, "threats to get a hit".
- Because he can't run the basepaths to save his life.
Dammit, I want some blowouts of the Yankees. These guys are the Evil Empire. I just can't help myself: when I saw Sheffield take a hit on that corner wall shagging a flyball in right, I cheered. Base of me, I know, but I can't stand the Yankees. Gotta give props to Posada for what he did for Kotch last week, but in general, Yankees suck, as the boys from Boston always say.
I'm beginning to agree with Richard that the team is winning in spite of Mike.
I realized this morning I'm not being charitable, or complete, about this game. Sele, Frankie, Percy, and Shields-ey (alliteration must be preserved here) pitched another wonder against the Bronx Bombers; if this keeps up, the staff ace may well prove to have been a guy we already had on staff. Sele's 2.79 ERA is now the lowest of any starter. And Riggs -- wow. To get called up and drive in the winning run after waking up every day for so many years and finding your picture next to the definition of "journeyman" in the dictionary -- well, that's a good day at the ballpark. And can I cheer -- just a little bit? -- for Eckstein going 2-5 on the day? He probably won't hit anything like .300 on the year, but he's at least headed in the right direction. I won't feel comfortable about it until he has a couple weeks of 2-4 and 2-5 days under his tiny belt, but seeing as how Mike isn't going to demote him from leadoff, we're obliged to applaud and nervously hope he can keep it up.
And everyone else in the division did us a favor by losing. We're atop the division by 3.5 games. The worst that can happen after this Yankees series is for us to be up by only a half a game.
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