Monday, April 10, 2006

What Alex Said the Other Day.

The Yankees are in last place at 2-4 right now as Boston's dashing and brilliant decision to hand the closer's job to Jonathan Papelbon (who has already saved 3 games) over Keith Foulke has contributed to a quick 5-1 start. It's worth noting that Foulke's contract calls for a $7.5 million option for 2007 to automatically vest if he finishes 53 games this year so this move might have every bit to do with cash as it does with winning baseball games. It's also worth noting that the Yankee pitching and hitting, Pythagorean-wise, is on pace with Boston so far but anyway, whatever, did you hear what Alex said the other day in the New York Times?
When they give you lemons, you’ve got to make lemonade, and when they give you oranges, you’ve got to make orange juice. Tonight, we tried to make tomato juice out of lemon juice or something. It just didn’t work out. I don’t know if that’s a good quote.
Actually, Alex, yeah, that's a great quote.

1 comment:

Jason said...

But at least the Yanks didn't come within one Greg Zaun home run of being swept by the Devil Rays, like a certain Toronto team I could mention.

And you can't be too hard on A-Rod. Like they say, when life gives you quadrillion dollar contracts, do what ever the hell you want. Or something... I'll work on that one.

Nice blog, by the way.