GREAT GOOGLIE MOOGLIE

Just how good are the 2003 Yankees? Jayson Stark has a column at ESPN that says, well, they are damn good, perhaps great. Of course, it is way too early to be talking about great anything (the mere suggestion makes my Spidey Sense tingle), but considering that they’ve been without Rivera and Jeter (and a productive Jason Giambi), the Bronx Bombers have done a good job of living up to their moniker, for sure:

“Sometimes in baseball,” [Elias historian and analyst Steve] Hirdt said, “you’ll see something so overwhelming that you regard it as a special measure of a special talent. Like Kerry Wood’s 20-strikeout game. Nobody has a game that good unless they’re something special. And these Yankees have had 3