Daily Archives: September 7, 2005

Jaret Wright returns to the mound tonight. It should be interesting to see what kind of stuff he’s got against an aggresive Tampa Bay line up. If this gets ugly it could get ugly if you know what I mean? Couldn’t you see Gomes charging Wright? Although I don’t have much of a vibe about the game I have to think the Yanks are going to bomb those suckers.

The latest word on Mike Mussina, brought to us by Bob Klapisch, is not encouraging for the Yankees:

Asked if he was feeling better, Mussina shook his head and said, “Actually, it’s feeling worse. At least when I was pitching, it would loosen up after a while. Now, I’m just sitting around and I can feel it tightening up.”

…There’s no medical procedure to cure it. No little white pill, including an anti-inflammatory, diminishes it. No massage or acupuncture treatment can mask it. The only antidote is rest, and Mussina never considered that option.

“It was killing me three months ago, but I didn’t tell anyone. I made up my mind to keep throwing,” he said. “I pitched until I couldn’t take it any more. I had to. Everything [everyone] else was falling apart around me.”

Oy.