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Originally Posted by guccilvr
The yanks are fucking up so nicely by making Joba a starter. I for one love it. It's so funny how they are trying to be the Red Sox and it's blowing up in their face.
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It is kind of delightful. Sometimes if I listen hard enough I can hear Yankee players cracking under the pressure that management is putting on them. We'll see if Joba has the mental makeup to survive the inevitable failures and develop a third and fourth pitch so he can try to go at least five or six innings. I personally am a little dubious that he can, but we'll see.
Oh yeah, and I hope that last night was a positive sign for what Red Sox fans can expect from the team while Big Papi is on the DL. The can't replace him, but decent starting pitching, speed on the bases and timely hitting should be a good stopgap.
On another note, if Manny can get to around 525 homers or so by the end of this year, it seems like he as a reasonable shot at 600. That would only be about 25 a year for three years after that or 35 or so for a couple of years. Given his consistency over the years, either seems reasonable, which I might not have said a few years ago.