GENTLEMEN, STOP YOUR
Blackberries.
Word is that Jason Giambi and others have been text-messaging Roger Clemens in an effort to hasten his return to the Bronx. Well, you can all stop now. As I have said before, Clemens is not going to come back for a last round-up (and this is indeed the last, surely) with a team that has little shot at the postseason and none at a World Championship. But I have now come to the conclusion that the Yankees should not even be pursuing the Rocket, except perhaps for the purpose of driving his price tag in Boston upwards. The kind of obscene prorated money that Roger wants would only be well spent if he could lead the Yankees to the Promised Land. Leaving aside the sad fact that Moses himself couldn't get this bunch out of the desert, Roger is peculiarly unsuited even to push them to the next oasis. He has been for a few years now a 6 inning pitcher--maybe he's down to five at this point--which means he taxes your bullpen as the cost for procuring you victories. Obviously victories that further stress the Yankees bullpen would be entirely Phyrric, but that is presuming that the likes of Vizcaino, Farnsworth and yes Rivera could hold the leads Clemens would be turning over to them. All available evidence indicates they would not. At best, Clemens would become the mound-correlative of AROD: someone with breathtaking statistics (ERA, WHIP etc) that throw Yankee futility into further relief.
HEADLINE: CLEMENS GLITTERS, YANKEES FRITTER/ AROD MASHES, TEAM CRASHES
It's not a leader worth spending 15 plus million to read. So Jason, please stop writing.
Word is that Jason Giambi and others have been text-messaging Roger Clemens in an effort to hasten his return to the Bronx. Well, you can all stop now. As I have said before, Clemens is not going to come back for a last round-up (and this is indeed the last, surely) with a team that has little shot at the postseason and none at a World Championship. But I have now come to the conclusion that the Yankees should not even be pursuing the Rocket, except perhaps for the purpose of driving his price tag in Boston upwards. The kind of obscene prorated money that Roger wants would only be well spent if he could lead the Yankees to the Promised Land. Leaving aside the sad fact that Moses himself couldn't get this bunch out of the desert, Roger is peculiarly unsuited even to push them to the next oasis. He has been for a few years now a 6 inning pitcher--maybe he's down to five at this point--which means he taxes your bullpen as the cost for procuring you victories. Obviously victories that further stress the Yankees bullpen would be entirely Phyrric, but that is presuming that the likes of Vizcaino, Farnsworth and yes Rivera could hold the leads Clemens would be turning over to them. All available evidence indicates they would not. At best, Clemens would become the mound-correlative of AROD: someone with breathtaking statistics (ERA, WHIP etc) that throw Yankee futility into further relief.
HEADLINE: CLEMENS GLITTERS, YANKEES FRITTER/ AROD MASHES, TEAM CRASHES
It's not a leader worth spending 15 plus million to read. So Jason, please stop writing.
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