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...over two years and what?s already happened this season-it?s all about us. There?s no one but us. I told my friend Stan on the train the other day, ?It?s gonna be September 25th, we?re gonna be arguing here about one another-Giambi and Foulke-and then we?re gonna turn to the sports pages and find out we?ve both just been mathematically eliminated by Toronto...
Former Titans, notably, include current major-leaguers Mark Kotsay, Phil Nevin, Aaron Rowand, Jeremy Giambi, Kirk Saarloos, and Chad Cordero...
...amused myself during the debacle by parsing the commentary of Yanks broadcaster Michael Kay. His partner, the former great moundsman Jim Kaat, sees things clearly, but Kay views the world through pinstriped lenses. I particularly liked his take on a Giambi single to left. That's what they've been working on with him this spring, Michael averred: going the other way. And why might that be, Mikey? I asked silently as I waited for amplification. Might it be that Jason, now (by necessity) off the juice, weighs 140 pounds and the Yanks realize they must turn their erstwhile basher...
...they were small. What I mean is, Manny and David were physical specimens when they were 11 and 12, and so might have come by their enormous strength in a natural way. You don't have those alarming, Charles Atlas then-and-now photos that you have with Bonds, Giambi, McGwire. But do I think that none of our World Champions has taken steroids? No, I emphatically...
...important that in a three-game series Giambi and Jeter got hit a collective five times by Sox pitching, and that Jeter visited the hospital (after a clearly unintentional conk on the head by Timlin)? Sure-that's very important. It will echo, down the line. And is it important that Mariano blew two more saves, getting a win and a loss, for four blown in his last four ops and six in his last 11 against the Sox? That's really important...