Mike Mussina can whittle his illustrious career down into one word. Almost. Four times in his career, he’s almost thrown a perfect game. In four different seasons, he’s almost won 20 games. He’s almost won a Cy Young, finishing in the top six eight separate times. And, perhaps the most frustrating to Mussina, he’s almost…
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No longer a one-pitch wonder, Wang dominates Indians
It was on this very same field last October, Cleveland’s Progressive Field, when the sinker wasn’t sinking, and Chien Ming Wang was helpless as the Yankees endured another early exit from the playoffs. In just 5 2/3 innings of work, he allowed 12 runs and set off a cascade of arguments into whether Wang was…
Clemens returns, but to what result?
A die-hard Red Sox fan and a former co-host on my sports talk show didn’t seem to mind losing the Roger Clemens sweepstakes yesterday. I posed the question, “See the Yankees got the Rocket? Are you [angry]?” “Not at all,” he answered. After all, it was the Yankees, not the Red Sox, who were trailing…
Yankees No Longer Automatic
Is it October? From the way Yankees manger Joe Torre sounded, any Yankee fan couldve easily mistaken it for something hed say in the playoffs. “If you don’t pitch, it’s such a helpless feeling,” Torre said following Tuesday night’s 19-1 loss. “We certainly are better than this and we need to be better than this…