One of the good signs for the Yankees’ current hot streak is that they’re playing tough against good teams. As my Rangers’ fan nephew has been telling me all season, the Rangers actually have a pretty decent team this year. Which made yesterday’s 11-1 victory even more impressive.
Since it was Memorial Day, the Yanks and Rangers were both wearing those red hats to honor the troops. I appreciate the sentiment – especially since my brother just went back to Iraq for his third tour over there – but it still kind of confused me a little to see the Yankees wearing red, especially when red is a primary color in the Rangers’ uniform!
Phil Hughes seems to have stepped up his game since it looked like he was about to have his last start in the rotation. Giving up zero runs and only three hits over eight innings in that bandbox of a ballpark is phenomenal, especially when Alex Rodriguez single-handedly had five hits of his own for the Yanks. And Hughes wanted to complete the game, so he didn’t want to shake Joe Girardi’s hand after the eighth inning.
Anyhow, it was good to see a blowout, after two nailbiter games in a row. Hopefully, the Yanks will beat up on the Rangers again today.
One other note – I was glad to hear that University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy threw a decent first pitch before the game. If he hadn’t, Squawker Jon would mock me forever about my alma mater’s QB not being able to throw!
In other news, I read that Jonathan Papelbon threw a hissy fit – and a towel – Saturday when a photographer took a photo of him in the dugout after the reliever gave up that homer to Omir Santos. (Click here to see him throwing the towel.) What a baby.
If Papelbon wants to be left alone, maybe he could change places with former Red Sox closer Keith Foulke, who is trying to make a comeback with the Newark Bears. Foulke griped a lot, too, about being in the media fishbowl. But he’s now so eager to come back to the majors that he says he’d “even play for the Yankees”!
Hmmm, now that Brian Bruney is on the DL for the second time, could I see Brian Cashman taking a flyer on Foulke? Absolutely. I hope he doesn’t, though – the last thing the Yanks need is a pitcher who hates baseball!
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