Brian Cashman, the GM who brought us that wonderful Jesus Montero-Michael Pineda deal, took a cue from both “Undercover Boss” and Kim Kardashian with his appearance in the bleachers Sunday. By wearing that same stupid wig/visor than he did while rappelling a building, he had about as ridiculous — and as obvioius — a disguise as the bosses do on “Undercover Boss.” (An aside — is anybody on that show ever really fooled? You have some new low-level staffer wearing wigs out of the Harpo Marx Collection, and being followed by a camera crew, and nobody catches on? C’mon now.)
And Cashman was like Kim Kardashian in trying his best to make a spectacle of himself to get publicity. He’s been GM since 1998, yet it took him until 2012, after he was finally on the hot seat a little bit, for him to go hang out with the proles in the bleachers? Spare me. It is about as shameless a publicity ploy as Kardashian’s faux-mance with Kanye West, where they have hit up nearly every high-trafficked tourist spot in New York to show off their “love.” How perfectly fake. Come to think of it, maybe we’re going to see Kanye and Kim in the bleachers soon, too. Good grief.
When the best you can say about Phil Hughes’ pitching is that he didn’t stink as much as he has in his previous four starts, it is not a good night. Especially when he didn’t even pitch as well as Hector Noesi (traded as part of the Jesus Montero/Michael Pineda deal) did last night for the Seattle Mariners.
Speaking of Montero, he went 4-for-4 last night for Seattle, and hit a home run the night before. His batting average is now up to .294 (better than every Yankee starter except for Derek Jeter) and he has hit 4 homers (as many as Jeter and A-Rod) and driven in 13 runs (which would put him at third on the Yankees). Not that the Yankees could use him or anything, especially with Nick Swisher out of the lineup.
Meanwhile, rumor has it that Pineda caught up on his reading, finishing “The Hunger Games” just in time so he could catch the movie in the theaters. Next up, to steal a joke from my friend Sully Baseball, a thrilling game of Sudoku. Good times!
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