Hey Steinbrenner, what's wrong with your wang?

by SoxDevil on Jun 17, 2008 2:01 PM EDT

Chein Ming Wang will be sidelined until September with a partially torn tendon in his right ankle, which he sprained running the bases in an interleague game. Steinbrenner, of course, blames the Senior Circuit.

"My only message is simple. The National League needs to join the 21st century," Steinbrenner said in Tampa, Fla. "They need to grow up and join the 21st century.

"Am I [mad] about it? Yes," Steinbrenner added. "I've got my pitchers running the bases, and one of them gets hurt. He's going to be out. I don't like that, and it's about time they address it. That was a rule from the 1800s."

Oh, Hank. You lovable, wacky guy pompous, arrogant jerk.

Aside from reveling in the Yankees misery, this brings up some interesting mid-season questions. Will the Yankees mortgage the farm to bring in C.C. Sabathia or another big-name pitcher on the block? It's hard to imagine the Yankees going very far relying on Mussina to be their ace. Joba is not going to metamorphos into Jesus overnight.

Since 2006 Wang has the most wins of any ML pitcher with 46, followed by the likes of Brandon Webb, Josh Beckett, and Carlos Zambrano. While Wins are a misleading metric of talent, the fact of the matter is that he puts the Yankees in a position to win games.

I hope that I'll have the opportunity to watch the Yankees sink into the basement of the A.L. East.

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As I understand it

Steinbrenner’s Wang came up lame between 3rd Base and Home Plate. You have to feel for the guy, really. He gets this one opportunity to whip his Wang out onto the basepaths, but due to lack of experience and poor performance he ends up getting injured. Then again, he did score, so how bad could it be?
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by 0157H7 on Jun 17, 2008 2:49 PM EDT 0 recs

+ 1×10^23

Rock me, sexy Jesus...

by nuthinboutnuthin on Jun 17, 2008 4:44 PM EDT up 0 recs

I don’t know how comfortable you can feel when your wang comes up limp crossing home plate. All that bluster from Steinbrenner is probably just to cover his embarrassment.

"You know you're having a bad day when the fifth inning rolls around and they drag the warning track." - Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles pitcher, 1992.

by SoxDevil on Jun 18, 2008 12:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

Oakland, Seattle or Cleveland

Harden, Bedard or CC to MFY? or some other pitcher with lesser skills?

by SoxAcumen on Jun 17, 2008 4:24 PM EDT 0 recs

I think the lesser pitchers are in order.

The Yankees farm system has been seriously depleted by injuries and Jose Tabata’s hilarious antics (he threatened to quit baseball after a disappointing at-bat). If they wanted Harden, Bedard, or CC, they’d probably have to give up major league assets like Joba, Cano, or Kennedy, which would just open up holes (never mind that the last two names’ values have fallen).

by 0157H7 on Jun 17, 2008 4:36 PM EDT up 0 recs

I'm not sure...

CC becomes available. The White Sox don’t exactly have a stranglehold on the Central – in fact, I think its very much a dogfight…

At any rate, given that they would be giving up a power lefty and that the Indians would be conceding their season, I don’t think the Yanks get Sabathia for less than Hughes, Cabrera (obviously not in CLE CF), and maybe Alan Horne or Joba. I don’t think Kennedy gets it done anymore. I don’t mind Sabathia in pinstripes, provided the Yankees roster and farm gets denuded of its young pitchers. He’s a large-sized guy (girthy and lengthy (so I hear)) with lots of wear, he’ll be costly, he wilts under pressure (see playoffs), and we do pretty well against him on the road…

Bedard, while no younger than Sabathia, has much less wear and low-cost years (I think), I can’t see an interim GM dealing him…

Harden, I worry about…

Rock me, sexy Jesus...

by nuthinboutnuthin on Jun 17, 2008 4:55 PM EDT 0 recs

Joba

Might just be the most untradeable guy in the game, as ridiculous as that is, with all the hype surrounding him in NY.

"You know you're having a bad day when the fifth inning rolls around and they drag the warning track." - Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles pitcher, 1992.

by SoxDevil on Jun 18, 2008 12:29 PM EDT up 0 recs

The Yanks should suck it up

and settle for last place. It was debatable whether a CC/Harden/Bedard would’ve got them back in it even when they still had Wang. Now they’re two or three starting pitchers and an entire bullpen (minus closer, of course) away.

They should become sellers. Giambi is a FA, he’s shown some life at the plate, and the Jays, Rays, Mariners, Rangers, Mets and a host of other teams could use another bat. Abreu too. They’re both gone after this season anyways, so they might as well cash in and stock up the farm while they still can.

Just write this season off, let Kennedy, Hughes and Joba take their lumps and build towards the future.

Manny ain't the only bad man.

by tommy.otm on Jun 17, 2008 6:41 PM EDT 0 recs

Yanks are 6 games behind us, if I'm not wrong

Not sure about the number of games, but it’s something like that. They’re not dead for Wildcard.

It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

by MerryGoByeBye on Jun 17, 2008 7:32 PM EDT up 0 recs