...and the horse you came riding in to New York on.
Randy pitched like he was toast and the Yankees lost Game 3 o the ALDS. All I could think was "I knew it! I knew this would happen!"
At this moment in time I think the guy is cactus. He should just retire over the winter and be done with it. This game should be his epitaph.
Tomorrow, the Yanks go in with Jaret Wright on the mound.
That's starting to sound like another "year of failure" for Jeter. I'm kind of getting sick of this October ritual where the Yankees lose because the pitchers just serve it up - it's the third October in a row where I've just watched the pitchers piss the post-season away: Javier Vazquez, Esteban Loaiza, Kevin Brown, Randy Johnson, you're all crap, and thanks for all the horrible October memories. *Ugh* (Vomits)
UPDATE:
I'm actually not done venting about Randy Johnson.
Why is Randy Johnson even on this roster if not but for his reputation? It's certainly not for performenace: His ERA this year was an even 5.00! Just check out this page. Can you all see the climbing line on the right end of his career? If he was just better than league average last year, this year he wasn't even league average.
Indeed the Season ERA fluctuation has been rising steadily since 2002. What's even worse is where his stats this year lie in relation to his career. The number that pops out to me is the FIP of 4.32. That's a clear sign he has deteriorated significantly - it means that even giving him slack for the allegedly bad Yankee defense, he's done being that Randy Johnson. He's just sub-standard pap now. Kind of a Left handed Jaret Wright, and the Yanks already have a Right-handed one of those they're sending to the slaughter, I mean, mound, tomorrow.
If the Yankees pull a miracle out of their collective asses and survive this round, Randy Johnson has no business continuing as a starter.
Is it all his fault? No. The Yankee bats couldn't hit a lick for the last 2 games and buried Mike Mussina too. Yet, somehow I can't help but look at Johnson starting the pivotal Game 3 and see that it was a really bad choice - the same sort of bad choice that Grady Little made when he left Pedro out too long, once upon a time. In a way, the Yankees put Johnson in a spot where he was likely to fail and voila, he failed.
Joe Torre needs to stop pleasing these stars. He needs to manage like a cornered rat and go hard. Take no prisoners. Cut heads. Bruise egos. Whatever it takes.
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