Yankees offense produces, Mussina and the ‘Pen lays a turd

For those who don’t know: Moose was bounced in 1-2/3 innings while allowing 7 runs, making this his shortest start since 1995. I was 11 years old then and just started watching scrambled porn. That’s how long ago it was.

Oh, and his relief fared terribly. Sean Henn probably shouldn’t be on this team anymore.

The final score was 18-9.

Obviously pissed off after the game, Moose answers the question “Do you know what to do to fix this?” (this meaning his crappy performance, obviously).

Angrily, “If I knew what to do, don’t you think I’d have done it? Come on, Ed!”

Whoever Ed was who asked the question probably felt like a dick. I paraphrased the above comments of course, because I watch the YES Network and didn’t have a tape recorder in Mussina’s face, but he was very perturbed, constantly calling his performance “awful.” I have to agree, but like Moose said, the Angels offense exploded tonight. Garret Anderson had 10 RBIs, the first player to do so in one night since A-Rod blasted (who else?) the Angels’ Bartolo Colon on April 16, 2005. Womp womp!

At least the Yankees offense can’t be blamed. They scored 9 runs, and had the pitching just been better, well, obviously they would have had it. As it stands, the Yankees are now 2.5 games behind the seemingly unbeatable Seattle Mariners and I think 5 games behind the Red Sox in the AL East. I’m not even going to bother to check, because they’re gonna make the playoffs. This is just a hiccup. Mark my words.