An Open Letter to George Steinbrenner

Dear Georgie,

Based on your team's performance so far this season, I hope you've realized that money can't buy you a World Series victory. Please stop hiring old players just because they are famous and you can afford to pay them a lot of money. It's not working. They have no hustle, and don't care about playing hard, because they'll get their millions of dollars even if they lose. Maybe you should consider getting rid of the senior citizens on your team and getting some energetic young guys to replace them...young guys that actually play hard, hustle after the ball, swing at strikes, and actually like playing with each other. Also, as much as I love Joe Torre, you need to get rid of him. He's just not working anymore. Hire someone that isn't a statue on the bench like Torre is. Hire someone with some life to him who'll be able to inspire the players to work with each other and play like a team that actually wants to get to the World Series. Hire someone who rants and raves at bad calls so that you know he actually cares about the outcome of the game. Lou Pinella maybe? I know "Georgie's gettin' angry!!" So please take my advice to fix this problem.

Thank you,
Chris Bell

Roger Clemens is comin' back to the Yankees!!!!

Literally two minutes ago, as I was watching the Yankees game, the YES network cut off a commercial to come back to the game with none other than Roger Clemens making an announcement from the owner's booth that he is coming back to New York!!! How fuckin' awesome is that!!! Finally the Yankees will have some good pitching to fill in for all of the injuries to their pitching staff, and to cover for the waste of money that Carl Pavano was. Maybe once he comes back, the Yankees will be able to play like the Yankees again...hell maybe even they'll make it to the World Series this year. They certainly have the batting line-up and the fielding to make it happen...they just need to get their pitching staff in order. Hopefully the addition of Clemens to Pettitte, Wang, Igawa, Mussina, and Hughes (after his hamstring heals) will bolster their starting staff enough so that the bullpen (which isn't very good) doesn't have to carry so much of the weight.