Stay in Texas

A quick apology for the late posts this week. We've been having some problems with our technology, which, to be honest, I don't know a fucking thing about.

See, we here Y2K, we don't miss posts. Some 18 months later and we are feeling better than ever, and for good reason.

We got past year 1 of The Curse. It would have killed me would if the Yankees had won the world series the year after we created a website announcing a curse barring them from doing so. The only thing that would have been better, a Yankee loss and a Mets win.

As we enter year 2 of this site and year 7 of the Yankees curse for ruining the purity baseball, one and only one thing stands in the way from a Sippy Momo guarantee that the Yankees will make it through 2007, ringless.

That one thing is a "potentially steroid pumping" fireballer from Texas who is commanding $4 million dollars to play the game that a certain left handed billionare would play for free.

Without Roger Clemens, the Yankees pitching just won't be there. With a weak bullpen before an aging/less dominant Mariano Rivera, the Yankees will rely heavily on the arms of Mike Mussina, Andy Pettite and Chien Ming Wang.

In Wang, the Yankees have their best bet. He pounds the strikezone with a mid 90's sinker and fresh off a very impressive 2006 campaign appears ready to follow up in 2007 with another impressive showing.

But what happens when the rusting Mussina and Pettite hurt themselves or show wear or slow down or do whatever it is that all pitchers north of 35 do? (PLEASE NOT TOM GLAVINE)

The Yankees would then rest their hopes in a 21 year old kid, Phil Hughes, an overpaid crappy Japanese pitcher (Kei Igawa) or a guy who hasn't pitched in two years that has really only pitched one good season in his career (Carl Pavano).

Without Clemens, the Yankees might not make it to October. Not after losing Sheffield from the lineup and watching the Red Sox and Blue Jays continue to improve in the offseason.

But with Clemens... well, we might be changing the name of this site to Yankees2007.killme.org.

Add Clemens to a rotation and you get a power arm who will be fresh in September and October and push back Mussina and Pettite to 3 and 4, respectively, in a short series. The Yankees rotation goes from solid to scary and all of a sudden, the Yankees are the team to beat.

Brian Cashmen has done everything in his power to De-Yankee this Yankee team and make them the new Cashman Yankees. The team has the most money but spends it wisely. The team develops talent as opposed to stealing it.

But what happens come May 15th when the Yankees are 3 games back of the Red Sox and tied with the Blue Jays?

The back page of the Post runs a picture of Clemens in a Yankee uniform every day, which bothers me, but destroys my father who uses the Post as an escape on his train ride to work. Bother me, that is one thing. But mess with Senior and we have a problem.

The best thing that can happen to Yankee haters this season is for the weather in Texas to be nice enough that Roger Clemens decides to stick around.

Nothing to me would be sweeter than a Mets victory in October. But that will not come too easily. These Mets will need a ton of good fortune to make it back to October and even more to get to the Fall Classic.

Which is why it is always nice to have secondary interests. For me they are threefold.

1. A big year out of Y2K legend and close pal Eric Byrnes.
2. A resurgence at the Jake from our beloved Tribesmen.
3. Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez talking wine and cheese over a sleepover in early October watching the Mets on Fox and the AL playoffs unfold before their eyes.

VCD,

Sip