The Tension Builds

Real quick, a happy birthday to the real Sip, my old friend, owner of my pen name and ring leader of the most dangerous undercover dental movement in upstate NY.

Now to business.

I could not be more fired up for Saturday. The debut of the Texas fireballer. The strike out machine arrives. The hypewagon hits the midwest.

You all know what I'm talking about, right?

It's Homer Bailey time.

This kid is supposed to be the best pitching prospect in baseball and he is making his debut against my beloved Tribe in the battle for Ohio. Its shit like this that helps an otherwise overheated blogger to get out of bed in the morning. That and work. SALT.

Oh yeah. Saturday is supposed to mark the debut of our other favorite Texas gunslinger. You may remember him with tears running down his eyes and a towel draped around his head in October of 1986. He was the best pitcher in baseball back then. Some argue that he may be the best pitcher in baseball now, 21 years later.

Monday's loss to the sluggish White Sox brought the Yankees to 24-31. If you've done the math, which I know you all have, then you would know that Detroit's Magic Number to clinch the Wild Card is a very square 99.

The Yankees are DONE!

The return of Clemens is so intriguing.

What will he do?

Can he save the Yankees?

How much worse is pitching in the AL East than the NL Central?
Can he go 7 innings per start?

Does he like minorities?

You don't just add an ace to your staff like this, not without mortgaging your future That is why it is great to be a Yankee. The pinstripes might be a simple black and white but their true color is green.

Every Yankee loss brings them one game closer to the forbidden land us and takes all of us one step closer to Graceland.

But we are also with in a few days reach of their potential savior coming to rescue them. To take a team on his HOF pitching arm and write up yet another "magical story" that will make every person outside of Yankee land want to vomit.

This is reality TV at its finest.

Is this the end of an era or is another magical finish lying in the wings?

VCD,
Sip

(Pics courtesy of MVN.com and newsimg.bbc.co.uk)