CMW & The Media

The Return Of CMW

Welcome back CMW. Tonight marks the return of the best product of the Yankees farm system since the Jeter, Mo, Pettitte and Posada era. On top of that he has been about the only consistent pitcher with the Yankees since he made his debut in early 2005.

Wang finds himself in somewhat of a familiar situation in that he starts a game following a loss. Wang has been very reliable in the past few years in terms of winning such games and given how bad opening day was it is fairly important that this team puts in a solid effort and a win centered around some good pitching, hopefully deep into the game. Will that be the case though...I'm not too sure.

Roberts and Jones proved too much for Sabathia and if Wang starts up in the zone then the first inning maybe uncomfortable viewing. It is imperative that Wang by-passes the first inning adjustment experienced by most sinkerball pitchers, and shifts straight to the strike throwing, groundball getting machine that we all know he can be. I accept that there must be the 2nd dimension to his game involving his improved off-speed stuff, but make no mistake about it, CMW must have that sinker low but in the zone, because as we saw on Monday the O's wont swing if pitches aren't consistently close.

It also wouldn't hurt if the Yankees jump on Koji Uehara early and often. Myself and other Yankee fans will not be satisfied with the, "It's the first time we have seen this guy" excuse. Other teams hadn't see Kei Igawa but they seemed to get the job done.

In short pitch well, defend well and score early...it's that easy right??

They Finally Caught Up

It only took the media about 3 months to catch up to my train of thought. George King writes today about the realisation of pressure and expectations for the newest Yankees. I wrote about this in late January. Way to bring about original thought there George. I'm not saying that you stole my article, I very much doubt that would be the case. Simply that it is innovative to think ahead and write about this when they had just signed, while it is fairly easy to write about what is staring you right in the face. Originality George!! Get with the program.

Parting Shots

A disgraceful article in the post today by Joel Sherman on Joba Chamberlain and a video of his DUI arrest. I am not condoning what Chamberlain did. It was irresponsible and dangerous. However to paint this as the start of a downward spiral for Chamberlain on a personal and professional level is ridiculous speculation based on very little other than attempting to make vague connections between his childhood and his actions today.

As I said a few months ago the newest Yankees better have prepared themselves for over the top media and fan reaction. It only took one start and a heatpad to set off a frenzy regarding Sabathia. As ridiculous as it seems this will set off a chain reaction of events over the next week.

• Questions to Sabathia about the start and the heating pad
• Articles before his next start about his last start and the heat pad
• A camera on Sabathia in between innings on his next start
• More hysteria if the next start isn't good
• Crazy hysteria if they see the heat pad again

How to stop this train...win. Win early, win often and win looking good. Welcome to New York C.C.