The Curious Case of Chien-Ming Wang

In the past few days quite a few things have come to light concerning Wang's struggles. Now I've been very critical of Wang so far for his lack of performance this year, and for this I have to say I'm sorry. I was under the impression it was Wang's fault for his poor performance, maybe he didn't prepare properly over the offseason, or maybe he was trying to do something new and it just threw him out of whack. But no, instead it turns out that the entire Yankees front office is incompetent.

Before the offseason began the Yankees instructed Wang not to work out his legs due to his injury from last year. I'm simply baffled by this decision. What exactly were they thinking? The majority of a pitchers power comes from his lower body and core. So by not strengthening this area Wang was supposed to be successful how? In an interview with Andrew Marchand, Cashman admitted that it was a mistake to tell Wang not to work out his lower body, citing their lack of experience with the injury. Lack of experience? Really? Couldn't they have uhh, I don't know called one or two or even twenty five doctors in order to find out what the best course of action was? It's ironic that the Yankees insist on running their stadium like a mega corporation, but when it comes to their players they would rather play guessing games.


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Thoughts about yesterday

I was pretty frusturated with the Yankees yesterday after shutting off the worst second inning I've ever seen. I think Jonny Damon summed up the situation pretty well with this quote

"He's making it real tough on our bullpen right now," designated hitter Johnny Damon said. "We have to count on guys in our 'pen to go seven or eight innings. We have six losses on the year right now, and he's got three of them. In all three of those games, we've been blown out and we've had to go to our bullpen, so maybe our bullpen's not sharp the following days. I don't know what more to say, but hopefully he can figure it out, because it'd be tough to keep on going like this."

Now I thought to myself theres no way they let him pitch again until there reasonably sure hes fixed his problem, but I was wrong the pitching coach had this to say

"He's going to pitch, he's going to get confidence and he's going to get better,"

OK great, so we're going to have a starter who pitched worse than Sideny Ponson last year this seems like a real recipe for sucess. I don't really understand why the pitching coach after failing to fix Wang's problem for the past three weeks thinks he will be able to all of a sudden. My suggestion, put Wang in the bullpen and bring up phil hughes to make a few starts for him. This would be killing two birds with one stone, allowing Wang to fix his problems in lower pressue situations and get Phil Hughes some more major league experience.

Anyway lets hope that AJ can give us something worth watching today... go Yankees!

Some thoughts: Chien Ming Wang, New Yankee stadium

Sorry for not getting a post in the last few days... my internet has been out... anyway here are some thoughts:

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Chien Ming Wang's wife is pregnant and they are expecting their child in June. Congratulations to him, i didn't think he was married... no knocking the guy at all, but he's the hottest thing in Taiwan since... ever? He may even be bigger than Derek Jeter is in New York.

I'm just saying... i totally wouldn't expect him to settle down here, he could basically have any woman he wants over in Taiwan... any woman.

Maybe he can get some drawing lessons from Hideki Matsui and we can see what his wife looks like...


(Hideki Matsui's wife)
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Peter Abraham linked a video of the New Yankee stadium as portrayed in the new game MLB 09: the show.

That game is deffinately not going to be a dissapointment, i would totally reccomend any owners of the PS2 or PS3 to go and buy that once it is released in early March.

If you have an Xbox 360... like me... MLB 2k9 won't be as good... i'm letting you know right now. The show makes 2k sports look like shit.... just look at those graphics and compare them to what 2k8 was...

Here's the link for the video... please excuse the very strange out of place music...

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Must watch video of the week...

Ray Lewis didn't kill no motha fucking lion.