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Maybe all Randy Johnson needed was to be angry when he pitched. He came to New York and angrily pushed a cameraman. After that day in February, the Randy Johnson of 2004 seemed to disappear and a mediocre forty-one year old pitcher took his place. This week, Randy Johnson got angry again and the results were impressive. Johnson flirted with a no-hitter and stuck out eleven batters Tuesday night as the Yankees beat the Twins 4-0.
If Johnson has indeed returned to the form that prompted the Yankees to trade for him, it will make things better in the Bronx, but only slightly. Even with Johnson and Mussina, the Yankees will be forced to piece together a rotation again this week as Kevin Brown’s back and Carl Pavano’s shoulder will not allow them to pitch this week so Aaron Small and the infamous “TBD” will take their places. The Yankees are so desperate for pitching right now that there are rumors that Hideo Nomo who went 5-8 with a 7.24 ERA for the Devil Rays this year might be added to the mix.
Despite their lack of a pitching rotation, the Yankees are amazingly only one game out of first place. The trading deadline is just four days away and you can be sure that the Yankees will be active participants.
Photo by Gregory Bull/AP via ESPN
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Nomo? Nuts to that. It's LIMA TIME.
My God! Pitching is not a pretty thing!
JUST SAY NO TO NOMO!!!!!!
i would love to see lima. only because i could hear him say "lima time" all the time!
and yes, rose. look at that arm. it's a wonder his elbow doesn't fall off.
I hope hes angry all the time when he pitches. He won me 100 bucks yesterday.
God Bless him.
Didn't Nomo pitch 2 no hitters? he also has an awesome strikeout record. He is on the decline though. WE need Johan Santana, Mark Mulder, or Beckett. Lima is old and like pedro martinez lite. Plus I'd get tired of his stupid half cap thing.
Who do you propose trading for Johan Santana, Mark Mulder, and Josh Beckett? (All great pitchers last year, by the way, but several steps short of great this year). A package of Melky Cabrera, Tony Womack and Tanyon Sturtze isn't gonna cut it, regardless of what the mouth-breathers who call up the FAN think.
As for Nomo, he's done. But hey, Whitey Ford was real good back in the day, too. Maybe the Yankees can get him to come back.
Hey look, its Tim crawling out from under his rock at the first opportunity to spew some negativity. Why am I not surprised?
How are those standings looking, sp? Despite Boston's best efforts to hand the Yankees the lead, here we are, weeks later, with the Yanks still two games out. Meanwhile, Oakland has leapfrogged into first in the WC.
But hey, it's alright, the Yankees are gonna trade for Randy Winn!
like i said, i'm not surprised that you crawled out of your hiding place to snicker. you were nowhere to be seen when the yankees kicked the sox in the teeth last week, and now that they have regained a little lead you have the smugness to taunt about the standings. you are so predictable, its slightly amuzing but mostly boring. one would thing that some of the bitterness would have been purged from your toxic soul after last year's WS win.
as for the standings, the yanks arent out of it yet. i would be amazed if they made the playoffs this year, said it from the start that their pitching was dreadful, but it seems more possible now than it did at the start of the season, especially since, like you said, the sox arent exactly running away with the division...