Friday, October 21, 2005
George Steinbrenner's Worst Nightmare
The starting pitchers for game 1 of the World Series are Roger Clemens and Jose Contreras. Both of these guys pitched for the Yankees as little as 2 seasons ago. Houston's starter for game 2 is Andy Pettitte, also a starting pitcher for the Yankees 2 years ago. The White Sox secret weapon out of the bullpen is Orlando 'El Duque' Hernandez, who won 8-10 games for the Yankees in half a season last year.
Let's call Clemens a wash because he actually retired and then unretired. They let Pettitte go through free agency, though they could have signed him if they pushed for it. They let El Duque go through free agency because they thought he was too old, despite the fact that he's the one who held them in the race towards the end of last season. They traded Contreras away because they just lost faith in him after over hyping him and building up huge expectations that he couldn't meet.
Well George, all eyes are on these guys now and I'm sure you're just broken up about it. Meanwhile thank Yanks are stuck with 100 year old Randy Johnson, the injured Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright, and let's not even mention the Kevin Brown debacle. I think Chacon and Wang will end up being great additions to the staff, and who knows what Aaron Small will bring to the table in the future, but these three guys were basically afterthoughts. If they had nailed down Pettitte and reinforced Contreras, they wouldn't be in this position now.
Well, the series in certainly gonna be interesting, anyway. It will be a(n) historic victory for whichever team pulls it out.
Let's call Clemens a wash because he actually retired and then unretired. They let Pettitte go through free agency, though they could have signed him if they pushed for it. They let El Duque go through free agency because they thought he was too old, despite the fact that he's the one who held them in the race towards the end of last season. They traded Contreras away because they just lost faith in him after over hyping him and building up huge expectations that he couldn't meet.
Well George, all eyes are on these guys now and I'm sure you're just broken up about it. Meanwhile thank Yanks are stuck with 100 year old Randy Johnson, the injured Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright, and let's not even mention the Kevin Brown debacle. I think Chacon and Wang will end up being great additions to the staff, and who knows what Aaron Small will bring to the table in the future, but these three guys were basically afterthoughts. If they had nailed down Pettitte and reinforced Contreras, they wouldn't be in this position now.
Well, the series in certainly gonna be interesting, anyway. It will be a(n) historic victory for whichever team pulls it out.
# posted by ChuckJerry : 10/21/2005 05:34:00 PM
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I think that both are correct, but I could be wrong. I don't know this for sure, but it seems to me that some people have trouble actually pronouncing H's so when they say words that start with H, it sounds like a word that starts with a vowel.
I lot of people, therefore, use "an" in front of H words instead of "a", particularly if something is going to be "historic"
It will be an historic event. Except I think that's stupid, since these words don't start with a vowel and I pronounce my H's. So it was kindof a joke, except there's no reason you would have gotten the joke.
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I lot of people, therefore, use "an" in front of H words instead of "a", particularly if something is going to be "historic"
It will be an historic event. Except I think that's stupid, since these words don't start with a vowel and I pronounce my H's. So it was kindof a joke, except there's no reason you would have gotten the joke.
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