Exactly how was it that Jason Giambi was not an All-Star, or even mentioned?
Outside of the first two months of last season, he has settled in marvelously as a DH-1B, hits his 40+ homers a years and functions as a blameless teammate.
In the end, Giambi may come out of this whole steroids imboglio with the best resume. McGwire and Sosa were shamed by their Congressional Testimony, and Palmeiro fell further, faster, than any pro athlete this side of Pete Rose. As for Bonds . . .
Well, if Giambi can take 25 shots toward the neighborly bleachers in right in (now in the present, then the future) Yankee Stadium for the next 3-4 years, collects 15 homers elsewhere and gets to 600, a lot of homers post-steroids, who will keep him out of the Hall?
Or will Palmeiro, McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, Sheffield, and Giambi be blackballed, all of them? The next ten years will be interesting.
Also, Mo. Only close watchers of the Yankees can see how much Rivera has been laboring lately. Three tough innings in two days: twice, two hits given up, with a two-run lead, thus bringing the go-ahead run to the plate with none out.
Someone needs to step up in that bullpen. Myers is getting the lefties out, sure. I mean someone else.
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Couldn't agree more on your Giambi take. Time will tell if the steroids cloud will lift (as it should). I might add that Giambi, has very quietly picked up the power outage with Sheffield and Matsui being gone.
One more take on the race (stolen from the Star Ledger).
Since 2002, the Yankees post-All-Star winning percentage has never dipped below .605, and for three of the four years has been near or above .640.
More telling, though, was their rebound to that same standard despite a mediocre first half last season. The Yankees recovered from a 46-40 first half to go 49-27 in the second half -- going from a .535 winning percentage to .645 in the second half.
The Yankees entered the post-All-Star break part of this season at 50-36 (.581). The Chicago sweep boosted them to .596.
I think this bodes well.
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