I think it's fair to say Carl Pavano's career with the Yankees wasn't exactly confetti and champagne. Not after he got paid $38 million to win just 9 games over 4 seasons. Yeah, you do that and you'll be the poster boy for overspending and underachieving in the Bronx. And they won't fugeddaboudit either. Pavano is in Cleveland now but he was back in New York to help open new Yankee Stadium where the scoreboard now provides closed captioning for the hearing impaired. "[Crowd boos]" it said as Pavano was announced. Yep, it works. Cross that one off the punchlist.
Speaking of The House That $1.5 Billion Bought, apparently the Bombers didn't get the memo about how you're really not supposed to lose 22-4 in just the third game ever played in your new palace. But that'll happen when you let one little, two little, 14 little Indians score in the 2nd, the most runs scored against any Yankee team in any one inning in any park ever. Ok, so now we know the new scoreboard can handle double-digit innings too. Cross that one off the punchlist.
On Thursday, the Celtics announced that star C Kevin Garnett's knee injury might make him miss the NBA playoffs and perhaps doom the club's title repeat hopes. Later that day, GM Danny Ainge was hospitalized after suffering a mild heart attack. On Saturday, Boston lost Game 1, 105-103, in OT against Chicago. Note to Mass Gen doctors and staff ... Please don't let Danny read the paper or watch the tube. And you might wanna disable the thumbwheels in his Crackberry too.
Looks like the NFL got the word about messing with Yom Kippur as the Jets game scheduled for 4:15pm that day was moved up to 1:00pm and so now should end before the High Holy Day begins at sundown. No truth to the rumor that Pharoah Goodell changed the game time under pressure from a guy in a red robe yelling something about a booming voice in a burning bush. If it were true though, maybe the Jets should go back and ask the bush to help them with their draft.
Nothing says April baseball quite like Toronto, Kansas City, Seattle and Florida in first place. Sure, it's way too early to draw any conclusions except in Washington where the "NATINALS" are 1-10 and look like 2-9 would have been a miracle. And no, that's not a typo. On Friday, Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn both wore jerseys that failed spell check. The missing "O" might've been metaphorically accurate but the Nats' bats really haven't been that bad. Instead, it's mostly been a Rocky Horror Pitcher Show. They just can't get anybody out. Not even Brad and Janet.
Is it me or does the buzz on the upcoming NFL Draft seem a little flat this year ??? Maybe it's the lack of any true top shelf college talent or maybe it's a backlash against the bailout-sized contracts the big picks are gonna get but I'm just not feeling it yet. I know Mel Kiper's been feeling it but that doesn't count cause he gets paid to feel it. [That's what she said.] So I think what I'm gonna do is this ... And it's simple really ... Let's just wait and see what Detroit does with the No. 1 pick. The Lions usually deliver draft day giggles so this one could be epic.
See ya next time.
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