NY Post Sports Cover and Pineda Scratch

When I first saw the NY Post Sports cover, I was a bit skeptical.  Something along the lines of 'Party Crashing' or something more clever would have probably been better.  It does, however, get the point across and gives me a lead in to Michael Pineda, who couldn't even manage 15 pitches today without getting scratched.  This young man needs to grow up fast.  The reason the NY Post can get away with something like the above image is because the Yankees are held to a different standard, they know it, and they have historically delivered.  27 Titles in just under one century speaks for itself.  George Steinbrenner would have already publicly shredded him and banished him to AAA for the whole season.  He's probably looking down from the bar with Mickey Mantle shaking his head in disbelief about the mental and physical softness of Michael Pineda. 

"Its what you do when no one is looking" should quickly become Pineda's motto.  This is not the Pacific Northwest.  This is New York City.  Arguably the center of the universe.  Frank Sinatra doesn't talk about making it in Seattle.  Not to knock the pacific northwest, but greatness comes out of NYC, while coffee and grunge music comes out of Seattle. There is a difference.  It's been frustrating since the get go with this young hurler who the Yanks gave up a potential all-star for.  There have been awkward media quotes, interviews near tears, and third person references.  He needs to buy into to the Work Hard, Play Harder, then Work Harder than Ever mindset New Yorkers have or he should be shipped to a smaller market club where he won't be mentioned in blogs like this.

And back to what's going on on the field, we have a 4PM start in Boston.  Should be perfect weather for baseball at the start and I'll be muting Joe Buck and Tim McGarver as they are officially the worst tandem of Yankee hating, consistently incorrect sports coverage in the business.  They're probably the only duo who could make a funeral more depressing.  Is this really the best FOX has to offer?  All that said, its a perfect day for the Yankees to put a second consecutive hurting on the Red Sox.  Time for another W...