How typical can this be?

Rained out baseball games are no fun for anybody - unfortunately they are going to be an even bigger pain in the pitoot thanks to the recent rainout between the spankees and the Blue Jays...

I cannot complain too loudly as all of NY must have groaned in unison last weekend when they found out our #1 - #2 - #3 pitchers were lined up perfectly to face them in Fenway. Now our Bostonian crew will have to face Andy Pettite AGAIN thanks to Joe Torre's slight of lineup hand. Andy P (no relation to my brother-in-law) was slated to face Vernon Wells and the dangerous but underachieving Torontonians - RAIN enter stage left, and guess who pitched for the yanks instead tonight... another rookie named (and I had to go look this up twice because I kept forgetting his name) Phil Hughes - an undrafted non-college signee that had never before pitched in the majors. Exit stage right to an extraordinarily predictable ending - Toronto wins 6-2 behind AJ Burnett and Mr. Wells.

So - long story short - Manager Torre obviously knew his ballclub needed a win against our Red Sox SO badly that he shifted his number one guy not one day but TWO! After all, he knows that once his team gets rolling that they'll torch the living daylights out of Toronto for the rest of the year. One can only hope that this "layoff" isn't good news for Andy P's rhythm. And the rest of us can only hope that Dice-K's pledge to take his game up a notch for the rematch will pan out. And let's also look forward to what fleshes out from Dice-K's pledge to take his game up a notch for this weekend's rematch.

Back at ya until at least Friday night!!