Afternoon Baseball

NY Baseball Talk has an interview with the great pitcher-turned-coach, conducted last Wednesday.
Stottlemyre talks about fishing with Mickey Mantle, what it was like to start a game for the Yanks as a rookie, team chemistry, Joe Torre's tenure and Mel's own cancer battle, among other things.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear the site got the interview, and it's well worth checking out.


Otherwise, it was a quiet off-day, thankfully. After all, the Yankees all have sore muscles or joints. Less importantly, they needed to shake off the blown save and wasting the fine effort by ace Andy Pettitte. Also, Derek Jeter needed to buy a new glove.

For the speculative, there's polls on The Captain's 2007 error count and when Carl Pavano will return to active duty over at waswatching.com.

Also, Wright is returning to the Yankees. No, not the perpetually overwhelmed Jaret, but Chase Wright, the Double-A not-quite star. This could get ugly.
But, on the other hand, Roger Clemens says he's failing retirement.