To give you an idea of how small the visiting clubhouse at RFK is, picture your high school locker room. Now shrink it a few times. Then a few more. It's that bad.
The Yankees didn't seem to mind too much. The players who were in the clubhouse before the game were mostly huddled by the television, watching the U.S. Open.
Over in the Nationals' clubhouse -- which isn't all that nice either but at least somewhat more spacey -- Alfonso Soriano spoke about his situation with the Nationals. As Ken Davidoff wrote in today's Newsday, Soriano said he likes playing here. Which may be true, but he didn't seem like he would mind a trade too much either. Would you trade Eric Duncan for Soriano?
Funny how many former Yankees are on the Nationals. In addition to Soriano, there's Nick Johnson, Mike Stanton and Felix Rodriguez. Former Yankee Mike Vento also has 18 at-bats this season, but isn't on the roster now.
Lastly, my Yankees Insider today was a reminder that the Yankees didn't win the AL East last year because of the big names they acquired. It was the little moves, like acquiring Shawn Chacon, that worked so well. So I was wondering, if the Yankees go the same route this year, who do you think this year's Chacon will be?
My guess is Pittsburgh's Craig Wilson. Just a guess.
Comments (5)
russ ortiz
I would trade Duncan in a hearbeat for Soriano. I would NOT trade Hughes...
Ditto on Duncan and Hughes.
I wouldn't trade Hughes for Willis or Zito either.
My "little move" is Jose Guillen. He is familiar with most the AL pitchers due to his Angel days, and plays hurt, which is a necessity on this Yankee team. Though he is difficult to manage, that shouldn't be a problem, as the inmates are already running this institution.
I think we should go hard after Juan Rivera. He could be perfect for us now. He can hit, he can field and he could handle RF. The Angels don't play him everyday and I would think he wouldn't cost us what some of the other names mentioned this past month would. I like Jose Guillen very much too, but he's a little injury prone and probably would cost us dearly. Just my opinion. Today's loss was worse than yesterday's in many ways. I love Chien Ming Wang, but this was a really painful loss. It's embarrassing we can't scratch out four or five runs against some Nationals rookie and are afraid to pitch Ron Villone with the game on the line. Wang deserved so much better today.