HOT STOVIN' IT: I promise this is absolutely the last baseball post for a week.
Or until tomorrow.
Either way.
Anyway, A Small Victory and all Yankees fans everywhere should not fret: Pettitte leaving and Brown coming in isn't that bad. The contrarian case is actually stronger than you might think, but it's premised on two realizations:
1. Kevin Brown is a replacement for Roger Clemens. Javier Vazquez is the replacement for Pettitte. So Brown's a little iffier... not like there weren't major question marks over a 40-year old last season.
2. Pettitte is a fine example of a good but not great pitcher made better by being a Yankee. Look at his stat line... it's good, but it's not killer. Even if he'd stayed, he would've been starter #2, at best (behind Moose) and probably #3. Pay nearly $40 million for your #3 guy? Who do you think they are, the Yankees?
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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