50 more to go
Amid the Redskins losing their first game, my fantasy team winning its second and the Nats finishing at RFK in style (post coming later), Mike won his third game in a row and 250th in his career.
The headlines this morning have gone to a thaw in the Joba rules. The Times' first sentence late Sunday afternoon was "Around this time last month, Mike Mussina pitched himself out of the rotation." By this morning, it was "Rules may be made to be broken, but it seemed there was no chance Joba Chamberlain would pitch yesterday against the Toronto Blue Jays."
Vic Ziegel of the New York Daily News may have written the best explanation, beginning: "Mike Mussina won his 250th game yesterday, moved another step closer to Cy Young and Secretariat, and you wouldn't have believed the crowd surrounding his locker after the game. There were probably enough of us to fit into a toll booth, with plenty of room for the coin collection."
In the blogosphere, Foucault's Lunchbox noted Mussina moved past Vic Willis on the all-time wins list. "Vic Willis began his major league baseball career in 1898, but did not get inducted into the Hall of Fame until 1995, by which time he had been dead for 48 years." LiveJournal's Mike Mussina: Male Gigolo continued to not publish.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:34 PM
RFK is at last a soccer stadium again, without those gouged-out holes for the mound and infield.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:19 PM
And America ponders which is worse. Soccer … or demolition? :)