“Just when I think you couldn’t possibly be any more dumber, you go and do something like this… AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!”- Harry Dunn (Jeff Daniels) in Dumb & Dumber, speaking to Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey).
When a Brian Roberts line drive hit Nick Swishers glove and ricocheted to the wall in the top of the third inning, anyone
watching the game could see the disgust on both his and pitcher A.J. Burnett’s mugs. So when Swisher made a spectacular play on an even harder hit ball by Ty Wigginton with runners on second and third to end the threat, they were both more than pumped up about it.
According to Swisher after the game, A.J. quoted the 1995 comedy as he congratulated the Swish when they went in the dugout. It’s another piece of evidence that these two men, with Swisher’s always upbeat personality and Burnett’s practical jokes (the pies in the faces after walk-offs) are one of the main reasons that the Yankees are a completely different team in 2009.
The Bombers looked superb out of the gates this afternoon, scoring four in the first and adding one in the third on a Jorge Posada solo home run, en route to the 6-4 victory. That would be the only Yankees homer, so it looks good that the Yanks scored five runs without the benefit of a long ball. Burnett and Hughes were both magnificent, perhaps the only downer on today’s game is that Brian Bruney still looks like the Brian Bruney that failed miserably with the Diamondbacks, giving up back to back home runs in the top of the ninth, forcing Girardi to bring in Mariano Rivera to end it. That’s six in a row coming out of the break, three against a decent team, three against an awful team. The next four are against a team in between, the mediocre Oakland Athletics.
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