Friday Afternoon Linkapalooza: 5/4

I still can't shake myself out of the funk that the Mo injury has put me in.  I've got nothing even remotely witty to say.  Onto the links.

- On Monday, Robbie Clark of Yanks Go Yard collected the best bits from the dynamic duo of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman in the month of April for our comedic pleasure.  I know I don't have to say it, but you just can't predict baseball, Suzyn!

- William Juliano of The Captain's Blog disproved the theory that the Yankee offense has been poor to start the season with the greatest enemy to dumb theories, statistics.

- On Tuesday, Sensei John Kreese of NoMaas took a look inside Joe's mysterious dugout binder.  Couple of interesting tidbits in there.

- Brandon C. of Pinstripe Alley made a plea to the Yankees to call up Dewayne Wise, a move that I would fully support.  I bet Brandon was re-thinking his "I have no problem with Nunez playing the field" line after watching Eduardo's botch on Tuesday night.

- On Wednesday, Tamar Chalker of IIATMS offered his take on Andy Pettitte's rough day of testimony in the Clemens case.  Definitely worth checking out to get a perspective from somebody in the legal world.

- Matt B of Yankees Fans Unite got an interview with Wallace Matthews of ESPN.  I myself am not a huge fan of Matthews, but if you are then you should definitely check this out.

- Alex Geshwind of TYA examined the numbers after Hiroki Kuroda's first handful of Yankee starts and found signs of regression.

- Greg Corcoran of Bronx Baseball Daily breaks down the surprisingly deep High-A Tampa rotation.  This gives me another opportunity to remind everybody that I picked Nik Turley as the big sleeper prospect for this season.

/nobody cares

- On Thursday, Jamie Insalaco of Bomber Banter voiced his displeasure with Joe's decision to let Nova start the 7th inning on Wednesday night.  Glad Jamie ranted on this so that I didn't have to.

- Mike Axisa of RAB, obviously inspired by my Robbie Cano post on Tuesday, looks into Cano's startling GB rates to start this season.  Already covered it, Mike.  Try to keep up.

- It's heart-breaking to watch, but here's the video of Mo talking to the media after the ACL tear was diagnosed last night.  I'm still a little bit in shock about this whole thing, which makes this even tougher to watch.  Shit was getting a little misty around here, no joke.

On Friday, it was obviously all about Mo.  Mike Axisa had a heartfelt piece that certainly spoke to how I was feeling last night and am still feeling today, and I imagine it spoke to similar feelings for many Yankee fans.

- Hank Waddles of Bronx Banter shared his thoughts at the end of his recap of last night's events.

- Alex Belth followed that up with his own personal reaction.

- Chad Jennings of LoHud had a collection of player and manager reactions.  I know they're all professionals and have to put the tough face on, but even reading the words you can sense how down everybody is as a result of what happened.

- Steve Goldman of Pinstriped Bible attempted to inject some optimism in the situation by pointing out Rivera's decreased usage rate over the past few seasons and how there is only a small fraction of innings that need to be picked up by the rest of the guys in the 'pen.

- Jane Heller of Confessions of A She-Fan couldn't even bring herself to discuss last night's game or the events that caused the injury.  Right there with ya, Jane.  I felt sick writing up my game recap.

- Even the new Barstool NY Yankee writer, Strasser, wrote a touching piece on Mo and how much he means to the game of baseball and the world outside of baseball with the kind of person he is.

"Enter Sandman."  Because I don't want to give up hope that I'll never hear it play in The Stadium again.



Enjoy your weekends, everybody.