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Paging Scranton! Send relief help! Lots of it!
Published 4/25/2008 by Ed Valentine at Bugs & Cranks
... Hughes killed by bouncing — yes, bouncing — a toss to him on a play at first. Oh, and he dropped a pop up. Sorry, Joe Girardi, but the guy is a disaster in the field. Yankees’ Links The Yankees have gone a little overboard with the retired numbers. Midge memories tough to shake. New York Times Removing Hughes was the right call. NY Daily News Yanks look for improvement from Kennedy. New York Post Mariano Rivera is dominating hitters again. Journal ...

The world must be coming to an end
Published 4/25/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... that the Mariano Rivera of this April is a lot different than the one that finished April 2007 with a 1-3 record and a 5.30 ERA. The Post ...

Coney Discusses Kennedy and Hughes
Published 4/25/2008 by Greg Cohen at Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog
From the New York Post: Former Yankee hurler and current YES analyst David Cone said he believes the key for the soft-tossing Kennedy is throwing first-pitch strikes. "He is falling behind consistently and finding himself in a lot of hitters' counts," Cone said. "That's kind of a recipe for a disaster if you are not a power pitcher - a pitcher that cannot make a hitter swing and miss." The struggles of Kennedy and Hughes were emphasized earlier this week when Hank Steinbrenner insisted the Yankees' best young gun, Joba Chamberlain, be moved from the ...