What an enjoyable read the Sunday New York Post was this morning. It was worth $10 bucks instead of two. Let’s review the various levels of misery in the Bronx surrounding the Yankees, all from today’s paper.
EXCLUSIVE: A-HOLE: YANKEES’ HOLE OF FAME; SITE OF ‘CURSE’ DIG UNFILLED A YEAR LATER
Hex still marks the spot at the new Yankee Stadium. It has been more than a year since the team extricated a Red Sox jersey maliciously entombed in the new stadium’s concrete by a Boston-loving hardhat — yet the hole remains unfilled, and officials have no clue what to do with it, The Post has learned.
A-Rod can’t even go to a sex club without making a fool of himself.
The major-league slugger looked like a rank amateur when he made a supposedly clandestine visit to a Dallas sex club in 2004 — but showed up wearing a Yankee hat that screamed, “Look at me!” “The guy’s not the biggest genius in the world. I guess the cat’s out of the bag on that,” Rick Reid, the owner of Iniquity swingers club, told The Post.
THIS WEEK’S WINNERS AND LOSERS
LOSER: RANDY LEVINE: Yankee president dismisses stadium seat price issue before Hal Steinbrenner cut prices.
BOOK: A-ROD DRIVEN BY NEED TO OUTDO JETER
Away from the diamond, he went so far as to use Jeter in his pickup lines: “The guys,” Roberts wrote, “who went clubbing with Alex say there was one pickup line he used repeatedly, even on women who knew nothing of baseball: ‘Who’s hotter, me or Derek Jeter?’ “
30-YEAR-OLD ROOK OUTDUELS SABATHIA
CC Sabathia is one horse that hasn’t done much winning, placing or showing this season. The best thing you could say about the $161 million lefty yesterday was the Yankees didn’t have to put him out to pasture after the game.
HEFTY LEFTY HASN’T PITCHED LIKE ACE
The fact remains — after the previously-collared Torii Hunter reached down on what seemed a wicked 0-1 slider and lined a two-run double against the base of the left-field fence on Sabathia’s 119th and final pitch of the game — he ended the day 1-3 with a 4.85 ERA in his first six starts in pinstripes. That’s not exactly preliminary bang for $161 million bucks, even if not exactly cause for panic, unless those 253 innings Sabathia totaled last year while willing the Brewers to the postseason are kicking back.
TEIXERIA: EARLY SWOON ‘EMBARRASSING’
Twenty-four games into the season, Mark Teixeira is “embarrassed” by his batting average. That’s his word. The Yankees’ struggling first baseman went 0-for-3 with a walk in yesterday’s 8-4 loss to the Angels in The Bronx, and for the season his average is now down to a miniscule .182 — the worst among Yankees regulars.