02/16: Moose the Mentor; Tells Joba: "I hear everything you say. I hear everything you think."
Posted by: Patrick
Kat O'Brien tells of Joba's joking around with Mike Mussina. She says:
Great quote. She also mentions that Moose has accepted the role of mentor to the young Yankee starters. His locker was already right next to Ian Kennedy's and, seeing as how he'll be talking about pitching with Ian, he asked for Phil's locker to be moved to the other side of him. By the next day, it was done.
"If I’m going to sit there and talk to Kennedy about pitching, it makes sense to have Hughes there, too," Mussina said, according to Mark Feinsand. Cool move by Moose.
Mussina gets his fair share of criticism at this stage of his career, but with all of the free agent busts that we've had in the last 10 years or so, I've always felt that he was one of the good ones. Sure, he may come off as a bit of a complainer at times, but he's come up in some huge spots (see: 2003 ALCS, game 7) and should make for a great mentor.
If Phil, Ian or Joba have the career that Mussina's had, they'll have done very, very well for themselves.
Via Andrew Fletcher.
As Mussina walked out of the clubhouse, Chamberlain said something with no response from Mussina, then called out: "The hearing's the first thing to go when you get old, right?" Mussina popped back around the corner to say: "I hear everything you say. I hear everything you think."
Great quote. She also mentions that Moose has accepted the role of mentor to the young Yankee starters. His locker was already right next to Ian Kennedy's and, seeing as how he'll be talking about pitching with Ian, he asked for Phil's locker to be moved to the other side of him. By the next day, it was done.
"If I’m going to sit there and talk to Kennedy about pitching, it makes sense to have Hughes there, too," Mussina said, according to Mark Feinsand. Cool move by Moose.
Mussina gets his fair share of criticism at this stage of his career, but with all of the free agent busts that we've had in the last 10 years or so, I've always felt that he was one of the good ones. Sure, he may come off as a bit of a complainer at times, but he's come up in some huge spots (see: 2003 ALCS, game 7) and should make for a great mentor.
If Phil, Ian or Joba have the career that Mussina's had, they'll have done very, very well for themselves.
Via Andrew Fletcher.
