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Some kind of crazy day in baseball yesterday:

The Mets open up their new stadium with a loss, and the first guy ever to hit there leads off the game with a jack.

Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko each hit their 300th home runs of their career. Back to back.

The O-Dogg (Orlando Hudson) becomes the first Dodger to ever hit for the cycle at Dodger Stadium. The last guy to hit for the cycle at Dodger Stadium (a member of the visiting Angels at the time), was Jim Fregosi 45 years ago, and he happened to be at the game 10 rows behind home plate yesterday.

But what I thought was really crazy was this. Imagine you're the Yankees, and you're spending more on your pitching staff than 5 or 6 major league teams are spending on their entire rosters. You're losing by a boatload of runs on the road late in the game. Your starter got 3 outs, and gave up 8 earned runs. You're running out of pitchers, and don't want to use Mariano Rivera in this situation. So why not turn to first baseman Nick Swisher. And not only does he come in, but he throws up the best inning of any of your pitchers in the game so far, and strikes out as many batters (1) as your starting pitcher (Chien Ming Wang) did. When do you think was the last time the same guy led the league in OPS (which Swisher does) and ERA (tied for 1st with 0.00 obviously) at the same time?

I laughed so hard when Swisher was pitching, he was laughing on the mound. He threw a nice change up. But that's pretty sad for the pitching staff.

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