bye bye moose

it's being reported that mike mussina has decided to retire from baseball. this doesn't really come as a shock to me but i sure am going to miss the guy. i sent my dad a text about it when i found out and he wrote back, "Shows class, not a common trait in this $ driven world." right on, dad! moose just came off his first 20-win season and picked up his 7th gold glove award so i would say he's definitely going out on a high note. i've always thought of him as extremely classy so i wouldn't expect anything less. bye moose. i'll miss you.

moose wins 20!

for the first time in his 18 year career mike mussina has won 20 games in a season. i was at work "watching" the game on yahoo's boxscore and freaking out. i was seriously soooooo nervous. don't believe me, check my twitter. haha! poor moose would have reached 20 wins a few starts ago if he hadn't had so many games blown by the bullpen. so it was extremely nerve wracking since it was the last chance he had to win this season. at the age of 39, most people think that mussina has pitched his last game. his career record is 270-153 so he would have to stick around for possibly 3 more seasons to reach 300 wins. and that's if he stays healthy. he's had some pretty bad luck in the injuries department over his career. i think that finally achieving a 20 win season might be enough for him. i know it's enough for me! he better get into the hall of fame :)

holy crap!

so, after the mussina post you're probably asking yourselves, "could stefanie love mike mussina any more?" the answer is yes. the yankees are using jason giambi's creepy mustache as a tagline to get people to vote him into the all-star game. support the 'stache, they're saying. so today they gave out something like 18,000 fake mustaches for the fans to wear and mike mussina got his hands on one. he has an interesting sense of humor and i love it. edit: omg i just thought of the funniest thing...moosestache. hahaha!! also, we now have fake mustaches in common. oh yeah, vote for giambi.

i heart moose

last night kate was telling me how she trusts my opinion on a lot of things but she cannot get behind my love of the yankees. that's totally understandable but i feel that there are probably a few yankees she would love individually if she "got to know" them. first on that list is mike mussina. i would be interested to meet someone that doesn't like him, actually. here are some reasons why i love the moose:

• let's get the superficial stuff out of the way first. he's fucking hot, alright!
• he graduated with an economics degree from stanford in under 4 years
• the 2006 documentary wordplay taught us all that mike mussina does the new york times crossword puzzle (also, i really like that movie and not just because mussina is in it)
• he enters ballgames to "the zoo" by the scorpions!
• and this is stolen straight from wikipedia: He is fifth among all active pitchers in wins (260), shutouts (23) and complete games (57), seventh in strikeouts (2,705) and innings (3,437.2), eighth in batters faced (13,886), ninth in BB/9 IP (2.018), and tenth in win-loss percentage (.633). His 260 wins are the most by any pitcher never to have a 20 win season.
• he keeps a dry erase board in the clubhouse that he writes little messages on. when joe girardi became manager he took away the sweets from the clubhouse. they used to munch on ice cream, candy, donuts...stuff like that and girardi decided that wasn't really helping them. apparently mussina made a deal with girardi regarding wins and sweets because after his 10th win the dry erase board said, "the ice cream is back." when he reaches 12 wins they get the donuts back and there is a possibility that candy could be back after his 15th win.
• he's hilarious. i was listening to a press conference thingie with him yesterday and he was talking about how if he didn't get selected to go to the all-star game he would just go home to PA and go to the county fair. they have tractor pulls and a demolition derby. haha! looks like he'll be going to that because he isn't going to the all-star game :(

i could probably go on for a while longer but really, these are great reasons to love moose.