It's been a while, but I had to chime in on this stat line:
.458 BA, 4 HR, 1.208 SLG
1.0 IP, 2.00 WHIP, 0.00
I had to ask myself, "Is Nick Swisher the real life Steve Nebraska from The Scout?" He is crushing balls like a NOW executive and blowing away people on the mound as well. Swish is the ultimate force in baseball, feared at the plated and cowered away from on the hill. I'm not saying the Swish 
is throwing 120 like Encino Man or hitting 600 foot bombs, but the guy is single-handedly keeping the Yankees alive right now. Jeter was 1-20 going into the 4/14 game against the D-Rays (and yes they are still and always will be the D-Rays to me). Teixeira has auto-erotic inflammation, Chien-Ming Wang can't get out of the 3rd inning, A-Rod is thinking of more things that people think about him, essentially paralyzing him, so the Swish says F-it, I'm putting this team on my back. Swish's agent definitely messed up on this one. Back when CC was all the talk of the Yankees off-season and sounded about as excited to come to New York as a Reserve who got stop-lossed back to Iraq, he should have had the Swish on exhibition. His agent has got to have him out there lighting up radar guns and then crushing balls over the darkened fence of a empty major league park. All he would have had to do was assemble all of the GMs in baseball in one spot to do a secret bid based on a single workout by a talent that no one has ever heard of. This must have been what happened with at least half of the Dominican players right? All you really need is Theo Epstien. I'm sure his bid would have looked like this:
is throwing 120 like Encino Man or hitting 600 foot bombs, but the guy is single-handedly keeping the Yankees alive right now. Jeter was 1-20 going into the 4/14 game against the D-Rays (and yes they are still and always will be the D-Rays to me). Teixeira has auto-erotic inflammation, Chien-Ming Wang can't get out of the 3rd inning, A-Rod is thinking of more things that people think about him, essentially paralyzing him, so the Swish says F-it, I'm putting this team on my back. Swish's agent definitely messed up on this one. Back when CC was all the talk of the Yankees off-season and sounded about as excited to come to New York as a Reserve who got stop-lossed back to Iraq, he should have had the Swish on exhibition. His agent has got to have him out there lighting up radar guns and then crushing balls over the darkened fence of a empty major league park. All he would have had to do was assemble all of the GMs in baseball in one spot to do a secret bid based on a single workout by a talent that no one has ever heard of. This must have been what happened with at least half of the Dominican players right? All you really need is Theo Epstien. I'm sure his bid would have looked like this:50 million, no
51 million, no
51.1 million, no
1 billion dollars
Seriously though, my favorite part was that Swish hadn't pitched since he was a freshman in high school, but he still got one strikeout. Gabe Kapler must be getting some much crap for that. Your 8-games-in MVP, Nick Swisher.
-K
