George King is Still High

A little while ago I asked "Is George King high?" Well, not only was he high, but he's still high.

King, who had been using George A. King III, but must've realized how dumb that sounded and changed it back, wrote article today titled, "What Yankees Need To Win." And as one of his bullet points he writes:

-- Sure to make Yankee fans grumble: When Johan Santana wins 24 games for the Mets.

Yea, this makes me "grumble," not because it may happen, but because when I started reading your pointless article, I actually thought it was going to be a list of the things the Yankees needed to do to win, and not another chance for you to attack the team you cover because they didn't make the trade you thought they should.

Then there was this:

-- Biggest managerial decision: How to find enough at-bats to keep Shelley Duncan sharp. His right-handed power is an asset, but Duncan can't sit for extended time and be expected to produce.

Are you serious? The biggest managerial decision of the year is how to get Shelley Duncan enough at-bats? You don't think things like how to use Joba without risking injury, keeping the young starters at their innings limits, managing the bullpen, or making sure guys like Giambi, Matsui and Damon, get enough days off to stay healthy, is more important than Shelley Duncan and his precious at-bats?

Mr. King was not done there; in his article titled "No Go For New Joe" (he's so clever), in which he basically writes off the Yankees this year because, you guess it, they didn't trade for Johan Santana, King had this to say about Joba Chamberlain:

Moving Chamberlain in front of Rivera was not only the right move for 2008, but forever. Finding somebody to dominate the seventh and eighth innings is harder than discovering a fourth and fifth starter.

(A hat tip to Mike A. from River Ave. Blues has something posted about his quote.)

I have no problem with him in the pen this year (as long as he throws enough innings), but to say Chamberlain is a four or a five starter is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know if Mr. King is aware of it, but Joba has a high-90's fastball, one of the best sliders in the game, an above average curve, and a decent change. He's also working on a two-seamer to get ground balls when he needs them. That's four MLB pitches, possibly five, two of which are rated as plus-pitches. This is even more than you need to be a number one or two in this league, forget about four or five.

George, seriously, you need to tell me where you get your stuff from, because you are freaking GONE.