The Daily Yankeeland - 6/23

The New York Post's Steve Serby has a Q&A with Mike Mussina. His colleague Mike Vaccaro has a story on Jason Giambi's revival.

Peter Abraham reported this afternoon that Al Aceves has been promoted to Scranton. This will be the third level that the former Mexican League pitcher plays at this year.

Earlier this year Kyle Farnsworth blamed Joe Torre for his ineffectiveness. Now he's saying the Yankees fans are too fickle. Can this guy take some responsibility for his ineffectiveness? Apparently not.

Ken Griffey Jr.'s home run off of Farnsworth was his first Stadium home run since 1999. Oh, and Farnsworth didn't like that the Yankee fans showed their appreciation for Jr.'s career by giving hi an ovation. Grow up.

David Waldstein of the Star Ledger points out that Derek Jeter has reached base safely in 37 straight interleague games.

Great line from David Cone during this weekend's broadcast, as reported by Phil Mushnick. "David Cone on YES, Wednesday, was asked by Michael Kay if he ever had a teammate who didn't swear. "None I trusted," said Cone." Can you say, "Chad Curtis"?

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There is a good feature by Tyler Kepner in today's NY Times on how Phil Hughes is interacting with fans via his blog. Other players have official websites, but rarely ever update them. Dr. Phil Good on the other hand, usually updates his on a daily basis, holds contests, and takes fans' questions.

So far, so good. That could describe how things have been going for Andy Pettitte since he arrived in Yankees camp.

"Everything has been normal," Pettitte said after throwing his first and final round of batting practice yesterday. "It was nice to come in here and get into a routine. What I needed was a routine. Everybody acted like nothing happened. I came here and wanted to apologize for making them answer questions and [everybody said] I didn't need to apologize. Everybody has made it extremely easy, including the organization."

As for his pitching, Pettitte says he still lags behind but has ample time to recover.

"My legs are getting there and I can tell my arm isn't quite sharp. It got fatigued at the end," Pettitte said. "It felt like my arm was dragging. I have six starts here so I am not concerned."

Now we'll see how he handles that first road trip.

Things are far from over for Roger Clemens. The House Oversight committee, after making a mockery of this whole thing, has now drafted a letter to the Department of Justice to investigate whether Clemens lied before Congress. Ironically, Brian McNamee, who was clearly lying at times before Congress, is not being looked into further by the committee.

On top of that, an unnamed major league snitch player has apparently told Congress that Clemens often joked about his wife and Jose Canseco's ex comparing implants at the infamous party.

One of the best in the business, Mike Vaccaro, has a great piece on our man Melky Cabrera and his destiny as the last regular center fielder in the current Stadium.

Some good anecdotes; stories from the always-entertaining Peter Abraham:

A feature on fielder's pitching practice

Jason Giambi's work ethic

and Mike Mussina's locker "with a view"

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