How Al Leiter Can Help
Assuming that Leiter can hold a spot in the Yankees rotation, and do a decent job most of the time that he gets a turn, there’s another way he can help the Yankees this season – meaning with the media.
This came to me, watching Al be interviewed, last night on ESPN, talking about how this was a good game for “us” and mentioning wearing # 19 to honor Rags, etc.
Unit, Mussina, and Brown do not like talking to the press. Wang was never going to be a quote machine. Leiter has enough red light in him to take this on, ala’ Cone 1995-2000, and be the one that the press can run to after the game and get their material for stories – and, it will take away some of the need for the media to talk to Randy, Mike, et al, on days when they’re not starting. This should make their life a little easier.
Of course, again, this all assumes that Leiter pitches well enough to stick around.
I wonder if he’s going to do his weekly call to Michael Kay’s radio show again, now that he’s back in NY.
I was wondering about Kay too – in that, IIRC, they left on bad terms, didn’t they? I was wondering how Kay would talk about Leiter today on 1050.
Or, did they not leave on bad terms?
I never heard anything about them leaving on bad terms. Guess we’ll have to wait and see (uh, or hear).
They just advertised that Leiter will be a guest on Kay’s show today(I believe in the 4pm hour).
Thanks Jen – maybe I had it wrong?