Regardless, he is right. There is a lot about him that we do not know, so we should reserve judgement. And Yankees fans are not the only ones who have that opinion of Mussina.

baileywalk – has there ever been a Yankees starting pitcher, or pitching prospect, that you didn’t think was a regular slice of heaven?

I guess it’s true what they say about assumptions.

It’s amazing to me what so many Yankee fans think of Mussina. It’s at the level of high-school jealousy. The popular, smart, good-looking kid that people make out to be a prissy ogre because of one situation that they’ve completely blown out of proportion — when of course the whole thing is simply about jealousy. This has lasted basically Mussina’s entire career in New York. It’s probably one of the most annoying things I hear from Yankee fans — that Mussina is some sort of soft, effete snob… and all because he went to a good school, finished early and can complete a sentence, unlike most of his teammates.

That book is really good. As a Mussina fan going in, I’ve enjoyed it even more and learned quite a bit about the guy. The parts on Glavine are very good as well.