ARLINGTON, Texas -- After pitching phenom Joba Chamberlain left Monday's game against the Texas Rangers with an apparent shoulder injury, Yankees Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner again could not contain his disgust with the team's recent spate of bad luck with injuries, this time calling for a total obliteration of the state of Texas, where three Yankees pitchers have sustained injuries in the past 14 months.
"Look at this fucking place -- it's inhospitable to human life," Steinbrenner fumed. "Christ, it was 107 degrees today. A hundred and seven! Major League Baseball needs to get into the 21st century and stop making us play in this godforsaken state. Baseball should be played in 80-degree weather with lots of humidity and the slightest haze of bus exhaust, like we have in New York."
Last May 30, an ankle sprain forced prized rookie pitcher Phil Hughes from a game at Texas in which he had not yet allowed a hit, and June 15 of this year, Yankees ace Chien-Ming Wang sustained a severe foot injury during an interleague game versus the Astros in Houston that is expected to keep the righthander out of the rotation for the remainder of the regular season.
After the injury to Wang, Steinbrenner impugned National League rules as antiquated and advocated the circuit's adoption of the AL-only designated hitter rule. With the most recent blow to the team's pitching staff taking place under American League rules, the Senior Vice President turned his attention to more severe potential remand.
"I don't think we're ever going to come here again," Steinbrenner continued. "In fact, I think this whole state ought to be blown right off the map. They need to drop a big goddamn nuke right in the middle of this shithole."
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