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Originally Posted by a700hitter
The Yankees have saved Hughes from further embarrasment by putting him on the DL. His psyche had obviously been damaged, because he was making ridiculous excuses for his lack of performance. He can't see at night games? They didn't just demote him as that might have been a blow to his self esteem. By putting him on the DL, they remove him from the rotation, and he can rehab himself in the minors. Kennedy will be the next DL casualty.
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My sentiment exactly, confirmed by an interview I saw last night where he tried to expain away the situation. The quotes don't do justice because the telling placements of his "ummm's" and "uhhh's" didn't make the print.
"I really don't think it was an issue in my performance," he said. "Subconsciously, I may have been doing something different or whatever. But it's still something that I want to work out as far as performing well when I get back."
"At least for me, I was in disbelief," Hughes said. "I was expecting to get the results of the MRI and have some small muscle strain or something like that. For it to be this, especially with the way things are going pitching-wise and everything else, it's just not a fun time right now."
"It could have been around for a while and it was just so minor that I didn't know it. Or it could have been something that happened overnight. There's no way of knowing," Hughes said. "There wasn't like one specific pitch, like I said, where I felt it. It was just one of those things. I woke up one morning and there was a little discomfort, but nothing major. And then after last night there was significantly more discomfort."
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of Yankee fans also experienced significantly more discomfort after your performance on Tuesday.