Quote of the Day (Palmer)

"Most pitchers are too smart to manage." – Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer

(Palmer undoubtedly said this when provoked once too often by Baltimore Orioles skipper Earl Weaver, about whom he also said: "The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it."

But Palmer might want to reconsider the “too smart to manage” statement when he reads the recent comment by Ian Kennedy of the New York Yankees, who, after not making it through even the third inning, told a bunch of reporters: “I felt like I made some good pitches. I'm not too upset about it. ... What was it, a bunch of singles and three doubles? I'm just not real upset about it. I'm just going to move on and I've already done that."

Kennedy has “moved on,” all right—back to the minors, where the pitching-starved Yankees hope the once-vaunted young righty—hailed last year, perhaps prematurely, as a “young Mike Mussina”—works on his command and ponders the strong suggestions of Bronx Bomber vets like Andy Pettitte not to talk like an idiot the next time he makes it to The Show.)