“Pavano Is Iron Man”

I could just imagine the riff the famous Black Sabbath song, replacing “I” at the beginning with “Pavano.”  It would only make sense.

After an entire season off due to injuries, Yankees starting pitcher Carl Pavano has found himself in familiar territory after injuring his foot during batting practice while in spring training.  I wonder if Torre hit Pavano in the foot on purpose after all the years of suffering and annoyance he’s caused the franchise.  I would.

I like to think that Mr. Pavano is the modern-day Iron Man, seen above flying above the New York City skyline, laughing as he collects his $39.95 million contract.  The guy hasn’t had to do anything for over a year now to the dismay of his teammates, and he doesn’t even care.  Though I guess I wouldn’t if I slept on top of a pile of money with Alyssa Milano either.

And hey, look on the bright side, Pavano led the Yankees last season with a 0.00 ERA and 0 walks and 0 home runs.  Sure he had trouble striking out batters with 0 strikeouts, but in the end he did get every batter he faced out, all zero of them!

Kudos to Pavano, when its all said and done his name will be synonomous with the likes of Gehrig and Ripken, because he’ll always be brought up in the conversation that asks “who was the opposite of those two legends?”