Last week was crazy in YES and Yankeeland. Joba Chamberlain made his first career start last Tuesday and you thought it was October. It was early June and a 22-year-old kid was on the mound, but you think Whitey Ford and Ron Guidry were reincarnated.
YESNetwork.com joined the fun and assigned me to do a live blog. It was different and afforded me to provide unique armchair observations instead of your standard play-by-play. A few days later, I found it within me to stick up for the Yankees and their commitment to their young guns. Already people are dismissing Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy as busts, but as Roy Halladay reminded me, he was demoted to Single-A in 2000. The Blue Jays stuck with him; they neither buried him in minors nor sent him away. Three years later Halladay won the Cy Young Award.
Any one of Generation Trey winning a Cy Young is far from a guarantee. One, or all of them, may flame out, but let's at least allow this to play out over a period of years, not months or days.
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