Mike Mussina hasn’t thought much about the possibility of being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. At least, that’s what he told the media during his visit to the warehouse on Friday.
Mussina and former second baseman Rich Dauer will be honored by the Orioles before Saturday’s game as they will be inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame.
For many in Baltimore, it may be difficult to see Mussina honored after watching him spend eight seasons with the arch-rival New York Yankees. Folks in my generation view him as the guy that fled Baltimore for more money in the Bronx. That might not have been exactly how it went down, but nearly half of his career was spent in New York after coming up through the Orioles system.
The Moose is now nearly four years removed from the big leagues and his numbers indicate he will be close to Hall of Fame caliber. He was asked whether he would go in as an Oriole or a Yankee should he get the call at all. “That’s a tough question, because my career obviously is pretty evenly split between both places,” Mussina said according to MASNSports.com’s Roch Kubatko. He spent 10 years in Baltimore and 8 in New York.
“You eliminate one and it changes everything about what I was able to do. I accomplished a lot of things here, I accomplished a lot of things in New York. I can’t stand here and say it’s one over the other.”
But you’ve got to think that he’s thought about it before this year, right?
“Baltimore people want me to say Baltimore, New York people want me to say New York. When I was here, I loved being here, and there’s nothing else I can say about it. This was the only place I had known for the first 10 years of my career and it was a great place to play and it was tough to leave when I had to go.”
He won 20 games with the Yankees in 2008 and reached the World Series in both 2001 and 2003. I would be shocked if Mussina wore an Orioles cap in Cooperstown.
Political posturing from a guy about to go in the Birds’ HoF. If Mussina goes into Cooperstown – mind you, he was never the top guy in ANY year – he’ll go in a Yankee.
Do you really think Mussina is going to say he will go in as a Yankee while being interviewed in Baltimore at Camden Yards for a party in his honor?
That’s like my girlfriend throwing a party for me and my buddy MGW asking me, in front of my girlfriend, if I’m goina bed down Kim Kardashian (Who just happened to be at my party) that night…
Of course I’m goina say “No” in front of my girlfriend but in the next couple of days this little ditty is playing on the radio…
Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
gonna grab some afternoon delight.
My motto’s always been; when it’s right, it’s right.
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night.
When everything’s a little clearer in the light of day.
And you know the night is always gonna be there any way.
Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight
While I make like Ron Burgundy and light up the afternoon sky with Kim…
What difference does it make? I worked at Ford for 9 yrs and GM for 16. If I went into the automakers HoF, I would wear the VW hat. They are the best cars out there. Moose was gret while he was here. We don’t hate Dempsey or Murray or any other Oriole that left. Don’t hate becasue he went to the Yankees! Remember, we are sports fan first!
Musina didn’t win a world series in either place so he must not have been a game changer===I don’t care where he goes , he is a looser in my book , he should wear a traitor cap…
Mike Mussina pitched in the steroids era and still won 270 games… Easily could have hung in for 2-3 more seasons and got 300… a guy who pitches every fifth day cannot be a game changer every night, but he damn sure was every fifth day!!! and by the way Mystery Man you spelled “loser” wrong…. DUMBASS!!! but I agree… he is a traitor, and an arrogant asshole from what I have heard… so the Yankees can have him…. jk mystery man!!!
Leeve mystery man a loan He is the produk of a Dundalk edumacation. Cut him sum slak.
Hey Bmore Birds Fan,,,,,,,,, it was an exaggeration of the bastardized word,,,,,,for your info , the word loser or looser is not correct usage of the english language,,,,,,it is an extension of the word lose which is an act and an act can’t lose,,,,,,,,,hench , there is no such word as lose or looser , look it up dummy……………
Hench???? WTF!
Who’s the dummy now?
I love mystery man and the incher…………………
The feeling is mutual, spy.