FROM JOEL SHERMAN

In today’s Post, I wrote a column that details just how bad Mike Mussina has been recently against the Red Sox. It asks the larger question, though, whether it is the Red Sox or this is Mussina now: Too little left in his arm and too untrustworthy against just about anybody, not just Boston. I think this is like a truth that you try to hide from yourself – like knowing a child is on drugs or a spose is being unfaithful. You keep trying to convince yourself that what you know to be true is untrue. But, come on, we kind of know now that Mussina isn’t going to make it through this season in the Yankee rotation, possibly not with the Yankees at all. He is trying to reinvent himself on the go here as a strictly finesse pitcher with no real strikeout ability. And it is borderline impossible to do that against AL lineups in 2008.

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