What will become of Zombie Pavano?

So it appears that the Carl Pavano is going to have Tommy John surgery and the Yankees are going to let him loose. Really just so sad.

Congrats Carl on making 39 million dollars for a little less than 20 starts. Seriously, I hate the Yankees but they should really ask for their money back. How much did they get screwed? Not only was he pretty much the most useless player on their roster for three years (although last year it might have been the dessicated corpse of Bernie Williams), he got into trouble off the field with the whole car crash fiasco.

Good thing he has Gia above to comfort him. Wait no, no he doesn't. Let's all stop a moment and laugh at Carl and the Yankees. It will make everyone feel a little better.

Oh, and if you don't get the Zombie Pavano thing, go read The Dugout. Seriously, it might be the best site on the interwebs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/sports/baseball/24pavano.html

Pavano Sued

Apparently the guy that Carl Pavano hit last year in the accident he tried to hide from the Yankees is suing him. The guy is asking for 5 million dollars if Pavano and the Yankees don't respond to his lawsuit.

Jeez, Carl and the Yanks just can't catch a break huh? You pay a guy almost 40 million dollars and he hasn't pitched since 2005 due to amazingly hilarious injuries including a injured buttocks. Now he has to time off to deal with the guy he hurt while speeding about town in a Porsche (according to Pavano he took time off to spend with his "sick" gf). The Yankees would have been better off giving 20 million dollars to Jaret Wright. Oops, they did that already.

Although I will give it to them this year, they stayed away from giving gobs of money to old broken pitchers (unless you count the Rocket's butt buddy) or unproven guys who had one good season. They actually picked up some prospects and let the Red Sox overspend on the unproven media hype (errr, crap).

Link: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2793280