At Yankee Stadium tonight and since “The Bronx Scene” – or “The Amazin’ Scene” for that matter – is not set up yet, I will use this for my baseball blogging for the time being.

Ok, today, Matt DeSalvo is making his big league debut with Kei Igawa going to Tampa for now to work on his mechanics. DeSalvo becomes the 10th starting pitcher for the Bombers this season, making them the first team in history to use 10 starters in 30 games.   

Before the game, though, no one was talking about the new guy, but rather the old guy. Roger Clemens dominated the converstaion with the players happy and Joe Torre and Brian Cashman trying to justify the move, since the Rocket has special features in his contract like missing games when he wants.

This moves proves a few things. First George Steinbrenners sons, Hal and Hank, are gaining powerin the organization, because they had a lot of influence over this deal. Also Cashman said this move allows the team to add a pitcher without getting the farm system raped. So from that perspective, it’s a good move. 

And with the way the Yankees are going through pitchers, Clemens is needed. At 44, you wonder how much he has left and the way they announced it was somewhat embarassing, but you can’t argue with the need for the Rocket, even if he costs an arm and a leg [estimated at $153,000 a day for every day he will be active if he starts on June 1] and can take a holiday if he wishes.

Enough on Clemens, who now can buy subscriptions to NY Sportscene with his new found wealth.

Speaking of that, the new issue of NYS is now out with articles on Jorge Posada, Tom Renney, the Mets, Gil Hodges and more. For $25.50 a year, you get 12 issues, so please subscribe at www.nysportscene.com/subscribe.php.

And stay tuned tomorrow as I will be at Ranger breakup day in Greenburgh.