HOLLYWOOD STAR LANES, CA – The Mets have a guy named Duda. Why haven’t I been informed? Has everyone already put the word “bides” after his name?

And if The Duda-bides, then with the September call-ups last week the Yankees got their own Jesus. This wasn’t total news, Yankee fans have been hearing about Jesus’s coming for at least two years now. The Yankees’ farm system had been taking some lumps, the team had tossed big money at free agents that off season and won the World Series, and all of a sudden here was this Venezuelan kid Baseball America was calling one of the best prospects in the game. And he’s a catcher?

Fortunately the Yankees have never shied away from tools, and the beauty of a tool like Montero is that he may well be “a beast in the middle of our line-up” as Cashman referred to him last week (right after dropping names like Manny Ramirez and Miggy Cabrera), and it’ll drive all the anti-Yankee fans insane. This is what we Yankee fans truly get off on, and everyone knows it, which makes it all the more fun when a Montero works out. Called up and dropped right into a September series for first place at Fenway Park on Friday, in his first AB the Jesus stepped to the plate with the bases loaded, with that big lantern jaw and his hunched over stance, and looked completely over matched by Jon Lester. Later on, though, he takes one for the team and comes around and scores the go ahead run. On Saturday in his third at bat he got his first hit, a humpback liner over the hole at shortstop. Kudos to Joe Girardi for taking him out after that, allowing Montero to go to bed that night knowing his last AB was a hit. The next day he collects two more hits right away. Sure, he’s only hitting lefties right now, but so far the Yanks haven’t lost with him in the line-up and they’re in first place. Might this work out?
It may be too early for Yankee fans to… love Jesus, but it’s not too early for everyone else to start hating him. He needs to start exploiting this, and can start by having the Gypsy Kings’ version of Hotel California as his walk up music.
