Raulken co.UK - Mussina retiring to the quiet life

Mike Mussina lives on a hill, at the end of a very long driveway cut into the woods of his hometown in Montoursville, Pa. At the top of the driveway, there is a Bobcat parked, with a plow attached, and in past years, his father liked to swing by and...

If this is it for Mike Mussina, if he decides to go out with his first 20-win season, if he doesn't stay around for more money the way so many of them do before being carried out of the ring, then you start here: There would have been no Yankee season this season without Mussina, a season that began with him looking as washed-up as he did against Manny Ramirez. He was tougher than all of them. PHOTO GALLERY: MOOSE'S GREATEST HITS The MVP of the Yankee season was not Alex Rodriguez, not Mo Rivera or Bobby Abreu or Johnny Damon. It was Mussina, who was pushing 40, who had finished the season before with a 5.15 earned-run average, who was reduced to getting pitching advice from Hank Steinbrenner when he started out the way he did in April of 2008. All Mussina did after that was remind you why he is going to have a full Hall of Fame shot in five years, even if he does walk away from baseball 30 wins shy of 300. NEWS' HOT STOVE CENTRAL There are never absolutes when it comes to athletes retiring, no sure things, and there sure have been more than a few who changed their minds, maybe you have noticed. But when it came out Wednesday night that Mussina was retiring from baseball and retiring from the Yankees, you could not help thinking that he was doing it exactly right, after a big year that nobody thought he had in him, maybe not even himself. The Yankees are prepared to throw fortunes at...
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