Yay Moose gets # 20

Mike Mussina is not a dreamer. He knows he has just spun a season unlikely to repeat itself. He is too much of a realist to believe that finally winning 20 games — as he did Sunday on the last day of his 18th season in the majors — means he can keep defying age until he reaches 300 wins.

There is a very real chance that Mussina pitched the last game of his career when he beat the Boston Red Sox, 6-2, with six shutout innings at Fenway Park. His contract has expired, his 40th birthday awaits in December, and his family wants him to come home to Montoursville, Pa., for good.

“I’ve been envious of every guy who’s retired since I’ve been playing — you’ve done what you wanted to do, and I still have to grind it out, that kind of thing,” Mussina said, enjoying a soda in the manager’s office between games of a doubleheader. “You get to go home and relax, and you’ve played the game as long as you’ve chosen to play it. I’ve felt good for every one of them.” (Source)