A lost night at the Stadium

Does anyone know any top players who are going to be in the 2009 draft? Because the way we are playing, that is all we may have to look forward too.

The Yankees can't just give up and declare this a rebuilding year, like most other teams can and perhaps would at this point.

Got to love our luck though. First Jeter, then A Rod, then Jeter. I want to see my HOF side of the infield playing together for any real period of time. Is that too much to ask?

Wow... 257 entries in the last blog.... I think I'll just start here.

"Thriving for years off pinpoint control, Mussina instead walked the first batter he faced, Brian Roberts,..."

That pretty much says it all right there. Moose must throw first pitch strikes. When he doesn't, it's game over.

Sad night all around. Sad sad sad.

Only 4 of the 12 runs that the O's scored were earned? 4? Holy cow we're terrible.

I just don't know what to say.

Horrible pitching night, Moose's control was bad from the first pitch. If Jeter makes the play, I still think Mussina would have gave it up, maybe not 7 runs but something. Hopefully Jeter wont miss any time with the elbow. I dont know what to say we are playing sorry baseball right now. Tough to watch error's bad pitching, and hitting.

This is just plain and simple. The Yankees offense is clueless, and it serves to magnify every mistake this team makes on the defensive side of the ball. Once the Yankees were down by 3 I knew that this game was over, because we can't score more than 2. Once Jeter made that error, I knew that Moose would not be able to keep his head in the game, and the rout would be on. It also magnifies every defensive mishap. This was a game where everything went wrong. I think it is officially time to hit the panic button. WE SUCK RIGHT NOW. Joe Torre had this same team win 94 games last year, and got us into the playoffs. They obviously don't want to play for Joe Girardi. Congratulations, Yankees, you are officially the worst team in the American League. Someone please wake me up! I want this nightmare to be over. We are a Fyuckin joke.

Piss on these losers. The 08 Yankees are going to just take a dump on over 100 years of tradition and excellence? THIS is how they want to leave the most famous ballpark in history? This is how they want to show their appreciation for all the greats that played before them? This is how they want to play for us, The FANS that have stood by them decade after decade? What a collection of money grubbing, selfish, losers who just don't give a crap. I'm so mad right now.

We had a similar record at this stage last year, but it doesn't feel the same. Last year's team was solid, we lost tight games because our pitching was mediocre but our lineup was there. This year, we look old, tired and pathetic.

What wins we have came thanks to our pitching. Thing is, we aren't excatly the Angels or the Dbacks. Our pitching is not good enough to carry us into the playoffs. We need our lineup to drive us, and ask our pitchers to keep us in the game.

I mean, whatever happened to the good old days where the game was never over, the teams that could come back from any deficit? Chaz hit the nail on the head there, once we are down 3 runs we have lost the game.

So much for the term Bronx Bombers.

Brian Cashman, THIS is your legacy. THIS is what YOU have created. I hope you are enjoying all the money you make, you little nerd-looking SOB! You have taken the Yankees from the peak of the mountain to the bottom of the hill in 7 short years. You are a loser! You have managed to squander 200 million dollars in your tenure with the Yankees to build a team that can't hit, pitch, or play defense. Let me ask a question to you, you idiot. How do you expect to pay for that 1 billion dollar facility when 0 fans show up to watch this bunch of bums lose every f-ing game? How do you expect to justify a new yard when you can't win in the old one? I just might laugh my butt completely off if you drive this organization into bankruptcy as a result of your constant blundering.
You have handled this team like a little virgin geek fumbling around with a supermodel's bra. No matter how much effort you put into getting it off, you just can't manage to get to them funbags. The more you try, the more anxious you get, and the more impatient SHE gets. What's going to happen when she gets pissed and leaves while you fumble for a towel to clean up your wet pants? Just exactly who are you felating to keep your job over there, you little peice of crap?
But I guess I should thank you. I should thank you for allowing Boston to become baseball's mega-power. I should thank you for wasting away everything Bob Watson worked so hard to create. I should thank you for showing every GM in baseball how NOT to build a team. I should thank you for sitting in the stands with your little blackberry, while the New York Yankees fall apart all around you. I should thank you for making THIS crappy excuse for a team the one that gets to say goodbye to Yankee Stadium.

I love this team. I have been a fan of this team since I was a child, since I was 7 years old. I have been watching this team play since 1985. I have never been so upset with this club as I am now. WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS!

Brian Cashman would fight a wildfire by pooring gas on it.......Scratch that, he would pay someone else 10 million dollars to poor gas on it.

As weird as this sounds last night’s game was awesome. There was very little people there at one point and it was awesome. The benches clearing drama was awesome. I think I’ve only seen one of those before. It was cool. Also I’m one of those people that laugh in a tense or bad situation so I was cracking up the whole night. This morning when I woke up though it felt like a hangover. Last night was all a blur and then it hit me…BAD game. BAD record…BAD offense. I started muttering curses and screaming and my family thought I went insane. Well the Yanks are making me insane. Wtf? I could take a loss…I’ve done it before, but if you are down 7-0 after one inning that’s not called a loss. That’s called an *** whupping. I wouldn’t even call it that. That’s an embarrassing loss and score even for minor leaguers and little kids who play softball in central park as if they’d never heard of the concept of a bat. Rasner has a lot on his shoulders tonight and that’s unfair to do to a young guy. Let’s go Yankees!! Win tonight please…it’s about time. We’ve lost what...4 in a row? Fifth times a charm. Btw, what was our record at this point last year? I think it was the same…so not sure.

Girardi can kiss my butt with that "rock bottom" crap. We hit "rock bottom" when we fell into DEAD LAST. This is approaching something far lower than "rock bottom". I would actually like to "rock bottom" Joe Girardi through a table, and then hook him up with the "people's elbow".

Hey chaz, it seems you're a little upset this morning?

Chaz is not the only one.

Obsportsgirl, I think we got to 21-29. 20-25, only 5 more games to go! The difference this year than last is that the AL east will not roll over like it did. TB and the O's are playing better ball. Afterall, THEY had no where to go but up.
I guess I have to agree with Chaz. Bob Watson built the team we won with in the 90's. Cashman has done nothing with it since but sign Randy Johnson, Carl Pavano, Jason Giambi, Estaban Loiza, Jaret Wright, Kevin Brown, Jared Weaver, Brian Boerhinger, Mark Wholers..... Need I go on?

Quite a rep Cash has huh?

Think we can intrest Boston in a straight swap? Epstein for Cashman?

I think we have to throw in Pavano to sweeten the deal.

Attention New York Yankees Front Office:
The next time you want to hire someone to take 7 years and spend 200 million dollars to assemble a mound of crap, hire me instead. You can pay me 1/2 of what Cashman makes, I'll take 5 minutes and just poop in your hand for free.

"Girardi can kiss my butt with that "rock bottom" crap. We hit "rock bottom" when we fell into DEAD LAST. This is approaching something far lower than "rock bottom". I would actually like to "rock bottom" Joe Girardi through a table, and then hook him up with the "people's elbow"."

I smell what the Chaz is cook-in! I'll follow that up with Mr. Socko and that should take care of things nicely...

Wanted to add that Latroy throwing at Scott was bush. Jeter didn't get hit on purpose. No one gets dotted intentionally in a 9-0 blowout. Hawkins will get what he deserves.

Hank endorsed Girardi for now but said Cashman better watch out, per NY Times (sounds like George last year). The sentiment around town but not on this blog is Girardi needs to get angry and wake his sleepy players up.

Throwing at Scott's head was a mistake.

Cabrerra didn't intentionally hit Jeter, but you could still argue both sides here. I wouldn't have had a problem with Hawkins brushing someone back. Maybe even if he hit someone in the back or something, though I wouldn't have thought it necessary. But a pitcher should never throw at someone's head, and Scott had the right to be angry there.

Yup. Last year Torre was supposed to be safe and Cashman in trouble. Look how that turned out.

YANKEES MINOR LEAGUE SCOREBOARD May 20, 2008

Pawtucket (Red Sox) 3
Scranton/WB 2
W: C. Zink (5-2, 2.47); L: J. Karstens (0-1, 5.40); SV: E. Martinez (2)
HR: PAW: J. Van Every (7), C. Carter (4).
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_05_20_pawaaa_swbaaa_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Trenton 3
Reading (Phillies) 0 (10)
W: M. Melancon (1-0, 1.80); L: P. Overholt (1-1, 2.08)
HR: None.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_05_20_treaax_reaaax_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Vero Beach (Rays) 0
Tampa 1
W: I. Nova (3-5, 3.88); L: B. Baker (3-2, 1.29); SV: J. Valdez (3)
HR: None.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_05_20_vbdafa_tbyafa_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Charleston 7
Greenville (Red Sox) 1
W: Z. McAllister (6-2, 2.05); L: C. Province (3-2, 2.38)
HR: GRE: R. Kalish (2).
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YANKEES MINOR LEAGUE SCOREBOARD May 21, 2008

Trenton
Reading (Phillies) 11:05a
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Vero Beach (Rays) 11a
Tampa
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Charleston
Greenville (Red Sox) 11a
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First of all, running the bases is a fundamental skill, but it's not the most fundamental skill, it's one of many skills that one needs to learn. Ther is also learning to play "D", pitching, hitting, moving the runners over, hitting with RISP, learning to take walks. Those are all areas that this team has been struggling badly in this entire season. There's no denying that. Unfortunately, putting an inexperienced rookie in the lineup isn't the solution whatsoever, especially one who would be second on this team in total strikeouts, and would be at a disadvantage since the ML is a different game altogether and he would have to basically be going through another learning curve. He would also be subject to growing pains as a rookie, this team already has two rookie pitchers who are already going through that. Why make things worse by having an inexperienced rookie in your lineup go through the same type of thing. Being an everyday player he would make things worse. There's a reason why teams in every sport don't have inexperienced rookies in their everyday lineups, they simply can't be trusted. The only rookies who would be able to start are the ones who are the total package, who can make an immediate impact. That's not Gardner, he doesn't have the "whole package" to make an impact. It's absolutely ludicrous to think that to improve this team you have to create more potential problems by bringing on an unknown. Yes, gardner has great speed, and takes a lot of walks, but this team can't even do the basics right now, that needs to change before you can add a player like. If this team can't managae to hit with RISP then his ability to turn singles into doubles with his speed are meaningless if the rest of the team if he is left stranded at 2B.

Also, I'm not the one crying for older, broken down players like Wells, Clemens, or Martinez like they are the answer. Getting older isn't the answer either. I firmly believe in having a solid balance between vets, and younger players.

Also, what logjam are you talking about at 1B? You act like that if this team were to draft 1B or any other player he will be going into the starting lineup. Absolutely insane. Players like Jeter or Posada at 1B are nothing more than short-term, quick-fixes that's all. It will take years for a prospect to develop enough to start in the majors. By that time Posada or Jeter would have retired or ready to retire.

BDSouth is right, this team needs to go back to the basics. This team shouldn't rely on a total unknown hoping that one player will turn this team around. Gardner doesn't have that ability.

By matt_saiki@yahoo.com on May 21, 2008 2:50 PM

Great post Matt!!! You were spot on with just about everything you said. There's nowhere to put Gardner in this lineup, he would most likely be used as a benchplayer, in which case he would even have less impact on this team which would definintely lessen the likelihood that he would turn this team around. It's next to nothing considering he is an unknown learning to play at a new level, and he strikes out way too much. You're right if he were on this roster he would be second on this team in Ks. This team has far too many problems for one rookie unknown to turn this team around. Why make things worse by adding a rookie that can't even be trusted?

If this team were completely out of the race, I would say add Gardner, but despite how badly they have played they are still in it. Gardner could potentially make things worse rather than better, bringing him up is during troubled times is where the real insanity lies.

Some people razzed me when I blogged that Yankees would finish at best 3rd in their division. The Yankees problem is sorry management. The most popular team in the history of baseball is being run by a GM who don't have a clue about baseball. Scouting system sucks, Girardi look like a deer when the headlight hits his eye, Zero speed, and ballplayers who are stale news. My doubts about Hughes is he shows too much of the ball when he starts is delivery to the plate(Latoya Hawkins same thing). You can not let those hitters see the ball that clear. He has the stuff to be a great pitcher, but he needs coaching help. Watch when and if he pitch this year how long he takes to deliver the ball once it leaves his glove. The trick is to hide that ball with your pitching motion and bam the ball is on top of the hitters before they can adjust. Coaching! Coaching.

Karstens took a loss but got dinged by the long ball. Still, 5 innings of 4 hit 3k ball with no walks......

We may as well bring up Karstens. What's the worst that could happen? We lose?

I say move Damon and give Gardner a shot to get his feet wet pinch hitting late.

Duncan, you may have picked us to take 3rd, but I'll bet you didn't see Tampa Bay in 2nd...lol

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080520&content_id=2736846&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

great article Bryan, I heard of this a while ago, I think Ramirez could develop into a starter with the new pitches Pedro taught him.

chaz; the team i seen being better was toronto. because of their pitching. Tampa also has a very good (need more experience) team with some real good "Younge Pitchers". Next year maybe their year. Boston is steady bringing up "Young Pitchers" with a great deal of sucess.

I must agree we do look pathetic. But look at this team:
1B Giambi
2b Cano
SS Jeter
3B Arod
LF Matsui / Damon
CF Melky
RF Abreu
C Posada / Molina
P Wang, Petitte, Moose, Hughes......
BP Rivera, Joba Etc Need some more help..
What is so bad about this team, That you blame Cashman, He doesn't pitch, He doesn't hit. The only problem I see is that we have a group of overpaid, fat & happy players who don't seem to care. Almost all are under achievers, But this is not the fault of Mgmt. Some of the pitching staff is probably too old, but we all figure they at least another good year ahead of them. These same players excited us before the season, now it's begining to look too much like 2007, The difference being we believe that this team will not be capable of coming back as they did last year. It's not Cash or Joe that's the problem, It's the player themselves that are not performing. I think the players should have a closed door meeting to figure what the problems are. We just don't appear to have the right chemistry to win..
Moose is upset? Jeter made an error, well that's baseball and that will happen, But he is a veteran and to get upset because of the error is ridiculous, but he panicked and walked a run in and proceded to give up big hits. That is what he should be upset about. I could go on but........
PS; I too, am not a big fan of Cashman..
"GO YANKEES"

Wow, maybe we should just lay down and give up!

Look like the players are doing exactly that.

At this point the Yankees should be welcoming all takers. Anyody that can come in and do the job ( please, I'm not talking about veterans but the players within our system! )
Be it Karstens, White, Horne, Kontos, Melancon, Yo momma... etc. I don't know if we'll ever recieve another Joba, but we don't need another Joba, we need a player who can come up, forget about the pressure, forget about the media, forget about being a Yankee and just play baseball. IF it's possible that one of the young athletes can come up and do that, then the playing baseball aspect becomes soooo easy. It's all the other variables about being the bigs that separates the contenders from the pretenders. This is why Jeter gets paid what he's paid, and why Jacque Jones is paid the prorated league minimum of 390,000 dollars a year ( err six months with baseball players. )

Chaz: I love the Yankees. I do not live in New York, yankee fans are best in professional sports. They pay their money and fill that park, they deserve better. George Steinbrenner if he was not old, would shake things up. A blindman can see the Yanks are sinking fast. I love Jeter, but he needs to get off his butt and lead. Boy I hope my brother is not reading this blog. He likes the Red Sox. And he never heard me say anything bad about Jeter.

fjr... I can understand where you're coming from, but you're forgetting one key fact: Giambi is no longer what he used to be, Damon is no longer what he used to be ( Boston pretty much sucked the juice out of him, we got the remains ), Cano and Cabrera are playing fantastic ( I expect you to throw those stats at me ), Matsui is a DH who can't play LF anymore, Abreu is declining ( same Damon-like situation, Philly got the best of him ) Posada will never post those 07 numbers again, and his body is declining as well... Molina? Please.

The only true athletes we have on this team are Alex Rodriquez, Derek Jeter, Robby Cano and Melky Cabrera. Wang is our ace, Mussina got lucky the past six starts, Pettitte has a good two years left in him but may retire; You see my point. We don't have enough talent on this team anymore. The other guys should be well on their way to retiremnt but can't because of idioticly lengthy contracts ( errr Cashman ) I mean jeeze, if a player is thirty as a free agent, you seriously think that if you sign him to seven years, he's going to provide you seven all-star type years? No. Giambi lost his touch three years ago, Damon lost his last year, same thing with Mussina ( why did we resign him? ) and Pettitte. They can no longer compete at the level they used to, their just big names and nothing more.

If we played this game on paper we'd be undefeated.

We don't.

75 percent of our roster is composed of big names.

We have to let go of the dead weight we have on this team and start building around Cano, Melky, Wang, Jeter, A-Rod, Joba, Hughes, Kennedy and all the other youngsters on this club and create a true power house. What we have now is a nursing home.

YANKEES MINOR LEAGUE SCOREBOARD May 21, 2008

Trenton 15
Reading (Phillies) 5
W: P. Coke (3-1, 3.67); L: K. Bouknight (3-5, 4.50)
HR: TRE: A. Jackson (2), J. Tabata (1). REA: B. Harman (3).
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_05_21_treaax_reaaax_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Vero Beach (Rays) 10
Tampa 6
W: M. Walker (1-6, 6.08); L: E. Hacker (2-2, 1.87); SV: N. Frontz (8)
HR: VER: J. Hall (3). TAM: T. Battle (6), K. Anson (2), D. Sublett (2).
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_05_21_vbdafa_tbyafa_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Charleston 20
Greenville (Red Sox) 2
W: C. Heyer (3-0, 1.65); L: J. Alvarez (2-6, 7.43)
HR: CHA: B. Baisley 2 (5), C. Odenreider (1).
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It's hard to be upset with one thing when their is something wrong with everything. This problem does start with Cashman because it's his resposibility to put the team together. He is responsible for a 200 million dollar T U R D. He has made questionable move after questionable move, and has quite literally thrown money at the problem. This team should have never stopped developing young talent in the first place, so Cashman gets no reprieve from me for starting something that never should have stopped. See the post above for a very brief list of bad moves he made.
I guess I have to agree with Chaz. Bob Watson built the team we won with in the 90's. Cashman has done nothing with it since but sign Randy Johnson, Carl Pavano, Jason Giambi, Estaban Loiza, Jaret Wright, Kevin Brown, Jared Weaver, Brian Boerhinger, Mark Wholers..... Need I go on?

By rcngolf99@yahoo.com on May 21, 2008 11:49 AM All of these blunders have finally caught up to us. Rather than continuing to follow the pattern that Watson laid out, Cashman has traded away good prospects that could have helped this team (i.e. Juan Rivera, Mike Lowell), while hiring far too many "names" to come in and somehow replicate what they could do at age 25, while they are on the wrong side of 35. You are right, though. ON PAPER, this team looks like a winner. Let me ask you these questions, though. Has Johnny Damon done ANYTHING close to what he was doing for Oakland and Boston? Has Giambi had a season befitting his salary in the last 7 years? Has our bench had any depth AT ALL the last 7 years? Has our pitching staff been cosistent over the last 7 years? Has our bullpen had depth over the last 7 years? Have their been chances for us to pick up good YOUNG players? Other than the trade for Abreu and the trade for A-Rod, has their been a single move that Cashman has made that didn't bite him on the backside? Show me how Cashman's tenure has done this team any good, and I'll back off. Until then the problems have to start at the top and filter down to the bottom. It doesn't work the other way around. Look at the President of the US. Who gets the blame when some national issue faces this country? Is it directly his fault that a hurricane hit New Orleans and the government was slow to react? Was it his fault that there was intel on Iraq stating they had WMD's? Is it his fault that gas prices are killing us? Is it his fault that The citizens of Iraq can't get along? I could keep this up, but I'm hoping you get the idea. Cashman might not be playing ball, but he hired the guys that are.

No typos in the above! The bats on the Trenton Thunder and Charleston River Dogs came alive today in a big way. Let's hope the big club can follow suit!

Some of you make it sound like Cashman called all of the shots in his first six years! This is simply not true and you know it!

I'm surprsed nobody mentioned that Jeter actually tossed his helmet and cursed walking into the dugout.

I agree with you , I am not trying to boost Cash. What I did say these are the same players we were excited about coming into this season and they have failed us. We also knew that Giambi and Damon were on the way down. But thought they would be able to last at least one more season. Most were up on Abreu, We also were aware that our youngster may not be able to keep up. on and on. Got to go eat...............
"GO YANKEES"

Rdsunk, I didn't know that... man I'd do the same thing. The situation he's in, the way the team is performing, now that they finally seem to be getting the peices of the puzzle back and he gets injured...? CHH, I would've charged the mound on that one.

How can you eat at a time like this! I know it just seems if Jeet' is down were in trouble. 12-2 in the ninth you better believe he would have still had his head out like a ground hog cheering for a comeback. I didn't see the pitch by Hawkins that was a bullet with movement. I agreed with backing up the captain & co. but that was a dangerous pitch. Little positive note are bullpen did a farejob considering they pitched a complete game.

The concensus around town talking to people is that Girardi is way out of his league, he needs to go Paul O'Neill and put a hole in a metal locker or something shake some sense into HIS players. If this continues to be the concensus, eventually, hopefully not too late, Hank will act.

The record is not as bad as last year, so thats a good thing but we're already 7 games behind Boston.

Hey, Hoch
I say this calls for a game of wiffle ball. I'd like to see that swing you speak dearly of. Thanks for the little defense there. I hope your doing well, see ya' during the game.

I like to mention the tragedy in China' due to the massive earthquakes. My prayers go out to those who have departed and there families.

Fair Redsunk, fair. not carfare, but the fair from unfair. Fair Redsunk.

I would love to see Hank blw up, he seems ALOT more patient then his old man. Another loss should be what it takes to get him livid.

Not like I want the Yankees to lose, but it's getting a little too late to start winning. Personally, I'd like to see some changes done to this club.

I'm tired of seeing the effort put forth by these overpaid, past their prime veterans. ( Giambi, Damon, Molina and such ) The youngsters still have that fire in them, but it is greatly outweighed by the loud snoring of their teammates that are old enough to be their uncles.

A-Bomb hits an A-Jack, that's a good sign he's healthy. It's almost like he hit that homerun just to let us know he was back... like it was... easy. That's a guy that can actually play out the length of his contract.

I've seen his workout regimen. Involves alot of sprinting, plyometrics, calesthenics and weight training. Note that I didn't say weight lifting... weight training is much more different. He only does distance jogging once a week. Distance jogging makes you slower albeit mroe durable, but as a ball player you can't have slow muscles out there.

Anyway, just burning time until the game time.

Gonna go workout. A la A-Rod. Big leagues here I come!

I don't know about Hank yet we will see. I surely expected a total outburst. It' s true the Yank's forgot how to play ball in a five month span. Boston chugging along with no sense of weakness like a rabid dog. That includes the Rays' there's no quick fix they need to play ball. I will come around later see ya' then! Go get'm Rasputin!

See ya' BD's.......

As I reported yesterday, THE RETIREMENT OF PEDRO MARTINEZ IS IMMINENT. He has left the Mets and will not pitch next week.

They should hire Pedro as a counselor Houston was Clemens soul for eternity, ha. I'm referring to the story on Pedro's advice to the youngster. Edward had a good outing yesterday. Martinez is the proudest man on this earth unless his arm falls off he's not quitting.Wait what's fare? Like re-do give me my marbles back! um.........farewell.

If not for all the **** between Pedro and us when he was a Sox, I would say we should go sign him to a personal services contract. He has competitive fire that we desperately lack right now.

I like Pedro and his fire. I don't know if won a WS in Montreal but he'd be great, Ramirez seems to be a better pitcher. On a serious note, Pedro is gonna spend sometime with his father who has a brain tumor.

He didn't. They were the best team in baseball before the
94 strike though. I was 5 at the time, so never watched them play, but I hear that team was special.

Doe anyone know what the prognosis is on Pedro's father? I hope the tumor isn't malignant.

Hey Joe,

Another thing, it simply doesn't make sense to bring a plyaer like Gardner up at this time when there isn't room for him which means he would have to be a benchplayer. Yeah right, someone like Gardner can help turn this team around as a benchplayer, give me a break!! This team needs to make smart moves not nonsensical ones.

Another thing, Karstens sucks as a pitcher!! Yanks can do a lot better than him by bringing up Steven White. Karstens is nothing more than a mediocre pitcher, Yanks should just dump him.

Trashman is far from being the one responsible for this team's past successes. The credit should go to previous adminstrations not him. He's done nothing to help this team, but rather has shown he is incapable of putting a good team together, unlike Epstein.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3406473

Martinez told the Daily News that his father's condition was stable but not likely to improve.

"He can't take any more chemo. We're letting him have a nice end of his life. The chemo is not going to help him. If they give him the chemo that might be it," he told the newspaper for Tuesday's report. "They told me there's nothing we can do. He's eventually going to deteriorate."

Thanks bpark. My hopes and prayers are with the Martinez family.

GM Mattress Susuki tells it like it is. Gardner will come up in August/September barring a Damon trade. Karstens should be cut immediately. So should Duncan.

Betamit gets cut too.

And Burglar. We can find some bench players in our farm system, Gonzalez stays.

We could use a pinch hitter who hits. Any suggestions? Free agents or trades or farm?

I like the idea of filling our bench with AAA guys. At least we'll have lower expectations.

Game underway. Rasner starts off by punching out Roberts! Good start.

You should no bpoop, or should I say bettypoop!!!

Can Mike Piazza still hit? I would stay away from Sosa.

Mattress Susuki with the bat and balls.

NICE! SIT DOWN MARKAKIS!

Mike still has it in him but don't get any ideas Wells :). Is anyone aware that Ted Kennedy also surred a seizure do to a brain tumor.

Yes, tumor is apparently malignent.

Darrell rasputin!!!

What I can't figure out is why he is good, then terrible, terrible again, now dominant.

I guess Wang has a strain thats bittersweet since it gives a reason for his last start. Girardi shouldn'y let Jeter have his way and should have sat him down. I suppose we need W's but the captains got to know when to take a break.

bettypoop,

What happened to your alter-ego keyswahili? I haven't seen him around for a while.

Mattress Susuki Rasner?

The worst is behind us c'mon Raz' bullpen needs a this one. Oh, yeah! We have proceeded to inning number two without a deficit!!

1 RBI on the season for Shelley Junkman.

My random thoughts.......It would have been nice to have Griffey play for the Bombers, Good teams have good lead off men, I miss Buuurrrnnnie!, It's nice to see Soriano and the Cubs playing good ball.

Betapuke still worthless garbage!! Cut him and bettypoop!!

Oh, man we scored two runs that's are limit the excitment is over. Last thirteen games two run average by the boys. Is it really Duncan Doughnuts first ribie?

Duncan didn't have an rbi tonight.

C'mon Jeet!!

1 RBI on the season for Shelley Junkman???? That's where I get my Stats from, ha.

Time to release or try to trade Juncman.

Well he got a run in nice going cap' but I think that knick is deff' affecting his bat.

A-rod, Cough.

Hey matt do you like sake? I'm sorry your last name kinda' reminded me of it? I'm drinking unfiltered sake with my well technically breakfast ( I work the nightshift).

I think the Orioles gameplan was to try and get the kid out early there swinging the bats often helping Rasner out.

Perfect game for Susuki's Rasner.

Gone in a instant.

40 pitches through 3, my guess is he goes 6.

redsunktt,

I don't drink at all. Everyone tells me how good it is though. Sorry to hear you gotta work such a crappy shift.

I knew it!! If only Bobby got on the darn bag ya' took Alley's gran slam. I think the quad is just fine people...

"Perfect game for Susuki's Rasner" DON'T YA' NO THE RULES!!.............Yeah, it's only Wedsday and Thursday so I can manage class. That's swell you don't drink all respect to ya'.

Injury delay? Can someone spare me a heart attack it's not a boy in blue right?

3rd baseman (for BMore).

The stadium seems alive nice to hear the roar!

That's is good to know! So is to early to call this a Aaron Small run or what?

Derek gets another shot!! Get that short porch c'mon cap~!

Aaron Small, Jason Giambi and Cory Lidle played High School ball together.....Jeter is getting the run around.

Here comes that horrible fourth inning. Oh, Jeter trying to pull the walk.

Make some magic Rasputin!

"Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
Money for nothin' and chicks for free"

GO RAZ!

57-39 It looks like Raz' is attacking the zone trusting his stuff. It's working along thus far. I have a theory maybe Alex can't run so he's decided to just hit bombs.