I hear Veras has been sent back down to Columbus without throwing a pitch. Kevin Reese has been called up, and will start tonight. Along with Bernie. Both Melky and Bubba are riding pine. That's what you get when you don't hit, I guess.

Fantastic invention, that BETAmax machine, let's you watch video of yourself over and over with the push of a button. Much better than that old reel-to-reel projector, where you had to reload the reel to watch something again.

/Sarcasm off

I'm actually glad that Johnson is watching video and working so hard on his mechanics, I just wish he had been watching video from Day 1 in pinstripes!

1 Poor Kevin 'Gapper' Thompson - Reese is getting the shot KT should/could have had. Them's the breaks.

Maybe he'll get another chance. They can call him up again in a couple of weeks.

I read Torre's starting Reese tonight as a sign of desperation.

Johnny Damon CF
Derek Jeter SS
Jason Giambi 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jorge Posada C
Robinson Cano 2B
Bernie Williams RF
Kevin Reese LF
Mike Mussina P

Get well soon.

Love,

Schteeve

P.S. Really soon. Have you seen the bottom third of the lineup lately?

And whether either will be the player they were before they were injured is another question.

They needed the extra pitcher, so the extra position player had to go.

Since it hasn't been 10 days, he can't come back yet.

Luckily, it was Kevin Reese called up and not--GASP--Terrence Long.

I can just picture him sitting there staring at the iPod screaming "I'd like to hear Free Bird! Damnit Milky, you're young, why won't thing thing listen to me?"

Its not even that hes that old. He just doesnt strike me as a guy that enjoys technology.

.273 .429 .636 1.065

You'd think that would have gotten him more playing time.

Yikes, the bottom of our order is worse than KC's, ugh!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2493010

Easy to do John.

You're right, we have to resign ourselves to the fact that we have "zip" at AA and AAA as many GM's have been quoted as saying, and we don't have the chips to move for a player like Gathright.

The only deals we can make are going to cash heavy, takking salry off a team with no playoff prospects, leaving guys like Griffey, or Schmidt, as our only real options.

I live in LA now and it is simply amazing to watch daily what a true farm system lokks like. They have more minor leaguers with talent playing in A ball and at Dodger camp in South America than we have on every one of our minor league rosters. It's pittiful, and not just the lack of talent caused by trades, the overall extraordinary incompetence that has accompanied the Yankees player draft for many years now. I'm sorry Brian C., but I don't think Torre should go, I think you should have been replaced years ago.

It was clearly a strike. A lot of movement, and it fooled the ump. He called it a ball, which upset Moose. (I don't blame him.)

The next pitch is hit into the upper deck - 3-run homer.

Can we put Bubba in, and hope he hits one off the ump's cup like he did yesterday?

No, we're not being no-hit, we're being no hit by Cory Fucking Lidle.

I think we all need to take a collective deep breath already.

Perhaps they are just waiting to trade his brother. I can't imagine Jered will be in AAA for after the trade deadline, at the latest.

All the Torre/Cashman haters here should help by picking out our next OF'er. It's just a matter of when.

Seriously, I hope he can do OK, his numbers in AAA have went up since I last looked at them so maybe he's hot.

Nosterdamus I ain't.

And Moose has def. been regressing in his last few starts...6.25 ERA in June before tonight's start...

Nope, he's just back to trying to be so perfect with his pitches, that he bites off his nose to spite his face.

If it were Bubba in RF, he would probably have called Cano off and caught it.

So now I'm watching comedian Robert Klein on "Centerstage." Hilarious. But I'm flipping around, and for some reason, Channel 9 is showing what must be a Yankees Classic. A-Rod's up, tight ballgame against the Phillies, and I figure something big is about to happen, but guess what? Hilarious.