From the title of the post, I expected a profanity-laced rant and a graphic description of how you would murder Ron Villone.

But I see that the advisory was necessary, since a factual recap of the game is ugly enough.

I'm not going to watch tomorrow's game, and hereby swear off all other regular season Yanks/Angels games until the Yanks take a season series from them.

Four years is enough. By 2009, I expect to be watching these games again.

1) Seattle must be considered the real deal (even though they're doing it with smoke and mirrors).

2) That Cleveland and Detroit are most likely fighting it out for the Division, not the WC.

3) That it would take some sort of miracle to win the East.

4) That we still have a decent chance of making the post-season via the WC.

Thank you, I feel better now.

Edwar, Edwar ...

i take it all back.

it may not be fear precisely, but perhaps Mike T was onto something.

please accept my apologies, sir.

dang it... we needed 2 of three...

Garret Anderson is bad. As in he hasn't been any good for 4 years. But against Yankee pitching, he's a minor diety.

)(@#%)$%!!!

This, sir, is why. It makes no logical sense, because our team crapped the bed for sure, but these kind of mind-numbing frustrating games always seem to happen against the Angels.

Free Chris Britton?

I'm going to bed at 10 tonight to make sure I don't watch any of the game. The last 2 nights have been beyond brutal, and I fear for my direct reports' psyche at work the day after latenight debacles like these.

Recipes for the following dishes can be easily obtained via a routine Google search:

Moose Roast, Sauerkraut Moose Balls, Moose Hoagies, Teriyaki Moose Kabobs, Moose Parmesan, Moose Pot Pie, Moose Chili, Moose Stew, Moose Stroganoff, Moose & Tomato, Braised Moose, Moose Pemmican, and last but not least (I kid you not)... Moose Nose In Jelly.

you weren't kidding about the jellied moose nose, either.

sounds yummy.

http://tinyurl.com/33pmhg

Maybe, just maybe, in the offseason Moose will learn to pitch like Glavine or Maddux, but right now his 85mph fastballs and hanging curves are living in the middle of the plate. And, that my fiends is a RECIPE (see 11 ) for an October-less season.

i just saw a similar thing over at the new yorker, this time with excerpts from joe dimaggio's diaries.

"Searching through the couch
Something caught in the cushions
Lookee there, a dime."

http://tinyurl.com/2hmvbj

Then, we get to face who? The Angels.

Ooh, can't wait.

Maybe the Yanks overtake the Angels, somehow.

A fan can dream...

But seriously, I think Mussina's pride might take over and he'll call it a career after season's end.

Came back it was 7-1, went to make my lunch for today. Got finished with that and they had closed to 7-5. At that point I thought we might have a shot.

Then there was Villone. ::shudder::

I stayed up late enough to see poor Edwar taken deep, and then I knew I'd be getting more sleep than usual during a West Coast game.

So what's the deal with Moose's contract? Is 2008 an option year or...? I sure wish he had a few more stinkers before last night, though - Joba could have slid right in there as the #3 starter.

There's pride, and then there's pride. I see Mussina as having more of the Steve Carlton sort of pride. He may well think that if the ump would just give him a pitch or two, or if he could get a little better feel on his fastball, everything would turn around.

3 The Yankees don't really have that choice. No matter what happens, they're paying Mussina a lot of money. Difficult as he is, I don't know if he'll accept a trade. The only other choice is to release him, and I don't know if the Yankees would be willing to pay his entire salary (minus ML minimum) to pitch for someone else, with nothing in return.

Besides, he'd be walking away from $11.25M. That's a whole lot of pride.

That also begs the question of what you do with Mussina.

The Angels are our daddy.

guanabee.com/2007/08/stephen-colbert-asks-fancy-a-m.php

The Sox, as expected, acquired first baseman Chris Carter from the Nationals as the player to be named later in the Wily Mo Peña deal. The Nationals sent a minor league pitcher, Emiliano Fruto, to Arizona for Carter, who was assigned to Boston's Pawtucket roster. Carter, a 17th-round draft pick out of Stanford in 2004, is regarded for his bat -- he was hitting .324 with 18 home runs and 84 RBIs in 126 games for Tucson, Arizona's Triple A affiliate -- but has major defensive shortcomings both at first base and in the outfield. "I watched him play first base, and popups gave him a lot of trouble," said one big league scout. "I can't imagine him playing the outfield. He's going to the right league -- he can be a DH in the American League.

I prefer Mousaka to Moose Taco

ocd: Moussaka

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/players/7292/

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/profile?playerId=148900

Despite last night, and despite Steve "It's a wonder that he still knows how to breathe" Phillips prognosticating, I'll take our pitching over theirs. And as for their offense compared to ours . . .

Mariners lose, I think maybe the Rays can pull one out as well tonight (they've beaten Dice 2x in the past 3 weeks), and we win behind Andy and Joba, which I think we will, and all of a sudden things don't look so dire.

Imagine that.