And why do we need to "blame" it on anything?

There has to be a reason for this horrific, freakish abomonation of a season.

Maybe we didn't sacrifice a real virgin?

So he has been terrible in 3 starts and 'Acelike' in 7. He is 6-4 in those 10 starts.

Bay was out by a mile.

Time Is Short, So Yanks Ready To Bust A Move

Holy cow, Messer!

We all tend to look at RISP but I think RUNNERS ON is a better stat. It covers that last ARod situation and, after all, when we have a guy on first, isn't the next guy up getting a hit, even a double, pretty important?

And Runs Scored doesn't get enough 'play' (except if you're Jeter). If you have back-2-back doubles, the second guy gets RISP 'credit' AND an RBI. The first guy to double? What was his name again?

ARod has a .936 OPS leading off. This is a good thing, yes? So yeah, RISP is indeed important, but it doesn't tell the whole story about how a player contributes to scoring runs.

I think I might just be done with baseball for the year. I'll still watch, but the enthusiasm is gone.

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Its a boring game in a string of boring games from a profoundly boring team. They're not even comically bad. That would be something. Instead they just go out there day in and day out and play semi-competitive baseball. I think watching Bill Clinton pretend to like Barack Obama is far more interesting than watching Pudge Rodriguez pop out to second.

64 seriously..what is going on with the Yankees admin that they would not see how wrong that is?? and please, replace Kate Smith with Ray Charles "America The Beautiful" if you HAVE to have a song!

I don't need Steinbrenner to tell me how much I love my country... I don't need any busybody fans to tell me how I should pay my respects and I certainly don't owe them an explanation nor an apology.

And it looks like Pudge is the one we should have sent down to the minors while keeping Melky up here. At least we would have maintained some level of competency in the field.

Actually, I'd be more interested in what any disinterested witnesses have to say about what happened.

Well, tomorrow, Mussina goes for another win in his quest for 20. That, I will root for.

LET'S Go TAM-PA, clap-clap-clapclapclap

ugh. pedroia. it had to be pedroia. lovely.

That runon sentence being said, I really do not want the Yanks to lose to the Sox tomorrow in the last Yanks/Sox game at the Stadium and I also want the Yanks to win their last game at the Stadium against Baltimore.

I'm going to hate October.

This is no worse than losing in the playoffs. I was always told that I'd appreciate the embarrassing playoff losses when the Yankees finally missed the playoffs. I feel no real difference.

obviously, i'd lock myself in the garage with the car running if it ended up being red sox-cubs ... ugh.

Still, you want your team to make it to the postseason every year because once they're in anything can happen. (EXHIBIT A is the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals).

I'm still praying we can play spoiler when we go into Fenway at the end of the season. I'm the biggest Rays/Twins/White Sox for the month of September right now.

Yes, I'm p***ed right now at our offensive "upgrade". Bring on Moeller. Heck, let's bring back Fasano.

love those hindsight glasses ... they make those in china?*

ps ... dombrowski's such an acute judge of talent he got rid of rodriguez for farnsworth. man, he sure robbed us blind, didn't he ...