There's no way around it...this team has quit (and not only recently), which is sad.

Pretty good numbers for 7 hitters. It's sad they cannot produce. Why am I listing these averages? I have no clue.

15 I agree...signing C.C. and healthy Wang and Joba would make for a very good rotation. This season has been pretty sad, but I think the right moves get them back on top next year. What the Yankees can't do is spend on the wrong free agents, nor think they have to just go with the kids.

Actually, now that I think about it... it confuses things more. Now I've just confused myself. Hmmm, am I still talking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEaJthEwjo

[homemade video, but a great song]

At this point, I'm just watching a game for component pieces, a couple of individually interesting things that might happen. The game itself doesn't matter anymore.

But have you tried going in through the "front door"? From the front page or scoreboard page? Click on the little TV?

I actually don't have a problem with Gardner over Melky. Melky's had his shot. Almost three full years as the Yanks' starting CFer. I think we've seen what he can do already. Might as well give Gardner a shot instead.

But wow. I thought Bubba Crosby, Kevin Thompson, and Kevin Reese were buried on the bench. But none of them were buried like Melky is now.

For some reason MLB.TV shows NO games after 4 PM listed. Nothing. Blank slate.

Have you tried ESPN2?

Like I said, I don't have a MLB.TV subscription this year, but when I click on the "video" or MLB.TV option on the MLB.com scoreboard, the usual screen comes up telling me to log in. What happens when you log in? Is there nothing?

I even tried the magic Link which brought up the screen and game box score but no video. I can get audio, but I find Waldman's voice grating and Sterling sounds like he's on a Quaalude drip.

How strange. I know MLB.TV is blacked out for Fox, but ESPN also? The don't have a single game after 4PM that's live. Nobody.

So I have to watch the Sox. Bartolo Lower Intestine gives up 5 in the 2nd. BJs up 5-2.

I'd tell you to call and complain, but that's probably a useless waste of time.

I'm thinking ESPN nixed the Yankee game at the last minute due to non-interest. Can't guess what's up with MLB.TV

MLB.TV charges around $100/yr. With what, 70 million homes in the USA, they could be making over A BILLION DOLLARS from this. All Internet/Technology money they had no idea existed 10 years ago. Yet the service is expensive and shitty. MLB is getting really greedy. They have a monopoly on baseball and are milking the consumer dry.

While this season was not "as bad" as some of those early-90's campaigns, I think this team is actually worse. At least those early 1990s teams were brutal...this team seems to composed of a bunch of quiters. The Yankees need to weed out who is part od the problem here, and in saying that, I don't exclude Girardi.

Agree it's not likely to be one of the kids. Moose is a good guess.

Well done.

oh, and it's Thelarmis, not The Larmis. i guess it confuses a lot of people! : ) it's been a stage name that was bestowed on me a dozen years ago. i never made the connection with "the" in the beginning until i started posting at this site...

and, of course, boston now leads by 2 w/ paplebitch most likely on his way to the hill...

Papelbon..i can respect and admire Youkilis and Pedroia even when joking about them, but Papelbon is such a weenie..and he can be gotten too mentally methinks...

Did you see that lightning blur?

i should check out some roy buchanan sometime!

paplebitch closed it out quick... boBBy gunnin' for another 100-rbi season...

His other problem was drinking. There's a story that the Rolling Stones wanted to hire him to replace Mick Taylor, a story I've heard in two versions. One is that Buchanan turned them down; the other is that he showed up falling-down drunk for his audition - too drunk for the Stones!

His death has whispers of mystery around it, but I tend to doubt it. He was arrested and thrown in the drunk tank, and in the morning he was found hanging in his cell. His family says it wasn't suicide, but...

This isn't much of a video, but probably his best-known tune, a cover of an old Patsy Cline song. I can listen to it endlessly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNyE1_a6ShE

speaking of which, i'm gonna crack my first beer of the night. i promise i won't hang myself later!!!

hey, did you ever pick up Mingus Let My Children Hear Music? the big band, i believe, is playing atlanta next april, or so...

oh, i just found out that some english jazz author wrote a book on my man - Hank Mobley. 175-page hardcover. i can't believe it! it's apparently nothing too exciting, but i had to have it, so i ordered it. should have it in the post in a week or so. hopefully in time to read on my flight up to NY...

Have you ever read Straight Life, by Art Pepper? Great, great jazz autobiography that doesn't pull any punches. It doesn't hurt that I freakin' love Art Pepper.

Big Bill Broonzy, was another like that. then there were the "out" delta blues guys, like Son House. i actually got to play with Cedell Davis in Conway, Arkansas. i backed up a cool old bluesman named Drink Small in Macon, GA once, too - he was cool!

90 my Dad always said that abotu Roy Clark and I never believed him..but have seen what you describe, guy can PLAY!
(Hee Haw still sucked though..)

i'm not a big reader of books. that said, i just blazed through the latest Neil Peart book. he is such a talented writer. i have read some jazz books, but it sorta has to be a major hero of mine - like a hank mobley. i'm sure the book is terrific! i have a mobley album w/ Art Farmer & Pepper Adams, but not Art Pepper! ; )

I'm with Girardi and others. the problem with that story isn't the "quitters," it's the guy backbiting to the press. That's something we haven't seen in a long time, really since the mid-80's. I blame the guy, but I put some responsibility on Girardi as well. It seems like the wheels are falling off in that clubhouse.

(Not that a clubhouse has wheels, but you get what I mean.)

I'm entirely unimpressed with Girardi. He was supposed to be this rising young star of a manager, but I don't see a single thing about him that suggests it.