Johnny Damon CF
Derek Jeter SS
Jason Giambi DH
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jorge Posada C
Bernie Williams RF
Andy Phillips 1B
Melky Cabrera LF
Miguel Cairo 2B

ps I'm from Los Angeles by way.

C'mon, Yanks! The Red Sox beat up this guy, and they can't hit lefties.

Meanwhile, Rodriguez is wearing Oakleys and has eyeblack under one eye. He looks like a character from the Mad Max movies.

I hadn't realized the Yanks faced Seo before.

These White Sox hitters sure are pesky.

o.k. thanks for the reply.

And man, I hate the way Fox runs interviews when the bottom of the order is batting.

Our pitching has been pretty good, but I think Torre has done a GREAT job. Anybody to second that?

Not to get too far ahead, but if we continue to maintain a 4 run or better lead, any thoights as to who mops up the 7th-9th?

What happened to Rasner? Now he's on the 60 day DL? I thought he had a minor injury. It's not that I miss him terribly, but what gives?

Where is Cano? I saw on the yankees site that he isn't even going to play rehab games this coming week? Anyone know what his status is?

Does ANYONE think that Melky for 2 Pirates trade is anything but an awful idea?

Anyone think an Abreu/Sori or similar level talent trade is really imminent for an OF? I can't help but think that with the boss not at the reigns that Cash will not pull the trigger. There are so many buyers and so few sellers with the advent of the Wild Card and the parity trend these days that the price for deadline help seems to have risen to an absurd level. Let some other GM sell half the farm for a 3 month rental. Seems like a waste IMHO.

thanks alex and cliff for an awesome blog.

thanks all for your input.

Cano is taking longer to heal than they expected. (Which is not unexpected, with a hamstring strain.)

I don't think we have the goods to get a big name player like Sori or Abreu. You have to give to get, and other teams have a lot more to give than we do.

More runs, fellas, keep pushing.

there are 3/4 games that were too close.. the Zimmerman walk off.. the Philly loss.. the Tampa meltdown.. the farnsworth DET loss..

sigh

Ah, 8 run lead again, it's ok for Chacon to pitch an inning.

On the other hand, if we want to see Mo's 400th today, Chacon would be the man ;-)

I just hope he doesn't get homerun happy like he did last time. Contact, Bubba, contact.

BTW, good one last night about the Crimson Tide mascot... a dinoflagellate? Are you a marine biologist?

Pitcher
Posada
Phillips
Cairo
Jetes
Nick Green
Melkdud
Bubba
Guiel

Would make K.C. proud.

No, I'm not a marine biologist. Just a geek. ;-) I just remembered that red tide is caused by dinoflagellates.

My father-in-law is a biology teacher (and huge Bama fan) and he loved the dinoflagellates comment.

On the good side, Johnny Damon's okay. His foot is fine. It was just a cramp.

It's probably the heat.

Lineup has a "house money" look to it...

Melky Cabrera LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jason Giambi DH
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jorge Posada C
Aaron Guiel RF
Andy Phillips 1B
Miguel Cairo 2B
Bubba Crosby CF

He says he feels fine today and wants to play, but Joe decided to rest him. If they need his bat, he'll be substituted in.

It's Bubba instead of Bernie in CF because there's a righty on the mound.

Maybe Andy will derive some motivation from what Joe said about playing Jason at first more.

Weird thing about Andy - he's hitting righties a hell of a lot better than he's hitting lefties.

VS. LEFT: .190 / .493
VS. RIGHT: .291 / .838

Weird.

And the bottom of the order went out in record time, though I should derive some comfort, I suppose, from Sterling telling us that Cairo is the best .248 hitter a team could ever have.

Seems like Andy is having trouble with high, outside fastballs now. And with lefties.

Huh?

Seen it more then once, with Manny too.
Now Thome. It bugs we. These guys make more then $10,000 per AB. Is it too much to ask these guys to hussle?

I´ve read many times on many blogs that Wright has an option for next year and that the team might or not pick it up. That´s not true. He has a contract, a $7 Million dollars contract to pitch for the Yankees in 2007. It´s not an option.

That contarct has a clause that gives the team the right to buy him out of that contract for $4 M, if Wright spends 60 days on the DL in one year (the first one, 2005). But that clause is not the same as an option.

Moose have an option, Wright a contract. And I think that for $3 M more he can add depth to next year´s staff, that, by te way, will need to add Zito and Matuzka to be competitive.

Gotta give Guiel credit, though. That looked like a sure base hit. Instead, it was a 9-6 fielder's choice. :-D

Maybe I had a later night I than I thought, but Melky's ball seemed to hit the base of the wall, carom straight up and was played by the CF, not a gound-rule double.

The problem is his curveball. It's just not working. Gator's planning to spend a lot of time with Shawn, trying to fix his curveball. He's not the same pitcher without that curve.

Also on the Tony front, saw that the Brewers called up Tony Gwynn's son.

I really don't know what to make of Melky. Sometimes he makes amazing throws, sometimes he's way off. This time, it was perfect.

Bases loaded, no outs.

A's 4-0. Snyder got 2 big K's then gave up back-to-back hits. Baseball is such a rollercoaster...knock on wood.

Perhaps the Yanks are already spending $$ in the labs trying to clone Mo.

But he's back...

After watching Iguchi, all I can think about is I miss Matsui.

5-1 after 6 in Boston.

400th save for Mo!

Have to start rooting against both Sox now.