I started thinking today about how close we are to playoffs. I can taste it and I've waited all year for this. I'm gettin giddy. I'm just hoping it's Wed and not Thurs. After all, that's a whole 'nother day we'd have to wait while watching the other teams play.

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5 Hell, there's a good reason to not want to win the div: WC gets Cleveland.

man, I'm the biggest Po fanboy on the earth, but he's such a shitty baserunner! nice how after clinching that misplay ain't no big thing.

I guess we know which team has the better base-running. That contest is over already.

Hey, JoeInRI is here. I hope nobody gets confused.

Minky is en fuego these days, isn't he? His batting average is getting to be downright respectable.

Damon is heating up, too.

I got to watch him in college, great player there.

{sigh}

There's something to be said for games like this.

Take that. Cheating umpires.

How far did it go/

How'd you see him in college? Did you go to South Carolina? He was a college all-star. He was Bubba Crosby's roommate on that team.

I was working for SC for a few years. The funny thing about him is that his sophomore year he was at UNC where his dad was the coach. That year he set the ACC record for steals in a season. Team didn't do well, so dad was fired. Brian then transferred to SC, where the coach there (forget his name at the moment) let his dad continue to coach him. That year Brian set the SEC record for steals in a season. Didn't have much power then either.

39 Markakis handled a pretty decent pitch there...

For the record, I think Matsui should DH in the playoffs.

62 This is exceptionally bad tonight...

Perfect time to start re-heatin', A-Rod! Keep it going 'till November...

It just seems like A-Rod and Jeter are, what, practicing, gearing up, fine-tuning for October. Is that real, or is it just a coincidence?

also like ARod hitting a bit. I guess his slump is over.

Yanks in the playoffs, up 6-2 in a meaningless game. Friday night. And payday. What a sweet day.

this shit better not mess with the guys' sense of the zone...

Yeah, that wasn't close. It looked like it was the other batter's box.

Prediction: Hughes is going to be a huge part of the post season, bailing out Roger or Moose.

I still think Mussina may have hurt himself.

Though the way they are hitting right now, I wouldn't be too upset.

Is it some kind of requirement?

Mussina is less consistent than Hughes. He ahs been been much better, and much worse, but his inconsistency is very worrisome. I said it days ago, and ai say it again--I would go with Hughes as the play off #4 because you pretty much know that you are going to get 5 or 6 inning with 3 runs allowed. Since the #4 will only get one start (at most) pr series, I'll take my chances with that level of production.

I once went to an El Duque game between the two of them that was so hideously boring that I swear Torre got himself thrown out so he could just leave this shitfest.

For one, he flat out refuses to argue for a player. "You're on your own, Kid!" Lastings was flipping the fuck out a couple weeks ago, Rickey was dragging him off the field, and Willie was just standing around. Say what you want about Joe Torre, but if one of his players was that passionate about something, he'd have his back.

Possibly Igawa.

I asked him who was benched when we got Abreu last year. I'm still waiting for an answer.

Can he triple in the ninth? We need lots of base runners to get him another at-bat.

I missed that -- I had to go pick up my 6th grader from the Friday night dance. I heard the Damon dinger on the radio, too -- long, apparently.

UPDATE, 9:08 p.m.: That home run by Damon landed on Eutaw Street, the first ball to land there this season and the 40th in Camden Yards history. The Yankees have now hit 200+ home runs for eight consecutive seasons. That's a record.

None good, as usual, I'm sure.

And good. The last thing we need in this division is another competent front office. Stay stuck on stupid, Birds. We like you just the way you are...

Joe is going to like that Vizcount performance, a lot. He loves it when guys put men in scoring position and then doesn't let them score.

Alou Ks with runners on 1st and 3rd to end the 7th

7-4 FLA

no supper for you, rob bell, your time to home plate must suck!

The one things that does bother me, is while they don't need to be obnoxious, some of these guys were really good and they talk about themselves like they were scrubs. Kaat and Singleton, and to a degree, Murcer, are really bad with that. I once heard Singleton and Murcer say they wish they could hit like Adam Kennedy

177 Same here. Kenny & Kitty were my favorite combo for the exact reasons you state. I let out a sigh of relief every time they came on camera at the start of a broadcast. I knew I'd probably learn something that night...

Or better, we win, they lose tomorrow, they lose again on Sunday and we do too, but much later than they do.

Okay, that wasn't actually so bad -- Mo was just jamming him and Millar didn't get out of the way.
Now get Mora!

The phony HBP could come back to haunt us.

Well not really. If we lose, we lose, so be it. But I don't want Mo to blow it.

Damn it. Not happy.

More audition opportunities. I may shut it off and go do something else. Probably involving alcohol.

:-P

Two: Way more DUIs, Sawx fans in jail, and increased revenue for the Boston Police Dept.

But let's not tax the pen, bats. Do your thing, put up a crooked number here... YEAH, CAP!!!

Nice, Sardinha!

This game is guaranteed to go longer now.

I think this Jeter guy may turn out to be a decent player.

I didn't actually know we'd been terrible in extras. What's our record this year?

Oh, they'll walk A-Rod. It would be stupid not to.

No I'm not going to forget that.

(a) now there are two runners in scoring position, and two runs will be better than one.
(b) huge pressure on Bradford to throw strikes.

Come on, Jose!

I'm leaving. Good luck, I guess.

Um, no need for that announcement, Kay. This is the F*CKING Yankees broadcast.

A-hole.

Just one more time. Please?

What did M. Einstein Kay say?

Get dem ducks in a row, Joe.

Here come the Yankees.

"And the RED SOX are AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST CHAMPIONS!!!!"

Pretty much with that sort of enthusiasm too.

Our bullpen is Chamberlain, who is great, and Mariano who is on the downside.

Everyone else sucks. No matter how anyone tries to slice it or rationalize it. Everyone else is TERRIBLE.

Well, they are.

If the Yankees could have been bothered to show up in the first three months, they could have prevented it. They couldn't, and they didn't. So be it.

306 Yes, thanks.

Hoo boy. Well, I take small comfort that Mets fans are about 90x more miserable right now than I am.

As far as I can see, we've got 2 starters whom we can trust, and 2 relievers. I can't see how that gets it done, especially against the Tribe, whose 2 best startes are more than a match for ours.

Once every slot and matchup is determined, we'll have a day or so catch our breath.

Then we'll just see what happens, which is always the case, ain't it? ;-)

Hey, at least you didn't have to watch the highest paid team in the majors celebrating for coming in second :)

So much sox hate on this site! It's only a game :) The earned it :)

Also, CC was hit with a line drive today, I believe on or near the pitching hand. Don't think it affected him.