i give up. at least until after the all star break.

4 days off for the nyy

or i should say 1 day off and then 3 games at home against the natinals.

*** Wow, they really did take 4 days off. this is the most unpredictable/ manic depressive yankee team i have seen in a long time.

ignorance is bliss

(some guy drops an easy fly ball. curse of the keith hernandez mustache, perhaps...)

we'll just pretend tuesday through thursday didn't happen. which is hard, because last night wasn't much better. and if it wasn't for one of the mets ( i never learn their names, they all kinda' look alike- gay) dropping an easy pop fly with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth i would be pretty much suicidal about this team today. joba was a 4 inning mess, something like 4 walks and two hit batsmen, and evry member of the bullpen came in to give up a run. btw- this stadium has passed the point of ridiculous, evry hit can't go out, it's not a boardwalk amusement game... jesus.....

Bring It On!

3 games in Boston. the only 3 games between now and mid August. this is a whole different The New York Yankees team. more to come...

sucko

The New York Yankees are rained out. i really hate it when they cancel night games at 3 in the afternoon, it gives me too many hours to be disappointed. tried to watch the mets, with local rochester loser tim redding pitching tonight, but keith hernandez started talking about the articles of confederation and the first continental congress and i had to bail out. how do mets fans listen to him? seriously? i don't care how great a season 1986 was, it's not worth this kind of aural torture. Mine That Bird in the belmont tomorrow, but remember kiddos- he is there to watch but not to bet, unless you are betting exactas and trifectas.

BoSox....Motor City....the battle for best team uniforms!

Mike Lowell gets his 1500th hit, then gets tossed...smooth move unpires, seems like we're getting all the umpires I never heard of lately.

The real story is Beckett going 7 2/3 innings of phenomenal breaking stuff and pinpoint
94 mph fastballs. He was really a blast to watch.

Another thing...I would love to have Miguel Cabrera on our team.

Oh and papi even had some nice at bats...is his career NOT over? funny to see Tek just killing the ball this year, after we all thought HE was done last year.

business as usual

it's been awhile since my The New York Yankees have played steady, confident baseball. just wins, no problem. and with posada and melky back the lineup is complete and devastating 1 through 9. 16 wins in 20 games. just like old times...

brother bartles reporting live: i was there dude

"The Star-Spangled Banner" felt like an appropriate opener for the Phish show at Fenway Park Sunday night, as the members of the Vermont rock band reconvened with one another and their nation of fans to pledge allegiance to the jam.

If band members were seeking a good omen for this reunion, following a five-year hiatus, they had to look no farther than the sky. In the time it took them to get from the rain-soaked infield - where they performed an intricate a cappella version of the anthem in Red Sox jerseys - to the stage for the show's start, the sun had broken through and a rainbow appeared over the outfield.

The two-set performance, covering 3 hours and 20 minutes, revealed that little has changed during the break. None of the band members, who were all smiles, has lost an instrumental step, drummer Jon Fishman is still rocking his performance dress, the audience remains as interested in wriggling as watching, and the songs are sometimes taut and sharp or slack and hazy.

The first set featured shorter and snappier tunes. "Bouncing Around the Room" was a riot of spiraling guitar riffs and sweet high harmonies. They went south for the galloping, countrified "Poor Heart," which flew by on the fast and furious saloon piano licks of keyboardist Page McConnell and tensile bass lines of Mike Gordon. The slash and burn of "Down With Disease" built to an epic guitar solo crescendo as singer-guitarist Trey Anastasio entered a rarefied zone. The audience - a mix of the scruffy and well-heeled, youthful and grizzled - ecstatically got into the spirit, supplying handclaps for "Stash."

The sun went down between sets and the songs stretched out into more layered and psychedelic corners, especially the new "Time Turns Elastic," which felt like several songs in one, some of them captivating. Even as they wandered through the rubbery grooves of "David Bowie" and "You Enjoy Myself" - which revived Gordon and Anastasio's synchronized mini-trampoline routine - they kept the horizon in sight, only occasionally dipping into the no-man's-land of mid-tempo aimlessness.

The lively encore included a loud, raucous, and note-perfect rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times."

well, look what we got here!

(this picture is not fair, but i couldn't resist. velocity is back to 97 on the fastball, and the breaking stuff will bust your ass. good job, joba)

anyone who argues that The New York Yankees are awful at defense is going to have to think about the number 18 for awhile, 18 error free games in a row is the new major league record. and The New York Yankees go 5-2 on the road trip, which somehow feels like they've been in Cleveland for a month. speaking of Cleveland, i loved watching DeRosa in his Indians uniform on the field in progressive stadium during the pregame basically begging for The New York Yankees to trade for him. what is it with these Cleveland guys who can't wait to get to New York? and even stranger- Joba was pitching in the 8th, not from the bullpen, but he actually pitched 8 innings for the first time in his career, i guess they let the kid stay up past his bedtime to get this win. GREAT GAME. YANKEES WIN!!!!!!!!!

*** in things that annoy me news:  hey, ESPN- can you stop playing that stupid Lamar Odom candy story 4 times an hour? i had a dream last night about a a huge man munching down lifesavers. enough, already...