You know that IS the ironic thing about this team. Going in, no one has a clue if the Yanx can sweep the Twinkie's, or vice versa. The pulse of this team is on again, off again, like a revived corpse.... flatline/clear/paddles- ..............^...^....^..............................^...^......................^...^...^................!
...7 of their next 9 games are against the Twins...they'd better take advantage of it because the 2nd half schedule is brutal.
Our new friends the Seattle Mariners took care of the Rays today, so maybe the Yankees can barely escape last place with a win. If they lose they'll have a post game group sing of the old Franklin Delano Reeves tune, "This Must Be the Bottom" .
is that why Rick is in Arky right now, trying to befriend those 'friends in low places', or is Rick that Friend...? lol...
Notes, from MLB.com, Sabathia has posted a 0.71 ERA over his last six starts, spanning 38 innings, and will take the mound on Thursday with a 12-inning scoreless streak intact. "He's learning what he can and can't do now with lesser velocity," catcher Brian McCann said. "When you have a mindset like he's got, he's going to succeed no matter what he's doing. That's why he's one of the best pitchers of this generation. His career has been amazing." Right-hander Kyle Gibson draws the starting call for the Twins, looking again for his first victory of the year. Gibson was roughed up by the Red Sox in his last start, surrendering five runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings. things to know about this game • McCann is one of two hitters in the Yankees' lineup to have homered off Gibson -- Chase Headley is the other -- but hits have been tough to come by of late for McCann. He has just five in his past 48 at-bats, spanning his last 17 games. • Joe Mauer has not had much success against Sabathia (.163 career average), but he's hot at the moment. Mauer enters the series opener on a 27-game on-base streak, the longest active on-base streak in the Majors. Over that span, he has hit six homers after totalling only 10 homers in 158 games last year
Gibson with a 6 plus ERA, God help the Yankees. Saw a nice ESPN write up on Sabathia today, lets hope he can keep his cool for one more game,
I'm eventually going to have to decide what to hope for. Hope the Yanks somehow get on a decent roll and cut into the deficit or, Hope the Yanks continue to lose and totally collapse to the point where ownership and the team are laughing stocks before the first half ends. Let's see how Hal presides over a bad team without the smokescreen of being on the edges of the race.
Only great baserunning from headley (SARCASTIC) who somehow failed to score from second on a basehit to decent left center by ellsbury with the centerfielder just throwing it into third conceding the run keeps the yanks from being up 2-1 at the moment.
Of course- the old horseshoe. Thank goodness for all those horseshoes - Yanks may be winless without them.
Not your best stuff tonight Big Man, but you kept this team in the game, now go get that double decker Cheeseburger all the way. Strander gave me a shock with that three run bomb.
