Running MLB Thread, Part the Fourth, 2007

Another L for the Yankees. If the Devil Rays can come back and beat the Tigers, I believe Tampa and New York will be tied for last in the AL East.

Oh, and my dysfunctional Orioles are two games up on the Yankees. I think tears are welling up ...

 

YES just aired a promo for Jason Giambi Replica Bat Day.

Apparently, the Yankees didn't give serious consideration to Jason Giambi Replica Needle Day or Jason Giambi Replica Greenie Day.

 

Devil Rays win - and are now tied for last with the Yankees. Let the excuses - and the rationalization that the Yanks will turn it around - commence.

 

If the price for a respectable stretch of baseball is getting waxed by an average of 10-1 by the likes of Seattle and Baltimore... I'm not sure I want to see a respectable stretch of baseball.

How a team goes from taking two of three from Cleveland to playing like a bad high school team against Seattle and Baltimore is beyond me.. but Buddy Bell's squad has found a way.

 

The same way a desperate team takes 2 of 3 from the Red Sox then looks like a collection of Class A looosers for 4 straight losses to the Angels and Blue Jays.

 

Yeah, but the Angels and Blue Jays don't inspire the same amount of hatred and energy as the Red Sox, and to a lesser extent, the Mets.

It really doesn't matter. The Yankees could dig up Gehrig, Ruth, Mantle, DiMaggio and they still wouldn't win.

 

Did Angels just hit a HR? Just saw fireworks over the Big A, not sure if it was for Angels or Ducks.

 

I'd still like to see what Zombie Ruth could do though.....

 

They would probably need a few starts in the minors first, to get loose.

 

Nice bounce-back start for Schilling tonight.

On paper, the Yanks should win 90, 95 games. One of the problems is that there's no life within that team. No one gets pissed off after a loss. Say what you want about Paul O'Neill being childish, but he would have tossed a bat rack awhile ago to wake this team up.

 

The Yankees would probably ask him to pitch once every 5 days.

 

Eat like a champ. There wouldn't be enough hot dogs and beer in New York to sustain him. He's been dead for what.. going on 60 years now? He'd be a bottomless pit.