Yankees win! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, theeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees win 8-4 We should have swept because we should have won last night's game, but I'll take 2 outta 3. Great road trip so far. They're 5-2 on it

Okay, well I missed that. Have they released him yet, or what?

Small did a decent job. I still believe that if Leiter and Small continue to be decent, and Wang can return, Kevin Brown might be out the door.

I think the Yanks have released him but I haven't heard anything! I've checked ESPN.com & Yankees.com and looked at their rosters and he's nowhere there. I didn't watch the game last night unfortunately but I was surprised at how Small pitched. I'm seriously hoping they get all their starts back for the playoffs. Imagine if they have Moose, Unit, Wright, Brown, Wang, Leiter, and Small

Yes.

Yes.

If he's healthy. But hopefully not, because he sucks.

Please God, no.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, at least so far.

Yes, and give him a start.

Yes.

No.

Yes.

Yes, absolute necessity.

Yes or No.

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This type of thing just makes me even more angry that we let Jon Lieber go after last season. Grr! Bunch of dumbasses. We pay for stupid Kevin Brown and let go our most consistent pitcher.

Well remember we got Brown in a trade for Jeff Weaver, it had nothing to do with Leiber. But I agree, we should have kept him because he was an innings eater. What do you think about Clement or Wells? Think we should have signed at least 1 of them!?

I know Brown had nothing to do with Leiber. My point was that it made absolutely zero sense to let him get away last year, the same way we let Pettite and Clemens get away previously.

And no, I don't think we should have gone after Wells or Clement. Clement is having a good year, but didn't we beat him? Same with Wells, who is having too many injury problems. No, we have to look elsewhere.

Remember, Clemens left us, we didn't leave him. He "retired" and then a couple of weeks later after he got outta his contract with the Yanks decided, oh I'd like to pitch for a Texas team. Sneaky b*stard!

As for the Yanks, Cano knocks in Jeter and A-Rod hits another home run off of Colon!

Giambi hits ANOTHER home run! Looks like my prediction of 20-25 for this year wasn't asking too much

I love Cano. We should start a fan club.

Johnson worked outta trouble and Matsui hits his 16th of the year, 4-2 Yanks

Giambi just hit, yup, ANOTHER home run. Is there any stopping this guy!? 5-2

F'n Tom Gordon!

It's not all Gordon's fault. Guerrero is insane at the plate, like Yogi Berra, he hits even "bad" pitches out of the zone. Besides, they brought him in an already bad situation courtesy of Proctor and Groom. We might not have been so screwed if Johnson had pitched longer, but supposedly he had an injury. Dunno if it was from falling in the dugout or when he slipped on his right foot.

And Giambi's two home runs were great, but that battle with K-Rod ended up screwing us. He swung at the shittiest pitch of the whole at-bat, and struck out. I mean, c'mon, I don't care how many home runs you get, you've gotta hit in the clutch. Jorge's hit also was a dud. A-Rod did a great job, if he could've went 5 more feet it would've been a homerun. And considering he was previously 0-8 against K-Rod, it was damn good.

Oh well. Let's hope Leiter stays hot from his last start and can get us a win tonight.

Johnson hurt himself from the mound. He didn't plant his front foot properly on a pitch and he lost his balance a little. He said he'd be fine and shouldn't miss his next start which is great news. Giambi had a walk IMO but the ump called it a strike on 3-0 or 3-1 I think. Giambi HAD that walk. And yes, I thought A-Rod hit the homerun too, and I was upset it didn't go, but still he needed to score from 2nd with no outs in the 9th

Damn, Leiter got rocked, and Yanks offense couldn't get off the ground. Hmm. Too bad Leiter settled down AFTER his runs scored.

Congrats to the Yanks on a good road trip. They went 6-5, but they should have done better. Not to bad though when Wang goes down and all you really have is Moose and Johnson. Let's go back home and now they're only 1.5 games outta first

Mmm, but they got spanked by the Angels. If it wasn't for Matsui and Tino today, they would've been swept. It killed the whole road trip.

I was on a cruise and haven't been able to watch a game or get much news. I just got back and they have the night off.

Don't worry, we play the Twins tomorrow, hehe.

Yeah and Unit pitches and I'll miss it

Yanks are only a game out now that Schilling blew another save!

Congrats to the Yanks on a well needed win 4-0 against the Twins

Mmm, A-Rod is still lighting the league on fire, if he keeps this up through October, our offensive production should be fine.

BTW - did you see Steve Patterson on Cold Pizza this morning? He said that a likely trade is this:

Red Sox Get
___________

RF Gary Sheffield
RP Tom Gordon


Yankees Get
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LF Manny Ramirez


...?

I don't think we're trading Sheffie to get Manny, sorry. We don't need even WORSE outfield play right now. Manny is demanding a trade, and wants to come to NY, but they can't get rid of Sheff.

I agree! I don't want Manny (he's such a punk and classless individual). I wouldn't do it either. Why's he want out so bad? I don't buy "privacy issues." Let's face it, he wants out from Ortiz's shadow. First Pedro (who's the face of the Mets now) and now Manny. Hmmm, someone's trying to tell you something David!

Why would you want to go to New York, of all places, to get privacy? :p

I'd take Manny. Granted, he can be lazy, but he'd be an awesome DH, no question about it. His fielding is terrible though, so it's clearly not what the Yanks are looking for.

BTW - who called it? Did I not say that the Yanks should pick up Hideo Nomo for an Asian Connection? They picked him up off waivers today, yes! The Nomo Slider delivered in pinstripes! Hideo Nomo stats

YES! Now we've got a guy who's 5-8 with a 7.24 ERA who TAMPA BAY of all teams dropped, just so DJ could sell his "Asian Connection T-Shirts" :p In all seriousness, he's not going to improve us (probably make us worse, if that's possible). I think all he had this year was the Yankees number. When he faces Anaheim or Boston he'll get lit up like a Christmas tree. Oh well, at least Hideki now has someone to talk to without a translator.

It would be incredibly stupid for them to trade Sheff. Incredibly stupid. I don't care who they got in exchange. Huge ARod fan that I am, I still haven't seen him doing anything far more spectacular than Soriano, who we traded.

Well, how many t-shirts can I count you guys in for? 100? 200?

He's also the TB's winningest pitcher, so I guess that says alot. :p

Is this not the slowest played 1 run game in basebal history? I'm a Twins fan, so I thought I'd join you guys and gals tonight.