the Yanks only got 5 hits off of Perez and bailed him out a couple of times. He was starting to lose the strike zone and guys were swinging at pitchers that should have been balls and were making easy outs.

I am going to a BBQ with a bunch of Mets fans tomorrow!

I am going to a BBQ with a bunch of Mets fans tomorrow...

Right. It wasn't a matter of the Mets pitchers shutting down the Yankee bats. It was that the Yankee hitters let them off the hook.

Be careful they don't BBQ YOU!!

Be careful they don't BBQ YOU!!

I am so dreading this BBQ now. They will be gloating all day. These people are "those" kind of fans, and I am going to hear it all day long. Hopefully, the Yankees will win this afternoon and level the field, no pun intended.

I'm sure there are plenty of Yankee fans that are. There are "those" kind for every team. I happen to think that it's poor sportsmanship, I don't care what team you root for.

And of course, Ronnie, I know with that post that you weren't insinuating that I was that kind of Yankee fan, although there are some people who could interpret it that way. But I know that you didn't mean that.

THOSE kind?

Racist!!

I am so dreading this BBQ now. They will be gloating all day. These people are "those" kind of fans, and I am going to hear it all day long. Hopefully, the Yankees will win this afternoon and level the field, no pun intended.

And I'm not sure if anyone else has heard of this, but apparently ESPN is going to run an 8-part miniseries about the 1977 New York Yankees season starting in July. The name of the show is entitled, The Bronx Is Burning

Source: NY Times

By DAVID GONZALEZ
Published: June 19, 2007

When Robinson Canó, second baseman for the New York Yankees, went comparison shopping for a new vehicle recently, he wound up at a Bronx hospital.

He wasn’t injured. He was sizing up ambulances so he could donate one to the hospital in his hometown in the Dominican Republic, San Pedro de Macoris. He is doing this not at the urging of a tax adviser or media consultant, but because of a nagging memory.

A friend who once played softball with him, Luis Romero, was thrown from a motorcycle last year when it bounced at the bottom of a hill.

“He hit his head,” Mr. Canó said softly. “The hospital had no ambulance, so they had to put him in a jeep and take him to Santo Domingo, an hour away. He died when he got there. Maybe if they had an ambulance with first aid he could have been saved.”

Mr. Canó, an unassuming 24-year-old in his third season, sought out Julio Pabon, who has done media training for the Yankees’ Spanish-speaking rookies.

“I thought he was going to ask me something personal like he wanted a girl’s number,” Mr. Pabon said. “But an ambulance?”

Mr. Pabon was surprised, since Mr. Canó hardly made major league money, just under $500,000. And San Pedro de Macoris — renowned for its shortstops — has no shortage of stars with salaries to match.



“What got me was Robinson gets a little more than minimum wage — for baseball, anyway,” Mr. Pabon said. “Guys in their first or second year playing are not thinking too much about their community, bro. They’re thinking about how to stay alive in the majors and get that big, multimillion contract.”

Mr. Pabon arranged for Mr. Canó to see different ambulance models at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, where representatives of TransCare, an ambulance company, waited to discuss how they could help.

Any thought of calmly inspecting the ambulances vanished once Mr. Canó arrived.

An overprotective bubble of hospital security people clung to him as he looked at the vehicles while passers-by held phones aloft to snap pictures.

One woman who tried to get an autograph argued with one security officer.

“Do not touch me!” she shouted.

When Mr. Canó went to look at a Fire Department ambulance, one security guard gruffly shouted, “No pictures! No pictures!” even though the vehicle was parked on a public street.

Mr. Canó soon left for a local restaurant to meet with the TransCare representatives, who wanted to learn more about conditions in his hometown.

He was impressed with the ambulances, but puzzled by the local reaction.

As they drove off, he mentioned to Mr. Pabon how the woman who had tried to get his autograph did get his attention.

“She said ‘Tell your bodyguard to treat women better!’ ” he recalled. “But I do not have a bodyguard.”

He does not make that kind of money — yet.

And left handed pitching is always a commodity. Speaking of which - Tyler Clippard was sent down to AAA after bombing out against the Mets, and, yep, our Miracle Man Kei Igawa is back, with his reinvented delivery and three strong starts in AAA (including one against my Buffalo Bisons). He'll make his re-launch this Friday.

No chance a deal for Helton gets done. His contract is too huge, and too long for his age (until 2011), he has a full no-trade clause, no thank you.

Teixeira is younger and will be available sooner...possibly in a three way deal involving the Yankees (sending Giambi, prospects, possibly Melky, receiving Gagne/Otsuka and Teixeira), the Rangers (receiving prospects, cash, ?), and the Angels (receiving Giambi, ?).