a-roid will never be accepted in new york unless he can play in october.

The Yankees were impressive this weekend. They looked like a team more than a collection of superstars. I hope this silliness ends when the Phillies come to town this weekend.

Finally, the Yankees are winning games that the would have lost a few weeks ago. Last night's game could easily have been lost by the bullpen, but the bats kept them winning.

Yankee Stadium is now on pace to break Coors Field 1999 HR record.

What's that? 9 in a row?

I think it's impossible for the Phillies to win a game this weekend.

You can thank us later, Klyd.

The Yankees are going to win.

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I thought only I could deliver a jinx.

Lidge tried to give another one away. Obviously I was glad that the Phils were able to pick him up in the 11th. But I have to say that yesterday's and today's games were well played by both teams, who worked every at bat hard, offensively and defensively. The Yankee hitters are running deep counts at the plate and getting a lot of 3-2 hits. They are aggressive on the base paths.

They did the right thing by not sacrificing Texiera in the ninth. While I'm a fan of the home team ninth inning sacrifice, especially with first and second and nobody out, a sacrifice would have effectively removed the bat from the hands of their two best hitters, and left winning the game to less skilled and experienced hitters.

I thought the Phillies' shift in that situation was an invitation to bunt, but the Yankees didn't accept. Even though Tex grounded into the DP, I think it was the wise move.

And SB, the real reason the Phillies won on Fri. and Sunday:
pork chops on Fri. and today I was at a pig roast. No pork on Sat. and they lose.

Finally, I missed most of the extra innings as I was picking up my son at work. He works game days for our AA baseball team, an affiliate of the Nationals. While their game was over and I was waiting for him to finish up, I found a big tv in a concession area tuned into the Phl/NY game in the bottom of the 11th. The AA team had been lined up for and finished a promotional autograph session, and former Met, John Stearns, who manages the team, came over and watched part of the final inning with me.

Yankees are tied for first! Good start by Burnett. He needed that and way to cool off hot hitting Rangers by taking 2 out of 3 on the road.

While every team has questions, the Yankees have the fewest questions right now within their division. I expect Boston to make a barrage of deals to get some help. There's talk of Nick Johnson, but Washington wants a ton in return. I'm thinking that they acquire Matt Holliday from the A's even though he's righthanded to take the place of Ortiz. There's also talk of the Sox getting Jhonny Peralta from Cleveland to play SS for prospects acquired from a trade of Brad Penny.

With the win, the Yankees moved into sole possession of first place in the AL East for the first time since they won the division in 2006

And the Yankees wiiiiinnnnn! Nice job against the Tribe tonight.

I love the title of this article Also, congrats to the Yanks for setting a new major league record for consecutive games with an error (18 and counting)

KICKIN' SOME MASS.

The Yankees have not won a game in 2009 vs. the Red Sox, and yet may have one of the most important victories in years over their main rival.

That is because the Yankees got Mark Teixeira. And the Red Sox didn't.

Teixeira has upgraded the Yankees' offense and -- don't ignore this -- been the key in transforming the defense from wretched to respected.

Meanwhile, the Red Sox did not add a player whose presence would have made David Ortiz's plummet more tolerable.

Boston appeared the frontrunner for Teixeira last December, but the Yankees entered the bidding late to win the switch-hitter. Had the Red Sox prevailed, they wanted to move Kevin Youkilis to third and use Mike Lowell as a trading chip.

Lowell has been fantastic this year. Still, the Red Sox probably need to add lefty production. They will likely have to use assets -- notably from a deep reserve of pitching prospects -- to find it. And without Teixeira, the Red Sox could feel greater pressure to retain free-agent-to-be Jason Bay, who has performed like an MVP this season.

Clearly, the Red Sox were imagining a five-year-plus phase in which Teixeira, Dustin Pedroia and Youkilis would form their daily backbone. So it has been a loss for the Red Sox. Obviously that makes it a gain for the Yankees.

And it is about time.

Because when it has come to Yankees-Red Sox personnel decisions, Boston has enjoyed an upper hand that has led to championships, even when it has lost out on a player that both rivals value.

The Red Sox went after Alex Rodriguez, did not get him and won the World Series at the end of that season, anyway. They lost out on Jose Contreras, who never blossomed into a front-of-the-rotation stalwart for the Yankees. They lost out on Carl Pavano, and that was an exhale of relief you just heard from New England.

And when it has come to plucking from the same venues, the Red Sox obtained Curt Schilling from the Diamondbacks, the Yanks Randy Johnson; the Red Sox bought Daisuke Matsuzaka from Japan, the Yanks Kei Igawa; the Red Sox landed Josh Beckett from Florida, the Yanks Pavano; the Red Sox acquired Bay from Pittsburgh, the Yanks Xavier Nady.

The Yanks needed to stem that trend. That is why Brian Cashman became such a pest to the Steinbrenner family during the offseason. He knew the offseason philosophy was starting pitching, starting pitching and more starting pitching. Yet Cashman constantly let ownership know he wanted Teixeira despite a budget that precluded such a move if the Yanks -- as they hoped -- got CC Sabathia and another big starter such as A.J. Burnett, which was the plan.

Cashman told Teixeira in a Washington, D.C., meeting that he wanted the first baseman, but that he was a backburner issue to pitching. Teixeira, however, was represented by Scott Boras, and Boras is a master of employing patience with his best free-agent clients to gain a true rendering of who the suitors are and what they are willing to do.

Once the Yanks landed Sabathia and Burnett, Cashman returned to ownership one last time. He pledged to trim elsewhere, beginning with the removal of a $12 million bid for Andy Pettitte. After that he made essentially this pitch: Teixeira is exactly what the Yanks need, his kind of prime-age positional difference maker will not be available again soon in free agency and -- vitally -- if the Yanks don't sign him, Boston almost certainly will.

"Thankfully, I kept saying it and thankfully they (ownership) let me keep mentioning (Teixeira's) name without throwing me out of the office," Cashman said. "I knocked on that door enough and Hal finally authorized an offer."

The Yanks got their man for eight years at $180 million. After a slow start, Teixeira was second in the AL in homers, fourth in RBIs and turned hits into outs at first in a way not seen by the Yanks since Don Mattingly (sorry, Tino, this guy is better).

And if he wasn't doing all of this for the Yanks, Teixeira almost certainly would be haunting them in Boston. That is one big victory in the Rivalry.

Source: NY Post

seriously, what-a-WEAK article.

Yeah, I thought so too. Probably because it praises the Yankees instead of ripping them, huh?

well, not just that!

yankees suck lol hahah yeankees suck hahahahahah lol. (A lot of that in this thread lately, no?)

i can totally agree with blib on this lol

Then go post somewhere else!

Personally, I was pretty happy to see them play so well last night. They were a pleasure to watch.

My younger son will be at the 1 pm game tomorrow. Some tickets fell into the lap of his buddy's dad, who called me. I can't go because I have an important appointment in Gettysburg.

I'm so jealous, Klyd. I haven't been able to make it to a game yet this year, and it's not looking like I will, either.

Me either but I'm telling my brother we're making it down there when I get back from vacation!

Don't forget where the appointment is.... it'd be an infamnia to forget the Gettysburg address.

On Jay Leno's last show, he showed clips from "Jay Walking", a segment where he would question people about seemingly simple questions (Who was the first president of the US), but they would get the answers wrong. Sure enough, he asked one girl what the Gettysburg Address was, and she said, "I don't know the EXACT address!"

I passed the spot where Lincoln delivered the Address. I had been there years before with some of the boys from my son's cub scout pack. And one boy had to make sure he planted his feet squarely on the spot where Abe stood, and he faced the pack and very seriously and dramatically began, "To be or not to be..."

Question for Yankee fans... who is the broadcaster who says "The Yankees win, TheUHuhUHuhUH Yankees win!"? And does it get on your nerves? I figure it doesn't because you're already happy at the time he says it, but man... how obnoxious. The only other guy who's even more annoying, again don't know his name, is the broadcaster who says after a homerun, "YOU can PUT IT on the BOAAAAAAAAARD, YES!".

Sorry to be negative, but it makes me laugh when I hear those guys because it's so silly!

John Sterling is the Yankee broadcaster. Most Yankee fans I know hate him too. He made an epic gaff the other day when Hideki Matsui hit a HR and he went into his stupid A-Rod "A-Bomb" HR call.

that guy is the broadcastor of the dumb ass white sox...dont know his name, but yea

Michael Kay, he does commentary for the YES network. I don't mind him but I know a lot of people don't like him.

That isn't Kay. It's Sterling.