Chicago hope

Right now the only concern for the Yankees is the bullpen. It's not that they aren't doing the job, it's the fact that they are being worked so hard. (At least it appears to me that they are.)

Here's hoping Moose can pitch 7-8 innings tonight and give the 'pen a bit of a rest. I wouldn't be opposed to a complete game either, but the reality of the AL is that, unless the pitcher is blowing the other guys away, he doesn't go the full nine. And I don't think Chicago is going to get completely shut down in the first six like last night.

Congradulation for Yankee's victory.I come from Taiwan,the same nation with Wang.I am very proud of him,even though there are few poor pitchings of him at times.But I think he will be the ace of Yankee.I began to be the fan of Yankee last season for the sake of Wang.
Anyway,i would like to say hello to every Yankee's fans.Let's pray the Yankee to get the champion this season.

Go go Yankee, go Wang!!!

c-layton--- i love wang enough for the both of us. anyone on this blog will agree. no worries there. as for the game tonight, to be honest guys, i missed the whole thing (though was checking scores on my phone and had several of my friends texting me with score updates) all i can say is WOW. if we can win vs the "wold chamption white sox" while boston loses 2 of 3 (so far) to the royals, maybe i can not stress so much. i dont want to take back my words, but as of right now, good stuff for us. go moose tonight. ill bet he'll be good and dominant after last saturday. okay, its like 5 something in the morning and i need to get to sleep. someone wake me in time for the pregame show tomorrow.

Wake up Ashley, wake up!! It is Game Time! WAKE UP!

Oops, never mind, it is AM, not PM.

I missed the whole game yesterday. I did not get home until after it was over. I did see some of the Red Sox game last night and the Red Sox announcers said Randy Johnson had a no hitter at the end of 6 and the Yanks were up 5-0.

Then I said oh good, the Yanks will win 7-6 sarcastically.

Then I came home to see they won 7-6 and the Red Sox lost as Papelbon took the loss and blew the save. I need to go out more.

Glad I missed Farns' meltdown. Bathing in Pepto would still have left me roiling in pain. REALLY glad I missed it!

Glad the Yanks won and Robbie Cano looks really strong.

Yeah, last night was a good night all around for the Yanks.
Randy was the RJ of old, and the bullpen did a great job (with 1 notable exception *cough* Farnsworth.)

Rivera bounced back from 2 nights ago, which is to be expected, and the offense did a great job of getting on base and being patient...oh yeah and cranking homeruns.

Also, I nearly jumped out of my seat watching gameday as good ole' Papelbon blew his 2nd consecutive save AGAINST THE ROYALS! HAHAHAHAHA.

Things are looking up in Yankee land right now, and as Torre says, lets just keep the ball rolling. Momentum only lasts as far as the next days starting pitcher. So get your Moose hats on! GO MIKE!

Also, everytime I watch Farnsworth blow up like that I keep hoping he'll throw at someone and they'll charge the mound and we'll get to see him lay-out tackle someone else. Seriously, I think it everytime. :)

You know something funny? At the beginning of the season, would anyone have thought that we'd be capable of beating the White Sox with a lineup missing Giambi, Matsui, Sheffield, and (after he left the game) Johnny Damon'? A follow-up question to that is...could the Yankee bats have possibly looked more confident than they did last night, despite missing so many?

I still think Jose Veras should have gotten a shot in the 8th inning, considering the Yanks had a 5-run lead...I don't see why he couldn't have been yanked at the first sign of trouble and THEN replaced with Farnsy. And who knows? Maybe Paul wouldn't have had to stock up on Pepto. Of course, Torre probably didn't anticipate his giving up 4 runs in less than an inning......but like Mark said, it's nothing to worry about.

Those numbers about Papelbon are very interesting. Only 7 of his saves came against .500+ teams, and only 2 of THOSE were 1-run saves. Of course, last night he couldn't handle a 1-run save against the WORST team, so I can only wonder how he would do in October...IF the Red Sox make it. Even the Wild Card is looking more and more out of reach for them.

One more thing: MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!!!!

Mark: I echo all those sentiments! One thing though, do you mean you "have no reason to think the yanks won't sniff second place again," or "no reason to think they *will* sniff second place again?" The double negative in the former suggests you do think Bos. will overtake us as some point.

I really hope Damon can play today...he owns Javy Vazquez.

On the Yanks website they said taking him out was just a precaution. Damon himself said he expects to play tonight if Torre lets him, and he said he'll definately play Friday.

Any news on Giambi?

Does anyone know when Dotel is projected to return?

1/2 day off yesterday & 1/2 day off today. So I sleep in today. I wake up to read the paper and find that Pimplebutt blew it?! 3 up on Boston and 4 in the loss column. E# now 49.

Oh happy day.

Go Moose.

Oh yeah...today's the day youknowwho starts yet another rehab.

Gut feeling...Dotel is activated for the Boston series.

He is about 7-10 days away.

Torre says Giambi will probably be back in the lineup tonight.

Who knows with Dotel...he was supposed to be back at the all-star break.

Also, anyone else got some love to take Farnsworth out of the 8th inning role to be replaced by either Proctor or...VILLONE?

I think there's little doubt that Farnsy has been our most inconsistent reliver this year.

I'd have to agree that Farnsy is our most inconsistent reliever, but it's not saying all that much since our bullpen has been quite solid this year in my opinion.

Anyway, great night yesterday. Not only did the Yankees win and the Red Sox lose (to the ... Royals), but the Rockies ended the flippin' Dodgers' winning streak at last! =) Now here's hoping the Rockies win today as well to split the four-game series.

Well that might be a little bit of overkill considering prior to last night he'd give up one run since the AS Break. He had a bad night - it happens - can't forget they were facing a powerhouse offensive team who punish bad pitches. Not like he had a meltdown against.. oh .. the Royals or something, lol.

Yeah, I must say that there are lots of interesting races goin gon in Baseball this year. 4/6 Division titles are in doubt, and the wildcards are all close.

Im really rooting for the Reds for some reason, I usually don't care about them, but with all the deals they made at the dealine, plus how they're gaining on the untouchable Cardinals (over the last few years) they've got me supporting them now.

from the Newark Star Ledger:
"The Yankees yesterday signed ninth-round draft pick Mark Melancon, a right-handed reliever from the University of Arizona who was projected as a possible first-round pick before being sidelined with an elbow injury.

The Yankees are said to be close to signing first-rounder Ian Kennedy, a right-hander from Southern Cal, for what is expected to be a bonus in the $2 million range.

A fan who jumped from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium onto the netting behind home plate has been banned for life from the ballpark and could be sent to jail, a judge said yesterday.

Scott Harper, 19, of Armonk, N.Y., pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment following last season's plunge at the stadium. District Attorney Robert Johnson recommended probation and restitution to the Yankees, but Harper rejected the deal."

I think you guys will find this interesting: I was playing MLB 06 The Show yesterday afternoon and I had Johnson ptiching against Garland. With Johnson, I took a no-hitter into the 8th inning before it was broken up...who broke it up? Tadahito Iguchi.

Haha NYYAngel, meltdown against the Royals. What poor, second class reliver could blow a save against that kind of terrible offense??

On YES's post game show they showed a clip from the clubhouse of Johnny Damon being interviewed and the camera pretty much focused on Mark. Good to see ya getting some facetime Feinsand!

Mark was also pictured on Johnny Damon's Christmas cards and Johnny uses a photo of Mark on his drivers license.

Mark was unavailable for comment.

So I guess the ship is pretty much sinking over on the Sox blog. It's pretty depressing over there. Wonder why everyone is jumping off the ship now, they should have done it when they realized they weren't winning during that terrible stretch where we were losing a player every week.

Haha, yeah I was over there posting earlier. I enjoy stirring them up like a nest of fire ants and watching them scurry about.

Give them a break though. Not that I feel any pity, but it will certainly be embarrassing to see them bounce back against the Yankees. Then they'll be rubbing it all in OUR faces, and we'll be sorry we gloated.

Show them the class that Yankees fans are known for. Don't stoop to their level. You know we won't get any pity if the Red Sox surge ahead.

Yeah, thats a fair point. Although after the amount of ribbing I got after the Sox came back from 0-3 I take every opportunity I can get to torment all my Bo Sox friends.

Mark, you have to be kidding me man? Johnson should have been passed by two years ago! The guy is a head case, so he pitches a no hitter into the 7th, then falls apart???? Is that what you call our ace, please. Farnsworth is awful lets face it Joe Torre even said you never know what your going to get from him. Ok, Ok I'll concede that that the pitching has been good enough to get us to 1st place but you and I know that Boston had a lot to do with that! They too are having a mess to clean up with the pitching lets just hope that they don't tidy things up just in time to beat us head to head.
We have at least 2 of our 5 starters who are not lets just say dependable! Johnson and Wright. The Bullpen, wow Farnsworth ought to retire, he stinks and thats that! I'm not cutting him any slack, a bad day at the office really, how about April, May, June and July? Like I said before don't know who is worst Gordon or Farnsworth?

Joe G.

Phoenix, AZ

Looks like we've got a replacement for vintage Sam.

If you're going to be on Randy Johnson for taking a no-hitter into the 7th, then finishing with a 6IP, 2ER line, then you're really reaching for arguments. The guy got roughed up by the heart of the toughest lineup in all of baseball. Things like that are going to happen sometimes. As for Farnsworth, were you paying attention to any games at all between the All Star break and the day before yesterday?

Oh yeah, and I don't know if you were aware, but we did win last night. Stop creating a problem where it doesn't exist and be happy that we won last night.

A-men.
Also Jared Wright is 4-1 since the begining of July and has gone 5+ in almost every start since then.

By the way Joe G. I don't hear ANYONE around here calling Johnson our ace anymore. I think that there's little doubt that Moose has taken that role, and that Wang might have even moved into our 2 spot. Johnson is a 3 at best in our rotation now, and how many other teams have a lefty pitcher who can take a no hitter into the 7th to start game 3 of a playoff series huh? Not many.

Sure he's not the RJ he used to be (98 mph and all) but hes still **** good. Since July 6th Johnson is 3-2, ok not great, but in those starts (7 total starts) hes given up 3ER or less 5 times, and went into the 6th inning or later 6 times. So what exactly are you complaining about from our 3rd starter.

People need to forget the RJ he used to be and look at the numbers that he IS putting up this year, which are still up there in terms of left-handed power pitchers.

Not to mention, how many teams have their 1-2-3 pictchers all with over 12 or more wins? Anyone? lol

Min- Santana (13), Liriano (12), and Radke (11).

Det- Verlander (14), Rogers (11), Bonderman (11)

and us. So 3 teams in the Majors, all in the AL, and all in the playoffs, currently have 1,2,3 with 10+ wins.

Hey Joe ... welcome to the blog. About time you showed up.

Folks, Joe is the original Russ. He is a very good Yankees fan, but he epitomizes the attitude of "If they don't win the World Series, the entire year was a terrible failure" that many fans have taken.

Joe, I don't remember writing that Randy was their ace anymore. He is likely the third best starter on the team, and I challenge you to find a better No. 3 starter anywhere in baseball.

If a Yankee fan can't be happy with this team right now, he will never be happy. Good to see you, Joe.

Not only are we happy with the team right now, but let's remember we have Sheff, Matsui and Dotel waiting in the wings as well. THAT's what im happy about. We're doing this well and aren't even at full strength yet.

Have to ask....how do you make these Jagerbombs that the Yankee Tavern serves after Yankee victories?

I read where it is Red Bull with Jagermeister.

What's the formula?

Forget it. Found it.

http://www.drinknation.com/drink/Jager-Bomb

By the way everyone, just to rub a tad more salt in the Red ***' wounds: their AA team, the Portland Sea Dogs finally snapped their 10-game losing streak last night, dropping from first to third place. They are currently 3.5 games behind, (obviously) Trenton.

oh great now we have a headcase back, wait there was never a sam? It was a russ and a dude pretending to be a chick? *** is wrong with that guy? Now he has amnesia? jesus christ, this blog is like a psyche ward.

The whole mystery of Sam/female Sam/Russ/Sam's cousin just took a new twist.

Jagerbombs to be celebrated only by those 21 and over, of course.

Yankeefan, those are good, but they make you hyper as can be lol so watch out how many you have.
My fav drink of all time is

http://www.drinknation.com/drink/Irish-Car-Bomb

Enjoy!

Exactly Ralpie. So what is this Joe person complaining about? We in company with two teams who are lauded as having awesome 1-2 pitchers - Detroit and Minnesota. No pleasing some people.

Yeah, I guess some people just want to be miserable when they root for their teams...*cough* red sox nation.

farnsworth got lit up because torre tried to stay away from going back to back but he decided to put him in in the 8th,Y?! hes gonna burn him out keep villone in his fastball was only 93 (usually 99) so he had to rely on his slider

I don't know if you all saw, but here's Chacon's line from last night.

7ER

6Hits

4BB

1 2/3 IP

And Cashman maganged to get Wilson for him straight up? No wonder the Pitt franchise has been screwed up for so long...

To all the idiot Yankee fans full of your rhetoric and hate messages to fans of other teams...your worthles$$ money hungry team means nothing. You brag over a stupid team that has all the money to play a meaningless game...how pathetic...you yankee fans are worse than al qeada!

All is happy in Yankee land... The Yanks won, The Red Sox lost, Randy pitched great when the bullpen needed him to, Cano is back and on fire, and Mooooooooooooose is pitching tonight.

Oh, and we are talking about two of my favorite drinks on the blog - jagerbombs and car bombs! Yay! I am one happy girl :)

lol, somebody needs a hug.

To whatever inane senseless ***** said that we are worse than Al-Qeada, you need to get a grip.
It's 1 thing to give your opinion about a baseball team playing a GAME. Quite another to compare fans of a team to international terrorists.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

To idiot fans of other teams who come on here throwing tantrums, posting idiocy and then running away:-

We are worse than a terorrist organization responsible for the deaths of 1000s of people? Looks like you need someone to give you a lesson in getting a healthy perspective on things (btw its al qaeda.. not al aqeuda)

You sound like a bitter, jealous person. Pathetic? I think you need to take a closer look in the mirror before you come here flinging insults.

the best remedy for fools is ignoring them. they usually just go away that way.
i dont let idiots rattle me up anymore.

Guys, why are you so angry at him? That comment made me laugh for the first time all day. Let's all give that guy a hug like Lola suggested, because that angry fellow seems to need it.

ANGEL! HOW DARE YOU! jeez, you act like it makes no sense for someone to come on here calling yankee fans pathetic on a yankee blog because we are excited about our team obviously kicking whatever team that guy roots for's *** with all of our money made from making the playoffs for 11 years and winning world championships and having 9 million people in the city they play in alone to draw 4 million to the stadium every year.

HOW DARE YOU!

ah, sarcasm at it's driest. Gotta love it.

Wow things got pretty intense here while I was gone.

He got up my nose, Vince. Can you tell? I should have just ignored him though - thats what my better judgement was telling me. Just a bug to be squashed and ignored.

jeez ralphie i don't think i am capable of not being that sarcastic, i have true sarcasm issues.......yeah i bet now you're really confused haha

hmm double negatives, i never really got a hold of those in 3rd grade...you bet im confused right now :)

the worst is the vaunted triple negative...I have seen it in action on three seperate occasions in my lifetime

Is the sky still falling over at the S*cker nation blog?

I shouldn't, but I get this perveres pleasure from watching them suffer. hehehe

Looking ahead:
• Friday: Angels (LHP Joe Saunders, 3-0, 1.29 ERA) at Yankees (RHP Cory Lidle, 9-7. 4.59 ERA), 7:05 p.m. ET

• Saturday: Angels (RHP Kelvim Escobar, 8-9, 3.73 ERA) at Yankees (RHP Jaret Wright, 8-6, 4.38 ERA), 1:20 p.m. ET

• Sunday: Angels (RHP Jered Weaver, 7-0, 2.20 ERA) at Yankees (RHP Chien-Ming Wang, 13-4, 3.69 ERA), 1:20 p.m. ET

Those matchups scare the bejeesus out of me. Joe Saunders is a lefty, and the Yanks have done well against lefties this year, but we've never seen him before, have we? Jered Weaver will be difficult, too, unless he follows Weaver tradition in his ability to pitch at THE Stadium. Out of those 3 games, I think our best shot is Saturday against Escobar.

But like they say, you just can't predict baseball.

told u man, the angels are a terrible matchup for us, they have two nasty rookies in their rotation (we hate rookies) AND we didn't play well against them to begin with.

Hmm, we are worse than Al-Qaeda.

Someone clue me in....I don't remember destroying some buildings and killing lots of innocent civilians.

With people like that, I fear for our country. But if he or she is a parent or going to be one someday, then I fear most of all for his or her children.

NYYAngel...you go. 3 cheers for you.

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Weaver has slowed down a bit in his last 3 starts, so maybe the Yankees can strike the iron while it's hot. Besides, he's up against Chien-Ming Wang, so I have a feeling that one will either be a pitcher's duel or, if not, then a solid Yankees win.

The fans will be the biggest factor in those games. If we can scare those rookies a little bit at the stadium, then they will buckle under the pressure and start panicking and overthrowing.

Interesting that apparent Twins fan ******************@mail.com is upset that the Yankee ownership actually spends money on the team.

Due to the largess of multi-billionaire Carl Pohlad, owner of the Twins, who has tried to eliminate the team in backroom deals with the commissioner to further line his pockets, has managed to carefully keep the payroll under certain thresholds to be sure he receives not only the revenue sharing from all the teams but the luxury tax from the Yankees and occasionally the Red Sox.

Does he spend that money on the team? Nope. Right into his pocket.

Yet this alleged fan, who somehow thinks fans of spending money on baseball rather than pocketing it would prefer his owner who would on a whim terminate his team, fire all the people working for the team from hot dog vendors to parking attendants, and then crush all the businesses that serve the Twins community.

Comparing Yankee fans to terrorists?

It is clear that not only is ******************@mail.com quite possibly the stupidest alleged baseball fan since they discovered that the shape of a baseball is not flat, but he/she/it is wasting oxygen when higher level life forms could be utilizing it.

That is the nice thing about THE Stadium. A lot of young players go in with eyes wide open and their mouths hanging open.

And the Great Yankee Ghosts will hopefully chase away the angels, leaving the visiting team without divine intervention.

I should stop looking so far ahead to the next series. Got a game tonight against the Black Sox.

Then again, I'm a fan. I'm alowed to look ahead.

Couldn't have said it better about Pohlad myself, Paul. You beat me to it.

hahah paul, excellent point.

btw, is anybody else really upset they are building a new stadium and no0t renovating it? this new stadium will have zero history or lore or anything

no....NO....NOOOOOOOOOOO. tell me the game is on espn again, or anything, something on any station that is not wgn, PLEASE someone tell me/

o ok thank god it claims espn, no whitesox announcers phew

interesting article:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/mlb/chatter_up/2006/2006/08/becketts-trial-by-fire.html

Yankeevmm, I am also very upset that the yankees will be moving out of the "House that Ruth built." Apparently they are building more luxury boxes into the new stadium which is where the real moeny comes from, which is why they are doing it in the 1st place. It's not like the current one isn't full of 55,000+ every weekend.
I am hoping that they win the world series the 1st year of the new stadium, becuase as far as im concerned, until they win 1 there the place might be cursed.

I mean in a place like the current Yankee stadium, with "mistique and aura, and all the ghosts" and the great stuff that has happened there, how can Steinbrenner even THINK of moving??

PLUS with record attendences he is raising the price of regular seating and shortening the amount, it is a real slap in the face to the common man when hotdogs are already 4.50 and soda is 7 dollars....beer is 8.50 if i remember correctly

How many seats is the new stadium gonna hold? Fewer than 55,000?

ralphie last i heard it was about 45,000 or 45-50...definitely less than 55, i think it might be 48,000 for some reason

See, that just doesn't make economical sense to me. If ticket prices are rising and more fans are STILL coming to the stadium, doesn't it make sense to make a new stadium even BIGGER?

Much less than 55,000.
Monument park will be behind the CF fence. I hope the HR distances retain the Yankee stadium touch (the porch, Death valley, etc.).

The groundbreaking will be across the street in Macombs Dam Park next week...on August 16th! (The date Babe died).

Yanks play Babe's birthplace (Baltimore) on that very day next week.

Before they break ground, they should sprinkle it with a beer or something to guarantee Babe's good karma. :-)

Or maybe sprinkle it with hotdogs...

Swolansky: Its never a good business practice to increase your supply (in this case seats) to meet the demand (audience). You want to have just enough seats to sustain the demand. Not more. Because you always want it the buyer to be desperate for the product.

mike as far as i am aware they are keeping the exact same dimensions in the new stadium

Sounds ok to me. I didn't want it "cookie-cuttered".

I want it to retain its "flavor." Sometimes I wish they'd push that LCF and CF fence back a little to get some more of the old-time flavor back (but not all the way back to 457 and 461! LOL). Sorry, Alex.

Still, you have to wonder how many more HRs Joe D. or Mickey would have had in today's park as opposed to the old one.

Mark posted a new entry on the next page.

If you are not aware of today's news, as I was not, you may wish to turn on the news to see what is happening in the world.

my first post.been goin to mlb 4 a while and never noticed comment section Love to hear u have to say. Go Yankees . how bout Cano this guy is great hope yanks don't trade him any time soon . Dotel ,Pavano, Matsui,or Sheff whoo comes back first,if I was Pavano i'd likely pull somethin just answering that question but good luck to him tonight anyway.

Jeramie, it seems that Dotel will be back 1st, followed by Matsui, Sheff and then maybe, maybe Pavano.

I'm goin out on a limb here, Pavano comes back before Sheff...I know I'm brave saying that haha

We're all going to look very stupid when Pavano comes back and starts blowing people away.

Hey Yankee fans
Hope we win tonight, but i have a bad feeling the moose will struggle. Hopefully our offense is on the mark & Javy does what he always did for US.

BTW-has anyone else who uses cbssportsline noticed they have a very consistent hatred for Derek Jeter? Every blurb has something negative to say about him. It's so weird, I've never seen anything like it, most of the last few power ranking mentions him by name with some slight.

oh well. Lets go Yank-ees ::clap:clap::clap

Johnson is good for six innings! PERIOD! If he is past that, his arm is no good and he blows games.. It's all too close to play sloppy!