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I guess we just forgot that they line up drinks in front of you in those luxury boxes and force you to consume them. If bad attitudes are cancers to a ballclub, I guess Jeremy Shockey is AIDS. At least you have some hope when it's cancer.

Can't blame the big guy for going out on top. Thanks for the great career, and one of the top 5 days of my life.

I agree that many of the Rays, especially Gomes, are punks for hitting a guy when his arms are pinned and he's falling to the ground. Coco's play was not the right play in that situation, though. You can't try to end a guy's career because his teammate made a bad play, which was probably out of inexperience more than anything else.

Well, I'm sure no matter what happened in the brawl, in the end Bob Watson will end up taking care of the Yankees, as he usually does, by not reducing the suspensions of any Red Sox players.

Believe me, it was nasty. Guys were looking to hurt each other. And that pussy Jonny Gomes was throwing haymakers while Crisp is being wrestled to the ground.

...is a bitch. Don't know what is going on, but it all seemed to start with Coco's bad slide into Iwamura last night. That was not the right play. If you feel like the SS wronged you by blocking the bag with his knee, then say to your pitcher, "Did you see what that guy did?" (especially if it's a guy like Beckett on the mound). It's then up to him whether to get your back or not. But to go at a guy's knee like that, especially the guy who didn't do it, is just wrong. So now tonight, Coco gets hit, there's brawl, he gets thrown out, and Ellsbury, who wouldn't even have been in center, hurts his wrist making a diving catch. Now Manny and Youk just went at it in the dugout. Bizarre.

When the guide is not looking, secretly plant a nuclear bomb in the Braves dugout. Oh wait- you said it had to be legal, subtle, and reverse your curse. I don't think a nuclear bomb would satisfy any of those requirements. Seriously, though- Does Willie make it through today as Mets manager?

Believe me, I'm psyched about him pitching the no-hitter and the development I'm seeing. However, I'm still hesitant to call them studs just yet. Lots of good things have been said about Buchholz, but he needs to throw more strikes and start trusting his stuff. As for Lester, he seems to have turned the professional corner (of course, now I jinxed him and he'll have 3 bad starts in a row), but I just want to see him keep it up. That, and it's still real early. Also, if I post here, I feel like I'm talking to myself. I don't feel like even Lorf comes here enough for it to be worth my while.

Yeah, and after seeing it again a few times, it looks like a.) the black part of the pole is above the fence line (and why is that part of the pole even painted black?) and b.) the ball appeared to hit the mesh on the pole rather than the pole itself, which is obviously a home run. It looks like the umps just blew it. Lame.

I just looked up the Yankee Stadium ground rules, and it says any batted ball hitting the foul pole above the fence line is a home run. That ball hit the black part of the pole, which is below the fence line. I think that's why they called it foul. Here's the link.

Shhh...Don't tell Mongo his "logic" makes no sense.

On a related note, then Yanks have the 7 highest payrolled teams to win absolutely nothing. Incompetence led to having to buy those wild-card losses? Thnap thnap.

The Yankee name had been disgraced way before Joba got here. Signing and enabling steroid cheats, retiring the numbers of everybody and their brother so they could sell the place out for a day, tearing down their beloved home, and allowing Hank Steinbrenner to speak on behalf of the team all did far more damage than some dopey kid pumping his fist on the mound ever could.

I gotta agree with Nas- it'd be a lot nicer tackle if he wrapped him up. That's a lazy tackle that looks better than it is because the guy was defenseless.

Nope, looks like it's still just the Leafs, Islanders, and Red Sox against the Yankees (aka "The Biggest Choke in Baseball History").

Craig Hansen is Manny Delcarmen's twin brother. Not literally, of course, but you take a look at both guys career paths and they're identical. Great stuff, able to dominate minor league hitters, but can't seem to get guys out on a consistent basis in the majors. He was just up with the big league club for a spell. Not sure if he's still on the ML roster, or if he's been sent back down. Edit: Looks like he got sent down the same day he was called up. I know he took the loss that day, but I think he was only supposed to be up to temporarily fill a roster spot, anyway. 2nd edit: Looks like he just got called up again after today's game.

For this statement alone, if I were the Giants, I would make sure he comes back on the team's terms, or not at all. It's been a nice run, capped off with the biggest victory in franchise history. But Strahan doesn't have nearly the incentive to come back strong this year that he did last year. He was coming off a very expensive divorce, and didn't stand to make nearly as much as an analyst as he would now. Now, he's won a Super Bowl, he's in a little better position financially, and there'd be a bidding war among the networks for his services. He still stands to make more money on the field, so he'd prefer to cash in one last time. But he knows this would probably be his last year regardless, so there's really no incentive to put up big numbers once his name has been signed on the dotted line.

Lorf, what the hell is up with this guy? He's a heart-attack waiting to happen. He needs a stint in AAA to get his act together. He has phenomenal stuff, yet continues to throw everything on the fat part of the plate. I'm getting pretty tired of waiting for him to become a dominant setup man. Doesn't look like it's ever gonna happen.

Sorry, bud- I couldn't resist. :evilgrin:

It has been done before.

I'm sure there's a logical explanation for all of this. Maybe everybody's just misrememberin'. Report: Clemens had relationship with Mindy McCready from The Associated Press NEW YORK April 28, 2008, 11:58 am ET · Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported. Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed a long-term relationship but told the newspaper it was not sexual. "He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her," Hardin said. "He's considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her." Clemens was 28 and a married father of two when he first met McCready, the newspaper reported. The story, which appeared on the newspaper's Web site Sunday night and in editions Monday, quoted several people who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation. It said Clemens sent cash to McCready to help her with legal issues and reached out to her when she was in jail last year in Tennessee. The 32-year-old McCready, sentenced last September for violating probation from a 2004 drug arrest, was released from jail last Dec. 30. The violation occurred in July when McCready was accused of scuffling with her mother and resisting arrest at her mother's home in Fort Myers, Fla. She still must serve two years' probation. McCready had a No. 1 single in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time." The revelation could undermine Clemens' reputation, which is central to the defamation suit the former pitcher has filed against former personal trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee contends Clemens used performance-enhancing substances during his major league career. "If true, it's just another example of Roger's pervasive prevarications which will be at the core of any defamation case," said McNamee's attorney, Richard Emery, in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Hardin did not respond immediately to an e-mail from the AP.

It's a bit of a gamble to bunt there. First and foremost, when all you need is a fly ball, Jeter's still gotta be the guy you'd want up there more than any other Yankee. God forbid he can't put the bat on the ball and Damon gets hung up. If you safety-squeeze it, Damon ain't as speedy as he used to be, and there's no guarantee he'll be able to score, so you may give up an out for nothing. Bottom line- blame Jeter for not getting the job done.

Yeah, I know I could regret this, but I have to say they don't scare me like they have in the past. They don't make anything happen on the basepaths. I know Cano hasn't started hitting yet, and ARod hasn't been driving the ball like he usually does, but they just seem to lack something offensively. Defensively they have a lot of liabilities, especially if Posada's health doesn't improve, but also at first (not really a position where defense is always so important, but it always seems to come back to bite the Yankees) and in the outfield corners.

I was talking more about the team on the field- Giambi, Damon, Matsui, Abreu, Posada. The Yanks seem pretty reliant on the long ball to score runs, which is usually a recipe for disaster.

No argument here. It's just too bad that geriatric group you guys send out there every night won't give him a chance to save any meaningful games before his career is over.