The Return

Bless you and your impossibly high expectations.

Also, Melky and Cano have clearly been staying up all night playing Road Rash and eating candy. Please whip them into shape.

Yankees Offense Personified

As of right now, the Yankees offense is playing like 9 Julio Lugos (career numbers):

Pulling their weight

The offense is anemic and the Yankees are still below the .500 mark but things could be a lot worse. I think some credit should go to Farnsworth and Mussina for rising above my very low expectations of them.

Mussina's last 5 starts:

IP	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
29.1	27	9	3	17	2	2.76

Moose is sporting a 1.1 WHIP for the season which makes me think that his ERA should be lower but he still loves to give up HRs so that probably accounts for that.

Farnsworth's May line:

IP	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
5.2	4	0	0	4	0	0.00

Before May, hitters were OPSing .937 against The Professor. During May, .513.

This is probably a blip but he seems to be locating better and his slider looks nasty.

If you think the Yankees are frustrating to watch now, just wait until the other shoe drops with these guys.

If this happens, I'm going to become a full-time soccer fan

via MLBTradeRumors:

I can, and will, watch this all day

Something good to take from Phil's start this weekend.

Miller and Morgan

Is there anything worse than having to sit through 9 innings of these walking/talking jokes galumph their way through the china shop that is the English language?

I really don't know who is worse: Joe Morgan with his "analysis" that includes making up terms like "underspin" and "funny-pitch" or Jon Miller with his inability to cover up his middle school boner for the Boston Red Sox in the booth. But, then again, Red Sox fandome and a poor grasp of the game of baseball go hand-in-hand.

At least they broke things up by going to the mummy of Peter Gammons for some unbiased Red Sox tea-bagging.

That said, if any of those guys can avoid hitting into double-plays I'll put them in the Yankee's lineup right now.

Larry Bowa...

...we miss you.