Yankees, Joba Win!

WOOOOOOOOO WHOOOOOOOO!!!! WOW!!! What a great victory!!! And if it wasn’t for Joba hitting a ball up the middle, and taking out Kawakami who knows…the Yanks might have gotten “Perfect Gamed”…as my friend John Sterling put it many times last night. And just when I start to have my doubts about Joba being a starter…”He goes and does something like this…and TOTALLY redeems himself.”…sorry Dumb and Dumber moment. Well maybe not completely…the fact that he couldn’t get out of the bottom of the 7th hurts him a little bit…but everyone has to admit he did look great yesterday…even with him facing two pitchers combining for a perfect game gone no hitter after a Brett Gardner walk in the 6th…I’ll get back to that soon. But I was impressed with Joba’s poise and confidence on the mound yesterday

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Sox Outlast Yanks, Go 8-0 this Season

What could I possibly say about last night?….o that’s right PATHETIC comes to mind…I want to start this off by saying I’m not one of those fans who always has the “doomsday” scenario in their mind, “If they don’t win tonite they’re doomed”, and I generally take one game at a time…it is a long season, but the performance last night was disgusting and inexcusable! Calling all Yankee batters…that was Brad Penny on the mound last night! And he is not the Brad Penny of years past, although it seemed that way, but he is the Brad Penny who has a 5.32 ERA and a WHIP of 1.56!!! Are you kidding me? The worst part about it, in my mind, is that they got 6 hits but couldn’t get ANY runs off of him!!! Oh and again TOO MANY BATTERS LEFT IN SCORING POSITION!!! C’mon guys the bats have to wake up…in the late innings we saw that Yankee fight but this game should’ve been a NO CONTEST!!!! Sabathia is out there pitching his heart out and we can’t get any runs for him? Well they did but I am really talking about against Penny…Penny hasn’t been good for 3 years and last night he looked like the Cy Young caliber pitcher he once was…maybe he reached back and found something from his past…I don’t know, either way the Yankees looked horrible against him last night…NOT GOOD!!!

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Yanks lose in 9th…

A very, very disappointing game today…one with many peaks and valleys but at the end of the day the Yanks put themselves in a 4 run hole that they can only half way dig out of. I, and probably every other Yankee fan, thought that with the way they battled back there was noooooo shot they would lose, especially with Mo coming in. Side Track: Hey Joe!!! Maybe it’s time you realize that Mo can’t come in, in non save situations!!!! He doesn’t have the same intensity and doesn’t have the same focus. Please!!! we have other guys in the bullpen, definitely not as good or with even close to the same track record but maybe Mo should only be in during save situations…it has been said by many closers and many pitching experts that when a closer comes in in a tie game they don’t have that same fire or adrenaline rush…Joe, we have some talent in the bullpen, including Phil Hughes lets give them a try too…Sorry Mo lovers I am one too but you have to admit there is something wrong there. Anyway the Yanks in the top of the 9th looked horrible, really can’t blame them I guess…they got beat by the bats of the Rays and by Mo getting just a bit too much of the plate. Although disappointing it is just one loss, and the Sox still have to play a powerful offense today, but as of right now we are tied for 1st.

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