Yanks Earn Cellar

The American league East has a new loser.  The 2008 Yankees.  Let's get used to it. 

Somebody has to be in last place.

 We don't have the pitching staff we need.  It may turn out that only Wang and Hughes are even competitive.  And Joba and Mo are great.  Who else do you want to lay odds upon?

 Our Gazillionaires are getting old and dis-interested.  They are hitting , combined, just above zero with runners in scoring position.

Our manager should be in the hospital.

Gumby is already hurt.  And there goes most of our team speed.

Note to Yankees:  Duncan is a worse fielder at FB than Gumby.  And he has been uncovered as a batter.  Meaning; I expect no big hits when it matters.  Mostly, he is a minor league guy playing in the bigs.

  

A-Rod is back to his old tricks.  Strike out on low outside pitch when he is tying or winning run.  But he has a great pair of shades, no?

Farnsworth and Hawkins should be replaced now.  

The thing is;  this team is just like last year's team only older.  That means, once the 2008 NYY fall behind you might as well turn off the radio.

Sure, John will blow a call or two;  Suszyn will proclaim something wonderful about somebody or other; but the Yankees will not come from behind to win.

You can see the fog of failure and humiliation starting to build.

Losing four, at home, to Tampa is not effective payback for the War they began in the Grapefruit league.

I only hope we play Detroit real soon.