There's good news, and there's bad news

We've won seven in a row and 12 out of the last 15. 

We're challenging the Jays and the Tigers for the best record in the AL.

We're beating crap teams with confidence, which is better than we were doing.

Even Boone can't screw up enough to make us lose, though he tried damned hard last night. Williams? Doval? Jesus.

And now, the bad news, and it may not be what you think: that we can't beat teams that are over .500. Though that is, indeed, bad.

No, the real bad news is that Volpe and Wells are hitting. Both of them. At the same time. And that means they're going to keep getting into the lineup. And once we face better pitching--like, this week--they're going to suck. But Boone will only see how they've been "breaking out" recently.

That is very, very, very, very bad news. During a stretch run, against your toughest league opponents, you do not want these guys playing a lot, if at all. They can't handle pressure, and that's all we'll have for the next week or so. And also in the postseason, if we make it that far.

Between Boone's bad bullpen decisions (or whoever's bad decisions they are) and the fact that these two "future of the Yankees" stiffs will now be playing all the time, in Volpe's case, or too much of the time, in Wells's case, we don't have much of a chance against Houston, Toronto, Detroit, and Boston.

To make matters worse, Stanton might have cooled off. He's been relegated to PH duty when Boone decides he can't play right field, and that's not something that has a good effect on him. The joke has always been that Stanton will get hot and get hurt, then not be able to regain his form once he's back. Sitting on the bench is a non-hurt form of getting hurt. 

Of course, there's no such thing as a hot hand according to the geeks.

Our bullpen is still a sieve and Boone is still an idiot.

I'm trying really hard not to get my hopes up about the next week and a half.