I can’t bring myself to say that the Yankees win, so I say we lose. Apparently the Devil Rays have suited up again and the Yankees have found the fountain of juice. There were a ton of broken bat bloopers, bad infield play and just all around bad luck. I don’t feel Jackson pitched awful, he was more a victim of circumstance tonight. I’m not saying he was good, just that the Yanks were catching all the breaks. As much as I hate the Yankees, I’m not going to overreact to all this though. We’re still down a couple players, the pitching is going to have some bad outings and the defense can’t be stellar every night. We all have to remember how things have gone for us this year. Most of the year, with guys like Gabe Gross batting .230ish, we got hits at all the right times in all the right places. I don’t like any slump coming now, but it happens. So let’s all just chill.
Note time…
- No one should ever throw a fastball low and inside to Gabe Gross. That was an absolute bomb he hit. You couldn’t draw up a better pitch for him to hit and he gets his props for demolishing that ball!
- Melvin should pretend the bases are empty with runners on. I’m sure someone will throw some stupid stat at me here but it’s too obvious not to point out. Upton looked like he was afraid to swing last night as he continuously came up with runners on. Tonight he had the bases empty the entire night and was stroking shots all over. I hope he can put it together for the playoffs.
- The gods have come to smack us. I admit that I got a little cocky towards the Yanks when they came to town (as did all of us), and we all have been smacked down by the baseball gods. It’s a reality check at the right time.
- The umpires still suck. The ball the stat padder hit was fair, but he shouldn’t have been able to hit it. The pitch before was a strike and the ass-kissing Yankee umpires were at it again. Look, we were gonna lose anyway, so I’m not making excuses, but why do the Yanks and Red Sox players get rewarded so much for not swinging the bat?
- Jason Giambi is the ugliest juiced up porn start I’ve ever seen. I would rather watch Ron Jeremy hit.
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