Per WFAN, Terry Francona has asked Joe Girardi to be on his staff for the all-star game this year.  Joe Girardi will join Jim Leyland as the other coach with Francona.  What a match of personalities.

A true sign of respect from a great guy like Francona….cant wait to see Joey G in the dugout during the game! Well deserved.

Ian Kennedy put the Yankees in a hole right from the first batter as we lost again to the Rays 5-2

IPK goes 5IP, 5ER…not so good

Melky and Jeter both with RBI’s and nice days at the plate

Not much else here as the Yankees are playing without a pulse right now

Rasner to right the ship against Santana and the Mets tonight

(reuters)

Mets lose 1-0 as Pelfrey flirts with a no hitter and still cant get the offense support

Pelfrey throws 6 innings of no-no ball and walks away with a loss

Willie cant get this offense going!

Wright has the Wrong idea when it comes to hitting

Reyes being Reyes again

Beltran comes so close in the 9th!

Next stop….Subway Series

We all know by now that ARod recorded a video of congratulations to his friend Manny Ramirez. For those who don’t know, Manny and ARod are very good friends outside of baseball and spend a lot of time together in the off season.

Why do people have a problem with this? Whats wrong with a friend congratulating another friend in a cool video when he hits 500? Did Manny do it for ARod, no, but that doesn’t mean ARod cant do it for Manny. There must be something special there if ARod was asked to do it knowing full well the Yankees/Sox rivalry.

Personally I think its great! It goes further to prove that the real hatred between the teams is in the stands and not on the field. Even as recent as Jeter and Nomar, and what we know now is the special friendship between Terry Francona and Joe Torre. Francona was quoted saying that the reason their friendship wasn’t public was because “the fans dont want to see that”.

There’s nothing wrong with this and though I cant stand Manny, ARod’s video is completely cool with this blogger.

Thoughts?

Yankees win 2-1 at the Trop against the first place Rays

MOOOOOSSSSSSEEEEEEE gets his fifth win in a row! Mike goes 6IP, 1ER for his sixth win

Moose better than Beckett right now

Orly to the MoJob is perfect! Mariano and Joba are unbeatable!

Joba strikes out the side…..Its Joba Time!

Abreu and Cano with the only needed RBI’s

Yankee batting averages are below average

Cano goes 4 for 4

Hank needs to verbally thrash the team on a daily basis

Yankees Rays today at 4:10pm
PS-Clay Buchholz broke a finger nail and is on the DL. Awwwwww, he broke a nail…hope he survives.

The Pats “walked through” this whole cheating scenario with a small fine and loss of a first round draft pick.  The pick loss made no difference because they already had a top pick from last years trade and Bill Bellichichick could care less about the $500k.  The scenario with Matt Walsh should have shed more light on how in depth the Patriots were cheating and should have resulted in more penalties, but it will not.

Matt Walsh came forward with all his tapes and met with the NFL yesterday for three hours.  Surprise, surprise Roger “Bob Kraft’s Puppet Boy” Goodell says no new information came out and this will most likely end shortly.  We’ll never know what the original tapes showed because they were destroyed….youre welcome Bob.  False reports on whether the Patriots taped the Rams SB walk through were nonsense.

Again, the Pats will come away with this after years of cheating with only loss of a draft pick, a bogus fine and three Super Bowl rings.  I thought from the beginning that the penalties should have been more stiff for cheating, but I guess not.  Makes no difference as cheaters never prosper and the Giants are the reigning Champs, but I am disappointed in the NFL.

Everyone respects the Giants and much thanks to Tom Brady who in a WEEI interview yesterday expressed the deep respect for Big Blue.  He called them a “blue collar” team that plays its heart out and thats exactly what the Giants are.  Wouldn’t change it for anything….thanks Tom.

Rays win in extra innings 2-1 as Mo gives up the winning run

CMW pitches awesome but giving up even one run with this offense, sometimes is too much

Wang goes 7IP, 1ER and no decision!

Joba and Farnsy go perfect two innings

Matsui is the hero (at the time) going yard against Troy Percival in the 9th to tie the game

The Previously Perfect Mariano Rivera came in to go 1IP, 3H, 1ER….no good

The Tampa Bay Rays are in first place….I cant believe it either….there will surely be a monument erected for to commemorate this day.

Mikey Moose goes tonight against Shields….should be a nice battle. Lets hope Mosse pitches a no-hitter so we have a chance.

Right on cue, per Hank Steinbrenner:

“We’ve got to forget about all the injuries and start playing our butts off,” Steinbrenner told The Post. “The bottom line is that the team is not playing the way it is capable of playing,” Steinbrenner said. “These players are being paid a lot of money and they had better decide for themselves to earn that money.”

Per an ESPN article, Gossage thinks that Joba’s emotion is inappropriate.

“That’s just not the Yankee way, what Joba did. Let everyone else do that stuff, but not a Yankee,” Gossage told The Record on Saturday. “What I don’t understand is, the kid’s got the greatest mentor in the world in Mariano [Rivera]. He’s one of the leaders of the team, so you’d think it wouldn’t happen on that team. “

I Goose’s Yankee way is to trash Joba in the press?  How would that have gone over in 1972?  Probably not too well.  I think Goose is upset, but a Yankee like him shouldn’t be getting involved with this….leave the trashing to Mike and the Mad Dog.

(Reuters)

The Rays beat down the Yankees 7-1 in a dominating performance

Andy doesnt have it going 4IP, 5ER and dropping his record to 3-4

Right now, the Yankees are just not hitting anyone….FACT

Damon with the only RBI

Not much here as this was the most frustrating game I’ve watched in a long time. No pitching and Garza made the Yankees looking like the White Plains High School Junior Varsity Team.

Awful…

Old reliable CMW pitches tonight! Lets go Wang!

I guess, I did get a nice smile when during the Celtics loss a huge Boston Sucks chant broke out…gave me a nice chuckle.

Per WFAN, Ian Kennedy will come back up and pitch against the Mets.  This announcement just came out and Im sure more details on everyone’s schedule will come out shortly.

Rasner will pitch Thursday night as planned.