It makes sense with Nick Johnson’s career-ending injury.

Career-ending? Am I missing a snark, or is it pure hyperbole? My radars are off.

Juan Miranda, you are now a Yankee.  Anything you say, can and will be used against you by the New York press.

Too much?

[1] Pure, unadulterated, snark.

Am I missing a snark, or is it pure hyperbole?

I figure if we plan on it being career-ending, anything less can only be a pleasant surprise.

I’m excited for Miranda, let’s see what he can do, and how many more moonshots he can hit. It’s not like we have too many other fantastic options floating around.

I saw that Montero, who hasn’t played in several days, was pulled from a game and held out over the weekend because he didn’t bust it down the line on a routine grounder.  What’s wrong with this kid?  Does he not know that baseball is bigger than him?  He should consider himself lucky they didn’t drop him down to AA given how he’s been spitting the bit and how well Romine has been playing (and more importantly playing the game right).

I seriously doubt they held him out for a full weekend over one instance of being lazy.

[1] Worse than that. I see that NJ’s wake is tomorrow, funeral Thursday.

Hopefully those carrying the casket won’t get injured in the process.

Dark humour.

[6] Gotta love the “spitting the bit” reference. Back in the days.

[7] Maybe, but why not just pull him from a game then immediately give him another chance before benching him for several days?  And I rather doubt he’s lazy - he’s been struggling a little bit (esp. relatively) and probably was disappointed in his AB and slow getting to first in a lapse of concentration resulting from that.

That was the point- my guess is that they had already given him another chance.

Scouting the umps.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txscoutingtheumpires

So a few teams are keeping daily tags on the umpires.

One report on Hunter Wendelstedt sez: “Inconsistent zone, both in-game and from game-to-game, seemingly losing focus at times by balling pitches over middle and calling strikes on pitches well off the plate. Seems to want hitter to put ball in play.”

If NJ is gone for the year this platoon will not be DHing come July and August.

I’m amused by the use of “balling” as a verb not having to do with basketball.

In the past balling had a very non sports meaning-does it still?

“my guess is that they had already given him another chance.”

As far as I know he hadn’t been pulled from any games before for non-obvious reasons.

“txscoutingtheumpires”

I love that one can know that Gardner gets the worst zone on the team and Jeter the best, and where A-Rod falls on the spectrum.

In the past balling had a very non sports meaning-does it still?

Always.

Very Ten Years After.

Very Ten Years After.

Whoa -  I haven’t seen a reference to Alvin Lee and/or Ten Years After in a couple of decades.

Are you referring to their rendition of “Good Morning Little School Girl”?

I’m Going Home my favorite performance in Woodstock film

Don’t know anything about TYA but the obbligato (ad libitum?) electric guitar part on “I’d Love To Change The World” is pretty awesome.

[10] I haven’t been able to find much about the situation, so hard to speculate.  Maybe they had been planning on giving him a couple of days off anyway?  Maybe after talking to him they thought he could use a couple of days to clear his mind?  I don’t think it is unprecedented - even at the major-league level - to give a guy in a slump a couple of games off.

Perhaps it was an extended punishment which seems overboard at this point, or maybe the reasons were much more benign.  I certainly hope the latter, and that this rest “works”.  Especially by Saturday when I’m at the park and anything less than 2HR is unacceptable!