Are you suggesting that all the sound and fury signified nothing?
What the Yankees may really need is for the other two teams to keep having 1-2 series until CC and Pettitte are back.

Are you suggesting that all the sound and fury signified nothing?

Indeed.

Well, we’ll just see about that - tomorrow, for instance.
And tomorrow, and tomorrow…

I have this nightmare where we continue playing the CWS every game for the rest of the season. Enough is enough. Bring back interleague or something.

[4] The only downside to CWS that I see is that it’s the only team whose broadcast is more annoying than Michael Kay. I can’t believe people in Chicago put up with that Hawk BS.

SG - Since you’re so bored, how about an analysis of how much Mo’s injury projected to hurt the Yankees compared to how much it actually has hurt them? It seems to me that there have already been a few games where, had Mo been available, the whole use of the bullpen would’ve been different and either we would’ve had Mo instead of Soriano or Robertson or we wouldn’t have gotten to the soft underbelly as quickly as we did.

My gut feeling is that we’ve already lost more games due to Mo’s absence than a strict run-based projection would’ve have suggested. This is despite the overall great W-L record of the team since the injury.

Lohud:
1. Jeter SS
2. Granderson CF
3. Teixeira 1B
4. Cano 2B
5. Swisher RF
6. Ibanez DH
7. Chavez 3B
8. Martin C
9. Wise LF
Hughes P

Something, something, Alex, Old Timers day…

JayJay: Since absolutely no projection would have had the Yankees playing as well as they have over the past thirty days, I doubt you’d find any negative effect from missing Mo.

One can alays cherry pick games in hindsight and say “had Mo ben here, Joe G would have done THIS and then THAT would have happenned” but it is pure conjecture. Mo was great but he blew some saves too sometimes. And for all I know Soriano woudl still stink if h was pitching the 8th. For some reason he looks better in the 9th; maybe he is a head case who needs to pitch the 9th. . I have no idea.

By the way, can anyone explain why Joe G left Wade out there to pitch the 9th Friday night? It was 10-7; the game was possibly in reach and he was already at 50 pitches. what the heck was going on? Was it a penalty for stinking so much the last couple of weeks?

[8] I know you can’t predict baseball, but this is uncomfortably close to saying you can’t project it, either.

Seriously, this is such a small number of games that literally anything can happen.

[7] Alex gets the day off against CWS so he doesn’t have to play a doubleheader?

I guess the Yankees’ season is a tale told by an idiot then.

I’m just back from Wyoming and a 4-day interview with Dick Cheney.  He was a Yankees fan as a little kid.

[11] Yes, that qualifies.

“ow”