Saturday, June 16, 2007
Saturday Morning Coffee Accompaniment
The final memory I have of last night is listening to the last outs of the Yankee game on the radio, next to my son as he was falling asleep. A nice moment to wrap up of a snoozer of a game.
Today I'm putting on my Handy Manny hat and making like Bob the Builder. We are putting an addition on to our back deck, and the hard part begins today. A neatly packed stack of wood lies in waiting in our front yard. The Yankees and Mets will be serving as the background music for the event.
I don't have too much to say about last night's Yankee-Mets contest.
It's obvious how bad this team needs Johnny Damon in the line-up right now, perched permanently in the lead-off spot. His absence caused two headaches:
1. It mean that Josh Phelps had chances to strand baserunners in key spots. Mission accomplished.
2. More important, it meant that Melky Cabrera had a chance to wreack havoc in the lead-off spot. We all love Melky's spunk and energy and the upgrade he's provided in center since Injured Everyday Johnny decided his best defense is to play no defense. But Cabrera (a sub-.320 OBP) has as much business setting up the troika of Jeter/Abreu/A-Rod as you or do.
The Yankees went down oh so quiet into that good night, bringing the winning streak to an end with barely a whimper.
As the Red Sox were pounding the Giants, and the Tigers were doing the same to the enigmatic Phillies, New York's only saving grace was that Braves were able to come back late on the Indians.
I stated earlier this week that Cleveland is the team I have my sights zeroed in on; the Yankees trail the Tribe by five games in the loss column. To be fair, I should throw Oakland, who always seems to feast on the National League's line-ups, and a game Seattle team in the mix. The Yankees trail both of those teams by three games.
I don't like the idea of Tyler Clippard having to face a re-awakening Mets line-up, albeit one that still looked groggy last night, but the Yankees should be able to do some damage against Tom Glavine. Glavine has been very hittable of late giving up 28 hits in 18.1 IP over his last three starts.
If Clippard can gut it out enough to carry the Yankees into the 6th, keeping them in the game, the Yanks should have a good shot to even up this series. I don't expect their offensive no-show from last night to carry over to today.
I always look forward to watching Saturday night late games. As I look at the schedule, it looks like only one game has a chance of hitting the midnight hour: St. Louis at Oakland, which is a 9:05 EST first-pitch.
More blogging to come. I'm off to move some wood.
The final memory I have of last night is listening to the last outs of the Yankee game on the radio, next to my son as he was falling asleep. A nice moment to wrap up of a snoozer of a game.
Today I'm putting on my Handy Manny hat and making like Bob the Builder. We are putting an addition on to our back deck, and the hard part begins today. A neatly packed stack of wood lies in waiting in our front yard. The Yankees and Mets will be serving as the background music for the event.
I don't have too much to say about last night's Yankee-Mets contest.
It's obvious how bad this team needs Johnny Damon in the line-up right now, perched permanently in the lead-off spot. His absence caused two headaches:
1. It mean that Josh Phelps had chances to strand baserunners in key spots. Mission accomplished.
2. More important, it meant that Melky Cabrera had a chance to wreack havoc in the lead-off spot. We all love Melky's spunk and energy and the upgrade he's provided in center since Injured Everyday Johnny decided his best defense is to play no defense. But Cabrera (a sub-.320 OBP) has as much business setting up the troika of Jeter/Abreu/A-Rod as you or do.
The Yankees went down oh so quiet into that good night, bringing the winning streak to an end with barely a whimper.
As the Red Sox were pounding the Giants, and the Tigers were doing the same to the enigmatic Phillies, New York's only saving grace was that Braves were able to come back late on the Indians.
I stated earlier this week that Cleveland is the team I have my sights zeroed in on; the Yankees trail the Tribe by five games in the loss column. To be fair, I should throw Oakland, who always seems to feast on the National League's line-ups, and a game Seattle team in the mix. The Yankees trail both of those teams by three games.
I don't like the idea of Tyler Clippard having to face a re-awakening Mets line-up, albeit one that still looked groggy last night, but the Yankees should be able to do some damage against Tom Glavine. Glavine has been very hittable of late giving up 28 hits in 18.1 IP over his last three starts.
If Clippard can gut it out enough to carry the Yankees into the 6th, keeping them in the game, the Yanks should have a good shot to even up this series. I don't expect their offensive no-show from last night to carry over to today.
I always look forward to watching Saturday night late games. As I look at the schedule, it looks like only one game has a chance of hitting the midnight hour: St. Louis at Oakland, which is a 9:05 EST first-pitch.
More blogging to come. I'm off to move some wood.
