All We Are Saying, Is give Pearce a Chance. Although we cringe with each ground ball hit to him, Nunez could prove to be very valuable in the home stretch. If he has a good respresentation, he will at least be solid trade bait in the off season. The Flying Nunie can’t wait much longer to play shortstop for the Yankees.

I missed most of this game except for the first couple of innings on the radio, and the 0″s two run lead. I went to YS with my family for the Friday game, and after that dominant performance by the pride of Guadalajara, Miggy Gonzalez I thought this would be a lost weekend for the Yankees and the realization that I must move on and stop investing so much emotional capital on this team. Friday’s game was bloodless affair; a stifling night, and a realization that the Yankees were running out of the magic they would need to keep the division lead. Buck must be loving it. Anyway, nice to see the comeback win yesterday and I see today’s game as the probable tipping point of the season. BUT…how can you predict baseball?

Perhaps Dickerson could fill the role that Wise had filled. Dickerson is a good outfielder with speed, ala Wise.

He led the AL in Ks in 2006, he had 169 last year, and two other times topped 140 Ks. So, this is not exactly foreign territory.

No, the move was absolutely silly, especially considering that when they picked up Ichiro, Swisher was nursing some injuries. He would have provided some reasonable depth—and might have been nice piece as the extra position player on the PS roster. But the team seems determined to play Ibanez in the field as much as possible. FWIW, Wise has had a better offensive season overall than Ichiro.

“Granderson hasn’t been much help lately. In his last 22 games, he is hitting .176 with 23 strikeouts. When he left the game, his 159 strikeouts were tied for second in all of baseball.”

[5] I like “Mercurial Freddy” too. Not “Freddy Mercurial”, huh?

Bruce, not to put a damper on your enjoyment, but it might be said that the Yankees managed to come back because the Orioles remembered that they are the Orioles. Let’s hope they don’t forget right away.

Has anyone called Garcia “Mercurial Freddy” before? I kind of like that name.

The Yankees looked so bad over the first six innings that I went and took a nap. So to hear that they came back and won was an excellent surprise.

How did Granderson hurt himself? He didn’t even swing at the last pitch. And are players that fragile?

It’s probably time to stop playing Andruw Jones. Against a lefty, put in Pearce, or McGehee, or Nunez.

Perhaps Nunez should be the righty DH. If he doesn’t have to worry about fielding, maybe he can go on a tear.

Seemingly good news on Grandy: http://es.pn/T4pU3I

I spent the entire 7th muttering assorted incantations at the mlb scoreboard on espn, and that was a lot of awesome up until Robbie’s 3-2 count.

Seems like a big time job out of some of our guys, although, of course, I couldn’t actually watch thanks to Angelos. You know, if I actually lived in crummy Baltimore, the blackout wouldn’t upset me nearly as much (or at all).

Sori seemed dominant from watching the scoreboard?

It just felt like I hadn’t seen much of anything I *really* liked from the team since they drove Floyd out of the game in the first game of the Chicago series. Everything has felt badly off since that moment.

So nice to have a comeback win.

One question, which I swear I have had since long before that Chicago series – was it a justified decision to get rid of Wise? I always really liked the guy and his speed, will at the plate, and plus defense at all outfield spots? And even if there was a reason – and forget what happened with Curtis today – is there anyway to look at the Wise move as anything other than a brutal mistake?

Would like to hear some opinions/answers on this.

Mood is brighter this afternoon. Until tonight, which will be/could be very ugly for me.