It’s C.C.

Brett Gardner CF
Alfonso Soriano LF
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Vernon Wells DH
Curtis Granderson RF
Eduardo Nunez SS
Lyle Overbay 1B
Austin Romine C

Never mind the speeches:

Let’s Go Big Fella!

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Yeah, Hard Luck Hiroki didn’t pitch poorly. It was that damn 3rd run he gave up before getting the final out in the 7th. Otherwise, man, he pitched another competent game. But the Yankees had Chris Sale on their hands, a formidable, hard-throwing lefty. They scored a run and would have had another if the home plate umpire didn’t blow a call at the plate. When your team doesn’t score those moments are critical because the Yanks scored another run in the 9th but Alfonso Soriano whiffed with the tying run on base and that was that: another loss. And the downward spiral continues.

Final Score: White Sox 3, Yanks 2.

[Photo Credit: David Banks/AP]

It’s Hiroki–Our Guy!

Brett Gardner CF
Alfonso Soriano LF
Alex Rodriguez DH
Robinson Cano 2B
Vernon Wells RF
Jayson Nix 3B
Eduardo Nunez SS
David Adams 1B
Austin Romine C

Never mind the boo boids:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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Derek Jeter goes back on the DL, David Adams called up, Brent Lillibridge cut, Andy Pettitte faces—ah, screw it: Alex Rodriguez is in the lineup tonight.

Brent Gardner CF
Alfonso Soriano DH
Robinson Cano 2B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Vernon Wells 1B
Curtis Granderson LF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Eduardo Nunez SS
Chris Stewart C

Never mind the boo birds:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

It’s Phil Hughes vs. former Yankee, and new Padre, Ian Kennedy. This is the first time Kennedy has ever pitched against the Yanks.

Ichiro Suzuki RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Alfonso Soriano LF
Curtis Granderson CF
Lyle Overbay 1B
Eduardo Nunez SS
Jayson Nix 3B
Austin Romine C
Phil Hughes RHP

Never mind tomorrow’s hoopla:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Alex Rodriguez spoke to reporters after he hit a home run in a rehab game last night. And here is Sally Jenkin’s Washington Post column on Rodriguez vs. Selg:

Selig and A-Rod’s attorneys are discussing a “settlement” according to reports. A settlement? The word is an apt description of how this commissioner operates: What’s most important to him is not the health of players but the health of revenues. Last year Selig bragged on the “Mike & Mike” radio show, “I said to the owners, ‘Look, guys, in the end you can judge me by asset values. Because in the end, that is really the sum total of everything we do.’ ”

A-Rod is the perfect defendant for a show trial. He is despised alike by spittle-flecked hecklers behind the plate who scream at him for not hitting in the clutch and by solemn self-appointed keepers of the emerald chessboard’s sanctity for admitting four years ago to PED use during a three-year stretch with Texas from 2001 to 2003. He’s an incurably self-conscious phony who incredibly still insists he’s “a role model,” an awkwardly hapless stumbler who is always getting caught, whether frequenting a shady clinic or letting Cameron Diaz feed him popcorn on camera like Cleopatra taking grapes from a love slave. He is a tone-deaf egotist who never understood the deep resentment he engendered by being baseball’s highest paid player and then not producing astronomic numbers. The reaction to him by fans and critics has always been excessive to the point of disturbing. My friend Joe Posnanski wrote maybe the truest thing ever about A-Rod and his audience: He gives them “guilt-free hate.”

Meanwhile, the Yanks are still in San Diego.

Never mind the hubbub:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Stephen Shore]

The Yanks are in San Diego this weekend. Hey, our pal Grandy is back! And C.C. gets to hit. That should be fun. He’s due for a good start, too.

Brett Gardner CF
Derek Jeter SS
Robinson Cano 2B
Lyle Overbay 1B
Curtis Granderson LF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Eduardo Nunez 3B
Chris Stewart C
CC Sabathia LHP

Never mind the sunset:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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Sure, our boy Hiroki’s going tonight. Trouble is so is Clayton Kershaw.

Brett Gardner CF
Derek Jeter SS
Robinson Cano 2B
Alfonso Soriano LF
Vernon Wells RF
Brent Lillibridge 1B
Jayson Nix 3B
Chris Stewart C
Hiroki Kuroda RHP

Never mind the odds:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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Brett Gardner CF
Derek Jeter SS
Robinson Cano 2B
Alfonso Soriano LF
Lyle Overbay 1B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Jayson Nix 3B
Chris Stewart C
Andy Pettitte LHP

It’s Andy in L.A.

Never mind Alex Rodriguez vs. The World:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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…You’ve got me in between the Devil and the deep blue sea. 

Brian Cashman didn’t want to trade for Soriano writes Joel Sherman. Derek Jeter is due back in the lineup today.

The Yanks look to score some runs today…against Matt Moore. Ooof.

Never mind the obstacles:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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Nova, matinee, Yanks look to recover from last night’s drubbing.

Never mind those damn Rays:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Paul Bailey]

C.C. gives it another try. I’ve got a good feelin’ about him tonight.

Brett Gardner CF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Alfonso Soriano LF
Lyle Overbay 1B
Eduardo Nunez SS
Travis Hafner DH
Brent Lillibridge 3B
Austin Romine C

Never mind the bollocks:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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Aw, it ain’t that bad. Yanks go for the split this afternoon in Texas.

Never mind the gloom and doom:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Image via This Isn’t Happiness.

You have to marvel at how silly it all is, don’t you? These are reportedly grown men we’re talking about. But when money and ego are in the mix, adults act like children, don’t they?

Meanwhile, Matt Garza makes his first start for the Rangers tonight against Andy Pettitte who is trying to get his act together.

Never mind the hubbub:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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Lil’ Sori: The Return? Just as Alex is about to get shitcanned? Oh, I can see the columns that will be written (wait–too late).

In the meantime, it’s Phil “Chuck and Duck” Hughes.

Never mind the nonsense:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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Ryan Braun’s suspended for the rest of the season.

(Alex Rodriguez your life is calling.)

Meanwhile, the Yanks are in Texas for four games.

Brett Gardner CF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Lyle Overbay 1B
Vernon Wells LF
Travis Hafner DH
Eduardo Nunez SS
Chris Stewart C
Luis Cruz 3B

Yu vs. Nova.

Never mind the funny stuff:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Image by Jackson Patterson via This Isn’t Happiness]

Alex Rodriguez was due to join the Yankees in Texas tomorrow but he’s back in New York having an MRI on the current old-man ailment for the Yanks–quad troubles.

Meantime, it’s C.C. who will try to pick it in the second half…dammit. C’mon, C.C., you’re our MAN.

Brett Gardner CF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Lyle Overbay 1B
Vernon Wells LF
Travis Hafner DH
Eduardo Nunez SS
Chris Stewart C
Luis Cruz 3B

Never mind the Game of the Week:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Picture by Quint Buchholz via This Isn’t Happiness]

Yanks turn to the ever-reliable Hiroki Kuroda this afternoon. Fox: Buck-McCarver. Gluten-free offense. That hard-on, John Lackey. Could be a long day’s journey into night.

But never mind all that:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Yanks vs. Sox at Fenway. Jeter to the DL. Old man Andy on the hill.

Brett Gardner CF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Vernon Wells DH
Zoilo Almonte LF
Lyle Overbay 1B
Brent Lillibridge 3B
Eduardo Nunez SS
Chris Stewart C

Never mind the

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First half of the season ends with ol’ C.C. on the hill.

Ichiro Suzuki CF
Zoilo Almonte LF
Robinson Cano 2B
Travis Hafner DH
Vernon Wells RF
Lyle Overbay 1B
Eduardo Nunez SS
Luis Cruz 3B
Chris Stewart C

Never mind the HEAT:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

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