These days there aren’t many parks where CC is having success. While it is encouraging to a degree that things didn’t unravel until the 6th, they still unravelled and as Hank points out, the A’s are not exactly a great team.

At some point the Yanks will have to make a hard decision on CC. It didn’t look like they would be contending this year, and maybe it is more to do with the overall mediocrity of the AL East, but with CC looking pretty done this year, I think they might want to eat his salary and wish him well, or have him as the long man in the pen, and hope he figures out how to work with his present physical limitations.

I would rather see a young guy with promise up and trying to latch on than to see CC trying to hold on.

Nice to see McCann starting to heat up. We need some mashing to make up for the rotation.

Tanaka feels like he is going to come back just long enough to break our hearts again, and finally ge the TJ surgery that should have happened last year.

The “Oxford Commas” – that’s *awesome*. You should be awarded first place on the team name alone!

In the old days he would’ve jumped and screamed and nothing would’ve changed; I like this way better.

Ain’t that the truth! Great write up, Hank. Especially for those that quit after the top of the 5th.