Still Number One.

Check out this photo gallery on the construction of One World Trade Center over at the Atlantic.

[Photo Credit: Gary Hershorn/Reuters]

Drawing by the great Edgar Degas.

If DJ can stand tonight, he’ll play tonight.

Meanwhile, over at River Ave Blues, Mike Axisa maps out the starting rotation for the rest of the year.

[Photo Credit: N.Y. Daily News]

David Lebovitz’s french weekend.

Total heaviosity.

[Photo Via: Queen Maria Libertina]

It ain’t easy. The Yankees held a 5-3 lead going to the bottom of the ninth tonight. Rafael Soriano was on the mound. Minutes earlier, Nate McClouth pegged a line drive off the right field fence down in Baltimore to give the Orioles a 3-2 win over the Rays. Because, as we all know by now, the Orioles don’t lose one-run games.

Cody Ross, Bobby Valentine and coach Jerry Royster had all been thrown out of the game in the bottom of the eighth when Soriano’s 3-2 slider was called strike three. The pitch was low though it may have crossed the plate in the strike zone. It was enough to make Ross, and Valentine go batshit crazy.

The biggest concern for Yankee fans, however, was that Derek Jeter left the game with an apparent ankle injury after hitting into a double play to end the top of the eighth. Early word has it as a bone bruise in his left ankle with Girardi saying Jeter will try to play tomorrow (he’ll have to be unable to walk to stay out of the game).

So Soriano gives up a solo home run to Jared Saltalamacchia. He gets the next two outs and then botches a ground ball putting the tying run on base. Then Jacoby Ellsbury hits another one right at Soriano. He fielded it this time, underhanded the ball softly to first, and the Yankees had the game, 5-4.

Curtis Granderson hit two long home runs, Robinson Cano had a two-run shot over the Monster, Nick Swisher had a couple of hits, and David Phelps pitched a fine game. Best start of his career. The first part of the game sailed by, the last half was plodding, a typical, Yankee-Red Sox affair.

We exhale for now.

[Photo Credit: Jared Wickerham/Getty Images; Elise Amendola/AP ]

No speeches, no bitching, just rooting.

Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Alex Rodriguez DH
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher 1B
Raul Ibanez LF
Eric Chavez 3B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Chris Stewart C

Fuck Everyone: Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Missus Cab Driver…

[Photo Via: Retro New York]

This is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Thank you, Hardball Talk.

Roasted pumpkin with rosemary and garlic, part of a  simple September feast indeed.

“Mademoiselle Mary de Borderieux,” By Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

True Indeed.

[Photo Via: Touchn2btouched]

It won’t mess up your hair.

As Jon mentioned in the previous thread:

Yanks record by month:
13-9
14-14
20-7
13-13
15-13
4-5

Apart from the 20-7 run, this is a mediocre team. Yes, they’ve been hurt by injuries but right now they are a group of underachievers.

[Image Via: Photo Blur]

Collage by Julien Ratouin-Lefevre.

Who knows if this is rock bottom or not but if Saturday night was a punch to the stomach this one here’s a kick to the balls.

The Yankees put the first two men on base, scored one, then left the bases loaded against Jon Lester in the first inning. They went 1-637 with runners in scoring position tonight and got what they deserved against an inept Red Sox team when they couldn’t score more than three runs and the Sox won it on a base hit in the 9th inning.

I’d recap the game but most of you saw it and reliving it would just angry up the blood. Going to be hard enough to fall asleep as it is.

Sox 4, Yanks 3; O’s 9, Rays 2.

We’re tied again.

The Yankees have not won two games in a row since August 14-15th. Believe it.

We’ve talked a lot about the Yankees reaching rock bottom lately. Worst case scenario, they miss the playoffs. Worser case: the Red Sox knock them out. Boston has nothing to play for other than to inflict pain on the Yankees.

Three game series starts tonight in Boston and their ace, Jon Lester, is on the hill. The Yanks counter with Hiroki Kuroda who is due for a good start.

Derek Jeter SS
Nick Swisher RF
Alex Rodriguez DH
Robinson Cano 2B
Russell Martin C
Steve Pearce 1B
Curtis Granderson CF
Andruw Jones LF
Jayson Nix 3B

Never mind the paranoia: Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Still Diggin’…

Here’s an end-of-summer treat from Nicole Franzen.

Here’s another wonderful short in the Made By Hand series.

Made by Hand / No 4 The Cigar Shop from Made by Hand on Vimeo.