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It's also worth noting that Yankees' pitchers and catchers continue to make poor decisions when it comes to pitch selection. Andy's bread and butter against righties is a FB in, or a cutter in. What he wants to avoid is letting them extend their hands, when he throws that straight fastball on the outer half. On 3-2 to Reed Johnson, you go with your bread and butter, like he did against Manny in the first inning. He doesn't, and just like against Dan Haren in his previous start, Johnson slaps it over first. They don't learn from their mistakes, and it continues not to surprise me.

Nothing new for Andy, fielding has always been an issue for him. The biggest play of this game is likely going to be his decision to throw to third, instead of to first. With the pitcher up, you get the sure out, and you get out of the inning only down a run. Unfortunately Andy chose to go to third, and it has opened the floodgates.

I honestly can't imagine a worse manager than Joe Girardi. How many times does he have to see Park struggle in his second inning of work before he starts only pitching him one inning.

And same for your team against the Germans tomorrow. Cannot wait till game time.

This whole 'Yankees' Class' thing is stupid, something that is perpetuated by parts of the fan-base who want to view their favorite team as above all others. Every large fan-base of a team that consistently wins has this group of fans (although not all of them take the 'class' route). Additionally, 26-6, I don't think the proper tact here is to defend the Yankees by pointing out what Red Sox's players do. It's an unnecessary comparison, and only makes you come across as too defensive. With that being said, I would like to respond to a couple of db41's points. First, I think your two criticisms of Derek Jeter are a bit off base. No matter how he feels personally about A-Rod, or any of the steroid users that have played for the Yankees, it would be a disservice to the entire organization if Jeter spoke out publicly against them. There is a distinct possibility that it could create a clubhouse rift that would significantly impair the team moving forward. Those are in-house issues, not ones you that you go to the media with. Second, when you talk about the Yankees' mound visits, I think you're referring more to games 3, 4, and 5 of the World Series last year than anything else. Besides those games, the Yankees really don't hold defensive meetings on the mound much more than any other teams. As for the World Series, they clearly thought the Phillies were stealing signs, judging by the fact that they were going with series signs when no one was on base. With that being the case, in the World Series, I don't think you can blame them for taking extra precautions.

Never seen a better pitcher at preventing runs from scoring with a runner at third and less than two outs.

I cannot believe they're going to bring in Boone Logan. EDIT: Or not. Now Mo has to go through the heart of the order.

Cervelli can't touch a guy like that. The bunt was the right call, yet Joe, who loves the bunt, lets Cervelli swing. You can't make some of this stuff up.

Bad job by Swisher, but the 3-0 pitch wasn't even close. The HP umpire has been awful all night.

Just awful, they have no business winning this game. And now Joe lets Marte face Reynolds...

I really hate it when Joe tries to steal out against righties with Marte.

Such a dumb team.

Javy seems incapable of getting a swing and miss tonight.

Javy doesn't have much tonight, and I don't think they're going to hit enough to support him.

I cannot believe Alex swung at the 2-0 pitch.

Cervelli just bunted. I think I'm watching the dumbest team ever.

Really too bad that Javy seems to have absolutely no faith in his fastball.

Should have been a double play.

And he has absolutely nothing on his FB.