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You really can't complain about losing a game with Mitre against Halladay. Unfortunately tomorrow is Gaudin, and then it's out to the West coast.

I think you could go ahead here and ask any of the regular posters if I show Yankee bias, and I think you would getting resounding "no". I never said that what Youkilis did was worse. They probably deserve similar suspensions.

I never said Posada was in the right, however it is no worse than what Youkilis did. I highly doubt he gets more than five games.

Oh come on, I'm not going to get into a long debate at this point, but what Posada did was not worse than what Youkilis did.

How can they get more than five games if Youkilis got five games for charging the mound and throwing his helmet at the pitcher?

Posada probably will. That's about it.

lol, he's gotten better at those things since he was openly criticized by Chad Curtis. And Optimist, I'm in 100% agreement with what you said.

Considering what has happened to guys like Bill Lee, these things cannot happen. Fortunately it looks like the most injured Yankees was Joe Girardi.

Unbelievable. CC, Burnett, Joba, and Pettitte had to get right in the middle of that. Who knows what could have happened. Very selfish on the part of Jorge Posada.

Absolutely ridiculous.

A's waste an opportunity to put the game out of reach. 6-1 after 5.5.

Pretty ridiculous right now at NYS. Fortunately these two teams only have one more game remaining.

Neftali Feliz does not have it tonight, as the Rangers playoff chances seem to be crumbling. If they lose it would put the Yankees magic number to clinch a playoff berth at 6 and the Red Sox magic number to clinch a playoff berth at 14.

After tonight the Yankees are going to be 93-53, with the 16 games remaining. Seven of those games will be at home, while nine of them will be on the road. While it looked a couple weeks ago like the Yankees might fly past the 100 win mark, things have seemed to catch up to them a little bit. At this point, 100 wins is probably what to expect, because those last 16 games are not too easy. In actuality, they only have one easy series remaining, the second to last one of the year against KC. Tomorrow is crapshoot, with Gaudin going against Tallet. After that, a six game west coast trip could be very difficult at this time of the year. I believe Felix Hernandez is going to pitch one of the three games this weekend, which will increase the difficulty of that series. Obviously the three games in LA are going to be tough. Then they come home for three games against the Red Sox, which are always tougher, but even tougher considering how the Sox pitchers have done lately. KC at home should not be too difficult, and then who knows what TB team will show up over the final weekend. Hopefully, for the Yankees sake, those last two series prove to be relatively meaningless. They haven't been playing great recently, and considering the things I've already discussed, 5-5 in the next ten games (1 vs. TOR, 3 @ SEA, 3 @ LAA, and 3 vs. BOS) seems like a reasonable expectation. That would put them at 98-58 with six games remaining. Wondering what others think...

Don't you already think they're favorites to take it all?

Have to run it out Nick. The Yankees, whether it's making base running mistakes or forgetting how many outs there are, have looked sloppy the past few games.

Brutal, but expected.

And there's the other side of it.

I don't know why they're talking about that like it was a perfect throw. If it was off line. If it's on target Alex is out by even more. He pretty much got as good a jump as you could hope for, he's just pretty slow at this point.

I know, I'm happy in general about the what has transpired this year. Read the first post of the page though, if you haven't already.

Yeah, I know, I just figured I would explain myself. But, especially lately, I have come off as extremely negative, which could be really annoying considering the state of the Yankees.

And Mitre's command abandons him against the bottom of the order... EDIT: Absolutely miserable job by Mitre. You cannot open up the inning against the bottom of the order throwing seven of nine pitches for balls. He deserved to pay for it and he did. On top of that, you also have to question the pitch selection. I really hate that righty to lefty run back fastball that Greg Maddux kind of perfected. It really takes exceptional control to throw that pitch, because it is actually designed to run towards the middle of the plate. For a guy like Halladay it can be a weapon, but not for a guy like Mitre.

Really let him off the hook though. On top of Damon hitting into the double play, Gardner needs to score on the Jeter single. The ball was hit in front of him so he should have been able to get a better read on it, and the left fielder fielded the ball flat footed. With Gardner's speed he easily should have scored.

As expected, Swisher's numbers at NYS beginning to improve.