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Can some one please give me the stats for Embree?

That was crazy!

^^^^^ Thanks...

Damn you Manny! 5-5 at least.

It was a combination of things, the hustle, the diving stop, the throw. If Millar would have handled the throw it would have been a hell of a play.

Hardy har har.

He is said he FEELS Dominican. Let the man be, he is the kind of person who you ( Cass) have said should come with a mute button.

I guess the steroids are paying off, lol. 5-4 Sox

the ball was foul, I am not being biased.

f*** 5-3

Ok scary moment there, the ball was foul.

4 years not that long, I know but still.

^^^ Same here

Not blind, I just don't see what the big deal is.

Thanks I didn't know.

^^^^^ True I see your point, but I don't understand why it bothers some people. Also didn't Manny become a citizen? I think he has a blue one and he is representing DR, and I think Albert too.

Hey everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. Being half Dominican I can say that I wouldn't mind if he did or didn't play. Yea he was born in the US, so what you represent what you want.

Hey I will say, we are in some deep s***. A two man rotation lol, Pavano isn't ready, Brown can't pitch and Mays and Redding. Looks bleak, but lets just play the games and see. I call split, we HAVE to win tonights game, and when the Big Unit pitches.

His parents are Dominican, he lived in DR for awhile and I see no problem with him playing for DR. But hey what I say doesn't matter, I a Yankee fan.

Another one: July 14, 2005 -- THE second half begins at the end. The Rivalry renews tonight at Fenway Park with last things first. Can Mariano Rivera solve the Red Sox? Can a bunch of folks, notably Curt Schilling, replace Keith Foulke? There are many intriguing storylines as baseball resumes at 4 Yawkey Way - aren't there always when it is Yankees vs. Red Sox? Will the Yankees ever devise a way to get David Ortiz out? Will the regenerated Jason Giambi and Alex Rodriguez turn to mush again vs. Boston? Will the real Yankees and Red Sox please stand up? Or are these the real Yankees and Red Sox we saw all first half, both beautiful and blemished? Still the most intriguing matters will start at the close, when the ball is in Rivera's hands and finding out in whose hand Boston manager Terry Francona trusts. Foulke, who was brilliant last year as the Red Sox won their first title in 86 seasons, was never right in 2005. He gave up a walk-off homer to Derek Jeter in his first appearance, April 5 at Yankee Stadium. He allowed eight first-half homers, pitched to a 6.23 ERA and finally accepted that he needed left knee surgery that will keep him out until around Sept. 1. Between now and then, the Red Sox must figure out how to close games. Which brings us to Schilling. The Red Sox ace has not pitched in a major league game since April 23 due to a deep bone bruise in his right ankle. During his rehab, it was determined Schilling was not yet ready for the rigors of landing on the injured foot as often as a starter must. So in a marriage of two needs, the Red Sox activated Schilling and will likely have him close. That decision, at least initially, angered some Red Sox, most vocally Johnny Damon. Mike Timlin has been among the majors' best relievers this year, and Damon felt Timlin should be rewarded with the closer job and Schilling should be built up to start. Was this just an Idiot moment or a sign of lurking dissension? For now, Schilling and Timlin will be asked to tag-team the final nine outs in some order. The Red Sox attempted to address the overall poor shape of their bullpen by acquiring Chad Bradford from Oakland. Hard throwers Manny Delcarmen and Jon Papelbon are waiting at Triple-A for a call, and Boston officials hope to sign first-round pick Craig Hansen out of St. John's in time to be a September option, as well. The Yanks have no questions about who gets the ball in the ninth inning, though there are plenty about how Rivera will do against the Red Sox. Rivera blew his first two save opportunities of the year against Boston, and has run off 20 straight successes since then, including two against the Red Sox. But the two successes came when he had three-run leads. The last four times Rivera has faced the Red Sox with a one-run lead, including last year's ALCS, he has blown the save. Since the beginning of the 2002 season (playoffs included), Rivera has blown nine saves in 24 chances against Boston and 10 in 144 chances against everyone else. His ERA vs. the Red Sox in that timeframe is a respectable 2.93, but it is 1.48 against everyone else. Rivera's work against the Red Sox is similar to Pedro Martinez's work against the Yanks. There are exceptional outings interspersed, but the reality that one team has more success than any other against him. Like with Martinez, it probably has much to do with an elite lineup seeing Rivera often. The unbalanced schedule and 14 ALCS games between the Rivals the past two seasons has meant 31 appearances for Rivera against Boston since the 2003 season began. That has removed some of the mystery from Rivera's cutter and some of the aura he carries to the mound. The Red Sox feel they can beat the Yanks' closer. Will they again? Will Boston win having turned its rotation topsy-turvy with its ace pitching at the end? In the middle innings of this season, the end games fascinate.

Not trying to start anything, just posting what the papers say. Let's not get too cocky, and this goes out to both fans. Yankees ready to bake beans Schill on hand as Bombers eye broom BY SAM BORDEN DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Hideki Matsui is hitting .375 (36-96) with 10 home runs since June 14. Manny Ramirez is also on a hot streak - blasting 9 homers and driving in 31 over the same span. Two nights ago, Alex Rodriguez fit snugly between Johnny Damon and David Ortiz in the American League's All-Star lineup. Gary Sheffield was at a locker near Manny Ramirez in the AL clubhouse. And Mariano Rivera came on in the ninth inning to save a victory for Terry Francona, then embraced the Boston skipper after summarily completing his work. For a few days, there was peace in the baseball world. "I don't really look at what we do during the season and bring it here," Sheffield said of the Yanks-Sox All-Star camaraderie. "This is different. This is supposed to be fun and easy." That's over now. After three days off for everyone except A-Rod, Sheffield and Rivera, the Bombers regroup tonight in Boston and resume the business of trying to improve on a season that, to this point, has been nothing like what was expected. A year ago, the Yanks were seven games up in the AL East and held off Boston to win the division by three games. This year, however, most players seem to believe there will be a race until the very end, which means this weekend's series at Fenway Park will be nothing compared to the three-game set slated for Sept. 30-Oct. 2. "That, I think, is going to be a good time," Sox catcher Jason Varitek said. Still, these games carry much weight and the Red Sox might have underlined that when they activated Curt Schilling yesterday after 2-1/2 months on the DL with an ankle bone bruise. When the Yankees went 11-19 early in the year, it was the Orioles - and not the Red Sox - who jumped out to an early lead. Despite being nine games out on May 6 and seven on June 10, the Yankees have had several surges, including a seven-wins-in-eight-games stretch that has them just 21/2 games behind Boston for first place. "I'm looking forward to the Red Sox series," George Steinbrenner said through his spokesman, Howard Rubenstein. "It's a tough team and I hope the Yankees do our very best." The numbers are simple: Sweep all four games and the Yankees will be right where everyone expects a $200 million team to be. "We've been through a lot," A-Rod said. "We've been through a lot that most people don't even know about. To be where we are right now is fortunate. Everyone on this team has been attacked from every angle. But I think (right now) is the tightest we have been, one-through-25." The Yankees have been criticized by their owner and blistered in the media; they have shaken up their roster with rookie position players (Robinson Cano and now Melky Cabrera) and turned to a young pitcher for salvation (Chien-Ming Wang); they have battled injuries (Carl Pavano, Kevin Brown, Jaret Wright), age (Bernie Williams and, perhaps, Jorge Posada) and unexpected inconsistency (Randy Johnson). Yet here they are. If the Bombers played in the AL Central, they would be 12 games behind the White Sox. They are not. Instead, they are 46-40 and challenging for the lead in a race many thought they had already lost. An informal poll of Red Sox and Yankee players at the All-Star break resulted in nearly identical responses when asked if it was possible for one team - be it the Bombers, Bosox or Baltimore - to run away with the division. "No," Rivera said. "It's going to be interesting all the way. It's going to be close." Johnny Damon said, "I'm sure we'll both get into the playoffs and somehow meet in a Game 7 again. It just seems to work out that way." There are slightly more than two weeks remaining before the July 31 trade deadline and GM Brian Cashman is on the phones daily, trying to find the one deal - if there is one - that could push the Yankees over the top. He is interested in center fielders, to be sure, since it is hard to imagine Cabrera manning that spot through the end of the season, but is more focused on pitching. Other than Rivera, Tom Gordon and Tanyon Sturtze, the bullpen is unproven and most of the starting rotation is brittle. In all likelihood, however, the Yankees will have to make do with what they already have and overcome their own flaws to reach their lofty goals. The true push begins tonight.

EVEN AFTER FIRST-HALF FLOP, BOMBERS CAN OVERTAKE RED SOX AT FENWAY July 14, 2005 -- BOSTON - After all the losing streaks, all the calamities, all the angst and all the aggravation, after all those losses to the Devil Rays and the Royals, all the days and nights when the Yankees looked as if they'd just been introduced to each other five minutes before batting practice, all the hitting slumps and shaky pitching performances, all those mornings when the morning newspaper insisted they were a fourth-place team ... after all of that, there is this: Another four-game series at Fenway Park, starting tonight, another weekend of Yankees-Red Sox when first place in the division is on the table, a remarkable mile post in a season that has thus far been impossible to predict, impossible to prophesize, impossible to anticipate, impossible to define. So we're back where we were at the beginning, three-and-a-half months ago, when the length and breadth of the Yankees' world began and ended with the Red Sox, when the width and circumference of the Red Sox's world was measured in strict, precise, pinstriped terms. "After everything we've gone through," Joe Torre said the other day, "where we are isn't a bad place to be." After everything, the Yankees are 21/2 games behind the Red Sox, two out in the loss column, and even if the Orioles still stand between them, a half-game up on the Yankees, that still seems terribly temporary. After everything, it's entirely possible that by Saturday evening, the Yankees could be in first place in the American League East. One more reminder of just how long the baseball season really is, something we have known even if the mid-summer ramblings of Ruben Sierra and Gary Sheffield hadn't been entered into the public record in the past few days. At the start of the season, it was easy to finger the Sox and the Yanks as odds-on favorites to forge a rubber match ALCS this October. "We're a couple of teams that have an awful lot of experience, and between us we've won an awful lot of baseball games the last few years," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said last weekend. "I don't know if that gives us an advantage over other teams or not, but I'd rather have that experience working with me than the other way around." The wild-card safety net is no given this time around. The Twins and the Rangers, maybe even the Guardians, are still legitimate threats to win an awful lot of ballgames while the Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles and Blue Jays are beating each other up in the East. The Yankees have won the East seven straight years, and the Sox have finished second seven straight years, an unprecedented 1-2 run in the history of professional sports, and the last few years, that was good enough to invite both into the postseason pool. This time, there is a genuine premium on first place. This time, it's entirely possible that the do-or-die, win-or-go-home challenges that arrived only once Game 7 of the ALCS arrived the past two years might actually come a few weeks earlier, at the start of October rather than the middle of the month, when the Yankees and Red Sox finish the regular season with three games at Fenway. And wouldn't that be something? "We're going to be in first place by the end," was the vow Sierra made as the Yankees headed out the door for the All-Star break, and while it might have seemed needlessly boastful, Sierra may speak the truth, and may give voice to the Yankees' greatest priority. First place or bust. So Fenway this weekend will be something more than simply a pleasant midsummer resumption of hoary hostilities. Neither team can win the division this weekend. But both sure can endure devastating body blows. A sweep in either direction sends a loud message. Three out of four would, too. After all that's come before, an unpredictable prologue, a fickle prelude, what we have this weekend is something that always grants us the best promises of summer: Yankees. Red Sox. With real stakes sitting on the table. End the All-Star break already. Let's get on with it.

All I got to say is wow! This is neither a good wow or bad one, just a wow!

Cass- LOL sorry to dissapoint you but you know me. Mirabelli is cute, saw him on the queer eye thing.

Oh sorry missed that one. I am dead ass tierd, and lol.