Trading Deadline

It's the trade deadline day and for the Yanks it could be a very busy day.

They've already acquired outfielder Austin Kearns (above) from Cleveland and will likely pick up Lance Berkman from Houston today.

The Yanks can not stand still. Tampa, who I feel is the best team in the AL along with the Yanks, is right on their backs and it looks like they'll be teams one and two in the league jockeying for postion for first. It look like they will both make
the postseason but whoever finishes first will have the home field advantage.

Who knows...Maybe the Yanks should have tried to get Cliff Lee or maybe another pitcher. Who knows...today can make or break some teams chances and as Yankee fans we hope Brian Cashman made all the right moves but the next two months will tell.

Yankees-Tampa Bay Rivalry

The Yankees over the Years have had many Rivalries. The Yankees and Red Sox still the best.

In the 70s the Orioles and Kansas City. Even in post season the Dodgers and with interleauge play The Mets. This year you can put Tampa in that mode.

Yes the Yanks and Rays got intense a few years ago with a fight in pre season and with The Steinbrenner Family from Tampa that has speared it up a bit. And most of all this year The Yanks and Rays have the best records in baseball and it is going to be a close race all summer long. Tampa has a great young team and I hope as
a baseball fan they can keep there free agents at the end of the year. They could be good for a long time.

And by October who knows they could be playing for the Pennant.

So Long Boss

So long boss

As a Yankee fan you would hope this day would never come. It did today as we got the word of the passing of George M Steinbrenner.

It has been a tough week on Sunday Bob Sheppard died now George. Like most Yankees fans there were times you could not stand him and then times you loved him. But what ever you felt about him you had to admire the way he loved the Yankees and the fans of New York.

In spring Traning 1983 I met him at Fort Lauderdale Stadium and he could have
not been nicer to me and the other kids.Ever since then I have been a big George fan. It is a sad day kind of like when a relative dies. It was very hard.

RIP Mr Steinbrenner there will never be another one like you

No Cliff Lee? No Problem.

On Friday Morning it seemed certain the Yanks had Cliff Lee in a trade with Seattle.

No dice as the Mariners got a better deal with Texas.

In most cases the Yanks don't lose out on these deals but on this one they did and I feel it is no big lose. The Yanks are 55-31, playing great, and the the rotation ahas been super over the week. Phil Hughes who won his 11th on Friday night would have to go the bullpen if Lee came to town.

Besides...Lee is the big free agent this winter and you can get him with trading any body just losing a draft pick. Also a lot of Yankee fans like myself feel the Yankees should give top prospect Jesus Montero (pictured above) a shot. He would have been sent to Seattle. Maybe he will be in another deal...who knows. But for now he is still with the Yanks and this was a good man.

Sounds of Silence

Getting shut out twice this week by real good pitchers Clff Lee and Felix Hernadez is one thing but only one run against the Blue Jays to start this past weekend's series is another.

5 hits over 11 innings is not the Bronx Bombers although the bats did come alive later in the weekend. Maybe it is just a weekly slump but it is July and Mark Teixeira is still hitting .230 Jeter is at .280 A Rod has not come alive.
If you look at the team in general Cano is there only .300 plus hitter and has been contestant all year long.

Boston and Tampa Bay are right on the Yanks back it is going to be a tough race but if the bats don't wake up soon it could be rough in the weeks to come with showdowns against both Tampa and Boston.