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What if the numbers are partially based on the performance of players no longer on the team? The Yankees pitching staff, as presently constituted, is not the pitching staff that has compiled their team numbers. Matt DeSalvo, Tyler Clippard, Darrell Rasner, Kei Igawa, Sean Henn, Jeff Kartsens, and Mike Mussina each put a nice dent in the Yankees team ERA. The thing is, except for Mussina, you aren't going to see these guys the rest of the way. You are going to see quality young guys like Chamberlain, Hughes, Kennedy, Ramirez and solid old guys like Clemens, Pettite and Wang (not that old, I kno

Carlos Pena - Tampa Bay. What's the suspicion with Posada? Only his average is up. HR's and RBI's are pretty steady with the rest of his career. He's had two good years after a slight decline. However, these past two years are also the first time his son has been healthy. According to the Yankees radio team, this has helped him mentally. Is it true? I got no idea. Also, there's been no physical change with Posada. He looks as unathletic and chubby as ever. Are we supposed to be talking 'roids? It's part of the game now, I guess. Regrettable, but unavoidable.

I don't mind predictions, I just don't want anyone to think a Sox-Angels ALCS is a foregone conclusion. Basically I'm just trying to stick up for my team. If the Yankees pitching is so terrible why are they 4 games up in the WC? Why are they only 5-1/2 behind the Sox? Why have they been able to take 8 of the last 11 from the Sox this year? I'm not trying to be an a-hole, but the Yankees pitching is nowhere as near as bad as people are trying to make it out to be. If anything, the offense has been more of a problem. For the first half of the season only A-Rod, Jeter and Posada hit. They got

I know about A-Rod's post-season history, but, if the Yankees are fortunate enough to make the play-offs, I expect the guy to deliver. He is so locked in this year. Additionally, it's really only 2005 and 2006 that he's been a post-season dud. He put up good numbers with Seattle in the play-offs, and in 2004 he carried the Yankees against the Twins and even hit a few bombs against the Red Sox before the whole thing went to shit. After the Detroit series last year and the accompanying uproar, I expected him to be a total head case and perform like crap this year but instead he's been great. I e

I'm probably being hypersensitive, but I take the predictions of a Red Sox-Angels ALCS as a dismissal of the Yankees. I don't consider the Yankees pitching to be any more suspect than any other teams. Wang, Pettite, Clemens, Vizcaino, Chamberlain, Rivera - that's enough. A-Rod's bat will fill any holes.

I'm pretty happy with the Yankees pitching. Wang (like Beckett) is 18-6. Pettite is always solid, especially after losses. His record is not great and he is obviously vastly overpaid, but, if healthy, I always feel comfortable with Clemens. Also, they have some decent young starters in Hughes and Kennedy. As for the bullpen, well, there's Joba and Mo. Is there a better 1-2, 8th and 9th inning combo in baseball? Okajima and Papelbon are admittedly very good, but I'd still take Joba and Mo. I know the Yankees are the George W. Bush of baseball in terms of popularity around here, but don't dis

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I thought he meant the point guard for the '84 Georgetown national title team. As I'm not much of a beer drinker or enthusiast, I've never heard of this Michael Jackson. Nevertheless, RIP.

Earlier this morning, I watched this:

Oh yeah, "Congratulations." If I was making this mix, that would have to be included. I never liked "Tweeter" much, but it is definitely well regarded and should be included. Wilburys 3 was from the 90's, right? "If You Belonged to Me" is pretty great, but, I guess, ineligible for an 80's mix.

For whatever reason, the Yankees always struggle with Tampa Bay. I don't think the Yankees are looking past them, or are thinking they won't need Joba to beat them. I agree though they need more than Joba in the bullpen to maintain this slim WC lead or to...maybe...yes...catch the Red Sox.

Based on the Cashman-dictated "Joba Rules" (pitch one inning = one day rest, pitch two innings = two days of rest), the whole thing seems suspicious to me. Why would Torre send Joba out there for another inning with a 5-0 lead when this would mean Joba wouldn't be able to pitch again until Sunday? My thinking: he didn't intend Joba to be out there for a full inning. The plan was for Joba to throw at someone right away and then get taken out (or tossed). The intended target was probably Ortiz, but he flew out on the first pitch of the inning. A-Rod got plunked yesterday, so Ortiz had one coming

I'm an idiot. Joba was throwing at Youklis. Sorry for the misinformation.

Motivation for head-hunting Lowell?

I can't really pinpoint the motive - I don't think any Yankees were hit. I know Lowell has made some comments about the Yankees in the past. Plus, didn't he have some real hard slide against Jeter last series? I'm just guessing. It really looked intentional. Joba has too good of control to miss like that twice in a row.

I don't know if anyone is watching this live, but Joba Chamberlain was throwing at Mike Lowell's head and got ejected. Two pitches in a row - it looked intentional to me and I'm a Yankees fan.

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I hate the labels, but I would consider myself a moderate "pro-lifer" - if there is such a thing (and I would like to think there is). Anyway, for myself, I don't know what there is to discuss about Hentoff's above quotation. I think he's right. I know in the past I had been far too willing to accept war and capital punishment, while holding myself out as "pro-life." However, over the past four or five years, for whatever reason, I've changed much of my thinking in regards to certain aspects of foreign policy and criminal justice. Right now, I would say I do fall along the Hentoff suggested an

I apologize for going off topic, but do you know in what capacity O'Rourke is working in with film? Is he writing, directing, music consultant?

I don't know if this adds anything, but I thought it was interesting. It seems to show a pretty consistent "pro-life" stance from the present/recent hiearchy of the Catholic Church. Of course, this is only one (actually two) writers opinion/point of view. Nonetheless, I thought it was a decent read. Link "The most consistent and frequent promoter of peace and human rights for the last two decades has been Pope John Paul II. From Iraqi War I to Iraqi War II, he has echoed the voice of Paul VI, crying out before the United Nations in 1965: War No More, War Never Again! John Paul II sta