Oh look, Pumpsie can count.....

I see someone has been busy in my absence. I didn't realize a sox fan could count that high but the top 10 list was a nice touch. There is no getting around the fact that we are at the bottom of the AL east and are not playing our A game. I can only imagine what it does to a person to feel like this for decades at a time. That explains a lot about the populace of the nation.

Any baseball fan will tell you when it rains it pours...hard. You get down and you almost invite things to break bad. You worry about getting hurt and you get hurt. You think about your pitches and they become predictable. You play like your drowning and you sink to the bottom. But fear not, it's a Yankee universe and the universe has a way of self correcting.



#1 - A LONG way to go indeed - Since Pumpsie's post the sox have fallen out of first by half a game and we are now only down by six which means 5.5 down on the nation. We are playing some of our worst ball in years and the sox are for the most part at the top of their game. We're going to get better. Long term I'm more worried about the Rays come this fall.

#2 - Dirty Laundry - some things (like gold thongs) should just stay in the lockerroom. Neither of us should peel this onion because I guarantee there is plenty of weird stuff to go around.

#3 - Jon Lester - I was going to bring up Gehrig but some things transcend rivalries (or at least should) and remind us of why we love the game of baseball. Well done young man.

#4 - Make that "were" in first place.

#5 - Broomed in Oakland - .......and three losses are three losses.

# 6&7 - Pitching - there's something to this one. Moving Jaba into a starting role is going to help but the disappointment of Kennedy and Hughes is profound. And for the record, it's HGH Andy. This is where in years past King George would take out the check book, but since you guys seem to be able to spare a few arms......

And, please nation, continue to hang some hope on Schilling's return because that is not going to be the homecoming everyone north of NY thinks it is.

#8 - Shea Day - I know when you have one team to root for between 6 states two teams in one town must seem like the big time indeed. It's the Mets.....moving on.

#9 - Posada - it physically hurts to admit it but I tend to agree. A catcher, especially one that hits like Posada is the captain on the field whether he has a C on his jersey or not. We need him healthy.

#10 -....like I said, when it rains it pours.