yankee 7th inning stretch:
1. when did you become a yankee fan?2. how?3. what were your first baseball memories?4. who's your favorite yankee player of all time?5. who's your favorite yankee pitcher of all time?6. which yankee team is your favorite?

1. When sperm met egg

2. Everybody except my annoying aunt loves the yanks in my family. You know she's a met fan right?

3. I was like 4 years old and we were in the bleachers watching the yanks play toronto. It was a night game and I was bored cuz I was 4, lol. The game all of a sudden got gangsta cuz everyone started shouting "BLUE JAYS SUCK!" I mean dudes were jumping up and down on the bleachers and going nuts. So I got into it too yelling the same thing! I was having the time of my life untill my pops noticed me like 10 minutes later. I'll never forget that.

4. Donnie baseball. Met him and his son on the 4 train once. No lie. Add paul o'neal, Bernie, brosius, and Jimmy Leritz too.

5. David cone and Jimmy key.

6. I loved all the torre teams that got the ring.

Edwar Ramirez is no joke... that kid's got 1 nasty changeup... i love the different look he gives us out of the pen to complement flame throwers like Joba, Farns, Bruney & Mo.

that Ohlendorff kid looked pretty good in his debut... man, when have we had so much young pitching talent on this team? i can't remember ever being as much as we have now... AWESOME!

Posted by TMS:

that Ohlendorff kid looked pretty good in his debut... man, when have we had so much young pitching talent on this team? i can't remember ever being as much as we have now... AWESOME!

He was throwing hard as heck and keeping the ball down. He has really improved since they sent him to the pen. He had command problems early in the year.

Posted by djsunyc:

i would just like to say that tampa bay is the worst team in major league baseball history.

Boston coming back to win those games don't bother me. They feasted on Tampa's lame relief pitching.

What I took out of that Boston-Tampa series is that Boston's starting pitching stinks right now and there's no chance the Yankees bullpen gives up those kinds of leads.

Boston is still stumbling to the finish, no matter what they did in coming back against a pathetic Tampa bullpen. I really want to embarrass them in Boston this weekend like the Yankees did last year. Step on their necks and leave them with serious doubts.

Posted by djsunyc:

i would just like to say that tampa bay is the worst team in major league baseball history.

that ball Ortiz hit was imminently catchable... we should be within 4 games right now.

[Edited by - TMS on 09-13-2007 2:39 PM]

Man I couldn't believe Joe didn't put Rivera in.

Farnsworth, Ramirez and Joba were all unavailable. Mo was limited for an inning in a save situation.

I don't mind seeing Britton in that situation. Tough spot though with Rios and Thomas the first 2 batters but they didn't have many other options.

I don't mind losing the game. They weren't going to go undefeated during a 9 game road trip. I just think Kennedy deserved better. He pitched a great game and deserved a win. Although the same can be said for Burnett. I blame ARod and Matsui for not coming through there in the top of the 9th. But, it's not a big deal.

Normally I think Torre is a moron whenn it comes to managing a bullpen but I don't mind how he managed it the last 2 games. You have to do everything you can to finish games where you have a 3 run lead going into the final 6 outs and you have everyone available.

Tonight they were shorthanded and weren't hitting. I'd much rather Torre use what he has available than force extra work on his most important bullpen guys.