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for harley........

OMG - I'm in love...

He's got back! Woo! Checked him out last night - yeah, baby!

EEEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Game 2 tonight!

red sux are winning 12 -1 in the 4th.....I am turning this one off.....maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised in the morning.

17 to 1, Final. Just thought you all should know. I'd gloat, but I'm too classy for that and the score says it all really.

(Boy, that Quantrill trade looks great so far...)

Ah, see, this might've been the worst news of the night, 'cept I spent my evening at NYU Med with my sister who was brought in unconscious. She's ok now, thank G-d, and drugged up to the nines and sleeping at my place tonight, so it all good, but there is a cute Yanks/Sox story that happened in the middle of this nightmare that y'all might appreciate, so here it is...

So, like I said, lil sis had a rough night and was rushed to the ER with her boyfriend, Joe, in tow. While she is being hooked up to machines and an oxygen tank Joe and I are trying not to freak out in the ER waiting room. Flash forward 4 hours later. In between waiting and going back to talk to her doctor for all those hours I have been talking to this sweet college kid also waiting for someone. Returning from a trip from lil sis's bedside when she was starting to recover - around 10 ish - I turn to Joe and say, "Give me some good news - tell me the Yankee score." He checks his blackberry and looks up at me and says, "Are you sure you want to know?" He hands me the blackberry and I actually yell, "Jesus Christ! 17-1?!?!" To which little college boy (who had NO Boston accent - he actually uses the letter "r") says, "YES!" I turn to look at him and say incredulously:

"You're a Red Sox fan?!"
LCB: "I grew up in Boston."
Me: (pause) "Just when I was starting to like you."

I don't know if it was my tone, the way I said it or the look of horror on my face, but he starts laughing, I start laughing and we both cannot stop. We lean into each other cracking up and it was the only point of levity in the entire night. When my sister was finally discharged LCB and I hugged and wished each other luck.

So, that makes this twice in one week I've hugged a Sox fan...but I was under a lot of stress!

I hope your sister is okay. I'll keep her in my prayers.

Harley I hope your sis is ok and you all are feeling better.....'cause Dave sure aint.


Yanks won a big one today Ace Vs. Ace!
Yanks and Randy Johnson beat the Sux and Matt Clement 7-4......huge win.....I'm pretty happy to say the least.

Torre says left-hander will pitch Sunday's game Associated Press

Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4

BOSTON -- The New York Yankees acquired left-hander Al LeiterSox. -- and most of the money to pay him -- from the Florida Marlins and scheduled him to start Sunday's series finale against the Boston Red Sox.

The Yankees will be responsible for about $400,000 of the $2.8 million remaining on Leiter's 2005 salary, general manager Brian Cashman said Saturday. There were no other players involved in the deal.

"We'll take a chance," he said. "It wasn't going to hurt us in terms of player talent, and it wasn't going to cost us a lot."

The Yankees are desperate for pitching help with four starters on the disabled list. Kevin Brown, who has been on the DL since June 16 with a back strain, will return to start Monday.

"It's a very thin market," Cashman said. "In the next two weeks, we need to hold serve, or tread water ... until our reinforcements can come back."

Cashman conceded that Leiter was no longer a front-line starter but held out hope that he would be an improvement in the back of the rotation. Tim Redding was called up from Triple-A to make an emergency start on Friday, and the Yankees lost 17-1; he was designated for assignment to make room for Leiter.

The Yankees have used 11 starters this season -- most in the AL.

"If you compare him [Leiter] to our fifth-starter sample -- which is getting rather long -- his numbers look a lot better," Cashman said. "We'll take a chance to see what we have there. Hopefully, it will be an upgrade from what we've been trying."

The Marlins designated Leiter for assignment on Thursday after he went 3-7 with a 6.64 ERA this season. He is due to make $8 million this year despite struggling to pitch like he did in his first stint with the team, when he won 27 games and helped the Marlins with the 1997 World Series.

"Disappointed would not explain how I felt. Then I found out from my agent that teams were interested in me," Leiter said in a statement released by the Yankees. "This is where I started in '87, and 21 years ago I was drafted by the Yankees. To come full-circle, I'm very excited."

The Yankees drafted Leiter in '84 but traded him to Toronto in 1989. He signed with the Marlins as a free agent before the '96 season and threw Florida's first no-hitter that year, but he was traded to the Mets during the Marlins' post-World Series payroll purge.

Leiter, 39, won a career-best 17 games for the Mets in 1998 and pitched a two-hit shutout against Cincinnati to clinch the NL wild card in 1999. With the Mets bullpen depleted in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series against the Yankees, he went 8 2/3 innings before running out of gas and losing 4-2.

Leiter was 10-8 with a 3.21 ERA for the Mets last season. He is 158-127 with a 3.76 ERA in his career and 1-3 with a 4.50 ERA in 17 career postseason games.

"The fact that he's pitched in New York, he's pitched in championship games, for both Miami and the Mets. The fact that he's had that experience, we think we can catch some lightning in a bottle here," manager Joe Torre said. "The experience is a big part of what helps when you pitch for our ballclub."

New York has been searching for a starter because Brown, Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright are all on the disabled list. Chien-Ming Wang joined them there on Thursday, a day before he was scheduled to start against Boston, with inflammation in his right shoulder.

Brown started the season on the DL because of a back strain, was activated April 17 and went 5-6 with a 5.48 ERA.

I am thrilled to death about this.....I wanted Leiter last year in the off season. He is a big game pitcher and this was a huge move for the Yanks. He will thrive in NY and get a big second wind. He should dominate today against the Sux.......mark my words.

A-Rod homers as Yankees get solid start from Unit



Series at a glance
New York leads 2-1
Thu 7/14 NYY 8, @BOS 6 Recap | Box Score
Fri 7/15 @BOS 17, NYY 1 Recap | Box Score
>Sat 7/16 NYY 7, @BOS 4 Recap | Box Score
Sun 7/17 NYY (Leiter) @ BOS (Wakefield) 6:05 ET

Game Information
Stadium: Fenway Park, Boston, MA
Attendance: 34,694 (95.6% full)
Game Time: 3:34
Temperature: 82 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind: 7 mph
Umpires: Home - Bruce Froemming, First Base - Jerry Meals, Second Base - Hunter Wendelstedt, Third Base - Mike Winters

Season Series
Series tied 6-6
Sun 4/3 @NYY 9, BOS 2 Recap
Tue 4/5 @NYY 4, BOS 3 Recap
Wed 4/6 BOS 7, @NYY 3 Recap
Mon 4/11 @BOS 8, NYY 1 Recap
Wed 4/13 NYY 5, @BOS 2 Recap
Thu 4/14 @BOS 8, NYY 5 Recap
Fri 5/27 @NYY 6, BOS 3 Recap
Sat 5/28 BOS 17, @NYY 1 Recap
Sun 5/29 BOS 7, @NYY 2 Recap
Thu 7/14 NYY 8, @BOS 6 Recap
Fri 7/15 @BOS 17, NYY 1 Recap
>Sat 7/16 NYY 7, @BOS 4 Box Score
Jul 17, 2005 NYY (Leiter) @ BOS (Wakefield) 6:05 PM ET
Sep 9, 2005 BOS @ NYY 7:05 PM ET
Sep 10, 2005 BOS @ NYY 1:15 PM ET
Sep 11, 2005 BOS @ NYY 1:05 PM ET
Sep 30, 2005 NYY @ BOS 7:05 PM ET
Oct 1, 2005 NYY @ BOS 1:15 PM ET
Oct 2, 2005 NYY @ BOS 2:05 PM ET

BOSTON (AP) -- Randy Johnson is pitching like the ace the New York Yankees wanted -- and not a moment too soon.

With the Yankees rotation falling apart, Johnson struck out 10 in 6 1/3 innings to win his third straight start, and Alex Rodriguez homered on Saturday to lead New York to a 7-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

Randy Johnson in 2005
Posada starting/Flaherty starting
W-L- 5-6 / 5-0
K-BB- 75-22 / 52-5

"Randy gave us a big lift today," said Rodriguez, who hit a two-run shot to spark a six-run third inning. "It was very big for us. He's our horse."

One day after the Yankees lost 17-1 behind Tim Redding, an emergency starter from Triple-A, Rodriguez followed Gary Sheffield's double with a homer over the Green Monster. Johnson (10-6) allowed four runs on eight hits and three walks and the Yankees won for the second time in the four-game series.

Tom Gordon got five outs, and Mariano Rivera pitched the ninth for his 22nd consecutive save. Robinson Cano had three hits -- his fifth straight game with two or more.

"With our starting rotation beat up as it is, these two games were important for us to win," manager Joe Torre said after the Yankees won for the ninth time in 11 games to pull within 1½ games of Boston in the AL East.

All-Star Matt Clement (10-3) lasted just 2 2/3 innings, allowing six runs on five hits and five walks. Johnny Damon singled in the sixth to extend his hitting streak to 28 games -- the longest in the majors this season and tied for fourth-longest in Red Sox history.

Johnson had the 206th double-digit strikeout game of his career. Only Nolan Ryan, with 215, has more.

It was a big boost for a staff that has four starters on the disabled list. Redding was called up for an emergency start Friday after Chien Ming-Wang went on the DL, and the Yankees didn't have a starter for Sunday until they traded for Marlins castoff Al Leiter on Saturday.

"We'll take a chance to see what we have there. Hopefully, it will be an upgrade from what we've been trying," said general manager Brian Cashman, whose team has used an AL-high 11 starters. "In the next two weeks, we need to hold serve or tread water ... until our reinforcements come back."

Kevin Brown is scheduled to be activated from the DL to start Monday, and Carl Pavano is still a couple weeks away. Jaret Wright is also on the DL and could be back next month; Wang could miss the rest of the season.

So the Yankees needed a strong performance from Johnson to avoid losing ground to the World Series champs -- and they got it.

Meanwhile, Clement struggled.

"Kind of hard to win a game when you give one of the greatest pitchers in baseball a 6-0 lead," he said.

Edgar Renteria went 1-for-5 with four strikeouts, and not even a perfect ninth inning from former ace Curt Schilling could inspire the Red Sox.

"He was crisper," Boston manager Terry Francona said. "That was encouraging to see."

Clement escaped trouble in the second inning when he walked the first two batters, then got three consecutive strikeouts to end the inning. He got Derek Jeter and Cano out to start the third before the next eight New York batters reached safely.

Sheffield doubled on a hard line drive off the Green Monster, then Rodriguez hit his 25th of the year over it. After consecutive walks, Bernie Williams singled in one run and Tino Martinez walked to reload the bases.

John Flaherty doubled off the wall in left to score two more and chase Clement. Jeter singled off of Jeremi Gonzalez to make it 6-0 before Cano hit a fly ball to left to end the inning.

Mark Bellhorn homered in the bottom half to make it 6-1, then Manny Ramirez hit a solo shot to lead off the fourth. Kevin Millar walked and, one out later, Doug Mirabelli singled him to second.

But on Bill Mueller's single, Mirabelli kept his head down rounding second and didn't see that Millar was being held up by third base coach Dale Sveum. Mirabelli was caught in a rundown for the second out, and Bellhorn struck out to kill the rally.

Game notes
After the game, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein and pitchers Bronson Arroyo and Tim Wakefield were scheduled to join professional musicians on stage in a concert at Fenway. ... Several of the Red Sox coaches went to the top step of the dugout to cheer for Johnny Pesky, who returned to the ballpark for the first time since the death of his wife, Ruth. ... Flaherty's bases-loaded double in the third broke an 0-for-17 slump. It was his third extra-base hit of the season. ... Clement's five walks matched a season high. He threw 83 pitches to get eight outs, just 43 of them for strikes. ... David Ortiz started at first base for just the second time when Boston wasn't playing in an NL park. He joked before the game that he sent his glove home to the Dominican Republic.

One question: what are they going to do when all these players come back from the DL? Carry a 15-man pitching staff? Trade all these overpayed, recently injured players - to whom? The Yankees seem to be in full panic mode, acquiring anyone and everyone they can get their hands on and damn the consequences.

One more question: I just read that the Devil Rays are releasing Hideo Nomo...how long will Steinbrenner wait to sign him?

I just don't see how aquiring Leiter is a panic move......he thrives in NY. Maybe it's bias but I always have been a big fan of his.....so i amexcited about that......and if everyone gets healthy they will have a surplus of starting pitching......somebody making a pennant push will always be looking for another starter.

i think, starting pitcher wise, the yankees are in some sorta panic mode. pavano, wright, brown, wang... all out. thats a huge hit. and, then, there's also the flipside of that coin -- that pavano, wright, and brown have not-yet-really made their expected, or hopeful, impact yet. reaching out for a guy like leiter, despite his poor showing so far this year, shows that they're looking for a new direction and a new spark.

all that said, though... to be able to split a series, or even take 3 of 4, from boston in boston despite the yanks' current "panic mode" ... thats pretty damn good.

GAME OVER! We just shut those mother fuckers up and good. What a game. Leiter pitched awesome....A-Rod played great and so did Shef ......all of them did......just a great win. We are now a 1/2 game back behind Boston. Sux made it interesting in the end but A-Rod put a stop to them defensively and Yanks won 5-3!!!!!!!

Did I mention A-Rod.......

We just took 3 out of 4 in Boston and lead the season series 7-6.

What was that Pete? Thae Yankees won three out of four games against the Red Sox?


You don't say....

I'll be counting on you to do the updates for me Harley......I'll bring you a bottle of Ouzo!

Sweet!

Is PJP gone yet? Is it time to take over this thread?

Meh heh heh heh hehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

It takes a brave - or stupid? - man to shjow his face after the Sox lost so badly to the Yanks this weekend....

You remind me of some of the fair weather Sox fans of 2003: gloating over the wins, but strangely silent over the losses. I don't get overexcited either way, girlie. I stay on the middle path and save my celebration until the end of the season. You'd do well to learn from me, grasshopper.

Of course we're quiet over the losses, dear boy, but that doesn't meant that we don't care. And that's bullshit that you don't get over excited about the wins - or were you just quiet during last year's WS win?

And I'm pretty sure "grasshopper" that there is noththing that you could teach me that I don't already know ....

I have been reliably informed the Red Cox.....sorry,Red Sox,suck!

Don't be an ass - that's a typo.

And Dave? You really haven't seen me angry. Trust me.



















"Little Miss Angry Face" my ass...

You were misinformed. The person told you that you suck red cocks. And they're right.

Apparently that bloke in the Red Sox who hits the ball with the stick has been known to frequent Robs bathroom on a nightly basis.
I dont know his name,but the other men who hit things with sticks,are jealous!

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