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Yankees almost sounds like Wankees!
Red Sox sounds like Dead Cocks!

Wankees & Dead Cocks go together like King Snarf & toupees!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/sports/baseball/05pins.html

If Trade Is Made, Torre Will Take Hitter Over Pitcher

By TYLER KEPNER
Published: July 5, 2006

CLEVELAND, July 4 — Joe Torre continues to insist that the Yankees' fortunes depend on starting pitching. But a team has to score runs to win, of course, and the Yankees have not done enough of that lately.

So, as General Manager Brian Cashman hunts for deals before the July 31 trading deadline, Torre, the manager, would prefer an outfielder over a pitcher if he had to make a choice. "That's a heck of a question," Torre said, before settling on his answer. "Offense has been a problem for us. I'd say more on the offensive end of it."

The Yankees' injured outfielders, Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield, could return late in the season. But by then, the Yankees might be too far back in the pennant race for it to matter. If they simply wait for Matsui and Sheffield, Torre said, they would need to play outstanding baseball until then.
"To have a little bit more offense would probably ease a lot of the stress," Torre said, referring to the pressure on Alex Rodriguez and others to produce. "Someone who will help the team, and I don't know who that person is. A lot of stuff hasn't made sense, when they know it's you and they know you need somebody."

Discounting their 16-run outburst on Sunday, the Yankees have averaged less than three runs a game since June 23. But Cashman said he had not made offense a priority over pitching. "I'm looking for pitching and offense," he said Tuesday. "Whichever comes first, it doesn't matter to me. My approach hasn't changed. If I can find ways to improve the club, then I'll do that."

The best outfielders who could be dangled in trades this month include Washington's Alfonso Soriano and José Guillen, Milwaukee's Carlos Lee, Philadelphia's Bobby Abreu and Kansas City's Reggie Sanders. Lesser options could include Philadelphia's David Dellucci, Pittsburgh's Jeromy Burnitz, Kansas City's Emil Brown and Cleveland's Todd Hollandsworth.
One general manager, who asked not to be identified because of baseball's tampering rules, said the Yankees relievers T. J. Beam and Matt Smith would have value in trades.

Pitching prospects like Steven White and Jeff Karstens have also drawn interest, but the Yankees' best prospects, pitcher Phil Hughes and outfielder José Tabata, are unlikely to be dealt.

Referring to Hughes, Torre said: "If you're going to give a player of that ability up, you certainly want a player you're not going to rent for the rest of the year. You want someone who's going to help you down the road. That would be my guess."

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS George Steinbrenner, the principal owner, turned 76 on Tuesday, and Joe Torre made sure to call him. Torre, who did not speak with Steinbrenner during the Mets series last weekend, said Steinbrenner had been encouraging this season.

"He's been very supportive," Torre said. "He said, 'How are you today?' I said, 'I'd be better if we won last night.' He said, 'You'll be all right.' That kind of exchange is what it's been — the go-get-'em, cheerleading type of thing. The conversations haven't been long."

The Yanks have enough hitting. IMO, they should have gone after Clemens.

Yankees beat the Indians 11-3. Finally.

Still three games behind Boston though...

Yanks won 10-4!

Yay! You hear that Joe! We won! I'm not Mo!

You're not going on one of your "flick the bean to the Yankees" tirades, so it doesn't count Mo. By the way, so did we.

Blah.

Yanks won 1-0!

boo-yah!

Against the Devil Rays!!!

Sox beat Chicago, 7-2.

.....

(Pssssssssst! Mo!!!)

Have you ever tried to read that graemlin's lips? It's saying"Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo..."

Hey! HEEEEEY!!!! Don't think I didn't get your "mo" message, ya bastid!

Yanks lost 6-5.

Look on the bright side. we have three days where we can set aside the hatred and focus on one goal...one objective: the AL's victory in the All-Star Game. As a peace offering, I promise that I will not use Harley's nickname for the duration of the All-Star Break.

jiggles?

That's Ms.Jiggles to you, buster.

The Yankees will have home field advantage in the 2006 World Series after the AL won the All Star game!

Yanks took 2 straight from the White Sox!

Y'know, for some reason I have that deja vu feeling. But when has an AL East team done that before? It seems that this happened, like, last week...

Let's face it, as good as the AL Central teams may be, their records are certainly helped by getting to play the Royals a sick amount of times. I'd love to see a breakdown of which teams have that harder schedules...

Yanks beat the White Sox 6-4! Mariano earned his 400th save! Yeah baby! Wo0t!

Rivera gets save #401 in a sloppy 4-2 win over the M's. Both teams totalled 7 errors, with ARod getting three of them. He also went 0-4 and struck out looking with the bases loaded.

What's interesting in this game is Torre replaced him in the field in the 8th inning. ESPN did a feature where the Yankee brass has concerns that ARod may have a confidence problem throwing the ball from 3rd. ARod has already stated privately he still isn't comfortable playing the corner.

Let's wait and see here....

Yanks lost 3-2 today but took 2 out of 3 from the M's. I'll take it considering that Posada was out last night and the game should have been over in the 9th.


Yay for home field advantage!

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All Associated Press News(AP) - _ Five companies do 95 percent of the collecting and distributing of bull semen in the U.S. They are Wisconsin-based ABS Global, Alta Genetics, Cooperative Resources International and Accelerated Genetics, and Plain City, Ohio-based Select Sires Inc.

_ Artificial insemination is mostly used in dairy cattle because farmers keep them in pens and can better monitor their heat, compared to beef cattle which typically roam pastures.

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_ The conception rates with artificial insemination, done properly, and the natural process are comparable at about 65 to 70 percent.

_ It's also recently become possible for farmers to pick the offspring's sex, but it's more expensive.

_ The U.S. Department of Agriculture rates dairy bulls based on milk quality, udder health and fertility, among other things, of the first daughters they produce at about a year old. The whole process takes about five years and only one of about 10 bulls make it to service. After that, they're rated four times a year. Beef breed associations do their own genetic evaluations and rank bulls.

_ Popular bulls can supply 100,000 doses per year. There are several bulls that make more than $3 million a year.

_ It's estimated that about 65 percent of the nation's dairy cattle were conceived through artificial insemination and about 10 percent of the beef cattle.

_ Dairy bull semen sells domestically on average for about $8 a unit and internationally for $6. Beef semen is generally higher, but the figures are unknown because it's usually sold privately.

_ 25-year-old sperm has produced calves, but it's unknown when sperm loses its fertility.

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Sources: Gordon Doak, president of the National Association of Animal Breeders and Paul VanRaden, a genetic researcher at the Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory of the USDA.

© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

I did admit it.

ARod hit his 2,000th career hit yesterday and is now the youngest player to hit his 450th HR, but yet the Yanks keep losing.

What. The. Fuck.