Just another day in paradise for the AL East. The Yankees ace, C.C. Laundry Bag, took over the lead in AL wins, the Rays proved wrong the talking heads that anointed Cliff Lee the best pitcher in the AL and the Triple A laden Red Sox lineup shut down an Angels team that plays .500 baseball only because they’re in the AL West.
It’s always interesting when circumstances force “Braces and a Buzz Cut” Girardi to pencil a lineup that most Little League managers would get right long before the sandpaper-domed genius. Brett Gardner looked like a real lead-off batter. Derek Jeter showed rare patience walking twice. With the aging ARod once again down for the count Robinson Canoe hit cleanup rather than providing “protection” for ARod – who hasn’t done anything with it anyway – and Nick Swisher was productive batting 5th. Sadly, Mark Teixeira took an 0-fer and Jorge Posada was typically ineffective. But Curtis Granderson provided some pop in the bottom of the order and Pena turned in some nice plays at 3rd and contributed an RBI.
On the down side, this race has forced me to pay far more attention than usual to baseball in August. And that, Ack!, means reading Picasner more than once every other year. Well, there’s no free lunch – and, speaking of lunch, if you’re looking to lose a few pounds I highly recommend The Picasner Diet. Simply read a bit of Picasner Pinstripe Propaganda 10 minutes before any meal and, voila, you won’t fell like eating for hours. Side effects may include sustained ranting, a distrust of mathematics as a descriptive or analytical tool capable of making modest sense out of a chaotic universe, and an uncontrollable urge to bash anyone dressed in dark blue up side the head.
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