Stick A Fork In Me.

The Good, The Bad, and The Very Very Ugly

Two out of three in Boston. "Win Series" the mantra goes. Well we won the series. But why does it feel so rotten right now?

Could it be because Mike Mussina once again showed why I've nicknamed him "Goldfish Guts?"
Could it be because Joe can't shake his Scott Proctor fixation, used Proctor when he had no business doing so Saturday and pretty much wrote a new chapter of "How Not To Manage" in the seventh inning on Saturday?
Could it be because after Sunday night's thrilling win, we came out flatter than a pancake last night against a subpar Garland and overall a very beatable White Sox team?
Could be it because we are carrying a ridiculous 13 pitchers when Joe only uses 9 anyway?

I can't drag myself through all of it, in detail, so I'll settle for some quick hits.

1. Did Matt DeSalvo insult Joe Torre's family or something? How else to explain Torre pulling him after 1.1 innings last night? OK, DeSalvo was NOT pitching well, granted, but what goes through Torre's mind to convince him that attempting to get 7 2/3 out of the pen is a good idea, and in the best interests of the team overall?

Taking DeSalvo out in the second inning was a brutally dumb move.

2. I felt so good for A Rod Sunday night. After the week he'd had -- the New York Post's unfortunate foray into investigative journalism, the brouhaha over the play in Toronto, to end the series like that was an amazing moment. A Rod will hit his 500th home run this year. I hope he's in pinstripes for numbers 600, 700, and 800.

3. What exactly crawled up Tim McCarver's ass on Saturday? I know that the Fox story line obviously is the once-mighty Yankees, now pedestrian and struggling, but Tim really went over the top a few times.

a. Applauding Mike Lowell running over Robinson Cano. Not only praising Lowell excessively but also attempting to say that Lowell's play was perfectly legit while A Rod's play on Dustin Pedroia in the previous series between the two teams was dirty. Even mega-shill Joe Buck couldn't let that pass without (gently) putting McCarver in his place.

Bottom line: Lowell used excessive force, and had there not been all the nonsense with guys getting thrown at the night before, I'd hope that a Yankee pitcher would've stuck one in Lowell's ribs.

b. In Boston's big inning, A Rod made a mistake, not being on third, leaving Melky who might have had a play there, with no one to throw to. McCarver went nuts . . . using the words "Keystone Kops" and saying "the Yankees have had some bad innings this year but this is the worst yet!"

Tim . . . other than Yankee games you've worked, exactly how many innings of the Yankees have you watched this season? Any? How exactly would you know that that inning was the worst?

A totally irresponsible statement from a first-class bandwagon jumper. Disgraceful. And yet Fox retains him, year after year.

Three is all I can muster. Stick a fork in me. I'm done.