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What a weekend performance by the New York Yankees.  Whether it was a blow out on Thursday, 15 innings on Friday, a shutout Saturday five to nothing and then a trio of Yankees homers on Sunday to slap the Red Sox out of the Bronx.  What was a two and a half game lead entering play on Thursday, it is now a six and a half game lead.  This sweep reminds me of the five game sweep in Fenway at the end of August in 2006.

The Yankees pitching was phenomenal and hitting was clutch as can be.  Is this the end of the Red Sox dynasty?  All signs point to yes!!  This is turning into a great season and who now is talking about the Red Sox winning the first eight games against the Yankees.  CC, Andy Pettitte, Joba and A.J. Burnett all were outstanding and they are all on track possibly for 15 wins each.  The chemistry in the Yankee clubhouse is a level is has not been in years.  I think they may put the egos aside and do the unthinkable and WIN.  Let’s continue winning ways a  go deep into October baseball.  Here come the Pinstripes!!

After leaving Chicago one and three in the four game series, and the Red Sox beating up on the Orioles I was getting worried heading to Toronto and facing the Yankee killer Roy Halladay.  But that was then and this is now; we are leaving Toronto after sweeping a two game series and finished the road trip five and four.  Now, its time to take control of the AL East.  The Yankees are oh and eight so far against the Red Sox this season.

            This in my mind is the biggest series so far this season.  We need to AT LEAST split the series and finally earn a victory against Boston.  The Yankees are two and a half games ahead of the Sox entering this four game series in the Bronx.  Sit back relax and enjoy the best rivalry in all of sports.  Let’s Go Bombers!!

Its time for the Bombers to take the field for the second half of the 2009 season. The Yankees take the field three games behind it the AL East and two and a half games up in the wildcard. 

The first half of the season definitely had its ups and downs.  The Yankees are oh and eight against the Red Sox and two and four against the Angels, two possible teams they can face in the post season.  CC is pitching OK, but I think he will turn it on in the second half, AJ is pitching better as of late.  The hitting is always there, the pitching will be the decided factor.  The bullpen needs some help and the back end of the rotation also needs help.  My prediction is that the Yankees will make the playoffs and definitely contend for #27.  Let’s play ball!!

  It is such a good feeling to see the Pinstripes on top.  We are oh and eight against the Red Sox and yet we are on the same perch they are.  The Yankees sweep the seven game season series with the Twins and Mark Teixeira ends his career long home run drought of 23 with a blast in the seventh inning to give the Yankees a two run lead.

This team is finally starting to click.  The pitching is improving, the hitting is clutch and this team is right where they should be……in FIRST PLACE.  Unfortunately after winning 10 of their last 12 now they head to a place where it is so difficult to win, in Anaheim.  The Angels are hurting so hopefully the Yankees can take advantage and end this weekend alone in first place.  Yankees on a roll as they continue the quest for number 27.  The Red Sox finish the weekend with a series at home with the Kansas City Royals.  GO ROYALS, HELP US OUT!!!!

The New York Yankees in years past have always played well in Minnesota against the Twins.  The Bombers are on a roll and playing great baseball before the break.  Try and figure this one out, the Yankees are oh and eight against the team from Boston and yet they are only one game back in the division and they are two and a half up in the wild card.  The pitching staff is slowly coming around.  Although I think Wang won’t return to his form of years past, and against Joba to the pen.  If we have a bullpen of Phil Hughes in the seventh, Joba in the eighth and Mariano in the ninth, that works for me. I am wondering what moves the Yankees will make before the trade deadline, they always seem to make a blockbuster deal, we will see what happens.  The Yankees continue to roll and they have five more games before the break.  Finish on a winning note.

Stay tuned for an exclusive interview with Jerry Ferrara “Turtle” from the HBO series “Entourage.”  We will talk Yanks, the tv show and what ever else comes to mind.  This is a MUST listen for all Yankees, Turtle, or Jerry Ferrara fans.

OK enough already with the suspect pitching.  We didn’t spend all this money in the off season on pitching so that in the middle of June we would be two games behind Boston in the division.  CC had pitched pretty well, AJ on the other hand, not so much.  Sure Burnett can pitch well when his team is up 13 to nothing but how about a solid performance when the game is close and your team really need you.  He blew a six to nothing lead in Boston earlier this season, which the Yankees eventually lost 16-11.  he didn’t pitch well on the last road trip in Boston AGAIN.  These are the types of games we signed him to win, step it up AJ.  The rest of the staff is mediocre, the middle relief is suspect and our amazing closer has struggled this season.  So what is the answer Joe Girardi….Oh ya here it is PUT JOBA IN THE PEN!

The Yankees welcome in the current world champs to the “house that________ built?” Stay tuned to Yankeescast for the latest on the team with the best record in interleague play since it began in 1997.  The Yankees have won 9 in a row.  Watch out AL East here come the Bombers!!

The ballgame against the Twinson May 15, 2009 in the Bronx ended in traditional Yankee fashion, a walk-off hit from the Milkman Melky Cabrera.  After a sluggish start from Phil Hughes and being down 3-0 it almost felt like here we go again, but we got a much needed boost from the captian Derek Jeter.  The biggest spark tonight came from Brett Gardner and Melky.  Gardner had the first ever inside-the-park HR in the new Yankee Stadium, that seemed to spark the crowd and also the team.  After that hit it felt as if we were gonna come back and win this much needed victory.  With the Red Sox losing again and the Yankees winning the Bombers are climbing up the ladder in the AL East and how about Mark Teixeira, I know he is barely hitting above .200 but he had some big at bats tonight and came through in the clutch as well as A-Rod drawing 3 walks.  I know he struck out with the bases loaded in the 3rd but he also did his job by getting on base.  Hopefully this is the beginning of good things to come.  GO BOMBERS

Alex Rodriguez started his 2009 baseball season the way young kids dream, he hit the first pitch he saw over the left field wall for a 3 run bomb.  Do you think the Yankees need Alex? I think the swing speaks for itself.  This was the first lead, yes the FIRST lead the Yankees had since Saturday (5/2) in the first inning.  CC pitches a complete game shut out as the Yankees defeat the Orioles in Baltimore.  Oh ya one more thing, after A-Rod hit the bomb the whole stadium was standing up cheering for him, oh and by the way they were in BALTIMORE.  Tell me baseball doesn’t need A-Rod, they are a match made in media heaven.  This may be exactly what the Yankees need, the season is about to turn around.  Yankee fans do you think A-Rod is the missing piece?  Last thing, Girardi still needs the boot.  See ya Joe!!!!