Coco Crisp back in the lineup today for Boston

[birdog]

HE goes deep in his 2nd game back

[Tinman1960]

HE goes deep in his 2nd game back

ITS EASY TO HIT THEM WHEN YOU ARE DOWN 6-0 AND THE PITCHER IS TROWING THEM DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE

[molta02]

ITS EASY TO HIT THEM WHEN YOU ARE DOWN 6-0 AND THE PICTURE IS TROWING THEM DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE

[wayne1218]

ITS EASY TO HIT THEM WHEN YOU ARE DOWN 6-0 AND THE PITCHER IS TROWING THEM DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE

Just ask A-rod ... He Knows!

[Tinman1960]

Just ask A-rod ... He Knows!

EXCEPT 1 THING HE LEADS THE LEAGUE IN GAME WINNING RBI'S OTHERWISE YA ASK A-ROD

[wayne1218]

EXCEPT 1 THING HE LEADS THE LEAGUE IN GAME WINNING RBI'S OTHERWISE YA ASK A-ROD

for 25 million, he should be!

[Tinman1960]

Yea But The Yanks Dont Pay All Of That

[Three Jack]

ITS EASY TO HIT THEM WHEN YOU ARE DOWN 6-0 AND THE PITCHER IS TROWING THEM DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE

You should know watching A-Rod!

[Three Jack]

Tin, couldn't believe what you posted about A-Job, so I went to MLB.com. Still not sure if your stat is accurate, but if you sort hitting and go to late innings of close games, your boy A-Job is a robust 3 for 18 with 0 HR's and 1 RBI.... And the Yanks are paying him $20 million of the $25 million. Ladies & Gentlemen, your 2005 MVP.....

[Tinman1960]

Tin, couldn't believe what you posted about A-Job, so I went to MLB.com. Still not sure if your stat is accurate, but if you sort hitting and go to late innings of close games, your boy A-Job is a robust 3 for 18 with 0 HR's and 1 RBI.... And the Yanks are paying him $20 million of the $25 million. Ladies & Gentlemen, your 2005 MVP.....

T IF YOU LOOK AT GAME WINNING RBI'S HE IS LEADING IN THAT. I KNOW THEY REALLY DONT COUNT THIS AS A STAT ANY MORE BUT ITS STILL THERE.UNTIL A -ROD STARTS PRODUCING LIKE REGGIE JACKSON DID UNDER THE SPOT LIGHT YOU ARE CORRECT AND I AGREE HE WILL ALWAYS BE A HIGH PRICED PLAYER THAT CAN NOT HIT WHEN YOU NEED THE BIG HIT

[Three Jack]

I hate when we agree....

[Tinman1960]

ME TOO

[larryonion]

I have to admit, I am a Red Sox fan, so you won't usually see me posting nice things about A-Rod. But I found this article by DJ Gallo very funny...

By DJ Gallo
Special to Page 2

I've long given Alex Rodriguez the benefit of the doubt. I figured that since he's only 30 years old and has played in just a handful of postseasons -- batting a respectable .305 in the process -- he has plenty of time to prove he's an all-time great and deserves the kind of money he makes. But no more. His showing over the past week forced me to give up on him forever.

Let me take you through his embarrassing performances from the past seven days.

If A-Rod knocks one out of the park, you know the Yankees must already have the lead. Tuesday at Boston: Rodriguez hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning to put the Yankees up 7-1. His blast would prove to be the game winner because the Red Sox stormed back to make the final score 7-5, but A-Rod hitting a home run when his team already has the lead? Classic A-Rod. Or should I say A-Fraud. (Get it? I changed the Rod part to Fraud. It rhymes and everything.)

Wednesday at Boston: The Yankees won 8-6, but A-Rod got only one hit and scored just a single run. But that's not even the worst part. In the second inning, following a David Ortiz strikeout, Manny Ramirez hit a home run to left. Then the next batter, Jason Varitek, grounded out to A-Rod at third. I mean, come on A-Rod! Now you make the play?! The batter before hits a home run over your head to cut your team's lead to two and you do nothing, and then Varitek hits a weak grounder to you and you make that out? How about jumping up and snagging that Ramirez shot before it rocketed over your head? That's what your team needed! I mean, I don't know -- if I'm going to pay a guy $25 million to play third, I expect him to make those plays. I can get anyone to field routine ground balls.

Thursday, no game: A scheduled off day. Typical A-Fraud -- the Yankees manage to win back-to-back games against the Red Sox and he needs a day off. Pathetic.

Friday vs. Kansas City: The Yankees come home and play the Kansas City Royals, owners of a 13-game losing streak, and -- get this -- lose 7-6. And whose fault was it? You guessed it: A-Rod's. He went 3-for-4 with a double and just one measly RBI. Uh, hello? A-Rod? How about you muscle up a bit, you wuss, and make those singles into home runs? Had you done that, the Yankees would have won. But they didn't. And even the worst team in baseball proved it can come into your home park and make you look like a fool.

Saturday vs. Kansas City: Rodriguez hit two home runs and the Yankees won 15-4. Wow, great timing there, A-Rod. Not only do you have a big game in an easy win -- every RBI in the careers of Derek Jeter and David Ortiz has come with their teams trailing in the bottom of the ninth (it's true, look it up) -- but where were those two home runs, four runs scored and three RBI last night, when your team really needed them? Huh, A-Rod? Where were they then? You sicken me, that's what you do, A-Rod. You sicken me.

Obviously A-Rod was in a clutch situation here.Sunday vs. Kansas City: The Yankees won 6-5, and Rodriguez hit a two-run single in the first inning to help his team get out to a lead it would not surrender. But what did he do after that hit in the first inning? Nothing but draw a walk. Typical A-Rod. He just sat back and rested on his laurels. Baseball is a "What have you done for me lately?" kind of game, A-Rod. Too bad you'll never know that.

Monday at Detroit: New York headed to Detroit for the type of game a team needs its stars to step up in -- holiday, packed crowd, playing a first-place team on the road -- and what does A-Rod do? He gets only one RBI as the Yankees win 4-0. Uh, A-Rod? Have you ever heard of insurance runs? Let's contribute with some late RBI. No lead -- no matter how big -- is ever safe in baseball. What, you only get RBI in close games now?

So there you have it, another despicable week in the despicable career of Alex Rodriguez: a .391 batting average, three home runs and 10 RBI as the Yankees go 5-1. Pshaw, I say. Pshaw.

And not that anything he does right now even matters, even if he was playing well. In a division that is as uncompetitive as the AL East, games in late May mean absolutely nothing. Nope, only the postseason matters. And until A-Rod comes up huge in a World Series with the pressure on and single-handedly wins a championship for the Yankees, I won't believe in him.

(Oh, and it has to be in Game 7 of the World Series against the Red Sox, or it won't count.)

[wayne1218]

Coco Crisp with a single, a stolen base, and a run scored. He has reached base in every game he has played this year. It's not alot of games (like 9 or 10) but my point is that he does mean alot to this lineup ... and he keeps proving it.

Now if we could only find a starter or two .......

[Blackbeard]

Red sux:

Franknberry in left
Cocoa Crisp in center
Captain Crunch in Right
Count Chocula at third
Crispix at short
BooBerry at second
Grape nuts at first
Tony the tiger pitching
Fruit Loops catching