Belated--Hindsight and Foresight: June 18th to July 2nd

Where have we been??? Well, actually hanging out in Charleston, SC at Doug's. It was a great trip--short and sweet. Kinda like how the Yankees two week stretch looked before last week's horrific Return of the 2007 Yankees.

Hindsight: June 18th to June 24th

I'll keep it brief because it was ugly. Ugly as in no offense in the most offensive park in baseball, Coors Field (5 runs in 3 games). Ugly as in Matsui and Abreu stopped hitting. Ugly as in Damon is not the right leadoff guy for the Yankees right now. Ugly as in the Yankees just didn't give any run support. I caught one game while with Doug--it was nice watching the Yankees game on one tv and the Red Sox on the other--and the Yankees just looked like zombies. I'm disappointed now that we're two weeks before the mid point of the season and I thought June looked like it's be what catapulted the Yankees to get several games above .500.

Weekly Stats

I apologize these are off since this is a belated post. Some stats only go back to June 20th (so it's not true of the Hindsight).

W-L: 1-5
RS/RA: 15/33
Offensive Numbers (BA/OBP/SLG): .281/.347/.757 (this is since the 20th however)
Pitching Line (ERA/Whip/K per 9/BAA/SLG): 4.50/1.61/4.67/.286/.410 (since 6/20)
Who's Hot: Alex Rodriguez. He kept on hitting, but the offense around him dried up.
Who's Not: Kei Igawa. The Yankees must regret this signing already because he just isn't ready for the majors.
My Yankee of the Week: Jason Giambi. The deal worked out the way most people saw it. Giambi will answer the Mitchell Panel's questions but will not finger point.

Foresight: June 25th to July 2nd

Damn, it's going to be July already and like I said the halfway point of the season is coming up in about two weeks, so who knows were the Yankees will stand. Already they're down 0-2 in the O's series. As one friend of mine put it, "they're starting to look like ass again"--true that. I'll be up at the game tomorrow night to see Wang pitch against Cabrera. It should bring back some memories a la 2003 when I used to watch Want play for the Trenton Thunder. After the O's the Yanks head back home to face A's and then start a four game series agains the Twins on the 2nd. They'll go up a surely fluke season so far, Dan Haren. As far as I'm concerned though, the last two weeks of Yankee baseball finally looked just like that, but now that the team is fairly healthly and together, there's no clear reason why they fell apart this last week and a half.

By the way, The Bronx is Burning, will premiere July 9th and is an 8-week miniseries. It has John "nobody fucks with the Jesus" Turturro as Billy Martin and Oliver Platt as George Steinbrenner. I will certainly be watching it as often as I can and tape it when need be, but it'll certainly be an entertaining flick.

Also a small movie recommendation here--go see the new Die Hard movie. It's a good ol' kick ass, blow shit up action movie that doesn't suck.