The Yankees have given me lots of material to work with this weekend. Unfortunately, not much of it is good for them.

But first, I want to talk about what I did this past Friday (Sept 4). lol There is some relevance, I promise. I went to Borders with the intent of buying Jane Heller’s Confessions of a She-Fan. (http://janeheller.mlblogs.com/) To my dismay, it wasn’t in-stock! Booooo. I still wanted to buy a book, so I bought A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts. It looks pretty good. Can’t wait to start reading it! I guess when I’m done with that one I’ll go looking for Jane’s book again. There’s always online shopping…

Anyway, back to our beloved Yankees. I adore our boys, but they sucked the big one this weekend, especially Sunday, but we’ll get to that game later…

Thursday. Hmmm…my memory isn’t that great, but I know we won 10-5. Aceves pitched in relief of Gaudin and did very well. Posie also made history as the seventh player of the Yankees to reach 20 homers this season. All we need is for Jete to hit three out of the park so we can make MLB history, but time’s a-tickin’ for el Capitán. Obviously, Thursday isn’t part of the weekend, but this game is part of the series, so I thought I’d at least mention it. A win is always worth mentioning anyway =]

Friday night was a first for me. Why? It was the first time I chose to go out with friends and not watch the game. I, of course, TiVo-ed it, but never got around to actually watching it. Maybe I’ll do that this upcoming Thursday when they’re on break.

I do know that they lost 0-6. Joba gave up 3 runs, Dunn 2, and Melacon 1. I also know that Roy Halladay probably wanted to ring Ramiro Peña’s neck for ending his no-hitter. Poor Roy. At least he got the Jays a win that night. 

Saturday, the Yanks came up with their eighty-seventh win of the season in game three vs. the Blue Jays. The final score was 6-4. Andy pitched for the Bombers that day and gave up 4 runs, but the defense kept him alive and got him the W. They didn’t do so bad offensively either. Cano got his 23rd homer of the season, while Teix got his 33rd. Posie, Alex, and Melk brought some runs in too. Then, in the 8th inning we brought in the closer. No, not Mo. Remember he had tightness in in left groin since Tuesday? Well, Hughes or Hughesy, as Girardi likes to refer to him, was set to close out the game. He got his 3rd career save that night and did it with class. Way to go Phil! According to Bryan Hoch (http://bombersbeat.mlblogs.com/), Mo was feeling much better that day, which was a huge plus! All in all, game three was a good one for the Yankees. But I guess they used up all their energy that day, because it got plain ugly for them in Toronto on Sunday afternoon.

I was wondering if anyone really wants me to elaborate on the ***-kicking we got yesterday. No? Well, I’ll try not to get way too detailed. They switched A.J. to Monday night’s second game, so Mitre started for this game. He was actually pretty good, but guess who wasn’t. Ahhh…where was the D!? I don’t know if they were just standing there staring up at the sun or what! Well, the stats say there were only four fielding errors (Hairston, Cano, Teixeira, Peña), but in my opinion that’s not the correct number. There were so many mistakes in this game! Then there was this: (insert Damon/Melky collision picture here) I can’t find the picture, but when I do I’ll put it up.

We were doing good until the 5th inning…that’s when it all went to hell. The Jays scored 8 runs that inning. It was then a 5-12 ballgame. ugggghhhh. I knew better than to give up because that’s usually when the Comeback Kids show up and they actually did! It was in the 7th, but 3 runs wasn’t enough. Oh and then Girardi brought Josh Towers to the mound. He had just been called up from triple AAA.

Randy Ruiz came up to bat. Little did he know that Towers would pop him in the mouth with the ball. I felt so bad for Ruiz. I felt so bad for Towers. It was just…awful. What a way to make your Yankees debut. eek! I then went on to watch the postgame. They interview Sergio and Damon. Let’s just say Mitre looked like he wanted to go meet these guys in an alley. He was trying really hard not to be upset, but you can tell. And as for Damon? He kind of came off a little rude, but I don’t know.

-See ya later bloggers!