Coping with failure at Fenway

Rough weekend for this Yankees fan: they lost two to the Sox in Fenway, and lost catcher Jose Molina to injury along the way. Since Posada's arm is in worse shape than that of anyone else on the team (with the possible exception of Johnny Damon), the team will have to acquire another backstop.

Papelbon, who ranks right up there with John Rocker in terms of annoyance, absolutely owned Alex Rodriguez on Saturday. We wait through the most ill-timed two-hour rain delay to see A-Rod flail helplessly at Papelbon heat. In the immortal words of Mike Krukow, it was "uno, dos, adios" for A-Rod in that at-bat.

Phil Hughes looked like ass. Again.

Cano cannot hit in April.

Jeter sat out the whole series, and who knows how he'll be when he returns.

The team ordered the desperate excavation of a David Ortiz jersey that was buried inside the concrete of the new stadium. Rather than fending off some "future curse," isn't it possible we just exorcised the demons that had plagued Ortiz so far this season? I should try to trade for him in our fantasy league, as he's due to go off now — that is, until I trade for him, which will claw him into retirement and/or death.

And now Joba is away from the team to be with his ailing father.

In order to deal with this, I'm resurrecting an old favorite. Enjoy the video below.



And one more thing, this time for Fox: What the fuck was the deal with cutting away from Saturday's game to show us the first lap of a 300+ lap NASCAR race when there were 2 outs in the 9th inning of a one-run game, and a TWO-STRIKE COUNT, no less???!!!!???? You seriously couldn't sacrifice another minute or two to see the game to its conclusion? The rubes have spoken: the national pastime has four wheels and a monstrous engine.