long day's journey into night

- free hot dogs and soda for all, which must have pained the yankee brass greatly, considering hot dogs're what, five bucks normally? and a girl can't even get some goddamn sauerkraut. but i digress.

- jason giambi took BP, and to hear kitty kaat tell it during the broadcast last night, put on quite a show.

- mister "tired-happy"'s line: 7.0IP 4H 2R 2ER 1BB 5K 1HR 2.62ERA. words cannot express how awfully i would love to see him pitch, just once.

- no forfeit, which is ultimately a-ok by me: if it comes down to getting the division by one game, i don't want to hear the whining. this, however, is not:

It is the Yankees contention that the Devil Rays were given a directive by Major League Baseball to leave Tampa as soon as possible following Friday night's loss to the Tigers at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg to get to New York and simply did not do it.

"I wouldn't call it a directive," Dupuy said.

no, bob? what would you call it, a suggestion? stop with the semantics and grow a pair. what are you people for, anyway, if not issuing and enforcing directives?

- arod in the 2 spot. the ny media singing joe's praises but took him long enough, says i (according to newsday - three weeks! THREE #$@&%# WEEKS?!):

The idea, Torre said, was to use Sheffield's prowess to help force opposing pitchers to throw A-Rod not only more strikes, but more hittable strikes. "In this league," Torre said, "it's more important who you hit in front of than where you hit."

... "It's a comfortable spot to hit," Rodriguez said, "between Jeter and Sheff. I hit second for five years [with the Mariners] in front of [Ken] Griffey. It's like that. I had a plan tonight ... to be more aggressive, and I followed through on it and it worked."

- paul quantrill's arm is going to fall off. no surprise there!