Yuck

Horrible. Disgusting.  Underachieving.  Utterly pitiful.  These are some words that describe the New York Yankees season thus far.  This has been an absolute embarrassment.  from top to bottom, offense to defense, rotation to bullpen.  Brian Cashman has to be ashamed of himself.  Joe Girardi must go home at night and get sick.  This Yankee team, given the talent it has and the level it should be playing at, is the absolute worst team I have ever seen in Pinstripes.  

Yesterday, Johnny Damon injured himself attempting to make a play on a Kevin Youkilis hit.  He almost made the highlight reel.  Instead Damon might land on the DL.  He will join the only Yankee hitter that seemed to thrive in the clutch this season, Hideki Matsui.  

Derek Jeter has been thoroughly awful and I am sick of hearing about how the other team is just better.  Shut the hell up and hit.  You make almost as much as the ENTIRE first place Rays roster!  I don't want excuses.  That "C" on your chest means Captain, Mr. Jeter, not Crap which is what you have been pouring out of your mouth and what you have been playing like on the field.  Stop being so stoic.  Show emotion, it is OK.  

Emotion.  The one thing this bunch of over-paid losers does not have.  They are too damned serious and look like a group of zombies out there.  I miss the days of Paul O'Neill when the occasional fire came out.  I miss emotion.  

The Yankees are now 10 games behind the Rays in the loss column and 5 behind the Red Sox.  Right now, if the Yankees continue playing at this clip the season will be over before the All-Star game comes to town.  If that happens I think Hank Steinbrenner should thank Cashman for his services, give the reigns over to Damon Oppenheimer (the Draft master) and tell him to unload some players.  I am sure there is a market for some of these players.  Isn't there?  The age and contracts that are attached to some of these so-called baseball players makes me wonder is it were possible to trade any of them.  Nobody would take Abreu and his $16 million.  Nobody in their right mind would touch Jason Giambi and his $20+ million.  

This is the last season in Yankee Stadium.  Perhaps it is fitting that most of the Yankees on this team are not under contract for next season.  Giambi, Abreu, Carl Pavano, Mike Mussina, LaTroy Hawkins, Andy Pettitte, Kyle Farnsworth, and others all are without contracts next year.  

Whatever the Yankees do they need to be smart about it.  They don't need another high-priced, can't get the job done reliever.  Jose Veras, Chris Britton, David Robertson, Jonathan Albaladejo, and Dan Geise have all been very good.  They are all also very cheap, unlike Hawkins and Farnsworth.  The Yankees need to stop throwing money away and realize they have plenty of talent right at home.  

Maybe the Yankees should sell some of their excess pitching and beef up their lineup.  Matt Holliday would look very nice in Yankee Pinstripes.  If we can keep Hughes and Kennedy then I say the Yanks need to pull the trigger.  I wonder if the Rockies would go for Humberto Sanchez, Jeff Marquez, Juan Miranda, George Kontos, and another prospect?  Yeah, I didn't think so.  

Whatever, the Yankees do, they need to be smart, efficient, and quick about it.  Time is running out.  The playoffs are a lost hope.  I have to blame Cashman for this, he is the one who watched the Yankees get progressively worse year after year and was unable to do anything about it.  Time for Oppenheimer to show us what he's got, unless of course, Cashman has a plan that makes sense for the near and distant future altogether.