A Joke of a Team

After the most pathetic game of the season, the Yankees need to question their General Manager and their Field Manager, coughing up another 5-0 game with a joke of a roster and a horrendous bullpen. Not only was Joba Chamberlain atrocious, Mariano was bad, but both were not helped out by a couple of errors and some questionable calls by the home plate umpire. The Yankees have had meltdowns in the eighth inning for three consecutive games. Joba looked horrific, yet Girardi left him in there to complete the inning.

Mariano did not look bad. He had strike three on Darnell McDonald, which was not called- he singled. Marco Scutaro hit a fly ball to shallow right field, but Marcus Thames dropped it. With two outs, he threw strike three to Jeremy Hermida, but it was not called by the moron behind home plate. Then Hermida served a pitch into left field over Randy Winn's head. Winn was positioned as if the Yankees were playing in the little league World Series.

The questionable behavior by Brian Cashman and the front office took place before the game. Seeing the need for a new arm, they called up Mark Melancon, who has done well at AAA Scranton. Fine. But instead of optioning out the disaster that is Boone Logan, they decided to send down Greg Golson. So tonight, with Jorge Posada and Nick Swisher nursing day-to-day injuries, the only available position player on the bench was the weak-hitting Ramiro Pena. Give me a break.

The Yankees got a miracle swing out of Marcus Thames two nights ago. Up until the ninth inning, Juan Miranda was having a solid night. But the Yankees cannot win games with all of these idiots at the bottom of their order, and Thames playing defense. Even when he catches the ball, it looks like a disaster. Tonight was by far the worst loss of the season for the Yankees. It doesn't get any easier with the first place Tampa Bay Rays coming to town. I think the most frustrating about the last three games is that they all seemed to be in the bag, only to have three consecutive eighth inning implosions. If not for hitting heroics on Monday night, the lead story on every channel would be how the Yankees cannot win with this bullpen. That story should still be resonating by Wednesday morning.