Breakfast blogging

Blogspot was down at some point this weekend, but have no fear loyal fan, I am back with my words of wisdom regarding the Yankees.

A split of a four-game set against the Angels, considering the start, is probably the best we (fans) could hope for. The Angels, as evidenced in the first two, typically manhandled the Yankees.

Which reminds me. Is Joe Girardi the ONLY person on the planet who doesn't know Mo Rivera will give up a run in that situation? I don't care what how good a season Rivera is having, I don't even care what they numbers say - although in this case they match the visual evidence. If it's not a save situation, Rivera isn't as effective. Hence, walk, blooper, roller up the middle, Yankees lose, Yankees lose.

Mike Mussina continued his unexpected brilliance, and the Yankees came up huge yesterday with their two comebacks. Considering what was facing them, I gave them up for dead. That said, for the first time in a long time, I didn't stop watching. There was something about yesterday game that gave me hope, a feeling one doesn't typically get from this Yankees team when it gets down.

For the Department of Wow, Really?: The Yankees have the second-fewest errors in the America League, 55, behind the Indians.

Yankee Stadium hosted its biggest and last Old Timers' Day. The Yankees trucked out 70+ former Yankees. Look, I get it. It's the Yankees. Anything the team does is historic, but more than half those guys wouldn't make the local beer league team.

Yes, some had significant roles to play in the history of the organization. You know the names, although the cache drops somewhat once you get beyond Yogi and Whitey. Sure, there's Reggie and Dave Winfield. Hell, in the Yankees pantheon, some of the guys I watched, Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez, were major pinstripers, but even the guys from the '70s just haven't aged enough to merit "Old Timer" status, even by Yankees standards.

But really ... David Cone and Al Leiter? Leiter was a disaster for the Yankees (he's not that great in the booth). He pitched that one good game in Boston ... and it wasn't as if he threw a no hitter. It was 5-plus and that was that. Even Bernie Williams, who I'm sure holds some ill-will toward to the team understands the phrase "too soon." He was on vacation with his family. Does a guy with $150 million-plus in the bank and nothing to do with his time but play guitar and watch "The Price is Right" get vacations? Doesn't life after baseball, especially when you're a star, default to "vacation" status until you're asked to say, make an appearance at a car dealership opening or sign autographs at a baseball card convention - do they even have those anymore?

Anyway, sure it's nice to see the old faces, but it's too soon for many and it never will be the right time for the most of rest.

Plus, one inning? What happened to the game? ONE INNING? The introductions took two hours. Lame.

Finally, did it look as if Yogi Berra's pants were trying to eat him?