Jerky Joba

Been awhile. No good reason ...

But the Yanks have been hot, and that's a good thing. Just one game back, leading the Wild Card, which, let's face it, no Yankees fan is interested in.

The wife likes to watch the post-game show, which I find excruciating. What I found shocking after yesterday's game, however, was the holier-than-thou attitude Joba Chamberlain copped with the media.

I'm the first person to hate on reporters, especially beat writers who, under penalty of death, must ask the most mind-numbingly stupid and obvious questions, but Chamberlain acted as if he pitched a great game. He got two outs in the fourth and got yanked. Granted, five of the eight runs he gave up were unearned, but when you surrender five hits after an error is made, that's your fault, not the guy who committed the error.

Joba's 4-2, and he stinks at home. He's a reliever, nothing more. He should be pitching the 7th and/or 8th innings, and gassing batters. Instead, he's pitching maybe 4 innings and looking like any other middling starter. And with Wang out, Joba's return to the bullpen becomes less likely. Bleh.

Dumbest question of the post-game goes to Kim Jones. To Derek Jeter, All-Star starter, she asked, and I paraphrase: You're down by 4 and Hideki Matsui hits a three-run home run. How big was that? Really? That's the question you ask. If DJ had beaten her with her own microphone, it would have been fully justified. And hilarious.

Most heinous moment was some dope asking Mo Rivera if he thought DJ deserved to be the AL's leading vote getter. That's not a completely loaded question. Rivera's response? DJ deserved whatever votes he received. Translation: You're an ass and that's a stupid question deserving a non-answer.

Best moment of the post-game (if there was one): Unknown reporter during same Rivera interview asks if Rivera's 10th selection to the All-Star team is more special, to which Rivera responds, "ask the rest of the question: Because I'm old, right?" Everyone laughs awkwardly, Rivera gives some barely decipherable non-answers yet again.

Maybe there's a bin outside the locker-room marked "Reporters leave brains/commonsense here."