The biggest choke jon in the history of last night

You know who I blame for last night's mess?

Jorge Posada.

The leadoff batter in the inning walks on four pitches that were no where near the the strike zone and Posada swings at the first two pitches he sees, grounding the second to first in what was nearly a double play.

I haven't check, but if Valverde isn't on the DL, he will be soon. The guy was clearly ailing, for one reason or another, and the Yankees simply let him of the hook.

I've never seen a closer perform that poorly — he threw something like 40 pitches — and be allowed to escape an inning — and celebrate. Seriously Jose, tone it down. You're not good enough to squat and gyrate and give ups to God or whatever else it is you do.

John Flaherty and Paul O'Neill were in the booth for the game. They were ... I'll say shocked ... by Posada's lack of plate discipline, then right on the money when they said Jeter was the wrong guy for that one-out bases loaded situation. "Tough spot," they said. This is Derek Jeter. Or is it? Anyway, he isn't going up there looking for a walk. Even the first few pitches he took, you could see it was an effort to hold up.

So, in that inning, Cano walks (he never does), Granderson singles (he went 3-3 after sucking most of the season) , Cervelli walks (he's slumping terribly), Gardner walks (young guy, could have been hacking, hot recently but awful second half), Valverde is teetering and Jorge and Jeter kill the inning. Even with Gardner trying to end Carlos Guillen's career at second.

This after being held scoreless for 17 innings by Brian Bullinger and Max Scherzer.

The "we've never seen this guy" thing is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy and it's getting tiring.