Left-hander Kei Igawa was, in fact, optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre today. The Yankees called up utility player Chris Basak to take his spot. They had been carrying an extra pitcher. Joe Torre said this afternoon they plan to skip the fifth starter this time through the rotation, which means they won't need the No. 5 until next Saturday. The idea is that Phil Hughes will be ready to make that start.
Here are the lineups that are expected to be on th efield when play resumes in the suspended game.
Yankees
Damon DH
Jeter SS
Matsui LF
Rodriguez 3B
Posada C
Abreu RF
Cabrera CF
Cano 2B
Phillips 1B
Myers P
Orioles
Roberts 2B
Fahey 3B
Markakis RF
Gomez 1B
Huff DH
Tejada SS
Patterson CF
Bako C
Payton LF
Bell P
Comments (25)
Yankees are shopping Igawa around according to Olney, and there is interest in him. Olney says he believes Igawa will be traded shortly.
FRANK and DEAN-
Sammy is "on the sauce" again. Please cut him off from any and all "beverages".
I say if its true dump him now while people havnt realized that he's actually going to pitch the next homerun derby.
We nee to move him or cashman will feel the pressure to keep bringing him back up due to the money we spent on him.
Ding dong the witch is dead
Stupid witch
Can't pitch witch
Ding dong the witch is dead
Hi ho away we go ...
Now that Jimmy Key AND Kei Igawa are gone ... whom are we going to lament?
Ant
Answer: Mussina.
John G and Co,
Nudge works in Lindenhurst, I don't think he is from there.
And my dear, beautiful love of my life # 6 Uber Lucy,
We don't "punish China" in terms of baseball or anything else! They have MFN status thanks to Clinton. We think we are changing China but in reality China is changing us. Consider the 21 gun salute at Arlington for the architect of the Tiananmen Square debacle.
How does that sit in your stomach? Where was Newsday reporting on that one?
Oops!
Hey Viper what do you think of that?
Again, our beloved Yankees doing business with the animals in Beijing should make any REAL YANKEE FAN outraged. It's E V I L! (Let me list the Laogai, forced sterilization, female infanticide, human slavery, Tianeman Square, LORAL, nuclear war threats over Taiwan, Jin Class nuclear sub, taking over Panama Canal, Wen Ho Lee, food poisoning, smuggling AK's to California street gangs, on and on ad nauseum.) Don't tell me it's "not about baseball." When the Yankees opened up shop they opened up the door to this kind of criticism. Actually they've done us a favor. We can more openly talk about it.
I've published two or three articles with my friend Harry Wu on this topic (the world's greatest human rights dissident) and you and look them up on line.
They will convince you.
Again, no Chinese child can be "punished" by baseball when they already have tens of millions of females undergoing gendercide. What could be worse than that?
I know, watching Igawa pitch
Watching The Jim Belushi Show.
(The horror!)
LoBaido + Wu on google.
Go Yankees!
And go Uber Lucy!
LiL Bizness, Your statement is right on. Amazing that the Yankees are doing business with those pigs. But wait The Commander and Clinton gave THEM SECRETS TO A NUCLEAR SUB. So this isn't too bad. Let them wear Yankee hats! Go Lucy!!
LiL Bizness, Your statement is right on. Amazing that the Yankees are doing business with those pigs. But wait The Commander and Cheat Clinton gave THEM SECRETS TO A NUCLEAR SUB. So this isn't too bad. Let them wear Yankee hats! Go Lucy!!
1. Phil Hughes (new idol)
2. Kat (Gets to go to exotic Baltimore)
3. Lucy (totally uber!)
4. Faith Hill II (in spite of nutty behavior)
5. Phil (just friends)
6. Mattie the Liv Tyler-esque waitress I met on Wednesday night
(This list may not be in exact order!)
GODDAMIT
THAT WAS ALMOST HEROIC
OKAY IM TURNING IT OFF
I was referring to baseball for the good of the citizens, especially the children. It has therapeutic value. You guys want to see the bad and evil in everything while I look for the good in everything.
I gave my point of view and I'm sticking to it. I will not get into a heated political debate on this blog because you guys want to turn every topic into a political one. There is life outside of politics.
I will finally add for further clarification, it's not about doing business with the government, it's about bringing baseball to the people. There is a difference.
We all love baseball, but there comes a time when other things trump baseball ...
By doing business with Mainland China the Yankees give legitimacy to the government there and their horrible atrocities. (Sadly Israel has done the same thing, along with many other countries and transnational corporations.)
Letting them hold the Olympics for 2008 was also another horrible act committed by the so-called "international community." (Remind me not to live there.)
In no way should the players the Yankees signed from China be persecuted. They've done nothing wrong.
But this whole thing is nauseating.
You give a toy for Christmas made by slave labor in China, that toy is made by the blood and sweat and tears of modern saints in the laogai.
It makes my heart break.
Are they making Yankee hats too? If I were the Yankee brass I would not be able to sleep at night. The Yankees are the most powerful brand name in sports. Why sell it off like a two dollar Ho for a bowl of globalist porridge?
Where is people's love, pride, decency and shame?
We all draw our own lines in the sand I suppose.
I draw mine here.
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Anthony, great way to put wrong words in my mouth. You totally twisted my words and my ideas for your own political agenda. Go back and read what I actually wrote and if you don't understand what I'm getting at, just ask me. This discussion has ended, as my words speak for themselves. Thankfully they are in black and white so you and Phil can't distort them any further.
Lucy, you are great ... but I can't agree with you on this one ... I do hear you though ... Harry Wu was once a great shortstop, before going to a slave labor camp for 19 years.
Let's ask him what he thinks about the Yankees doing business there.
I will contact him tonight and get his reaction and we can post it here.
I think Yankee baseball in China in the long run will ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE for China's people. It's all about them, not us, not fun, not baseball.
It's about F R E E D O M!
"Who thinks freedom is a pretty good thing?"
-- As said by Annie in the film Field of Dreams!
Written in love,
Anthony your friend
P.S. Phil is one pretty cool guy!
There are atrocities taking place in St. Louis every day. We should stop playing baseball in the Murder Capital of the United States, until the people in that sinful city put an end to the crime.
Lucy to be brutally frank the sad fact is that most crime in St. Louis is black on black and thus it is seen as population control ... sick and sad as that is.
As Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Death is and must always be considered a tragedy, for if it is not, it means that life itself has become one."
You can't compare St. Louis to China. St. Louis is a part of the USA. China didn't have to get MFN status. Clinton treasoned it out to them. The Yankees can sign clean cut, red blooded Americans from St. Louis and that won't give legitimacy to the animals in Beijing. We don't need to fete the evil they do.
And besides, if you've seen the Cardinals this year, you'd know we aren't playing baseball this summer in St. Louis.
So there ... weenie!
Anthony, I wasn't serious about the St. Louis comment. I know it didn't make logical sense and that was my point.
I just don't believe in punishing the PEOPLE because the government sucks, that's all. I'm thinking about the kids, innocent citizens, that's it and that's all. Like it or not, that's my feeling and I won't change it despite anything you or Phil say.
Now I really must go. I'm here past my self-imposed blogging time.
THE YANKEES WIN ANOTHER GAME. FANTASTIC!!!
Lucy it's all good and you know I love you!
"Won't someone think of the children!"
Go Yankees!
Go Chinese Politburo!
PS ... I was not kidding about the Cardinals not playing baseball this summer
Anthony,
Please stop with the political banter.
This is a BASBEALL BLOG.
I don't engage in that stuff here because it's inappropriate.
How's this?
F$#K THE CHILDREN
Go Yankees!
Go Lithium!
Crime is crime regardless of who's doing it. To have sugar coat presense in areas that should require more or fair market employment (please do not say blacks need jobs because only 8.2 % is Unemployed in the US) St louis and alot of other towns is still POLICTICALLY Segregated in terms of Schooling , fundings etc. not blantant segregation but in terms of where fundings and etc goes. this is the Ying and the Yang of cities like NYC the Public school system could be crap but the theory is the City mixup is pretty intact outside of the surburban areas where diversity is in effect. China is China been that way for the ages. Western World goes to bed often with china out of fear. Disagree with me , many must not know about the Vietnam war and the behind the scenes stories. Introducing players to the US is cool but like Japan I hope we are not getting played with the Fees.
Bomber, great points. I also took issue with the black-on-black crime comment, so I'm glad you addressed it.
The Yankees are not just bringing some players here. They are introducing baseball to China (mostly to the kids). I hope they don't thank us with those fees you mentioned, although we will be spending millions to cultivate the sport in this country where it has previously been just about non-existent.
Anyone who wants to blog on the POLITICAL aspect of this move, here is an MSNBC link that is appropriate for your purposes. Personally, I'm done with the subject
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/03/256153.aspx