Afternoon Baseball

What else could you say to describe this game, in which Jason Giambi hit his 20th home run in his team's 68th game and Bernie Williams had five hits in five at-bats.

On the other hand, things were completely normal for professional "choker against the Yankees" Arthur Rhodes, who somehow has four wins against the Yankees lifetime but
little else, with seven losses and a 7.22 ERA in 49 games. He's essentially a DFA against the Yanks, except with about 20 more appearances than it would take such a reliever to be cut. But with Charlie Manuel managing, that just means Rhodes has experience and is due for a good outing.

Other good things for Yankees fans. Derek Jeter may not have much power this year, but he's got 45 RBI and still is hitting near his career best. Jorge Posada's bat hasn't pooped out yet, and Melky came back from an 0-15 slump with a nice RBI single late. Mariano pitched two, which is good to see occasionally -- it's safe and rare, like the politicians who can't take a position on abortion advocate. Can't wait for the Google search on that one, by the way.

Not good: The Mike Mussina Experience is fast ending. He might not even make the All-Star team with a couple more of these outings.
Also not good is that my computer is running like it's a PC. Zing! No, really, it's annoying.

One more note: Unbelievably, Bernie is on pace for 15 HR and 83 RBI, and has a decent line of .294/.332/.445. He's hit .301 and .302 in May and June, and still has odd splits of being terrible at home and against righties, and dangerous in the opposite situations. This is after three years of being pretty mediocre-to-bad against either hand in any stadium. I don't have an explanation, but I'm glad to, even if momentarily, be proven wrong in my faith in Bernie to rebound. Still, if this 5-for-5 results in Bernie playing tons of outfield for the next three weeks (barring necessity, obviously), I'll be disgruntled.