He with the perfect hair is always highly critical of the Yankees, and said essentially the same thing last year. He was certain the Yankees would be the odd team out in the playoff hunt. He was wrong—as usual.

I’d love to blame him for dealing Kazmir, but that was Duquette. But I digress. While it certainly is too early to annoint the Rays, let me be the first to say “It’s about FREAKIN’ time they put it all together.”

If the Yankees had as many #1 picks at the Rays have had over the last what-135 years, we’d be bludgeoning the competition. As it stands without 135 years of stockpiled #1’s, we are in a good position-our bullpen is credible, our starters are giving us a chance to win, and key aspects of our lineup except for Melky are starting to hit. I think we are fine.

Saying the Yankees need rotation help is classic “head-up-my-ass” analyst-speak-especially considering he could drop any AL team into the sentence. Phillips is a boob-but a boob with perfect hair (the bastard).

While Phillips is off base (as usual), John Amato is spot on. Who sits a guy whose raking the ball for the first time all season in Cano? That’s akin to walking away from the roulette wheel when you are white hot! I’m all for giving guys a rest, but not a third of your batting order—especially when two of the three represent the bulk of your offense.

I don’t think the Rays are for real, but we can’t mail in games. We need every W we can get, and my knock on Girardi is that he’s alittle bit too in love with sitting guys. Here’s one, Joe, sit Melky.