Blogging the Yankees, one loss at a time

Last night we had a brilliant thought. Since we find everyday blogging too demanding, why not lighten the load by simply writing after each loss? If the fluctuation of comments on Lohud is any indication, it's the losses which boil our blood, not the hum-drum two-run victories.

How could I have known that the very next day my epiphany would provide a loss of titanic proportions, the ground zero of Yankee pitifulness? But now that we've been spotted a lead, we don't know quite what to do with it. How do you sum up such a colossal fuck up? And, more to the point, if today is the first day of a diary of Yankee losses, where can we go from here?

Only up, I suppose. Rather than try to encapsulate today's ballgame, we'd rather highlight a few of the more salient points. Besides, this blog is more about what each loss signifies more than anything else. We care about the failure of the team in theory as much as the team's failures on the field -- and when those two strands happen to converge, all the better.

So, rather than place bets on whether Cleveland reaches 30 to tie an ML record (the game isn't over, so we're cheating a bit), let's run through a few things of note:

- At some point, someone needs to take responsibility for the bench play. And that person has to be Brian Cashman. Any idiot with a blank check can figure out that Mark Teixeira and CC Sabathia are worthy of pinstripes. It takes smarts, though, to go through the trash and find someone serviceable when those stars come up lame. To wit, Cody Ransom. Why not, we wonder, bring in Mike Lamb?

- If this is the offense we can expect all year from Brett Gardner, he's going to have to learn to play a decent centerfield. It's the least we can do for us.

- We've been Edwar's biggest defender, but his inability to throw strikes and keep the ball in play is wearing thin.

- The bullpen is not good. Other than Mariano Rivera, not a single Yankee reliever would crack the pen of the Red Sox. That's very revealing.

Final thought of the day: do Girardi and Cashman have the balls to jettison Wang from the rotation?