Yankees Crying

Let me get this straight. The Yankee are 11 games up on second place Boston and own the best record in the American League, but Yankees players and manager (Joe Torre) are upset Alex Rodriguez isn't stroking homer after homer (as reported in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated).

What a bunch of prima donnas.

The Yankees' Jason Giambi (incidentally one of the players at the heart of the Balco steroids scandal) alleges A-Rod has a "false confidence." If anyone's going to throw stones, Giambi shouldn't be the one. Giambi, after all, admitted to a federal grand jury that he used steroids. If Giambi fell to finding his confidence in a syringe, he may not be the best source on locating or even gauging confidence. Maybe he should cut A-Rod a little slack.

It gets worse. In a reported conversation between Giambi and A-Rod, Jason says:

"When you hit three, four or five [in the order], you have to get the big hits, especially if they're going to walk Bobby [Abreu] and me. I'll help you out until you get going. I'll look to drive in runs when they pitch around me, go after that 3-and-1 pitch that might be a ball."

What? "I'll help you out"? What does that mean? Otherwise he'd just be on cruise control when he comes up to the plate?

Do your job, Giambi, and do it every time you come up to bat.

Holy crap.

I'll say this. If the Yankees don't want A-Rod, we'd be happy to have him in Cincinnati's lineup. How we'd pay for him, I don't know. But we'd be happy to have him.