Yankee glass more like half-empty

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Baseball Today: Friday, July 18
Published 7/18/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... DOESN'T ADD UP: The Daily News' Anthony McCarron analyzes the Yankees' chances and concludes: "Maybe the Yankees have to hope for one of [the teams ahead of them] to pull a Mets-like collapse. Or they could believe that the baseball ghosts some believe inhabit Yankee Stadium really want October baseball there." The headline on colleague Vic Ziegel's column says the Yanks should forget about catching the Red Sox and focus on overtaking the Rays for the wild card, ...

67 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall
Published 7/18/2008 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
Anthony McCarron of the Daily News does a great job at pulling together all the numbers for the Yankees at this moment: The third-place Yankees are one game better than they were last season after 95 games, when they went 45-22 (.672) over their last 67 games to win the AL wild card at 94-68. But some might argue that many of their players are not only a year older now, but also a year less effective. If you believe that 94 victories will get them a playoff spot this year, that means they must go 44-23 (.657) in the second half. ...

Yanks have "sexy" new first baseman
Published 7/18/2008 by D&A at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... begins tonight, Mike Mussina (11-6, 3.61) vs. lefty Greg Smith (5-7, 3.43). In other news... Anthony McCarron analyzes the state of the Yankees, and notes they'll have to repeat last year's 45-22 second half performance to have a shot at the postseason this year. The Yanks are a game ahead of last year's pace, which would mean they'll need to go 44-23 to get to 94 wins. McCarron adds that the Bombers play 32 of their last 51 games on the road, where they currently own a 23-23 record. ...