I wish we could all go back to when that book came out and look at what people were saying then about Jose. I am not defending what he did because I think he’s the most at fault by introducing baseball with steroids, thus causing the domino effect that is plaguing the game at the moment.

Jose to McGwire, Sosa sees this, joins in. Giambi joins in because of McGwire influence. Bonds gets pissed because he has the best talent out of all of them and his ego leads to going from one of the greatest players of our generation to THE greatest.

Girardi did interview for the Cubs job. An article in the Chicago Sun Times at that time said that Piniella, Girardi and Bochy were the prime candidates for the job, with Piniella being the first choice if he wasn’t hired to replace Joe Torre, who, at the time was on the firing line. So, I guess if Torre were gone, and Piniella with the Yanks, Girardi probably would have been in the Windy City.

I have learned to stay away from the blog during a loss, too. All rational thought takes a vacation.

But it is a slightly schizophrenic blog on the whole. When the Yankees win, there’s a zillion posts plotting out the next 20 games and how the Yankees “should” take this many out of that many; while of course the Red Sox will necessariy lose this many out of that many. I end up doing a lot of scrolling and not much reading. But there are certain people who post whose entries I look for, and those are usually enlightening, always fun to read, even if I don’t always agree.

I was relieved to read that Girardi turned down the job, I guess because it just seemed too much like the Marlins job. But the article at ESPN seemed to indicate that it looked initially like he was going to take the job. I wonder what changed. Of course I would love at some point for him to be Yankees’ manager, I don’t think it should be for at least a couple of seasons. Does anyone else thing it might be difficult for him to manage at team that still has some of his old teammates, albeit just a handful of veterans? Or is that not really a concern? But, if the White Sox let Guillen go, Chicago is Girardi’s hometown and that might appeal to him. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.

Good luck to Roger today. I probaby won’t get to see much of the game. They could certainly use the win.

Wrong…the Yankees have had the toughest schedule in the league to date. The Yankees also have one of the top run differentials in the league, despite their so-so record. Luck will even out over the course of a season, there is a long way to go. The Yankees are and will be just fine.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn.....d=tab1pos1

Yankees make up about half the team.