Yank This!
Okay, so here is the prediction of the century, coming right at you. Tonight is the night we are all going to find out about the Yankees. It's bright. It's night. It's the Subway Series. It's ESPN. The Yankees are pitching some kid they found sleeping on the No. 7 train Friday night. The Mets are pitching the guy who won National League Pitcher of the Month for April. So it comes down to this: If the Yankees win tonight, they will then either sweep or take two of three from the Red Sox, and the Yanks will go on to win a playoff spot by the end of the season. If the Yankees lose, it will all keep imploding. The Yanks won't win 86 games. They will be dead. This is the game. Tonight. You excited?

Dice-K Ruins Another Japanese Pitcher’s Life
Thursday night, Daisuke Matsuzaka of the Red Sox beat Tomo Ohka of the Blue Jays in what was just the fourth matchup between Japanese starting pitchers in Major League Baseball history. In defeating Ohka, Matsuzaka erased former Japanese-born MLB Pitcher Mac Suzuki’s one page – or one line – in the record book. You see, in all three of the previous Japanese pitching matchups in Major League history, Suzuki had been the losing pitcher: Once to Hideki Irabu, once to Hideo Nomo and another time to Mr. Ohka himself. Sorry, Mac. At least you can still say you’re the first Japanese player to play in the Majors without first playing in the Japanese leagues.