See what happens when they play decent teams?

If the Yankees want to make the playoffs this year, they will have to make at least one trade for pitching. With all of the help they need, that probably won't even be enough.

Is it worth it to mortgage the future to get the playoffs and lose in the first round again? Probably not. But with the payroll that the Yankees have, they shouldn't have to rely on pitchers like Dan Giese, Edwar Ramirez and Ross Ohlendorf to pitch against the Mets.

You know that triumvirate is great when Carlos Delgado goes 2-4 with six RBI (thus far).

I don't know about you guys, but I'm so excited to see Sidney Ponson start tonight. Sad thing is that he can pitch a terrible game and it wouldn't even be as bad as this afternoon's performance.

I'm glad a sell-out crowd got to see Chien-Ming Wang run the bases, though.