no gracious gesture, Steve. F-Rod hadn’t warmed up yet.

It was either the 5th or the 6th. I think he was more embarrassed than hurt.

I thought that was before the 6th and he pitched the 6th?

Didn’t Chacon turn his ankle warming up and they took him out as a precaution? Or did I dream that?

I have no idea. I wasn’t watching at the time, my mom was. So in her mind he did it to be nice.

Did he do that to be nice, or to buy time for the pen?

As I noted on Bronx Banter, Torre did something today that my mom had been begging him to do for a long time. He let Chacon go to the mound in the 7th to throw warm-up pitches and then took him out so he could get a nice round of applause. She was pissed when he didn’t do that for Wang during the Cubs series.

//Knowing what to do, and doing it, is the thing.//

True. I don’t think getting Embree is necessarily a bad thing though. From what I’ve read his ERA blew up in June, but he started to pitch well again in July. He seemed pretty shocked that the Sox dropped him.

I don’t think it’s fair to judge him on today’s performance. He spent the last 10 days or so in Oregon fishing, took a red eye to New York and landed at 8am this morning. The hit he gave up was a weak blooper. Ok, his throwing error was pretty bad. He should’ve just ate it as he had no chance to get him even with a good throw. (Of course the first thing that came to mind was that he’s a Boston plant:-) But I’m willing to give him a chance.

//Maybe Embree will know how to pitch to Ortiz.//

Knowing what to do, and doing it, is the thing. I think the current Yankees *know* what to do….

It was an interesting game for me, tuning in-wise. I missed the start (we were out with the kids). I saw some of the game on a TV, at a Ralph’s Ices, as I was placing an order. (They had a TV inside.) That was around the 3rd inning. Then, we got home, and I caught about an inning. But, we decided to hit the pool for a while – and, the only thing I “saw” was a 2nd hand report from my wife, who went into the house for a minute during the 6th. She came back to the pool and told me about Giambi protesting with the ump. Later, I had to run some more errands – and my daughter and I were in the car – and I heard Giambi’s HR on the radio to close the gap. We got home and I had time to see the 9th live on FOX. Good timing on my part.

That 7th and 8th, from what I’ve seen online, sure did look ugly. And, freaky. Did Franklin really bail out Gordon?