This offense is capable of scoring 250 runs in the last 32 games. The maddening Robinson Cano alone could hit .450 the rest of the way, and would anyone be surprised?

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An average of 7.8 runs a game. Wow. Have you got them penciled in for 100 wins? Even with a rotation that is 60% garbage on any given night, that’s gotta give them about an .850 winning percentage the rest of the way, doesn’t it?

Or maybe you meant “is capable of” in the sense that Hillary Clinton “is capable of” campaigning extremely hard for Obama, it just doesn’t look like she’s really going to do it.

Butchie,
Ellsbury is not injured. He didn’t come out of the game, and there is nothing I’ve seen that indicates that he is anything other than a little banged up.

Furthermore, they are 14-7 since Manny was shipped out, a .667 clip, and have scored more runs in August than any team other than the Orioles (they may have scored more than them now, too, I’m not sure).

So long as Beckett makes his return on Friday, I am not at all concerned about the injuries. Yes, I’d rather have Drew in the lineup than Crisp but even Coco, like Varitek, is starting to hit a little.

The Yankee offense is a big, fat, ugly, overfed sleeping dog. Should the offense wake up–and we saw signs of that in Baltimore where they crushed Cabrera–they will make the post-season.

This offense is capable of scoring 250 runs in the last 32 games. The maddening Robinson Cano alone could hit .450 the rest of the way, and would anyone be surprised?

It is very difficult for the Yanks to make it to the playoffs at this point. Why? The Yanks do play the weakened Red Sox BUT who comes into town after the Beaners? Yankee kryptonite….Halladay and Burnett! The Jays will not lay down and die against the Yankees. So there are no gimmes, except for maybe Seattle. Then the Yanks have to play too many winning teams. It’s an uphill battle. In addition, who says that the Twins or White Sox trail off to allow the Yanks to make it to the Wild Card top spot? I think that Chicago and the Twinkies are right now better than the Yanks, Sox ,Jays and all the other teams in this hunt. It will be interesting to see how Minnesota does on their road trip, that would decide the season.

BTW, Once was I don’t think that the Sox are that strong right now with so many injuries including Ellsbury now. Yeah, they are a dominant home team BUT with no Manny and Beckett being a question mark after that rout by Toronto , who knows? Thanks to a lucky call yesterday( Baseball seems like it’s becoming like wrestling with these activist umps especially this year, thank God for instant replay), Stairs was safe at the plate, Boston would have lost two to the Jays. With these injuries, the Red Sox are just like the Rays , Yanks and Jays in their division: injury plagued teams. The one caveat seems to be Tampa. Did anyone think that after Longoria, Crawford and Percival being out that they would be this good even still?

The real question is if the multicolored Sox will lose enough to make it possible. The Red Sox probably will, as banged up as they are and playing the Yankees 6 times before the end of the season

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After the Yankee series, the Sox are at home for 19 of the last 28 games, where they play .705 ball. Do you really expect that they will play .500 the rest of the way? On top of that, the Yankees play a majority of their remaining games are away.

If the schedules were reversed I would say that the Yankees have a shot at making up the deficit. But as things stand, and all things considered, its an extremely long shot to make up the deficit and climb over two teams for the wild card.

Not impossible but extremely difficult and unlikely.

Remember, many so-called smart guys wrote this team off numerous times this year and in past years. (For some reason, they always rush to write off the Yankees.)
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~~The real question is if the multicolored Sox will lose enough to make it possible. The Red Sox probably will, as banged up as they are and playing the Yankees 6 times before the end of the season, but i’m not so sure about the Whie Sox~~

Don’t forget about the Twins and Blue Jays too.

Two of three gains one game, in the net end. That’s not much at all.

They don’t even have to sweep the Red Sox. Two out of three will be just fine. There is enough time. We still have 20 percent of the season left.

Granted, if the Yankees can sweep the Red Sox, then this would help…but, that’s a big task.