I am still a legal resident of the state of California. I still pay taxes to CA; I maintain both a business and a residential address there, too (although I do also have my so-called business incorporated in the NV for some other tax issues) even if I have been spending time away from that residence and the state. The word for today is "stress" and I am stressing both that first "s" as well as the elongated "s" sound at the end of the word; it's a pretty *great* onomatopoeia when you say and hear it like that...

The Yankees gave the game back that they took from the Rays the previous night. Colon, perhaps pitching for his pinstriped future threw a heck of a game. He seemed to loosen up as the game went on, his fastball (his primary pitch) gaining in MPH as the contest progressed; he was getting strikeouts and looked like he could move around and off the mound better than he had in the last few starts following his hamstring strain. But, the Yankee defense -- which had let him down early in his last start -- gave his well-pitched game away.

One of the biggest blows which technically wasn't an error - Granderson lost an easy fly ball in center to the stupid white domed roof of the Trop' - but it set up Boone Logan's error on a bouncer to the mound that should have at least cut the tying run off at the plate and, at best, been turned into a 1-2-3 double-play that would have gotten the team out of the 7th and perhaps preserved a win with how effective the tandem of Roberston and Mo have been coming out of the bullpen in the 8th and 9th innings respectively. Could have picked up a game on the Sox too as they finally lost to the O's.

But you do usually need to score more than 2 runs to win a game in the AL East so the bats (although they did hit their first longball - an impressive opposite-field blast off Cano's bat - in 4 games) are to blame as well. And tonight they face David Price, so no walk in the woods by any stretch of the imagination.

Twins are playing this afternoon in what will be more like Bikram Yoga than America's Past-time...

Okay, back to my regular scheduled stress... Hope I have good news to report next time...

Cheers,
Brian