A Thin Ray of Hope

"What the outfield wall looks like to us and what it looks like to Bobby Abreu"

Yes, yesterday was awful. Watching the seventh inning felt like getting kicked in the groin while someone sprays lemon juice into your eyes. Oh, and Roger Clemens is hurt, that is the kick in the shins as you lay on the ground recovering from the groin shot. Oh well, at least Doug M. is out for a bit.

Despite being 13.5 games out, despite being 7 games under .500, despite being 1 game out of last, there is a thin ray of hope for the Yankees. After tonight, the Yankees schedule gets remarkably easier. Check out the rest of June (records in parenthesis):
4 games against the White Sox (25-26)
3 games against the Pirates (24-31)
3 games against the Diamondbacks (33-24)
3 games against the Mets (35-19)
3 games against the Rockies (26-30)
3 games against the Giants (26-28)
3 games against the Orioles (27-29)
3 games against the Athletics (27-27)

Thats a total of 25 games, 19 of which are against teams who are .500 or worse, and 15 of which are against National League teams.
There is no reason the Yanks can't win 17 of those 25 games, in truth, they are capable of winning 20 or more out of those 25 games. A month like that can certainly turn a season around. Of course the downside of playing like a little league team for the first two months of the season is the following: the Yanks absolutely cannot afford to win less than 17 of those games, because if they do, they'll still be below .500 going into July.
This is the real test of whether the Yanks can turn this season around. Hopefully they will.