The Japanese Language Yankees Blog You Never Knew You Wanted To Read And/Or Look At... Oh Yea, And The Red Sox Are In Detroit

I'd like to ask all of you loyal (imaginary) readers out there to head on over to this blog that my friend (a Yankees fan, unfortunately) has started recently. It doesn't really have a title to speak of, or really, one that I can understand, so I'm going to call it Ms. Mori's Super Cute Bomber Blog. Why, you ask? I challenge you to tell me your cute radar doesn't explode at the wallpaper. In any case she loves her Yankees like I love me Sox, so show her you're an educated baseball fan and stare at the characters.

In other news, the Sox are in Detroit, home of baseball's best record. With a comeback victory in the top of the ninth off the bat of everybody's new favorite hero, Kevin Youkilis, and a tough loss tonight for Tim Wakefield, the Sox look to the poster child for insecurity, Matt Clement, for a win. In all fairness, Clement would also be the "nice guy" poster child if not for Tim Wakefield. Clement's really been a bang-up piece of work, doing nothing but bad things on the hill for Boston. During his second to last outing he was drilled again in the leg by a come-backer, something that seemed to spoil what was shaping up to be a decent start.

Here's the FanGraphs link to Clement's pitching lines thus far in 2006:

Since When Did FanGraphs Do Pitching Lines For Slow-Pitch Softball?

Not pretty, is it? Six runs in 3.1 IP last time out at Toronto really isn't impressive, nor is the fact that after bitching about being skipped in the last Bronx series he decided to give up 8 ER in 4.1 IP. What is striking is the fact that in the 5 starts before that he allowed 4 earned runs only twice. It's gotta be a fluke though, because if you take a look at all of his peripherals, they're all in the "somebody please turn me into a journeyman middle reliever" range.

At this point we should all just get down on our knees and say our Rosaries before every start by #30, and make sure to avoid any heavy foods to headoff the heartburn. I will keep saying "I hope he can turn it around," but by this point it just looks like that's nothing but ignorance.

At least Carl Pavano doesn't have a 6.91 ERA in the first week of June...