Below The Beltway

Alex Rodriguez returned from the DL last night, but the Yankees’ problems continue:
Mike Mussina threw only 41 pitches Tuesday night before Ross Ohlendorf jogged in from the bullpen to take his place. Mussina got only two outs with those 41 pitches, and any game that Ohlendorf enters in the first inning is quickly disintegrating.
Mussina had [...]

Last season, when the Yankees went through a terrible April and mediocre May, Joe Torre’s head was on the chopping block and there were many who thought that he would be fired to satisfy George Streinbrenner’s anger over how the season had gone.
Well, here we are in May again and the Yankees are 20-24. Does [...]

Hank Steinbrenner is back, and he’s channeling his dad circa 1979:
Right on cue, Hank Steinbrenner bashed the Yankees.
Hours before Joe Girardi insisted his team was playing hard after a 2-1 loss against he Rays, here is what Hank Steinbrenner told Kevin Kernan of the Post:
“We’ve got to forget about all the injuries and start playing [...]

Apparently Alex Rodriguez didn’t quite make it through the birth of his first child:
NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez passed out during the birth of his first daughter.
“The one nurse had a cold cloth on his head. The other nurse had the blood pressure on his arm. And my mother was like rubbing his back. [...]

Yankee fan and Red Sox fan go to bar.
Yankee fan and Red Sox fan get drunk.
Yankee fan and Red Sox fan argue about their respective teams.
Yankee fan runs Red Sox fan over:
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — After a Red Sox-Yankees argument spilled outside a bar, a Yankees fan aimed her car at a group of people [...]

Things aren’t as bad as they were last April, when it looked very much like Joe Torre would get fired one month into the season, but the Yankees are plagued with injuries right now that are making things worse than they should have been:
The bad news keeps coming for the Yankees. Alex Rodriguez has been [...]

Hank Steinbrenner, who has taken over much of the day-to-day operation of the Yankees, is starting to look as bad as his father was back in the 70s and 80s:
With the Yankees off to a 10-10 start, and with two of their young starters struggling, the Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner said there was one thing [...]

The 2008 Edition of the rivalry got off to a good start for New York, thanks to Chien-Ming Wang:
BOSTON — He has never thrown a no-hitter, like Clay Buchholz, or had a shutdown performance in the World Series, like Josh Beckett. He never captured the imaginations of Yankees fans as an electrifying rookie, like Phil [...]

A little more than one-week into the season, it’s fairly clear that things aren’t going easy for the Yankees. Last night’s 4-0 loss to the lowly Royals is only the latest example of why the team is 4-5 so far this year:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Johnny Damon walked to lead off Wednesday’s game, the [...]

This season, Alex Rodriguez will earn more than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined:
April 1 (Bloomberg) — New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will make more money this season than the 33-man roster of the Florida Marlins, the Associated Press reported.
Rodriguez, who signed a record $275 million contract extension in December, tops [...]