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Short hills made this assinine statement
What is up with the Moose? Iwas at the stadium last thursday when he got shelled. He sux lately.

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Thx to FN Moron for the sig. -wCw-

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They will turn it up a notch.

I am not worried yet.

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Thx to FN Moron for the sig. -wCw-

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M's say Yankees are soaking basepaths

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ESPN.com news services


NEW YORK -- If speed kills, are the New York Yankees intentionally killing the Seattle Mariners vaunted running game?

That's the question on the minds of some of the Mariners. The M's believe the Yankees have intentionally soaked the basepaths at Yankee Stadium.

"Definitely," Seattle's Mark McLemore told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Friday. "Definitely."

"They can think what they want," Yankees manager Joe Torre responded. "But I had nothing to do with it."

In the opener of the three-game series on Friday night, the M's running game was definitely held in check by the Yankees. In fact, both McLemore and Ichiro Suzuki were gunned out trying to steal. The M's were limited to six hits and no steals in a 4-0 loss.

"It was pretty muddy," McLemore said. "But really, I don't know if I would have made it if it was dry. (Jorge) Posada made a strong throw. But they're going to keep doing it, and we're going to keep running. It's what we do. I've been thrown out before, and I'll be thrown out again.

"If a home-run hitter goes four at-bats without a homer, he doesn't stop swinging, does he?"

In fact, the Mariners have now failed in their last six attempts to steal bases -- a fact not lost on manager Lou Piniella. "The (wetness) was the case tonight here and that was the case in Boston," Piniella told the Post-Intelligencer. "They're starting to wet these fields down pretty good."

Ironically, the only team with more stolen bases than the M's in the American League is the Yankees, with 128. The Mariners have 126.

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