Game 8: Get A Hold

After last night, I don't know if the significance of the title of this song necessitates much of an explanation. Things got a little out of hand, and now A.J. Burnett needs to put up a quality start, or at least stay out there for more than, you know, one inning. After getting 7 innings out of the bullpen (and one from the Nick Swisher) yesterday, the Yanks can ill afford to go to the well early.

Mark Teixeira is back in the line-up, but Johnny Damon is out with the flu, which buys yet another day for Joe Girardi to tell Xavier Nady that he lost his starting job to The Swish.

Aside from the title, the words to the song aren't all that relevant to the game, but Q-Tip does drop right in with a baseball metaphor:

Drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting...
The deadly venom, let me start from the beginning,
We always hittin, so yo, there'll be no extra innings,
As I send the mic out the park like Reggie Jackson,
You be the minor leaguer who sees no action.