The Yankees have the night off before opening up a home series against the A’s on Tuesday night. For those of you who are interested, the Giants are playing on Monday Night Football on ESPN tonight. Use this as your open thread. Enjoy!

Check out the hourly forecast from Accuweater. I don’t see how they’re going to get this one in. There’s a 2 hour window around 1:00 where the chance of rain drops to 40-50%, then shoots back up to 90% for the rest of the day. If they do play, they’ll be dancing between [...]

The Yankees are off tonight. They take action again on Tuesday against the Angels. In the mean time, please use this as tonight’s open thread.

While we’re on subjects only tangentially related to the Yankees, we have an announcement here at TYA. On Saturday many of the TYA writers will be getting together at

So I check in to the MLB trade rumors week in review, and you know what they have on the Yanks? Squat. Oh sure, they signed Marcus Thames to a minor league deal, and made a phone call to the Tampa Bay Rays that lasted about a minute. Other than that? Nothing.

And [...]

If you were waiting for the Ubaldo Jimenez trade talks to heat up, today was your day. Here’s a recap of today’s reports:

MLB.com’s Peter Gammons says the Rockies are “looking for two prime prospects, along with one or two big-league ready players, including a starting pitcher.” SI.com’s Jon Heyman says [...]

Yay, it’s the All-Star Game! And it counts (ugh)!

Here are the starting lineups:

American League:

1. Curtis Granderson, CF
2. Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
3. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
4. Jose Bautista, RF
5. Josh Hamilton, LF
6. Adrian Beltre, 3B
7. David Ortiz, DH
8. Robinson Cano, [...]

We’re just an hour away from the soothing sounds of Chris Berman MC’ing the HR Derby. I’m sure you’re all as excited as I am. In a new twist this year, turns out the home run derby is actually a race war! Uh, or something like that.

While you may be obliged to root [...]

For a guy who’s supposed to be a defensive specialist, you wouldn’t know it by his performance today. Or by his advanced defensive metrics, for that matter. In his defense (ahem) it’s only the 2nd game he’s played at SS this year, and it was his first start. No biggie. You can’t win [...]