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Saw the first game of the three game sweep the Cardinals put on the Yankees this weekend.

Busch stadium is such a great ballpark to watch a game.

I naturally thought back to the original Yankee stadium and all the poles that held up the various levels of the park. While the levels avoided collapse, you couldn’t say the seat you had behind the pole offered a great vantage point.

The Cardinals are in first place as are the Yankees.

The Cardinals manage to do it with a reasonable payroll–reasonable being relative to what the Yankees pay their players.

Is it time for Brian Cashman to go should the Yankees not deliver World Championship Number 28 this year?

That’s hard to say.

Cashman seems like he’s been the GM forever.

The opposite is true of Aaron Boone the manager. However, the team sure seems stale at this stage of Boone’s tenure.

What really hurt was former Yankee Jordan Montgomery getting the win against the Yankees in his first outing as a Cardinal. The Cardinals sent an injured outfielder (Harrison Bader) for a starting left-handed pitcher (Montgomery) just before the trading deadline.

Bader may yet prove to be a worthwhile addition, but the Yankees should have kept in mind that during the playoffs, good pitching has historically crushed good hitting.

The Yankees can’t seem to get timely hitting.

Their defense in the outfield will certainly benefit from Bader whenever he gets back, but he will only offer so much on the offensive side of things.

The Cardinals assumed sole possession of first place over the Brewers with their sweep of the Yankees and the Brew Crew’s losses to Cincinnati over the weekend.

I found myself rooting for the Cardinals and not the Yankees.

That should tell you something.

The Cardinals have a manager who most times is the picture of calm in the dugout.

Boone can become animated and sometimes it gets the best of him. He was ejected from yesterday’s game, having gotten upset at the way the home plate umpire was calling balls and strikes.

The ejection made me think of one of the greatest bad ball hitters of all time: Yogi Berra.

Yogi would not leave anything to the imagination in terms of balls and strikes, many times swinging (and connecting) with pitches well out of the strike zone.

Instead of a home run or bust offense, the Yankees would behoove themselves to make more contact.

Making more contact means protecting the plate, especially when there’re two strikes on the batter.

I can’t begin to explain how frustrating it is when a batter with two strikes watches a slightly iffy ball slam into the catcher’s mitt for a called strike three.

The moral of the story is that if it’s close, guys should be going down swinging and not looking.

Just like in real life.