for malcolm x...

f the sawx and f wayne franklin. lefties are hitting over four hundo off him.

reggie, how can you live in new york for all this time decide to root for the sawx? if you turn on new york like that andre will see to it that goldberg ditches the giants for the mets.



The Yankees had decided before the game to give a day off to the weary setup man Tanyon Sturtze and closer Mariano Rivera, who had saved the previous three games. Mussina's abbreviated outing meant that lesser relievers would have to get the ball to Tom Gordon. They almost did.

But with two outs in the eighth inning, the left-hander Wayne Franklin left a curveball up in the strike zone to the Texas Rangers' cleanup man, Hank Blalock. It carried onto the top of the wall in right-center field and bounced into the Rangers' bullpen, sending the Yankees to a 2-1 loss that knocked them out of first place in the American League East.