WHY YANKEE FANS ARE ROYALS FANS TODAY

Sloppy Sloppy Sloppy. Errors, bad plays and a loss and suddenly, with the Rays beating the Royals last night, it's all tied up in the East. If the Yankees win today and the Rays win today, the Rays win the East and the Yankees win the Wild Card. If that happens, there shouldn't be any celebration. None. It's more than winning the division, it's winning home field advantage too.

Eric Patterson had a game winning single in the 10th of Ivan Nova and the Red Sox won the nightcap. What can you do, you had that feeling. My question is this: Nova's a good pitcher but if you notice, when there are men on base, he's a spaz. He can't hit the zone, his heads all over the place. He's been like that since he came up. Why would Girardi put Nova in that situation last night? Was he testing him? That's a bad spot to test him. Not now, work out the kinks when you're not about to be tied for the Division. I didn't get that call. It doesn't matter now though, the games over.

I was happy with Burnett. He allowed just two earned runs and six hits in six innings.

What really bothered me tonight was the errors. 4 of them. That stinks and there was a ridiculous play that Burnett just didn't have his head in. Daniel Nava had a double and then Josh Reddick hit a hard grounder to Berkman, who bobbled it. He picked it up and threw to Burnett, covering the base. Burnett caught the ball, then turned toward third, where Nava had run. But when first base umpire Brian Runge called Reddick safe, Burnett turned his back on Nava and began arguing. Nava then headed home and, with Cano pointing to the plate, Burnett finally threw the ball and it flew past Cervelli, allowing Nava to score and cut the lead to 4-3. Berkman and Burnett were charged with errors on the play.

Cervelli also dropped the ball in the 4th and had a throwing error in the 6th. Not something you want to do this late in the season. But to Cervelli's credit, he had a sac fly to move the runners over, his a run scoring single and a double later on. At least he made up for it.

Today is do or die for Moseley and the Yankees. Yes, we are in the playoffs, but for a team that started so strong, the Rays have been just as strong. I may even venture to say stronger. The matchup for New York is much more difficult today obviously, the Red Sox are not the Royals, And it's really about 1 win today, the Rays, if they win, and the Yankees win, the Yankees get the Wild Card. So let's get it done Yanks, win, or, should I say "Let's go Royals, beat the Rays." I hope the Bambino has a front row seat.