Tyler Kepner has a great entry of bullet points related to the Yanks/Sox series.

This is great:

The Yankees won’t punish Melky Cabrera for continuing to slide into first, and Manager Joe Torre said he resisted the temptation to tell Melky’s mom about it when he saw her in the elevator this morning. “He’s been told a million times,” coach Larry Bowa said, with a sigh.

heh. I found this interesting, as well:

Derek Jeter had a stack of four Yankees uniforms to sign for Red Sox players. The top one was from Mike Lowell. This is a common practice for players on opposing teams; when the Yanks played in Detroit last month, Phil Hughes had Magglio Ordonez sign a jersey, and Kyle Farnsworth had Barry Bonds to sign one in San Francisco in June. It isn’t free, either. A player must pay the team about $140 to buy the jersey he wants to have signed. Jeter, by the way, said he had never asked a fellow player for an autograph. “Maybe I’ll regret that someday,” he said.

Finally, Dave and Aziz link to this Daily News article where the writer catches up with Bernie and we hear a bit about how he feels being out of the game at this time of the year.

Often Williams will turn on Yankee games and see Joe Torre in the dugout, see his friends hugging and carrying on, and suddenly the longing to be there with them is so intense he can barely stand it. Williams grabs his own shirt, as if he were yanking himself out of the recording studio, into the clubhouse.

"I watch the games until I get that feeling again, and then I have to go look at something else," Williams says. "I'll come back later and get the score."