so what they had last year with josh hamilton, milton bradley, guys who would work counts, guys who would make pitchers go deep, now they're just up there swinging. you wouldn't see the best hitting coach in baseball would have a team that is just a bunch of free swingers without any concept or any idea of how the approach an at-bat. but right now that's what they are. they need to go back to the basics and start taking pitch, working counts, getting into hitter's counts and walking a little bit and then hitting the home run. >> you know it because you lived it. it is so hard to determine and weigh in, in this long season that is a baseball season of finding out if an issue is serious or not. then we have the yankees, five straight win, three and a half out of first behind boston, and now they take on the surprising seattle mariners. let's talk about the yankees quickly. do they have something going now? >> they do. we knew that they were going to score runs when teixeira got past his early season struggles that he has every year. you knew they were going to score. the problem i think i h