Great news, Yankee fans. It's not September.

These excuses are lame.

Come back and talk to ARod after 80 games:

“If it doesn’t break us, it’s going to make us stronger in the long run,” said Alex Rodriguez, who went 3-for-3 with a home run as he returned to the lineup after missing two games with a minor oblique injury. “It’s tough, but we have to keep perspective... If it was 80 games, it would be a lot tougher to swallow.”


Not our fault:

“You usually go through stretches throughout the season where things go this way,” said Chase Headley, whose 0-for-3 left him with only two hits in his last 24 at-bats. “This one has been prolonged a little bit; some of it our fault, some not our fault.”


Girardi's players don't play hard for him:

“Do you want me just to flip it upside down? What do you want me to do?” Girardi said. “Twenty games is one-eighth of the season. If every manager changed the lineup after three or four guys were struggling, you’d be changing the lineup all the time. That’s why it’s a long season and you go by numbers over a long period of time. I think it’s way too early for that. I don’t know what your ideas are. Do you want me to hit (Ronald) Torreyes fourth?”


It's not September yet:

“Obviously, you hope to be over .500 every month, but I’d rather have that in April than September,” Headley said. “We’re going to keep fighting. We’re going to play better. We know we are. Hopefully it’s sooner than later.”