The Yankees ha e a serious Phil Hughes problem

What are you complaining about You lost to a great pitcher who pitched great last night. It happens.Lee is on a roll right now like Bret Saberhagen in 1985, Orel Hershiser in 1988, and Josh Beckett in 2007.The Yankees ha e a serious Phil Hughes problem. "Does any Yankee an eel con ident with irst and second and one out in the se enth and Girardi calls on Marte to pitch to Utley and Howard”I was o by an inning. He got Utley to strike out looking and got Howard to ly out to right.Ha e you noticed that since Joe Girardi was hammered or o ermanaging in Game Three o the ALCS, he has undermanaged sinceI was a little surprised he le t Da id Robertson in the game to ace Raul Ibanez in the eighth.

I thought he might ha e gone to Phil Coke in that spot.Was it a shock to anybody that Carlos Ruiz was in the middle o a rally in the ninth This guy is so good in the postseason. I ha e become a huge an.Unlike the Minnesota Twins and the Los Angeles Angels o Anaheim, the Phillies expected to win last night and not hoped to win. Matsui singled on the next pitch.Lee coming out in the ninth inning pretty much ensured that Charlie Manuel will go with a ourth starter in Game our instead o Lee on three days rest.Tonight we are going to ind out i AJ Burnett is worth his contract.Now we are going to ind out how tough the Yankees are. It’s one thing to take a punch in the ace rom the Angels in Game i e up three games-to-one.It’s another thing to take a punch in the ace in Game One o the World Series.Game Two is tonight. irst pitch is 7:57 ET.You can ollow The Ghost o Moonlight Graham on Twitter theghosto mlg This article is also eatured on The Ghost o Moonlight Graham. Suning said it expects net pro it to rise 40 percent to 50percent rom a year earlier, down rom a pre ious estimate or arise o 60 percent to 80 percent.

Suning, whose net pro it in 2007 was 1.47 billion yuan ($215million), said the re ision was necessary because o lowerdomestic consumption, in a statement on the Shenzhen stockexchange website Suning trails only GOME (0493.HK) in the China market. ($6.84 yuan) (Reporting by Kirby Chien; editing by Simon Jessop). KINSHASA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The participation o Rwandan regular troops in a joint operation to hunt down Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Congo takes aim at one o the root causes o Democratic Republic o Congo's long-running con lict.But it could risk escalating tensions and iolence in what is one o the world's most olatile war zones.WHO ARE THE HUTU REBELSThe presence o some 6,000 ighters o the rebel Democratic orces or the Liberation o Rwanda ( DLR) in east Congo or o er a decade has been a key actor o instability in the Great Lakes region, a tinderbox o ethnic and political tensions.These tensions stem directly rom Rwanda's 1994 genocide, when Hutu go ernment soldiers and militia slaughtered 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutu. Tutsi rebels then seized power, spilling rebels and re ugees into Congo.The presence o Hutu militias in Congo pro oked Tutsi-led Rwandan in asions that helped ignite Congo's wider 1998-2003 war. That war and an ensuing humanitarian crisis ha e killed some 5.4 million people, most through hunger and disease.The Rwandan Hutu DLR joined an array o marauding armed groups in eastern Congo that despite the ormal end o the war ha e continued to ight each other and terrorise ci ilians.These groups include Congolese Tutsi rebels led by renegade General Laurent Nkunda, who has justi ied his own i e-year-old rebellion in east Congo by saying he is ighting to protect the Tutsi minority against their DLR Hutu ethnic enemies.Nkunda, now challenged within his own mo ement, has long accused Congo's go ernment and army o collaborating with the DLR, a charge denied by Kinshasa, although U.N. experts say there is e idence such collaboration exists.WHY IS THIS ANTI- DLR OPERATION HAPPENING NOWIt ollows a major o ensi e in eastern North Ki u Pro ince late last year by Nkunda's rebels, who routed go ernment troops, seized swathes o land and displaced thousands o ci ilians.The resulting international outcry re i ed pressure or a regional solution to the con lict, including peace talks between Nkunda's National Congress or the De ence o the People (CNDP) and Congo's go ernment, and or joint action against the DLR.In December, Congo and Rwanda agreed a military plan to orcibly disarm the DLR, which would either send them home or oblige them to become non-combatant.This plan now being implemented re i es an earlier pledge by Congo to Rwanda in No ember 2007 to disarm the DLR.In a mo e that also appeared to open the way or the anti- DLR operation, Congolese Tutsi CNDP rebel military commanders o ered last week to help the Congolese and Rwandan armies tackle the DLR, while at the same time announcing a cessation o hostilities with the Congolese go ernment.A Congolese go ernment spokesman said the Tutsi rebel CNDP, which has su ered a split between its eteran ounder Nkunda and his top military commander Bosco Ntaganda, would not participate in the anti- DLR operation launched on Tuesday.WILL THE ANTI- DLR OPERATION SUCCEEDThe DLR ighters, belie ed to number at least 6,000, ha e always been iewed by military experts as a tough nut to crack.Ensconced in the rugged terrain o both North and South Ki u Pro inces, they, like other armed groups, ha e been li ing o the land, subduing local people by orce and inancing themsel es by operating illegal mining operations in a region rich in cassiterite (tin ore), gold and other minerals.The DLR political leadership li es in exile in Europe.A recent experts' report to the U.N.

Security Council estimated the DLR controlled most o the principle artisanal mining sites in South Ki u, and gold mines in North Ki u. It estimated the DLR was earning millions o dollars a year.Experts ha e always said that the poorly-paid and ill-disciplined Congolese army ( ARDC), itsel a mish-mash o ormer armed groups, could ne er alone de eat the DLR.E en the 17,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping operation in the Congo, which despite being the biggest in the world is stretched across the huge country, has ne er mounted an operation solely dedicated to disbanding the Rwandan Hutu DLR rebels in Congo.Rwanda's Tutsi-led national armed orces, which ha e recei ed training and equipment rom the West, are acknowledged to be among the best in the region and in A rica.But they may encounter animosity and resistance rom many Congolese non-Tutsis, who accuse Rwanda o supporting Nkunda's CNDP rebels and o ten reject Tutsis as "Rwandan" outsiders.A U.N. with their security contingents".COULD THE ANTI- DLR O ENSI E WORSEN TENSION AND CON LICTYes. DLR leaders ha e already made clear they will resist any attempts to disband or expel them, which raises the risk o renewed ighting in a region where a quarter o a million people ha e been displaced by recurring con lict in recent months.Ethnic animosities are running high in eastern Congo, ollowing the o ensi e by Nkunda's CNDP rebels, who besides taking on go ernment troops also battled late last year with the DLR and pro-go ernment Mai-Mai militias.North and South Ki u Pro inces are an entangled patchwork o separate ie doms occupied by ri al armed groups. This increases the chance o clashes breaking out and spreading.E en though the latest operation has the acquiescence o Congo's go ernment, the pre ious Tutsi-led Rwandan incursions in the 1990s helped touch o a wider regional con lict that killed hundreds o thousands, so the risks o escalation are high.An illustration o these risks can be ound in another military operation in ol ing oreign troops that is already underway urther north o the Ki us, in Orientale Pro ince.Here, Ugandan orces, with the agreement o Kinshasa, are leading a month-old joint military operation to try to lush out Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels rom the remote Garamba National Park.But this Ugandan-led o ensi e has already become bogged down.