The return of the River Avenue Blues podcast! In an overall slow off-season, the Yankees have been consistently in the headlines. Jay and Joe run down what's what.

Guest: Tim Kurkjian of ESPN. He'll be covering the Yankees-Red Sox game on Friday, and then the Yankees-Rays on Monday. We talk about how those rivalries have changed over the last few years. There's also plenty of trade deadline talk. Before that Mike a

Guest: Jason Wojciechowski of BeaneBall, an A's blog, and Back of the Bullpen, a general baseball podcast. We're talking about the upcoming A's series and how they have turned players like Brandon Moss and Josh Donaldson into stars. To open the show Jay

Guest: Matt Klaassen of FanGraphs. If you follow him on Twitter, @devil_fingers, you'll know that he's pretty die hard on the Royals. For which we pity him. - There's plenty to talk about, both about the upcoming series and about the Yankees, uh,

Guest: Former RAB weekend writer Hannah Ehrlich. She's out in the bay area and makes it to her share of A's games. It's very nice to catch up with an old friend. - After lamenting the weekend series against the Twins,

Guest: Brandon Warne of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He's also on a Sunday radio show with Jack Morris, which is pretty cool. We're talking about the plucky Twins, just three games under .500, and the familiar faces we'll see this weekend. Jay and I are,

Guest: Will Leitch of Sports on Earth, New York Magazine, and formerly of Deadspin. He's a noted Cardinals fan who talks avidly of the organization. - (Unfortunately, the first 10 or so minutes of the conversation ended up being garbled or nonexisten...

Guest: Dave Brown of Yahoo's Big League Stew. He knows his White Sox, and is one amusing dude. He's on Twitter @AnswerDave, and you can check out his Big League Stew page. - But lemme tell you, it was a relief to see a win yesterday after 17 innings o...

Guest: Christina Kahrl of ESPN. She writes for the SweetSpot blog (her archive here). We talk about the upcoming Cubs series, but really more about the woeful state of the team and what they're doing to get back on track. Plenty of Jeff Samardzija talk, a

How much more injured can the Yankees get? Frankly we don't want to know the answer. Mike and I kick off the show talking about the latest injuries to CC Sabathia and Carlos Beltran (and Shawn Kelley, don't forget him). Then we're talking to Jorge Arang