these kids certainly need to pitch when behind in a game, but our hitters are doing them less than no favors here. i’m really getting sick and tired of watching these guys not show up in April.

i can also tolerate watching Hughes and Kennedy struggle a lot more than i can tolerate Damon or Gimabi not get a runner in scoring position home over and over.

I don’t know what to make of the Sheffield trade since I only remember two of the guys we got back — Sanchez and Claggett — and they haven’t done anything. Maybe Sanchez will be good. I don’t know.

I just don’t trust Cashman to keep the right young players, deal the ones who maybe won’t be so good, and to sign the right free agents to reasonable contracts. I see Tex and Sabathia for 7 years a piece, then he’s gonna trade Brandon Laird/Kennedy for Joe Blanton or something.

“This is a move I felt we need to make.”
-B.C.

every bad outing to date by any yankee has been met with “well, it was cold.” ok, but it was cold for the other team, too. last i checked, not every guy on the yanks has lived his whole life in the bahamas. and guess what? october’s cold, too. if these cold-averse pitchers can’t pitch in the playoffs, then all i want are cold weather starters.

but mustang, i think you put your finger on a critical aspect of this team: it’s a $200M payroll on a perennial championship contender, and it’s relying on only 2 proven starters, one starter who looks very much like he’s done, and two rookies who were moved to the majors very quickly.

there is something to the notion that if they are going to rebuild, rebuild. if they are going to contend, and jack up tix prices every year, and enter every season saying “championship or bust,” then it’s asking a bit much to just sit back when 3/5 of the rotation stinks up the joint for their first 4 starts each. fans are apt to be frustrated in that case, for good reason. i’m not saying demote the kids, but i am demanding some results for all the hype. “almost” a good start (except for that one pitch to manny…) ISN’T a good start.

another thing: if this team is so elite, then why do they sleepwalk every april? why do most other teams seem to bring more intensity, clutch play and resilience, and we bring a schizophrenia act to the ballpark?? sorry, i expect more for $200M when the team raises the field box tickets to $250 a seat.