A fitting end to a bad day

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

This blows.

And just to add to the great day, the Yanks fire 2 scouts amid the FBI probe:

“A Major League Baseball source said Friday that the New York Yankees decided to fire two scouts for taking kickbacks from Dominican prospects after being briefed by MLB investigators on the financial scandal and the role the men played in it.

The fired officials were identified as Carlos Rios, the Yankees director of Latin American scouting, and Ramon Valdivia, the team’s Dominican Republic scouting director. The two, who had been on leave, were terminated Thursday.”

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....id=3537389

I wander if Damon took those 2 strikes just so he didnt bunt because he realized how fucking stupid it was for Girardi to have him bunting there….

Not that we’re devoid of RH power pitching prospects (Betances / Brackman), but adding Cole would’ve been a coup for where the team selected Cole.

Tonight might be one of the darkest days in the organization in a long time.

brackman
melancon
betances
montero
de la rosa
mcallister
marshall
higashoika
o’Brien
joseph
hughes
banuelos
angelini
richarson
romine
jackson
sosa
lassiter
kennedy
de leon
weems

the farm is still stocked boys and girls, cole would have been the icing on the cake…. keep the faith

Don’ forget Laird and Suttle also.

Not only did the yankees kill this season but they killed it in great fashion. come out strong in the second half and then crush every yankee fan by losing to the rangers and the royals.

The fact that Cole went off to college instead of the Yanks because “he was a top ten talent that dopped to the end of the first round” is totally bullshit. He would have easily got top ten money! I see it as a kid who wanted the college experience…Can’t knock him for that. Or, Boras got in his clients ear and told him he could get him more money in 3 years, which in essence is a way to screw the yankees up the >:^

Is Bliech signed?

The silver lining i see with Cole is that we really didn’t miss out on another superstar arm, maybe the Yanks go with a good college player like Hunt, Scheppers, or Gillespe, but nothing too major. Hopefully someone will fall to 28B next year!

Hey, Gerrit, thanks a lot. I hope your arm busrts into pink Jell-O on your first pitch for the Bruins. At least then it would be good for something.

team moto:

Lethargic Millionaires

Gerit Cole can do whatever he wants of course but he will rue this decision. Under any rationale criteria the chances of Cole getting this type of money 3 years from now actually goes down. If you have not noticed pitchers tend to get hurt.

he will regret this decision but of course he can do whatever he wants.

the yankee offense again scores 3 runs or less. giambi stinks he cannot get a big hit but he has a lot of company this team literall sucks and does not know how to play baseball.

Mo and his tie game routine 7 of 9 games he has given up a run, that is not good, and sorry the king needs to be criticized.. 7 of 9 games he has given up a run in a tie game…unbeleivable…..

stuart:

why should it have even been a tie ball game. If this team cant muster more than three runs a game…..

Who cares how amazing or terrible Mo pitches. It won’t matter.

it is more then lethargic millionaires.. Christian makes peanuts and got picked off in the 9th…

they just are not tough mentally and have no mojo..

they have lsot all the magic..

they have had so many bad loses it is stagggering

How many picks are they gonna have next yr?

Mark I agree with you. I have been complaining of the offesne for 80 games.. giambi cannot get a big hit to save his life..

there offense stinks… the pitching actually has out done expectations that is the scary thing..

arod got his big hit for the month in Minny… giambi gets 3 big hits a year…

it is staggering 3 runs against Meche and gang after meche let on the leadofff guy in 5 of 6 innings.

BTW does Cano ever get a big hit?

Ofcourse I don’t think the yankees will get neither Sabathia or Tex. So Yankees enjoy your possible 8 picks in the first three rounds next year in what is said to be a pretty weak draft. Oye Vei

god….why do people keep calling for abreu to be gone…..????

Do you not realize he is the only reason the Yankees have ever gotten an f’ing RISP in to score….the yankees would be blessed to keep abreu…if i were him i would run away as fast as possible…

anyone know how bad is Miranda as a 1b fielder? Can he move at all? ANy range? etc.

thanks…

He looks like he can hit , is that accurate?

Look the effort is there, maybe sure than focus more again, you there doing their best out there effort wise. It’s just that the exucution hasn’t been there and the results. Again maybe just maybe it’s not the yankees year.

I think alot you fans are being fickle right now.

hey mike,
If the yankees have a chance to draft cole in the 2011 draft should they?

Not Mike but I say No! Not because of smite or as payback, but if he positions himself as a first round talent who happens to drop to them again then I say pass. Why? Because the Yanke Brass might kill themselves if they pick him again, and again at the last minute decides he wants to stay in college for his senior year :]

Yeah, so when is Cole gonna be interviewed and asked, “Why did you enter the draft if, as you said, you planned on honoring your commitment to UCLA no matter what offer came across the desk?” I would really, really like to hear his answer.

Miranda’s best position is Bat, that’s it. At 1B he’s a butcher. I guess they were economizing on talent evaluators at the time of the signing.

Fitting way for the last year of the Stadium to go. Just tear it all up and start over.

This team does not deserve to wear the pinstripes or play in the grand Stadium’s final season. I am going to the game today. Ick.

Way to have the players motivated and prepared, Joe! Man, I can sure see why Hank was so excited to have you on board to replace a future Hall of Famer.

It is times like is when I miss when George would would lay the hammer down on the manager or a particular player for such embarassing and sloppy play like this. This team needs some of that right now

teams reflect the leader….in this case, Hank and Hal…..they are nowhere as committed to winning as George was….you can see it in their pullback in spending for both the latin american signings and the draft signings…..you can see it in not going after a big time free agent last winter……they will never admit it, but finance takes precedence over performance for these guys…..I think they are just squeezing the cow until George passes, then you’ll see the team go up for sale afterwards……the same pattern showed in the early 60’s when Topping and Webb cut their expenditures in the minors several years before unloading the team to CBS……I think we’ll see it again this off-season……it starts gradually, but you can see the pattern…..

What a terrible draft for Cashman and his crew. They failed to bring into the fold three of the top 75 picks in the draft. The one they did sign has an injury cloud over him.

True that these picks aren’t completely lost, compensation picks will be rewarded for next years draft. But next years draft isn’t viewed as being as deep and besides the Yankees need to build up what has been an unproductive farm system sooner rather than later. How is it that Brian Cashman gets this undeserved reputation as developmental guy and a good GM. I just don’t see it.

the yanks spent less money than the gaints, padres, red sox and reds and other team for thier player procurement/signing this year the and with the underpreforming of some of their top players dark days might be coming faster than we think. i think the yanks are not making the money we think they are. they might be broke.

why in the hell bring up gardner to replace melky…dont you have to be better than the one you are replacing…what happened to small ball….i know of several games that they lost because of the lack of small ball…cant wait until next year..and how come there arent any home run guys in the minors…it seem like all punch and judy hitters….