Comments on: Tomko, A’s pen blank Yankee bats

By: mryankee

mryankee — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:43:49 +0000

I am also getting sick of watching Melky Cabrera he is automatic out man lately. You cannot let up the slightest amount with Boston behind you losing two in a row to seattle then Oakland shoud not happen

By: mryankee

mryankee — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:35:47 +0000

why does arod suck so much? and tomko would be better than mitre

By: Klemy

Klemy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:56:45 +0000

Very disappointing game to watch. Really, not much going on and it didn’t feel like we ever had guys grinding out at bats. It was just, bal in play, out – all night.

It spoiled a very well pitched game by AJ. He hit that one bump, but overall, he was pretty damned good.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:50:02 +0000

I’m not being sarcastic when I mentioned it in the thread. It’s a legitimate question considering their respective track records.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:46:31 +0000

if our bats are so sour we can’t hit Brett Tomko…how are we going to hit these other bright young stars like Brett Anderson, etc??

Because one game — keep that in perspective, one game — doesn’t determine how the Yanks would fare against anyone else. After all, this team has won 74 games and has scored 657 runs. That involves beating good pitchers, and sometimes, teams will lose to mediocre pitchers. That’s baseball.

By: Tank Foster

Tank Foster — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:36:40 +0000

Mailing it in…interesting. Maybe. There are always let down periods, and the team has been on fire for quite a while.

Why can’t we have a debate on whether Tomko would be better than Mitre?

By: Pasqua

Pasqua — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:25:59 +0000

I wouldn’t say “mailed it in,” especially considering Burnett’s performance. But I would guess that after the first couple of innings the Yanks started to press. Nobody can tell me that THEY didn’t think they would hit Tomko as much as WE they would hit Tomko. Once you can see the sawdust coming off the handle of the bat, things take a turn for the worse.

By: Pasqua

Pasqua — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:21:15 +0000

“Don’t know why they chose Sergio Mitre as a better option than a veteran guy like Tomko anyway…he’s a career 5th starter.”

Is this sarcasm, too?

By: putt

putt — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:01:44 +0000

I was at the game, too, right behind the A’s bullpen. I’ve been looking forward to this game for months, but what a shitty game to see live. It seemed like there were a lot of at-bats that were just given away. But I guess that’s the perception when the team hits so many lazy fly balls.

Oh well, for what I paid to be five rows off the field, I could’ve gotten a stall seat in the upper tier mens bathroom. It’s amazing how far your dollar goes away from places like NY and Boston.

It was hilarious to see all the A’s fans treating this win like a WS game, too. People were taking pictures of the scoreboard after the game and I even got accosted by a red-haired, foul-mouthed drunken a-hole. Take off that green and gold and slap a Varitek t-shirt on him and you’d swear you were in Fenway.

By: Makavelli

Makavelli — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:34:25 +0000

It’s funny because last year or the year before it seemed like people were lathargic and had the “if I don’t get it done somebody else will” attitude it seemed anyway. This year they’re playing so well it may be the opposite. Everybody is hacking away wanting to get that winning hit.

Perhaps the WWE Championship Belt or the pie in the face is more consolation than we even know lol