Comments on: The Swisher of our discontent

By: Bob Stone

Bob Stone — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:30:37 +0000

Exactly right – It’s as much a relection of who’s betting what team than who they think will win.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:29:27 +0000

One of the two of you is gonna have to change your name to St. Petersburg Yankee.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:28:30 +0000

You’ve got a good point there.

Vegas doesn’t have to be smart, just smarter than the majority of the dumb people.

By: mustang

mustang — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:27:24 +0000

Great point didn’t think of that.

By: slappy white

slappy white — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:25:16 +0000

I just dont believe in my pinstripe bleeding heart that we will have this great season full of comebacks and great wins that we will make it to the world series and then let everyone down….I believe we will come back and win this thing and I will believe that until we have made our last out…..FUCK IT WE WILL WIN THIS

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:24:47 +0000

Oh I have faith (even though I wanted to stab everyone at the bar last night)…I was only trying to explain the reasoning behind it

By: TheZack

TheZack — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:23:42 +0000

I think the issue actually has a lot more to do with the # of stupid people willing to fork over their money on impossible odds night after night and less to do with their ability to be so great at predicting sports.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:22:55 +0000

I’m agreeing with you. I was just saying that we could win those games because our pitching was still very good…and their hitting wasn’t that great…while ours wasn’t all that bad.

Of course we have awesome hitting…they’re just not performing though! That’s why I am skeptical to a few of these statistics…Jeter, Arod, etc have playstation numbers over their career against Cliff Lee…sure…but this is an entirely different Cliff Lee now…so those numbers are essentially meaningless. And if 90% of your offense is mired in a slump…their numbers don’t really mean as much either. Same with bullpen numbers. Our bullpen WAS great..but as of right now…it’s probably one of the worst in the playoffs…

IF everybody is at their norm…then yes…”on paper” we’ll destroy them. But as of right now…and as of the entire playoffs…we’ve had no hitting, our bullpen has been terrible, and AJ has been questionable…

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:16:33 +0000

Touche’. And I hope you’re right!!

By: mustang

mustang — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:16:21 +0000

I understand this, but I still don’t get.

It’s been ONE GAME how about some faith. I’m not even asking for blind faith (i.e. what they did in the regular season and in the playoffs so far) can they get to game 2 before the bandwagon drops off and giving up the flag.