Dec
25
Christmas Day Open Thread
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Happy Holidays to all of you who make RAB part of your daily reading. Go and spend the day with friends and family. Baseball can wait.
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still basking in ws champion glory. thats the best present of all. thank you yankees
+28
Can’t wait for next season to see how everything plays out.
I’m going to laugh when Gardy proves us all wrong and ends up hitting .285/.370/.430..
(we can all have a Christmas wish can’t we)
Christmas is apparently a time to be thankful, however, so thank you Mike, Joe, and Ben for everything you do to keep everyone up to date on the Yanks. I hope you guys have a great Christmas and that goes to everyone as well.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all. If Kevin Long gets CG a “Hitting Southpaws for Dummies” book, we’ll be just as merry next year.
“Baseball can wait”
No, it can’t. MLB Network showing Ken Burns “Baseball”, if you have not seen it, you should.
Merry Christmas all!
Merry Chritsmas, I have that ornament… and 4 others as well for the 09′ World Champions!!!
Everyone have fun, hope you;re all listening to Last Christmas by Wham.
When I do my good/bad year end list, the Yanks winning the WS will be on top. And the good posts at RAB will be pretty high on the list as well. Thanks all. Happy Holidays!
Where can I get that ornament? It rocks!
Think about this. If they make one for every Pennant and World Series the Yanks have won, you could fill up an entire Christmas Tree with ornaments.
Thanks for such an amazing site guys, Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas everyone I hope everyone has an amazing holiday with their friends and family!
Even though I’m relatively new (lurked quite a bit before posting), I don’t feel like an outsider at all – the site’s environment is nothing short of marvelous. And so, Merry Christmas to all!
All I want for Christmas is an OPS+ of 100 in LF.
+28!
And a positive UZR!!!
Many thanks to mike, joe, and ben for the best yankees blog on the planet. May intelligent sports discussion never die! Keep up the good work fellas
Merry Christmas, RAB! Thanks for a year filled with great discussion, news, community, and Anchorman quotes.
Merry Christmas to all. Best Yankee blog around and best place on the web to hang in the comments sections.
Cowabunga Kwanzaa to all of you!
Ben, Joe, and Mike, thank you, and keep up the good work!
Uhh, no it cant….there are jews that need baseball too!!!
Got the World Series DVD.
Best present yet.
Merry Christmas and thanks you guys for the best Yankees blog ever.
Merry Xmas guys…Great website !!!!
http://www.sportsauthority.com.....=428990753
thats for the ornaments, I just asked why I, a Jewish person, was looking at ornaments lol
Thanks matt but that one’s a little different. It’s multicolored. I like the all white design. C’mon RAB help us out! Can’t find it online anywhere.
yankees baby
vazquez is coming back with a vengeance and Nick the stick left at a world series loss. we have some cornerstone pieces for a new dynasty; a-rod, tex, cc, hughes, granderson, joba and future montero. we got the core 4 letting the winning traditions pass down to guys like joba and hughes and got started last year, but we gotta win 1 more or 2 more before jeter and mo go.
let gardy play for a spot in left, get a platoon guy and let gardy start. Otherwise, bring in Holliday.
Question: Whats your “everyday” lineup? Heres mine
1. Jeter R
2. Stick L
3. Tex S
4. Arod R
5. Granderson L
6. Posoda S
7. Cano L
8. Swisher S
9. Gardner L
Only thing is, versus righties, we got only 2 right handed hitters. We are stacked.
Rotation:
1.CC
2.AJ
3.Pettite
4.Vazquez
5.Hughes
Bullpen:
Closer: Mo
Setup: Joba
Short Relief: Robertson
Short Relief: Marte
Middle Relief: Melancon, Gaudin, Mitre
Long Relief: Wang?
WE NEED TO THINK OF SOME CATCH PHRASES FOR STERLING FOR GRANDY AND NICK!!! HERES MY GRANDERSON ONE
A Grander Slam… From Curtis Granderson!
(Reminiscent of a bomb for arod)
How about “IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS GONE!!!”
“NICK WHIPS OUT HIS JOHNSON!!!!!”
I see 1-4 in the lineup being an obvious Jeter-Johnson-Teixeira-Rodriguez.
The guys hitting 5-8 can really be placed in any order, however. If Jorge hits like he did last year than he can hold down the spot come opening day, but if Cano does better with RISP (and he really should) or Granderson can figure out how to hit vs lefties, either one is probably a better option than Po. Personally I like Granderson since it would give the next couple guys more opportunities to hit with speed on the bases. Swisher could very well out OPS any of those guys, though.
And then Gardner/Hoffmann/Reed Johnson/whoever bats 9th.
1. Jeter
2. Granderson
3. Tex
4. ARod
5. Posada
6. Cano
7. Johnson
8. Swisher
9. Cust
7,8,9 will average 20 HR, 100 BB, and 4.5 pitches/AB
You realize that switch hitters can be righties too, right? A lot of those guys have consistent splits or reverse splits (Granderson), so I doubt that’s a concern. And please, none of this B-Jobber nonsense. If anything, Hughes would be more likely to end up as the set-up man, though it’s my hope that Joba has the 5th spot and Hughes is in AAA until he A) gets re-called due to a starter’s injury or B) gets close to his innings limit and is put in a relief role in the second half of the season. However he gets it, he needs innings and development. I’ll be very upset if he’s throwing one-inning outings, but whatevs. You have Mitre and Gaudin over Aceves in your bullpen? Really?
No Holliday—we can’t afford him. A platoon works; we don’t need a Triple Crown candidate at every position.
Agree with all of this, except did you mean Cano has a reverse split? Cause Granderson (who hits lefty) is currently the definition of a guy who can be LOOGY’d
Cano is fairly consistent versus both lefties and righties (albeit a bit better versus righties). I thought he was saying we’d be at a disadvantage versus righty pitching; I was pointing out that if anything, we should be mildly concerned against lefties, though not tremendously. He’s not very clear.
also, as much as id like it, i cant see yanks going anywhere near boras clients this winter, ie: matt holliday, per Johnny Damon.
Boras must be fuming the yanks didnt fold and offer a 3 year 30+mill contract, and a “discount” of holliday to the YANKEES will be like 6 100.
The only way we get holliday is if he provides a “to play for a winning team” discount, and come to NY at 5/80
yankee fans are the greatest in the world…and im proud to represent
Opened up a seat back from the old stadium, a brick from the original Monument Park, and a plack with dirt from the warning track this morning. Life is good!
Merry Christmas, RABis!
Gentlemen: Merriest of Christmases. Go easy on the nog.
I cant believe Oakland got Duscherer back for 2M base.
Go and spend the day with friends and family. Baseball can wait.
Hmmp
I’ll guess I’ll have to go scour some baseball news on other sites,
Daily News top 10 sports stories.
Somehow Aroid places #2 on top 10 sports stories and the Yankees winning placed #3. Like seriously is anyone even talking about that anymore?
Marry Christmas guys.
I’m doing the Jewish thing with the chinese food but I hope you all have an amazing holiday.
Duchscherer at 2 and Capps at 4.5 were STEALS. I hope Cashman can steal a quality player.
Potential STEAL Candidates for Yanks
Valverde
Cust
Bedard
Damon
Huff
Nady
others?
Valverde’s not worth a draft pick.
I wish they’d made a better run at Escobar. I guess they didn’t like what they saw.
That, and he’d join an already crowded field with Joba, Hughes, Gaudin, Aceves, Mitre, Z-Mac and Nova all heading to Spring Training looking to secure that #5 spot.
He has a much better shot at cracking the Mets rotation, you have to consider his side as well.
Escobar’s not going to start anymore.
Really? Is that what Escobar said?
Yeah. He wants to be a reliever. He doesn’t think his arm would last as a starter long-term.
Oh, interesting. Well can’t argue with the non-signing of the guy then, IMO.
Mets gave him a major league deal. I doubt the Yanks wanted him on that; it must have made a difference.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL…
Why not bring Nady back for LF if he’s healthy? I will miss Johnny though.
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT…
I do not want Jack Cust. At any cost.
Agreed
Jack Cust on a one year deal at league minimum salary for power off the bench.
I got a Yankees WS Champion Snuggie for Christmas.
Same. They are GREAT!
just don’t wear them to games like the commercial
merry christmas to all yankee fans…and god bless riveraveblues…
Merry Christmas RAB community, needless to say, 2009 was good to us
Found it! This is the mobile URL but I assume it will work from a computer as well.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d......B002XEF3NA
Merry christmas everyone! Christmas is finished here in the philippines but I am still here sharing your eggnog and tequila!
Lets go Yankees!
Trade Proposal: Yanks give Juan Miranda, Dardner, and Bonne Loogan
for Conor Jackson and Clay Zavada
Thoughts?
Why would we want Conor Jackson?
Sign me up. But I really doubt the DBacks would bite.
The Knicks are ruining my Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all, even the B-Jobbers.
Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too from a former closet B-Jobber who converted the other day…….I think
Happy Holiday to all.
A toast to Ben, Mike, and Joe. Have a good one!
Got a new digital camera that can record HD Movies too. Prepare to see Melky Mesa in beautiful Hi-Definition.
That’s awesome Andy. Does this mean your willing to give us glimpses of Brackman’s Tampa outings in HD?
Absolutely.
As one of the older fans here, I enjoyed watching my son wear his new Texeira jersey today. He is still upset over Matsui/Melky and Damon so I will only be getting him the long term contract guys’ jerseys to save the youthful psyche….
my son got a Tex jersey too!
Heeeeeeeeeeey. Merry Christmas to all you folks out there. Number 28 is merely 10 months away.