Game 44: What could have been vs. what is
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We never try to make too much of a big deal about one game in these parts of the interweb, but we’re going to make an exception today. Not that tonight’s game means more than yesterday’s or tomorrow’s, but because of the theater involved. It’s Johan Santana vs. CC Sabathia, the ace the Yankees passed on to get the ace they wanted.
Rewind back to the 2007-2008 offseason, when the Twins make a 28-year-old two-time Cy Young Away winning lefthander available on the trade market. It was a natural fit for the Yankees – a star player who could front what was then a patchwork rotation – and they were willing to trade the prospect version of Phil Hughes. The three of us even started a campaign to keep all of the Yanks’ young pitchers in pinstripes. After a winter of he-said-she-saids, Santana finally landed in New York at the end of January, but with the Mets. Ironically enough, that was less than two months after the lefty declared he would only accept a trade to the Yanks or Red Sox. Funny how that works.
So Johan went off to Queens, and quite simply had a stellar season. He threw 234.1 innings of 3.66 xFIP ball and finished in the top three of the Cy Young voting for the fourth time in the five years. The Yanks, meanwhile, missed the playoffs for the first time in what seemed like an eternity, and the second-guessing of the non-trade started before the season was even half over. Santana’s declining peripheral stats (his BB/9, K/BB, AVG against, and xFIP all dropped for the fourth straight year) be damned, the was the guy the Yanks were supposed to have, and his absence is why they missed the postseason.
But, to be mind-numbingly cliche, GM Brian Cashman had an ace up his sleeve. Granted, it was a gamble of epic proportions, but passing on Johan was all by design. Another 28-year-old, Cy Young Award winning lefthanded ace was soon going to be available, except not in a trade, on the free agent market. CC Sabathia, the long-time Cleveland Indian was unlikely to return to the team given the fortune awaiting him on the open market, so Cashman decided to hold onto one set of assets (players) while using the team’s greatest resource (dollar dollar bills, y’all) to bring in a frontline starter.
Out of the race by mid-season, the Indians sent Sabathia to the Brewers for four prospects, and the fans in Cleveland thanked him for everything he’d done. Milwaukee, also unlikely to retain the big lefty beyond the season, rode CC right into the franchise’s first playoff berth in a quarter-century. He took to the mound 17 times and threw 130.2 innings for the team overall, but that’s not what he’ll be remembered for. Sabathia’s time in Cleveland will be remembered for taking the ball four times in the Brewers’ final eleven games with complete disregard for his health and impending free agency. With the season literally on the line in Game 162, CC threw a four hit complete game shutout against the Cubs, the National League’s best team by six games. The entire city of Milwaukee climbed about Sabathia’s broad shoulders, and he carried them right into the postseason.
After the season, Cashman put on the full court press. He had passed on Santana by choice, but he couldn’t let CC get away, so his opening bid was $140M on the very first day of free agency. It was a message to the rest of the league: don’t even think about it, he’s ours. Cashman dragged Reggie Jackson to dinners, wore his World Series ring(s) to meetings, flew coach to California in the middle of the night, he did everything that needed to be done to get Sabathia in the pinstripes. In the end, it took the largest contract ever given to a pitcher, but we know that was coming regardless of who he signed with.
One year and one World Championship later, Santana and Sabathia meet tonight for the first time as a Met and Yankee, respectively. It’s your guy, the one who wasn’t good enough for us, versus our the guy, the one with the ring and three fan bases in love with him. As far as May baseball goes, this is as good as it gets.
Here’s the starting nine…
Jeter, SS
Gardner, CF
Teixeira, 1B
A-Rod, 3B
Cano, 2B
Swisher, RF
Cervelli, C – seventh game in seven days
Kevin Russo, LF – yay
Sabathia, SP
First pitch is scheduled for 8:05pm ET, and the game can be seen on ESPN. Enjoy.
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I think the Yankees offense is going to finally wake up this series with 5 runs through 6 innings off Johan, which may or may not be assisted by the Mets defense. Oh, an Teixeira will go 1-3 with a walk.
Mark Teixeira vs RHP .178/.307/.314/.621
When do we go from slump to legit concern?
Mid-June is my guess.
Just goes to show you how tough it is to turn it back on just b/c the calendar turns over. I just hope Teixeira doesn’t have any more bad months in him for the season. His May ’09 was sensational, so here’s hoping June ’10 comes close to it. This month’s a wash for sure.
Wait, CC was offered that contract the first day of Spring Training? I thought it was offered the first day of free agency.
I think he meant first day of winter meetings. CC signed Dec. 18.
It was a free agency, just a typo.
So does this spell the end to the Randy Winn experiment or is Joe G. simply going with the hotter bat at the moment?
Randy Winn, right-handed, 2010:
.000/.000/.000/.000 (11 PAs)
Ooof
Heh, if the Yankees signed me, I’d do the same thing, I couldn’t do worse!
and you mister winn…. zero point zero zero
Heh, check out Bo’s comment in that save the big 3 thread:
http://riveraveblues.com/2007/.....ment-35690
Classic.
the Johan sweepstakes were insane. SO MANY RUMORS!!!!!!!!
Heh he actually spelled correctly and used correct grammar and punctuation.
Bo is hilarious, I miss that he does not comment as much as he did during the Hot Stove.
As much as I love Cervelli, the kid needs a rest.
He’ll get one tomorrow.
uggh I hate these 8pm starts, they kill me.
Jeter’s line versus Johan: .423/.464/.692 .. Yummy
With these two pitchers and the slowing down Yankees offense this game *should* be faster than most.
I got a feeling CC will jack one off Johan.
The Yankees have me for an hour……..then it’s time for FOUND.
No matter how bad we’re playing, the Yanks >>>>>>>> that show.
LOST has been winning the World Series for six straight years, holmes.
Only 21 to go so
I’ve never watched an episode of that show. Ever.
me neither
and never will
Me neither. Thought I was the only one.
I’ve also never read a page nor watched five minutes of a Harry Potter book/movie. I know I’m the only one.
Why? The book are amazing.
You are all missing the (rescue) boat.
Attn: Steve H:
Look for my 3 PM post tomorrow as it answers your question from my post today.
Really Miller? The Mets have to be above .500 for them to play in October.
has there ever been an example of a below .500 team making the playoffs in baseball?
Technically no: The Mets play the Nationals on Oct 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
/just saying
Look at those 3 studs. Brains and Brawn, what could be better.
Wait…did Orel just say that CC/Johan met for a commercial for the subway system…?
Orel Hershiser just said CC and Johan shot a commercial for the Subway system. These guys can’t get anything right.
hey cc this big new subway system is rilly big
hahahaha orel doesnt know that the commercial was for subway sandwiches, not the MTA
Joe Morgan’s stupidity just made my mind explode.
I literally have no idea what he just said. All I heard was “consistency.”
I think he said that even though Wright is striking out a record pace, he’s still going to go over 30/100. I actually have a headache from that.
Well, he is on pace to go over 30/100; he just happens to be striking out a lot. He’s also on pace for a career high walk rate. This should tell us what we already know: lots of K’s =/= bad player.
Mark Reynolds went 40/100 last year and struck out 223 times
wow robbie’s at 3rd. Who said he’s lazy??!
Que?
Morgan said he was playing 3rd in what i assume was just a senior moment from him.
Miller even
Oh, my bad. I thought you were being for real.
Runs per game? From a hitter? Did Orel just make up a stat?
ESPN just said Gardner is in LF, and Russo is in CF, I assume ESPN is wrong? I’m gonna check gameday now.
They also said Cano at 3B and Swisher at 2B
wait i thought russo was in LF?
Is Russo in CF or was that just a dumb ESPN typo?
Lets go CC, watch out for Barajas
Every time Jeter gets a first pitch hit, I do the GRR to YAY face in 2 seconds flat.
too easy for jetes
Jeter drives me insane when he swings at the first pitch of the game, but oh is it pretty when it works
fgjds;ofjds
STOP CALLING FOR BUNTS IN THE FIRST INNING.
How do you know it’s not Gardner’s idea?
Okay:
stop bunting in the first inning.
Fixed
look Jeter hit it somewhere other than ss, even if it was still on the first pitch
Gardner’s lucky that first pitch didnt bounce right into his face.
i thought the same thing
he deserves to K for that bunt attempt dumb
That was ugly Gardy.
i think Gardner has swung and missed more times in this series than all season.
Gardner is starting to suck
That was an awful AB.
man gritt is really really slumping
by curve/slider he means that Santana doesn’t throw a curve Morgan you moron kill me now
Check swing foul … 2 strikes on Teix now.
Not good. Changeup coming.
didn’t santana used to throw a 97 MPH fastball?
or was that my imagination
he threw harder but never that hard
oh ok, thx
Imagination. The man never sat in the mid-90s range. Even in his best years with the Twins, Johan never sat at 95. He had every pitch going for him, so a 93 mph FB was all he ever needed. For sure he’s lost some velocity though.
there’s a lot riding on this game, apparently the loser is changing their name to “the little chocolatiers”
I love it when Tex is late on 89 MPH fastballs. It’s so cool.
Tex needs a break totally lost
I don’t even know what to say any more with Teixeira. Eesh.
goodness he looks bad
Teix still having trouble with the 89 mph FB. Wow.
Teix needs a complete day or 2 off.
a week
Tex needs to sit his next game
Well Tex, don’t feel bad, high school kids can’t hit an 89 mph fastball. So you don’t look any worse than a 16 yr old.
Oof. A-Rod has looked awful on anything low, away, and offspeed this series.
i really hope arod jacks one and tex gets 3 hits so we don’t have to hear this “analysis” for the entire game
Miller sounds surprised that the Yanks completely wrecked a pitcher that didn’t bring his best stuff.
Also, Yankees suck chanters, check the goddamn standings.
seriously sad AB’s after Jeter.
Good thing Alex Cora wasn’t playing 2B for the Mets last year.
it might sound dumb but I feel like the Gardner AB changes the entire tone the rest of that inning bunting in the 1st inning is such a fucking waste
Love it when guys are chasing 89 mph fastballs up. The whole team seems like it needs a day off to get their heads together.
Does this mean that the series in Minny will be be better than these last few? (Tomorrow’s the off day)
I like the way you think
I would like this a lot.
16 minutes in and I’ve muted the game.
damn you reyes
Man, that replay showed how really bad Jeter was going after that grounder.
yeah it was a sad sight
Impressive win for the RS today. RS hang 7 runs Halladay.
I guess that should definitively end talk of Halladay winning 30 games.
the red sox own halladay throughout his career
chalk it up to that
maybe its just me but it seemes like the Sox have always handeled him pretty well
Yeah, if anyone’s winning 30 it’s Jimenez. 8-1 in May?!
won’t happen, pitches at Coors Field
I don’t think that matters much when you give up less than half a hit per inning.
Yankees top of the first – Jeter swings at first pitch. Gardner k’s, Tex k’s, ARod – pop up.
Only surprise is ARod – that has to change.
soooo tired of “Let’s go Yankees!” “Yankees suck!!!” My head, it hurts.
Look at the bright side, you could be from New York and be a Mets fan. As bad as being from anywhere and being a Red Sox fan.
Ugh. Don’t lose him, CC.
aight zz, you can’t let the rookie beat you
that curve was filthy
I hate these BS hits.
I dislike bloop hits.
I hate sac flies more.
The date: May 23rd, not November 4th.
yep
Yeppers. Heh.
CC looks bad today
Ike Davis’ .538 BABIP vs. LHP just went up
I would’ve throw him three straight breaking balls.
Remember when our pitchers didn’t struggle.
You mean Friday night?
Yep.
You know, we’ll also go back to that pretty soon. ‘Tis a loooong season.
ugh ugh ugh
Joe Morgan is the dumbest human alive. Everything out of his mouth is complete and utter nonsense. It is truly unbelievable.
Hi, my name is Tim McCarver. Nice to meet you
Can you imagine Buck, McCarver, and Morgan doing a World Series game?
Only if Miller is there to mispronounce every hispanic player’s name
::imagines an imaginary broadcast team of Morgan and McCarver::
::runs away screaming::
McCarver is just plain ignorant. I feel like Morgan purposefully TRIES to be ignorant.
I am already frustrated. I do not enjoy this ;_;
This team has been irritating me since the Boston series. No one can do anything right at this moment.
um detroit. Minny was a fluke
Me since the Tiger series
maybe zz can reach back for that 98 mph gas
He gone
Good K CC
Wright is Wrong!
Wow, Wright looked awful there.
Big time K. Wright is all sorts of messed up … that might’ve been the knockout punch.
wow wright was so late on that curve
Cano!
Out of the inning with no damage. I approve.
You get nothing!
Good DAY sir!
Thats how an ACE gets out of it
Robbie!
Only 18 pitches… seemed like 30
really only 18? i thought he went through 35
Well when you’re on a pessimistic roll…
I keed, I keed.
CANO!!
alright now lock it down ps Ike Davis is getting on my nerves
Good job by CC.
The next sequel in the Tron franchise will be Bel-tron. /Joe Morgan’d
MVP.
attaboy cano
oh come on
this crew makes it damn impossible to watch sooooooooo painful
Damn. Francouer had to run a looooong way to get to that. Couldnt that fly ball had died alittle earlier…
STOP. BUNTING
wtf is with the bunting. Someone needs to stop that shit
Think about this, would the Yankees have signed CC if they got Santana?
Probably not because they would have had to extend Santana.
jesus christ the next guy to bunt gets fucking kneecapped
Looked like he was bunting for a hit
Still not smart in this situation.
How far back was the corners playing? Cervelli has some speed, still dont consider him a good hitter, and he’s going up against Johan. So if he’s bunting for a hit then I’m not going to complain.
yeah worked out well for him
He’s not gardner. It’d need to be the mother of all bunts for him to leg it out.
If I see one more bunt attempt–don’t care if it’s from the bench or the players themselves–my eyes are going to bleed. Stop wasting pitches.
Unless you’re bunting for a hit stop bunting.
Still not a good idea.
Cmon dark helmet, USE THE SCHWARTZ!
good change from Santana tonight.
That was a nasty change-up
Johan’s got the goods tonight. Stay sharp, CC.
different day, same results. ugh. This is as tired as old girlfriend.
Yo, we’re all frustrated but it’s the second inning.
Bex, don’t you know that pitchers never have good games against the Yankees and that it’s just the hitters being shitty? Come on, now. You should know better.
Of this game.. And it is not that they are not getting hits, but that they look like high schoolers. Defense is shotty, base running is non existent, pitching is in a funk, and the line up….forget it.
Where were you when the Yankees were winning every series? Obviously they can’t keep it up. I mean wait a bit before complaining like they’ve sucked forever.
You’re annoyed? Imagine how we feel having to see your posts every 4 seconds
http://buuurn.com/
Damn you beat me to it. You suck.
ooh that was a good one. did you come up with that all on your own?
Too bad they couldn’t clear the pitcher. Oh well.
But it’s CC. He’s prob a better hitter than Cerv/Russo.
Our hitters are swinging through a 89 mph heater. Pathetic.
I would agree if it weren’t for the 70mph change they are all kinds of fucked up right now
When he has a 73 change working, it isn’t that pathetic
I think the Mets tried their hardest with this stadium to make the ball die as quickly possible. It is just awful to watch games here, no fun at all.
Could A-Rod at least make an attempt and dive?
What would that have done? He didn’t have a shot at it. No need to pull a Pedroia and dive for diving’s sake.
give frenchy 3 FBs
he wont get em
just like i said
Barajas agaist CC in his career .450 (9-20) 3HR 5RBI, thats pretty good
Sit down Frenchy
Francoeur is comically bad
Ok time for some meaningless in-game trivia for the Foreigner.
What is pepper?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_%28game%29
santana looks like he has good stuff tonight… it would helo though if our hitters had a bit better at-bats… and this bunting shit in the early innings has got to stop
This whole series has reminded me of the 2000 World Series.
Can I ask how? Because the Mets are playing the Yankees? =P
1)Every game thus far has been decided by two or less runs.
2)The middle game is interrupted by a Mets victory.
Ageless Andy Pettitte? He ain’t in Moyer territory.
I know this is out of subject, but who would you rather see win, Rays or Red Sox, because either one winning is bad
red sox
If the Yankees sweep, the Yankees will win no matter what happens, but if I had to choose I would say the Rays winning just to put the Sox deeper in a hole.
Rays, because I think them making the playoffs is a foregone conclusion. In case the Yankees don’t win the division, I’d like to keep Boston at a distance for the wild card.
lol CC give him the 98
too easy for ZZ
Santana still looks better up there compared to Frenchy.
Seriously, Cisco? Come on.
love this depth the Yankees have.
gotta either hit the cutoff man or knock that ball down at the plate.
bit of a bad hop on that replay.
The Yankees mess up and you smile. I think that pretty much says it all.
Bex, O:S this dude. No reason to keep feeding him.
what are you talking about, he struck out Santana.. Jesus Christ, get bitched at for complaining, get bitched at for cheering, WTF is with you.
Now I see the bad throw. Sorry your royalty my feed is on delay… god forbid
Didn’t know that’s what you were happy for. How am I supposed to know you’re watching a delayed feed? In that case, I apologize. I don’t think I’m royalty.
typical of this blog…..everyone is god damn know it all against anyone who says anything negative against the Yankees. should have known better.
Nope. The Yankees are terribly stinky right now. And I’m not a “god damn know it all” or I would have known that you weren’t on the same feed as all of us.
Just I saw the Yankees mess up and then I saw you make a smiley face. You haven’t exactly been the most positive person. What was I supposed to assume?
are you a Mets fan?
Bad defense, but at least Barajas didnt score, fuck Reyes, never liked him
Santana not getting the bunt down proved huge there.
Got him in anyway. Dammit.
At least CC doesn’t have to worry about Reyes stealing 2B. Now get this guy!
phew, that was ALLLLLLmost a costly play
WOW where did that miss?
watching on gameday and it didn’t
That was a strike, FUCK!!!!
where did that miss????
ball boy eying that woman standing there lol
ugh
fucking alex cora.
FINISH HIM!!
Fucking fuck fuck.
That might all they they need.
Nah, we’ll score.. we will.. promise
Another run producing 2-out hit …
A 2-run hole feels deeper than it did a week ago.
Wow, this is bullshit…
man that sucked
Yankee pitchers can’t put anyone away with 2 strikes. I have lost all faith in this team.
Oh dear God.
Looks like it will be a long day for CC and the Yankees, HOW THE HELL DO YOU GIVE UP A HIT TO CORA!!!!!!!!!
Did Joe Morgan just say “rine drive”? Are the rines crossed?
/Seinfeld’d
Did you just say “ridicurous?”
it’s ok– we give them a glimmer of hope now, and then pull the rug out from under them and remind them they are still the mets
Blaaargh
(jumps off a cliff) Did I do that right?
That hurt–runs will be hard to come by tonight…..
http://tinyurl.com/icanhasrobotumps
have they had a single hard hit ball? what a joke.
sorry
Alex Cora, really? Get it together CC.. this lineup is garbage.
Give me robot umps
SHIT. I thought Cerv had him right there.
DAMNIT ITS LIKE SANTANA GIVING UP A HIT TO WINN IN THAT SITUATION >XO
The Yankees have allowed Alex Cora to resemble a competent baseball player these past three nights. That saddens me.
Was that Mike Harkey coming out to talk to Sabathia.
Yep, Eiland’s at his daughter’s confirmation.
what the hell is going on here!!
this is the effing mets we’re playing
well there are 2 runs… bad throw cost the second
We’re getting fucking killed in the second fucking inning.
Don’t be rational, I’m in a bad mood.
I’m getting so much shit when I thought the Yankees would sweep form th Met fan friends.
That’s been coming from Bay in fairness.
Goddamnit. —______—
GAME OVER, this is what happens when you cant get a horrible batter out
Goddamn it.
Are in Fenway???
Yankees-suck chants, Jay Bay going deep … ARGH.
I’m so upset i apparently can’t write a 4 word sentence.
Bay crushed it.
and that really might be all Johan needs. shit. lineup will have to step up now.
wow what the eff
Can we win a sunday night game?
Or at least be competitive?
Holy hell that was a perfect power swing by Bay.
It’s an uppercut swing I’m hearing.
He has a nice uppercut movement.
/Morgan’d
Tex is having an extended April and CC delayed it till May.
Ahh shit… Bay again. Seriously, Yankees – Jason Bay?????? REALLY?
man zz is at 44 pitches
3rd pitch to Cora should and would have ended the inning
Yessir. Like JGS and I said: robot umps, please!
Alright, time to chip away.
this team is frustrating as fuck right now shocking that Bay wkes up against us just shocking (massive eye roll)
To little to late like i always say
Finally, this horrible inning is over, time for the Yankees offense to step up and knock Santana around.
They can’t knock around Pelfrey for the scrub the Mets were throwing at the Yanks on Friday, you really think they are going to get to Johan?
if sabathia gets that 3rd strike called then its still 0-0
FINALLY!
Wow, the Yankees are playing like crap right now. Even the Mets are smacking them up.
Glad Lost is on so I can watch something good.
Breaking Bad for me.
here @ 10
if we dont score this inning im going out and find me a “slumpbuster”
Blue and Orange on the Empire State Building?
*shudders*
Does CC go deep? I think so.
A single’s fine.
CC just put the best swing on a Johan fastball all night.
CC!!
That starts the rally!
CC sabathia = babe ruth
he no bay rufe
/Ozzie Guillen’d
3 innings. 3 lead off hits.
man cc is having the best non jeter/cano at-bat today
Hah. CC helps his own cause!
Now if DJ can hit a 2 run homer, we dont have to worry about CC running the bases.
STEAL CC!
another inning, another leadoff single… we’ll get to Johan eventually
3rd straight leadoff batter on. make something happen
CC with teh hit!
I’m sensing a GIDP here. Hope not.
Dead wrong. Excellent.
Good job, Jeter
Fair to say, Jete’s owns Johan.
If the Yankees lose this game ,do they get knocked to third place?
No.
comon CC, gotta go to 3rd there lol
Oh snap!
If Gardner squares here, I’m going to go apeshit.
How is Miller confusing CC and Johan?
Morgan just called Sabathia “Santana” — twice.
He’s like the lovable grandparent who just can’t get anything right
When was Joe Morgan ever lovable?
Yeah, except he’s not your grandpa so you can hate him.
Correct.
And isn’t loveable.
need at least 2 of these runs back
it’s sabathia, not santana…
who said santana instead of sabathia
john miller said it like 5 times this games
Wow 2-2…. Jeter and not on the first pitch. Nice.
come on grit
after what happened to Wang a while back, I get real nervous with the pitchers running the bases…especially if they’re not quite in shape like CC
round is a shape
him being a big guy does not mean hes not in shape
If CC wasn’t in shape he couldn’t pitch. He is probably more in shape than you or I.
But I know what you mean.
Wooo Jeter lives! If CC wasn’t on, that might have been a double? Maybe not with Frenchy’s arm but he hit it hard and that makes me happy.
Nooooooo
shit
I hate Gardner’s regression so much.
ughhhhhh
Like i said, Gardner sucks
Pathetic AB by Gardner… can we have Swisher batting 2nd, please?
double play and a Tex K ?
is it time to drop gardner down??
May Nick Swisher please stand up.
One more and Gardy is below .300?
Grit GIDP’d? Noooooooooooo
So when was the last time Tex hit a fly ball?
You could see that coming from a mile away.
Tex is even worse, EVERY FUCKEN TIME AHHHH!!!!
this is ridiculous at this point. holes at the top of the lineup
wow… Tex continues to amaze ….
OK, that’s tough to take. Not over yet, but that does not help.
argity bargity.
DFA Tex, please.
/kidding. Chan Ho Park, though.
If Tex was DFA’d, every team in baseball would jump on that shit.
Not really. Anyone who claimed him on waivers would also be on the hook for the rest of his salary. Anyone other than Boston who might do that right now?
Mets?
I thought they’ve been pleading poverty lately, too. And I thought they just love Ike Davis.
Seattle, maybe?
I don’t know, that’s a big contract.
(Not that he would or should be)
The Gardner regression is in full swing. Swisher’s gonna have to hit second.
I dont think even Pujols can help the Yanks offence ut this series
Offense out, my bad
The Yankees are nice guys saving Jerry Manuel’s job for now. lol
Gardner is suited for the 4th outfielder job and pinch runner.
profound…
Seriously WTF is up with Tex ? Maybe a night at Scores with ARod would help,,,,Ill buy the shots
The stat they flashed his first AB almost made me cry. Worst start of his career in basically all categories.
its not like hes getting robbed of hits. his swing is horrible right now
That was painful to watch.
As for Tex, the karma for that Jolly Green Giant haircut is definitely catching up with him.
this offense is horrendous they have not hit at all with runners in scoring position or in anytime for that matter major changes need to be made because the team sucks right now
this offense is horrendous they have not hit at all with runners in scoring position or in anytime for that matter
they suck right now (as in over the last three games) but they lead the league in RS, dude.
I feel like anytime there is a RISP it’s up to Gardner, Cervelli, Winn, Thames and Tex to knock them in. Tex will come around (eventually, right?) and Cervelli has been playing out of his mind. But now they are coming back to their norms and not getting the job done. Granderson and Posada can’t get back soon enough.
9 games over .500 without their starting catcher, centerfielder, and DH as well as countless injuries in the bullpen and others dispersed to Thames and Swisher. They are doing really good if you ask me.
We need CC batting 8th, Tex batting 9th, and Swish batting 2nd
lol that prob would work out fine
Its amazing how one minute the boys are on fire, the next we look like the pirates.
baseball is a fun sport.
whats even more frustrating about this team is they dont seem to show life and mount comebacks. look at what boston did agianst us 2nights were down but managhed to take the lead… look at the rays they never give up! but the yanks, ofcourse keeo swingin at the first pitch and shit like that will happen
O:S
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=300517110
wooowww one game!!!
Oh man Joe Morgan.
Come on Jeter, gotta make that play
Ooh, a Jon Miller UZR reference
…and Joe Morgan disparaging it
Capn looking old out there
This team is just in a horrible slump on all fronts right now. Injuries, lack of timely hitting, some bad starts and extremely inconsistent bullpen work. The problem is that Tampa is still playing lights out, Toronto has yet to fall apart (they will), and Boston appears to be straightening themselves out. They can’t afford to keep playing like this for much longer.
I totally agree…this is getting silly now.
.260, .251, .244, .258, .352
That’s the BABIP numbers for Garza, Price, Niemann, Davis, and Shields
all of those are due for some major regression, four of them in the good direction. Damn, Shields has been good this year
Yea, I’m waiting for them to all come down. Price pitched pretty horribly today, but still won! (meaningless, I know)
Wow, I can’t wait until the Yankees play the Astros.
If they continue to play this badly, they will lose to the ‘stros
Price pitched pretty horribly today, but the Rays still won!
that is very important.
Yea, I said that Price winning was meaningless. Obviously by saying Price won, it means the Rays won. Calm down.
UZR Reference!
His range is definitely back down this year
But his UZR/150 is still like +4 or something.
Is that adjusted weekly?
Range runs is -0.2 according to fangraphs.
I saw that number today on No Maas. I do think they mentioned that his range is down, but I didn’t click on the link.
His fielding of the simple plays is keeping his overall rating up it seems
Probably the lack of errors.
Now he calls that location a strike? Beautiful.
out of subject, bet you that Halladay would be a Burnett type pitcher with the Yanks
seeing that the red sox own him, it wouldnt shock me, but he would easily be a sub 3.0 ERA pitcher with the yanks
I bet he’d be a Roy Halladay type pitcher with the Yanks.
This.
based on what? he’d suddenly stop being one of the top 5 pitchers in the game?
Yeah….. no
That could have been a HR at YS3.
I don’t think so. Its more likely Swisher’s fly out would have been a HR in YS3 though.
If we can’t put up at least one run here, game over.
I terribly miss tsjc, he would be very entertaining right about now.
Stupid baby taking up all his time…
my idiot metfan friend is texting me every batter…..WE MUST SCORE
the offday cant come soon enough
Its going to be a bad day for me at school tomorrow if the Yankees lose this game today, losing the series to the Mets is worse than that Rays sweep
Grandy can’t come back fast enough.
31 strikes out of 40 pitches is just amazing.
this is depressing
apparently we cant get out fast enough
Johan has the hitters so off balance tonight. He’s pitching absolutely wonderfully. It doesn’t help that the hitters are slumping, but Johan’s been just filthy tonight.
And of course Swish rips one right to Bay. Goddammit.
This. It’s a combination of the offense being really stinky right now and Johan being extremely good.
I don’t think he’s been healthy. Swish just ripped a ball and they got runners on, IIRC, every inning. Not that he’s pitching terrible, but we should’ve gotten a run by now.
Why did I write the word healthy? I meant great. Not healthy. Great.
Weird.
4-5-6 hitters go down in 7 pitches. This one might be over already.
7 pitch inning. Johan is gonna eat them up at the rate hes going.
How come its easy for teams to come back against the Yankees, but other teams need just 3 runs for a win against them
If the other team only score 3 runs, we’ll win about 95% of the time.
seriously!! other than the bostin comeback ( which shouldve been an easy win) yanks cant come back and win against anyone
O:S
(Join me here, people. It’s a good strategy.)
wow 7 pitch inning. They are looking like they did last year to start the season. Whole lotta suck, with a glimmer here and there.
And gee whiz I wonder how last season ended up.
ha… living in the past. But using last year is a small sample size. Previous years not so much. But nice jab, your cool.
I have no idea what this comment means.
Joe G, otherwise engaged= taking a nap
So how long will the Empire State Building be orange and blue?
It’ll be blue and white..the game isnt over yet
BOOM.
How’s Granderson’s rehab? How many games does he have to play in Scranton before he comes back?
Could someone please enlighten me as to why lefties are slower to the plate than righties?
Cause Joe said so.
There may be no actual explanation.
cause they are using the wrong hand. I tried it and I was slow as hell
Really?
sincerely,
Mark Buehrle
The Yankees are the best team against lefty pitchers MY ASS
Johan’s no ordinary lefty
Cora and Davis are getting on my tits this series
I hate ESPN games. I never get dead tired watching baseball games. Even when the game is on Fox, I at least can yell at them through the TV. The ESPN crew just puts me to sleep, I really cant take them. Morgan and Miller are horrible, and Orel Hersheiser is making it even worse.
This commercial annoys me but Pedroia was adorable. =/
yuck
Some hot stove stuff I read: Andy Pettitte projects to be a Type A after the season. He’s only four points above the cutoff of 74.
Therefore, if Cashman offers him arbitration and he declines and then signs somewhere else, the Yankees would get two draft picks.
Somehow, I don’t see that situation happening
Can Cashman offer him arbitration and then he retires, and the same thing happens? Or does it not work that way?
Also, how do Type A/B FAs work?
No, they only get the picks if he signs somewhere else. If they offer him arb and he retires, nothing happens.
Type A/B only matters if the guy signs elsewhere. If he retires, then it doesn’t matter.
If another team signs your Type A after he declines arbitration from you, you get that team’s first round pick as well as a sandwich round pick.
If another team signs your Type B after he declines arbitration from you, you get a sandwich pick
Type A: If team A signs a type A free agent that has been offered arbitration but declines, the FA’s original team gets team A’s first round draft pick and a compensation pick in a supplementary round.
Type B: The FA’s original team only gets a compensation pick.
when I asked how type A/B worked… I know how it works if they went to FA. I meant how do they decide the difference between A and B?
The Elias Sports Bureau decides how this happens by a point system they have.
An archaic and byzantine algorithm that makes no logical sense but is based on performance in the previous couple of years
I know Andy isn’t going to sign elsewhere, I just wanted to point out that if every member of the rotation was a FA to be, they’d all be Type A.
Thanks for all your answers, guys.
If Andy doesn’t retire and he’s a type A and we re-sign him, do we lose draft picks?
Nope. Can’t lose picks from re-signing your own players.
I’ve said this before but you can get that “little” guy out by playing on a real baseball field. Then you’ll see those too weak or too slow comments again. Seriously if he was traded to another team I’d love to see the results.
agreed
While i do think Granderson wont make an immediate impact, he cant be worse than Winn, does anybody have any news Aceves and when he will be back
What is going on tonight with the managers? They normally get both for alittle Q&A for a whole half inning. Girardi wasnt available, and Manuel wasnt there at first then came for like 1 question.
They’re wising up and not talking to the creatures that inhabit the booth.
always thought there was some contractual thing that made them do it – could never see why they would otherwise.
I guarantee Russo hasn’t seen any changeups like that before.
this
is
sucking
ass
I saw that movie being shot in NYC last summer.
Im calling a Santana shut-out with 10 K’s, oh yeah and RIP Jose Lima
Way to have confidence…
its like 2009 all over again with Bay
Sonofa…
Bay kills the Yankees.
No the yankees kill the yankees and pitches in his zone.
Well you can root for the Mutts if you want.
Bay still needs to hit the pitches. And he’s still playing awesome vs. the Yankees. Thus, Bay kills the Yankees.
Mike did call this on his twitter before the series.
Why do we continue to pitch Bay on the outside corner?!?!?! That’s the only place that he really gets hits off of!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to see our starters sucking like this. CC has no command whatsoever. His pitches are mostly up but when he gets them down it’s in the middle of the strikezone.
Bay is known to go into prolonged slumps in streaks. A prolonged streak was bound to come. I would have hoped he would have broken out against the Phils.
Can we trade CC or Hughes for a clutch hitter?
sarcasm?
I know the Red Sox would have paid too much for Bay’s decline but I’m pretty damn glad they didn’t re-sign him because he murders us.
Every top tier free agent slugger gets overpaid, it all washes out.
When things are going bad, they’re going bad, huh?
Count that at 2 for bullshit Ike Davis hits.
It’s time for Joe to bring the guys bowling, pool, strip club. Something, Anything.
i vote strip club. Hell. I always vote strip club
Can a Yankees pitcher hit Bay in the head
stay classy!
All around fail from the Yankees tonight. Offense, defense and pitching are all sucking. Let’s hope this is rock bottom and thigns go up from here on out.
I believe it is.
Would this mean losing this series to the Mets makes the Mets, this years Nationals?
Hey. Before you dismiss this idea, check the NL East standings…
I’m actually writing about that for my 11 AM post as we speak.
Wow.
What happened there, Kevin? That was kind of ugly.
Not his fault CC is pitching like Igawa and giving up rockets.
Not interested in this game anymore, I’ll keep gamecast on and if it’s a tie game I’ll turn the TV back on…
The defense has been looking pretty sloppy tonight.
yea…just have Santana not make you guys look like minor leaguers for the rest of the game.
day off will be needed tomorrow.
KC may sweep us. Ok just kidding, but seriously, Scranton is better right now.
not quite.
I would take the ML Yanks over the Scranton Yanks every time, without question.
Triple A infielder playing leftfield for the Yankees ? Really ? we need depth
question: how do you know the difference btw a slump and a regression — and what formula are you determining that with?
If a good player is performing poorly, it’s a slump. If a bad player is performing poorly, is a regression.
/half serious
thanks. that’s funny sh*t. actually, i meant to post my comment as a reply to one of the “Gardner’s imminent regression / he’s a 4th OF” posters.
less than a week ago we were 1 game out–now it will be 6. ugh
And in less than a week we can be 1 game out. Baseball is funny like that.
Gotta admire your unending optimism.
it’s not so much optimism because I feel like crap right now about this game as truth. There are 120ish games left. That’s a looootta baseball.
I know. 5-10 (assuming no comeback tonight) over the last 15 days just feels like the absolute worst.
I’m also listening to my dad railing against them in every which way. Right now he’s bitching endlessly about Sabathia and I basically just told him to shut up because he said this same stuff at the same time last year.
Geno – Right on cue to remind us it’s only a game
I know it’s just a slump, but this is really embarrasing.
Yankees have single handedly saved Jerry Manual’s job, for now.
Mets fans are not thanking the Yankees for this
This has been a real bad week. Losing to the Rays is understandable but losing to the Mets in this fashion is a joke.
hopefully this is the low point of the year. I feel pretty low–can’t take anything worse than this crap.
Stretching Joba out mid-season didn’t work? He was mowing through guys in ’08 before getting hurt. I love revisionist history. Maybe it’s because I’m young–maybe some more experienced fans can help me out here–but I can’t remember anything like this in terms of narratives w/any other player but Joba. Anyone got anything?
Joba succeeding in the rotation doesn’t fit the media narrative, so that’s something we can expect to hear go unacknowledged.
I’m not so sure about that … his first start a few yrs back was like a media EVENT … I think a lotta people were pulling for him as a starter
I can’t think of anyone in the MSM–maybe Pete Abe–who said Chamberlain should start from the outset.
Has Jeter seen more than 5 pitches in his 3AB?
two pitches, two weak GB to 3rd for Teix
6 pitch inning, 63 so far for Santana. this is not the Yankees lineup from earlier in the year.
SIX PITCHES?! SIX FUCKING PITCHES?!
My word.
If the Yankees don’t improve they’ll have to go to the secret weapon.
uugh can’t do anymore. Work in 4 hours. I’ll have to finish this game in my dreams.
Something tells me it’ll end better that way.
seriously. how many total minutes have the Yankees batted tonight ? Tex 1 for 26 ? aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh
Wow… Tex’s offense is painful to watch. His defense on the other hand, well worth the money he is making.
then maybe he needs to move down in order if they are now paying for defense…….sorry, but hes breakin my heart
or just needs a couple days off.
i know i do
Yankees have 4 hits, 2 by Jeter, 1 by Cano, and the other by the pitcher formerly in the game named CC.
potent!
Oh fucking please. That was unintentional.
Joe’s gonna get himself tossed here…(umps an idiot!)
i wish it was a fastball
It should have hit him in the head, yeah im that fucked up
ARod predictions anyone ?
Well, the game is mostly out of reach and A-Rod is the king of unclutch. He’ll definitely homer here.
single to right
Gatorade’s new money making scheme sure looks clever.
Best pitch a Yankee pitcher threw all night, just should have been a fast ball instead of a weak curve.
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Best thing for the Yankees, no more appearances on ESPN. Think they have only won once on ESPN this year.
I cheered a baserunner.
can I also?
I ain’t the boss of ya.
Better review that shit.
To make this night even worse, they have to talk about the Rays, lets see if they are like this during the second half
Sorry to say it isnt a Home Run
It hit the orange line. That’s a homer, right?
they just said that. what the hell kinda rule is that? so odd
according to Orel, if it hits the orange line, it’s a HR
man cant even catch some luck with a couple extra inches for that HR
orel says it’s a homer
All the more reason to think it wasn’t…
Citi field has the worst dimesions ever , no wonder no Home Runs are hit here
Seriously when building this park they didn’t think to make the line color different from the foul pole?
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-895398
Can anyone else help me with this one?
I think because you’re right and there wasn’t really anyone else.
That’s what I thought.
Michael Kay maybe? On his radio show he talks about Joba belonging as a starter.
Really? I haven’t heard him say that.
Steve Goldman on the YES site has from the get go pretty much, right?
tough week
yanks will get healthy and tampa is about to start playing actual major league teams. things will turn around soon
Said it before, will say it again: this week is the dramatic sad part on the 2010 Yankees’ World Series DVD.
Wait…that isn’t the part when they talk about releasing Edwar and Bruney?
last spring was much worse:
the rain
the empty seats behind home
the bandbox hysteria
this year is frustrating, but nowhere near as grim
Sure the last few weeks have been frustrating (dangit since I went to see them in Detroit!), but we’ve been throwing out our B team for a while now thanks to odd injuries and such. All things considered we’re still in good shape. Our starters carried us for a while, sometimes pitchers have bad starts. it will all even out and the offense and pitching will both key in at the same time.
Yeah, I agree with you. It looks real grim right now. It won’t for very much longer.
Not to mention the fact that if they hold on in the game against Boston and complete the rally against Tampa,I bet people feel a lot different.
Well… eh. We could play the what if game all day.
Sure, am just sayin…if someone had given me the laundry list of injuries before the season started and told me the Yanks’ record right now, I would take it in a heartbeat.
Ok lets look at possible trade tergets for the Yankees. Who should the Yankees think about this trade deadline
Albert Pujols, Chase Utley, Evan Longoria, Hanley Ramirez, and Matt Kemp to start.
Don’t forget trading Girardi for Torre, plus a pitching coach to be named later.
Dangit! I meant to write “a binder to be named later” but somehow brainfarted.
john sterling and rob thompson for vin scully and larry bowa?
You forgot Halladay, Cliff Lee and Ubaldo Jiminez, among others.
reply fail
Melky and IPK for Pujols!!! oh wait..
Who do they need?
the puma that is big.
well not need. but want
He’d be nice but not really at that price.
trade logan for delcarmen, then flip him for a smoak-type bat
Golf clap.
+1
Well done.
Come on guy’s, for real
For real? Probably something just like last trade deadline–an extra OF/IF. Maybe.
I think we’ll see guys like Huffman, Winfree, and Curtis get shots in the OF first, though.
Who do they honestly need? Infield is set. Catcher too when Jorge comes back. Outfielders maybe, depends on how Grandy performs after the injury and how Gardy does. But a trade replacement probably wouldn’t be necessary.
DH possibly but who’s available that isn’t slumping and not terribly expensive to warrant the need? Maybe at the deadline they get a starter if someone goes down Mo forbid.
Assuming Nick Johnson comes back healthy mid July, only to then stub his toe and sit the rest of the season, I’m hoping the Yanks target a DH. Unfortunately, I don’t see a trade happening, guys like D-Lee and Berkman will just cost too much. So I’m just praying Thames and Miranda hold down the DH fort, I’m confident they can.
Other than that, we don’t really need anything. Who knows what relievers will be available in a month.
Is Dye an option, seriously
I’d welcome that tough he’s a FA and said trade.
I’d rather sign Dye to DH for half a year than trade something valuable for a partial season of someone like Lee or Berkman.
Is Sheff an option? Dukes? Sure, they’re options, not likely ones though. A guy like Dye will need a minimum of 3 weeks to get ready, and at this point in his career, he’s essentially Marcus Thames.
Maybe Bobby Jenks
Here comes the rally
Is that the rally starter?!
/endlessly optimistic’d
WTF is Thames doing
Exactly what he was supposed to do. Stay out of the double play.
Avoiding the double play
I won’t be surprised if 75 of Jeter’s outs have been groundballs.
I’ve had enough of Gardner in the 2-hole.
That’s what Brett’s wife said?
Yeah, because he’s too gritty.
but you were fine with a johnson in the 2-hole?
TEX TOOK A PITCH!
Progress!
And now a single! Small steps!
A Teix hit!
You are to late Tex, DAMNIT
Tex lives?
PC for teh Johanz?
Blaaaaaaaah when he’s going right, Al takes that over the fence in right.
That was the perfect pitch for A-Rod to hit, up and away… don’t know why he stared at it
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Johan goes back to the changeup again. Might as well, right?
Sick AB by Al.
YESS JOHAN IS OUT!
Let’s go CLUTCH CANO!
I can has bloop and blast then tie game?!
Is Bobby Jenks an option for the pen, the White Sox want to get rid of him, wont cost them any high leveled prospects, and would be a great set-up for Mo, or closer if he gets injured for some reason
Joba > Jenks.
So if Cano knocs a few runs in here, I think it could be a slump-buster. If not, Tuesday’s not that far away
come on ribbie
Lets Go Cano!!!!
Swing at that shit Cano.. comon
Bloody Hell… step away and Tex gets a hit.
Nice. now try and keep it going there, Tex.
Well that was anti-climactic.
Not surprised, this was the Yankees of this week
yeah, that sums up the Yankees right now..
Again, Is Bobby Jenks an option for the pen, the White Sox want to get rid of him, wont cost them any high leveled prospects, and would be a great set-up for Mo, or closer if he gets injured for some reason
The bullpen will improve. They do this every year. Now I’d give a definite answer if I knew if he was a Type A or B and how much his contract is.
Remember the whole “having a budget” thing? They aren’t going to take on a 7 mill/year player as a setup man when they already have one.
Since when did the Yankees care about a budget, this is why we dont have Damon and Matsui,their lineup doesnt put fear into anybody anymore
It did in April. Injuries have derailed it, not the players.
The Yankees’ original lineup is quite awesome and if you didn’t fear it as an opposing team member, you were silly. Yes, WITHOUT Matsui and Damon.
Because of this dumbass comment, you are now being O:S.
Boone is in…time for me to go to bed
Could this night get any worse?! Boone Logan had a great inning so now he’s not going to get sent down!!!!
(I am mostly exaggerating for effect but the sentiment is at least 2% there.)
It could be a reverse thing, though. He’s done poorly and has stayed so maybe if he does well, they’ll send him down.
Joe just said something that actually made sense. Oswalt could make sense for the Mets.
I hope he goes to the Nats, maybe he’d give them a chance at the WC.
Who pinch hits in the 9 spot?
Miranda
Lets play who’s more anoying, K-Rod or Valverde
Valverde. Hands down.
After a save, he apparently takes an epic shit on the mound.
I dislike K-Rod more because I feel like the Yankees have played against him more but Valverde’s antics are ridiculous. He was kissing the ground when he threw a strike! Not even strikeouts but strikes!
Valverde’s nickname is “El Papa Grande.” Enough said.
I have to go with K-rod, because he should know better, yet he’s gotten worse and worse over his career
Ugh neighborhood rule.
yay!
Derek get the bat down!
I thought both teams were warned not to accidently throw errant curve balls. No ejection?
shouldn’t K-rod get tossed for that?
Uhg, Gardner is on deck, in an abysmal slump.
Or regression to the mean.
That 2.
Seriously john miller? Meer-AHND-uh for Miranda? no. just no.
Well, if I’m saying his name properly, that is with an accent, that’s how I say it.
Yaaaaaaay!!!!!!
JETES!
Oh shit! Let’s go, Brett. Keep the line moving.
And now G can’t dp.
Not watching. How much we down by?
3
Three. Men on second and third. Garner up. 1 out.
Ooooh. Dram. Keep posting guys, you’re my updates.
Dram is not a word. But drama is. I meant drama. Right.
Dram is indeed a word.
http://unabridged.merriam-webs.....0&y=0
Well shit dammit.
6-3 now. 2nd and 3rd with one out. Gardner up.
I say. The old boy has some life in him yet.
That was an excellent at-bat by Jeter with a pretty much optimal result. Hooray!!!!
Gardner looked safe…
Are they just teasing us again?
Fuck! looked like Gardy was safe
Bull
Soooooooo close.
Bullshit call.
What crap!
Listening to Sterling, safe or out?
Could’ve gone either way.
Glad I’m not wtaching.
Tex needs to blast one here.
Wow. I’ll take it. Wow Tex. Wow.
LET’S GO AROD!!!
Up to A-Rod
WOW talk about an ugly single
Damn Tex. Nice hustle right there.
Come on Al. Just try and hit it hard my man.
Walk of 3-run home run?
*go-ahead
Germans?
Battle within in a battle…up steps the other Rodriguez.
COME ON A-ROD!
joe morgan takes retarded to new levels
Teix gets lucky swinging on first pitch.
So if it goes to the bottom, Miranda plays 1B and the pitcher goes to Pena’s spot>
here comes the dropped pop up with Tex running REALLy hard
no castillo tho
D’Oh!
But one of those times was a dropped ball Miller.
OOFA. That was his pitch. Hopefully he gets another.
Green light here?
Please don’t k A-rod.
Ugh that’s THE pitch.
that is a bummer….arod just missed that shit with that swing
Gaaaaaaah! Alex that was ball four!
Don’t swing at that A-rod!
God damn. My heart is going to explode.
8th pitch of this ab coming up.
Shitty.
Damn good pitch by K-rod…….
Damn. Buzz kill.
Fuck! Soooo close.
Tease over. They better get their act in order soon…
Aaargh. Great at-bats.
I should be happy they’re fighting back almost all the time, right?
Honestly, and I’m one of the guys who thinks they’re perfectly fine and merely slumping…not really.
Yeah, I know the feeling. (I’m in the same boat.)
Sure why not? Unfortunately, imo it’s not like we’re just getting beat, we’re playing some bad ball at times. For me, that’s what kind of kills the positives of almost coming back. Plus, the past couple weeks the Paul O’Neill theory hasn’t really been working.
Eh. At least someone on the team is putting good AB’s together. Got em with the change, can’t really complain.
I think that was a pretty bad AB by A-Rod. He missed two mistake pitches. The really grievous one was that 91 MPH fastball right down the middle of the plate. It practically screamed, “Crush me!”
Anytime you make a good pitcher throw 8 pitches in an AB you’re doing something right.
Just because he’s a good pitcher doesn’t mean he was pitching well during this particular game. Sorry, but when you get not one, but two mistake pitches in an at-bat and you’re a hitter of A-Rod’s caliber not to capitalize on that is a bad AB.
Damn
A-Rod choked big time there. He had two 90mph meatballs right down the middle and couldn’t even put it in play. Pretty pathetic AB, especially the swing-and-miss on a hanging slider in the middle of the zone.
that at-bat =/= choking
You’re getting back to your old ways
he did miss on some fat pitches though
I don’t believe in choking. But like Tom Zig pointed out, he DID miss some pitches he should’ve crushed there.
to me, that was. I’m sorry if you don’t agree. He had great pressure on him to come through there and he didn’t. He missed pitches he normally handles easily and swung through a pretty bad pitch. That to me is choking.
I’m not saying he can’t come through in the clutch and all that other non-sense that people write about him, but this time he really did choke.
Okay, that’s a decent explanation. I still don’t think “not coming through” necessarily equals choking.
No one hits 1.000 in “clutch” situations. Just because they make an out doesn’t make it choking. Even if a guy hits 400 in that situation, he’s failed the majority of the time.
this.
Yep.
Plus, he’s had two recent, HUUUUUUGE game-tying hits against Boston and Minnesota.
At this point, A-Rod is the last person I would ever accuse of choking. The guy’s earned lifetime immunity with me after everything he did last season and the enormous hits he’s already amassed this year. He didn’t get a hit in the ninth tonight. So what? Not everyone can get a hit in every must situation; it’s part of the game to fail more than you succeed as a hitter.
That was a fucking great pitch by K-Rod. Damn.
How the fuck did A-Rod miss that 91 MPH pitch right down the fucking middle?
OH COME ON!
at least GOB can make it feel better
http://www.dailymotion.com/vid.....ome-on_fun
I hear Target Field is a pretty nice park to hit in.
only one way to sum up this week too little too late
man that was heartbreaking, but hey, at least the team finally gets a day off. It seems as if they havent had a day off in 2 weeks
I’m pretty sure they literally haven’t
May 6th, so 2 1/2
holy crap that’s ridiculous
i had no idea
I’m beginning to think that Paul O’Neill’s career as a philosopher was over before it really began.
It’s a small complaint, but it still drives me crazy how Girardi continually pinch runs when the guy at first is the tying run.
Well, there is no bottom of the ninth if that tying run doesn’t score. Pena gives us a better chance to score that run there. Teix isn’t exactly fleet at foot.
It’s not as pointless doing it with Tex as it is when he does it with Arod, but it’s still bad. There are just so few plays that the difference in speed between Pena and Tex will be the determining factor between scoring and not.
It has basically no effect on the teams chance of winning, but it’s just annoying that he insists on doing something that has a negative impact, however slight.
I don’t think it has a negative impact. Pena is a lot faster than Tex. And really, when is the next time Tex will get up to bat?
That has nothing to do with this game though. Pinch running for Teix there gives you a better chance of scoring on a double or a misplayed single. That run is rather important.
Something annoying: The Empire State Building will be blue and orange until presumably the next meeting.
Nope, just one day. Funnily enough, it’ll be yankees colors on tuesday for Argentina turning 200 or something, assuming they don’t have powder blue lights. http://www.esbnyc.com/tourism/.....N=67788613
To little to late
BTW, anybody look at Girardi in the dugout? He looked REALLY pissed this entire game.
welp, looks like we all could use the night off from the Yanks on Monday.