Game 147: Time to turn this sucker around
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Hopefully Millwood finds himself on the bench nice and early tonight. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
Eight of ten. Eight losses in ten games is what the Yankees have in their rearview mirror, but thankfully that’s behind them. The road is wide open in front of them, and they control their own destiny as far as clinching a playoff spot and winning the AL East. Yesterday’s off day gave everyone a chance to regroup, re-gameplay, and wipe that horrible slate clean. Tonight, it’s time to get back on track, and Brian Cashman is there to make sure it happens.
The Orioles are coming in very hot, having just swept the Blue Jays to cap off a stretch in which they’ve won nine of 11 games. Buck Showalter’s got his team playing very well, but they’re not unbeatable. Kevin Millwood, tonight’s starter, has faced the Yankees three times this season, and has a 7.56 ERA and 2.22 WHIP in those starts. How about we make those numbers go up, shall we?
Here’s the lineup…
SS Jeter, Derek
CF Granderson, Curtis
1B Teixeira, Mark
3B Rodriguez, Alex
2B Cano, Robinson
DH Berkman, Lance
RF Kearns, Austin
LF Gardner, Brett – so happy to see him back
C Cervelli, Frankie – oh that silly catcher rotation
And on the mound, it’s Allen Burnett.
First pitch at Yankee Stadium South Camden Yards is set for 7:05pm ET, and this one can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
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Kim Jones basically just said that if and when Cano gets his 100th RBI, it’ll be the first time in Yankee history that 3 infielders will have 100 RBIs in the same season. Useless stat and all that, but still pretty cool.
Useless or not, that’s awesome and will be one of the high points of the season for me.
I love Kim, but like Jeter, she’s reaching replacement level matter.
This would be a good time to go out in the free agent market and pick up an All-Star — Ines Sainz
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Talk ’bout a boooooooost to their tee vee ratings.
Ugh my penis hurts.
You might want to get that checked out.
Guess what, I do. I know that one day Ines and I are gonna to get married on top of a mountain, and there’s going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance till the sun rises. And then our children will form a family band. And we will tour the countryside and you won’t be invited.
Did all the damn Yankees fans go home??
almost time for “operation enduring austin kearns”
I have had enough of Austin Kearns at this point. When is #33 coming back.
At least it’s not Kearns and Curtis/Golson.
Tommie,
Just responding to your earlier statement about Girardi deserving to be the highest paid even though I don’t think it is likely. From what I read after Torre’s departure, what I have read regarding Girardi’s upcoming contract, my general feeling on the issue, and of course what I have heard from people I trust
, I see the Yankees letting Girardi walk before paying him top dollar.
The Yankees do not want to create another Torre situation. They don’t want a larger than life manager where it ends up being so difficult to cut ties at the end of the road and Girardi ends up sticking around a few years too long. They don’t want to get to a point where a 1 year contract where he is still the highest paid manager in the league is an “insult.”
The Yankees know how well stocked the organization is right now with talent. They know they just need someone to guide the ship, because the talent will do the talking. Between the majors and minors it is hard to remember a time when the Yankees had so much talent top to bottom in the organization.
This is Girardi’s first potential contract renewal also. It took Torre a little time to really start raking it in. Even then, the situation that Torre was dealing with was much different. The job was much harder back then and he really took the club out of a dark period. The Yankee manager job is the best managing job in baseball now, especially without the pressure from George. Almost anyone would jump at the opportunity to manage this team.
It is not really about what he “deserves,” but how the Yankees want to handle their managing situation. There is no real compelling reason given the state of this ballclub for the Yankees to make Girardi an extremely well paid manager or the top paid manager in baseball. I don’t want to sound harsh, because I like Girardi, but, they don’t need him.
Girardi doesn’t strike me as a ego maniac, like Torre, who wants to be paid twice the amount of the next highest paid manager. That’s the thing, it was just that Torre was the highest paid manager, but at $7 million he was paid 2 to 4 times the amount of his contemporaries. http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.c.....aries.html
And to me, Torre didn’t want to share the glory with the front office, especially the Steinbrenners, while Girardi was very humble and differential.
negotiations will be tough when he walks in and the congratulate him on his second straight WS…
To be honest, it only seems this way in retrospect, especially after The Yankee Years. It probably was by the end, but that was very different from the beginning of Torre’s Yankee years. If Torre had to negotiate after, say, 1997 or something, I can’t see it being too contentious. That’s probably what the Girardi negotiations will be like.
On the other hand – and I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before – if the Cubs are offering Girardi a ton of money, and Girardi really wants to go there, I don’t want the Yankees to get involved in some crazy bidding war or something. I think Girardi’s a good manager, but he’s just a manager. There are a few DNW DNW DNW! managers out there, but other than that, they honestly don’t make that much of a difference.
I really don’t get what people see to call him a “good manager.” A lot of managerial discussions don’t really make sense to me… like why are people celebrating Girardi for NOT mismanaging a bullpen stocked with good arms? “Not Torre with the BP” isn’t qualification for “good manager” in my book.
So if you don’t massively underachieve , don’t get arrested, and don’t run the same middle reliever out 90 times in a season you should be re-hired indefinitely and get huge raises every 3 years? That’s absurd to me. The Yankees should win ~95 games managing themselves using rock, paper, scissors and a Ouija board.
Norris is reporting that Banuelos is headed to the Arizona fall league.
Things are shaping up for Cervelli to be starting behind the plate in the postseason when AJ is on the hill. Not good. Not good at all.
AJ won’t be starting until Game 4 of the ALCS.
I know (well really I hope. I also thought I knew Cervelli would not be starting in the playoffs). It is still not good news at all for Cervelli to be starting any game in the playoffs.
I agree. I am so tired of his .211/.318/.265 performance since June 1st (!!!).
Fun fact: Cervelli’s season OPS is .666.
Fun Fact: Bengie Molina’s season OPS is .597
(full line: .233/.286/.311/.597)
Since I rip on him so often, I have to give Cervelli credit where it’s due. Cervelli hasn’t been the automatic out he was earlier, he seemed to be more willing to take pitches and even managed to get on base in like 8 straight PA.
I have to say though, I think this is more to keep Posada healthy than the “AJ needs a personal catcher” thing from last year. I’d be surprised if Posada didn’t start every game in the postseason. Don’t forget, there are off-days built into most of the series already.
I don’t see how you can just throw Posada behind the plate for AJ in the playoffs when he hasn’t caught him in months.
Why not? He’s caught him before and it’s pretty clear that the guy can throw a gem or stinker regardless of who’s catching him. Cervelli doesn’t block the ball any better than Posada does, so why not make sure Posada’s bat is in the lineup?
It is not about how I feel about AJ’s performance. It is about planning as a manager. If you are Girardi and you are planning for Jorge to catch AJ in the playoffs, you have to get that tandem working together a little bit.
If Girardi does not put Jorge behind the plate for AJ’s starts down the stretch, I don’t see him doing it in the playoffs.
That may be true, but I guess that depends on if you believe Joe or not. Today he said he would have played Jorge but he wanted to give him an extra day since he’s still coming off a concussion. We’ll see, though.
He said that? When?
Said it when addressing the media today, saw it on the pre-game show.
Oh. I did not know that. Crisis maybe averted.
Girardi is just establishing his excuses for Cervelli starts in the playoffs.
LoHud says Cashman is in Baltimore.
These Yankees remind of that really smart kid in class that’s bored until it’s time to take the final exam.
Silly because they had their best April in like, 5 years.
Exactly. Started class, realized they’ll get an easy A, so starting skipping school now and again till final exam.
It’s like the kid who comes into class only hoping for an A-, gets A’s on everything, then only needs like a 45 on the final to get his A-. Would you bust your ass studying to get a 45? I wouldn’t.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the Orioles are spread out against the sky
Like patients etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question 10
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
Oh Prufrock.
I believe it would be possible to have an entire conversation–or recap an entire game–using only quotes from Prufrock.
Turn around, bright eyes.
Also, funny in retrospect (from prior to 2009):
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/bl.....mlb-152184
Add John Smoltz and Brad Penny to the MLB’s best starting triumvirate (Lester-Beckett-Matsuzaka) and you have the makings of another memorable season at Fenway.
We’ll never be able to let this go, will we?
The FIVE ACES refuse to die.
I wish it would, I think it’s run its course.
Blame the media for constantly bringing it up.
I admit I bring it up a lot, but I mean, the media just says it all the time.
Thats whats been the most frustrating part of this whole cold spell. It gives them a reason to bring it up.
Let them have thier hope so we can CRUSH it
Are you surprised ? I mean there are 5 of them
Not as long as 99% of the “neutral” national media hypes up the Red Sox as much as humanly possible every chance they get.
its time for the yankees to start winning this runners left n base 5inn piching is getting old
Having to listen on the radio and no Suzyn. What will I do ? who is filling in ? Oh good its Tino. This promises to be a very uncomfortable broadcast
I love Tino, but I wish he wouldn’t speak.
I really cant wait to his responses to Sterlings neverending babble. This is gonna be a blast
He should honestly just stand there and look pretty.
/shallow girl comment’d
doesnt really work on the radio….well, now that I hear him , maybe it does
Spanish broadcast is a lifesaver
I love the Spanish broadcasters. When I was in Colombia they were fun to listen to. Whenever Mo came in they said something along the lines of “something is brewing in here!”
Adam Jones predicts an Oriole sweep. I predict he woke up this morning after wet dreams of Michael Jackson.
http://twitter.com/THE_ADAM_JO.....4764228447
He needs a lesson: Jimmy Rollins style.
Kenny’s scouting report actually made me feel sad for Millwood.
Austin Kearns batting 7th…yesssssssss.
Are we really still talking about Jeter’s Oscar performance?
I knew they wouldn’t let it go.
Is it too much to ask to have like, a nice 10-2 win tonight?
Will you be angry if we win 11-2?
Infuriated. I bet A-rod would have hit the homer that added the extra run, the compiler.
Just to enrage you, Ross, he’s gonna bang a three-run shot, making it 13-2.
I was thinking the same thing. But then, decided that I really would just like a win.
Orioles fans still boo Teixeira? Oh get the eff over it.
Orioles fans couldn’t have possibly thought Teixeira was going to sign. I mean c’mon, ppl.
Teix gets booed by like every AL team
Seems like it. I find it hilarious.
Maybe they hate him because of his hilariously awkward bromance with A-Rod.
Hah, the Tex/Alex bromance is so epic.
Not really, just Boston and Baltimore specifically.
The Angels boo him too. As does Texas.
Yeah, you’re right. Forgot those. It’s beyond stupid that Texas boos him, considering that a. he was traded; b. that trade was a RIDICULOUS heist for Texas.
Tampa probably boos him for almost taking the HR title away from their beloved Carlos Pena last year.
Kerry Wood > Milwood l0lz
Perfect game through 0.1
0.2 now, awesome start for Burnett
If Burnett pitches a perfect first, I’m calling the grandparents.
“Yo Pop…Turn on the TV AJ Burnett’s pitching a perfect game!”
I’ll buy you a steak if that happens.
Painted on the outside edge. Good inning by AJ.
….Yeah it’ll go to waist next inning.
waste***
That was sad.
more obnoxious: Cervelli’s bat throw or Burnett’s hand flip/fist pump thingy after he finishes an inning?
Burnett’s hand flip.
Important series… didn’t realize the gap in the WC shrank to 6.
…with 16 left to play…
Looking ^, C ya.
Oh Alex, I like you and stuff.
Arod wants to keep his streak alive that selfish SOB
Has to be the first to score a run… He is NOT a Yankee
Just trying to grab all the headlines.
I love you A-Rod! More than Tex does!
an A-BOMB for A-Rod!!!!!!!!!!
30 or bust
6 more home runs
somebody realized he needs to get to 30 home runs…
After the homerun call by Sterling, Tino spoke volumes with his silence
I’m laughing.
Open the floodgates, fellas.
Cano needs 18 more hits to reach 200 for the season. Can Cano get 18 hits in the X amount of games he plays in the remaining of the season?
18 hits in 15+ games? I think that’s pretty realistic. Assuming 5 ABs a game, he’d only need to hit .240 to get there.
He’ll probably get a couple days of rest.
Cmon Big Puma
This could be the statistical correction game we’ve been waiting for where the Yankees go 7/10 with RISP or something stupid like that.
Kearns is up. Yeah, baby. Damage…damage…
In the last two seasons, Cano’s average against the O’s is .461. Ha. <3
He’s hitting, what’d YES say, over .600 against them this year? That’s not even a joke.
maybe Kearns should just bunt them over….
A bunt is better than a perpetual K’er. I’d rather see one of the Sept call-ups than Kearns. Just awful the last two plus weeks. He needs a rest, get his head off his slump.
0-1 RISP
Typical Yankees being Terrible.
Crash and Kearns.
Oh Austin. I like you and all, but it’s hard to continue liking you.
He’s just in a totally ridiculous slump, I don’t get it.
The Rays must have kidnapped his wife and family.
Yeah, and I get that. It’s just sucks to see him up there looking helpless like that.
Agreed. :/
(You know I wasn’t trying to be snippy.)
I know, and I wasn’t trying to be snippy either (I think it may have sounded like that, sorry).
Kearns must feel like he gets out of bed with an 0-2 count. Dude’s in some kind of slump.
What games are you watching? Dude’s on fire!!!!
I am still trying to figure out why Kearns is still in the line up. I can’t believe his defense is far better than the other options on the team. His hitting is horrible.
Because Swisher is hurt and he’s far superior to Curtis or Golson. That simple.
Because he’s in a horrendous slump but is actually a major leaguer, unlike Greg Golson or Colin Curtis (at this point).
So his defense is superior? Hmm Ok.
LOL Kay just called Millwood’s fastest pitch of the game a changeup
kearns has looked awful at the plate for a little while now
Why does it feel like Cervelli is always up in key spots, or is he.
probably because the yankees line-up above him does a really good job of getting on base. He, however, does not. Jesus, please.
because lately, every spot is a key spot
For A-Rod to get his 30 HR, he needs to hit a HR every 9 AB (assuming two days off in the next 16 games). I think it can be done.
He will do it!
0-2 RISP
Why do I get the feeling that you’ll disappear once they get a hit with RISP. Go away.
The game just started and you’re already being obnoxious with the RISP counts.
First name only rule ?
Yep. I think he’s one of the reasons why Bex applied the rule.
He most certainly is.
RISP
Captain needs to come through here, can’t leave the bases loaded again….
Swing and a miss he strikes out Cervelli.
But then again who hasn’t?
This inning is far too similar to what felt like every one against the Rays. Save us, Captain.
dear god we’re never going to hit with RISP
since being acquired Kearns has 30 strikeouts.
And, Texas Tampa repeat…..
RISP the great fear factor for the Yankees
Let’s go Jeter, Let’s go!
Can we recall a dead Yankee to bat. I would recall Lou Gehrig right now.
seriously. A hit. With RISP. Would be nice. I hate beating this dead horse.
Happy Birthday Golson you’re not playing today.
A walk is fine too, Jete.
Goddammit
oh come on……
SHITT, oh well, can’t be mad at Jetes
Figures. Thought that was a sure single off the bat.
0-3 RISP with bad luck involved
this is going to get annoying.
It’s already annoying.
got to say it’s fucken amazing how a team can fail with RISP so hard, and so often
This team is PATHETIC!
So… go root for another one?
the pirates are looking for fans, go root for them
Ew, that sucked.
This is funny but not so funny.
Let’s Go AJ, Let’s Go!
Couple of real good at bats for Jetes, but seriously, why couldn’t they run that inning backwards so that the bases were loaded for arod’s home run?
Dan Johnson just homered.
So did V. Martinez a few moments ago.
That’s the first homer against a non AL East team
Why is it that no one’s on base for A-Rod, but the bases are always loaded for the guys who aren’t swinging the bat well? This order needs some major reconstructing.
That’s what I’m thinking
because our hottest hitters are all behind arod
which is meaningless when they get on base for Kearns and Cervelli. They need to be on base for someone with a shot to hit a damn home run.
Yeah, let’s bat A-rod 8th and Cano 9th, this way when they get hits they’ll be on base for… Kearns and Cervelli.
I blame Kearns for that whol inning. put more pressure on Cervelli
Seriously this is a fucking comedy right now. Yanks couldn’t get a run in on an empty field.
Man, completely frustrating.
Everybody PANIC! We’re winning 1-0!
In the second, with Millwood at 50 pitches.
we don,t have a fucking left handed batter to play outfield
Errr… we have two??? and then a switch-hitter???
…WTF are you talking about? Granderson and Gardener are left handed.
I misspelled Gardner. Fail.
don,t worry
(see above)
But not quite as fail as bob, or Greg, or Ninatendo vs Sega.
Fuck this I want a no hitter
red soxx winning this team is in trouble
Tied now. Keep your panties on.
Tie game there broseph
I know the Red Sox are in trouble, they’re six back with 17 to play. I know I wouldn’t want to be in that situation.
Lead off walk thanks AJ.
Not ideal to walk the leadoff man
Aj really trying his hardest to give it right back
Lets see if the O’s do what the Yanks can’t
dear AJ, please don’t implode
thanks
game over season over
And so it begins… or continues.
First Name Male Handle Only Rule is blazin’ tonight.
I laughed because you are so right.
Take http://riveraveblues out of the URL field of your handle. One warning, that’s it. You’re not associated with the site and and we don’t want people thinking you are.
Jeter stepped on the bag when he was walking away.
Burnett needs to pick up a strikeout here.
Thank you! Now get out of this inning.
Not one to normally swear or argue, but I don’t know why there is so much doom and gloom over a losing streak, yea it sucks, but we are the Fuckin’ Yankees, we don’t fail.
+28
Nice hook, AJ.
nice 5 hr game
Tino stumbles through his analysis of strikeout and Sterling responds “You just said a mouthful”….hilarious
Being in the booth with John is like 3 jobs in one. You have to not get in his way, cover for him when he messes up or fails to notice stuff, and agree with everything he says.
Good job, AJ.
Attaboy, AJ. Way to grind it out. 5 nasty hooks in a row.
big game Allen James
So the O’s also go 0-3 RISP
Question: If there is a runner on 3rd with two outs, and there is a swinging strike in the dirt for strike 3…the batter then runs to first. If the runner on third reaches home plate before the batter gets called out at first, does this count as a run?
no, its a force out
I would think that this would be up to the discretion of the 1B ump or the HP ump. Which means they would mess it up and everybody would be safe.
whoops I’m an idiot. It’s a force play.
Good curveball and lots of fastball velo today. It’s nice to see.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports......-happy.php
Well I know what I thought of, but I am a goddamn pervert, so.
The happiest a man can be in the morning is after a great night or a really great morning present.
Are we really scared of a Red Sox team that is throwing out a lineup of:
Scutaro
McDonald
V-Mart
Beltre
Ortiz
Lowell
Lowrie
Hall
Kalish
? You think our 7/8/9 is bad some nights… sheesh.
It’s their starting pitching
6 Aces!
Everyone sucks but A-Rod.
/irony’d
everyone is rubbing off on A-rod
everyone is rubbing off on A-rod
Eww, I hope he showers after.
Did AJ even get a chance to sit down?
6 pitches? Ouch
Actually 7
Haha…let it go, Kenny. It actually hit him.
Way to go AJ.
Wow my phone stopped refreshing for a minute or two. Went from Granderson’s AB to Izturis’. That sucks.
That curveball has some bite.
Michael Kays makes Gilbert Godfrey sound like Frank Sinatra. Get over yourself dude, this isn’t about you. No one would bring a sign of his pic if they didn’t get some face time on YES.
“Roberts gets the job done”
I dunno, wouldn’t have getting the job done being… drawing a walk? Getting a hit? I’ll take the out there, thanks.
Infield in isn’t terribly necessary here. :/
a sac fly. what a novel idea.
/venting
Basic NL baseball which the Yankees dont seem to get
Because this is the AL, the big boy league. NL baseball cannot be played with the powerhouse New York Yankees.
If they played that way in the second inning, they would have gotten at least one run.
Kearns bunted the runners over. putting less pressure on Cervelli to get a hit
what the what
No
Considering the Yankees aren’t hitting with risp, manufacturing a run seems like a good idea.
but… Cervelli struck out. Fallacy of the predetermined outcome and all that but it’s also fallacy of the predetermined outcome to say “derp he would’ve gotten a hit”
This is the big boy league. We’d rather hit lots of majestic dingerz.
THe Rays play small ball and look where they’re at.
The Rays don’t play “small ball” that often. They hit home runs just like we do. And the reason why they’re a “small ball” team is because they have speed and a weaker offense.
Yes they use their speed to steal bases.
That’s small ball.
And look where they’re at
Ahead of us by half a game and losing to the Angels. Not that great of a place to be.
A playoff team with one of the best records in baseball
So kinda like the Yankees, then
So…they’re the same as us.
Not fundamentally
Want to know why? Because our offense can hit. End of story.
Yeah, they really small-balled the Yankees to death in Tampa with all those homers…
This.
I mean… the one time the Rays tried to be all smallball-y and take the extra base, it backfired on them for a pretty spectacular game-ender.
I’m not saying they dont hit homers. The Rays like to use their speed to steal bases and get into good situations.
Infield-in in the 3rd inning just screams of a panic move. Silly.
First pitch swinging. This team has let the bad play get n their heads it appears.
How come Posada is not playing again?
Joey G figures he needs 7-10 business days off between starts.
Stolen bases really hurt, so do walks and HBPs. With such a power arm like Cervelli’s I’m surprised anyone can steal a base against any Yankee hurler.
AJ’s pitches have a lot of movement. Not all on Cervelli.
Wigginton going to run…that says a lot
So maybe we’ll see some bunting. They are great for breaking up no-nos.
Are you confused? Tell me you’re confused.
Where have you been for the past couple of months?
a. huh?
b. Where’ve you been? (this question is genuine.)
The answer: Davey Johnson, no?
Come on, Robbie, you can’t be swinging at first pitches, babe.
CY Millwood.
ok honest question: anybody else maybe just even a LITTLE worried about the Sox being 6 games back…? Or am I just diffusing my anger against of the yankees not killing milwood and austin kearns sucking…
No, not at all. Six games with 17 to play? The Yanks could start the Triple-A Scranton rotation from here on out and still make the playoffs.
still 6 games head-to-head left though, so it’s not like they need an absolute miracle. Technically they control the Sox DO control their own destiny.
Yeah I don’t get this. You know who controls their own destiny more than the Red Sox do? The Yankees. And they don’t even need to play really great baseball to control said destiny. (Not to say I wouldn’t like to see them play a lot better than they have over the past two weeks or so and etc.)
They absolutely do not control their own destiny. The Red Sox can win all six of those games and still miss the playoffs.
Well yes, if they lose the one game play-off…
I’m not saying it’s realistic, or even something that will happen. But I feel as though it should be of SOME concern considering the power the sox DO have in making things interesting.
No, they can win all six games and still not even qualify for a one game playoff. They need the Yankees to lose as well, and when you need that to happen, you don’t control your own destiny.
Mathematically it’s a long shot. If the Yankees can manage .500 (8-8), the Red Sox will have to go 14-2 to tie the Yankees. They do have a small advantage in that their GB equals the amount of games they have left against the Yankees. That gives them a little more control over their fate…but there are still 10 other games they have to play and basically win.
He wanted to swing so bad. Cmon Kearns, extra base hit please! Or just don’t strike out!
Yay, Kearns! Righting the ship?
Kearns did something other than strike out?
(Trolls recede to mother’s basement)
I’d prefer to see him with a shake weight, I’m sure Kay has that poster in his bedroom.
Kearns singled to left rolling my eyes , Baltimore is stupid. all they needed to to is walk the guy before Kerns and Kerns would have strike out.
All these line drive outs are going to find some grass before this game is over.
the offense looks pretty bad right now…it’s kevin friggin millwood..not cliff lee or david price.
Do forget Bryan Bullington.
Don’t
/whatever’d
(Dies under the avalanche of trolls)
I would have liked… to have seen.. Montana…
Nothing extravagant?
We hardly knew ye, Ross in Jersey. Also, are you sure it wasn’t that Jersey water that killed you? ’cause I swear it tastes like something that can give you cancer.
My town actually gets it’s water from a well, so nyah!
That’s good. I visited my aunt in Dumont and made the stupid mistake of drinking tap water. It was disgusting.
Jersey’s great. I only have two or three radioactive mutations.
It’s what caused my alien fingers! (I have double jointed fingers and it scares people lol)
I’m live in Montana. Would you like me to describe it to you?
Do you know Alex the Centaur?
Sure don’t. There are only five people who live in Montana. I know three of them. Alex the Centaur must be the fourth.
Just to clarify, Montanans have the ability to correctly write the sentence “I live in Montana.”
Do you really call yourself a Montanan? Because that’s awesome.
Yep. We all do.
Another clarification; “Henry the Horse” is a Beatles reference, not a play on the horrible stereotype that all Montanans ride horses (I have never.)
What’s with Burnett’s eye? (Apologizes if it’s written someplace and I’ve missed it.)
What about it? Is he rubbing it often or something?
It’s either bruised, or there is a curious spot on my TV that keeps following his right eye.
I can’t see anything…it just looks like he hasn’t slept for a few days. The shadow of his hat is covering it.
Look just under the bill of his hat. There is an obvious yellow spot. Pause your DVR.
I don’t feel like going through the trouble, so I’ll take your word for it.
There we go. They just showed it.
Crazy, huh?
Yeah. I wonder what the hell happened.
I’ll be interested to hear how he got it.
I had missed the start of the game and just got home, was hoping there was some sort of explanation.
Mike
Why would ANYBODY want to hear Joe Buck and Tim McCarver?
I would take them over Michael Kay. I can’t stand him.
if my TV had a KAY button along with SAP I would be so happy
fucking Adam Jones
Small ball and power a deadly combination
Mike called that one. Damn you, Ben!
noooooooooooo
Let’s just hope the offense can poop on Millwood.
I guess he was pumped up after his Twitter war
If only Adam Jones could tweet from the dugout, this wouldn’t be so bad.
Oh, Cervelli.
Fuck you Cervelli!
I feel lied to, I thought bunts, SBs, and sacrifices scored runs not outs.
Not when the wrong guy bunts
Who’s the “right guy” to bunt on this team? Gardner is way too good at working counts, driving the pitch count up, etc. When Jeter’s right, he’s a really good hitter and it’s not worth sacrificing his bat for a bunt hit. Other than that… Tex? Cano? A-Rod?
Alex bunting will probably disgust even the strongest “small-ball” advocates.
I feel like that at-bat was an example of “what happens when the Yankees try to play smallball.” It just… it rarely works. They’re simply not that kind of team. And there isn’t anything wrong with that.
I know. But when they are not hitting with RISP, what are you gonna do?
Hit a double to get a runner in scoring position and then hit another double instead of giving 2 outs for one run.
That’s hitting with RISP which are The Yankees aren’t doing.
And right now, that small ball run by the O’s is the difference in the game
Or the home run is
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was the HR.
Not bunt. You have to see the line up, see the numbers and trust that your offense is going to get a hit.
Uhh Cervelli, what the heck
Wait I thought bunting would give us like 5 runs automatically? You mean it’s actually a dumb play 98% of the time? IMPOSSIBLE
It’s a dumb play to have Cervelli in the lineup period. Posada is hurting again I assume.
Nah. He just needs a day, and Cervelli is used to catching AJ at this point.
They just had a day off with a struggling offense sans Swisher.
Posada had a concussion, which requires giving him time to make sure we don’t get stuck in a Justin Morneu/Jason Bay dilemma. You don’t want to overwork him because he’s old. And like I said, Cervelli is used to catching AJ. He might as well catch him today.
Waiting for the trolls who suggested bunting and small ball to turn aroung and bash Cervelli….
Greg has been here the whole time.
And I’m not a troll. I’ve seen trolls on ESPN.com and they are just insane.
You’re a concern troll.
So long as he’s not a courtesy/concern/timely resolution/knowledge troll.
/don’t ask me to explain’d
Not when it’s Cervelli
Actually Cervelli can lay down a damn good bunt most of the time and runs pretty well for a catcher. Its the situations in which he attempts it that leave me scratching my head.
Good point
That strike 1 call was awful.
I tee my golf ball higher than that 2-0 pitch…
the umps gave Millwood the 2-0 call because they are scared of the Orioles
Is that three outs on three pitches for Teix?
I’m moving from “Millwood out in four” to “complete game”
No, he struck out on 3 pitches in the first.
thanks; my memory blurs over the course of a game.
Unbelievable.
What do you know?
Bunt hit.
what do you know, its still 2-1 not 7-1
Yeah, now all we need is a team of 9 Izturis’s.
The last time a Yankees Starting pitcher picked up a win was September 2 (Sabathia). Should my head explode, or does that kind of thing happen a lot?
Factor of playing a ton of close games.
Should my head explode, or does that kind of thing happen a lot?
Well, recently the incidence of exploding heads has been considerably higher than the incidence of wins by Yankees starting pitchers.
Hell of a turn, Tex.
Needed that
Hopefully the Yankees come back and win this but – and I’m sorry about being negative – right now, baseball is just no fun at all. I know the team isn’t this bad and it’ll get better but just LSJGDLJGLDJGDGSG.
Yeah, it’s tough watching a struggling team. It’s supposed to be entertainment…and a struggling team is far from “entertaining.” I love baseball, but right now it’s a tough sell.
I know just where you are. I can tell myself over and over that one-run losses are largely a matter of luck; that such a run can’t go on. But seeing things like Jeter’s bases-loaded liner in the 2nd, after the week we’ve all endured, makes me feel like someone put a gris-gris on the team.
It’s never fun when your team is losing (to the Orioles, no less), but I know they’ll get it together eventually. It’s a tough stretch and they’re playing damn well for a team that’s had pitching issues/injured players. The best part is that Andy comes back on Sunday.
Lackey’s given up 6 runs in 4+ over at Fenway. Meanwhile, only the Yankees have pitching problems. BUT TEH BULLDOG!
Five aces, man…
Lackey goes 5.1 and gives up 6 to the Jays in another gritty outing
As a famous man once said:
“At least he has his boyish good looks to fall back on”
I actually “Eww-ed”.
Best Fangraphs comment ever.
4.1*
make it 7 runs, Buck just knocked in the last inherited runner
on the first pitch again
this is pretty pathetic
Can i has a offensive explosion now??
Where did the patience go?
Let’s see if we can set the record for most first pitch popups in 1 game.
Cano … ugh.
Yankees are making Milwood look like Cy Young (3-15) OMG
I realize that the manager does not play the game but at some point the manager of a team with this much talent cannot sit by and spew cliche after cliche to justify the horrible performances on a nightly basis. When a team of the Yankees caliber continuously finds ways to lose close games, fails to produce RBI’s, and consistently displays second rate players bunting for no fucking reason, that is all on the manager. That is the manager’s job to find the solution.
Instead, we get, “i believe in our guys’. Joe, don’t look now but your belief is carrying you towards failure.
Now, that said, for the players, this is beginning to get ridiculous. At what point do they take it upon themselves to pull the fucking heads out of their asses. Millwood throws 50 plus pitches in two innings and only 32 in the last 3 innings. Are you serious?
Ok, now that is off my chest, perhaps this rant will provide a reverse success where the Yankees will produce. I don’t think I have been this frustrated since watching them tank it against the Marlins in 2003.
really? did you not watch baseball in 04?
2004 was an aberration.
So is this.
Or the first half of 2005 or 2007 or large chunks of 2008.
Those years didn’t bother me as much. Most of the frustration was early on. 2008, there was just bad karma on the team and there was no way they were making the playoffs. Too much bitter energy between Torre and the Tampa mafia.
Not to state the obvious here but Torre was gone in 2008, and if you think the reason we didn’t make the playoffs was because we, I dunno, treated him without class and it came back to haunt us, I’m not really sure what to say.
But I guess I get what you’re saying. It’s definitely been a really frustrating stretch.
By “we” I obviously mean “the Yankees,” I know some people really have issues with fans using that term
Sure is frustrating to watch but not much Girardi can do. If Pettitte pitches well Sunday it will be a big lift.
Kearns strikes out
C’mon Austin fucking do something now.
Burnett got punched in the face by Cashman, that’s why he came to Baltimore
this is getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous. yo quiero offense.
really gettin tired of kearns
He’s a good fourth outfielder… operative word being fourth…
shit happens.
Damn, Burnett looks like he got into a street fight in St. Pete.
Nah, the door just hits back.
+1
Oh whoah, AJ Burnett does have quite the shiner. O_O
imma stop holding back our frustration and seriously say we suck right now…
So…. this is what it’s like to watch the Mets, huh?
They wish.
Bingo!
But I thought you were a fan of NL baseball
(le gasp)
You’re a Mets fan! It all makes sense now!
I don’t remember a Yankee team being this boring.
if you’re “bored” by this instead of like, annoyed, not sure what to say.
He’s got a point… going down quick, 1,2,3… mediocre pitching…
Nothing about their loss is fantastic.
But if that happened, THEN we could say that we were watching the Mets.
Puma should have stayed on first–moving into scoring position for Kearns was the death knoll.
Someone punched AJ in the face, nice. Maybe they should get Kearns next!
Heh.
Anybody know how Aj got the black eye?
he punched himself
Austin kearns decided he could throw his bat further than he can hit and AJ got in the way.
Hit by vengeful door.
He has a long convo with the clubhouse door ; They had irreconcilable differences.
this is like a bad dream
Is it just me or is the camera man really bad at tracking fly balls today?
No I’ve noticed it
Haven’t been able to watch the game until now. Has AJ looked good, better, slightly better?
He’s looked better. He’s been improving slowly.
thank you.
Frustrating that AJ is keeping them in a game they can’t score runs in.
it’s sad that burnett’s actually pitching well, yet we still can’t score off kevin. freaking. millwood.
i’m gonna go drink.
There’s some Belvedere in the freezer if you want it.
I figured you finished that bottle Wednesday night
Nah. I’m not actually big on drinking. Still a good 75% left.
Keeps up like this youll get big on drinking
…maybe.
What’s Christopher Hewitt doing in your freezer?
/rimshot’d
I would laugh if I found this even remotely funny.
I know. It’s a bad joke
sweet, now all i need is club and a lime to get the party started.
The Dolans are thinking “Hey we should buy this team. They fit right in.”
Some timely hitting by the Rays again . 3-3 tie.
I was told every hit the Rays get was a bunt or something
Bobby Abreu, you son of a bitch.
did he shy away from the wall?
I NEVER thought Id miss little Suzyn Waldman
What’s Tino doing? Talking too much or too little?
Strangely enough….Both
I don’t know how that works with Tino, but it must be pretty bad if you miss Suzyn.
This site is so much more fun when the Yankees are winning.
We lost to Cliff Lee. Fine. David Price? He’s an ace. The perennial Felix Hernandez Shutout? Accepted. Even getting shut down by Brandon Morrow is ok – he’s a talented young arm.
But Kevin Millwood is a steaming pile of shit.
I could hit him with a rubber bat, that’s all I’m saying.
agreed.
Brandon Morrow somehow had a 4.84 ERA against the Yankees this year and that’s before his last start, which was pretty much a disaster start. I have no idea how that happened, my only memory of him was utter domination of the Yankees. /confirmation bias’d
He actually only has one win against the Yanks this year
Head explodes.
/MAxisa’d
lucky # 7th
Stop. With. The. Bunting.
No with Gardner, it’s fine.
He just doesn’t know how to bunt
Agreed, it’d be fine with Gardner. Just Gardner is a terrible bunter who normally has excellent at-bats. I’d rather he just go up there and hit.
stupid Bobby Abreu lets the Rays tie it
How, exactly?
I’m assuming his wall-o-phobia.
Some really bad defense.
I’m at work, things got slow, I was hopefully going to get some time off the phones, and then it suddenly got busy again.
Oh, and they can’t score runs off Kevin fucking Millwood.
I’m mad.
Brett. Come on now. If you’re gonna bunt, we could have used you in the lineup the last few days to just do that.
My belief in the post season is beginning to wane.
If you’re going to bring Jorge in now, why not just freaking start him?
The Fatal Curse of the Personal Catcher.
Somewhere, Flash is burning pictures of Randy Johnson.
About 6 innings too late, Jorge.
We can tie this with one swing…
That’s respect, right there.
Boston losing 10-2 to the Jays, boy they really look like world beaters right now, don’t they?
they’re saying the same thing about us
The difference? We’re 6 games up on them.
A Rizzuto magic number pic will be nice but a Nettles pic would be better
if we lose this one, it should be a cerone
Burnett got a pitch like that earlier called in his favor
Hopefully my boy Godzilla will come through tonight and help his old team.
Big Tex, time to gitter done.
Do your thing, Tex.
come on Texx
Come on Tex, wake up and smack one !
Time for Teix to break outta this shit….Bexy do whatever you do when you bring Andy good luck
But but, I only do that for Andy
(My sweet Andrew Eugene. It has been too long. Sunday!!!! /weirdo)
Pitch hit Kearns.
He makes the most ridiculous faces.
That’s 0-5
Can you just do us all a favor and stop with the RISP numbers? We know they’re not doing well. If we wanted the actual numbers, we’d look them up.
ok fine
Or he could just kill himself?
What she said. It sucks and it’s not enjoyable, seriously, go away.
Ugh. That sucked. C’mon, offense.
(Bangs head on desk)
This team is pathetic. This shit is just embarrassing now. Don’t care how improved the O’s are. It’s Kevin Millwood on the mound.
unbelievable. How low can RISP go in one week?
one week???? Try 2 weeks of totally shitty hitting with RISP.
once again
Nothing short of PATHETIC!
fuck the offense…can;t do shit right now
6 more outs…
Abreu is such a retard, I hope you all saw that replay…
Abreu could probably hit with RISP though.
Laughing, in spite of myself.
Headdesk
Baseball, why do you do this to me? I am very nice to you. I watch all kinds of games and get very into it. This is mean.
Seriously. C’mon, baseball Gods. This shit is not cool.
At least we knocked Cervelli out of the game.
If the entire team goes out and gets piss drunk tonight, they’ll be so hungover all day tomorrow that they won’t have time to think about how crappily they’re playing.
By the same theory, if I go out and get piss drunk tonight, I’ll be so hungover all day tomorrow that I won’t have time to think about how crappily they’re playing.
The yanks aren’t playing with the same confidence and swagger they had earlier this year and last year. You sort of get the feeling that this slump might be getting into their heads or its indicative of some problem these guys are having.
On the bright side, AJ doesn’t seem to be too bad tonight, but hes so inconsistent that you can’t guage him based on one start, or even a string of 2 or 3 starts.
/epic struggle (a bit of an overstatement from an emotional fan)
I don’t believe all that swagger and confidences shit. It’s starting pitching and scoring some fucking runs.
Again, G plays half way with Posada. I hate this shit. Just fucking play him already.
I dont know man, i feel like confidence plays a part in it. he might play it cool on the outside, but in his head derek jeter must be somewhat perplexed about his season long suckage. its not like hes not having an above average year, or hes not living up the high standards, but he is still doing relatively well. he has looked flat out lost at the plate many times this year. hes 36. he’s not stupid enough to think he will defy nature. it has to be on his mind at least a little
AJ pitching well on a night the Yanks don’t score — as he also did in KC a few weeks ago — is of absolutely zero value, as it tells us nothing about how well he’ll pitch next time out. Squandering a good AJ source is a waste of precious resource.
I barely remember when watching baseball was fun.
Turn on the Toronto – Boston game. Sounds like loads of fun
What will A.J. do without his personal concierge in the game?
Pitch this inning and then hand it to the bullpen.
Does anyone know how much run support Burnett averages per quality start?
i wonder what this thread would have looked like at the end of the 2000 season( 3-15 to close )
I thought that same thing earlier
ietc
a. terrible
b. fun fact: we could never win another game and we’d have a better record than the 2000 Yankees.
true that
In a way, that was worse, because they were out of games after about six outs — the starting pitchers all went to hell at once.
On the other hand, because of that, alot of us didn’t stick around all night every game, so we weren’t tantalized with the possibility of victory only to be dashed each time.
Boston was only 9-9 to finish the season, and the lead was 9 games on 9/13. So, the concern was whether the team could flip the switch in October. Of course, they won, but the team was pushed to the limit by Oakland in Round 1. Fortunately, they faced the less than legendary Gil Heredia in Game 5, or it could have been a different story.
Come on AJ, make a better throw over. He’s leaning.
I’m going to go eat a super late dinner, AJ. Please get out of this inning promptly without another run. Offense, do better, please.
I love you, Mark Teixeira.
/shamelessmancrush
nice dp tex
Tex is good at this defense thing.
Oh what the crap. That’s not even fair.
fuuuuuckkkkk
Oh good. His first home run of the season.
Rock bottom.
don’t kid yourself, they can still get swept by the O’s.
are you fucking kidding me? who the fuck is that guy?
Amazing. Just fucken amazing.
lol..1st hr of the season. when it rains, it pours
Clutch.
Boom! another mortal blow for this wounded team.
No reason to think we will come back.
AJ + $1.00 = 50 cents
can this team even score 3 runs right now?
you got to be shitting me.
Two runs, guys, can’t be that hard…
It’s all on Posada. AJ lost his Venezuelan security blanket.
Still have two innings left. A two run deficit is nothing.
Well I guess the good thing is there’s nowhere to go but up.
(Honestly, you can tell it’s bad when I’m making these comments.)
This is not your 2009 Yankees team. They just don’t have that attitude that they could catch up or break a game open at any time.
Damon and Matsui were a big part of that and I wanted both back at the beginning of the season. I still wish we had them. Matsui has 20 homers and Damon has 8. Increase those figures by 50% if they were playing in Yankee Stadium.
They also helped create a “we-can-do-it” “we can always win” atmosphere in the clubhouse.
This club’s lack of spark gets laid at Cashman’s feet, in my opinion. Swapping out Austin Jasckson, Matsui and Damon for Nick Johnson and Granderson just isn’t going to work. I said it here on RAB over the winter and I’ve just said it again.
Cashman out-smarted himself. I respect him but this was not a good year for him.
once again Ajax vs. Grandy is pretty much moot since their value right now is the same and Damon and matsui hasn’t done much this year.
They’ve done more than Grandy and NJ.
Grandy : 3.3 WAr
Ajax: 3.4 WAR
Matsui: 1.8 WAR
Damon: 1.9 WAR
Gardner has well repalced Damon with a 4.9 WAR and thames (not counting Berkman at DH) has accumulated .9 WAr. we didn’t lose much
The stats aren’t the point. It’s the attitude and confidence
Nope. It’s the stats.
You know, it’s not like he dumped the whole team. Are Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Robinson Cano, Nick Swisher, CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett, Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera, Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, David Robertson, and everyone else on the 2010 squad that was also on the 2009 team incapable of spurring their team to have confidence?
Thank you. I agree
Oh good. The first Damon and Matsui comment of the evening.
I have not commented much recently but I have said that it was a mistake to lose Matsui and Damon many times since last winter. I think it has cost the Yankees big time.
That’s my opnion. If you are going to ridicule it, back it up with some facts.
It’s been backed up a billion times on this thread and others. They weren’t worth it. Did you think the same thing when they were winning 8 games in a row? The fact you waited until the lowest point in the season to bring it up shows you’re just trolling for a reaction.
Yes – I;ve felt this way since last winter. It’s be reinforced several times: NJ getting hurt again and out for the season. Grandy coming back to earth and being who he is. Austin Jackson playing well. I could go on but I won’t.
And – by the way – I’ve been on this site a long time and I am far from a troll.
did you not look at the numbers i gave you? Grnady has made up with his “sub-par” avg with power and good defense. Ajax is not much better. It’s not that we lost guys and it’s hurting us this year. it;s that the guys we have aren’t playing as good as they were last year.
Talking about mystique and aura instead of actual facts is a silly argument. Further acting like they could have been had at the same money as the other plays is equally rediculous. Damon turned down 2/14 and Matsui would not have taken a pay cut or small contract just to be nice. You would have had to overpay for players who are very clearly past their prime and cost yourself not only for this year but next as well.
To be fair, he’s not trolling. Mr. Stone is a good contributor.
Thanks Pasqua. I appreciate it.
You can be a good contributor and still troll. I’ve done it. If he posted that in any other thread at any other time it wouldn’t have irked me. But right then, when the team was looking absolutely terrible? Seems awfully trollish to me. Sorry if it was a mis-characterization, regardless.
Look, I respect your frustration, but when you say, “They just don’t have that attitude that they could catch up or break a game open at any time,” what the fuck does that actually mean?
Did you say this during the 8-game winning streak?
To maintain sanity, we have to stop projecting our own emotional reactions onto the team. They’re playing a game. Right now, they’re playing it poorly. End of story.
This, 28 times this.
I have felt this way since last winter . . during winning streaks and losing streaks and mediocre baseball in between.
I vote 9 in the poll every week and keep expecting several players to break out offensively all at the same time. But after a prolonged period of walk off losses instead of walk off wins, it’s hard to keep waiting.
Totally fine, but do you see how that has nothing to do with “attitude”? It’s about luck, it’s about pitching, it’s about hitting, managerial decisions…lots of stuff. But “attitude” is not one of them. It’s a subjective thing that we throw out there to try and boil down bad baseball to a singular answer despite the littany of factors invovled.
So I guess all these sports psychologists get paid the big bucks for nothing. Attitude means nothing? You ahve to be kidding.
Hey – A-Rod just put the Yankees up! Go Yanks!
The fact that ‘walk off losses instead of walk off wins’ annoy you shows that you really don’t understand; those wins indicate the least about a team’s performance. A win or loss in those situations are usually separated by a single strikeout or hit and could easily go either way. If the Yankees had been 2-8 out of last ten and every one was a blowout, I could understand. But since 2-8 and 7-3 are separated by a handful of at bats than honestly could have resulted in anything, I don’t mind.
Godzilla is a money player. He probably would have 25 dingerz by now in YS.
ehh I respect your opinion,
but disagree.
/JonStewart’d.
Seriously, I would love Matsui and Damon because I loved them both but increasing HR’s by 50%? That’s a bit generous. This isn’ Cashman’s fault. longtime parts of the team have faltered (Jeter, A-Rod), and Nick Johnson was a gamble and Granderson’s done better lately – as in, since the losing started kind of.
I understand what you’re saying by the non-2009nes, but may I remind you, the ’09 Yanks were in a league with teams underachieving compared to this year’s.
Godz has 21 dingerz .I am saying he prolly would have 25 by now if he was on this team and playing in YS.
Even so, hindsight is 20/20, if those moves were made and they were making 15-20M combined while tying up the DH spot so Posada can’t even play some days and poor defense in LF, you can’t say the yankees would be better off. Its all speculation and you definitely can’t say they would up their HRs by 50% due to YSIII. This is a piss poor argument and I used to enjoy following threads since these arguments were never made because the fans were smarter than that.
I was being conservative in saying HR’s would be 50% higher in YSIII. I actually think it would be higher. And a couple ould be walk offs. I’ll go further out on this dangerous limb and say that Damon and matsui would have gotten them five more wins.
It’s not hindsight. I’ve said the same thing since last winter.
Here’s Matsui’s spray chart at Anaheim overlayed onto NYS. He would have picked up two extra homers.
http://riveraveblues.com/wp-co.....canvas.png
Actually, it looks like he’d have lost five as well.
Mike , pitcher might pitch him differently in this Yankees lineup and he might have pull more in YS. There are simply more variables than just a simple spray chart. NJ over Godz was a mistake.
it was a mistake, but the yankees has made up his production with Thames + berkman + rotational DH
Thames has nothing to do with it though Tarp. Berkman is product of NJ abject failure. In any case you spent 10 mil over little production at DH as oppose to God.
You can’t tell me that’s a success story in any biz.
Also, it’s almost sacrilegious to mention Godzilla in this town or on this site.
What the fuck , the guy was class and money. He shows he can still produce this year.
Exactly!!
nope i would love to have godzilla over NJ, but that said we have made up for him missing…but year overall i’ll take matsui over NJ any day
Interesting but there is no legend. Is the green Yankee Stadium and the other color Angels field or all other stadia?
No, that’s NYS, grass and warning track. Here’s the site it comes from if you want to play around with it:
http://katron.org/projects/baseball/hit-location/
Thanks Mike.
For the same money, I take Godz over NJ. A known quantity with Yankees than a oft injured 1b. Cashman made a mistake to picking NJ over Godz. That is a fact. He made a mistake period.
At least some one else here tonight has an open and informed mind.
If you think you could have gotten Godzilla back at 5 million dollars for one year you are batshit insane.
he got 6.5 mil from the Angels. a whooping 600k more than what NJ got. What is so bat shit about it?
The Yankees had no chance of getting him at that rate. None. Zero. Come on, you have to be silly to think otherwise.
I have no idea what went on behind the scenes. There is a chance CMoney was hedging his bet with Damon. Whatever, I am not saying this shit is set and stone but it’s not bat shit to think Godz’s value would be somewhere in that neighborhood given the depressed market last year.
And your inside source of knowing that is . . . . .
By the way, you picked the wrong player. If you said the Yankees had no chance to resign Damon I would be inclined to agree because of Boras. I think Scott the avenging agent miscalculated severely and screwed up a good deal. He turned down $14MM for two years to take $8M for one. And don’t tell me you think that Damon preferred to go to Detroit over NY.
Matsui made a move quickly to guarantee employment as Cshman twiddled his thumbs. He didn’t want to risk being unemployed. I don’t blame him.
I am sure he would have preferred to sign with the Yankees for the same money instead of going to LA or Anaheim or whatever they are calling that team today.
Even with the homerun, if you told me AJ’s line would be 3 runs over 7 innings, I’d bet the house that game would be ours.
Good effort, AJ. You did your damn job.
second that. where’s the damn offense?
Andino? Really? He could be the worst player AJ’s ever given up a homer to.
When is Cashman gunna go do what he did in Atlanta last season?
He wont. Yanks are resting their players for the postseason
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS TEAM???
[Runs screaming into the dark.]
Annnd, scene.
Tonight, Girardi will push the right pinch-hitting button.
Its Arod’s fault, ever since he came back we’ve sucked……kidding
I’ve got that “we’re screwed” feeling tonight. (again).
Poor AJ. Our bats are simply dead tonight.
It’s crazy to even imagine the Yankees were on a 8 game winning streak not too long ago.
That was against easy teams. Since then, Rangers, Rays, now Orioles.
Yeah, I can’t believe they put Chico’s Bail Bonds Bears on the schedule this year. Total gimme.
Well, those easy teams won’t be in the playoffs and these guys will.
for a minute
Eh, it was Chicago, Oakland, and Toronto. Not playoff teams, but not cupcakes.
Well that run just might do it. Man, who would have thought the Yankees would become so beatable.
(rundance)
AJ Burnett makes Dontrelle Willis look like Cy Young.
/onlywhenPosadacatches’d
Even the YES camera man sucks.
Cano is so lucky :p
COME ON PUMA!!!!
Yeah!! Good luck coming, Berkmans first Yankee HR coming right now…
Can Puma earn his stripes now? He’s pretty much due. And he’s swinging a hot bat.
that first pitch to Puma was a strike?
Be prepared to see an absurd amount of offspeed pitches thrown to Yankee hitters in October. This is the time of year when playoff team’s advanced scouts do their heavy lifting and the weaknesses of the Yankees offensive players are glaring. Throw strikes and lean on your offspeed pitches.
They’ve still gotten on base at a pretty decent clip during this terrible stretch. Off-speed stuff only goes so far, you need fastball command to establish it.
That is why I said throw strikes and lean on offspeed. This offense is way to dependent on walking and the type of pitchers you are going to see in the playoffs generally have good command. This offense is a legitimate concern in the playoffs this season.
People can try to diminish BA all they want, but the team BA is a huge weakness with this team.
They’re 7th in the league in batting average, .001 percentage points away from being tied for 5th. So uhhh…. don’t see it. They’re just in a really bad stretch.
Their team BA is down 15 points from last year. It is not just this stretch. This has been a season long concern.
Why do you think they have performed so poorly against pitchers with good command?
Offense is down this year as a whole. I dunno – if our offense is a serious concern (and they’re obviously sucking right now), what’s every other offense in the game?
I am not concerned about the offense in general. Over the course of the season they have the best relative offense.
The thing that is concerning is that the weaknesses in this offense can and generally are very easily exploited in playoffs baseball.
BA means nothing since walks, HBP, and errors don’t count and the Yankees lead all of MLB in not making an out during a PA with a .350 OBP.
This statement is so incredibly incorrect it is laughable.
A major, if not the major reason, for this team’s offensive inconsistencies this season is their lowered BA from 2009. You can walk or get on base all you want, but at some point those hitters have to be driven in and against pitchers with good command you are not going to walk that much even if you lead the league in general.
PUMA!!!
Swish get it done now
Puma’d. Get it done, Swish. GET. IT. DONE.
Christ. Come on Swisher! Bring it home.
No DP, No DP, No DP! Swisher show us why your sweet, compete!
What the hell was THAT?
Can’t really get mad at him for that. Hasn’t played.
Swisher is hurtin’ real, real bad, ladies and gents.
better than kearns would have done
Bunt, Swish, Bunt!!!!!!!!!!!!
GRIT GRUTNER!
Gardner comes up big here.
Well, that would have been the pitch to swing at..
http://www.gritsfest.com/syste.....20copy.jpg
Wowzers.
Definitely rock bottom. It really can’t be any worse.
no hit tomorrow, sweep would be bottom
Oh yes it can. Rock bottom is not far away though.
Who knows where rock bottom is…what we need is the law of averages to kick in.
Hmmm
Shit.
Fucking joke.
so fucking ridiculous
Okay I’m pretty pissed now. Zen baseball is tough to maintain with a performance like this.
Hee. I’ve been chanting “Nothing external can harm me. Nothing external can harm me. Nothing external can harm me . . .”
another 10 LOB tonight. oh joy.
I’m watching these games, waiting for them to wake up. Unfortunately, I’m just becoming frustrated to all hell.
Wow, pathetic.
I’m telling you: someone put a gris-gris on them. How many times can we watch the same game?
I honestly don’t remember a stretch this bad since 2000.
We won the WS in 2000…
Carl Crawford will look great in left next season.
Is it me or does Carl Crawford look old….he won’t age well.
Fuck me in the goat ass! I’m pretty sure Showater sold his soul to the devil to have good performance.
I actually tried that at the beginning of the game (selling my soul to the Devil, that is, not that, uh, other thing) but I just don’t have Showalter’s clout. Satan rejected me! Said he had enough minions! Pissed me off.
You don’t like goats?
Satan?
I’m pretty sure Jose Bautista did the same.
Anybody remember this game?
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxe.....OR1999.htm
we need one of those games.
Let’s spike a pot of Green Mountain Coffee and have a W.B. Mason presents a Fucking-Score-a-Run Party.
Wins/losses are definitely a useless stat
/it’s relevant.
Team wins and losses, yea.
I meant for pitchers, my bad.
Um, for pitchers…pretty much.
Not sure what you’re saying here.
So against two pitchers with ERA’s north of five this is the best we can do?
The positive is that AJ Burnett was pretty good.
And that the bullpen isn’t being used to death.
The positive is that the Yankees are handing a lead to Mo.
Well, better that the shit games happen now than in the post season.
/silverlining’d
Perhaps Girardi needs to get himself ejected to fire the team up. But not this game, this one’s already gone.
When the O’s fans chant, it always sounds like, “Let’s go home!” which seems mor appropos of the franchise in the last ten years.
Hahaha! I thought the same exact thing!
I wonder if Andy can break the spell?
Yo mama can break da spell. pwn3d.
oyama-yama-yama-yama-yama-yaaama.
uberpwnge of that n00b
If he comes back and we go on a tear I am giving him credit for this entire season. It will be a dumb narrative but YOU CANNOT STOP ME.
If Wallace Matthews can do it, why can’t you?
Posada and Jeter gets on base, Curtis hits a double, but Jeter stops at third. Tex is IBB’d, and ARod goes Kaboom!
The way things have been going, Jeter would stop at third, Tex is IBB’d and Arod hits in to a DP, leaving 2 more men on base.
I pray you’re right.
close enough.
Solid, Robo. Solid.
Please no more stupid play-by-play predictions. You all suck at it.
Thanks,
Wil
Rizzuto bunts for a base hit and Mantle puts one over the warehouse. Book it.
I believe we are now entering the denial stage of grief. A loss tomorrow should guarantee some genuine anger, followed by bargaining, followed by depression, followed by acceptance.
/hopefulitdoesn’tcometothis’d
i’m def at the bargaining stage
I’m back. And I see I must have missed nothing good.
Please, sit change-up, Jorge.
I see you are. Good man. Now do something with it.
Posada just needs to keep that ball fair next time.
Of course it was foul! Nothing good can happen for us.
/emotionallydrained
/FATHER TIME’D
Fight him, Jorge.
Wow…that was really close.
That was strike 3.
No it was low
DAn Wheeler gave up a HR in the top of the 9th, 4-3 Angels
Angels scored, Rays are down by 1.
Nice at bat so far.
and a nice finish as well. Excellent at bat.
Well, if all the scores hold, we’ll wake up tomorrow still a .5 game back of Tampa, and our magic number would have gone down.
/silverlining
QUALITY Jorge. Dear God, I’m going to miss you so much when you’re gone.
for all the annoying things, he’s been great
There is a catcher in scranton to help ease that pain.
Nice one, Jorge. Keep fighting him, guys.
Oh Leh do it
Great fuckin’ AB! He was fighting off the fastball and waiting for the change.
11 pitches motherfucker. Hip hip.
reelin’ me back in…
Terrible AB by Posada… Catchers are suppose to bunt not swing the bat
I didn’t want Cervelli to bunt, dummy
Please tell me you’re not serious. If you are I will have lost all hope in people.
Great at bat Jorge!
The Rays gave up a HR to Brandon Wood, I’m pretty sure you anger the baseball gods when you do that.
Hell of an AB, Jorge.
Thank you B. Wood!
Home Run Angels. 4-3 top of the ninth.
Not near a TV, still need 2 runs?
Please please please don’t dp.
You know, for the first time in weeks, that thought didn’t even cross my mind.
Come on, boys. We got this.
Derek, now it’s up to you to keep the good times rolling.
Great at bat by Jorge. Good thing Francisco Cervelli started this game. The Yankees couldn’t have used that kind of at bat at all earlier in this game.
AJ:
with Jorge: .336/.414/.599 = 1.012
with Cervelli: .272/.354/.381 = .735
so, if Jorge stated behind the plate tonight pretty good chance he could have had an A-Rod game and because of his inept defense, game calling, framing etc he would have put the Yankees in an insurmountable hole.
Okay….nobody try and be a fuckin’ hero, okay?!
Uehara’s sideburns are disgusting.
Shitting me?
yay captain
Well, those fastballs over the heart of the plate with 2 strikes CAN be deceptive.
At least it wasn’t a double play.
It’s a sad thing to see
Normally I’d say you have to swing at that pitch. But I’m pretty glad you didn’t, Jeets.
jeter is fucken lucky his name is derek jeter…
Does he still have an Edge?
Derek, pretend it hit you!
/MSM’d
stop w/ the fucking lean over and protect the plate!!!
C’mon Jetes, you’re better than that (I’m not sure if he actually is anymore)
Arod looks like he is rather to kill someone.
uh grammar fail… “READY” to kill
Jeter’s fouling off more pitches – which is good – but they tend to be out of the zone – which is bad.
Nice no dp, at least they should get Tex up.
Get it to A-rod and good things will happen.
Grandy Man!
Oooh…that ball scalded.
god … i hate a fucking tease.
Score dammit! SCORE!
That should have been caught. Let’s hope that means something positive (finally).
Granderson! Now it’s up to the big guns.
Tex, your glove has kept us in the game. Thy bat shall deliver us to the promised land.
What is this strange tingling feeling… could it be hope?
C’mon, offense. You can do this.
Ok, they’ll score at least 1 here right? Right? Right?
This is a huge at bat for Teixiera. He needs to step up here. When he is slumping he kills this offense as their 3 hitter. This offense desperately needs their 3 hitter and MVP candidate from last year to step up.
Was that a good enough at bat?
*shoots self in head*
He’s injured. Give the guy a break. He could do better, but the fact that he’s even playing right now is a blessing.
That is not an excuse in anyway. A broken toe should not affect his batting especially the way Teix swings the bat. He himself admitted it only bothers him in the field.
If Yankee fans are giving him a pass because of his toe, they are sorely mistaken.
No one is giving him a pass, but the fact that he’s out there every day playing is a blessing. It could be worse, is what I’m saying. And even if he admits it only bothers him on the field, he’s still out there.
yes it would actually. his back foot is his plant foot unlike most hitters. if you watch him hit last year you would know he tends to stay back on that foot when he swings.
He is a switch hitter. It does not affect his LH swing in anyway and even his RH swing would have a negligible impact.
Staying on his back foot does not hurt your toe when you are swinging a bat. You are wrong.
And you would know this because you’ve personally had conversations with him/have switch hit in the major leagues and have experienced that pain.
Most ridiculously obvious post ever is ridiculously obvious?
It is not ridiculous. Teixiera has had an extremely disappointing season. When his team needs him most, he is nowhere to be found.
And there you go. Alex Rodriguez carrying this team once again.
You’re stating the obvious though, so it’s ridiculous.
It’s not ridiculous, it’s ridiculously obvious. But whatever, go back to bitching about the team after one of the better wins in weeks.
Fantastic job Mark
Tex SOB.
Why am I still highly pessimistic?
I’ve seen this movie before.
Let’s get an A-Bomb!
What an an absolutely awful job by Teixiera.
this lineup has become laughably bad with risp its sick just sick it reall does not matter who it is
Damn, that was a good pitch to hit.
Be nice if some unnnamed guys earned their money here.
wow… Tex and jeter are just brutal at the plate.
What?
At least that wasn’t right down the middle or something.
I can’t even tell over this past two weeks if I’m watching the Yankees or the Mets… A change in uniform and I might believe i’ve been a Mets fan the past two weeks…
They seriously have to be close to the record for men left on base over eleven games or so.
89 MPH right down the middle, cmon AROD
Not digging that swing. There are other options than a HR.
Incorrect
…though the HR is a totally, totally fine opton.
/I’ll show myself out.
Not for A-Rod there aren’t.
Doubt you’ll read this now, but my thought at the moment was that he was swinging out of his shoes and that driving a pitch to the gap could potentially tie the game, so why press? But, it’s moot now.
Certainly a healthy cut there.
Tampa down a run in the 9th
HOLY crap. That looked like a strike.
Holyshitwherewasthat?!
Is it me or does Buck look bored with life?
I look like an idiot leaning over gameday in silence.
FUCK YES
AN A-BOMB! FROM A-ROD!
FUCKING A-ROD I LOVE YOU
NO FUCKING WAY!!!!
AROD IS GOD!
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!
YES!!!!!!! ALEX!! LOVE OF MY LIFE.
Selfish GW HR… pathetic…
io ;awwcrip’jq’cnr’cnr
cen-fucking-taur.
HE DID IT HE DID IT HE DID IT
A-ROD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
There are options other than a HR, but HR is the most fun option.
Ho.
ly.
shit.
Oh my fucking God. That’s like Tino’s HR in ’98…
Comparing a regular season HR to a World Series HR?
Not in importance, but in sequence. Strike called ball, followed by booming homerun.
Got it, the pitch sequence registered a little late.
O MY GOD!!
A-Rod in beast mode. :’)
I miss Cody Ransom, I wish we would have kept him
A GOD
YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big Time.
ABOMB!!! Arod had the eyes of a killer sitting in the dug out.
Arod on his quest for 30 HRs
As Spielberg said when he at last won his Oscar for Schindler’s List: That was the best drink of water after the longest drought of my life.
well, how ’bout that? hoped it, but you can’t predict baseball sweetness.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
AFTER TONIGHT THIS LOSING BULLSHIT WILL ENDDDDDDDDDD
I think that was a slump buster
/STEVEPHILIPS’D
GOOD. FOR. YOU. AROD.
You can own this NOOB as long as Arod owns Uehara.
March for 30
Shades of Tino there, eh?
HE GOT IT!!!!
Axisa, are you going to stand by your statement that Arod doesn’t reach 30? Because, I think he heard you.
Yeah…Time to turn this sucker around.
Thank you ump!!
1999 WS on the Tino AB. close pitch, next one HR
uh, 98
They were not strikes, the first called strike wasn’t a strike.
Are you seeing that online? Gotta say, the pitch before the HR was a strike to the naked eye. Looked better than any pitch before it.
I think A-Rod just got a curtain call on the road! FUCK YES!!!
Dingerz rule!
Ok, first the FUCK YOU toss of the bat WAS great.
Second, the FUCK YOU smile rounding third was PRICELESS.
ARod has been insane since he came back from the DL. He tried carrying the team against the rangers and now this game.
Faints for the second time in three days
Let’s make it three for three!
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....nt-1122162
So who else is doubting Arod won’t hit the 30 HR mark and continue his 30HR/100RBI streak?
I just cried. Out of joy.
so many frustrations: did that really happen?
A-Rod’s WPA for the game is .716. That’s pretty high…
doing his dan johnson impression
Dance with me, someone, please dance with me
Biggest hit of the year!
A-Rod and to a lesser extent Cano are likely going to have to carry this offense in the playoffs.
Teixiera once again is nowhere to be found. With the type of pitches Teix is going to get in the postseason and his just awful mechanics he is likely going to disappoint again in October.
Save it for the postgame, ZZ. Now is happy time, for once!
The man has a broken toe.
You need no fucking little toe for baseball.
You need it for balance and walking…
Breaking any sort of bone in your foot throws off your balance. Even if its heavily taped/bound.
He is simply not the type of hitter where it would affect him and they have said multiple times it only affects his fielding.
He looks the same exact way he did with his swing the first 2 months of the season when his toe was not broken. This is the type of hitter he is. He is very streaky because of his mechanics.
Okay then, write him a letter and tell him to fix it. I’m not claiming to know anything about him or the way he hits, but all you’re doing is complaining about one player when baseball is a team effort. You should learn to take the good with the bad and stop whining about one specific player. If he’s off mechanically, he’ll correct it eventually. That’s why they pay Kevin Long, right?
Kevin Long can’t correct Teixiera’s mechanics. He has been like this his whole career.
Literally everything in his kinetic chain needs to be perfectly in sync for him to hit a baseball.
I love how people can criticize every player on the Yankees, but when it comes to Teix it is forbidden. I have never seen a player get such a pass when he is a major culprit as their 3 hitter.
He was literally one of the worst players in baseball for the first 2 months of the season and he looks exactly the same from a swing standpoint now.
It’s not forbidden to criticize anyone on the team. It’s just stupid unless they’ve done something blatantly boneheaded that needs to be criticized. I’m not defending Tex from criticism, I just honestly think that shitting on a player for something that can be fixed/will probably change is being childish. And I know you love to have the last word because you can’t be wrong ever, but you can talk about physics and mechanics all you want and I honestly won’t care.
He’s having issues with his foot, which will throw anyone off balance, and I don’t care if he’s an upper body hitter, a lower body hitter, a sideways hitter–I don’t care. Balance is an important part of mechanics.
“he’s been like this his whole career”
.287/.377/.538
guess we’ll just have to deal with it then
You sure do like complaining about Tex. What did he do to you?
He ran over his dog and is holding his family hostage.
/kidding
He’s got two weeks to find something. Why quit on him now?
Seriously, you can’t even be happy when they win can you?
I’m very happy.
once again, broken toe screws with balance. makes it harder for him to drive the ball.
Teixiera is not a balance hitter.
He is an extreme upper body hitter.
if you watch him hit, he plants on his back foot. Yes he is a upper torso hitter, but he also needs to plant his foot sometime. Tex is not a floating torso out there. They pretty much drilled it into our heads last year whenever that analyze his swing.
Only on his RH swing and when he plants he puts extreme pressure on his heel.
His back knee collapses which puts pressure on the back of your foot (heel) not toe.
not all of the pressure is on his heel, he;ll fall down if all of the pressure of his body on his heel, there is still pressure spread across his back foot… Try it your self and find out…seriously go break a toe and try swinging a bat in a real baseball game first then tell me it doesn’t affect you at all.
That doesn’t mean he never uses his feet during an at-bat. A broken toe will affect a hitter regardless of how much he uses his upper body.
If it had as much of an impact as people on here think it does, then he would not be playing. If the reason he was hitting so poorly was his toe then there is no way they would keep him in the lineup.
We got the biggest hit in what seems like weeks and you have to come here and shit on a player? I’d say what I want to say but I’d get banned/warned. Is all you do concern troll nowadays?
You are very sensitive when it comes to Teixiera. I can’t imagine the wrath I would get if I criticized Andy
Super delayed post but I had to say it:
Hah. Actually, I think I’m sometimes too critical of Andy just so I don’t get accused of being a homer.
I just don’t get the point of bitching and whining after a tremendous win that we all really needed and saying really obvious things like “we need our #3 hitter.”
(Also, if you’re accusing me of being overly sensitive because I think he’s attractive or whatever, stop it with that shit. I know I bring part of it on myself, but just because I’m a non-blind straight female doesn’t mean I can’t be objective. And Tex isn’t really one of the guys I drool like crazy over anyway.)
All started with a great at bat from Jorge. And a blown strike call that would have ended the game.
Go look at the gameday, no way was it a strike
Stupid A-rod, stopping Cano from getting the gw hit, wanting it all for himself.
he wants all the glory.
I’d like to say that it took long enough to wake up this team, but I’m too happy at the moment.
Wieters not even being able to watch makes that HR all the more fun.
Nice Arod…..
I had to go upstairs and change my pants. That HR was kind of big.
+28
et me remind you people A-rod acheived his 30/100 season exactly by getting a 3runhr and gs in his last reg season inning of 2009. This is easily attainable.
That’s not exactly something easily repeated, though. In fact I’m pretty sure it had never happened in baseball history, ever. Still, I get your point. He can go on a tear as well as anyone.
Hopefully this is the turn around we have all been wainting for.
I have a feeling it will be
Optimism ? From you Greg ?
A-ROD CHOPPED THEIR HEADS OFF!!! SHING SHING!!!
in all seriousness though, if this many takes the team on his back, i will never utter another word about him not being a team player in his early days
man*
yeah, no such thing as clutch or heart. Definitely.
and Arod definitely doesnt have them
Havent been around in a while thanks to college, but since I am home for the jewish holidays, I decided to pop in. A-Rod killed that ball and he knew it when he hit it. Just flat killed that ball. What makes that home run even better is that 5 more and that 30 HR/100RBI streak is continued.
That pic of Uheharhara is AWESOME. lol
Aight MO , let’s shut these fuckers down in a respectful and peaceful manner.
Uehara looks ready to perform seppuku
he disgraced himself and all his ancestors.
Poor fucker does look very grim. Hopefully, he’ll just drink a lot tonight.
startin’ to think he can get to 30
I’d say Arod has a decent chance at 30 hrs given the way hes swinging
If we had Damon and Matsui we clearly would have won by 20, or something.
by 25 if we still had melky the great
why does everyone forget Melky?
HAHAH! Good one!
Ross, I am a big fan of Godz. I for one don’t think Damon and Matsui would have made that big of differences in this lineup given how this team is constructed.
But can we stop making such over the top comments about Godz.
the assertion here is simple Godz over NJ, it’s a fact.
Yeah, wow. Picking Matsui over the guy who went on the DL in May. Your hindsight is simply outstanding.
I will say this again. Perhaps we never had this convo before.
I would pick a known quantity over an oft 1b any day Ross.
It has nothing to do with hindsight at this point, it’s the first sight. But that aside, these comments are just as silly as those who claim with those two the team would have won another 20 more games. It’s hyperbole and old.
Sorry for being snappy with you dude, it’s just that I’ve been through this same argument 100 times with other posters. It’s too tiring and repetitive for me to go back and forth all over again. You wanted Matsui back. He didn’t come back. That’s it. It doesn’t mean anything and any narratives you make about it just stink of sour grapes at this point.
Nah it’s all good. I was only compel to point out the obvious. It’s done and done. But I have to defend my boy Godz. He was money and class.
It’s onward and forward , if you read what i posted tonight. I wasn’t arguing that Yankees would have done a great deal better than they already have with him. I was simply defending him.
I could say . . . . naw . . . forget it.
Let’s go Mo! Let’s go Mo!
Oh that scared me a little.
Does anybody remember a rod last year? i think he went into the final game of the season with 93 rbis, he ended with 100. this man is about to get into beast mode
You know what was better? The way he played in the playoffs
One more homer and A-Rod is tied for sixth all-time. Jus’ Sayin’.
or is it two more?
I’m exhausted. Mentally, physically, spiritually. Exhausted. What a friggin’ week.
We all deserve that 3 run blast, over and over again, after the past two weeks. Listen to the chant, “Let’s go Mo!”. This is a road game played in front of New Yorkers craving a win! One out left!
They were yelling ‘Let’s go O’s’.
WE don’t deserve anything.
We’re entitled, we’re Yankees fans, cmon Poopy
I heard Mo!
/shoves head in sand
I think they were chanting “Let’s go O’s” but I made fun of that
Rays lose, so that swing was soooo big.
Yankees win! Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees win!
(puts noose away)
And all is right with the world.
Yankees win, Rays lose, back in first, THANK YOU GOD!!!!
thuhhhhhh
Yankees win! Tampa loses! Back in first.
Yankees in first place. Tampa lost to 4-3.
So I feel a lot better about baseball now
I always had total confidence in this team. Total.
Great fucking team.
Note: This may or may not be true.
I was getting ready to go to bed angry. Change of plans.
And the plans now are ?
Go to bed not angry. How’s the wooing the wife going? Any death threats yet?
Just a growl and a rolling of the eyes
Sorry about that, buddy.
Im so happy , I might try to go romance the wifey
Well, good luck with that.
TMI, holmes.
Slappy happy!
One of the biggest wins of the year
Great win. This team shows its tremendous heart and desire. Not only that, back in 1st, and with the Sox losing, magic number down to 9.
Everyone will mock this person for bringing up heart and desire, right? Or does that only apply when it’s said about other teams?
Or I was making it a point to mock that storyline? Your move Poopy.
BOOM, roasted.
(Sorry Mr. Pants.)
That’s what I figured it was.
grandy says it shows “character,” but me and posada go with “heart.” Boogers to groupthink.
Guys,
I think that the Yanks are in first place.
A-Rod – 4, O’s – 3. A-Rod WILL get 30 bombs this year!
Mo looked great tonight. The cutter cut and his command was superb. Love it.
Gritty, I say … Gritty!!! This team has guts! A-Rod’s gonna hit 30!
WOW! That was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had been told that the Yankees didn’t have the “attitude” or “confidence” to win games like these in 2010. I would submit this game as Exhibit A to the contrary.
Rebuttal?
Hello?
That was the first time I’ve seen it. Especially that at bat by Posada.
Could be a sign of things to come.
I have also been told that small ball wins games and not OBP and an XBH. Again, Exhibit A.
I know someone said that the Bob Stone guy was a good poster, but his posting that when we’re playing like absolute crap and disappearing after the homer…. yeah.
I didn’t disappear. I cheered the homer. I still stand by everyting else I posted tonight and for the last few years for that matter.
It’s one instance . . . one game. I love it. But I am not sold on the fact that his team can do it like the ’09 Yanks did. I just haven’t seen enough proof.
how bout that Dodgers game, and there was one other game when I remember saying it was my favorite game of the year, but I can’t remember it.
Coming back against Broxton, the walkoff against Papelbon, etc etc…
Vs. Texas, down by five to Cliff Lee.
And the Farewell to the Boss game. And the game where we were down by two in the ninth to Papelfuck and won. And as was mentioned, the Dodgers game. And that one game against the Rays where Robbie hit one in the ninth vs. Soriano to win it. And two games ago, of course. And the Orioles game where Swisher saved us with the walkoff HR.
Did I miss any?
This was the only one though right?
Sunday, Memorial Day weekend: Tex sent it to Texas.
Oh man, Alex showing up Baltimore big time in the postgame lol
A-Rod’s DL stint may have been the greatest development this season to date for the Yankees as absurd as that may sound. He was having trouble all season get his timing down and generating power through his lower body. I said early in the season it looks like his hip is bothering him, because of how little power he was driving through his hips.
He is locked in now. His timing is perfect and is lower body torque is perfect. Everything has fallen into place for A-Rod.
He is poised to go on another epic tear in the playoffs, because his swing and body is the best it has looked in 12 months.
Co-sign. He looks great
From your lips to Mo’s ears!
super win.
I know that there’s really no such thing as “clutch,”
but today an idiot on my bus told me that A-Rod didn’t have clutch ability. I told him to watch the game tonight and see what happened.
So you were the one that gave the team this win??? Keep it up!
You know what… I think that Cervelli might have a PH HR in his bones….
Now you’re just crazy talking!
Finally! That felt great!
/TWSS
OK. So one win doesn’t completely erase a week of futility and frustration. But holy crap, did that feel good. Now, we drink.
Combined with the Rays’ loss, it sure feels like it erased it all.
Cheers! Salut!
OK Blue Jays 3 more outs, and get this magic number to 9.
Burnett had the best fastball he has had since May tonight.
That is very promising. If he can maintain his fastball he can be much more like 2009 AJ instead of 2010 AJ. He is much more reliable and much less inconsistent with that heavy fastball of his. It has been much flatter and weaker for most of this season.
As annoyed as I was before A-Rod hit his homerun, I took Burnett’s performance as a positive. Given that even with their poor play, the Yankees are a near lock to make the playoffs and they will need Burnett to be at least decent. Two good starts in a row is very promising.
A-Rod is almost as good as Dan Johnson!
Love the Chambless Pic but hopefully it wont last ten minutes
A-Rod in Baltimore = Cervelli in Atlanta
A-Rod is the only good player we have
kidding, right?
Girardi declined comment on AJ’S black eye.
He punched him then.
Well, someone needs to slug him before his next start, too.
Smart money is on Po
A-Rod is batting .500 with runners on base in the 9th this year. wow.
I’m making a still-standing 7 man-made wonders of the world list right now. I’ve got six. They are:
1. The Pyramids of Egypt
2. The Great Wall of China
3. The Coliseum of Rome
4. Schloss Neuschwanstein (Neuschwanstein Castle)
5. The Taj Mahal
6. The Parthenon
You think St. Basil’s Cathedral would work as a seventh? I’m leaning towards it.
I think I’ve got a pretty diverse group here. I’m trying not to do two from the same country.
Machu Picchu. Been there, it’s amazing.
And the Christ the Redeemer in Rio is pretty amazing too.
The people are pretty easy on the eyes as well.
Brazilian women >
the great barrier reefs in Australia, nature made .
Neuschwanstein is pushing it. Why not take something from the New World? We got shit.
I disagree. Neuschwanstein is the shit.
No love for St Peter’s?
All that drama the past two weeks and we’re back in first. Badass.
Fuckin Blue Jays tryin to fuck up my perfect night
But they won, Slappy.
Thank MO Almighty
only NOT…….Magic number 9
Red Sox lose! Could it get any better?
Magic number = 9! DOOOOOMED
Number 9 Roger Maris Number 9
As sweet as this victory is, it doesnt dispell all fears. this was a rod’s game, the frustrations of the restof the team are not quite gone yet. MAN UP Jeter, cano, and tex
debbie downer over here
Cano went 2-5 today, with 0 LOB. I don’t think he was a problem.
its over in boston – bring on nettles~~
ok, i’ll settle for roger. never saw him play though
Does anyone know why Aj got a blackeye
They refuse to say. Which is annoying because I really want to know now.
I want to know too.
Someone has to know something. The Yankees have better secretiveness than the freaking CIA.
Maybe it was eiland or Joe finally knocking some sense into him
I’m telling you, Posada slugged him. That’s my guess.
Now the big mystery is AJ’s eye. WTF happened?
Thing is nasty, really ballooned up on his face.
Probably lost in EyeGate, but should the Yanks be DHing Teixeira and putting Berkman at first? Berkman was supposed to be a plus glove, his early pinstriped miscues aside. And Tex looks like he needs to lay off his feet. His bat has died.
Once again, Arod’s heroics aside, Posada showed just how valuable he is to this team. How much of downgrade Cervelli is to him offensively. The man needs to fucking play G. Let PoPo fly , let him fly…
They need to make sure that Posada stays healthy through the playoffs. If that means he doesn’t play a bunch of games in the next two weeks, then fine. He’s not exactly a spring chicken, and every inning catching is a potential injury.
True enough. my blood pressure goes up a little when I see Cervelli play , but I understand.
Not including tonight, guess how Meathead does with Po behind the dish?
Opponents batting .336/.414/.599 = 1.012
With the Frisco Kid?
.272/.354/.381 = .735
We’ll be seeing this show in the post-season for a reason.
That’s a big ass split there. There might be some small sample issue here. But I can’t just overlook that, G might have a point about having Cerv catching him. What was Molina’s number catching AJ last year?
Agree, but Posada is 47 years old.
He needs rest. It would be irresponsible of Joe to ride Posada down the stretch.
Another game of somewhat importance has just started. The Gintober movement has kicked into high gear. The time is now for Buster and co. to stake their claim in this wild wild west.
They kicked the tar out of the Dodgers last night. They can probably kick Randy Wolf all the way back to LA.
Bumga toes the mound tonight. He is quietly having a pretty good season for them. Gintober will not be stopped ! well, I am hoping so.
Bumgarner is suffering from lack of run support. He’s got a 3.28 ERA as 20 year old and should improve his strikeout ability as he gets older (8.0 K/9 in 355 MiLB IP)