Game 159: Where are the scrubs?
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The day after clinching it’s expected that we’ll see the AAA lineup. After last year’s clincher Girardi penciled these names into the lineup:
1. Brett Gardner, CF
2. Melky Cabrera, LF
3. Robinson Cano, 2B
4. Jorge Posada, DH
5. Eric Hinske, 3B
6. Shelley Duncan, RF
7. Juan Miranda, 1B
8. Francisco Cervelli, C
9. Ramiro Pena, SS
Today’s lineup has far more regulars. I guess there’s good reason for that. Unlike last year, the Yanks aren’t quite done. They’re in the playoffs, yes, but they’re still in a battle of sorts for the AL East crown. Before the game Joe Girardi said that the team is still “playing to win this division,” so he’s not going to rest everyone at once. The off-day, he said, will give him a chance to get guys two days off. Some get today, some get Friday. If they stick to this, Matsuzaka will face quite a scrubby lineup.
Javier Vazquez gets the ball tonight in what could be his final audition for the postseason roster. I think he makes it regardless, but if he bombs there has to be a chance that they leave him off in favor of a more effective pitcher. He did settle down after plunking three straight batters last time out, so maybe he’s onto something. If he pitches well, look for the inevitable article asking whether he pitched his way into the ALDS rotation.
(There is no way this can happen if the Yankees are sane, so I suggest ignoring these.)
Anyway, here’s the lineup. I guess Jeter, Swisher, Tex, A-Rod, and Cano will sit on Friday in Boston.
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Nick Swisher, RF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Robinson Cano, 2B
6. Marcus Thames, DH
7. Austin Kearns, LF
8. Francisco Cervelli, C
9. Greg Golson, CF
And on the mound, number thirty-one, Javier Vazquez.
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That looks like a scrub lineup to me…
Not as bad as 09 but the division is up for grabs this time around.
I’m probably not watching any of the game tonight. Woo?
Also, the matchup in the second game of the Brewers/Mets doubleheader is Bush/Dickey. This makes me laugh so hard, as I am 12.
A Mets-Brewers twi-night doubleheader sounds like the latest in psy-ops torture warfare.
Coulda sworn you were older than that!
… that’s what he said?
I really hope Girardi is lying through his teeth and doesn’t plan on sacrificing rest for the division. Getting Swish and Tex healthy, and Robbie a day (who has seriously seemed to play like, every game this year) should supersede trying to win the division, which may be impossible anyway.
I do want Javy to pitch well tonight because I’d rather see him instead of Gaudin on the postseason roster.
And who says those are are mutually exclusive?
I didn’t say they were, I just hope they don’t push too hard to win the division, which may both be impossible nor ideal if you like Minnesota as a match-up as I do.
You know which ALDS matchup I like?
All of ‘em.
(passes out bayonets)
To arms, my brothers!
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Apparently not, as I can’t access it from work.
That sounds like a “you” problem.
No, it sounds like a “my job” problem.
whichever strategy Girardi chooses, he will get criticized. That much, i do know.
when he leaves for Chicago, his life will get easier. This town doesn’t deserve him.
1) I’m not criticizing him, just hoping that guys get rested and they don’t push too hard for the division.
2) You must not know many Cubs fans, because if you think there’s no pressure to win there, you’re badly mistaken.
3) “Not deserving him” is nonsense.
was not saying you were criticizng him.
NYC chews and spits out nice people. No, NY doesn’t deserve him. Whatever pressure he has in Chicago, will be less than what he tolerates in NY.
Chicago hasn’t won a title in OVER 100 YEARS. The pressure from the Chicago media should be equivalent, if not worse than New York’s.
have lived in Chicago area. It’s not even close
As opposed to Chicago, who harassed Bartman and his family so much that he had to move out of town. Epitome of class, there.
Chicago doesn’t deserve shit.
I think after tonight’s performance, the Yankees would be better with a can of Chef Boyarde on the roster than Javy. At least in that case the other team would be too busy in the bathroom to score many runs…
Interesting lineup… I guess he’s still shooting for the division.
And I know we still have a game to play, but I’m throwing out an early congratulations and job well done to Cito Gaston… (But you still have to lose to us tonight.)
Off day tomorrow and 2 next week. days off? overrated. My biggest worry is Joe will play Kearns against lefties in the playoffs.
Toronto is not playing scrubs.
Who the hell is Toronto?
Let’s win this one so we can go back to the top of the standings (Tampa will lose because of LOLNiemann).
Eh, Baltimore’s throwing Millwood out there. How fortuitous that the Rays gave out all those free tickets to such an incredible matchup.
Mitch Williams’ pitch to Carter was almost as good as his prediction about the Red Sox knocking the Yankees out of the playoff chase!
/buuuuuuuuuurn
I think the Red Sox still have a chance to catch the Yankees. FIVE ACES.
/Williams’d
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....8;c_id=mlb
(points and laughs)
Even better:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standin....._standings
“Mitch Williams
Columnist”
Heh.
Still sounds better than, “Sarah Palin, President.”
Or “William Howard Taft, Illegitimate President”.
/Rose’d
Sarah Palin President>>>>>>>>>>> Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi
“I could be dead wrong about this, and Pettitte could come back and give the Yankees the boost they need to hold off Boston. But if that doesn’t happen, the Yankees are going to have to hit a ton in September in order to be playing in October. ”
- Mitch Williams
Nope, Pettitte didn’t really give them a boost because of the setback. And nope, the Yanks didn’t hit a “ton” in September. Yet they will be playing October. Imagine that.
In fact they played pretty awful baseball (by their standards) in September, yet still managed to make the playoffs.
Just curious, where the Yankees in the dugout there for the applause?
Where is the game?
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Delayed start because of a tribute to Cito Gaston. Tonight is his last home game as Toronto manager.
I feel that I’m the only person who can’t enjoy the Atlanta Braves because of Chip Caray and his horrible style of announcing. Jeez, your grandfather was awesome, why couldn’t it carry over to you?
I can’t enjoy the Atlanta Braves either, but it has nothing to do with Chip Caray.
It’s because they’re the Atlanta Braves.
As an old person, I had a soft spot for the Braves when TBS started showing games all the time.
That ended in 1996, and Andruw @#$#@ Jones.
Heh, it was funny to see all the Braves fans on my Twitter feed watching The Tenth Inning last night and being like, “Yay, Sid Bream – NOOOOO JIM LEYRITZ!!!!”
Why is that? They’ve been a pretty good team over their existence, a tad overrated but still a good team. The only thing I absolutely hate about them is giving John Rocker a job.
List of teams I hate (non Red Sox division):
Atlanta Braves
Cleveland Indians
Washington Redskins
Kansas City Chiefs
Florida State Seminoles
North Dakota Fighting Sioux
See the pattern?
You hate Native Americans?
I don’t know why someone hasn’t banned the chop yet. How embarrassing.
Oh I see it. I completely understand now.
Are you saying you’re not a, uh, um ” person that gives something to someone and then asks for it back?”
Classic.
Ah, Cito Gaston. One of a select group of managers who has won 2 World Series titles. And member of an even more select group of those managers who will never see the HOF.
Suzyn “..his lovely wife, Linda”.
It would be fun to hear “…his homely wife, Linda”.
Reminds me of that old, bad joke:
Q. What do you call a dog with Wings?
A. Linda McCartney.
OK Javy, surprise me…
4 straight HBP?
You’d be surprised, admit it.
True, true. I should have said, “Surprise me in a way that won’t make me want to punch the TV.”
Take a dump on the mound? I would be pretty shocked.
I would not be surprised at that.
Saddened. Bummed for the Jav-ster. Annoyed, even.
But not surprised.
hahaha what the hell?
why was vernon wells sitting with all of the blue jays greats like joe carter??
He gets paid like an all time Blue Jay great.
hahahahahaha so sad, yet so true
FTFY.
MUSTACHES!?!?! NO WAY. Yanks should participate in that too.
So I got my ALDS tickets, how about you?
Got my lux box…biatchhhh.
Sold out as soon as I logged into ticketmaster :<
I just realized today that I will be in an airplane when the game starts..
Oh well, there will be 10 more to watch after that.
Well, unless it’s a day game, flying in the early evening. But don’t they always put the Yankees at night?
Which games?
That painting of Cito is so obscenely large it’s a disgrace. And two weeks of golf? Excessive!
/Neyer’d
Pardon my ignorance, but why is Cito leaving, anyways? Is it a F.O. decision or does he not wish to manage any longer?
The organization is trying to move on. They’re more or less forcing him out and giving him a “consulting” deal after this year.
He’s stepping down. I thought he retired for good like ten years ago. He’ll be back.
The Yankees will honor Joe Girardi by wearing fake braces on their teeth in this game.
Oh this guy again. >_<
The only answer to the deadly changeup will be our new small ball stategy.
strategy
Strategery
If the Mustaches were instead retarded looking goatees, I couldn’t distinguish the Blue Jays from the Red Sox.
if (when) Javy ges lit up unleash the Brackman PLEASE
Brack smash?
Damn, forgot we were facing Cecil. Can we please do good against him, just for a change?
Don’t rest Teix. Just keep playing him if he has got his timing back. No reason to mess with it.
This.
Mark only needs 48 more hits for 200. I think it’s realistic.
Arod could do that in one inning.
While making love to 3 celebrities at once. And then hit 2 homers and knock in 7 in one PA.
Arod could do it one inning even if he wasn’t in the game.
GL Javy
so since hammilton and carbera r hurt that means robbie has to get the Mvp right? a true mvp would play through the pain?
So, RAB has a iPhone app now?
Apparently their sarcasm detection app is not fully developed, however.
That’s a hell of a first post right there.
I’ve been posting for a while, actually. Just like the tag. Started working nights, however, and never had a chance to post during game.
melky batting second. lol
That is one atrocious looking cap that kid is wearing !
Javy:
Slow/slower/slowest
/tonight’s approach
going/going/gone
Well, that didn’t take very long.
Maybe that’s the only hit he’s gonna give up tonight… well shit I guess not.
And a home run off Javy. Here we go.
the BOOSTER JUICE!!!
Good lord, that punk again?
We should’ve thrown the AAA line-up in. We’re facing Brett fricken Cecil. No chance to win. Isn’t it obvious when Girardi sends Vazquez out to pitch?
Javy doin’ his thang!
Ok Joe you can bring in Brackman now
Quick give Javy a mustache!
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Another reason it was good to pitch CC yesterday. I can chuckle at this homerun.
Just got here…and I see we’re starting off on the right foot. (cries for Javy). How’s it going, people?
All the Jays are wearing painted moustaches and all the Yanks are wearing painted braces.
and javy sucks..
Javy why did poop on my hopes like you did during April? I thought you were going to be league average.
I am waiting for Bautista to catch one of Javy’s nothing balls with his hand and throw it back…
His pharmaceutically enhanced muscles would squish the ball to powder…
lol escobar is such a dumbass
A KearnsyCannon™!
ahahahahahaha
Escobar! Way to make Cito proud.
It’s a shame the wheels completely fell off for Javy this season. I hate when good trades go bad.
Good trade? I don’t get it.
I guess this would be as good a time as any to discuss the merits of this trade for the first time this yeaer.
I think the Melky/Logan trade was a pretty good one
It was definitely a good trade at the time. They gave up Melky right before he got expensive, a LOOGY prospect with control issues, and a pitching prospect who had yet to pitch in A-ball. No one foresaw Javy’s stuff completely deteriorating like it has.
So it was a good gamble at the time. It’s definately not a good trade.
Everything in baseball is essentially a gamble. You don’t know who’s going to stay healthy throughout the year, who will produce, who will be better than they were before, who will be worse. You can’t predict that. But it was a good trade nonetheless. It just honestly did not work out.
There’s where I disagree. You can only evaluate a trade way after it happened. And having the whole season to evaluate this one, I can definately say it wasn’t a good trade.
Like I always say, hindsight is always 20/20. At the time, it was a great trade, you got a pitcher who was a cy young candidate, rarely injured and productive, for the cost of an almost expensive CF, and two prospects. It was a good trade at the time. It’s questionable now, but I stand by it. I would’ve done the same thing if I was Cash. He made the right decision, and it just didn’t work out.
Yeah, that’s the consensus.
sigh
It was a trade at the time. If you want to decided good or bad after the fact, fine. If we want to decide if it was a good trade at the time, that’s fine for us.
Perspective FTW.
It’s pretty much a wash at this point. Dunn and Melky aren’t going to be missed. If Vizcaino becomes a legit MLB pitcher, then it was a bad trade. If he doesn’t, it’s a wash again.
Sure. But by making this trade it stopped us from going after another target. You have to consider whoelse was available and out of those who the Yankees could have gotten but didn’t because they got Javy instead.
None of this matters now. Maybe you should just try to get over it.
Like who? There was really no one good out there or I’m sure Cashman would have gotten him since he’d likely rather spend money than spend prospects and money.
I’d be surprised if the Braves tender Melky a contract next year. He’d probably be in line to make 4 mill in arbitration. He appears to be the definition of replacement level.
Javy was a solid pitcher for a few months in the middle of the year, too. I remember him having like 3 starts in a row where the Yankees just didn’t score for him. He did provide quality innings for them before he started to fall apart completely in late July. He has a -0.1 WAR on the season, but he did have value there for awhile so I don’t think it was a total loss.
It was a good trade at the time. Javy was an NL Cy Young candidate, rarely gets injured and can give you 200 innings. It just did not work out. And the people still clinging to the fact that he sucked because of 2004 are ridiculous.
i dont get why everyone blames him for 2004. he gave up a grand slam in a game we lost 10-3. he didnt even load the bases himself. he didnt have the 2 blown saves in games 4 and 5 either. he wasnt part of the offense that stopped hitting. uggh just annoying how the media likes to be quick to point fingers at people, you know?
The media points the fingers and the clueless casual fans eats it up.
lol so sad but so true.
It’s really sad. I wasn’t expecting 2009, but I wasn’t expecting him to completely fall apart either. He seems like a good guy and it’s too bad to see.
Hopefully he gets to enjoy #28 just as much as everyone else, though. :>
Only Javy…
Think they should have Javy throw a minimum or 165 pitches tonight and then DFA him…
Good to see Javy’s still got it.
Those 16 pitches lasted a lifetime.
limiting the damge wooOOOooo
thanks to Escobar
Batting practice looks to be extended tonight for the Jays.
would it be asking to much for Yanks to start warming up someone up?
LOL
Bring in Gaudin!
no we gotta save him for those bases loaded 0 outs situations lol
lol @ Joe Carter waving.
okay guys, tonights top 5: top 5 favorite stadiums in MLB based on appearance and not bad memories there or anything like that [not includinng YS I II or III]
1. Camden yards
2. Dodger’s Stadium
3. AT & T Park
4. PNC park
5. comerica park
but maybe not in that order.
agree/disagree?
Haven’t been 2,3 or 5, but I like Jacobs over 1 and 4.
And Sky dome over PNC park
Wrigley
Fenway
Camden
AT&T Park
Rangers Ballpark
I do love PNC and Comerica too, but not in my top 5.
Not a big fan of Dodger Stadium. I really like Busch Stadium. Great view of the city.
oh yeah, that one’s really nice too. forgot about that one
Love Dodger Stadium, hate the traffic getting in and out.
Carlos Pena and the Mendoza line. Does he end the season over or under?
Bout to go cook. Guessing the score will be 8-1 when I get back.
You think the Yankees will score 8? Ballsy prediction. I like it.
8-2?
I really hate Brett Cecil. WTF?
this is just painful
Javy’s serving ‘em up with a side of french fries tonight…
Gotta try to avoid those, Javy.
Yes, Javy. AVOID the bat. You should NOT pitch to contact. They only have so many baseballs…
I’m pretty sure they don’t have a limited number of baseballs.
limited number of baseballs. lol could you imagine? lol
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_.....a_MLB_game
neener neener
Javy should try tennis next year, he’s so good at getting his opponent to hit it out of the area of play
This is all part of Joe’s plan to humiliate the team into playing better during the playoffs…
why do we have cervelli?
For the umpteenth time this season: Posada is old. Jesus is too young. Moeller is offensively sad. And everyone else is expensive.
i know, but i wouldnt mind seeing moeller in a meaningless game any once in a while. i know his bat is poor, but cervelli isnt exactly barry bonds either
He’s not in there because he’s Barry Bonds. He’s in there because he’s young and can take the abuse. Moeller might get a chance eventually.
i know, but im just so sick of cervelli
He’s actually been pretty productive lately, so I don’t know where the “sick of him” is coming from.
i know, its just ive accumulated a probably irrational hatred toward him. mostly because of his ineptitude defensively [even though we dont have any better options] …especially the dropped popup against the sawx that led to 3 unearned runs
I’d rather see Moeller at this point but whatever.
But you coined the phrase “Release the Moeller” so you’re technically biased!!!
Javy how many ways can you fuck this up?
What is he screwing up? This game is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
Javy, National League. National League, Javy. Please take some time to get re-acquainted.
with this stuff, he wouldn’t be successful in an Indy League.
omg HE COULD START WORLD SERIES GAME 1!! lol
Is this the time when he starts to hit the batters?
at least they are not hurt by his 69 mph curves
So who’s a better pitcher right now, Javy Vasquez or Chad Gaudin? They’re both great at giving up the long ball. Javy looks done in the AL, I’d be surprised to see him pitch a single meaningful inning this postseason.
Vazquez. At least he has had some success this year.
I really can’t even watch this.
If we didn’t punch our playoff ticket yesterday, I’d agree. As it is, I can take it but it is painful to watch…
Maybe the Yanks need to paint on mustaches so they have Teh Powerz.
Javy is totally worthless.
/deadhorse’d
Looks like I picked the perfect game to go to work instead of watching.
Looks like Javy picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.
Well, if he was sniffing glue before his previous crappy starts, I’d say he’s still sniffing it. If he wasn’t, I’d say he needs to get back to it immediately.
Its really hard to take this game seriously with all the fake staches!
If this is Javy’s last start as a Yankee, it makes me want to cry. Dude just can’t catch a break.
It’s really unfortunate. I adore Javy, and this just honestly, truly sucks for him. I don’t know what went wrong, but it’s really sad.
/plays taps for javy
I really don’t see any advantage to carrying Javy on the postseason roster instead of Nova. I assume they’ll carry 11 pitchers. Which leaves:
Regulars:
(9) Jorge, Tex, Cano, Jeter, Alex, Gardner, Granderson, Swisher, Berkman
Bench:
(4) Cervelli, Pena, Kearns, Thames
Starters
(4) CC, Andy, Hughes, AJ
Bullpen
(5) Mo, Joba, Wood, Robertson, Logan
That leaves 3 roster spots. I assume 2 in the pen, and 1 on the bench.
(2) of Javy, Nova, Gaudin, Mitre, Ring
(1) of Nunez or Golson
My guesses are Nova and Ring if they face Minnesota (most likely) or Nova and Gaudin if its Texas.
I’m really not sure who gets the final bench spot however. I think Pena is a lock because he’s been with the team for so long. Nunez can be a solid pinch runner, but Golson has elite speed. My money is on Golson, just because he’s been playing so much.
Whats wrong with Mitre? He’s a groundball pitcher which I think would work well against Texas. Don’t have the stats in front me though.
He’s been used so infrequently though. I think a guy like Mitre needs to get the ball consistently just to be close to league average. Generally speaking, sinkerballers don’t want to be too strong and need action to get a feel for the pitch.
He’s fine as a fill-in starter for a few turns, but he’s gotten minimal action out of the pen since coming off the DL two months ago. That oblique injury really screwed him up. He was starting to get more appearances out of the pen too.
If they give the final roster spot to Javy, I’ll cry. The guy is just not effective in NY for whatever reason. He’s had 2 years here and two stretches of effectiveness.
Then he goes places like Atlanta and pitches well.
Go figure. But Vasquez just ain’t cut to be a Yankee.
Nor to be on our postseason roster. Gaudin, sadly, is a more favorable option. That will hopefully be different next year when our options are perhaps better…
Golson baby!!!
cool play by Golson..
Great base running.
c’mon let’s get at least 1 run against this fool.
Cervelli with 2 hits?!? The Cervelli rule, if he gets 2 or more hits the Yanks are bound to win…but that might be offset because Javy’s pitching..
If this year’s AJ and this year’s Javy pitched a seven game series against each other, who would win it?
What teams are backing them up? Bizarro Yankees who play small ball or the regular Yankees?
Can we give Bizarro Yankees to AJ and Regular Yankees to Vazquez?
In that case, Javy wins.
aj. cus hes good 50% of the time and javy gets 0 run support
laaameeeee lol
A classic Sept. RISP inning for the Yanks.
thank god sept is almost over
I remember something called a “home run.” We used to hit a lot of them. I think.
Let’s assume they each had the same team behind them, whether good or bad.
Try to use the reply button, doll.
David Ortiz just tried to bunt for a hit.
I am not kidding.
Hilarious and sad.
did he get the hit?!?
Shockingly, no.
hmmm never woulda guessed
Can’t even imagine what that looks like…
a goomba lol
ugh this sucks ass
The hell, Rangers? Don’t you dare break Cliff!
They didn’t score this inning!
momentum shift!!!
javy pitching a scoreless inning wooOOOOoooo
comeback player of the game
So if we sign Lee and Pettitte retires who will be the 5th starter next season?
Sabathia
Lee
Hughes
Burnett
???????
Do we sign an innings eater or will we seriously give Nova a shot?
swisher
joba and nova, two men enter one man leave
Andy better not retire. My dream is to have an unstoppable rotation. I want to refer to them as “The Wrecking Crew…plus AJ Burnett.”
Joba. Hopefully.
I really hope its Joba.
I think it’ll be the same as last year if Pettittes not back. Yanks will go after Darvish, but otherwise try Joba, Nova, and I’m sure they’ll get some scrub/s coming from injury to replace Gaudin and Mitre like Duchscherer or even Wang.
Joba
javy has now surpassed AJ, although that’s not saying much.
how is bautista an MVP candidate???
its TEH BOOSTER JUICE!!!
Juiceman of the Year award.
He has been valuable but not nearly the most.
i disagree on his value. I dont really see much IMO
He’s got a 6.8 WAR. That’s fuckin’ valuable. Cano is around that area too. Only one really above and beyond is Hamilton.
50+ homers is always valuable.
Always.
How is he not? I don’t think he’d surpass Hamilton or Miggy, but it wouldn’t shock me if he finishes ahead of Cano.
just missed it: what was michael saying about cano? like what did cano say for people to vote for him or something?
Cano will not raise taxes if he wins
Cabrera and Hamilton don’t have cool high fives, and the MVP usually goes to the guy with the coolest high fives.
someone please explain this to me: why is cecil great at home, but terrible on the road? its not like roger’s centre is that much of a pitcher’s ball park ya know?
well according to some broadcasters, I heard Toronto’s mound is one of the best for pitchers.
Am I totally immature if that statement cracked me up?
The exchange rate. The strike zone is 1.29 times bigger in Canada.
lol
someone explain to me: why is Cecil great against us?
Did YES really just soil my TV with a Nets add?
I saw it too, ewwwwww.
Hell of an AB for marcus thames
Boy the Yankees really dropped the ball with the rookie hazing this year. Usually they would have taken advantage of the trip to Toronto and forced the guys to go through customs all dressed up. I blame Jeter, he’s the captain, he should be on top of such things.
you mean they didnt haze at all? aww thats no fun
Not yet, I bet they do it on the trip to Boston.
yeah i eremember last year pena was dressed up as catwoman lol. that is too funny
I heard they’re gonna make them dress up as mets.
I heard that they had to pick 5 players from Boston and call them to ask what they were going to be doing in October.
boy i hope there not lefty with a good change up in the postseason…those guys are like auto win vs the yankees
Good thing Cliff Lee won’t be there.
Or Liriano.
Seriously, do people forget his existence?
He’s been great this year but he doesn’t have the career resume like Cliff Lee. He had a 5.80 ERA last year.
Cliff Lee had 3 great years. Hardly a long track record.
Liriano- 543.2 IP
Cliff Lee- 1402.0 IP
Nearly identical ERA and Whip. Liriano is still a kid.
Cool? Doesn’t take the fact away that they are nearly equal this year.
I never said one was better than the other, just explaining why people don’t bring him up. Personally, I’d rather have Cliff Lee because his sample size is 2.5 times bigger than Liriano. With only 543 IP and 38 total career wins, Liriano still has to prove he’s one of the best pitchers in the game.
Franciso Liriano Career ERA+ = 110
Cliff Lee Career ERA+ = 111
we’re signing him right before the postseason to a preemptive contract
…you wanna get paid… throw game 1 Cliffard.
Marsellus Wallace: In the 5th, your ass goes down.
Butch: Mmm-hmm.
Marsellus Wallace: Say it.
Butch: In the fifth, my ass goes down.
thats pride fucking with you. Fuck pride
O’s just took a 2-0 lead.
insignificant info so long as we continue to LOSE.
being shut out by brett cecil: pathetic and embarassing. losing to a canadian team: even more pathetic and embarassing. uggh i know its a meaningless game but lord do i hate losting to the blue jays
Turn off the game. If you hate seeing Yankee losses, don’t watch again until next week in the ALDS, because we could lose any and all of these meaningless games.
Because they’re meaningless.
its kinda like roadkill. you wana not look at it, but you cant help but stare.
hmm thats a pretty cool fact to learn about girardi’s kid
whatd they say? i wasnt watching
they said that joe girardi’s son is named after dante bichette
lol idk who that is
lol you can’t be serious…
sorry doesnt ring a bell lol
http://www.google.com
Really?
javy lose sight of the K zone?
Did he ever have it?
What would Cecil’s year look like if you took away his starts against the Yanks? He has solid/mediocre numbers with his starts against the Yanks. Without the Yanks, his season would look pretty non-awesome.
Did Joe give a specific limit for Javy? I don’t remember him saying anything.
Six innings or a hundred runs scored… whichever comes first.
September 30th.
somewhere between wow this is embarrassing and being forced into retirement
Can someone answer me seriously, because I really don’t care for the unamusing comments. If not, just say no, he didn’t.
Javy’s limit is ludicrous speed.
(It’s not serious, but I’m hoping it’s not unamusing either.)
I’ll laugh because you usually amuse me, TSJC.
I thought I was being pretty amusing.
Yours was amusing, but the others I didn’t care for.
i fail…
javyu cant find strike zone wooOOOOooo!!!
just trying to have fun the situation people lol.
Does javy make it to the 5th inning?
nope
does he make it past Buck???
God dammit the rays are going to lose and we get this performance…
I’ve been pulling for Javy all year, but no more. This is ridiculous, I can’t stand watching him pitch, he is just terrible.
i give you a lot of credit for sticking by Javy this long.
Haha, I just didn’t want to give all the “Javy can’t cut it in NY” people the satisfaction.
I still believe he can be good, unfortunately its going to be next year when hes back in the NL.
maybe he;s part reptile and can grow his arm in the process
Follow up point:
Javy has been amazingly lucky to only give up three runs so far, he has been hit hard all night.
i honestly can say i enjoy watching javy more than AJ, because once in a while he’ll throw a 60 mph curve which always makes me laugh
It’s the fourth inning. Don’t press the “THEY SUCK” button just yet.
oh just efffing great!
just effing great!
Orioles go up 2-0 and Javy is blowing any chance we have to win the division.
…..playing himself off the roster…. hell, I wouldn’t even let him on the plane from toronto to Boston.
We should have let CC pitch 2 days in a row. Torre would have done it. Stupid Girardi. FIRE HIM!
ZOMG FIRE GIRARDI
2000000000000000000004
And O’s up 2-0
more meaningful games this weekend! Go O’s!
Just learned that the Knicks signed this guy in the offseason…
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/.....yerId=4298
Timofey. LOL. Crazy Russians.
maybe they found something even a blind squirrel
Hah! The guy who worked at the corner deli near where I used to live was named Timofy, like Timothy. He wasn’t Russian, though.
“Anfernee”
And the Yanks breathe a sigh of relief as their perennial gold glove competing pitcher continues on.
he should pull an Ankiel and move to middle infield
switch with Swish
Gee, a run scored. Shocker.
Comeon Javy, 4 is do-able, just get out of it now please.
Javy would make a good defensive replacement for someone in the infield
limiting the damage woooOOOOOO! MOMENTUM SHIFT!!
lol can javy play outfield for the yanks?
so the newest gospel from girardi and the stupid media is kearns is an asset against lefties over gardner. MY response is bull. Gardner if he can get on base can be an asset. Kearns stinks. Also regardless of the bonehead play by escobar tonight gardner is a significant upgrade of kearns the hack in the field…
imagine they play minny and kearns starts against liriano and duensing, horrible…
btw aj burnett should not start a game in the alds unless old reputation and paycheck matter.
vazquez is bad, just not as bad as burnett.
imagine the yanks have won 94 games with disasters for 4th and 5th starters…yep aj is a 5th starter at best.
this is a big worry. Kearns has no other lefty starters to face in Boston so hopefully Joe will forget about him as a starter. gardy has to play.
at least he’s not imploding on us like good old reliable AJ.
if the yanks wanted to come in first pettitte would be pitching tonight. anyone buying they want to win the division drivel is delusional…..
setting up the rotation for the ALDS is more important
You mean to say:
setting up the rotation for the ALDS is more important………
very impressive.
Wow, look at that Bitch Tail on the back of Cecil’s neck.
What is he, part donkey?
no, but he’s pitching like a stud.
A stud donkey, then.
Also referred to as an “ass”.
cervelli is killing it tonight!
Ray’s vaunted offense shut out through 7 by Millwood
Future yankee Millwood you mean
I heard Swisher caught some heat from espn radio for calling reporters “stupid” if they didnt vote for CC for the CY.
Did he really say that or was he misheard?
Nope. He totally said they were stupid.
I heard Swisher caught some heat from espn radio for calling reporters “stupid” if they didnt vote for CC for the CY.
He’s wrong and right. BBWAA reporters are stupid regardless of whether or not they vote for CC.
He really said it but thats what you get when you mix an already loud and hyper (read awesome) Nick Swisher with champange and more adrenaline.
espn is just bitter that the yanks are in the playoffs, the sawx arent, and none of the red sox’s FIVE ACES!!!! are in the cy young conversation. in other words they’re making a big deal out of nothing
he said it but he was being playful.
gotta remember ESPN traffics in yankee-hating.
Now if they can only do this thing were the batters go around the bases and touch home.
This the last we’ll ever see of Javy in an American League uniform.
He single handedly killed our shot at HFA.
Yeah, Burnett had nothing to do with it.
World Series ring immunity
really, offensive futility, aj meltdown, mo’s pair of meltdowns had nothing to do with that?
unless you’re being sarcastic. in that case my bad.
So I guess we’re just ignoring Andy Pettitte’s injury?
Or Mo’s scuffles? Or Jeter’s slump? Or Tex’s injury? Or Phil’s innings workload?
Etc. etc. etc.
Not singlehandedly, but the -0.1 fWAR sure as hell didn’t help matters. Very disappointing season from a very likable person. Hopefully Javy can rebound at his next destination.
No one player ever single-handedly kills a shot at anything in baseball.
except joe girardi.
Except for Casey Kelly, who singlehandedly kills everyone else’s playoff chances.
Tell that to Jose Mesa.
thank you kevin millwood!!!
thank you!!!
Sure, it’s good that they’re losing, but we have to pick up two games in the loss column in five days. Right now, our losing trumps the O’s winning.
ouch!
x2
our offense really can’t hit lefties or something….this is pretty god awful
We have the second highest OPS v. LHP in the AL.
RISPY September guys and gals. lots of torture innings these last 3 weeks.
Team is so pathetic against lefties. Who cares if the Rays lose if we can’t win.
Team is so pathetic against lefties.
Thanks Michael Kay.
(awaits tsjc’s response)
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....nt-1166827
wtf tex!
Death, taxes, and Tex pops it up on the infield.
nice patient ab by tex. way to pop out to first.
he could not do that on the 4th pitch.
the 1 day situational hitting nirvana is over…
ATTENTION NYY: cecil is not a good pitcher. the jays are not even a real team. they are just a bunch of ugly guys juiced out of their minds. canada is not a real country. YOU SHOULD NOT BE LOSING! lol
I’m telling you, we truly aren’t trying to win the division. We are trying to avoid Lee at all costs.
We’re not trying to avoid shit. We’re the Yankees. Shit tries to avoid us.
That’s so bad ass, TSJC. Love it.
I’m not used to losing. You know who’s used to losing?
Losers.
i know. i just have an irrational hatred toward the blue jays and being shut out by someone thats not even that good
Ha, I knew Canada wasn’t real. I think we’ve all been punked.
http://www.nanpalmero.com/wp-c.....as-hat.jpg
no worries against lefties, the great kearns is here to be a difference maker over gardner…….
………
……………………………………..
based on the photo of jeff niemann on the front page of mlb.com, it looks as though the rays are donning caps with plaid brims. classic.
lol just saw that
http://blog.lids.com/.a/6a0115.....ed4970b-pi
you can wear it hunting
If Javy give up less hits than the number on his back I’ll be happy.
i guess Canadians can’t spell P-E-D
Are they chanting MVP or Jose’s batting average, TWO SIX-TY?
Go, Juicy?
booster juice!!!!
hahahahahhahaha where did that curveball miss
I wish I could be surprised that people are freaking out, but I’m so not.
If we lose this game, Bex, the Red Sox are right back in it.
RIGHT BACK IN IT!
I hear they’re grittiness will lead them to the playoffs.
They’ll be the first team in history to be uneliminated!
SEVEN ACES
And that’s JUST Casey Kelly. He counts for seven.
Once you add Lackey AND Beckett what with the amount of Aces they count for, well…
I think adding Lackey and Beckett brings the Ace count back to five.
Ahahahah. You funny.
I think there’s a quiet, calm faction around here…
Can’t be you, you have “Jersey” in your name!!!
(I kid)
You talking to me? You talking to me?
Seriously. You can’t even sit here and enjoy a game knowing we’re in the post season.
I really am surprised. I mean did people really expect the A+ lineup and a complete game 21-0 shutout?
I’m pissed we didn’t reanimate Red Ruffing’s corpse for this game.
HOME FIELD IS ON THE LINE, DAMNIT!!!!!!
no. i expect the staten island yankees 28-0 win and a perfect on 81 pitches. all strikeouts.
why wouldn’t we be angry, we had a legitimate shot at winning HFA if we won this game, coupled with the Rays lose.
For some reason i am not even mad or frustrated with Javy. if we loses this game we need so much for the home field stuff im blaming this crap on girardi. they say they want to win the game and the best he could come up with is Javy ? to hell with this crap. i cant take this anymore, i have to stop watching games like this ones or im gonna end up having a stroke due to extremely doses of stress during games. sorry for releasing my anger on this website guys, i Just needed to let it out or something.
if we loses this game we need so much for the home field stuff im blaming this crap on girardi.
We don’t need home field that much.
I’m going to have to disagree.
We don’t “need” home field at all. It would be kind of nice to have it, and would make things a bit easier if the series goes to seven games, but we don’t “need” it.
That works too.
This. It would be nice, so that some of us can go watch the games, but essential? No.
yea it’s not like we clinched and are trying to set up our post season rotation.
Anyone know whats the deal with the CD’s glued to the dugout walls?
Are they Celine Dion CDs?
They’re Alanis Morissette CD’s. Best thing to come out of Canada.
(Not really. I strongly dislike Morissette)
You dislike Morrissette?
Huh. That’s ironic.
“best thing to come out of canada”
nothing good comes out of canada. you know why? CANADA’S A MYTH! IT DOESN’T EXIST!
HA.HA.HA!! lol
well at least he lasted longer than AJ.
Oh good lord…
Oh Javy, I can’t wait to never see you again.
Maybe he’ll catch on with Boston… then, I’d like to see him again.
This is really fun.
So I didn’t know AJ was pitching tonight…
Why did AJ and Javy do a bad job painting the house?
They allowed too many runs.
brackman time??
Why not? He can’t do much worse than what we have already witnessed this evening.
How did Aaron Hill get around on a 71 mph hanging curveball?
Guy’s got an edge
boooooster juice!
Is it the same color as Jeter’s?
yes, it also has a cool panoramic vista roof
Is that the real reason Jetes get all the babes??
The cool panoramic vista roof?? Wow! I gotta get me an edge.
This is actually good. I was afraid Javy would pitch like a legitimate major league pitcher and Girardi might be fooled into giving him a roster spot.
That’s one way to view this game positively.
Let’s see how Nova and Gaudin pitch this weekend.
The only reason I’m watching is in case they give Brackman an inning…
7-0? please. they’re only pitching like this to set up for back-to-back grandslams for the win. one by pena. the other by moeller
That’s even more far-fetched than javy pitching a perfect game.
they’re in canada. you know what that means? BOOSTER JUICE!! anything is possible.
All 100 tampa fans are now thanking Javy for a stellar outing.
no. all 100 “tampa fans”
That’s all of 95 more fans than they actually have. The rest cheer for the Orioles.
It was nice knowing you as a Yankee, Javy. Too bad it didn’t work out the second time either.
Michael Kay “that knocks him out of the game lets see if it knock him out of the playoff pictures as well”
WOW JUST WOW
Hey mustang… have you ever tried decaf?
I’m guessing just guessing but HELL YES!
So…
They really didn’t care to win this one, it would seem.
that was a given when Javy was penciled in
ANDREW BRACKMAN PLEASE
so picking between AJ and Javy is like asking for a quick death or a slow one.
I go with AJ. At least he could potentially dominate, right?
if you like ignore his last 26 outings where he accumulated a nice 6 + era…then yes i guess
Well yeah. I’m just saying that he actually has the stuff to succeed if he could develop some command. Javy has nothing at this point, so I’m going with the guy that has the stuff.
at least a slow death might save the pen
Quick (AJ)
Ridiculous outing by Javy and just to think…Tampa is losing 2-0 right now. Oh, man.
Two days ago, trolls would be everywhere spewing incomprehensible drivel everywhere. The regulars would be downcast. Today, nobody really cares.
That, my friends, is the security of a postseason berth.
The amount of hate for Javy on Twitter is really kind of disturbing. I live and die with the Yankees, pretty much. But how do people have this insane hatred for someone they’ve never met, who doesn’t really affect their life in any way?
Sorry it didn’t work out better, Javy.
i cant stand the things people say about javy. especially because he seems like a nice guy. i mean when hes struggling he never lashes out at the interviewers or anything like that either.
heh i liked the javy trade, it looked good too uptil mid august. too bad something just went wrong down the stretch. It’s just unlikely as hell that the two times we had him he had arm problems.
*unlucky
I take it you’ve missed the 3 million “I hate Cervelli” comments on twitter and this site and pretty much anywhere else.
But yea, it really does suck for Javy, I really rooted for both him and AJ to pull it together, unfortunately it will probably really damage Javy’s career as a Yankee and beyond. As far as AJ, well I’ll just have to keep hoping.
Oh, ditto that. Any time I see comments along the lines of “fuck you, (player)” I just have to laugh.
Good thing I don’t care about this game.
30 !!!!!
30!!
#30! He did it!
30, baby…
30!
well someone is consistent
#30
that is all
30!
THE STREAK STAYS ALIVE!!!
YEAH! NUMBER 30. Good job, Alex. And congrats.
Yay, 30!
ABOMB. #30 ^_^
YESSSSS!!
30!
too bad noone was on base. lol whatever i dont really care. still good it happened
AROD!!!! GO PERSONAL MILESTONES!
Stat padder
Yay-Rod!
Stat-padder! (I kid.)
Beat you to it. We both have a keen sense of the readily apparent. lol.
oh no you didn’t Brett Cecil
That was poor.
Up 7-1 and they plunk Cano? Bush league…
He’s a reeeeal doooouuuche.
(Nacho’d)
Will Girardi bring in a goon to drill a Blue Jay? Will that goon be Andrew Brackman? Be a tough spot for your major league debut
plunk bautista. punk has it coming
Joba fastball to the head please
Unnecessary. Hitting people in the helmet is uncalled for.
Too bad 30 couldn’t mean just a little more — but congratulations to Alex, anyway
I really hope that wasn’t on purpose, Cecil.
Thir-Tee, Thir-Tee
Will Brackman make an appearance tonight?
Remember that day, the day when we all thought we traded for an ace, when RAB almost broke down, when twitter was ablaze with rumors that the Yanks were getting an ace pitcher? So sad. The actual excitement of that day was something, i was convinced it was Josh Johnson afterall we gave up Arodys !! Frustrating.
Arodys was not gonna get us Josh Johnson. Hughes/Joba (maybe both) and Montero might have gotten us JJ but why would the Yankees do that?
oh i know
i know it wasnt JJ for Arodys straight up, m just sayin rumors were so crazy. Just compared the craziness of that day with the reality of Javy’s season.
When people talk about the Javy deal, they always seem to bring up Aroyds. Vizcaino was in A-ball at the time of the deal. A-ball prospects, more likely than not, don’t pan out to be Felix Hernandez (Bret reference!). If Viz becomes a big time pitcher, then the deal was bad for us. If he flops, then it continues to be a wash.
Plus he got hurt and had surgery (TJ?) this year.
Fun Fact: When Felix Hernandez was Arodys Vizcaino’s age, he had a 158 ERA+ in a dozen big league starts.
Javy was an Ace, from mid june- mid august he was the guy we expected. his arm crapped out and his stuff just died. You can’t exactly blame him for something he had no control over.
LMFAO I dare a Blue Jay to go after Brackman. He is a monster. 6’10. Big dude.
Is it free Molson beer night? Those canucks are having a grand ole time.
only pussies drink Molson
A-30
Make him regret hitting Robbie, you guys. For the sake of not plunking anyone else and starting a fight. Pay him back with runs.
That’s the best way to get him back for the HBP. Score the run.
So…
Why was Vazquez left out there to give up 7 runs with the benefit of September rosters?
I’m not going to accuse you of anything because that would be a dick move, but completely seriously, why are you not as pissed off at Javy as you were at A.J.?
Vazquez has nothing this season except for the middle of the year when he emptied the tank. I actually commend him this season. Every out he gets is a battle. He never gave up on this team.
Fair enough. Just wondering.
cervelli hitting .310 against lefties?
nice
Wow, Cisco’s been swinging the bat much better as of late. That’s my anecdotal analysis. Stats, anyone?
Cervelli is hitting leftys at a good clip, close to .300
He hit lefties well last year as well. He’s like a skinny Jose Molina.
What in the world are they chanting in the crowd?
It’s Canada. No one knows what they do up there.
We just know it involves alcohol.
Don’t forget the sex with animals thing. They love that up there
TSJC once told me it had something to do with bestiality. I chose to believe him.
Well, not all of them. Just the ones that walk around with checkered jackets and hats with ear flaps.
Come to think of it, that’s pretty much all of them. Never mind.
Maybe they saw Don Cherry somewhere. Who knows?
There seemed to be all kinds of crowd stuff going on last night that didn’t seem to align, in any way, with what was going on on the field.
hmmmm a rally begins…
We have a ballgame!
Would have been nice to not be down 7 runs here.
Uehara says Sayonara!!!
2-0 O’s final
Don’t hit Cano again. We are going to ruin Cito’s night.
Totally confirmation bias but the Yankees only seem to score after the game has been broken open, lol.
And seriously, we get it trolls. You don’t like Javy Vazquez. Move on.
Rally caps, everyone.
The Rays got shut out TWICE in a series with the Orioles. Once by Brian Matusz – fine. Once by KEVIN MILLWOOD.
But only the Yankees have issues.
It’s ’cause they’ve been pitch perfect all year. Pitch. Perfect. Boston has its five aces and what do the Yankees have? One ace. One < five.
But our ace is a True Ace!
True Ace indeed. Wish we could clone him.
meh we’ll just buy one for christmas
I hope so. A ring and another true ace? Best gifts ever.
Rally caps!
7-4 or 7-3?
Is anyone else here only watching the rest of the game in case Brackman gets in?
A-Rod is hilariously awesome
Comeback? Don’t mind if I do.
Vazquez is only half the problem in this game for the people that are complaining about him.
He had nothing (as usual), but it is Girardi’s job to recognize that and not leave him out there to give up 7.
He makes a lot less than AJ who gave up 7 in about 15 minutes. The Post or News dubbed him A. J.oke
What does his salary have to do with it?
I kinda agree here. They already don’t trust Javy enough to hold a spot in the rotation, yet they let him go and give up the three run homer.
In September, Cervelli has stopped sucking:
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com.....statType=1
Add in a 3-3 tonight
On Javy – I like the guy. It’s just sad to see him lose his stuff so completely
maybe this offseason he goes through a mussina revamp and signs with some random nl team.
He reminds me of Moose in 2007 a lot.
It’s not a bad comp – Javy’s shown the great curve and change. What killed him this year – he seemed to lose fastball command. After the terrible start this year, Javy was getting by with an 89 mph fb mainly b/c of his command. All of sudden, he lost it the last 6 or 7 starts
I’ve got to think there’s some kind of injury – but add in all those innings on his arm.
Cervy may never be a Posada or Mauer but for a kid who got thrown into the fire straight out of AA he could be much much worse.
I like this rally against Cecil…..hopefully this leads to success against him next season. It’s all in the head.
all i have to say is: just get it to arod.
Yanks down a touchdown but are driving.
No DP, Cap’n.
He obliged.
down goes Frasor
Come on boys, lets get this done.
Holy * Swisher’s the tying run.
Swish, I’m not greedy, but hit something that gets us a couple of runs.
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT!
The turf giveth and turf’ll take it away!
Dang it, Swish. Just dang it.
Ack, first pitch?
gameday says it was in his wheelhouse.
Touche. Still, it was a bit of a buzzkill.
Also, there’s this: http://www.fangraphs.com/stats.....discipline
What a joke
Not the 4-6-3 DP! Siiiiiiiigh.
EVERYBODY PANIC WE’RE GOING TO LOSE A MEANINGLESS GAME
I’ve got the cyanide pills, someone just needs to bring the wine.
Can I bring my Dog? He’ll have no one to look after him when I’m gone….
Sure. We’re all going to die anyways. The more the merrier.
We all know this is (likely) meaningless, I still want to see the Yanks do well regardless of the circumstance.
I’d rather see them get healthy. And I’d rather see them play the Twins, so I couldn’t care less about the division.
YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!
/Herm Edwards’d
IT’S FRUSTRATING.
SETTLE DOWN, IT’S NOT THAT SERIOUS!!
/No seriously, calm it down
Why is everyone yelling?
I have no clue.
LOUD NOISES!!!!
Robbie goes BOOM!
Rarrrrrr SUGAR RUSH!
there is no other word…
shit.
amazing jeter battles and takes pitches and get a hit, while swisher swings early into a DP…
/September’d
Can we take Swish out of the 2 spot and put the Grandy man behind Jete?
Swisher was raking in the first half in the two hole, but the way granderson is swinging the bat, I wont be surprised if hes sittin their in the playoffs.
There isn’t no reason David Robertson should be pitching; there are NEGATIVE reasons as to why he should be pitching. This is fucking stupid, Joe.
Mitre was warming up just incase they tied it, I guess.
he’s trying to prove that we are still attempting to win the division.
Coming off the back spasms, maybe Robertson wanted to go an inning to test it out. If the back issue is purely muscular, there’s no way the Yankees would risk sending him out there unless he was over it.
I suspect all the relievers will get at least a day off between appearances over the weekend.
Robertson throws the ball 91 MPH and guys swing and miss.
Joba and AJ have ‘teh electric stuff’, throw the ball 96-98 and get crushed.
How is that possible?
Better control, more vertical break on his fastball.
Stop talking jibberish. D-Rob has guts, AJ and Joba are pussies.
High socks.
High socks FTW!
+1
more deceptive delivery
he hides the ball better and has better command. Look at lincecum he lost nearly 4 mph since his debut but his arm action is so deceiving and his offspeed is that good that it still causes swing and misses.
What Ross said
Also – Robertson is supposed to have a deceptive motion that makes the FB appear to jump out of his hand
I think it comes down to both tangibles and intangibles.
BOOSTERRR JUICE!!!
On a similar note-
Pitcher A:
ERA-0.38
G-19
IP-24.0
H-12
SO-34
Pitcher B:
ERA-0.36
G-23
IP-25.0
H-14
SO-29
One pitcher lit the world on fire, the other quietly equalled his performance. Anyone want to venture a guess?
A is ’07 Joba?
Yeah, that’s the easy one. Actually, they’re both easy.
Joba 2007 vs Wood 2010????
DING DING DING!
You win……my eternal admiration.
heh… so no kewpie doll…
Wood’s season certainly gives one lumber
A is ’07 Joba, B is ’10 Wood?
A: Joba
B: Wood
The game over? I stopped watching because I decided I didn’t want to watch anymore.
The beauty of meaningless baseball.
Twelve pitches for a fly out?
Fascinating…
So, kind of OT, but dudes: who’s your biggest Yankee man-crush?
A-rod, obviously.
The Grandy Man
Tie between Mo and A-Rod.
Teix.
ok. i have a question. besides andy pettitte who,in your opinion, is the cutest yankee?
A-Rod is ridiculously, ridiculously, ridiculously hot but I wouldn’t call him cute. And yes there is a difference. ;P
lol yeah trust me i know there’s a difference lol. ehh i guess a-rods alright. i approve
Let’s just say a certain Yankee reliever gives me Wood.
Mo
Is there a professional athlete who exudes more class and grace, win or lose?
Just saw this note during the Twins-Royals game: Three players have three grand slams this year: A-Rod, Adrian Gonzalez…
and this guy: http://bit.ly/91aLzw
Hahaha there has to be a word for what he has been to us this year. I dunno, maybe “jester.”
I feel like Girardi pulls a Torre lately and goes to sleep for part of the game.
Before the game, he said to himself, hey I want to win this game so I won’t throw out the Scranton Yankees. Then he fell asleep for a few innings and let Vazquez give up 7 runs. He woke up and said shit, I wanted to win this game. Get D-Rob up!
fun trivia question: what are the only 2 (pretty sure there are only 2) sports teams of the 4 main sports whose name is not plural, or end in an “s” i mean?
jazz, heat, red sox, white sox?
That’s four, I just realized.
uhh i forgot about those. beside those 4 then.lol
Would they both end in X? And do I win a kewpie doll?
Red Sox and White Sox.
ok i clearly did not prepare well for this. but the 2 i was thinking of were the oklahoma city thunder and minnesota wild. my bad lol
Longoria was supposed to just be out for the weekend, and now he’s still out and is probably going to be out longer. Ruh roh for the Rays.
and twins about to drop 6 in a row…i guess we’re not the only ones limping into the play offs.
I don’t think anyone is doing well.
Yeah, all of the AL playoff teams are really scuffling right now.
You know how there’s TINSTAAPP for There Is No Such Thing As A Pitching Prospect?
Well I propose OTYHI. Only The Yankees Have Issues.
He’s off looking for his cap.
Probably got that injury jumping out of that helicopter.
Heh, IETC.
Longoria’s such a jerk. Calling out fans, accusing them of stealing his hat.
Bernie Mac?
4 pitch innings rule
wooOOOooo!!!
yay for first pitch swings
Do yourself (and the rest of us) a favor. Pick a random Yankee. Say..Derek Jeter, since fans always get on him for this. Look up his numbers against 1st pitches and compare them to his career numbers.
Here, I’ll do it for you:
http://www.baseball-reference......;t=b#count
never said i had a problem with it, just when we have give a pitcher 4 pitch inning it’s annoying.
Joba is gonna hit someone
Wow Yanks, that was impressive. The heart of the lineup too.
It’s called “being a little bitch,” Kay.
Bautista is such a douche
that 3-0 (resulting in 3-1) pitch by job was nasty.
You know why I think that Bautista is cheating somehow? Not because his numbers are different than last years, but because in a year when numbers across the board are down, he is above-average. He has TEN MORE homeruns than anyone else in baseball. He obviously has something giving him an edge.
how many times do i have to say this?? ITS THE BOOSTER JUICE!!!
Sure seems fishy.
he takes two flinstones gummy vitamins every night
is it a car?
Again. Unfair accusations. I don’t know about testing because I honestly could care less who is doing steroids and who isn’t, and I know that the tests for steroids aren’t the best, but accusing someone of doing steroids because he has 10 more home runs than anyone else is unfair. I don’t like Bautista either, but saying “HE MUST BE JUICING” without evidence is not right.
i guess i agree. but can you really honsetly say that you do not think he is juicing? i mean in his entire career he had like 56 homeruns or something. then in 1 season he has 52 and counting? thats just a little weird to me (bautistas numbers, not you)
I don’t think he’s juicing. And if he is. I frankly don’t give a fuck. It’s suspicious that he’s gotten so many home runs, but he says its his mechanics, and I choose to believe him. And it’s mostly suspicious because steroids have tainted so many records, but I really don’t care. I just dislike the accusations without evidence.
i respect your reasons. they seem reasonable.
I agree – we can kid about it b/c Bautista did his little d-bag fist-pump after his HR against Robertson this year, but there’s no proof that he juiced
Looking at his stats, Bautista’s ISO doubled – .173 to .358. In 2000 ABs previously in the majors, he’d never been above .185 in a season. He’s going to be 30 in a month.
http://www.fangraphs.com/stats.....tion=3B/OF
David Ortiz? Went from an ISO of .241 to .228 (in Minny) to .304 (in Boston, 2003) – at age 28.
Has any other player ever seen that kind of increase in ISO season to season at Bautista’s age?
You know what? I think he’s a giant douche. But props to him for having a great homerun hitting season. You know MLB has tested him this year. If it was one of our guys, we wouldn’t bat an eye. If he was a nice guy, no one would have anything to say. But he’s a douche.
Maybe he was careless buying vitamins and supplements from his local GNC
/Ortiz’d
He was set up by someone in New York
/actually Ortiz’d
no way! he did not actually say that did he? omg that is too funny if he did lol
Indeed he did.
hahahaha thatst hilarious, imagine if a yankee ever said that?
Forgot to add that yours is actually a /Mitre’d
It’s almost like Cervelli should pick up the ball instead of just staring at the runner.
he wanted to freeze the runner with his twinkly blue eyes
They’re green.
give me a fucking break, he looked out
i wonder if a team could steal home against us?
jacoby ellsbury did that earlier this year…
that was last year against Andy and I think I cried.
really? it’s been that long? my god i thought it was this year. crazy how time flies
it was last year against pettitte wasnt it?
Strike 3 to Overbay was a studly pitch from Joba… but man, Joba needs to pay a little more attention to runners
Ooooohhhhh Joba’s hitting 96! Watch out Blue Jays! You got NO shot today!
Right on cue. I just love Joba.
Joba’s stuff that inning was amazing
If we’ve got Mo, Wood, Joba, Robertson and Logan rested and at their best for the postseason, our pen is pretty dominant
Our pen is fine, but I have no idea how anyone trusts Joba. He gets hit too hard to bring him in with men on base, and he makes too much trouble for himself to give him anything but a clean inning. He’s a low-leverage reliever at this point.
Why is Wells stealing third? Put in Mitre and bean someone.
Because it worked. I do agree though, stealing third is a pretty douchey move, especially when you have the lead. I mean what reason would A Rod and Frankie ever have to expect that?
why couldn’t aron hill do this with my fantasy team when i had him? Worst draft pick ever
you and i both. i drafted him in the 5th round, thinking it was a steal
LOL Yankees Suck chants always make me laugh. Guess who’s going to the playoffs?
Oh! Oh! I know! Not the Blue Jays!
retarded Canadians!
yes “the yankees suck” which is exactly why they are going to the post season while your team is rotting in fourth place. bunch of morons.
That’s right, Blue Jays fans. The Yankees do suck; hence the reason they’re on their way to the playoffs yet again and your team is continuing its annual tradition of watching the Yankees play on TV in October.
which would you guys consider the worst loss of the season? (so far anyway) my vote would be the joba meltdown vs the indians or the mo meltdown vs the rangers.
agree?/disagree?
Probably the Indians but that Grand Slam Joba gave up against the Mariners was pretty tough to take too
oh yeah. that’s true. especially since have had a shutout through 7. thats another game we “should’ve won”
The GS to the Mariners was my worst loss of the season. Javy nearly no-hits the Mariners, Pena makes a great catch, Swish hits a home run against Felix, and we get duped out of a win.
Story of Javy’s 2010 season, pretty much.
Seriously. Poor guy, even when he pitched super well we didn’t score for him. He needs a hug after this season. Or to go to the NL and kill it.
I selflessly volunteer myself to give Javy that hug. Go kill the NL, Javy.
group hug for javy!! im in!
i know. i feel so bad for him. some criticism i guess he does deserve [like tonight's poor outing for example] but he does not get credit where it is due and is treated unfairly. he seems like a real nice guy too.
Oh, he’s pitched like crap for a while now and deserves criticism for it, just like AJ. Just the fanbase is so vicious to him (not here), and even when he was pitching well, he didn’t get a ton of run support. Can’t help but feel bad, especially considering how happy he was when things did go right for him.
yeah i just hate the way stupid fans and media treat decent players and have blind loyalty to players that might not deserve it. id rather everyone get treated equally and for what they deserve
Ew, bad topic. But yeah, those two. Sunday’s game would’ve been probably the worst, but thank goodness we came back.
lol i know right? ugghh i just hate the losses where the bulloen loses it, because i feel that those are games that you really should have won, you know?
I hate it when Mariano loses games. Those are freak occurrences, but they really hurt, just because I love him and all.
It sounds awful of me, but I would prefer someone else get the loss than Mo. It’s the worst feeling when he has a loss, simply because he’s been so great.
i feel exactly the same way. like joba meltdowns are frustrating and all, but its those mo meltdown that put you in shock and make you feel like uhhh did that honestly just happen?
This one was pretty bad: http://www.baseball-reference......ores.shtml
which one? all it does is link to the entire schedule
In case the link doesn’t work, I was referring to the Yankees-Twins game from May where Mo gave up a two-out grand slam to Kubel in the eighth.
I erased that from my memory. That was awful.
i remember after the grandslam, the crowd was in shock. there was deead silence. so awkward
My family friend got tickets to the Legends Suite for his birthday for that game. He was sitting there with his wife who doesn’t care much about baseball. Apparently he started crying and she was just like ???
I understand him. I kind of cried that day too.
When Boston scored the go-ahead run off Mo on Sunday night, I was actually crying. First time I’ve cried over baseball in a while. It’s pathetic. I was just so worn out from the crappy playing and Mo blowing it made me super upset.
But then Papelbon blew it and we won on a walk-off walk so it’s all good I guess, ha.
hahaha i understand that
I cried that day too…haha. It was embarassing for me, but it happened. The shrimp video on walk off walk made it all better.
lol thats pretty funny. ive sat at those seats before. ridiculously nice. ridiculously expensive lol
I was not happy at the end of this game.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....=300518110
with the thames”s dropped pop up, ugghh that one was pretty bad. that entire week of baseball was bad IIRC
Wasn’t that the now infamous Thames dropped pop up game? I think I was “studying” for a biochem test that day and ended up tearing my review sheet in half.
I believe here on RAB there was a “rant” thread immediately after the game. I’d actually blocked that one out but yeah, it’s probably the worst.
I hadn’t discovered RAB back then, but I got some crazy paper cuts after tearing all my shit in half. And it was actually part of my thesis that I tore up. Fun times.
I have a friend who got drunk and destroyed 2/3 of his thesis by accident.
Ouch! I just tore up my lab notes for my thesis, which is really bad, but I had a notebook that makes carbon copies, so I lucked out. Did he get drunk after that game?
Haha, it was in college and I don’t think he cared much about baseball.
My brother destroyed half of his room in 2001, so I have to ask.
I threw a shoe at the wall. There’s still a mark there.
i remember that. you know what made the dropped popup even more frustrating? thames called off cano.
That rant thread was worth it just for Hiba’s words.
Yeah. Beckett blew a gasket that game and CC dominated. Yet they lost because Joba was awful and Thames dropped the pop up.
3 votes for worst loss of the season include Joba blowups.
lol. the mariners one was frustrating IMO because that happened in mid july when robertson was rolling and joba was awful, yet girardi still decided to go to joba with a 1 run lead. not one of the smartest decisions i feel.
francisco cervelli player of the game option. lol
I’ll give him credit when he’s on he’s on.
defense was far from stellar though.
Well it’s hard to throw out someone at 2B when the pitch is in the dirt, and honestly who saw the steal at 3rd coming?
thats true but its still frustrating because the steal to third most likely allowed the run to score
plus, he was out at 3rd
Even better point.
Question. Joba’s ERA is in the mid-5s again next year. We can’t demote him without him passing through waivers since he has 3+ years of service time. At what point next year do the Yanks DFA him? Or do you think they’ll put up with 3 straight seasons of ERA+ of 98 or less?
I’ll start, I think he has until next year’s trade deadline.
This is a joke, right? Please say this is a joke.
Oh, so the Yanks aren’t trying to win anymore?
Joba’s peripherals do not line up with his ERA. He has a 3.01 FIP and a 3.51 xFIP. He still has a 9.17 K/9 and is allowing 0.66 HRs per 9. He is also still just 25 years old. If you’re expecting the Yankees just to outright release someone like that, you’re nuts.
That’s nice. He’s a low leverage reliever at this point. If he’s not carrying his weight next year, the next demotion is…….? This assumes they have a replacement they like better lined up, which is why I said the trade deadline, but it’s not crazy.
Yes, it is crazy. The second they DFA him there’d be 29 teams falling over themselves to employ his services. Joba has had some bad performances this year but it’s no reason to give up on him this soon. If you want to try to trade him, fine, but even then you’d be selling low.
The Yankees won’t continue to pay his arbitration raises if he continues to put up numbers this bad.
That’s still a pretty big “if”. Like I said, his peripherals don’t match up with his performance. Either it’ll click or it won’t. Either way, they need a longer look at him.
Umm.. I really hope we weren’t trying to win this game. I’m sorry but when you throw Vazquez out there you pretty much eliminate your chances of winning. I’m sorry but that guys not only a head case he dosn’t know how to pitch without his fastball hitting 92-94.. It’s sad considering he was the pitcher with one of the most innings / strikeouts from 00-09.
Brackman sighting!
Brackman warming up!
BRACKMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy shit, brackman!!
YES! BRACKMAN!
PREPARE FOR BRACKMONSTER, HIDE THE CHILDREN
This is what I will think if everytime I see him pitch.
Woo! The Brackmonster!
too bad we wont get to see him
Yeah I just kinda realized that… unless of course we score 5 or more this inning
I don’t really care about the HFA , so this game is meaningless in it’s significance.
But damn it , how fucking awful can you be than Javy is today. He is not making the playoff roster IMO. My superstitious side says , release him to save himself and the team future mental anguishes.
Why would you release a player with all of 3 games left in the season?
spite.
maybe… obviously we did not get our money worth. I have to think about that. some kinda of punitive statement i suppose.
personal reasons, I would feel better without him on this team.
He’s not making the postseason roster after this, so I don’t think you’ll need to worry about having him around.
I am disgusted by his performances, I rather not even see a camera shot of him !
hes struggling. its not like hes not trying. and his job isnt exactly easy. also, he was the best pitcher from may-july, just got no run support and also no credit for that. i feel bad for him.
feel free to feel bad , I don’t . The man is taking home 12 mil after this year. He has a large art and wine collections in P.R.
He is doing aight by any standards. It’s a 6 month marathon, he has collapsed long before the finish line.
Just release him and let him go his merry ways. I don’t want to see him again ever in a Yankee uniform.
damn Brackman’s not gonna pitch, stop teasing us
He’s not making it into the game. Joe’s trying to make up for losing by getting us fans excited.
Who just pitched an inning in Mitre’s uniform?
The good Joba.
he struck out the side? what’s going on here?
Mitre striking out the side might be the most pristine example of the Sterling Theorem we’ll ever see.
You know Suzan, you can’t just can’t predict…
ok, another not-so-fun topic:
which Mo “meltdown” would you say is worse?
game 7 of the 2001 world series or blowing both games 4 and 5 of the 2004 ALCS?
Ugh. Why?
Anyway, I was watching The Tenth Inning for a little while earlier and I… I… I think I’m over the 2001 World Series, guys. This feels good to say. (sniff) And 2001 always bothered me a lot more, personally, than 2004. It’s just too bad 2004 made so much of the fanbase so stupid.
I’ve been watching some of Tenth Inning myself, but I have to admit, I clicked away as soon as they started 2004.
2001 of course ended badly, but those two games at the Stadium were so amazing, I’ve never felt that gloomy about it.
2001 hurt like a bitch since it was just a generally emotional year between 9/11 and then the Yankees having a chance to win it for the city and then losing, but I got over it fairly quickly. 2004 stung like hell, but I always remember that the Red Sox only hope to achieve what the Yankees have. Two rings doesn’t change that.
lol yeah. i dont wana sound like a jerk. but ithink that it wouldve been nice for the new york team to win in 2001 just because of 9/11 and stuff you know? it mightve given the nation something to smile about after the tragedy and lost lives and stuff, you know? i mean obviously the world series wasnt more important than 9/11 or anything like that but i think you know what i mean
I agree. 2001 was a bit easier that swallow considering the Yankees were pretty much outplayed the entire Series. 2004 was like a really bad first date.. you just wanna forget about it forever and move on.
01 didn’t bother me one bit. It took massive heroics (Tino/Broscius) to get to that point and they were coming off 4/5 years, which most fans will never see in their lifetime. To me, getting there means you won your League and hang a banner, the WS is gravy to me. I’m a wreck in the ALDS/ALCS, the WS I’m totally relaxed and OK with it either way. But I’ve seen the Yanks win 7 and go to 11 WS, so that might have something to do wit it.
I still want to kick Torre in the nuts for 04.
wait why? i didnt watch in 2004 so i honestly dont know what torre did
Some people will give you an extremely long list of things that they believe Torre did wrong, but I only have three complaints.
1. Not pitching Mussina in game four.
2. Not having Mo start the 8th inning in game five.
3. Not going to Gordon against Damon in game seven, with the game hanging in the balance (minor though).
To me, those are second guesses that could have gone either way. What’s unforgivable is not exploiting a weakness in the opposing defense, and Schilling was limping on and off the mound. They could have embarrassed him out there, but chose to do nothing.
None of those are second guesses, and none of them gave the Yankees the best chance to win. You start Mussina in game four, on normal rest, for a few reasons.
1. So he doesn’t have to be aligned with Pedro.
2. To throw your ace in the first possible elimination game.
3. So you can go to someone other than Kevin Brown if the series goes to seven games. It’s hard to think about a game seven when you’re up 3-0, but they have to consider every possible scenario.
If you’re willing to bring in Mo for six outs, why not just do it at the start of the inning, instead of letting Gordon go back out for the 8th? I understand that maybe he was hesitant to do this, but with a chance to go to the World Series, win or lose with your best.
And the last one is a pretty obvious mistake, although it likely would not have mattered.
If you’re willing to bring in Mo for six outs, why not just do it at the start of the inning, instead of letting Gordon go back out for the 8th? I understand that maybe he was hesitant to do this, but with a chance to go to the World Series, win or lose with your best.
That’s an absolute 2nd guess. The game was 4-2, Gordon just got a double play on Manny the inning before and you don’t want to use Mo until you have to. After the Ortiz HR, you still have a Righty up next in Millar. Nothing wrong with the thought process, it just didn’t work out.
BTW-The big mistake was leaving Gordon in for the lefty Nixon. That made no sense.
The Manny DP was hit very hard. In the 8th inning, three of the first four hitters were going to be batting left handed. Mo was better equipped to neutralize the lefties than Gordon was.
But that’s not even the main point behind my argument. It’s not a second guess because I believe (along, I’m sure, with many others) that when they’re six outs away with a slim lead, they should put the game in the hands of their best (assuming he’s available for that many outs, which he clearly was).
Lots of things, the worst was not having a single Yankee bunt at a 1-legged Schilling, as Joe sat there watching him mow hitter after hitter down. Times like that made me wonder if Joe was even trying to win.
Here’s the lineup that night:
Jeter
A-Rod
Sheffield
Matsui
Williams
Posada
Sierra
Clark
Cairo
How many of those guys were good bunters? Two? And how many of them were fast? One?
They hammered Schilling in game one. I don’t blame them for trying to do the same that night.
That’s not even the point. You make Schilling run off the mound, he twists his surgically repaired ankle and he’s out of the game. One well placed bunt could have changed that entire series.
Schilling has gone on record saying that Varitek, Mueller, and Millar were going to handle all bunts.
I understand this criticism (especially after the whole ZOMG NOT CLASSY thing), but honestly, looking back… who on the 2004 Yankees would you have wanted to bunt? Jeter?
Putting in Javy against Damon, who owned him both that year and throughout his career, in a critical situation in Game 7 was silly. Same with saying he wouldn’t use Mo for two innings in Game 5, then putting him in to get six outs to clean up Gordon’s mess.
Brown wet the bed. If not Javy, who else was left?
This is game seven, you can’t go with a normal choice in the second inning. The game was hanging in the balance right there. It should have either been El Duque or Gordon. You have to go to unconventional means to avoid getting blown out in game seven.
A relief pitcher that hadn’t been ridiculously owned by Damon?
(I don’t mean that ? in a rude way, BTW. Just I don’t remember who was in the bullpen and what have you. I know we had like no lefties.)
The only possible lefty they could have went to is Heredia, and with his control issues, going to him with the bases loaded probably wouldn’t have been the best idea.
So without an ideal lefty to turn to, you simply have to go with a better pitcher, such as the ones I listed above.
I kind of understood the bunting argument because the Red Sox didn’t exactly have the best defensive catchers and with Schilling being injured, a bunt would have put pressure on the infield. It’s a good chance that they would’ve been completely stupid to try, but I understand the argument, especially when Schilling was pitching well. And not to be cruel, but if they had put more pressure on Schilling, he probably would’ve been out of the game faster.
Varitek in his prime (like 2002-2005? Definitely during 2004) was a pretty good defensive catcher, no? His defensive rep was pretty overblown, but I never thought of him as Piazza-bad until like last year.
But I do understand the bunting argument, you put it pretty well and weren’t just yelling “BUNTING!!!” like most people do without considering the 2004 Yankee lineup.
To be honest, I don’t remember who was catching that game so I didn’t say Varitek specifically, who turns out was the catcher. The details really escape me and I don’t feel the need to look them up because the past is the past, you know? (Hindsight being 20/20 and all) But I understood the argument. I didn’t think it was right, but I thought it had its valid points, but to be honest, a lot of things went really wrong, and the Yankees blew it–plain and simple.
Like Ben said, Schilling went on record saying the infielders would handle the bunts, but pressure is pressure. One of them could bobble, make a mistake, overthrow, etc. Even if Schilling didn’t move an inch, the pressure on the infield would have still been there, even without the fast guys on the team.
2004 ALCS.
Why are we so morbid tonight, geez!
I wouldn’t even say he blew game 5 of the ALCS. He was brought in with a one run lead and runners at the corners with nobody out. So he really only blew one game, which shouldn’t have even been too costly at the time, but only turned out to be in the end because of what happened afterwards.
In 2001 they were three outs away from the a championship. That gets my vote, although I’d hardly call it a meltdown. There was only one hard hit ball, an error (although that was by Mo), and a bad decision by Brosius.
we just want Cito to feel good for his last game
Harold Reynolds continues to be a very stupid person.
Amsinger: Roy Oswalt is the NL leader in WHIP.
Reynolds: Must be good, whatever it is. (Note: Said in a sarcastic tone.)
Really, man? You’re a paid MLB Network analyst and you don’t even know a basic stat like WHIP? Pretty pathetic.
He knows what whips are, that’s how he got canned for sexual harassment from ESPN. I keed.
I don’t think Harold was stupid before he was on ESPN – Kruk and Sutcliffe are so stupid that they’re contagious
Can Swisher get to 30 HRs now?
Time for a comeback. IF nothing else, we’re playing to see Brackman.
Hey Tex, just wanted to let you know that Gregg kinda sucks so if you want to make him throw strikes, I’m all for it.
why does everyone says he sucks?! we never score off of him!! lol
Because he’s not that great…and I’m pretty sure we’ve scored off him before. We just haven’t been able to win.
on the bright side he cant hit into a dp!
#31 please
do it for the Brackman
he looked safe..
he was not out
wasn’t even on the bag.
good time for the robo umps
Thanks for the helpful call, umps. And then you wonder why people hate you.
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
Recap, Very much like Burnett, Javy sucked again. The end.
For the record that fog horn thing is dumb.
fog horn and leg horn were my fav duo in WB growing up , they are awesome!
Good shit… can’t even beat the fucking Blue Jays when the Rays and Twins both lose… Why the fuck would we put in our starting lineup to have Javy pitch. I’m sorry but that guys just plain awful, after being a huge fan of Javy’s come back earlier this year. I got the pleasure to watch him plunk 3 batters in a row last week, and suck even more tonight. He had to give up that three run homerun? He couldn’t keep us close.. of course not.
Good thing it’s a meaningless game then, huh?
I guess so? But if it is a meaningless game manage it like a meaningless game. I don’t need Cano, Jeter, Tex, A-Rod out there if we’re essentially playing with no purpose. I guess the 2 games back in the division doesn’t mean much?
Not really. Again, HFA is nice, but it’s not essential. They can win wherever they play. The important thing is that they stay healthy.
one girardi can’t just lay down by playing all AAA starters. it sends a bad message. Two, starting javy serves two purposes…give him a chance for the post season roster and set up the post season rotation with CC, andy, hughes etc. Three people need work or else they get rusty and lose command (the pen). and finally…we have an off day tomorrow so we can give starts some extra “BP”.
Did you expect anything different with Javy pitching?
i thought Cano was supposed to get hot after the AS break?
Before anyone jumps on me, I’m not complaining. He has been wonderful this year. Just thought that he usually starts off cold and then heats up at the end of the year. It’s been the opposite.
Cano has been pretty cold recently…and his AB’s has not been good. He’s been chasing a lot of bad pitches out of the zone.
If he had “heated up” he would have hit like .400. It was pretty unlikely that he was going to keep increasing that production. He’s stayed pretty consistent, so it’s fine.
Something that makes me happy right now: A-Rod’s September line: .316/.396/.658
Let’s keep that going through October, deal?
Javy’s second tour of duties came to merciful end tonight. The journey culminated in an resounding implosion quite similar to those of 2004.
The Epitaph of Javy’s baseball biographical book would read of the following.
A man who has never fully realized his potentials.
A man who has crumbled in every pennant race he has ever been in.
Good night and good luck Javy , I do not want to see you in a Yankee uniform again.
One more time, because people don’t seem to get it after six years:
IT’S NOT JAVY’S FUCKING FAULT. HE DIDN’T LOAD THE BASES IN GAME 7, HE DIDN’T BLOW THE SAVES IN GAMES 4 AND 5, AND HE DIDN’T CAUSE THE OFFENSE TO TAKE A NAP FOR THE LAST FOUR GAMES.
It’s also not Javy’s fault we’ve been ~.500 since the break. Pettitte got hurt, Burnett and Vazquez didn’t pitch well, and the offense went to sleep. You can’t pin the blame on one player. It takes a team to win a title, but it also takes a team to fall apart and be ineffective.
Listen to the rational 14 year old people, because the Javy is to blame bullshit is getting really old, really fast.
? I read his rational. What’s that go to do with the facts he has sucked the two years he has been with NY?
Before accosting with greater crimes , please read what I stated above which are mere facts.
No one is claiming it’s his fault.
…
You wrote that he crumbled in every pennant race he was in. You’re essentially blaming him for his team not reaching the postseason.
? in whose world can be interpreted as such , Carlos?
Ozzie Guillen, is that you?
I don’t think he’s choked – Javy’s arm fell off this year. He acknowledged being hurt midway through 2004. (There was a Fangraphs piece that debunked Guillen’s claim, but I can’t find it)
I did find this study:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs.....rike-zone/
Seems clear that Javy’s stuff and command are both diminished vs 2009. That has zero to do with not handling NY. That kind of sucky stuff would get tattooed in Pittsburgh, Houston, and KC too
I made not such a claim. It’s a fact his two tour of duty with NY has ended disastrously. If you want to argue with yourself , go ahead.
On a happier note, not only did I finish my portfolio management class project… I also used a Jedi mind trick to get Wes Welker for Braylon Edwards and Donovan McNabb (it helped that the other guy had Romo on a bye, backed up by Garrard)