Sep
10
Saturday Night Open Thread
ByWe’ve got some time to kill before the Yankees try to end their three-game losing streak against the Angels tonight, so here’s an open thread to help keep everyone busy. There’s a plethora of college football on, making me wish I actually following the sport. Oh well. Anything goes here, talk about whatever your heart desires.
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The big guy gets paid for nights like tonight.
A win would be really nice right now, and would help calm some enveloping nerves. Hope he outpitches Haren and the O gets out of their collective funk right now. The first nine days of this month remind me far too much of Sept. 2010, in that the Yankees were on the latter half of an eight game streak when the month began, and struggled mightily from that point forth.
The next three opposing pitchers won’t be any walk in the park. Gonna need another solid SP performance tonight.
Yeah, would be nice to see them get back on track tonight. Last year September kind of sucked, but they did turn it back on in the ALDS pretty quickly. Anyone remember the horrendous end of 2000 season? (5-16 over their last 21 games) That post season worked out pretty well.
Too bad I was 7 that year, although I do remember Jeter’s 1st pitch homer in I believe game 4 of the WS that year.
This is true, but I’m not sure what the point is supposed to be.
I mean, it isn’t the best thing to enter the playoffs playing like shit, is it? They turned it around quickly, but look who they played in the opening round? A team that has lost 12 straight playoff games and is 2-12 in the past decade against the Yankees in the playoffs, let alone their wretched regular season marks.
I don’t care who the Yankees ultimately get between Detroit and Texas. I just hope they are opening the playoffs in the Bronx, something that would be a lot more likely if they had won a game or two in the past few days.
no, definitely not the best thing to enter playoffs playing like shit, but we (collective we of Yankee Universe) probably over react to every slump as if it is indicative of a new Long Term trend.
Yeah, I can agree with this.
Kyle Weiland is one ugly rat faced dude.
(Looks at the team he plays for…) Yeah that sounds about right.
Is ugliness a criteria when the Bossux scouts go out there and take a look at talent?
That and grittiness.
And douchiness? Or is that developed later through the farm system by attending “Beckett and Papelbon’s Academy for Advanced Douche Baggery”. With curriculum such as “How to make everyone hate you” and “How to make your facial hair extra douchey”.
Schilling is a guest lecturer.
So, if Jesus gets in a game late for some defensive reps behind the plate, and Mo comes in to pitch the ninth, will that be the first Father/Son battery in the history of Baseball?
To be honest: Minor League Baseball > College Football
Okay this is the second day in a row that the Yankees should have gotten plenty of sleep. Time for the offense to produce.
I dont know. Haren has been on a roll.
Random Question: But what is the cutoff for the number of AB’s/PA’s to be eligible for Rookie of the Year next year?
130 AB. Montero will be eligible, there aren’t enough games left for him to get there, even if he plays everyday.
Do the playoffs count?
Nope.
Awesome. Thanks.
is it time to consider dropping Tex in the batting order?
yup but it’ll probably never happen tho
I know there’s a zero % chance of this actually happening, but who would entertain the idea of starting Dellin Betances in place of A.J Burnett during the Seattle series?
Jesse would.
But LaDoosh wouldn’t?
Probanly not. Would like to see him get innings though.
Probably Betances.
Is William Oliver too old to be a prospect?
Does anybody know why Nunez is in RF and not Jones?
http://riveraveblues.com/2011/.....ffs-55898/
still nunie over dickerson or golson? really?
Who are dickerson and golson? Oh, you mean Dickie and Golsie?
I just re-read what I wrote. For the record, I was poking fun at Girardi’s use of nicknames, not yours.
Might be an incredibly stupid question, but why not give Dickerson/Golson a shot? Weren’t they called up?
Nunez has played like….what? 2 innings of OF his whole career??
Dickerson and Golson arent as good offensively as Nunez which is their main problem right now.
It’s not a stupid question. I’d rather have at least Dickerson over Nunez. Nunez will probably make an error in the outfield tonight.
I’m in the same school of not having Eduardo “Iron Wall” Nunez patrolling an unfamiliar position.
You can’t keep Nunez and his .664 OPS against righties out of the lineup…
Forget the defensive aspect…. how exactly is this an offensive move against a right handed Haren?
Is Kramer Sneed a prospect? Does anyone have a scouting report on him, or at least know anything about him except the stats?
Just for Kramerial purposes, it would be nice if he is.
Doesn’t he throw with his left hand? He will get plenty of opportunities.
He does. I just haven’t heard anything about him.
146 games into the season, and the Toronto Blue Jays have personified mediocrity to this point:
73-73
37-36 home
36-37 away
681 runs scored
681 runs allowed
Impressive.
It takes a ton of skills to have such balance.
Even Steven
Obligatory…. this just shows the brilliance of AA in building such a balanced team!
Holy shit, Will Oliver.
3-1 Rays in the 5th
The Sawx need to call up Super Prospects Jose Iglesias and Will Middlebrooks to join Ryan Lavahhhhhhnway as the three greatest trio of prospects in the history of the game. They’re so great that they already have HOF plaques in their name.
/Peter Gammons’d