ALCS Game Four Thread: Yankees @ Tigers
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I was really hoping the Yankees would be around long enough to play today, but not under these circumstances. Rather than play Game Five of the ALCS this afternoon, the Yankees and Tigers will instead play Game Four following last night’s rain out. New York is still down three games to none in the best-of-seven series, a scary but not completely insurmountable deficit. Stranger things have happened.
Since the rain out pushes the series back and day will not allow the Yankees to use CC Sabathia on three days’ rest in a potential Game Seven, I expect Joe Girardi to really ride his ace’s left arm hard today. I’m talking 120+ pitches if need be, especially if the game is close and he wants to avoid the middle relievers before handing the ball off to David Robertson and Rafael Soriano. Of course none of that will matter if the position players don’t start hitting. Here are your starting lineups, the same ones that were going to be used last night…
New York Yankees
LF Ichiro Suzuki
RF Nick Swisher
2B Robinson Cano
1B Mark Teixeira
DH Raul Ibanez
3B Eric Chavez
C Russell Martin
CF Brett Gardner
SS Eduardo Nunez
LHP CC Sabathia (15-6, 3.38)
Detroit Tigers
CF Austin Jackson
2B Omar Infante
3B Miguel Cabrera
1B Prince Fielder
DH Delmon Young
SS Jhonny Peralta
LF Andy Dirks
RF Avisail Garcia
C Gerald Laird
RHP Max Scherzer (16-7, 3.74)
It was raining earlier this morning in Detroit, but the weather has cleared up and there should be no problem getting this afternoon’s game in. First pitch is scheduled for a little after 4pm ET and can be seen on TBS. Enjoy.
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Andy Pettitte toes the rubber tomorrow afternoon in Detroit.
Time to get on the board in this series.
…gets his 20th postseason win, and sends it to NY.
*generic grumbling about being at work for another elimination game*
Maybe if you didn’t choose a major that sucks you could get s real job.
lulz.
Pretty sure “real jobs” involve being at work at 4 PM on a Thursday for the most part. Troll harder.
Trolling’s Hard: Troll Harder.
We could get our PhD’s, work in academia, and get a head start on a long weekend away from home……like my wife and child are currently doing.
+1
..and I’m in the same boat. Skipped lunch to clear out the 4-5 hour though.
Ahh lucky. I have to close the place up, so I have zero flexibility on that one. At least my boss doesn’t mind me having the radio on.
I should be out of here by 4:30, but I REALLY want to go to the gym after work.
You have to schedule those workouts around the games!
It wouldn’t be a problem if the games were still on YES. I’d make it a cardio day and just have the game on. I *think* we’ve got TBS on the little gym TV’s.
We don’t on mine. YES, FOX, ESPN, etc., but no TBS.
Could be worse. You could be working in the mountain time zone with little to no chance of being home on time to catch any of the game. Then again, you could also have worked long enough at your company to have enough time off built up to go watch it. Or have a job that allows you to telework.
Could be even worse…in Germany watching ESPN gamecast.
Ditto. I’ve got the double whammy. Work till 4:30pm PST. I was all set last night then the rain had to ruin it for me. Hooray radio!
+1
I hope that’s me tomorrow afternoon.
And it’d be much tougher for me tomorrow than it was last Friday, to boot!
Sager must be expecting a Champagne Celebration later today with that clown suit he has on. That bastard…
Sorry Craig not today buddy.
I want to see NO other pitchers in the game not named Sabathia, Robertson, or Soriano.
Cabron.
But what if it’s the 7th inning, two outs with cabrera up down 1. You got to go to lowe or eppley in that spot. never use good relievers if you’re losing.
Got to save those good relievers for the close winning games!
We are winning this fucker today.
I would be really surprised if the Yankees don’t win today.
Agreed. They have to show some life somewhere in this series, why not today? CC on the mound, a pitcher who they can work and get taxed early. I’m pretty optimistic about them this game.
Just get 3 runs today and tomorrow and the pitchers will do the rest. If the series gets back to NY all bets are off.
No Grandy No A Rod in an elimination game. Girardi is a fool. Who cares about game 7, this ends today.
We shouldn’t have hired Mattingly.
Please note that Don Mattingly is my favorite Yankee of all time.
What if we hired Mattingly as an assistant manager solely in charge of slapping the real manager if the real manager, who had spent several seasons focusing on data to the point of mockery by the dummies, suddenly reversed course and chose to rely on “hot hands” and “gut feels” in the playoffs?
They still think it’s the binder, though.
They may have the last laugh, though, if binders are actually all full of women.
#notreallypolitical
Well played.
Explains where A-Rod came up with sending the baseball to those chicks.
#keepinitnonpolitical
Eric Chavez has the hot hand? He benches A Rod once and it worked, hasnt since. let the studs play…not the tripple A team
Have you ever seen Chavez’s hot hands?
Love,
Erica
Mattingly is bad luck. A post season jinx.
Chavez is 0-14. Just something to chew on.
I bet he homers today. /whoamikidding…
CC looks pissed on that live shot they just showed. Grizzly Bear is going to attack today.
LETS GO BOYS
Here is the scenario, Yankees need to win two and then get another rainout so that CC will have that 3 days of rest to throw in game 7.
Of course since the Steinbrenners, Levine, and the rest of the Yankee brass continue to make deals with the Devil, it may not happen. But perhaps with Halloween around the corner he will be in a forgiving mood.
What about using HAARP? Surely they have enough money.
i’m having a hard time picturing a-rod playing for the yankees next season
Team America or South Park The Movie?
CC will pitch a shutout today, while maiming (just for this series, calm down morality police!) all of the best Tigers hitters with inside fastballs. Tomorrow the tigers will be starting Justin Verlander and Fister at first and third base. CC promises to leave Jose Valverde alone.
I wouldn’t be opposed to an extended maiming.
what if cc did some extended miming?
refuses to throw the ball, just does “man in a box” and “walking against the wind” over and over
I’m for it! If he wastes enough time he might be available for game 7!
I’d be impressed if he managed an elaborate mime routine without being called for a balk.
Hello. No men on base. He’s pitching a perfect game and impersonating Marcel Marceau simultaneously. The man can do it all!
Meh. No CC for Game 7 has taken a sledgehammer to my enthusiasm.
Nova dominating Verlander in Game 7 has my enthusiasm at an all time high.
Ideal scenario: Win next three games. Massive downpour for game 7. CC CGSHO on 3 days rest.
Let’s worry about that after Game 6.
lets worry about game 6 after game 4
Math is hard.
You have no idea.
Damn you, IPhone5 and my buying an adapter for my office radio over the net which I haven’t received yet and forces me to listen to this through the IPhone speaker.
Are you doing that from a cubible? Ballsy.
I have my own office……with a window.
Until last week, I had two offices, but I gave up my second one to a colleague we just promoted. *grumble*
I used to work for an organization that believed almost everyone should have a cubicle, even the executive director. Thankfully, I was off-site.
office with a window you say…sadly I don’t have a window.
*baller dance*
Two offices?! You’re big-time man.
If I recall correctly, you work in finance, right?
The complete opposite.
I’m assistant director type for a preventive service agency offering family therapy to families at risk of involvement with the child welfare system.
I’d love the money the finance guys make, though.
Ah, I see. Yeah, I’d love the dough they get too. I’m in print media.
So…a kid from my town got caught robbing the local 7-11, and got locked up (this isn’t the first time he’s gotten in trouble with the law) just posted his prison address on Facebook…how are you allowed to go on FB in jail?!
I could actually get you a real answer to this question if you REALLY wanted me to.
I’m just saying…3 square meals a day, a cot to sleep on at night, AND internet access, tax and rent free?!?!?!
Probably not that, but I could ask my wife about this rather easily.
also, free access to a gym, free access to a library (on campus), freaking OUTSIDE TIME?! AND you don’t have to have a job!!
Word. I can get arrested fairly easily. I’m sitting about 5 feet from ~$300,000. You in?
I’m in.
Yes.
Absolutely in.
The old “iPad in the birthday cake” trick?
Also the password for the guards’ wifi is “guest”
On the other hand, fighter Max Baer was defeated by an underdog. Pitching today is Max Scherzer and the line up he is facing is clearly an underdog based on recent performance. So….more wishful thinking.
Let’s get it, Yanks! Just win today, focus on tomorrow … Tomorrow
CC, lead us to victory!
John Sterling with such sage advice on how to turn things around. Ge on base, John. You don’t say.
Were you listening when Suzyn was going on about the media scrum talking to Alex…until John cut her off I felt like she was trying to blame Alex for it.
Can one or both of them please say something so offensive that WCBS has no choice but to fire them both?
Won’t happen. Levine loves them. and Hank Steinbrenner uses them for his dinner parties – ala Dinner for Schmucks.
They may be morons, but they’re MY morons.
I swear he reads from the same bullshit book as a politician – speaking only in obvious cliches and usually fucking up the play by play (details)
Haha I just said the same thing to my coworker.
At least Ichiro made Scherzer work.
In a crazy world, if the Yanks get off to a crazy stupid lead, would they take CC out early for game 7?
I truly doubt it unless it was maybe like 18-0.
Every foul ball is a pitch closer to Jose Valverde.
How the hell is swisher playing over Granderson???
Groundouts and lazy flyout usurp strikeouts.
But Swisher has a history of NEVER being good in the postseason. Grandy has had big postseaon moments.
Not this year. Both equally suck but someone has to play and Nick has been sucking his thumb in the corner.. plus he may be the only one smiling after the Yankees lose.
At least he swung at a strike
yup thats our swisher.
My only request today is that we not kill CC for the 2 runs that he gives up, given that they won’t be enough.
or that it will be one or two runs too many. You know what I’m talking about.
Two good at bats so far.
And there is Mr. MyFeelingsAreHurt, picking up where he left off. Good job Nick.
Now go tweet about how you can’t concentrate because your feelings are still aching.
Well, that inning didn’t look like anything we haven’t seen before.
Right?
Good start, offense. Way to set the tone.
Same old swisher. The happiest day of the offseason will be when he signs with someone else.
I’m tired of seeing Swisher suck in October, but he’ll be dearly missed from April-September. You have to be in the playoffs in order to struggle in them.
I’ve said that multiple times…however you can find a viable replacement for Swisher.
J. Upton, Choo, Hunter, Melky, etc.
Too bad the front office seems to hate Melky.
Hunter would be my choice. Give him two years, hopefully Austin is ready by the third year.
I’m not so bullish on Melky. Do we know where his talent level actually is?
I don’t think Melky’s anything great, but he probably won’t get any kind of exorbitant deal and he should be solid enough as an everyday player.
And one bad at bat…
Wow what a great start…two thumbs down
Way to work the count Robbie.
I wonder if team feels like they are a better team without ALEX in the lineup.
Would anyone else rather see Ichiro in center and Gardy in left instead of the way they did it?
I love Gardy in CF… I’ve been begging for this for years!
Nah, I think Gardner is a better fielder…but it’s Prime Rib vs Fillet Mignon.
sooooooo, that 1st inning was a bum out
You have to charge that ball dude
Wtf was that.
chavez’s arm is either a slinky or he just read that play wrong.
Chavez doing a great job in place of A-Rod
i almost had an episode of stable angina, after he hit that ball. my TVs on mute, but the swing looked good.
Dear God…
Awful play by chavez he has atrocious this whole playoffs.
is it me or even ichiro looked lackadaisical there. these fuckers are mentally checking out…
Oh…well this is a brilliant start.
And Delmon Young hurts the Yankees again.
Unreal.
I blame Chavez.
Game over see you in spring training.
Delmon Freaking Young, ladies and gentlemen.
Delmon Young? Seriously all pitchers who can’t get him out should be fined and benched.
So all Yankees pitchers?
Have to start somewhere.
Dude, so tired of Delmon Young beating us. Why even throw this guy a strike? He barely swings at stuff in the zone
they havent hit a single ball hard this inning
Oh well.
Goddamn you, in play run(s.)
i hate everything
nothing changes, this is like a nightmare
1-0 can we say the game is over?
goddammit. Prince Fielder….
and also Delmon Young. Delmon Young is single handedly winning this series.
give chavez that rbi
oh look at that a tiny strike zone too…I think I’ve seen this episode before.
This is suddenly becoming very painful…
Great scouting!
1-0 lead on this yankee team is in reality at least 4-0 lead. Its just so hard for this team to even reach on base so i figured a base a run.
Feels like ten-nothing. *Sigh*
Fantastic start.
Another fine job by the Yanks scouting department.
Eric Chavez owes us two fucking Runs. Play Arod. Even if he can;t hit a damn. At least he fields the ball.
All right. I’m not ready to give up down 1-0 in the first. Scherzer already about to throw his 20th pitch to start the 2nd. Hopefully the Yankees can get the Tigers’ bullpen more involved this game.
Hooray optimism. I hope you’re right my dude.
C.C.’s velocity looks a little down, unless it’s just Gameday.
Sterling has noticed it too, must be showing up on the Stadium gun. IF so, not a good sign at all.
It’s definitely down. He’s 88-91 with the fastball right now. I’m assuming it’ll pick up as the innings go along as usual.
Come everyone! Buck up! We are not done yet!
Was it over when the German’s bombed Pearl Harbor?
Lol
Call the hearse. It’s 1-0 in the first.
I’ve already dug the 6′ hole.
By yourself? You must have quite the arm muscles.
…hmm…arm muscles…can you pitch?
Yankees win this game today.
Stop jumping off of buildings.
they already have 3 strike outs and haven’t hit a ball hard.
Dude, game is so over right now, unless one of the AA hitters in the line up catches a hanging curve ball.
….but game threads are special because react pitch by pitch….
This team can’t wait to end the season. Cano’s already playing in the Dominican winter league in his mind. Bet he plays with more pride there, too.
It’s not like Chavez to make those kinds of errors. He’s got to be insanely stressed out because they’ve got him playing over Arod. Prob feels like he has to over produce
When I lived in the Oakland area, I saw Chavez make 2 errors against Detroit in the ALCS in ’06 and he should’ve had a 3rd one charged to him.
Choke job!
He’s been bad all season long fielding, plus his throw is even weaker than it used to be, which it was bad to begin with.
ugh… 1-0 Tigers… game over =(
Every bad feature of the 2012 offense showed up in the playoffs!
But but but but… THEY HIT HOMERUNS!! And homeruns count!!! Everything will be alright its just a phase
/Sarcasm OFF (but seriously that was the reasoning behind a lot of fans when the NYY were displaying their weaknesses back in July and overall in 3 of the first 4 months of the season).
Geez can we get a freaking base runner for crying out loud?!
great max is settling down.
Arod needs to be put back in there. Chavez isn’t doing shit either and his fielding sucks.
4 strikeouts already for the Yankee offense.
Shitty as always.
Seriously, are these guys even trying. It has to be questioned. Think they are already in the off season.
That’s a foolish thing to say.
Not really. Except for Ichiro, there has not been a serious AB. Taking BP swings during a game, that is quitting.
You’re equating results with effort.
The lack of effort is directly related to the results. So yes, results are a product of effort.
Eric Chavez can got fuck himself.
This is EMBARRASSING
i think that Girardi and Cashman are vinditive little pricks for benchging Alex….I like Chavez but why start a guy who 0 for 15 over Alex…total bullshit
Yup. This whole A-Rod circus is an absolute embarrassment to the team. If Chavez were tearing the cover off the ball, that would be one thing. But he looks just as bad as A-Rod did.
Glad we have Chavez in there, at least he gives us a chance against the righty…It’s not like Alex can strike out in an AB where he takes a change up right down the middle.
yup he just looked real good
Holy crap! Put Nix in if you don’t want to play ARod this is pathetic!
What ibanez and chavez struck iut back to back? Nooooooooooooo way.
This game is rapidly becoming a debacle.
Offense picked up right where they left off
Holy hell. Chavez is actually hitting worse than any other Yankee.
It’s kinda hard to be worse than hitless and on base-less.
And even his defense hasn’t been great.
It’s amazing how even the bench players are in ridiculous slumps. 0-15 for Chavez? Wow. It’s so bad, it’s almost unbelievable.
Clearly that is A-Rod’s fault.
If Girardi tries to put ARod in today or asks him to pinch hit, he should tell Joe to go fuck himself. He’s out of here anyway and has a guaranteed $114M coming to him.
I’d love to see this. Theres also the other side of me that would love to see Arod hit a hr or get an rbi and stick to Joe and Cashman.
Him getting a big HR or RBI would make my day.
It’s the 2nd inning … Everyone is acting like we’re down to our last out
Well when guys like Andy Dirks are RAKING and we have 4 K’s in 2IP it’s pretty much over.
4ks in 2 innings and CC looks like shit
I’m usually very optimistic, but can you blame them…if not for Martin in game one of LDS there wouldn’t be the great A-Rod debacle because the offseason would’ve started a week ago.
Understandable. But if you’re gonna beat yourself up all game, why watch? At least continue to HOPE there is a chance. Guys don’t always flourish first time through the order, gotta at least give it a shot.
I’m sorry but it’s getting increasingly hard to watch this team.
Watching the C-level lineup isn’t fun in the regular season, let alone an elimination game
at some point, we gotta start questioning Girardi here. I don’t even think Curtis should be sitting let alone AROD. this is fucked up, and I really want to know what the fuck is going on his mind. He isn’t helping his ACE with the lineup he’s putting up. Its clearly taking confidence away from other hitters and helping Detroit’s momentum FUCKKKK
ALCS Game 1 Chat log:
I don’t know what Girardi is thinking. How can he possibly have A-Rod and Granderson in this lineup? He needs to be fired now, in the middle of the playoffs.
I think the handling of Arod has been complete and utter bush league.
I’m now listening to the play by play via Francesca’s show. It doesn’t sound good so far.
While I still think anyone freaking out already is just rapidly whipping themselves to a stroke, I will say that if the Gameday pitch tracker is half-accurate, it seems that the Tigers’ game plan is just to throw every pitch right over the plate and laugh as nobody hits it.
Sterling says it’s “confounding” that the Yankees could hit so badly after their 245 HRs. It’s a view one sees everywhere. It’s not confounding at all. Time and again this year we’ve seen evidence of these collective swoons.
How’s those lefties treating you, CC?
Is it me or does it feel like Arod is being punished for something? This benching just doesn’t feel right, I mean I could see if Chavez was hitting the ball but he isn’t and Arod still has the potential to snap out of his drought and hit a few HR’s.
Oh fuck CC is not on today
I hate when people say that. Chvez was the better hitter againt rhp this season
Going home.
I am still damn proud of this team, win or lose today. Nothing in the ALCS changes what happened before it. If that sounds like a eulogy to you, we are winning this bitch today.
I’ll now leave it to those declaring the game over after six at-bats because, remember, as Athenian said, game threads are special and different because people are responding pitch by pitch….
I love you… time for me to drop out of this morgue as well and re-visit when Soriano is about to untuck.
Looks like CC doesn’t have it today…not good.
I don’t think Arod should be sitting but how do you arrange the chairs on the Titanic. No one on this offense has helped these kick ass pitching performances. At what point do you just go “Oh fuck it.”
This is what I thought the Yankees batting order should have been today:
Gardner
Ichiro
Nunez
Tex
Joba
Dickerson
Kuroda
Sabathia
Chavez
Joba hitting ahead of CC???? What’s wrong with you????
Where are they gonna get Dickerson from? And don’t you know that Joba hasn’t had a hit this postseason? Jeez. If you were so smart why isn’t the FO paying you?
If they lose this i rather they lose it with the Guys who were playing all season (minus Jeter, because there’s nothing you can do about that. I can’t handle this bullshit Girardi is rolling out.
Exactly how I feel
I admire Girardi for shaking things up. It’s better than watching Granderson looking like the little leaguer who never played before and Swish for his bumbling ways. Arod’s numbers against righties are downright frightening.
Hell, he should sit Cano for Nix, too.
I have to agree with you. Its at the point where the bench is playing better than the starters. My only issue is that these moves should’ve been done earlier in the series, not during Game 3 & 4.
Is it wrong for me to hope someone drives it off of Max’s hand and he’s pulled?
delmon young has more rbi’s in the alcs then the whole yankee team…
i guess living and dieing via the heomerun does not work in the playoffs.
i guess how you score not only how many you score matters..
i think I had mentioned that about 1000 times this season…
i turned it off, i need a break fro mthe horror show.
As shilling said, not starting A R od is starting to look personal. How much money are they leaving on the table not having 2 more games and 3 world series games. If im steinbrenner, everyone goes after the season
This arbitrary benching of players is starting to look like pure vindictiveness. None of them are hitting. At least play the players with the track record.
Ahh, it doesn’t matter.
I never ever remember feeling, in the post season, that the Yankees sucked. I know they lost games, but I never thought they sucked. They pulled it out of their asses in the Baltimore series but Baltimore offense was having trouble showing up as well.
I’ve also seen it see saw back and forth between bad pitching and bad hitting. But I’ve never seen incredible pitching and “no show” hitting. It’s like I’ve just never seen this before and it’s hard for me to believe. I’m a fan but usually when Yankee haters rag on us for losing in the post season I have some kind of come back, but “yeah, we sucked” isn’t usually one of them. And it’s not we sucked. It’s the offense sucked.
In other years when we lost and lost big we lost as a team, but this is just failing to score runs. AT All.
This is truly a one-of-a-kind experience.
“I never ever remember feeling, in the post season, that the Yankees sucked. I know they lost games, but I never thought they sucked.”
In 2011 they lost exactly the same, they couldn’t drive runners from 3rd and less than 2 outs. Oh yeah, and JoeG just gave Montero a couple of at bats and he got a double, and never again he used Montero.
Since Girardi has been the manager, the Yanks have managed to hit less and less every year except for 2009.
I find it damn near comical that the Tigers are now a running baseball team.
Shitty throw. Thanks Russ
If these Announcers could have their noses any further up the Tigers’ Assess you’d see them poking out their mouths.
The mute button. Use it.
So what exactly are they supposed to wax poetic about the Yankees this series? Sure, the pitching’s been good, but Detroit’s pitching’s been great.
Either that or the Yankees lineup is SO bad we’re making everyone look like Randy Johnson circa 1998 this postseason.
Either way, they’re not exactly going to throw many compliments the Yanks’ way…
Yeah but they are obviously biased, which is complete bullshit for a national broadcast
Why is Arod all of a sudden the victim?? The Rangers and Buck Showalter couldnt wait to get rid of him (this while he was the best player in baseball) and now both of his managers with the Yankees obviously have had some problems with him.
Is it a coincidence that his last 3 managers have seemingly gotten tired of him??
I don’t think they had problems with him. He works hard. Trains hard. Got hurt this year. Who knows? But I don’t think “the Yankees” have problems with Arod.
Everyone gets tired of Showalter, too.
Sounds like you’re making a lot of assumptions.
Im not, I think he is being benched simply because he cant hit RH pitching anymore. But read many of the posts above talking about how bullshit it is for the Yankees to be benching him and being vindictive and stuff. I assume these same people believe Torre batted him 8th because of personal reasons. So if you believe this what does it say about Arod that both of his managers as a Yankee got to a point with him where they made decisions about him because of apparent personal feelings??
So what you’re saying is that you are enjoying watching Chavez go hitless and be a butcher on defense? ARod is a victim because even if you hate him, there’s no reason to not play him over a guy who has not had a hit, and gifted 2 runs to the opposing team.
Arod is a victim if he were hitting well and is being benched. He is not a victim because he is being benched for going hitless this postseason vs RHP (and striking out 66% of the time vs them).
And Chavez has been hitting the cover off the ba…I can’t even type that sarcastically.
Its all about the platoon split, plain and simple. Chavez is sucking just as bad too but he is LH and his numbers vs RHP this season were much better than Arod (OPS almost 200 pts higher).
I’m not saying it’s some great conspiracy, but A-Rod killed Verlander this season, and in their careers…where was he in game 3?
Chavez had good career numbers vs Verlander too I believe. Hey man Im with you in the sense that Chavez has sucked too so might as well let Arod play vs RHP at this point. But I just believe Girardi has made Arod into a platoon player just because his numbers vs RHP have sucked not just this postseason but all season long.
Unfortunately at this point either 3B vs RHP looks like a lost cause.
Sucks to be a west coast Yankee fan today, and at work.
Hoping Yanks can play one moe tomorrow that I can actually watch!!!
Why does baseball maintain the worst playoff schedule of all the sports???
Martin, Gardy, Nunez… serious rally about to happen with that fearsome threesome.
Anyone else watching this game, hoping for some runs, but expecting to be shutout? I dont think I’ve ever expected the Yankees to be shoutout. Fortunately, I wont be able to watch the whole game.
The Red Sox were behind almost all of game 4 in ’04. Just saying.
David ortiz and manny were in the starting lineup…just sayin
ortiz and manny where in their primes…. their manager actually cared about winning, not putting up a AAA lineup to show up some of his players.
And they were scoring runs in the other games… This team couldn’t score a run if they were spotted that run.
They also gave up 19 runs in game 3. They had no reason for optimism.
Chavez 0!for 15 and also suddenly shitty in the field. Thank god A Rods not playing. He gets 29 mil this year and still has another 115 coming to him. You sure showed him Girardi, that will teach him. What a joke
WOOOOOWWWWW! We’re going to get No hit as well!
Gardner can still be very stupid about diving head first.
How does that help him there.
that dive was a straight up desperation move.
Stop diving into first you idiot!
Hooray false hustle.
Nunie is the only offense since game 1…
Nunez always gets incredible top-spin on those 1st base nubbers.
Total flashback to that Oakland game.
Nunie just makes things happen with the bat. Now get him in.
ichi needs a single…
Nunez does not screw around when he gets on, he just goes.
shit i don’t know how he took that pitch..
Great at bat, Ichiro … Now, redeem yourself a bit, Swish. Now is the time.
Come on Garbage Time!!!
Swisher’s going to come up big here.
COME ON SWISH!!
this fucktard will probably go for a 10run HR.
There it was!
According to TBS, Scherzer won that at bat even though Ichiro walked.
Ha…well Ichiro hates walking, so I guess by FORCING him to take the walk he did win it.
if they both stand at first base, maybe swish gets a hit…
“Unfortunately the error runs up the pitch count.”
Well if you are rooting for the Tigers, Smoltz. Perhaps an announcer shouldn’t be calling it unfortunate?
Swisher is so fucking useless.
Did you see how outside that pitch was? He needed a fucking tree to hit that.
That was way outside, but thats been a strike the entire playoffs, especially to Cano. Have to at least foul it off.
It defies reality… could he be worse if he were actually trying to be worse?
to be fair, that balls 4 inchess of the plate, minimum.
I’m watching on a postage size screen via sling box from work… it was hard to see if the ball was close or not…
you hurt my feelings, nick swisher.
SRSLY Swish?
Thanks, Jeff
Essh, a no hitter in the works.
And that’s why a choke job like Swish would never knock in a 100 runs.
RBI is a useless stat, but for what it’s worth, Swish had 93 RBIs this year. Would 7 more RBIs change your mind?
The Verlander Zone returns…
srsly…
That’s our boy Larry. One too many stooges in the lineup today.
Was that pitch right over the plate the way Sterling said it was?
It was 6 inches off the plate…
According to Gameday it was middle-middle.
/germany’d
TBS has it outside
Goodbye, Swish. Have fun in Houston.
houston might be the least likely team in all of mlb to sign him.
Scherzer up to 55 pitches.
in my mind we scored 2 runs by having men on 1st and 2nd. #schizophrenia
How can such a good player just vanish in the post season…I mean it’s nearly impossible to be this bad, you’d accidentally get on base once in a while…
the choke king swisher lives. where have you gone carlos beltran
Out with a knee injury
yep. and his rookie replacement was good for a two-run dinger yesterday. in other words, twice the yanks’ production in the last twenty-four innings.
he was never here (a yankee)….?
That strikeout was Swish-a-licious!
This TBS Social Dugout app is the next great way for Vegas to steal money from gambling degenerates.
And there is Mr. Feelings again. Good Job Nick. I would personally go for the hat trick on this one.
Was the pitch outside? Yes. But how the heck do u take that pitch? So hittable, cant handle the pressure these yankee hitters. I see no other reason.
wow that clutch stud Swisher did it again ….nothing …zero..this turd should be on the bench
Was that pitch to Swisher outside?
A bit… it’s one of those “marginal” strikes because for some reason MLB seems to think that umpires can call a different zone to lefty hitters than to right hitters.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=7.gif
Not sure which of the outside pitches it was. The hashed line is what most umpires typically call, the solid line is the actual zone.
In fairness to Swish, that ball was outside. Still gotta swing at anything close. Umps have been calling that almost all series.
All playoffs. Cano specifically has had alot of them called. Have to at least foul it off as its most likely going to be called a strike.
Exactly. Can’t go down looking at that. Fight it off and hope for a better pitch
I’M SO TIRED OF THIS SHIT, CASHMAN AND GIRARDI HAVE GOT TO TO
Stuart, I found your brother. He uses caps instead of ellipses.
Reunion!
Ole’d.
I want to like Swisher, but his career postseason numbers make me terribly upset
Yay defense!
Stop making excuses for Swisher. He’s a zero in the post season, regardless of the strike zone. Next year he can take his garbage somewhere else.
other than pointing out the bad 3rd strike call, ive read thru the entire game thread and cant find any excuses for swisher. what comment and/or who are you referring to?
How the FUCK was that 2-2 pitch to Swisher in there for a strike. It was WAY off the plate. Fuck!
feel like i’m watching a talk show with JV
the VIEW guest staring JV
its so annoying… and now he won’t get off the mic
Anyone have any of the announcers twitter handles? I have to tell them to get the Tigers dick out their mouths.
hahaha
They are up 3-0, if the Yankees were up 3-0 they would be talking to Petite and saying how great the Yankees are. Just the way it goes.
who is this petite I always see Yankee fans talking about?
How long is this interview?
Apparently he doesn’t want it to end….
Well, they don’t want to break his streak right?
Maybe Nick Swisher and Delmon Young swap their skills in October.
That’s about all I can figure.
The Yankee are starting to be harder to watch than the Knicks
NEVER thought I’d hear anyone say that, or that I would agree….
We’ve now entered the portion of the interview where they are just repeating questions.
I forgot that the Tigers hitters are all Mickey Mantel, and Every Tigers pitcher is Nolan Ryan….
Zing!
What the hell is going on with Tex’s glove?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME TEX!?!
Jesus this game sounds freaking brutal. Guess I should be glad I’m still at work.
It really is…good to know our offensive woes have followed into the field.
Good grief.
At least CC was covering.
Cant do nothing else but just laugh at this point.
I think we’ve reached the point where everything that can go wrong will go wrong for the Yankees. This is just getting to be dark comedy.
Oh your not on the Mark Teixeria!
hahaha this team looks like absolute shit. Embarrassing.
Ah, we have Mark Teixiera’s evil twin playing first, I see.
If they score here I’m turning this game off.
turn it off, i just did
Yankees getting no hit. Ugh.
Holy shit they just don’t give a fuck do they?
Poor CC.
the fucking justin verlander show.
un. real.
this is such a fucking joke. Joe should just pull his team off the field and forfeit to save face.
that wouldnt be saving face….? not sure what phrase means what you think it means.
That really happened … This is unreal. Pretty much everything that can go wrong, has gone wrong
Death by a million cuts this inning.
And fuck you Verlander.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
That’s it F@&^ this team…. I’m done
This is so fucking bad
And the Tigers have extended their lead to 8-0. Might as well put the scrubs in now. ARod should be ready.
This game is fucking over. Nice fucking season…………
This might be the first time in my life I cant wait for the Yankee season to finish and it doesnt involve winning the World Series.
This aint over yet, even with CC pitching, seems a blowout is in the making. Looking like the Yankees are going to go down without a fight.
So this was fun.. Can we get the MLB players in now?
I’ve got nothing to say on this one. Just…nothing.
WOW… this is just embarrassing.
VERLANDER IS SUCH AN ARROGANT PRICK
God knows I love the Yankees, but this cannot end soon enough.
F*ck you TBS.
The defense owes CC 2 runs, maybe more.
I usually watch the games, but I’m at work. This is the first time all season that I’m listening on radio. I’m happy I’m not watching this. It sounds ugly.
honestly, the talk show verlander hosted that inning is worse than the game itself.
If I’m Giardi i just say fuck it, you win, we quit.
It would be really nice if this dead-ass offense could help erase this deficit.
CC at 70+ pitches in the 3rd. This is not good.
TBS on Verlander’s dick so hard. He’s the new Cliff Lee.
As ugly as it was, still just down 2-0 with 6 full innings to play.
Can this team even muster a hit?
Do we get an interview with A-Rod this inning?
Got to feel bad for CC. Doesn’t have his best stuff, can tell he’s grinding it out and the defense AND offense do nothing for him. Chavez makes that play, Teix makes his and we’re probably still looking at a 0-0 game. Just not their yr, least its looking that way.
Not only are they choking at the plate, but they can’t even field cleanly anymore. CC might be regretting that extension he signed. Can’t be much fun playing with a bunch of brittle has-beens.
It’s okay guys, after this is over the Tigers and their fans will realize they still live in the shit hole that is Detroit…
72 pitches through 3 innings (though he has pitched the equivalent of 4 innings with all the misplays and errors).
So he goes maybe 6 innings? Then hand the ball to Robertson regardless of score?
Yes definitely to Robertson,if Girardi has any idea what he’s doing.
Is the strike zone as bad as Gamecast portrays it? Why am I not on Gameday? Fuck.
very pro-Tigers strikezone… the same as it’s been the whole series.
Not as bad as yesterday, but still not good. He’s called very low strikes and of course the pitch 4″ off the corner to lefties.
Over/Unders:
10pitches seen this inning
.5 balls put in play.
under, on both
TBS that was Fucking Embarrassing you idiots. Nice production of the game.
LET’S COMEBACK!!
1-32.
Arod would have done more in the 3 hole than Cano
no he wouldnt have.
Not like he can do worse than Cano. Can’t do worse than doing nothing.
you didnt say he wouldnt do worse. you said hed do more. 0-2 is not doing more than 0-2.
I’m just gambling here. Cano has done jack shit this series. ARod’s replacement has done jack shit. Not saying it’s a guarantee he’ll do something, but there’s absolutely no reason not to try and let the guy play because at worse you get the same production as you get from everyone else.
how do you know that?
Because at worst he produces as much as Cano. Which is nothing.
You are mentally challenged.
Really? So Arod can somehow do worse than doing nothing? I think you’re the mentally challenged on.
you need to stop posting this shit. A-Rod has been worse against RHB lately and in the season as whole. There’s no reason to predict A-Rod can do better other than blind hope. You’re a moron.
So what? At worst he plays and does nothing, which is what we got from Cano and Co. Maybe he’ll run into one. Too bad we don’t know because girardi glued his ass to the bench.
Against a righthander who throws like Scherzer? Ha.
Who want to talk offseason moves this horrible season is over. I say we try to get freese from cardinals (nova, Robertson and Sanchez). Sign hunter. Ichi in RF.
Trade for Gerald Laird – he’s a winner. What will it take? Gardner, Mason, Austin…that should get you started, but don’t think like you can just steal away a winning player like that.
At least someone get a hit so we don’t have to suffer that indignity too.
Selfish player at the fucking plate.
We are being no hit.
Fucking bunt you fucking scrub.
good effort, good job, losers.
THANKS MARK!
didnt you “turn the tv off” and “quit” and proclaim “im done” like… 10 posts ago?
Its like a car wreck. Can’t help but watch this shit show.
He’s right. As much as I want to turn it off. I can’t look away….
The Yankees are absolutely the Jets of MLB. Serious injuries to key contributors but the big names are ineffective primadonnas.
The icing on the cake to this miserable post season would be a no-hitter.
Wait til next year!!!
Is andy ready to pitch starting in the 6th?
first off, robertson should be pitching in the 6th. second off, the pitchers are irrelevant anyway. detroit already has 2 runs.
seriously…more likely to happen: we score five runs or get no hit?
No hit, almost half way there already. The Yankees havent scored 5 runs since game 1 of the ALDS.
seriously…more likely to happen: we score five runs or get no hit?
is this serious?
Absolutely.
not sure if serious….
most definitely no hit.
During the 2003 ALCS I was so disgusted during game 7 I turned my yanks shirt inside out and wrote red sox on it in tape, because I figure the team i’m cheering for would lose, and it worked. I’ll brb going to get the ducktape…
And the no hit watch begins. Just fucking horrendous.
wow, this team really laid down, yet again.
Why is Raul Ibanez on the playoff roster? Yeah, he had a nice June, but he’s been useless since then.
pretty nice early october if i remember correctly too
PLEASE SAY YOU ARE KIDDING?!?!?!
either sarcasm or the first playoff game he’s watching.. don’t bother
Aside from three clutch home runs, I agree with you.
I think I get it now, we’re living in a parallel universe because there is no way to explain this much failure.
The no-no by Scherzer would be the final, crowning indignity.
I feel like I could strike out most of the Yankee lineup and I’ve never played baseball. These fuckers suck A-Rod’s model’s pussy last night and are hung over because they fucking suck. It’s over. GO DETROIT TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT LEAST THEY PLAY WITH HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
btw, i’m kidding. i’m way too frustrated with this shit
I think I hate everyone currently posting in this game thread.
Don’t worry, if they start to win, we’ll come back around…
CC really needs a quick inning.
Hopefully Leyland wasn’t lying and the Yankees really are 31 pitches away from the Tigers bullpen.
Why so we can face Cy Coke?
so seriously, can we blame Girardi or not. I get it the offence is struggling…but did alex rape his mom? perhaps grandy videotaped.
This is just brutal, not even the most optimistic of optimists can deny it.
Tigers already have seven hits, and a ton of them have been absolute dinkers.
Yankees still don’t even have one. Go figure.
This is easily my favorite site when it comes to Yankees’ news, opinions and information (great job RAB). When it comes to the comments? Man … I understand everyone is frustrated, but get over it. They under-performed in the postseason, that’s it. There are still innings to play and get back into this game. And if they don’t? They still had a great season and they’ll be back next year to contend, AGAIN. Team might look extremely different, but best believe they’ll be there. We’re all way too spoiled, I came to terms with that yrs ago. We just have to let these types of yrs go, it happens. Hope you all at least try to enjoy the rest of the game. Let’s go yanks
dude, youre in the wrong place.
Looked like Robbie misread that…
Not sure if he would have got it but it looked like he took a flat route and then realized it was going deeper
GOODNIGHT IRENE!
And it’s over
That was no dinker.
RIP 2012 NY Yankees.
I think I’m going to puke
game over.
I can’t even get pissed about Cabrera hitting one.
All I want now is one hit.
Now it’s over. Nice job CC. See you fat ass next year.
Talk about misguided anger. CC would have had to throw a shutout to even have a chance at winning this.
Then again I’m not sure why I am wasting the time to reply to this.
Stay classy, Frank.
Should be 2-0 at worst if not for the shitastic defense.
it’s fitting that CC of all people would shit the bed to seal their fate.
it’s time to worry about CC long term, 91mph FBs are not going to cut it from him
As far as I’m concerned CC’s allowed 2 runs this game, you just saw them. The defense shit the bed.
CC shit the bed? He got screwed 2 runs by the defense. Forced him to throw god knows how many pitches to tire him out. CC is the least of the problems had the defense showed up.
So you completely discount his previous two post season games and worry based on this one?
TBS is now commenting here?
Guess it’s harder to win with the HR than you thought, huh Joe.
I kind of wanna see a back to back now.
Welp. Even I’m calling this one over. I’m still going to listen because I’m not a fair weather fan, but I would be shocked, amazed, any other word you can think of, if the Yankees come back to even put the tying run on base this afternoon.
I’m with you bro.
It’s time to rise the white flag.
Agreed. I have seen and/or listened to 170 games this season, I’m not going to shut it off now.
That’s not good.
The worst part of this is listening to the TBS idiots GLOATING about how great the Tigers Are…
Because it wouldn’t be sporting to say how shitty the Yankees are.
So, could we possibly get hanley ramirez in an arod trade?
we’d have to take juan uribe.
Somewhere underground, the Looney Tunes are playing a game of baseball against some aliens that stole the Yankees talent. It’s really the most logical explanation I can think of.
Ok this the comment of the series.
LMAO!!!!
Yankees win this 6-4.
And in more shocking news TBS at some point in this game will actually analyze some play in this game rather than fellate the Tiger du jour.
Okay maybe 8-6?
Well, THIS is what 2012 will be remember for – over paid past their prime quitters. Awesome.
Guess now it is time to pull for the Card or Giants- these fucks in Detroit don’t deserve anything.
they should just take CC out already.
Ho hum. Another hit for Delmon Young.
If we are going to even threaten coming back in this game Ichiro, Gardner, Nunez, as well as Tex and Ibanez(if they’re shifting on them) need to put down at least 2 bunts between them at some point today and make Cabrera field it.
sorry if anyone takes this racially (it is what it is) but it truly is meant to be more of a fat joke… but my god delmon young has a striking resemblance to donkey kong.
Anyone know what time Pedroia is Teeing off tomorrow, I’d like to relay that info to the Yankees….
wow just wow
we’re old and tired, and just not as good as they are.
Because young players never slump.
LOL
Wow…completely disregard my last post…we’re done. Good season.
Now the Tigers are just shitting all over everything.
This is just like Game 4 in 2006.
Getting beat by Peralta and Young. Fuck this team.
seriously, Cabrera, ok. but these pieces of shit? what a joke.
Great. The Jew-hater strikes again.
CC is doing his best Javy Vazquez impression…
Wait CC’s pitching? I thought it was Nova.
yeah… now it’s over lmao
Um…
CC is done. C’mon Joe
This is just insane.
The Yankees packed it in before this game started. No hit, nothing even hit hard and errors. Just a bunch of the highest paid guys in the game that couldnt perform when it matters most. As I’m writing this, CC gives up another one, hes packed it in also. See ya all next year.
hahah… this is so fucked up. I say leave CC in.. i wanna watch some more moonshots.
Joe… your starter has thrown 90 pitches in the 4th inning and is down 6-0. Maybe time for the pen?
At least it’s not an elimination game.
Well, it’s been real, guys. I’m off to play a softball game. Hopefully it goes better than this one.
Please let us not get no-hit.
It’s games like this is miss The Boss…..
Big time effort by CC.. This team is gutless from top to bottom.
He didn’t say that when he pitched our asses to the ALCS.
So this is a big time effort? And this team didn’t mail it in?
Winning an ALDS round doesn’t mean shit.
CC had a bad game. But had the offense showed up this series, it would be a completely different story. Not to mention this game the Defense screwed CC over so many times and forced him to double his pitch count. CC is the least of our worries going forward.
For some reason, I doubt your name.
It’s games like this I miss The Boss…..
Why? Was he a good hitter?
Phelps finally enters the game when hes supposed to. a blowout
Good job. Good effort
this team has shown no heart, WAKE UP HAL.
The fat man I mean lady, is singing.
Trump should buy the yankees.. you’d see the boss 2.0
trump is a fuckin moron loud mouth fool.
This probably could have been delayed by 3 innings had the defense not forced CC to throw 40 extra pitches.
One more thing: thanks, CC. I really mean that – this whole mess isn’t your fault.
Best to take him out now and save him up for next reason, and not risk any serious injury.
11 hits by CC? Is that right?
They were pretty much all dinkers, until he started giving up long balls.
Ironically, the “ace” of the staff comes up so small in a must win game and pitches the worst game of the post season.
Yea because he came up small in the deciding game of the ALDS too right? CC had a bad game. This shit wouldn’t matter if the offense hit from game 1-3.
Verlander gave up a HR to Nunez, therefore he’s not an ace either.
Again, I’ve never had this feeling in a playoff game before (series actually) that it’s just incredibly impossible for an entire offense to go cold at the same time. I’m a Girardi supporter but the benching of Arod is ridiculous. MORE ridiculous than Torre pushing him to 8th and I never thought I’d think anything was more ridiculous than that. And I simply do not understand this. I’ve never seen this. Anywhere. Yet alone on the team Leyland once called “Murderer’s row plus Cano.”
Hey, I’m not giving up until the final out. Hey, Adam Wainwright gave up 6 runs to give the other team a 6-0 lead in an elimination game this year and his team is 2 wins from the W.S. Maybe the Yankees have 1 more big inning in them this season.
I vote to rescind the Tigers last 4 runs because home runs don’t count in the postseason.
You can’t win in the postseason with them, except when you do.
I love the stat only one team in however many years has won the WS with the most reg season HR’s
Only once in the last 15 (?) years has the team with the most reg season wins. So by logic teams that win a lot of games in the reg season can’t win the WS either.
I second this!!
This team is done. We need to start rebuilding next year. Keep our building blocks – Ichiro, Gardner, Ibanez, Phelps. Dump A-Rod, Cano, Grandy, Swisher, Martin, Stewart. Call up Romine/Cervelli. Hopefully Jeter will be back, but…I dunno. Broken ankle for a 40 year-old battling foot/ankle problems for months. Not good.
Dump Cano, Grandy and Arod and keep Ibanez and Ichiro? Those are building blocks? Are you crazy?
Eddard World.
Ichiro is NOT a building block. Theres no way he can maintain his September 2012 production in 2013. Same goes for Ibanez. Your also short two outfielders and 3-4 infielders.
Before anyone gets pissed at me:
*You’re
Nunez. Nix and other veteran utility pieces if they want to work for cheap. Call up Dickerson.
We can get the first pick of the draft at least.
Doesnt matter, we have Cirvelli and Romaine to call up. LOL
This is why states have laws preventing cousins from marrying.
newsflash Ibanez is fuckin 40 and ichiro is 38. they are not building blocks…jeter is 38, if you think he is having another year like this 1 you are insane…
they need to dump all the OLD GUYS…
ALL OF THEM
You forgot a few pieces. Sign Matsui and Damon to play outfield, bring Chad Gaudin in as closer, and Randy Winn as full-time DH. Now them’s some building blocks!
I got hope still
didn’t see the 76 world series, but my impression is that the reds were just a machine. this has to be the worst post-season series in franchise history
a big red machine, that is
reds were so much better then the tigers it is a joke..
morgan, rose, perez, griffey, foster, bench, on and on….
this tiger team is not great just the yankees suck……..
I guess that little schmuck Girardi wants to wait till its 10 -0 to pull our “Ace”….Ace my ass…the only saving grace will be breaking up the no hitter!!!!!
As a fan I just want to see them put up a fight these last few innings.
Have some quality AB’s, scratch out a run or two and not just pack it in and swing at the first pitch so you don’t strike out.
Even though it will likely mean nothing, let’s see some effort.
Would you blame them though for doing so? I wouldn’t.
Arod won’t argue a trade. Wouldn’t blame him a bit. Hope he tears the leather off every ball next year.
don’t hold your breath. his slugging % is falling faster then his reputation.
2 extra base hits in 8 weeks….
arod is toast and a jackass to boot…
poor arod so mistreated….
I’ll sell ya capital letters at three bucks a pop. Whadya say, champ?
hope he does it somewhere else and stick it up Girardi and Cashmans ass
I’m thinking Girardi might be done, and so might a few of the “stars”. I think some housecleaning is in order.
this team is a joke. 11 hits, do the yanks have 11 hits in the series?
arod sucks, he is cancer, and there ROI on him is laughable.
the yanks cannot get a big hit ever, you cannot win when that is the case.
this could get even worse, maybe 11 to 0, not only lose. BUT DESTROYED IN THE SERIES.
heads need to roll….adios arod, swisher, and others.
on the tex front, the guy cannot drive the ball which is a problem since that is all he tries to do.. look at his rbi #’s in the playoff they are a joke………..
no 1 is safe accept Jeter…. I say BLOW THE SHIT UP…..
cant blame A-ROd …sorry
absolutely arod has been great in the playoffs they are benching him because he hasproduced to much…
get a clue.. 0 for 18 against righties with 12 ks, zero rbis… he has been great…..
You’re an obsessed maniac.
647 homers better than the crap on the field and Chavez is now 0 for 16…real good
If they blow up the team, i hope you enjoy not making the play offs for the next 5 years at least. we’ll be fighting the Red Sox for last place.
THIS!!!
Who said Yankee fans are irrational?
these wealthy stiffs are now thinking about their expensive vacations!
Yeah, that’s it.
This is the first time that I can remember, where it feels like the team just quit. Not good……
george must be turning over in his grave!
Pitching is not to blame. Even if CC threw a perfect game, they can’t win if they can’t drive a run in. And they can’t.
This wouldn’t be a must win game if the offense showed up game 1-3. The Tigers barely won those games. You figure one offense will show up eventually. Too bad ours is still not here.
I might actually like this team less than the 03 one…
I might actually like this team less than the 03 one…
You mean ’04?
2003 team got to the World Series.
okay, boys. low leverage time. let’s see some statpaddin’.
Yeah, who knows, Chavez might even get his first hit.
Yeah, who knows, Chavez might even get his first hit.
I’ll honestly say I wasn’t expecting this team to do too much in the Postseason. Never really felt like this team ever really fired on all cylinders all year. I certainly did not expect to be this pathetic, but I consider making it into the ALCS a success.
Not all year?
Not in late June, when they were winning practically every game? Not then?
What’s most disappointing for me is that then I really did feel like this was it, this team is going to make it to the series. It’s been a tough 4 months, admittedly.
No doubt that stretch was awesome, but it didn’t change my expectations. I don’t consider myself a negative person, but I never really looked at this team as a World Series winning team. Possible, sure, but I was never really confident.
So did I. Because of the luck factor.
I agree I didnt see them doing much in the postseason either, really if Johnson didnt loose it in the ALDS the Yankees would have been swept by the O’s and probably should have been. This was a bonus series, that in hindsight I would probably rather have not had happen. Its been rather embarrassing for the Yankees.
Anyone know what the babip is for this series?
The lack of balls actually put in play probably skews it a bit.
thanks for answering the question
Chavez continues to light it up this postseason.
He would like to maintain his .000 average in the postseason.
He would like to maintain his .000 in the postseason.
Well before the stupid trolling comments come rolling in to annoy me further I will say good day.
Thanks to all you regular guys for the exchange of baseball knowledge and opinions. Like always thanks Mike Axisa, Ben Kabak, Joe Pawlikowski and the rest of the RAB staff for all the great work.
Peace.
I didn’t really expect to beat the Tigers, but I thought the games would at least be competitive.
Boy, was i wrong.
Way to go, Chavy!!
Yep, this is the Jeremy Bonderman game.
This team laid down
Time for a complete cleaning
Complete cleaning? No. That would be stupid to blow up the team that achieve the best record in the AL. They need to add piece though.
AL was weak this year. This team needs a cleaning and yes arod has to go first.
Granderson needs to be bought out.
Swisher needs to leave
Martin needs to go
We need to shop cano and see if anyone wants tex
Wow we’ll end up with a last place team then. You sir are stupid as hell.
At least you’re being rational.
This is a sick dream…somebody spin a top and please tell me it never stops spinning so I know to wake up and start my day.
My name is Mr. Charles. You remember me, don’t you?
Hard to even get a lucky hit when the starting pitcher has struck out over 50% of the batters.
It’s never good when you’re working late, forget the game is a day game, and then see this as the score. Or maybe it is good; I missed the heartbreak of the 4th inning, which must have been painful for everyone else, and got it all in one 10 second dose.
This is going to sound strange…but the 3rd was worse. Weak ground balls galore.
The single runs in the first and 3rd were the heartbreaking ones because of all the crap that had to go wrong for Detroit to even get those runs.
The 4th was actually pretty painless.
I hope that Joe still understands there is no tomorrow and pitches his A relievers as much as possible this game.
At least this team won a postseason series. More than I thought they would given all of the offensive flaws we have seen the last 3 months that have been well-documented on this site.
Hey, at least they mash against the Red Sox.
Yep. Just like this.
SFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avr7enrZuJQ
This Team still had the best Record in the AL and made the ALCS. So lets not blow up the team Red Sox style just yet because of a piss poor ALCS. They need to add pieces, not get rid of everyone who got us to the postseason in the first place.
Exactly. Best record in the AL and an ALCS appearance is a good team.
they should be blown up.
pettitte is 40, mo is 40 +, jeter is 38, and on and on..
this is the end of the jeter era, wake up to reality…
younger, cheaper, and more athletic… that is the goal………………………………………
You can get Cheaper and better without getting rid of guys like Cano or Granderson who has produced in the regular season.
Shouldnt better be the goal? None of the things you mentioned mean better baseball players.
Adding pieces could be tough with the $189 million budget looming. I’m pessimistic about the offseason.
Tough but not impossible Mike pointed out that they still have some wiggling room even with the long term contracts.
Thanks to Ben, Mike, Joe and everyone at RAB for their usual stellar work.
Mark Fiensand: “It’s as much A-Rod’s fault as anybody.” Yeah the dude that has one start this series is just as responsible as our all world 2nd baseman going 1 for the series.
What a stupid comment.
He obviously has been tipping the wrong pitches to our hitters.
I gotta admit, I’m jealous of their Cabrera/Verlander combo. our team is full of the PAST, they seem to have right combo of the present and perhaps the future.
That Prince Fielder contract is going to be a similar albatross for them as the A-Rod one for the next many years.
I trade arod to angels for wells and 60 million. Wells 5 years 48 million is acceptable put him in rf hope he finds hia
swing.
Certifiably insane.
Wells is one of the worst players in baseball at this point.
On no planet could Vernon Wells be better than ARod. Alex is already old and decrepit enough – Wells is a flat out terrible baseball player.
Arod still produces. Wells does jack shit. Give me the guy who still can do something if we’re going to pay 100 mil anyways.
Why do you hate baseball?
Thanks for the reminder.
I have the Taps on my phone’s playlist, under the title “Goodnight, Yankees”. Played it after the final out of 2011.
I’ll be playing it again tonight.
At this point I think you just have to clean house. This was so embarrassing that Girardi has gotta go. ARod has gotta go. Swisher won’t be back. Granderson has gotta go. Clean house and start fresh with new leadership.
SMH.
Yankees traded a lot of young and Cheaper Parts for older scrubs.
and now they are getting their Just Return. They deserve everything bad happening because of poor decisions.
I would love to see a big lightening storm where Big Stein is shot from the heavens and goes all Thor on this team.
And that’s why Brian Cashman needs to nail it this offseason. He is now officially on the hot seat.
No he is not. Kevin Long will take the fall.
Long will be gone first. Cashman gets a year to at least makes this reputable.
steinbrenner is known for getting old overpaid players.
LMFAO… @ nunez.
Well, it was a fun year while it lasted. I don’t believe anyone quit on this team. I just think the little problems we saw all year came to head all at once. This is an old team that’s been forced to play too many games in a row over the last month and they got worn down. Combine that with a few guys slumping, some injuries and the usual playoff chokers…and you have the product you see before you today.
There’s still hope for the future, as good pitching will always keep you competitive, but barring a ninja move from Cashman, this team has some serious flaws that can’t be fixed without some serious $$$$ or an infusion of young talent. Given that all the big time Yankee prospects either got hurt this year or are 2 years out….there’s no quick fix in sight.
Its ironic that this year’s team is being hammered by criticism when they went further in the playoffs than last year’s team.
Credit to Girardi for managing them to this point. Now the onus falls to Brian Cashman to do his job properly and rebuild this team.
where is the irony? The criticism is deserved and Baltimore is a lesser opponent than Detroit was last year.
And no Girardi does not deserve credit – he managed away the 10 game division lead. And Cashman won’t take the fall, they will blame Kevin Long.
Last year, was just one of those years, the Yankees thoroughly outplayed the Tigers but lost the series…Shit happens. This years team looked bad against the O’s and now really bad against Detroit.
I like Girardi, but I feel like Jeter,Ichiro, Kuroda, CC, Andy, and to a lesser extent Cano, dragged this team kicking and screaming in spite of some foolish moves by Girardi to 95 wins this season.
Oh fuck you Pepsi. That’s the last commercial I ever wanted to see.
This is going to sound vindictive, but why hasn’t any major sports “news” outlet or any of the regular yankee-bashing trolls on this site even trying to point the finger at Robbie this series?! Seriously, if Cano even has a “normal” series by his standards I think he could’ve carried the team to at least 1 or 2 wins in the LCS.
I would’ve benched Cano for Nix in Game 3. Girardi should’ve gone all in with the benchings. He had nothing to lose with these chumps.
nono .. you are totally on point … there is no way he is going to get the 250mil he was asking for … like everyone else has said we need to get younger and we need to get hitters who make contact .. i know many people dont like nunez cuz of his defense but he needs to be given a shot to play .. dh or whatever .. and play ss when jeter dh’s which should be alot more next year … anyways we need better contact hitters…. guys who go the other way .. enough of this station to station bullshit … in the playoffs they wont be facing the number 4 or 5 starter who serve these hitters cookies … as much as this sweep is going to hurt i hope that it opens the front offices eyes so that guys like swisher, granderson, arod are gone .. and to prevent them from giving ridiculous contracts to cano and martin ..
nono .. you are totally on point … there is no way he is going to get the 250mil he was asking for … like everyone else has said we need to get younger and we need to get hitters who make contact .. i know many people dont like nunez cuz of his defense but he needs to be given a shot to play .. dh or whatever .. and play ss when jeter dh’s which should be alot more next year … anyways we need better contact hitters…. guys who go the other way .. enough of this station to station bullshit … in the playoffs they wont be facing the number 4 or 5 starter who serve these hitters cookies … as much as this sweep is going to hurt i hope that it opens the front offices eyes so that guys like swisher, granderson, arod are gone .. and to prevent them from giving ridiculous contracts to cano and martin.
Oh by the way, for those that want the manager to be fired, give me a good candidate that is somewhere in the realm of reality.
imagine francona was available… I don’t about fired, but he needs a reality check somehow.
I would love Francona. Sigh too bad…
Pinella
New York media would LOVE him. Unfortunately, he’s old and a bit rickety
That old fart? LMFAO.
hes sitting on the bench next to little girardi
And the real gutless Yanks have finally exposed themselves as the frauds they are. As I’ve said all year – worst first place team I have ever seen.
Don’t hurt your shoulder patting yourself on the back.
Call it like I see it. Terrible fundamental team. God awful.
Then stop watching baseball for the sake of all the fans who actually give a fuck and don’t run away like bitches at the first sign of trouble.
thank you.
First sign of trouble?
I guess losing three games in a row is not enough for you?
Do you still think the yankees can win the WS?
You’re such in denial.
Fuck you, Fuck you sir, Fuck you some more, and Fuck you again.
With some more Fucks on top.
Peace out, RAB, it’s been fun staying positive with some of you, I’ll be back in a month when I can do so again.
I’ll still be here. And way to stay classy. Grow up, clown.
Fuck you.
Grow up!
Ask a Cubs Fan if they like to change place with the Yankees from 1996 on.
Ok now continue.
HAHAHAHAHAHA Damn good job yankees.
Way to get swept!
Spends all that money to get crushed in the postseason.
Ya yankees can spend all your money.
Ya keep coming to the postseason and lose!
Stop taking another team’s spot!
you must be a Met fan or a red sux fan …they were real good this year
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You definitely can’t blame Girardi for the bats being cold. I think he was gutsy to PH Raul for A-Rod in the ALDS, but there’s no argument that it was a turning point in what Girardi felt he could/could not do. I think this free reign he feels might have some lasting consequences.
I don’t completely love the way he’s made out lineups and offensive starters this series, but whatever. To me, what was completely unforgivable was/is his management of the bullpen in postseason games. When he brought David Phelps into extra innings of game 1 of the ALCS when he could have gone to several better options (especially either stretching Soriano or Robertson another inning), it became clear that he doesn’t quite wrap his mind around how to manage in must-win save-nothing for tomorrow situations. I think part of it is we got spoiled with Mo being healthy, and Joe Torre already having set a precedent to use him for 2 innings regularly in postseason games, but Joe really needed to treat Robertson/Soriano in the same way.
Can we interview Verlander again TBS you dumb Fucks.
Eduardo Nunez is seriously the only Yankee capable of hitting.
Unreal.
Ok can safely turn this shit off.
Nunez is such an ass, who does he think he is breaking up the no hitter.
dammit, there goes the no hitter. I guess we got some dignity, maybe not…
Just get Valverde in this game and there’s a chance.
gotta love the losers that post when the yankees lose. jealous one’s envy.
You could hear the audible grunt from Smoltz on that play when he realized Jackson couldn’t get it.
I’m sorry, but this guy should not be doing national games.
before anybody else i want swisher gone.. more so than alex, just looking at him pisses me the fuck off. ‘seeya’
and now we shall strikeout three in a row. Its as if our players loose the ability to hit when people are on base WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
This sucks and all but what sucks more is that we’re screwed out of a CC start in game 7.
i’m getting a nunez jersey.
Nunez can’t do anything right. Way to screw up the no hitter.
Garbage time.
Is A-rod actually injured?
Aside from sucking, why is he never getting back in lineup?
Joe hasn’t finished asserting his dominance.
Girardi think Chavez vs a righty is better match up.
he has as many hits as me this series, why he keep getting AB’s like he is Barry Bonds?
I would rather booing Arod than having Chavez’s empty hacks
Because Girardi is so low on ARod he won’t admit that Chavez is useless and has cost the team 2 runs already on defense.
The Yanks are geniuses. This Arod bullshit has been the perfect distraction from letting us really discuss what a truly shitty team they are. Mad geniuses.
Just stopped in to hear someone write how a team in the ALCS is a truly shitty team.
The bright spot of the off-season will be half of you will go into hibernation. You’ll all be back, though. Who are we fooling.
Rally like game one of the 2011 ALCS.
WERTH contract here he comes..
Dd they just score a run
Swisher with a RISPY hit.
No, really.
anyone think, this is the inning we turn around everything?
Wait til the 9th inning cock tease where they score 4 runs, get the tying run on before losing. Because we all know that’s going to happen.
No. The cock tease would be winning 3 straight and then losing. That’s the cock tease.
I think that would just bee good baseball.
don’t let us win tonight!!!!!
Hahaha! Typical Swish. Game over, series over, no pressure and he knocks in a run!
“More than likely Jim would like to get him through this inning”
And here I was thinking Leyland wouldn’t want him to get through this inning.
they deleted it thankfully
Bullpen time!
So will Joe pinch hit here?
probably not. AROD hasn’t finished serving his time. a few more license plates to punch..
Bringing in Coke? Any chance Joe tries A-Rod here? I would guess definitely A-Rod for Chavez.
Or actually, is Coke now being treated as the closer? Drew Smyly?
anyone know how close we are to the playoff record of .196 batting average?
team batting average that is
Banish Cano to Kansas City.
Who was that… Swisher?
Please bring in A-Rod
That thought running through your head that Ibanez could hit a 3 run HR – just stop. save yourself the frustration. won’t happen.
Arod. Good move.
this is history…. ALEX PH,
Yes!!!! they are bring in A_ROD
Its would be too funny
I’m glad he’s at least giving A-Rod a chance to do something.
I don’t mind getting to see Alex here.
With all the bullshit going on with him, who knows if he’s a Yankee next year.
Bet he gets a hit
First of all: I TOTALLY BELEIVE WE CAN STILL DO THIS
Second of all, don’t you hate it when you start thinking of all the shit you’re gonna do now that the Yanks are out of it. Like, I’ll get my $200 for the tickets I bought for Game 6. And now I have time to clean my bathroom tomorrow night. Great.
Grandy – left field
Swish – Smell ya later
Arod – say hi to South Beach
KLong – Bi
Girardi – later
Cashman – You’re fired!
lol We made the ALCS. 13 other teams wish they made it this far.
Alex will be in NY for next season. This isn’t his fault. Say bye to Swisher though.
Granderson and Cano were worse than Alex.
Much worse. I thought I’d feel bad if Swish left but after he turned on the fans, screw him.
He never turned on the fans. He basically said he was frusterated because he was trying hard yet still getting booed at home.
Order of blame(more disappointment)in this series for me goes:
1.Robbie
2.Robbie
3.Robbie
4.Granderson
5.Swisher
6.Girardi
7.A-Rod
8.Chavez (you were given a chance to succeed and you failed SO HARD.)
He’s alive!
man alex looks really nervous…
A-Rod could jack one here and people would still blame him for this.
A-Rod has no business “sauntering” to the plate. Get that swag outta your step, son..
Well it’s not a strikeout.
What’s one more #RISPFAIL for this season?
He made contact. Showing up eric Chavez.
Rascism isn’t cool.
I say swag Alex Swag. Screw everyone who doesn’t like you. You’ve been through enough. You make millions but you’ve been punched around in ways you don’t deserve.
Yeah he is such the innocent victim.
did not say that. said he got worse than he deserved and I believe that.
Whoever you like on this team sucks just as hard. Except for obviously Jeter and Raul.
LOL
ARod missed a cookie.
A-Rod against a soft tossing lefty ends with an easy flyout. Where’s that dumbass DT now?
Still here. How’s Cano’s 0-3? Or Chavez 0-2? Like i said Arod at worst does what the other guys have done.
A-Rod is done.
I guess all our struggling hitters are done then? an .800 OPS at 3rd base is far from done. Overpaid and an Albatross? Yes. Done for his career? Doubt it.
Now the Media can all point fingers and blame Arod for losing us the game. Yay.
I completely agree with pinchhitting Arod for Chavez. But NOT for Ibanez! Wtf Girardi. Seriously, why would you play Chavez over Arod in do or die games, then take out Ibanez for Arod?!!? Dude shoulda waited one more batter and put Arod in for Chavez. Duuuumb move.
I’m guessing we might see Nix for Chavez.
Knowing Girardi, he’ll keep in Chavez and let Andruw jones hit for alex.
Ibanez can’t hit lefties except for that one time. Had he pinch hit Arod for Chavez they would have brought a righty in. And there’s no guarantee Ibanez even gets on base to get to Chavez.
I would much rather him start Ibanez and Arod in the same game. Splits be damned, Ibanez is one of the few reasons we even got this far(that and amazing pitching). Arod should be one of the reasons we stay here, and he WILL turn it around. He can hit lefties, and he will break out of his funk. Just probably not this postseason…
I’m not going to disagree here. ARod’s platton splits only popped up this season. Last year he had trouble with lefties and killed righties.
He’ll probably get one more plate appearance. We as Yankee Fans should seriously enjoy it. One of the greatest players to play the game, probably not a yankee for much longer. really blows.
Going to Alex was more than the right move there. At least it shows that Joe hasn’t completely given up on the game or (to a MUCH lesser extent) Alex. I seriously thought regardless of situation we would never see Alex again, at least this season possibly ever again.
Throw a legit parade.
They got Delmon Young out.
You guys think we’ll see Alex again or are they going to ph Granderson for him if it’s a righty pitcher?
2 for 1 flat Old Milwaukee right now. Nothing but Sigur Ros on the jukebox and women who aren’t interested in you everywhere. Enjoy…..or not.
Win or lose, this is my team, and this will always be my team.
#unlesstheysellittotrumponeday
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OMG I never thought of that. Yeah, that would be one of the few moves they could make that would make me turn my back forever
ARod was set up to fail there – no surprise.
absolutely hitting off koufax like that is unfair. he should of told smyly keep it under 85 please…..
Alex has never gotten a PH hit. He was always a full-time player.
Know your stuff before you get snippy.
Huh?? He was actually set up to succeed since he got to face a LH pitcher (not even their best LH reliever) which he still actually hits pretty good.
count that as hit arod did hit it to the outfield.
don’t worry arod the under 30 and dumb fandom still loves you act.
arod has zero rbi’s in the playoffs….he is being unfairly picked on after all granderson is playing today and nicky played in game 3……
newsflash arod sucks, swisher is as unclutch as it can be, and grandy is a hack…they all stink, and????????????????????????????
Holy fuck, is that a float I see going by?
Annnddd you’re a dumbass. And this team with those guys made it further than any other AL team not named the Tigers.
Everyone knows this team sucks, what are you trying to prove?
One thing I wont miss about Arod being gone is all the freaking attention he gets. The best part of the late 90′s teams was how one player wasnt the main focus of the team. Tino and Paul O’Neil get benched in the World Series and nobody cared. Granderson and Swish get benched and its a footnote to Arod getting benched. Its not a Yankee story its a freaking Arod story and he is right now not even one of the best players on the team anymore.
Seriously man its time for him to go. I will always appreciate the 2009 postseason and by far the greatest season by a single player Ive ever watched on a daily basis in 2007 but it really is time to end all the freaking drama.
You know whats sad, i think the Orioles woukd have destroyed the tigers in this series
No chance. Orioles would have folded just like us. Their offense was worse than ours.
The tigers are not good and will get crushed.in the ws
The Orioles got shutout by CC or Pettite or Kuroda who are top of the line pitchers.
The Yankees got shut out by no names.
No names?
Verlander- MVP
Scherzer- Top 5 in the AL in K’s
Fister- Been brilliant since last year
Sanchez- maybe but he has a no hitter, so he’s not technically a no name.
Psh, Facts. Who is this Verlander guy. I’ve only seen TBS drool all over him every game of the series.
Don’t even try that argument, people guaranteed 8 runs off Verlander and you know it.
Oh and if you’ve watched more than one game then you’d see that Verlander shockingly didn’t start every game.
Didn’t stop TBS from talking about him every game. Oh they let him join the booth for an inning too.
He’s overhyped no doubt but the Yankees were able to face a lot of scrubs and didn’t do shit too.
8 runs? Have they been watching the offense recently… I was happy with one and not giving him a complete game victory.
I meant they got shut out by Oriole no names. I’ll give you Detroit’s top 3 but still the Orioles can’t be worse.
They did get limited by Orioles no names. And so was every other team this year. The Yankees are not alone in being shut down by Orioles no names.
Their offense was not showing up either.
The Orioles offense was struggling worse than ours. Their pitching is worse than ours. Doubt it.
What? The O’s and the Yanks were evenly matched oh except for that 120 million payroll difference
What frustrates me most is not having any idea of what could be done to make this team better. There really doesn’t seem to be any quick fix.
Adding a bunch of free agents doesn’t really solve anything and will only add to the payroll issue, there aren’t really any solid internal answers, and blowing up the team would be completely ridiculous and counter productive. On the other hand you can’t just do nothing. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
Well, are you going to base change on the first 167 games, or on the last four?
There’s things that can be done. You can let Swisher go, pick up Grandy’s option and trade him, stupidly explore the Alex thing, let Russell walk, etc. Does that mean you get pieces in place that make the team better? Beats the fuck out of me.
I’m not saying any of the above should be done. I’m just saying those are pretty obvious possibilities that would conceivably be done. I have no clue what I think…..yet.
ARod can’t do a damn thing. And he sat the one hitter that’s driven in some runs for us this series, Raul. Nunie’s been about the only bright spot the past two games. He’s certainly won himself a spot on next year’s roster. Hopefully it’s in the place of ARod.
Nunie will never be an Arod. Let’s get real.
If Nunez gives us an .800 OPS neast season, i’ll go eat a hat.
Did anyone just see what Rapada was doing with his eyes when the camera was on Pettitte? Freakiest shit I’ve ever seen.
Order of blame(more disappointment)in this series for me goes:
1.Robbie
2.Robbie
3.Robbie
4.Granderson
5.Swisher
6.Girardi
7.A-Rod
8.Chavez (you were given a chance to succeed and you failed SO HARD.)
In addition:
9. Robinson Cano
yes
You forgot Pineda. I blame him for everything.
SEATTLE KNEW
Yeah, like Michael Pineda would have been useful in this series.
Why so serious?
Agreed.
so any updates on michael pineda… that should be somewhat interesting next year..
Last I heard he should be ready to come back to the majors in like June…that was back in like july though.
one more thing: whats the deal with this Tiger’s rookie… is he the real deal?
Smyly? The scouts say he can be good, he’s got good movement on his pitches, enough heat to blow away lesser LHH, I’ve personally never seen him pitch (I’m stuck on the radio for a lot of games) so idk if he’s got a slider or a change to use against RHH.
I think he might mean Garcia
yea sorry, I meant Garcia. He’s looked pretty good the last month or so…
http://www.fangraphs.com/stats.....osition=OF
High K% low walk %…the type of hitter that kills the yanks.
Pineda is down till at least next june. Shoulders dont heal fast and he will need a ton of rehab in the minors.
Think montero could have helped us out this year?
Maybe…. but his .685 OPS and sub .300 OBP didn’t help Seattle much.
HAHAHAHAHAHA OMG! This is awesome.
Prince and Miggy – kept in check (relatively).
Garcia and Young – destroyed the Yankees all series long.
That’s what had to happen for the Tigers to win the league. And to their credit, they’ve done it.
Wow not a gritty play.
Ahaha poor Joba…everything has to try and kill him.
Seriously…have you seen a more unlucky player?
Nick Johnson? Mr Glass.
Joba with the kick save… Is he hurt again.
I just read that St. Louis pitchers are hitting .214 in the playoffs. Compared to .182 for the Yankees.
YIKES.
Did they introduce Nix or was he just on-deck?
Wonder if this would have ended better if Cashman got carlos lee instead of miami.
Mr. 650 OPS Carlos Lee? He’ll fit in perfectly with the postseason offense.
Carlos Lee? Wow, we are getting crazy.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
he’s still chasing pitches on the ground. lol
Appropriate for Kurtis to strike out one more time this season.
Was that a gigantic flail? I’ listening on the radio, and I feel like it was a gigantic flail.
Granderson is seriously pathetic.
The Yankees haven’t held a lead in this series, have they?
nope. no lead and no saves in the postseason.
nope. no lead in the ALCS and I think no saves in the postseason.
These guys freaking stink.
Didnt swing, but why curtis there anyway? Now stuart the next time and granderson lost for the game. Ibanez, martin, and now grandy out….zero chance for comeback, oh hell who the eff am i kidding
Gardner shouldnt be hitting.
Knock it out nunez
Now that’s more like it Nick. Knew you’d be right back.
Nope…don’t think so.
That short porch in Yankee stadium has destroyed/limited two great offensive players which is hurting them now.
Granderson needs to go fix his mechanics this offseason. It’s terrible right now.
It has been terrible since, well, forever. It is just that some pseudo-knowledgeable fans fall in love with his homeruns and fail to see how bad he is producing runs with men on base, and how bad he is at fielding and throwing. It is something that can’t be “undone”, same thing for Teixeira, he loves to pull the ball and nobody will ever fix that, and he won’t try to bunt to the other side just to get an easy hit.
Forever? His swing great last year. He had a good first half and fell off. You saw it in his swing when it got long and slow.
Lol
we are the hollow men…
TS Eliot or REM?
I loled
Ajax > Granderson
Right now, maybe.
Three years ago….
Or last year for that matter. People forget how terrible Ajax was last year and Grandy had an MVP year.
He lets hope Soriano leaves
grandy check swing at a pitch in the ondeck circle and then ajax with a bomb..
OUCH…
Could have had victorino and pence too. Damon vlad lots of guys who can hit in the post season.
Vlad doesn’t hit in the postseason.
Pence and Vlad have sucked in the playoffs.
Lets run it in why not. Well at least the Tiger dispelled the you can;t hit homeruns in the postseason theory.
Lowe instead of Robertson here infuriates me. Girardi just doesn’t get it. There is no game tomorrow without a win today.
THEY’RE NOT WINNING THE GAME ANYWAY!
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO HE USES.
So do you propose maybe letting Nick Swisher pitch? As a manager he should always manage to try to win. Especially when a loss means the offseason.
I propose the “spaghetti to the wall” method.
Yeah but still it’s Robertson instead of Lowe. Just to say he tried.
After the injury filled year the Yankees have had, don’t tempt fate
Oh give us a break – now you are saying don’t pitch him in case of an injury?
I get that you must defend Girardi, but even for you this is ridiculous.
Questioning Girardi for that move is ridiculous. I’m jut stooping to your level.
So give up in a 5 run game? Which might be the last of the year? They might not come back, but again if it’s over why is he pinchhitting?
If he hadn’t mismanaged the bullpen in game 1,2, and 3 in close games, maybe I’d give him the benefit of the doubt; the guy doesn’t know how to manage a bullpen when trailing. He’s got his stupid rules and doesn’t know how to adapt. It’s a sucessful approach for a long seaosn; for a short sample it should be adapted.
Is it bad that Lowe has as many appearances as Robertson and Soriano combined in the ALCS?
Robertson – 7th, Robertson or Soriano in the 8th. If you are fortunate to have come back by the time the Tigers might need to bat in the 9th you worry about it then.
What the hell is Girardi saving these guys for?
Seriously. Does it matter? They have better players than we do. At every position.
IT DOESN’T MATTER!
Unless Robertson or Soriano can hit…
Then why not leave Joba in if it doesn’t matter?
If it matters enough to make a change, make the right fucking decision. If it doesn’t matter, then don’t bother making a change.
Why pinch hit if it doesn’t matter?
He obviously cares about some moves; and people are chlaing up some really bad bullpen decisions (look at the 8th/9th inning of games 1, 2 and 3) as “well it doesn’t matter” so let’s just give him a pass
ALSO YOUR CAP LOCKS APPEARS TO BE RANDOMLY STICKING AGAIN.
Chlaing? or maybe “chalking”
Sorry, except for 2b. They are better everywhere else.
Technically our Left and right fielder should be better.
Detroit is so much better than the Yanks that it’s disgusting. I don’t care about wins, runs scored during the regular season and all that other statistical BS. Watch the game. Watch the series. This team is on a different level than the Yanks, One we can only hope to get back to in the next 10 yrs.
I agree. A 4 game sample size is ALWAYS more telling then playing 162 games.
who’s the ALCS mvp? I’m torn between Cano and Swisher.
Cano’s 0-29 seals the deal.
That’s the problem. People are attacking the Granderson trade IN HINDSIGHT. Even Axisa agreed with the move
No one said shit last year when Grandy had a .900 OPS and Ajax was barely an Major league hitter.
Absolutely inexcusable that Girardi isn’t tossing Pettite, Robertson, Soriano, Mariano, Gator, Sparky, and Rocket out here to protect the deficit. What a terrible way to go out. Derek Lowe? Fool.
Cashman put this team together and he’s had a long run as GM; I think it’s time for a change.
He put together a team that had the best record in the AL, got to the ALCS. So lets Fire him! /Yankees Fan Logic.
I love winning the world series, don’t get me wrong, but this whole win the wold series or fire everybody mentality is the stupidest thing ever.
We’re spoiled.
I agree, but in this case I would be apt to get rid of Cashman, mainly because of his failure in development. They have been unable to develop an ace since Pettitte, while aces are popping up all over the place.
Cano has been the best hitter he has developed and kept. Any others he’s failed and/or traded to other teams.
while aces are popping up all over the place.
What?
Well since Pettitte there’s been Halladay, Verlander, Felix, AND Kershaw!!!
Hamels, Lester, Lincecum, Verlander, Cain, Baumgartner, Josh Johnson, Latos, Cueto, Hernandez, Price, Sale, Zimmerman, Gonzalez, Strasburg, Lynn, Kershaw, Parker, and Wainwright
Not to mention older players like Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, etc.
I have news for you: one or two good years does not make you an ace.
Fine.
Hamels,Lester,Lincecum,Verlander,Cain,Josh Johnson, Latos,Cueto, Hernandez, Price, Kershaw, Gonzalez, and Wainwright.
Plus the older pitchers: Lee, Halladay, Peavy, Carpenter etc.
So you are saying Parker is not an ace?
Or Sale?
That’s just crazy talk Mike!
You may need to check your definition of ace.
Lester is not an ace. Sale? Based on a sample size of 1 season? Best part of this playoff exit is not reading your stupid posts.
Before this year, Lester was an ace. You can’t use one bad year to discount an ace.
There’s a reason we got Pineda. too bad he got injured.
Exactly.
No, not yankee fan logic — don’t even know what that is. They may have the best record, but how many wins came against losing teams? What does it matter if you can’t produce in the post-season? When the team cannot manufacture runs, it’s a problem. Or they can’t move runners over, or hit and run, it’s a problem. The offense is too one-dimensional, and who put those players together? He’s been the GM for 14 years. That’s a long time. I’m just suggesting it may be time for a change in philosophy or outlook. What’s wrong with that?
This is not the place for differing opinions. You’ll just end up getting burned. Not worth it.
They are getting swept by the TIgers, who are only in the playoffs because of the collapse of the white sox.
They are 47 – 44 against winning teams. All of them except the angels and Rays are play off teams. They only have a losing record to the White Sox and Rays among teams who were in the play off hunt.
*angels, rays and white sox.
THree games over .500 against winning teams. I wouldn’t consider that impressive.
Go check how other teams have done against above .500 teams. Trust me it’s not better.
I think it’s time for you to change your team, you wimp.
Maybe they should try and sneak Mo in there.
CC did us a favor. Better to go out in Detroit. Can’t wait to see the Cash-man’s plan for 2013.
I really don’t think Girardi managed with any sense of urgency/do or die. He trotted a weak lineup, left his ACE out to dry/ started bringing in scrubs that cant protect leads. I just don’t get it.. After the the sixth inning its as if He just raised the white flag.
Based on the effort from his players…as he should have..
Remember when coke sucked. Oh yeah, before this series
Poor bastard Ichiro is now 1-8 in ALCS games.
I’m resigned to the fact that we just can’t beat the Tigers in the playoffs
THIS!!!!!!!
BigBlueAL says:
October 18, 2012 at 6:39 pm
One thing I wont miss about Arod being gone is all the freaking attention he gets. The best part of the late 90?s teams was how one player wasnt the main focus of the team. Tino and Paul O’Neil get benched in the World Series and nobody cared. Granderson and Swish get benched and its a footnote to Arod getting benched. Its not a Yankee story its a freaking Arod story and he is right now not even one of the best players on the team anymore.
Seriously man its time for him to go. I will always appreciate the 2009 postseason and by far the greatest season by a single player Ive ever watched on a daily basis in 2007 but it really is time to end all the freaking drama.
Everyone but Jeter and Raul can’t hit either ffs.
Whether it’s a product of Alex, the media, the fans, the team or all four the circus has to go.
It’s just a bad marriage at this point.
Just an embarrassing performance for the entire club, from the front office, the manager, the hitters, the defense, CC — just awful. I’d rather they’d have lost to the orioles or even not made it into the post-season than to have them play like this. Horrible! The Tigers are not 4 games to 0 better than this Yankee team, so someone has some ‘splainin to do.
The entire offense did not show up. Simple as that. They pick a piss poor time to all go into a slump.
You should ask a Red Sox fan how they’re doing.
As far as I’m concerned the manager and front office have poisoned the well by this benching of ARod and then by leaving him to turn in the media wind without any hint of support. It’s hard to believe there will be a decent atmosphere around there after this. I’d keep ARod, fire Girardi. The hitters weren’t making adjustments? Come again, Joe? What the hell is your job supposed to be if not to insist on “adjustments”? And, after all, it’s not as if this failure to make “adjustments” appeared for the first time only after the season ended. These guys have been failing to make these adjustments over and over all year.
Enough with that Buddha like pose.
But Joe DID insist on players making “adjustments”. He even balled up his fists and stamped his feet. But nobody listened to him.
How can you expect for players to listen to JoeG, a manager who dismissed what his batting coach said when the Yanks were almost taken over by the Orioles in the regular season?
Remember? We are the Bronx BOMBERS, not the Bronx Bunters. They just followed that and played to hit homeruns. In the end, they finished this series with a line similar to JoeG’s lifetime playoff stats.
And there was Swisher’s last PA as a Yankee.
our MVP is up to bat.. sweet!
Cano, you rock dude! another out! Yeah dude!
The only silver lining in this catastrophe is we are seeing the end of Rodriguez, Granderson, Swisher, and hopefully the homerun or nothing approach to this team.
Haha. Fielder gold glove. tigers using all of their magic to beat the yanks.
I wonder if Louise Meanwell is watching.
Lol! Or his other soccer mom hag of a mistress.
So why go to D-Rob now?
david robertson MOP UP …. I AM THIS FUCKING CLOSE TO THROWING MY LAPTOP AT GIRARDIS FACE
moron when should they have used him…
moron…
Top of the 6th? MORON.
You die with your best arms because there is no tomorrow. You pitch D-Rob 2 innings and Sori 2 innings. And, guess what, if they MAGICALLY win then you worry about who pitches tomorrow.
A final thumb in the eye.
Apparently even Girardi didn’t get the Greg memo about not tempting fate by pitching Robertson – he could get injured after all.
And was pitching in the high 80′s. What does that suggest?
WHO ARE YOU SAVING SORIANO FOR YOU MORON.
And the NYY suddenly came to this 4th game converted in Joe Girardi.
Girardi’s stats in the playoffs:
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NYY stat’s before today in the ALCS:
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Spooky!
Yanks will score 2 runs in the 9th, then load the bases followed by 3straight strikeouts to end the game
DRob now? Fuck off Girardi
OK, I’m on the “Fire Girardi” bandwagon. He’s a tool. And a moron.
You’re an idiot Girardi. I want to shoot you in the fucking face. WHo the fuck are you saving Robertson and Soriano for? Eat shit.
What difference does it make?
This is embarrassing
D-Rob is throwing upper 80′s
Yikes…When it rains it poors.
D-Rob is pitching like a man who just had his first child this year.
Did anyone catch Cashman sitting there when TBS panned the crowd after that last HR. He has a lot of work to do before baseball starts next year.
I hope they trade for another OFer.
I hope he gets shitcanned. Maybe instead of tapping soccer moms, he should focus on rebuilding this deadweight team.
looking at the box score… detroit manhandled us today… damn.
I’ll see y’all in 2013 (2012 Yankees).
The least TBS could’ve done was air the Yankees Springsteen spot, one last time.
So who wanted D-Rob in the game, again?
Let’s work the count guys and let’s get some baserunners. Do not go out like dead weight, please. All i ask.
Would have been better if Ibanez didn’t help them beat the Orioles. Stupid Ibanez.
I hope the Tigers get smacked by who ever they play in the WS.
They probably will. The Cardinals are better and actually have a lineup of guys that can hit.
Tigers pitchers were fortunate that the Yankees offense died months ago.
They probably will. They can’t hide their defense in the NL parks.
Epic A-Rod troll HR.
Valverde warming up? It must be a blowout.
“A-Rod Sucks” stay classy Detroit.
I think next to Valverde, Coke is the second person I do not want to see celebrate the final out.
Say what you want about Alex at least he hustles down the line unline Cano, Swisher, and company.
Uh….he knew the camera was on him for possibly his last Yankee at-bat.
He doesn’t regularly bust it like that.
Good run guys. 95 wins for an old, creaky, injured team is not too bad. Suggestion to the FO: stop trying to buy the WS every year with overhyped, over the hill players. And stop depleting the Farm System trading for them! Close the checkbook and develop the talent even if it takes a few years and even if it means not making the playoffs. The real fans will wait.
Tex, Swisher, CC, Grandy were all 28 or younger when they joined the Yankees, they were far from old and still aren’t old. They’ve been one dimensional but far from old.
that’s 3 players. I believe the avg age of the Yankee squad is the highest in the ML. Although the 3 players you mention do suck, well OK Tex somewhat less than the others.
At thirdbase for your 2013 new york yankees David Adams/Corbin Joseph.
your 2013 Yankees will finish in last place and we’ll get the first pick of the draft.
If that’s the case, it will “at third base for your 4th place 2013 NYY.”
Hey that means they would get the chance to Draft Carlos Rodon in 2014!!! (I’m an NC State Student)
But seriously they don’t need to get rid of Arod
1st place or last place – at least they’re guys you could root for.
I doubt you’ll be here if they are a last place team. Go away Band wagoner.
Yank fan since mid-70s, son. Bet you weren’t even shitting yellow yet.
wow phil coke, looks like he won the WS
Sweep chant. Wonder if any the Yankees actually feel embarrassment.
I hope Detriot would enjoys getting beat by who ever they play from the NL.
And that’s all she wrote. Hopefully the offseason goes better than the playoffs.
jayson nix to end the season…. shit. alright, lets go NL team, f the Tigers. See ya next year Yanks, do your best…
Holy hell what a terrible song the Tigers have.
Fuck uou coke with your stupid celebration. Tigers are gonna get rolled in the ws esp. After that cheesy song
Thank god for thursday night football and the nfl network go hawks beat those fortywiners into the ground.
Congrats to the Tigers!!!!!!
I hope they represent AL well.
When you sweep a team your just plain better.
Congrats Detroit, your the fatest team in baseball
Jhonny Peralta had more home runs in 1 game than Can had hits in the series. How about that? Disgrace.
pretty embarrasing too that Scherzer got 10 K in 5.2 innings
Call the dodgers take the crawford contract and send them k rod.
ARod has been way more productive than Carl Crawford….
Well thats it guys
At least we still have Eli and the New York Football Giants. That should get us to feb.
The first 3 games were close but outside of a few innings in the first game (9-12); Detroit was pretty much always in control.
Say what you want about the regular season record, Detroit earned their way to the WS in the postseason.
It also makes the umpire gaffes in games 1 and 2 sting a lot less; although it also makes it more likely that Selig, et al don’t do anything about it.
This team embarrassed themselves and embarrassed the city of New York in this series. What a bunch of losers.
That’s okay. Yankee fans embarrased themselves and New York by their no-shows during the playoffs and their booing of players just two games in.
Showing up just in time for tonight’s 8:07 first pitch between the Yanks and Tigers. Time for the comeback! Surprised there’s almost 1,000 comments before first pitch. It’s almost like there’s been a game already.
I have a son due any day, hour or minute now – Thank God the Yanks were eliminated, otherwise, he’d spend the first few days on this earth hearing “this team sucks” over and over again.
Yeah man, thank God the yankees lost.
Fuck you.
Change your name to “Jim Needs a Life”