Comments on: Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong

By: randy l

randy l — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:12:10 +0000

dna specialist-
i’m not the one hiding behind an anonymous username.

By: DNA specialist

DNA specialist — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:31:59 +0000

Randy I

It’s in the Red Sox DNA to quit?

So this Yankee team, who hasn’t won anything since 2000 has the dna of all of those chamionship teams because they’re what? Yankees.

I don’t think so….sorry, but nice try!

When you’re 20 out, we’ll see who the real quitters are!!!!!

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:31:42 +0000

alberto gonzalez should be on this roster and taking some playing time away from cano

By: randy l

randy l — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:06:02 +0000

brian(red sox fan)
idiomatic? are you sure you didn’t mean idiotmatic? so now you’re saying because bonds does steroids he can do something others can’t and that something is idiomatic and not literal? good argument brian.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:23:59 +0000

Black Monday!
Fire Torre..hire Girardi
DFA Cairo…bring up Basak
DL Giambi to heal his heel (and give enough time to see if his contract can be voided) …bring up Shelley Duncan
DFA Phelps..bring up Andy Phillips
Send Cano to Tampa to learn the strike zone again and remind him how to hit to the opposite field…bring up Gonzales

Maybe the shock value of doing all this at once will wake up all the other “hitters” not named Jeter and Posada.

By: Brian (Red Sox Fan)

Brian (Red Sox Fan) — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:08:53 +0000

Randy 1 … You are wrong. Hitting a pitch “out of the catcher’s mitt” is an old, well-known idiomatic baseball expression. It doesn’t LITERALLY mean to hit it within an inch of the glove. I would have thought that you’ know that. Obviously, Bonds (or anyone else) has to get the head of the bat out in front to actually turn the pitch around.

So you’ve misstated my premise, thereby ensuring that you win the argument … an old debating trick. But the fact is that Bonds can wait longer on the pitch because of the PEDs, which give him the ability to generate bathead speed at the last possible moment.

And I hate to burst your bubble, but the current testing program is extraordinarily haphazard. Bomds may well have never been tested, and even if he has, he can afford very good chemists. If you are actually willing to state that you honestly believe that he is not presently juicing, then it is you who loses all credibilty on this issue.

By: jk

jk — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:04:44 +0000

Torre does not want decent bench players. He had Kenny Lofton. The second Lofton barked about playing time, Torre had him shipped out. Torre wants scrubs who are content to be bench players.

By: randy l

randy l — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:56:55 +0000

brian
glad you cleared that up about the eyes because that made no sense at all, but you still didn’t answer the question of why an up and in strike is so hard to hit. i don’t think you know.
bonds does not take inside fastballs balls out of the catcher’s mitt. you’re making stuff up again. he has a technique where he turns on the ball and keeps his hands back i relation to his body. he delays the release and keeps his hands inside the ball unlike most players. that’s why when he hits the ball down the line it doesn’t hook foul. he still has to hit it out in front of him. it’s a technique anyone can do if they are coordinated enough to do it. steroids has nothing to do with it. the only pitch that’s hit close to the catcher’s mitt is the low outside ball that is hit the opposite way.
bat speed really has very little to do with golds gym type strength. that’s why kapler couldn’t hit for power and why the skinny soriano can. two players can have the same bat speed and one can hit the ball a lot further than the other. it has to do with the rate of deceleration that happens on impact. i can see where being stronger helps that, but it doesn’t help swing speed itself going into the ball.
bonds waits longer because he understands the answer to my question , and then he does something different. it has nothing to do with steroids. that’s why he’s still hitting homeruns when there’s testing.
you have made up a little myth in your mind how seeing the ball and bat speed works.
the first rule of talking smack is don’t get into something you don’t really know much about.

By: David

David — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:51:16 +0000

I think we should have sent Jeter down a few years ago when he was hitting 200 into June. That makes as much sense as sending Cano down or even calling him a AAA player.

By: The Yanks Should've Kept Randy Johnson And Never Wasted $46M On Igawa

The Yanks Should've Kept Randy Johnson And Never Wasted $46M On Igawa — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:30:27 +0000

Peter the Kei Igawa signing is Cashman’s biggest mistake, here’s why:

The Yankees paid $26M just to talk to his team. Forget the $20M they paid him, let’s see what could’ve been done with that $26M:

Greg Zaun signed for 2 years $7M, $3.5M/yr. (what Toronto signed him to) to be Posada’s super-backup and insurance if they decide to let go of Posada or Posada decides to sign elsewhere after this year. They would’ve had Zaun as Posada’s backup this year and next , or his backup this year and a perfectly viable one-year stopgap starting catcher for only $3.5M ($8.5M