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- May
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A lengthy pre-game meeting didn’t help as the Yankees were beaten by the Blue Jays. That’s four straight losses and eight of 11.
Jason Giambi seems headed for a cortisone shot as the Yankees try and figure out how to ease the pain in his left heel.
Everybody agrees, Rogers Clemens is ready for the majors after a sharp outing yesterday. Kevin Devaney has the story from Scranton.
The Yankees won on May 6, the day Clemens announced he was coming back. They are 7-13 since.
Back later with the lineups. It seems strange to see the Stanley Cup all over the papers here with baseball buried inside.
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Peter Abraham
Toronto fans will freak out if Ottawa wins the Cup.
you will see, the yankees are fine, they’ll win the division and then all the playoffs and world series. you guys just don’t know. i know in their hearts the yankees will win. they want to. all you posters want to do is argue and be negative. remember what clemens said last night about negativity. he banged his fist on the table. it made a loud noise and the reporters were frightened.
now imagine if clemens bangs the mound. then the red sox will be frightened. they will come undone, and lose games.
i think this is all an elaborate plan by the yankees. i think they are resting their best weapons like rivera so he doesn’t pithc in the first have, and when the red sox start to lose in the second half, they will win and rivera will be rested and better. cashman will look like a genius. torre will come back for two more seasons. you watch. this will happen.
it’s like in the rocky movies when rocky didn’t throw his devastating left until later in the fight. he didn’t fight southpaw, and totally confused his opponent. the yankees are rocky. the red sox are tommy gunn.
clemens will bang his fist. you will see
“A pigeon landed on the field during the top of the third inning and sat in front of the pitcher’s mound for several moments before umpire Jeff Kellogg chased it off.”
Dave Winfield could have taken care of this one.
I don’t think it’s that strange, Peter. I’d rather follow two hockey teams I loathe (I’m an Islanders fan) than watch night after night of lazy, uninspired, maddening Yankee baseball followed by day after day of Torre platitudes and Damon’s bulls*** in the papers. (Not a knock on you—you just report it all.)
More to the point, the Yankees were five games back of first place when Clemens announced his comeback. They are now thirteen and a half back. Nice.
the yanks are done . 210 million dollars for nothing .
i’m telling you matt, and everyone else. the yankees planned this. that’s why nobody is fired and joe is calm. it’s like rope-a-dope. cashman is a genius and will be giving interviews on all the talk shows in october on “how i made the yankees win.� they’ll make a movie about this season.
it’s like the usa and soviet union. the soviet union pretended to collapse and one day when we least expect it they’re going to come back and take over.
Pete
Check out the Hockey Hall of Fame if you have time. I was in Toronto last summer and missed out. I wonder if the my old favorite, the Whalers have some sort of presence there.
Porkchop, I love your attitude.
I am positive the Yankees will turn this embarassment around. Will they end up in first? Maybe not. But lets wreak some teams on the way to the wild card.
the yankees will destroy the red sox from july 15-august 15. they will call it the “boston annihilation.” red sox fans will be wandering the streets in tattered clothes and black eyes, like in war of the worlds. they will be crying, asking for milk and butter.
they have none. they will lose. their children will not know light, only darkness. a new sun will rise in the bronx. a tall man will stand on the mound of yankee stadium. his fist in the air.
clemens will bang his fist.
I personally find it to be disgraceful that Clemens will be ready for Fenway, yet he’ll be pushed back to start in Chicago. You pay the guy $28 million, pro-rated, and you’re afraid to throw him at Fenway Park? What else could possibly go wrong?
Having him go into Boston with the possibility of throwing a gem, or at the minimum establishing some protection for our lineup and firing up the dugout a bit, is exactly what this team needs.
Clemens himself cannot do enough to save this season… but the attitude and fire he can bring to the club certainly cant hurt.
I just hope the offense turns around for Clemens. Pettitte is already suffering from an anemic run support reminiscent of his days with the Astro’s.
I agree TurnTwo… Clemens needs to start against Boston on Sunday. Forget that it will be a circus. They wanted him, they wanted him to ride in like John Wayne – so do it.
turntwo, here’s what’s going to happen. in fenway park on saturday, a rowdy crowd will be serenading the yankees with boos and throwing sunflower seeds and batteries and mike mussina. mussina will throw one pitch. strike one. then, strike two. then he will hit coco crisp in the head and make an obscene gesture at him. this will get him thrown out of the game.
torre will tap his right arm wearing a red glove. out from the bullpen will stride a man bigger than a bull. he leaves huge footprints in the outfield. the crowd gasps. it’s like a record scratching to a halt. the theme from gladiator plays in the yankee dugout. the all get on the first step of the dugout and moon the crowd, the red sox and the city of boston like in braveheart. it’s clemens. he comes to the dugout and gives a heartened speech. “they can take april may and june, but they’’ never take OUR DIVISION!!!!”
clemens pitches lights out. all the yankees blast balls against the red sox. wil nieves goes crazy.
he’ll pitch in boston. you’ll see.
clemens will bang his fist.
We’re a hockey city, Pete. Always have been, always will be. Gone are the 50K people in the seats of SkyDome (I refuse to call it the Rogers Centre).
And people think being a Yankee fan is frustrating. Try following the Leafs. Ugh.
“I thought I was doing OK until the fifth inning when I ran into a little funk,” said DeSalvo, who threw only 46 for his 85 pitches for strikes. “The pitch for the home run was right down the middle. It was a good pitch.”
since when is a pitch down the middle a good pitch?
PPP,
Totally sweet. Do you also write for http://www.realultimatepower.com?
jeremy, i don’t know what that is. what is it? is it a site you are involved in? it seems like one of those sites that’s a little bit of everything.
I might as well bring my post from before here.
Dear Joe Torre,
There is a pitcher by the name of Brian Bruney in your bullpen. He has been solid in relief as seen below. Please use him in important 8th inning situations instead of that goof with the glasses.
Bruney hasn’t given up a run since April 23rd.
He has only give up runs in 2 games this year.
Bruney also has a 10 inning shutout since April 23rd.
It’s actually http://www.realultimatepower.net. Similar stories to yours, only they involve ninjas and pirates instead of the Yankees and Sox.
Pollyanna, that is some of the funniest stuff I have read. Thanks for lightening the mood around here. LOL about Clemens coming out of the ‘pen bangin his fist after Moose gets ejected. Your Rocky analogy is a classic. That would be awesome if it happened that way and then the Boston fans started rooting for the Yankees like the Soviets did with Rocky and then the camera cuts away to Theo, Lucchino, and Henry flipping out like the movie version of Gorbechev.
no, Marc.. shhh!!! we need Bruney to be here and healthy after Torre gets canned… so the less Torre knows about him, the less he can “trust him,” and the better it is for the future of the bullpen.
TurnTwo made me think of something frightening.
Bruney : 2007 :: Villone : 2006?
The Yankees still have a run in them—you know it is going to happen—they will start to win and go on to win 20 out of 25 games—the question will be whether it will be enough… and if they are not going to make the playoffs, I would like them to make that it clear by Labor Day so I don’t have to lay out money for my post-season option ;).
Oh ya porkchop…us Red Sox fans are real scared of Clemens who just a week ago got hit pretty hard by the Red Sox double AA team!
They moved up 14 games last season in a two month span, they can do it this year.
Yes, this all started when Clemens announced his Yankeehood and is why they team has sucked since. He needs to come sooner than later so the Yankees can get to playing.
“Jason Giambi seems headed for a cortisone shot as the Yankees try and figure out how to ease the pain in his left heel.”
i sad two weeks ago on the blog that when they go to a cortisone shot watch out because it means the doctors don’t have a clue what to do. what he probably needs is 6 weeks off his feet. cortisone also weakens connective tissue which is the last thing giambi needs.
giambi probably needs to be disabled,damon inserted as dh .melky in center and add a fourth outfielder. or keep giambi to share the dh spot with damon.but he can’t play any more than half the time and expect to get better. it’s tough losing his production, but a descision needs to be made for him. he won’t make it because he’ll try to tough it out.
ray, do not underestimate the power of clemens. he know not fear. you red sox fans do.
i am happy that the red sox won in 2004. really i am. because i think of all the 80+ year old sox fans who were eating clams in their dark houses near pemaquid point in maine feeling some joy beside the lobster juice that rolls onto their sleeves when they crack open a claw. they will go to their grave being able to say, “i saw some joy in my lifetime.”
but clemens shall foresake all who come after. he failed against AA just so people like you could make cocky remarks. we shall never see the likes of your confidence again dearest ray whenit comes to your bloody sox.
my advice: leave boston come the middle of july. you garrison shall crumble. your lead will be los. you will wander the city weeping and begging for mil and butter.
we shall prevail.
clemens will bang his fist.
Porkchop, I will grant you this. You are definitely an entertaining and creative writer who has a great sense of humor! But make no mistake about it….you write fiction. Clemens may bang his fist after facing the Red Sox, but it only be because Manny and Big Papi will take him to school!
Had some issues in his second rehab start in AA and was lights out in AAA. What’s the issue here, exactly?
Jeremy,
Bruney can’t be last year’s Villone because Joe doesn’t know who he is and therefore never uses him.
i thank you for your good words, ray. you are a classy oponent.
i can only say for your sake and for those who watch your favorite team that i wish what i write is fiction. it is not even prohphecy. it is just the way it is going to be.
yankees 2007: brothehood of the fist.
As a Red Sox fan, I like to give the Yankees fans something to think about.
In my humble opinion the Yankees fans are getting what they deserve. They are obnoxious and mercilessly boo their own players. The booing is to such an extent that I don’t believe many or any of the Yankees players has any fun playing in New York for these ‘very knowledgable’, but in my opinion, boring fans.
I’m wondering when the NYY players will stand up and address this problem. I imagine the day after being booed
would not be much fun for a player to walk
the steets of NY. Hostile territory indeed.
classic PPP. if mussina hits anyone on the third pitch of the game….it won’t be coco. he hasn’t hit lead off in a year. besides that…82 mph fastballs don’t hurt.