Today in The Journal News
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jun 18, 2007 
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The Mets and Yankees are done for the year and it finished up even as the Yankees won last night 8-2. See you in October? Brian Heyman has the story.
Chien-Ming Wang wasn’t feeling his best but he struck out a career-best 10.
Rick Carpiniello has a great column on how Jorge Posada compares to Thurman Munson. Ron Guidry’s words are something to read.
This will be the last post for a while as I’m on my way to Denver.
Sunday night 8pm starts means Pete is still working at 3:47. Geez you’re hard working Pete.
Holy Pinstripes, Batman! Pooooooow! Booooom! —>>> “Baaaaaam!”:http://tinyurl.com/2pdtdw
June 4th was the last time Villone played. Does anyone know whats going on there. It’s a lot of $$ sitting and doing nothing. Somethings up as thats a long time for a reliever to sit.
After the game, a Tawaninese news reporter asked Wang about his thought on his idol Clemens’ comments during the game with Peter Gammons and here was Wang’s response “I enjoy watching Clemens pitch, too. There are so many things I can learn from him as a pitcher!â€?
In addition to his “okâ€? changeup, perfect sinker, and Gator’s slider, I think it will be a dream come true if Wang can learn Mo’s cutter and Clemens’s fast splitter. I had this dream of him learning slider from Gator and cutter from Mo last year before he got his 19 wins. Now that he got Gator’s slider, I hope that my dream will be complete one day! Well, Above all, winning a WS for Yankees is the most important thing for Wang to accomplish now and in the future.
Let’s Go Yankees!
Wang also mention that he feels his slider and sinker were painting plate with good “angle” coming in the strike zoon with great late movement. He gave the credits of his slider to Gator and Posada to remind him kept his arm up when throwing sinker in the game. wang feels like his changeup and four-seamed fast ball have kept the hitter off balance when swing at ball most the time.
What surprised me was that Wang was perfectly ok with the decision Joe made to pull him out with one batter left in ninth inn. He saidâ€? Of course I wanted to finish the game, but I already lost one point to the previous left hand hitter. Since my arm was tired, I think it was better for the team if I rest.”
I liked that Posada-Munson story. Gotta love comparisons of all time greats to current players.
How bout that day against Reyes? Posada guns him down attempting to steal 2nd, Cairo starts yet another 3-63 DP with Gomez running to 2nd and Reyes to 1st, and then Wang makes him look silly on a nasty strikeout.
Sorta shows how one dimensional the Mets are especially with non existant Carlos’s hogging the lineup. They need to make a trade for an impact OF at the very least. Maybe they can get Sammy Sosa, bring their average OF age down a bit.
Jeff NJ
I love that story too. It is great to learn more about Yankee’s history. It gives the game more sparks when we know more about the players. I think that is what separates the LoHud Yankees Blog to the others blog I know.
Reyes got picked off on a pitchout. Posada set him up for it. Great move by him. Mets started to struggle when Alou went down, he should be back so I don’t know if they go and get anyone. He is probably better than anyone they could add through a trade unless they are thinking Adam Dunn in left. They could use his power in their lineup right now.
Alou is 40 yrs old and if they expected him to play 110 games they were crazy.
The Mets are struggling because there 3-4 hitters are terrible at the moment and the bullpen has been springing leaks.
Great article about Jorge!
October? OH PLEASE….. SPARE ME!
Though I am in Taiwan, Jorge and Derek are the two Yankees that I like the best. Maybe I should add “besides Wang,” but since Wang is from Taiwan, from a few miles away from my hometown, he cannot be compared to them on the fair basis.
I am too young and too remote from New York to have heard about Munson until today, but indeed I do not know of any other good catcher of Yankees besides Jorge and Yogi.
One thing that bothered me while I was reading the article, though, is about Gator. I searched Wikipedia for Gator, and the information shows that Gator is a sinker-pitcher. I know that Wang did not learn his sinker from Gator, but I wish to know more about Gator’s slider…
Many people talked about Jorge’s having to catch 22 different pitchers this season. Well, let’s count the things in a different way. If one pitcher has on average 4 different kinds of pitches (it is said that Dice-K has 9), he has to catch 88 different kinds pitches because each pitcher pitches the same kind of pitch differently from others. If Wang learns cutter and fast-splitter, then Jorge has to catch 90 different kinds of pitches. That’s significant. But anyway Jorge is always significant to me.