Postgame from Camden Yards
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Podcast on Jun 27, 2007 
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It got pretty ugly after this one.
Andy Pettitte seemed to question whether his teammates cared as much as he did.
“As a team we are not playing good baseball. We have to bear down a little bit,” he said. “I’m going to show my frustration. I’m going to show it because I care and I hope that everybody cares as much. I’m not going around polling everybody, but I’m going to wear my thoughts on my sleeve a little bit on the day I pitch. I only get to play once every fifth day. It’s extremely important to me and I think it’s extremely important to everybody else in here. At least I hope so.”
I asked Torre directly about using Rivera and he said he didn’t want to based on the 1.2 innings he had worked on Friday. It’s good that he wants to protect Rivera’s arm. But 20 pitches over nine days? I think he had two innings in him tonight.
Proctor was the last guy out of the showers. His interview was filled with expletives. Not good. I’ve decided not to post it. At the end of the day, I work for a newspaper and I have to be accountable.
Here is some audio from Torre:
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and Pettitte:
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Yankees are 4-13 in one-run games, 1-3 against the O’s and 8-16 against the AL East.
i give up on this team until is shows the ability to stay above .500 .
at least i can follow the prospects on the farm teams…
Is there any way you can e-mail the post-game from Scott Proctor? Or post it on any other site other then your own? I’d like to hear what the walk-machine had to say..
Darn
Andy is right – this team has no heart… no guts…
There’s no Paul O’Neill or Tino anymore…
Ugly is what it needs to be.
Ive been nothing but Torre supporter throughout my years as a Yankee fan .. but enough is enough !!
Mo should of been in there !! I would be sad to see him go but this team needs a shakeup
Proctor made me give a speech filled with expletives too.
Pete I asked the same question why Rivera wasn’t used.
I can certainly understand Andy’s frustration. Hard to believe we have only won one game since playing the Mets. We have a team filled with talented people. I can understand losing a couple games and I see where the best teams playing right now have lost a few such as the Tigers but they have also won over 40 games. I have to question what’s going through the minds of these players right now. I can name names who we see playing as hard as they can and it’s the same players that were playing hard in the Boston and Met series. There are a lot of questions I think we as fans have but it’s almost like most of us are speechless and don’t know what else can remedy the situation.
When you think you have some answers you come back with more questions. It’s so hard to stomach the losses we have had. The loses have been mostly by teams I think are playing mediocre to the way we had been playing. It’s very disappointing for the fans and I know it must be just as disappointing for the players as well.
Pete,
So basically he was doing what I was at the end of this one…
Can you just tell us what he said, what the jist of it was?
Pete, thanks for asking Joe about using (well, not using) Rivera.
Seeing as Joe’s response was that Mo pitched 1.2 IP 4 days ago, then either Rivera’s injured and no one is telling us or Torre has totally lost it.
I suspect it’s the latter since Mo was throwing in the bullpen during the top of the 9th.
Not for nothing, Peter, but it’s really not up to you to determine and pronounce what Mo had in him. You’re a beat writer, not a manager, coach or trainer.
Good for Andy, so we get a little fire every 5 days? I don’ think the others believe they can win, maybe that’s why we don’t here from them, I say ship them.
Yeah right. Joe sure knew exactly what Proctor had in him tonight just like he had a much better idea on Mo than Pete… Are you kidding? Joe’s becoming world-renowned for making bad decisions on when to use pitchers.
Pete — I hope the reporters keep drilling Joe about these idiotic moves. I was once a Joe supporter, but his game is as “off” as many of his players these days.
Is Mariano a pitch away from exploding his arm?
It’s Tuesday. Lots of days passed. PUT HIM THE FREAKING GAME YOU CLUELESS IDIOT.
Offense lost us this game and Torre made sure it was lost by putting Proctor and keeping him in when he walked the game away. You walk one.. okay.. wait and see how it goes. You walk two in a tied game… BRING IN MO!!
I too have been a fan of Torre, but that relationship is over.
Fire him. Get his racing stripe head out of NY and back to Hawaii. Girardi is a competant manager that understand the basic fundamentals of baseball and what it takes to win games. Mattingly does not. Mattingly is a hitting coach and nothing more.
The Yankees are so frustrating. How can a lineup of Damon, Jeter, Abreu, A-Rod, Matsui, Posada, Cano lose 1 runs games and have Cairo looking like the All star of the team? WTF?
Clueless Joe has truly lost his mind.
Pete,
If the Yanks continue to play this way until the break, do you feel Torre deserves to keep his job?
And Pettitte’s comments seem to hint that some of the guys are just going through the motions.
Amazing how much concern Joe shows for Mariano but he’ll abuse Proctor until his arms falls off. What exactly was Joe waiting for ? Walking the winning run, it goes from the comical to the absurd with some of Torre’s decisions this year.
And to think I was concerned about losing “Extra Innings” on cable for this…
Peter,
From the audio you posted I think you may be overreaching a bit on what Andy said. He (probably very carefully) didn’t say anything negative about his teammates. He said the one he was most frustrated with was himself. We know you like controversial stories, but I wouldn’t read too much into Andy’s words. He was pretty careful in what he said, and I don’t think it would be fair to make a story of what you’ve inferred out of his words (which he might or might not have meant).
When I saw that Proctor was pitching the 9th and not Rivera and Torre didnt even bring Rivera in after he walked the 1st batter, the 1st thing I thought and expected to hear was that Rivera was hurt. The way that the Yanks are playing and considering that Rivera hasnt pitched alot at all…to me honestly that was the only explanation that would of made sense and was exceptable to hear from Torre.
Also I dont want to hear anything from Proctor. His cursing or whatever he had to say. If you take the ball then shut up. Everyone knows that he is over worked and just not that good. BUT if your arm is tired then speak up and dont take the ball and try to be the man and then implode walk 3 guys, beat yourself and dont even make them hit the ball or give your team even a chance to win. Especially after Pettitte gave them everything he had.
Pettitte had every right to say what he did after the game about people not playing hard and wanting to win. Because besides Petitte, Clemens, Posada, Arod, Jeter, Matsui, Wang and Rivera the other people are absolutely pathetic!!!
TX Yankee, in the YES interview he said the offense wasn’t doing it. He was polite and respectful as he is a gentleman, but he said it just how it is. Offense isn’t doing anything and he is frustrated. He pitches really well and keeps the Yankees in games and the offense isn’t doing it for him. He knows he has been piching well and not getting the run support to get him and the team wins.
The Yankees offense sucks and players need to stop the polite talk and start being honest with themselves and each other.
You don’t lose games like this with a lineup like the Yankees have, you just don’t.
If they had a decent pen they would have 7 more wins at least. everyone talks about there offense and other issues the pen is bigger in baseball then ever…
again Weds we have the same friggin pen and Clemens if he dominates is going 7 innings..
Proctor I am sure is a nice guy and tries hard but he is a friggin moron, he never looked at 2nd for the double play why not???? there is no excuse..
nothing changes just more bull talk.. there pen weds includes the likes of; kyle, proctor, vizciano, villone, myers, and the only real pitcher Mariano who beleive it or not has actually been underused this yr..
they have absolutely no good options except the last.. We will talk about all kinds of other BS like we need a better 8th hitter and they have this pen.. The only pens in the AL that are worse are; KC, Tampa, baltimore, and maybe chicago… The pen doesn’m atter much if you the red sox starters then you need 2 arms else you need at least 4 good relievers…
WHen will they look at this issue. How did fat guy Britton pitch tonight or the skinny guy???
I know they are saving them for next yr. the yanks do not want to DFA Myers, or the other dregs and lose them to other teams, they are to valuable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Abreu again is a woose, scared of collisions he is gutless………..
I can take losing if less talented but not because they are not smart players, do not give 100%, and are gutless……….
Marius,
Obviously I didn’t see the Yes interview. But did he say that people don’t care or aren’t trying? Because that’s what Peter implied.
I love Pettitte. I just don’t want him to get the ARod treatment, where he gets in trouble because reporters over-interpret what he says. If said it, fine. But if he didn’t, he shouldn’t have to deal with fallout from what he didn’t say.
TXY, well Pettite is the one who hinted at that.
Look at the quote from Petitte:
“I’m going to show my frustration. I’m going to show it because I care and I hope that everybody cares as much.”
He didn’t say he knows they care as much as he does, he said he hopes they do meaning he questions it.
Pete just told us what he said and implied nothing.
How do you take what Andy said? It could always be lost in translation on a few.
Who is it that doesnt care that they arent playing well?
I was under the impression that the team was pretty much on the same page.
I watched the YES interview. Andy was “Andy” — meaning he was the ultimate gentlemen, but it was clear that he wondered about the team’s efforts. I don’t think Pete was trying to plant a sensational story there by any stretch when he posted his own comments.
When is Britton and Edwar Ramirez finally going to get there fair shot? Myers is a disaster, lefties hit over .300 against him and he never gets anyone out, Villone never pitches. Those are 2 wastes of roster spots. When Britton was up here he got people out and Torre would never pitch him. When who you have isnt working then try someone else!!! Thompson should get a chance to play CF, lets see what he can do. Enough of Cabrera already he is totally over matched at the plate and his defense isnt that great either. Also lets see what Shelly Duncan can do..Torre and Cashman refuse to give someone else a chance when these guys arent doing it.
some interesting #’s
Cano OBP is 307 can you believe that.. he is a joke….
kyle WHIP is over 50 baserunners in 30 innings,, joke also..
proctor WHIP is 58 in 41 inning….
vizciano(he has been hot!!!!!!!)57 baserunners in 37 innings..
I am not lieing, this is our pen……….
Matsui 1 less base then Abreu in 54 less AB’s….
Damon 84 total bases in 65 games…
these guys are joke stop giving Damon a pass because he talks to the media………….
Melky should run into Abreu next time and make that catch… Yea Melky’s D is not much I am sure Damon would have thrown Markakis out at 2nd!!!!!!!!!
RIvera 27 innings after 75 games………
I think this is the saddest day of the season right now.
I never thought I’d say this, but I miss Steinbrenner. Texeira would be at 1b by now if he was still calling the shots.
Right now we are getting nothing from Damon, Abreu, Cano, Melky and the pen. Nothing.
Actually, I think Melky does care, but Christ, can he stop trying to bunt for a hit? He doesn’t have that kind of speed. He’s not Jose Reyes for crying out loud.
Cano, does not care. He doesn’t. You could see it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, he is going out partying all the time with Melky whenever they get a chance. Even Jayson Stark called him out on ESPN.com for having big league-itis.
He’s a complete void in our lineup this season and we don’t need to build around him. You don’t build around 2b who can’t hit for power, get on base and run. Send him to some team where they have no Dominican community so he might be home at night in bed instead of getting drunk the day before games. And don’t give me the Larry Bowa talking about Cano constantly working on his game — he’s lost his game.
The team and manager have lost confidence in him. If he can be traded for something that can help us based on his All Star reputation (which at 2b isn’t that much of a badge in the AL), then trade him.
Although I doubt any GM who has seen him play recently would think he’s the same player anymore.
Getting Abreu, Cano and Farnsworth off this team should be Cashman’s priorities right now.
Proctor needs a week off at least. DL him for some BS reason to get him rest and bring up the 2 kids in AAA who are doing well.
This isn’t working. Cano and Abreu certainly don’t care. Abreu has his money and Cano thinks his is coming right around the corner.
If I were Cashman, I’d either trade Cano or if you think he’s untouchable then send Cano down right now. Give him a taste of Scranton again and let him decide if he really wants to win.
I don’t care who plays 2b. I’d rather see someone struggle who is trying than see someone like Cano who is wasting talent.
Call up San Diego or Anaheim or any of the teams looking for some offense and offer Abreu to them with us paying all of his salary and maybe we might get something back. He’s done in pinstripes folks. The team has lost confidence in him. Just getting him out of the locker room is going to help. I don’t care if Thompson plays RF — it’ll be more exciting to watch someone actually care about winning.
It’s hard to defend Torre, but he’s not the blame for these prima donna’s not hitting and winning. He’s not folks. Should he have had Mo in the 9th tonight? No. We needed him to close the game for us if we somehow got a lead. I don’t question him not using Mo. I do question him leaving Proctor in there to self destruct, but I guess he doesn’t have much choice right now. If he burned Mo for 2 innings tonight and then we got the lead after he took him out and Proctor blew it in 12th, you’d all be calling for Torre’s head for using Mo too early.
He can’t win with this lineup and this bullpen. He needs his GM to come through with some changes. A few years ago Cano and Wang and Small and Chacon came out of nowhere and helped turn the season around — Come on Cash. Pull the trigger. Who cares if you release someone and they go to Boston or Anaheim or the Mets and play great — a lot of these guys can’t get it done on this team. Get some people who aren’t scared, have some confidence and want to win. They are out there.
Do something.
Anyone think trading Farnsworth (picking up his cash) and Melky to the Phils could bring back Rowland?
We need some hard nosed gamers on this team.
In a group that includes Jeter, Alex, Posada, Petite, Rivera and Clemens, it’s hard to believe that, as a whole, the personality of this team is closest to Abreu’s.
He’s their mirror.
He defines this team in many ways and has almost become it’s key player. It’s striking how the offense because so potent when he’s hitting and so lackluster when he’s not. They become an entirely different team (even with Giambi out) when he’s hitting.
I remember being baffled by how much Philly fans disliked him and how fed up they were when he got traded. His numbers weren’t great last season before he came over but didn’t seem to be anywhere bad enough to warrant the send off he got when the Yanks picked him up on that salary dump. He played great last year and the team made up those 5 games on Boston.
It’s fairly clear now why the city of brotherly love was so uncharitable to Abreu.
“It’s hard to defend Torre, but he’s not the blame for these prima donna’s not hitting and winning. He’s not folks. Should he have had Mo in the 9th tonight? No. We needed him to close the game for us if we somehow got a lead. I don’t question him not using Mo.”
Torre is the manager. The players talk a blue streak about how much they respect him and I’m sure that’s true. However, he’s supposedly great at “managing personalities” then he should be able to encourage his team to play like they care if that’s really the issue. He’s certainly not very good at in-game strategy, I thought keeping the players happy (you know, aside from their giant paychecks and playing for the greatest organization in sports that should be keeping them happy) was his thing?
As far as Mo not being in — I dunno, don’t you have to make it to the 10th tied in order to get a lead? The situation called for Mo, not more of Proctor blowing the game.
Man, this has been one tough season. Reading all these posts is pretty dejecting, but not nearly as much as watching the games lately. I feel really sad about it all and I cant remember feeling this way in over 10 years.
At least this team has a fun farm system to follow
The farm system really is the saving grace of this season.
For people looking for some silver lining”
Ian Kennedy’s line from Trenton tonight:
5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 4-7 GB to FB
8 walks in his last 24 innings.
Let’s hope there’s no panic moves made that will haunt them years down the line. This team is way past a Mark Buerhle or perhaps even a Texeira to “fix.”
Joe L: Should he have had Mo in the 9th tonight? No. We needed him to close the game for us if we somehow got a lead.
Think about that: you want your best pitcher (Rivera) to pitch with a cushion of at least one run, in a situation which may or may not happen, but you want lesser pitchers (Proctor) pitching with no run cushion whatsoever? That is asinine backwards old-timey fogey outdated baseball lexicon rules of thinking. It’s completely illogical.
I’ll stand by what I wrote about giving Torre a pass for not using Mo.
In my eyes, the Orioles are one of the worst teams in the league and we shouldn’t have to use our closer to get the game into extra innings. We needed our closer to close the game if we scored.
Proctor threw gasoline onto the fire so quickly, there wasn’t much left to do but sit and watch.
I realized it’s conventional thinking, but I don’t blame the loss on the decision to not use Mo.
I blame the loss on the millionaire’s and wannabe millionaires who are holding limp sticks in their hands who can’t get hits.
Torre didn’t lose this game all by himself. This team lacks energy and fire and passion for winning outside of a few players.
Maybe that’s Joe’s fault, but I don’t think some rah-rah not by the book manager is going to get the multi-millioniares who are not hitting to hit.
We got a good start out of Andy and we coudln’t scratch out 3 runs with Arod, Jeter, Posada, Matsui, Abreu, Cano and Damon (all all starts at some point) in our lineup?
Just look at that lineup again for a second. It’s a disgrace and they should be ashamed of themselves.
To lay it all on Torre doesn’t address the problem. If Cashman really thought this team would start winning games the second he canned Torre, then Torre would be back in Harrison working on his short game.
I’m not saying Joe is Mike Scioscia, but there’s a lot of good managers out there who would have done the same exact thing he did tonight.
1) I don’t blame Proctor. He’s a good, not great RP that Torre has fallen in love with this season. Proctor is on pace to pitch 91 innings and make 83 appearances. He takes the ball and does his best. He’s not my favorite player but he’s being abused by Torre and it shows in the results.
2) Torre’s reasoning behing saving Mo is inconsistent with his use of Proctor. Take a look at their pitches thrown.
Date – Mo – Proctor
6/26 – 0 – 27 pitches
6/25 – off -
6/24 – 0 – 0 pitches
6/23 – 0 – 40 pitches
6/22 – 20 – 22 pitches
6/21 – 0 – 24 pitches
If Torre is saving Mo’s arm does that mean he’s killing Proctor’s arm? Torre is either spouting BS about his reasons or has wildly different standards for what constitutes rest for his relievers. It’s long past due for a little accountability from Torre on his overall bullpen use. You play to win games, not keep Rivera daisy fresh. I’d rather risk Proctor (or anyone else) in the rare save situation where Mo is too tired to take the ball then blow tie games saving Rivera for extra inning save opportunities that never come.
I agree with Faded Glory…the role of closer in my mind has become overrated to some extent
It sure has been great watching Mo come in and close games where we have marginal leads, but does a pitcher of his caliber have to be limited to that role?
Tonight you bring Mo in after proctor makes the diving catch, he shuts the O’s down for the inning and you have the top of your order coming up. In a best case scenario you see a run come across in the top of the inning and hand the lead to whoever you please out of the bullpen. Bottom line, with Mo’s experience in pressure situations, he has to become the stopper there, rather than be the one who gets three outs to win a game where you have the lead.
Johnny B: Not every 5 days. You have Wang in the rotation, too.
Can you blame Scott? At least he is showing some emotion. Also I think last years over use has caught up with him.
Joe Torre and Kevin Long need to be fired. Why is the hitting coach still here? They had 10 good days!! Thats it, otherwise it has been 2 1/2 months of nothing!!
Manager Joe G
Bench coach Don Zimmer (can we get him back?)
HItting coach Donnie
I don’t understand Torre, he’s concered about Mo having pitched 1 2/3 innings 4 days ago but NOT Scott pitching an entire game over 6 days?? One day we’ll see Scott throw a pitch and his arm will fall off!!! And who calls for Cano to bunt? is that the bench coach or Manager? When was the last time Cano bunted? I don’t understand some of the moves that are made!
I am numb to the loses now, I used to get very upset, but now i’ve come to expect it, and that is pretty sad!
Remember how it felt a few years ago when the Yankees trailed in a game? Personally, I felt very calm- no sense of panic. I knew they would find a way to pull out the win. Now it’s just the opposite. I don’t expect them to get the clutch hit and I’m right 9 out of 10 times. They’ve become as proficient at stranding runners in scoring position as they were driving them in a short while ago.
Yep as late as the 7th 8th inning, 4 runs felt like nothing. Now 3 runs in the 3rd looks like a mountain.
[Warning: Red Sox fan posting. Apply appropriate discounts.]
A better bullpen could certainly help your team than the one you’ve got. But looking on from up north, two things strike me. One is that your ‘pen is bad right now because a number of guys are underperforming from their career numbers. And another is that, compared to, say, the Red Sox ‘pen, they’re getting way more work.
And there’s a pattern her. There may be a lot of reasons your team lost the 2004 ALCS, but one of the keys, as far as we can tell, was that by the time you got there, all your good relievers were halfway burned out. That was October. This is late June — but while Rivera is, if anything, too well rested (even we know that he needs some regular work to be effective, viz. the Dice-K comeback earlier this season), Proctor is clearly running on fumes. And why? Because earlier in the season, when even veteran starters got in a jam, trailing by a run or two in the fourth or fifth inning, in came Torre with the hook, and all too often for the same, already overworked, guys from the ‘pen. I have no idea what Proctor was cursing about, but in his position, I’d certainly have a few choice words of my own.
Mo: 1.2 innings Friday
Proctor: 3 or so innning Saturday
Makes sense :rolleyes
so hard for me to believe that the players on this team don’t care. it might be a select few – i’d throw cano in that group(personally, i think he purposely blew that bunt attempt last night so he wouldn’t be asked to do it again), i’d say abreu is pretty soft and sometimes seems to not care.. damon seems like this is all just a big joke more times than not, mussina to a lesser degree, if only because of his particulars and reasons to have an excuse, farnsworth (probably more so because he’s wishing he would be traded)
..but i can’t imagine that jeter, a-rod, posada, melky (who’s playing for his major league life), cairo (who ALWAYS hustles!!), matsui, pettite, wang, clemens, rivera, proctor (i actually like proctor – he just needs to be used better), any of the triple a pitchers – i just don’t tink they’re walking around trying to pick up a paycheck.
This just seems like one of those whacky years when everything that could go wrong – has gone wrong. I think we’re also a little old, not to mention that we, for whatever reason, REFUSE to play small ball anymore (can somebody PLEASE explain this to me!).
I think what this team needs is a jolt – ala varitek vs. arod, although i still don’t know if that’s going to work. Something’s missing right now – and i can’t place a finger on it. How on earth could this team be this bad??!!
Very Puzzling!
Captain Hook really needs to SLOW down with pulling these pitchers too. I know it’s hard to trust a few of them, but how are they going to figure it out if you don’t let them. We have no choice at this point, do we?
The one thins this season has done to me so far is, it has me really looking forward to next year already and looking forward to the kids that are coming. (just wish we had some blue chip position players)
… with that said, i’m hoping we’re sellers this season rather than buyers (i think we’re too far gone – in the standings and mentally – for anything to make that big of a difference this year!)
..but i’d use damon, cano, farnsworth, myers, villone, abreu (eat whatever money we have to on that contract!)… and really look at adding some younger position players for the seasons to come.
..and sadly, i’d let joe go after this season and fuse some spunk back into this team by hiring Girardi as manager. Not throwing him under the bus or anything, almost ashamed to have even typed that last sentence, always been a joe supporter, but i think it’s time.
… and cashman? – i really hope they leave him right where he is – doing what he’s doing. He really needs a little more credit for his long term vision… (although, if we had grabbed Okajima i think we’d be having a totally diferent conversation right now!)
I’ve been wondering about the hitting coaching also; seems like the entire lineup has been baffled by average-to-below-average pitchers over this latest streak (at least with RISP). How much does that have to do with preparation, e.g. arming the hitters with good scouting information?
They also don’t seem to adjust well during the game; a good hitting team might have trouble with a pitcher they haven’t seen initially, but they’ll start figuring him out on the second or third time through the lineup. Again I’d think the hitting coach would be the one directing those adjustments.
Re: little ball, I’d rather see hitters get up there and rip and miss than try to bunt for a single or a sacrifice. Asking (or allowing) guys to bunt is just going to decrease their confidence when the time comes to deliver a clutch hit. This team wins when they’re hitting home runs, not squeezing runners home.
jeff
we lost that game last night and many others this season because all we do is swing for the fences. I’m tired of it. We’re the Rangers of the mid 90′s now!
we won CHAMPIONSHIPS doing the little things!
We desperately need to get back to it.
The quote from Torre about not using Rivera is almost unbelievable. He didn’t want to use him because he got 5 outs 4 days ago????? Has Clueless lost what’s left of his mind? This team NEEDS A WIN!!!! Proctor pitched THREE INNINGS (and batted with the potential winning run on base in the 13th — explain that one to me!) THREE days ago… Everyone’s known for a long time that Torre isn’t the best manager of a bullpen… he plays favorites until their arms fall off (see Tanyon Sturtze), he’s the manager who ran out of pitchers in an all-star game, remember? but this babying of Rivera… letting your best pitcher rot in the bullpen game after game while the other team’s closer is in, and Proctor is blowing games out his *** is just ridiculous.
Unless there’s an injury situation with Rivera we don’t know about, it is time for Clueless Joe and his giant watch to go. Good God!
SBWG – I didn’t see the game but I did hear complaints about an attempt to bunt Posada to 2nd that gave away an out late in the game. And there have been lots of posts about Abreu and Cano trying to bunt for base hits. Doesn’t seem healthy for the hitters’ psychology to me.
And I do seem to remember a lot of clutch home runs (e.g. Leyritz, Brosius, Posada) that made the championships possible.. but if by “little things” you mean fundamentals, I agree completely. I’m not saying home runs are the answer, but all of this bunting doesn’t seem to be helping anything.
Other than Posada, Jeter and ARod, Rivera, Pettitte, Wang and a couple others, this team is a bunch of useless, listless losers. I don’t care if Cano is partying. Who partied more than Mantle and Whitey Ford? They won. It’s time for the excuses to stop, and start weeding out the losers and the excuse-makers. Start with Abreu, Damon, Cano. These clowns are a disgrace to the pinstripes. They should be ashamed to wear the uniform. It certainly makes me sick to see them with the NY logo, loafing around, giving excuse after excuse. Abreu plays rightfield like he’s trying to run around an invisible tree. Cano loafs and swings at every pitch he sees. Damon and his “sexy calves” cramping up for three months. Give me a break. Get rid of the bums. PLEASE! Let’s have a fire sale and start over next year. We should be able to get something for Cano and his “sweet swing” (just put your finger over the part of the stat sheet that shows his OBP).