Not necessarily true. One example:

1941 YANKEES. WS Champs.

1b Johnny Sturm. .239-3-36 OPS .593 124 g 524 AB.

Another.

1970 Baltimore Orioles. WS Champs.
SS Mark Belanger .218-1-36 OPS .562 145 g 459 AB.

When you have enough teammates to cover for you, …

With Cairo, you get more of a slap hitter who can do pretty much anything, and a guy that won’t embarass you with the glove. I would actually take a Cairo over a Phelps. You get more of the complete package. You get some offense and some defense, while you only get offense with Phelps.

This team has enough boppers, it needs the defense. Cairo usually helps provide that.

No doubt he did the same thing in 2005 when they weren’t playing well.

Sooner or later, he’s going to be right.

He’s not exactly Nostradamus and doesn’t deserve credit for burying this team in April.

Just thought it was worth mentioning.

Using the arguement that Phelps didn’t work out in Detroit; therefore, Pena and Young should not be working out for the Rays and Nationals. Here’s a better yet, Damon Easley for the Mets.

I think it’s pretty lame to call fellow Yankee fans fools just because they have hope for their team. I’m not It’s not like I’m going to jump in the Hudson river if they don’t make the playoffs. I sleep at night after a loss and wait for the next game. Thank goodness the team doesn’t give up like some of the fans and refuse to play. I’m sure a lot of them are going out there with all sort of injuries. Wang’s been playing with injuries, Jeter, Damon, Alex, Jorge and I’m sure others. They lose they win. We play good we play bad. It’s the nature of the game. If you can’t deal with it then I guess it’s time to chose another sport to root for like ping pong tournaments.

The game today was tense no doubt for both Angel and Yankee fans. I see we weren’t the only teams going into extra innings. Mets/Astros just went into the 17th inning. Long games for the Eastern teams I see. Angels and Yankees had some of the best pitching today and both teams fought to win. I wouldn’t be too hard on the team today since they had a big win last night.

As for A-Rod playing in ASG. I think it’s an honor to have him at least show up for the fans. Stuart our captain has been plagued with problems and and need a rest as well. He’s been playing hurt I would imagine from the way he’s been taken out of a couple games. He has not had a rest. Yet he is still showing up and playing in the ASG.

The ASG are for the fans. We voted these guys in and as much Hell as A-Rod gets, I’m sure had he decided to sit out you and the NY Post would made a big deal out of it and with a headline reading ” A-Rod only cares about money and Not the Fans”. Since the MRI report came back clean why shouldn’t he play?

I am willing to bet he doesn’t play that much. In case you have never been it’s great to have representatives from your team. It was the fans who voted him in so why would he want to disappoint them. Those games are important to fans and the tickets are not cheap. If that’s the case then the players who are fighting injuries should all sit out.

they need to do the same things many of us have been talking about for about 8 weeks; strengthen the bench by calling up Shelly Duncan, getting rid of Nieves(call up anyone), and getting rid of 1 pitcher(Myers at this point), and see if Ramirez is legit and then Britton. If those 2 are legit contributors it will help a ton.

these moves will increase payroll not a cent, make the team younger, and hopefully better. they can trade Myers there definitley would be a taker…

If these moves worke out then based on the Giambi situation they can go from there. Minky should be back in about 4 weeks that will help the bench because Cairo can be the utility guy and Minky and Phillips and maybe Damon can handle 1st. Hughes coming back will help the rotation a ton.

I have not given up on this team but good teams do win close games and we know what the results have been so far this year..