Comments on: Game 130: Yankees at Tigers

By: Laughter

Laughter — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:34:21 +0000

I think Hughe is not the problem of this game.Yankees got five zero since 4th inning. That is the problem. Especially,
Taigers lost the starting pitcher and I-ROD.That`s the big trouble of Yankees lineup. Actually, I am not sure that Yankees found the way to handle this situation.
When Taigers lost their main catcher and chaged pitching all the time.Yankees should try to walk and stolen base, but always got fly out. That will be better.
The confidence of lineup is the other problem of Yankees at Monday night.

By: Celerino Sanchez

Celerino Sanchez — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:36:37 +0000

It kills me to see someone hold their bat
while they run towards first. The least can do is hustle Does hustle cost 30 million (ARod)? What if someone misfields the ball (Matsui)? I know this criticism is a bit brutal but the yankees lack something intangable. They lack the fighting spirit………………. I wholeheartedly agree. you rarely see this team go all out whether it be diving for balls on defense or taking the extra base on offense or grinding it out and taking pitches or manufacturing runs. They play as if they’re tired of the grind. i hate to say it but there is a little fat cat syndrome on this team; almost like a feeling of entitlement as if to say the playoffs are a given and they can coast during the regular season. Maybe in years past that was the case not this one. That’s why i love Shelley Duncan so much.The kid is an animal lol. I wish they had more guys on this team with his take no prisoners attitude. I guess when you come into the big bucks you get kind of jaded. This team has too many older, highly paid players. They need to trim the fat a little and get back to the passionate, tough minded,gritty team they were in the late 90s and early 2000s’

By: CPT

CPT — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:01:42 +0000

When Jeter and Posada didn’t appear in the line up I knew it was going to be a bad day.

I was at the game. Granderson’s inside the park homer was a thing of beauty. Lets not forget that the homer came from the weak effort Matsui made at getting to the ball. Granderson was at third when Matsui through the ball. The throw to the plate wasn’t even close. It was a very bad Omen.

It was Deja Vu all over again. I sat in Detroit for the last yankee game of last season. It was painful. Detroit fans were insufferable. Today, I drove three hours. And ta boot, I got into a car accident on the way home (rear ended).

The pain of this loss was worse than what happened to my car. I can fix the car. I’m not sure that we can fix the team we love so dearly.

OK … we can’t make it every year. But to me … the Yanks have always been magical. They always find a way to win. It’s like someone lost the spell book.

The 78 Yankees were a great team because they played well as a team. They possessed that intangable magic. The spirit of the every day american. This team does not deserve comparison to that GREAT 78 Yanks who always put up a fight to the very last breath of the season.

By: Shamus

Shamus — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:17:33 +0000

I’m sorry– did Andrea actually refer to Scott Proctor’s sad attempt at a goatee as ‘chin pubes’? LOL

Josh Beckett comes to mind as someone that needs to trim his chin pubes…

Jesus I hate the BoSox….

By: Celerino Sanchez

Celerino Sanchez — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:41:39 +0000

I don’t blame Red Sox fans for crowing . They are just not used to having the upper hand on the Yankees and when they do they are going to let us fans know about it. Put yourself in their shoes; constantly getting beat over the head with the Yankees’ success over the years. Constantly being second best in the division year in and year out. Imagine the inferiority complex they have. That’s why they constantly yap whenever they have a measure of success. They need to validate their existance. Best way to shut them up is to have the Yankees sweep the Sox this coming series. Tall order if you ask me.

By: Pffffft ! ! !

Pffffft ! ! ! — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:32:17 +0000

And here come the Red Sux blowhards, straight from the green sardine can in cowtown Boston …..

By: 89

89 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:06:56 +0000

No, I actually agree with you that Varitek seems like one of those rare guys nowadays that shows up to play everyday and takes his craft seriously. But he’s getting paid a lot of money for his offense from 3 years ago and has been on a steady decline. In the market of catchers, he’s still above average, but that’s because the catcher market is incredibly slim. I’d take Posada any day of the week over Varitek without blinking an eye…my yankee fan-dom not a factor.

I have a friend who knows someone that worked in the Sox clubhouse a few years ago and he said that Varitek was not the show up early/leave late guy you would expect. He said during the time he was working there, he was always one of the first to leave and last to show up. Sort of like how Bernie was towards the end of his career – I Was sort of surprised to hear it about Bernie as well as Tek.

I didn’t hear it first hand — but it was from a solid source originally.

P.S. — good to hear that Farnsworth was one of the first in the clubhouse yesterday.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:59:41 +0000

Tek has nothing to do with why Wakefield has 16 wins.

By: PAT M.....

PAT M..... — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:59:13 +0000

Lowell cut his teeth in the Yankee Organization……Class is taught throughout the system, just as baserunning is….

By: J-Dawg

J-Dawg — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:54:00 +0000

Coco Crisp is someone from the Red Sox that I respect. He showed class when he said that the Yankees were never out of the race even when they were so far down in the early months. Coco’s someone who usually doesn’t get upset and plays the game with the right temperament.