Happy Yankees head for a day off
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Sep 09, 2007 
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After wrapping up my postgame interviews today, I hopped on an elevator to go back to the press box and found myself with Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Doug Mientkiewicz. They were in a good mood to say the least.
Mientkiewicz was carrying a backpack and Posada reached over and unzipped the back, just to give him a hard time.
“Man, you think you know a person,” Mientkiewicz said.
“Hitting .340 changes you,” Jeter piped up from the corner.
“.336,” Posada said. “Get it right.”
With that, the door opened and off went the Yankees for their day off. They don’t have to be in Toronto until around 4 p.m. on Tuesday. In baseball player terms, a day game on a Sunday followed by a night game on Tuesday is an eternity.
The veteran guys were all headed for home to see their families and/or friends. Only the rookies and a few of the coaches will fly to Toronto tonight.
Now 81-62, the Yankees have won five in a row and are four games up in the wild card with 19 games left to play. At worst, the Yankees are headed for 90+ victories and a postseason berth. It seems hard to believe they were once 21-29.
Actually, at worst, the Yankees are getting 81 victories and devastating, heartbreaking collapse.
I think they’ll do better than that.
Pete — happy yanks has to include the vibe on the bench, where they seem to be having more fun than in recent years. YES broadcast is also showing A LOT of Jeter and ARod having fun together, laughing, talking. I don’t know if Jete is in “sell” mode: as in, selling ARod on staying (they way he was courting Rocket earlier this year), or if it is genuine, but those two really look like they have a different relationship than in the three years previous.
Don’t forget the shoulder turn!
That cracks me up.
Dude, that’s brilliant! Best elevator ride ever!
Glad Jeter seems in good spirits too.Good game guys.Peter I’m not holding my breath as much when kyle comes in,that’s a good thing.
Glad Jeter seems in good spirits too.Good game guys.Peter I’m not holding my breath as much when kyle comes in,that’s a good thing.
DUDE! The guy on ESPN just totally said Chien Ming Wang for Cy Young!
I hated the way Arod dissed Jeter years ago and spoiled a great friendship. It’s taken a while to rebuild the trust, but I think Arod’s newfound ability to laugh at himself and and not set himself apart from everyone so much has helped by leaps and bounds.
Jeter isn’t very good at “faking” geniune. If he has a problem with you, he’s cordial, at best. I actually like that he doesn’t try to fake it. I think that was a big part of the delay in repairing their relationship — Arod’s falseness.
Given the way Wang has bounced back from such a poor start and an injury, I would see there being a case for him for Cy Young.
If that were to happen how much you want to bet that Beckett would throw a fit?
It’s too bad Beckett got the win today too. Stupid rules, the guy left the game with a tie, that should mean no win for him.
Anyway, it would have been nice to see Wang alone at the top of the wins list. If he and Beckett stay tied, I think it’ll be a tough sell for Wang to get the Cy Young award. He’ll definitely get some votes, though.
But if Wang ends up with more wins, it’ll be a closer vote, methinks.
It’d be great for A-Rod to get the MVP, and Wang get the Cy Young. Especially if those go next to another WS win.
A nice win and damn does Krazy Kyle look good again. With Viz ailing he could be huge down the stretch.
Haha, Matt, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Now if we could only find those two guys in Los Angeles that Steinbrenner put a whipping on in the 1981 World Series.
Wang is great, not sure where we would be without him, but neither he nor Beckett deserve the Cy Young this year in my opinion. I think Haren, Sabathia, Bedard and Verlander all rank ahead of Wang for that award.
This is good, Peter. Now you’ll have some time to work on your book.
KC has given up less runs then the Yanks for the yr…
Maddog still thinks there are about 10 AL pitchers better then Wang!!!!!!
Sabathia 1st for cy young Wang 2nd…
Listless effort but they got the win..Matsui and Giambi still struggling big time..
A big win for the Yanks…now if they can shave off one more game during the Toronto series, that would at least give them a decent chance at the division (with a sweep of course!). It’s tough being a Yankee fan in Red Sox Nation…
The Yankees aren’t the only ones who are happy! WHOOO HOO!
Anything Maddog says has no merit since he is probably one of the biggest Yankee bashers in New York. I would say that Wang is one of the top six, definitely top ten pitchers in the AL. Don’t forget, he missed the first three weeks of the season.
As for Beckett, everyone should go to No Mass and look at the post after the Wednesday night game two weeks ago. Since joining the Sawx he has a 7.50 ERA against the Yankees.
you mean ESPNESN is showing some love
One of the most hilarious scenes of this entire season will be watching Steve Phillips backpeddling from his Yankees prospectus of postseason possibility.
Alan,
He won’t because it was all fake. He was one of the few ESPN analysts to pick the Yankees to win the WS this year.
Along the same line, Bill Cowher was on NFL Today and they asked who his Super Bowl Teams where and he got all stone faced and was like how dare you ask that question. Marino then said in the background “its TV”, so he relented and answered the question.
Steve Phillips is just an ESPN bag of wind. What ever happend to the days of Patrick, Stiener and Olberman?????
Steve P is proof that you do not have to be intelligent to get a good job.
Good to hear the elevator conversation. They sound loose, and that is great.
Now to get Giambi (down to .243) going.
I’m curious now, what are the rules that govern which pitcher is the winning pitcher and which is the losing pitcher? Are the rules of Major League Baseball available online anywhere?
Has everyone lost their minds? Wang has pitched great, but he’s not even close to the top contenders -Beckett, Sabathia, Verlander, Haren, Bedard. Looki at the stats instead of living in a dream world; his whip is 1.27 compared to their average whip of 1.16 (not bad), his ERA is 3.69 compared to their average of 3.19 and his BAA is 260 compared to a combined 235 for the rest. Wake up people!
It’s over folks because even if the Yanks 9-10 staggered to a 90-72 finish, Detroit would have to play 13-6/ over .667 ball, Seattle 15-6/ almost .750 ball just to finish the season tied with the Yanks. ‘Not happening.
I think the Yanks will go at least 11-8 the rest of the way for a 92-70 finish.
wait, where are all the posts chastising the yankees for going home on their day off to spend time with their families?!!
because i distinctly remember many of the geniuses here posting that in April when the Yankees had a day off.
how come they aren’t taking batting practice for the next 36 hours!!?!!!
I don’t get it – why is there any issue about Beckett getting the win? He left with the Sox up 3-2. He pitched the 7th, the Sox took the lead 3-2 in the top of the 8th, then at the start of the the bottom of the 8th he left the game and Okajima took over. Am I missing something? What’s the controversy?
no controversy. We just don’t like Beckett and we want Wang to be the leader in wins. Nothing crazy. More than anything though we don’t like Beckett.