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The Yankees will try again today after yesterday’s game was rained out. Read this story if only to see how I managed to get 700 words out of a rainout. They don’t teach you that in college.
Chien-Ming Wang won’t get pitch on his birthday. This notebook also has updates on Andy Pettitte, the hopeful Blue Jays, a visit from Big Stein, a clubhouse change and a little history for the Captain.
The soggy fans were none too pleased as Kevin Devaney Jr. learned.
Blue Jays-Yankees tonight at 7:05. Weather permitting, of course.
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Pete
Was Moose always funny or is this something new?
After reading about Santana’s Mets debut (he was very good but not brilliant on an epic scale) I began wondering which doubtful regular or semi-regular poster will be the first to snap, and go off on a rant about not the team packaging Wang, Hughes, Kennedy, Karstens, Melancon, Matsui, Jackson, Tabata and Melky in a trade for Santana then signing him for 7 yrs at $25M.
Never mind that Santana would have to pitch 8 innings every three days and play 2 outfield positions for the first 4 of those 7 years just to keep the team in contention …
Just checking the assorted weather reports around the net, it doesn’t sound good..
tonights forcasts seem to call for rain likely, scattered thunderstorms and winds expected upwards of 20 MPH.. Yikes..
opening day on Wedensday goody
oh god ESPN is overrating the Mets SP staff again.
Yankees wisely, didn’t give up their farm system for Santana.
We’d rather have ESPN overrate the Mets than us, you know.
“oh god ESPN is overrating the Mets SP staff again.”
But…Maine is poised to break out and be an ace! Pedro will surely be healthy! And Perez’s drastic drop in hits and homers is for real! He’ll only get better, despite not cutting his walks at all and striking out far fewer batters!
Sure, if Pedro stays healthy, that’s a great 1-2. If neither Maine nor Perez returns to pre-07 form, that’ll be good. If BOTH maintain their 07 form, they’ll be excellent.
Rain’s supposed to clear off by game time in North Jersey, I can’t imagine the Bronx is too far behind.
“tonights forcasts seem to call for rain likely, scattered thunderstorms and winds expected upwards of 20 MPH.. Yikes..”
weather.com has it clearing up around 7 and staying clear all evening.
certainly not the gospel truth, but you’ve got that for what it’s worth.
Several players, including Johnny Damon, questioned the wisdom of scheduling a game in New York on March 31 against a team with a dome.
“It is raining or snowing up in Toronto right now? There’s a couple of domes that are sitting empty,” Damon said. “We do need to look into this schedule. It’s ridiculous. I think a week can make a big difference.”
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Johnny is 100% right and to add insult to injury, another team visis the Stadium that play their home games in a domed venue.
Thanks to the clueless pinata on Park Avenue (Selig) MLB will just sit on their hands and watch more games postponed. Why would he care if many fans had to waste a day off from work yesterday ? He figures that baseball is just rolling in greenbacks which he believes is his legacy.
Why should he deal with bad weather or steroid issues ?
this blows, tonights game is going to be miserable…if they even play.
Working hard to get my fill, everybody wants a thrill, paying anything to roll the dice just one more time. some will win, some will lose, some were born to sing the blues. Oh the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on.
Hey, any other recommendations on the best baseball books?
Preferences: recent, non-fiction, inside scoop, some Yankees inclusion. Actually, recommendations for kids books would be great too! (my boys are almost 10).
(PS, unfortunately Pete my Chinese is limited to a few favorite menu phrases).
“If BOTH maintain their 07 form, they’ll be excellent.”
Then again, if Pettitte can stay healthy, Wang does what he does, Moose can return to even his 04-05 level of effectiveness, and Hughes, Ian and Joba even approach their potential, the Yankees will be better
Yah, I really have no faith in weather predictions that are more then 3 hours in advance heh.
I was looking at weather underground, which i tend to look at more than anything else for weather..
http://www.wunderground.com/cg.....ay=Tuesday
Rebecca true
Whozat
funny nugget
Pedro has not pitched more than 200 IP since 2005
El Duque has not gone over 146 as a Met
Oli went 177 IP last season w/ 4.02 BB per 9 IP
to say Glavine wouldn’t even be the # 3 SP is pure ridiculousness
And even if some of those things break right and some break wrong, they’ll still be good
But who knows, I hope weather undergrounds wrong. I must watch Yankee baseball.
“Pedro has not pitched more than 200 IP since 2005
El Duque has not gone over 146 as a Met
Oli went 177 IP last season w/ 4.02 BB per 9 IP”
But, of course, Pettitte (three straight years of 200+ innings) is an injury risk. Pedro, however…a lock to solidify the #2 spot all season.
I’d be interested to see Perez’s BABiP for last year. But I’m too lazy to look it up. When I see someone’s walks stay the same, but their hits and K’s drop…I have to wonder how much is luck. I mean, if he was consistently throwing strikes down in the zone, leading to more contact but fewer hits, I’d expect the walk rates to drop too, because that would imply overall better command.
Ugh… I gotta drive down from Albany again for the game. I’m going to flip out if it’s postponed again. This isn’t condusive with my job or gas prices.
Hopefully weather.com is right and it clears out by 6pm.
Damon said. “We do need to look into this schedule. It’s ridiculous. I think a week can make a big difference.â€
The utter complexity of scheduling 162 games for 30 teams — balancing home/away, travel schedule, seasonality issues, venue issues, etc., etc. — is beyond me. Strikes me that most schedule problems, if fixed, could lead to worse problems.
whozat is Maine a big injury risk or what check the IP gap
Well part of the scheduling that caused the Yankees to have so many games in a row, is the Popes visit to Yankee Stadium this month.. I think Pete had a post about that a while back.
i can’t bitch and whine enough about the start to this season. it sucks not knowing whether or not it will be good enough weather for them to get the game in tonight, and not knowing if i’ll even be able to watch it…with make up games, no one has it listed because the make up the schedules so far in advance. can’t tell if it’s on any ESPN channel by looking at their schedule..can’t tell if it’s on MLB.TV..doubtful it will be on XM… stupid weather.
worst case scenario i would drive to my parents’ house to see it on YES on directtv, on a big screen high def TV. that should be the best case scenario by the sound of it, but 1)i have a lot of homework and it takes 1.5 hours to get to their house and it would wipe out my whole evening 2) i have an 8 am class tomorrow 3) gas is expensive 4)the directv might not be working well because the weather is poor here too and 5) wouldn’t be surprised if i drove all the way up their only to find it was rained out.
anyone else trying desperately to figure out if they’re gonna be able to watch/listen to the game tonight if it’s on?
“I’d be interested to see Perez’s BABiP for last year”
(.318)
Where is Fleas ranting about how C$ and the Yanks made a fatal, horrendous mistake not getting Santana?
Cmon, Fleas we’re waiting for it……
“The utter complexity of scheduling 162 games for 30 teams — balancing home/away, travel schedule, seasonality issues, venue issues, etc., etc. — is beyond me. Strikes me that most schedule problems, if fixed, could lead to worse problems.”
In general, I sort of think you’re right…but when you’re talking about teams who really aren’t that far from each other, I feel like it could be fixed. And, also, there are always tradeoffs…but making sure that opening day can happen on schedule should be a higher priority, perhaps.
you’d think they could reschedule things on a division by division basis though. like i don’t think it would be incredibly difficult to just make this series in toronto and switch a later toronto series to new york. i mean it might create some roadtrips that have teams jumping around a lot, but it’s not like they haven’t it scheduled it that way already…
“(.318)”
Hm. Not too far off average.
As for Maine…150 to 190 isn’t that big of a jump. And he pitched almost 170 back in 05.
Does anyone know what time the parking lots open today? Yesterday I sat in 4 hours of traffic and the lots closed (luckily) 4 cars ahead of me at around 2:00. I want to get there early enough so that won’t happen.
Anyone know the the parking hours before a game?
“As for Maine…150 to 190 isn’t that big of a jump. And he pitched almost 170 back in 05.”
so 40 IP is avg
50 IP above avg
60 IP over avg in terms of jump ?
Yankees still undefeated!
Rocco, get there at 3pm
Everyone complaining about scheduling needs to remember that when the Yanks are home, the Mets are away and vice versa. Someone had to start the season in NY and this year it was the Yankees. Luck of the draw this year.
Rocco – what lot were you at? I went to my usual one, at the foot of the 145 St. Bridge, and it closed at around 1:00. I wound up driving around, and parked past the Grand Concourse in some movie shopping mall. Took us an hour to get out of the lot. Torture. I’m interested to know what other lots there are.
“so 40 IP is avg
50 IP above avg
60 IP over avg in terms of jump ?”
Huh? He was at 170 in 05, dropped down to 150 in 06 due to some injury and rehab time and pitched 190 last year. Also, he’s in his mid-20’s.
You don’t just look at two years in sequence. You look at the overall progression.
“Someone had to start the season in NY and this year it was the Yankees. Luck of the draw this year.”
is this true? do they usually alternate?
i’m not saying you are wrong, but i can’t think of a single reason why they couldn’t both be home or both be away.
this isn’t the Jets/Giants where they share a stadium.
we usually park on the other side of the deegan… We ended up parking somewhere on 168th street.
Bob, Thanks for the info… my dad wants to get there at 1:00 i think. Not sure what we are going to do for 6 hours but h’d rather do that then go through what we did yesterday.
hmmm
It causes a lot of problems when they’re both home because of traffic, mainly. people coming from Jersey would never get out of Jersey.
no whozat I was asking how much innings gap difference is too much … like if a SP pitches 120 and then goes to 160 or if one goes from 120 to 170 or if one goes from 120 to 180 is it considered too much for injury risk on the last two or just the last.
“is this true? do they usually alternate?”
They alternate a lot but they do spend time in NY together as well. They don’t usually have full home stands together however. For instance in April the Yanks have a two game homestand in NY on the 16th and 17th. The Mets will be coming off of a 9 game homestand which ends on the 16th and 17th.
hmmm
Not only for opening day but also the whole year. They do the same thing in Chicago. Look at the Yanks and Mets schedules for this year. I would guess they never both play in NY on the same day.
I think it’s a MLB thing that gives the weaker drawing team a chance to be the only game in town on homestands.
Well I just spoke to the meteorologist here at the news station I work at… He says they’d have to be pretty wimpy to cancel the game. Any shower that rolls through will be moving at such a fast speed it will be in and out in about a half an hour. Also said theres a chance (since its going so fast) that it’ll be done raining by late afternoon. Whew, I feel better.
I think the Pope is the reason the Yanks and Mets have as much overlap this year as they do this year.
Pete, you wouldn’t believe some of the things I’ve managed to write 700 words tonight.
I have to miss the game tonight and will have to catch it on glorious YES replay…
“I think it’s a MLB thing that gives the weaker drawing team a chance to be the only game in town on homestands.”
interesting. thanks for the info.
I believe the Angels/Dodgers have alternate home-road schedules as well. I guess in NY the strains on the traffic might have something to do with it, but, seriously, folks, there is ALWAYS too much traffic in NY! And it’s NEVER easy getting to NY from NJ, unless you time it perfectly. And there’s plenty of hotel rooms, aren’t there, for the visitors (players and fans)? I think this just makes it easier to schedulers, in a way. It’s a set rule – if the Yankees are home, the Mets are away, and they continue accordingly.
I’m still bummed that we lost El Duque…what a long man/reliever he would have been for the last 2-3 years.
Anyone know if MLB extra innings is picking up tonight’s game?
“I’m still bummed that we lost El Duque…what a long man/reliever he would have been for the last 2-3 years.”
i was a huge Duque fan, but i think the last thing the Yankees needed the last few years was another pitcher they could never count on to be healthy.
that and i’m not sure how his stuff would have fared in the AL. i’m guessing not well.
by that i mean his stuff over the last 2-3 years.
yea, same question as JMO, anyone know if MLB Extra Innings is picking up the makeup game tonight??
test
game on boys… let the season begin
LETS GO YANKS!