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Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Apr 29, 2008 
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The road trip is finished and the Yankees came home with a win.
Jorge Posada met with Dr. James Andrews yesterday. The notebook also has word on Chris Stewart joining the team.
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The guys from the blog Respect Jeter’s Gangster wanted to interview me for some reason. They asked good questions, so check it out.
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Apparently there’s this thing called a “day off” where you don’t work. Seems crazy to me but the editors claim it’s true and they’re never wrong. I’m going to try it out today. But fear not, I’ll get the lineup posted later on.
Thanks to everybody for reading during this busy stretch of games.
Days off are for the birds….GET BACK TO WORK !….(joke)…have a great day off, Pete !
Hey guys. I have my neurology final in an hour ad a half. I was a little too busy watching baseball to study, so wish me luck!
Also, why the heck is it 32 degrees on 30 April?
After needing sunscreen on Sunday I have to turn the heat on today!
Good interview with Jeter’s Gangster.
Funny how opinions differ; the thing I respect least about jeter’s gangster is his choice of wardrobe and his kid n play fade.
pete – go see harold and kumar, have a few drinks and ignore baseball for a little while
Enjoy the day off Pete and spend some time with your family that I am sure is happy to see you after really spending two months on the road if you count Spring Training in there as well.
I think that Pete is taking the day off to plan his revenge on the perpetrators of the diabolical hit piece on NYY.
Pat, that was solid gold. Hey Derek; 1993 just called, it wants its haircut back.
YanksAngel -
Thanks for directing me to the YES page. I watched the interview. Loved – LOVED – it. It was the most relaxed player interview I’ve EVER seen. Bar none. I enjoyed his take on their ‘big’ inning.
He looks a lot (almost exactly) like the actor who starred in Rent – the movie and as an original cast member on Broadway, as well as having played Charlie Brown on Broadway. Anthony Rapp is his name. Morgan Ensberg could be Charlie Brown!
Slacker… get back to work!
Good interview, Pete. You’ll have to do one with us to make up for those mysterious disappearances in Florida. I still have a thumb drive full o’ tunes for ya, but now that I know you’re a Johnny Cash fan, I’ll have to make a few substitutions.
posada and arod both having reoccurring injuries raises a red flag about the decision making process that the yankees go through when deciding when injured players will play and how long they rest.
in girardi’s defense he is not a medical or conditioning expert. my hunch is that he doesn’t get the best medical and conditioning information to make an informed decision on who plays and who doesn’t simply because there is too big of a knowledge gap between yankees conditioning staff and medical experts like dr.james andrews which is where the problems often end up.
anyone who thinks that the yankees conditioning staff is cutting edge and world class is just not looking at the credentials of the staff. most players get by with what the yankees provide, but there are some injury problems that make you question if the yankees staff knows what it’s doing.
it was laughable watching the yankees last year deal with giambi’s heel spurs. it was absolute amateur hour. they kept treating it like it was a short term problem when anyone who has ever had a heel spur knows that isn’t true.
for those who are going to say the yankees are a first class organization that must have an olympic level conditioning and medical staff, i respectively disagree.
but this is really old news. the players will muddle through it like giambi did last year ultimately using the financial resources they have to take care of the problems themselves.
Randy l -
Or the players could just be stubborn jocks who think the team can’t get by without them in the lineup so they come back to soon.
Seriously, though, given the “tough it out” culture of baseball, it should NOT be left up solely to the individual players to decide when they’re ready enough to start playing after an injury.
If I’m the manager, I would just tack on an extra two days once the player says he’s okay.
** that should be “too soon.”
the picture in ensberg’s wiki entry is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Ensberg
doreen-
it’s more than just the players natural inclination to wanting to get back out there. i know you remember the giambi heel spur debacle last year. most people forget ,but that caused major roster problems on a day to day basis that lingered for most of the early season. i knew from the beginning what they were doing made no sense.
i only know about what i personally have had experience in. but on the things i know about like the heel spurs, the yankees make consistently bad decisions in diagnosing and treating problems.
when you hear about cortisone being injected, you pretty much know someone is saying “i have no idea,let’s try cortisone”. one area this blog is weak on is conditioning awareness. the yankee’s organization is given a pass each year until eventually the players play themselves into shape.
P-Fat, when is Frank Cervelli due back? Will he be a viable BC option once he is healthy?
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