Game 41: Yankees at Rays
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YANKEES
Damon LF
Abreu RF
Jeter SS
Giambi 1B
Matsui DH
Cano 2B
Cabrera CF
Ensberg 3B
Molina C
Mussina RHP
Mike Mussina (5-3, 4.36) against the Tampa Bay hitters.
James Shields (4-2, 3.14) against the New York hitters.
Notes: The Yankees have lost two straight, three of four and five of seven. … The Yankees have scored two runs in their last 24 innings, hitting 13 of 79 (.165) in that stretch. … Jose Molina is 3 for 41 with one RBI. … Melky Cabrera is for 4 for 19 in his last five games with one RBI. … Kyle Farnsworth has allowed one run in his last 9.2 innings. … The Yankees are 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position in this series. … If you’re keeping track at home, that’s 36 lineups in 41 games.
Back later with updates.
UPDATE, 6:10 p.m.: Joe Girardi held a team meeting before batting practice. The gathering started at 4:53 p.m. and broke up just before 5:30 p.m. “I wanted to speak to the club,” said Girardi, who added that he spoke “from his heart.”
Girardi disagrees with Hank Steinbrenner’s take that the team lacks energy. He just thinks the Yankees aren’t playing very well.
To be honest, what do people expect? They don’t have Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada, the back end of the rotation has been a mess and the bench has been virtually useless. Sweeny Murti figured out that the players who have replaced A-Rod and Posada have 5 RBI in the last 13 games. Talk about VORP.
There are 122 games left. Evaluate the Yankees when they’re whole. Didn’t anybody watch last season?
UPDATE, 6:28 p.m.: Here’s the pre-game audio from Joe Girardi:
UPDATE, 7:19 p.m.: The Rays announced 20 minutes before the game that they signed LHP Scott Kazmir to a three-year extension worth $28.5 million. There’s an team option in 2012 worth $11 million.
Another smart move by a franchise that hasn’t made too many mistakes lately. Kazmir is 36-30, 3.36 in his career.
UPDATE, 7:25 p.m.: Word is that Hank Steinbrenner is in the house. Surely now the Yankees will win. Perhaps he’ll coach third for a few innings.
UPDATE, 7:39 p.m.: That was one of those “No, no, no, Melky, throw to second … hey, heck of a throw.”
The Yankees have scored two runs in the last 26 innings and hit 14 of 87 (.161). That’s hard to do.
UPDATE, 7:55 p.m.: The Moose has allowed 8 ERs on 25 hits in his last 26 innings. You’d take that from every starter.
UPDATE, 8:04 p.m.: Hank is a genius. Yankees lead 1-0.
UPDATE, 8:15 p.m.: Forget to mention this before but Jeff Karstens threw 5 innings in an extended spring training game today. “I got to 56 pitches and I felt great,” he said. “I gave up five hits but those guys swing at everything.”
Karstens will start a rehab assignment on Monday with Class A Tampa. He hopes to be ready for the majors within a few weeks.
Karstens could be used as a starter if needed. Or the Yankees could use him in the bullpen as a long man and dump one of the extra right-handers they’re carrying.
UPDATE, 8:21 p.m.: A little pop-fly double by Abreu makes it 2-0. Now watch the game change. The Rays can’t play the way they want to play down a couple of runs.
Moose needs to keep pitching well. But trailing by a couple takes away some weapons for the Rays.
These are two big innings for the Moose, who needs to show he’s not a five-inning pitcher.
UPDATE, 8:32 p.m.: The Yankees have to win now. The Big G just sprawled in the dirt to snare a ball and made an acccurate throw to Mike Mussina as he got to the bag.
When The Big G has a web gem, it guarantees victory.
Now he’s up. Maybe he’ll clock one.
UPDATE, 8:35 p.m.: Or maybe he’ll ground into the shift.
UPDATE, 8:45 p.m.: You might want to go batter to batter with him at this point. But leave the Moose in for the seventh. He’s cruising. He’s retired seven of the last eight batters and 12 of the last 14.
Nobody warming up.
UPDATE, 9:05 p.m.: This is an awful lot of faith to show in Ross Ohlendorf. Big spot for him. Obviously they’re looking for Floyd to ground into a double play.
Tremendous job by Mussina, five hits and one walk over 6.1 innings. No runs so far.
Only 87 pitches for Moose.
UPDATE, 9:10 p.m.: Nobody warming up. This inning is up to Ohlendorf. They’re taking a heck of a chance with a rookie.
UPDATE, 9:12 p.m.: Ladies and Gentlemen, the captain of the Yankees, Derek Sanderson Jeter. The statheads hate on his defense. But the man makes plays when the Yankees need plays to be made.
UPDATE, 9:36 p.m.: Back on the horse goes Mariano Rivera. Just a hunch, but he will be lights out. The man knows his business.
No fist pump from Joba. I was hoping he would leap into the stands and high five every Yankee fan here.
UPDATE, 9:45 p.m.: Four hits by Robbie Cano and he’s over the Mendoza line at .205. He’s 14 for 40 in May.
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How do all these lineup changes work out? Has the offense clicked into gear with one of these changes?
I understand splitting up lefty and righty batters, but still. Seems like much playing around for little or rather no gains.
I like Jeter in the 3-hole over Abreu until A-Rod gets back… we’ll see if it works.
Joe changes the line-up everyday, then do nothing but watch during the game.
is girardi reading this blog? didn’t i read some comments this morning about how Abreau works well in the #3 spot when A-Rod is in the line-up?
Hi Joe! (I voted “I’m pleased!”)
Man, why Giambi over Matsui? It’s not a big sample, but Matsui is 6/10….
why does he keep changin lineups.. my gosh
Giambi hitting clean up? The only clean up he will be doing is hitting into DP’s.
It will be interesting to see who leaves when A Rod comes back. My vote is to vote tonight’s 3rd baseman off the island. Alberto Gonzalez gives the bench more flexibility.
“why does he keep changin lineups.. my gosh”
Because he hasn’t found one that works yet.
“why does he keep changin lineups.. my gosh”
because two of our best hitters are on the DL. And they’re two of the guys one uses to split up the lefties.
And the offense is struggling mightily. Guys have needed to be dropped in the lineup. And even many of the backups have needed to either sit or go on the DL, so that means even more lineup gyrations.
Swapping Jeter and Abreu is one of those tweaks to see if they can figure out a way to generate more offense. The vast majority of the tweaks seem to have been in response to injuries.
that too
Isn’t it cute how Hank will say something, umm, interesting and then has to come back the next day to explain himself? That he didn’t mean to call anyone an idiot for using Joba in the bullpen. That he didn’t mean to say, “Earn your pay you spoiled millionaires”. He meant to say, “If not this year, definitely next year”.
“Alberto Gonzalez gives the bench more flexibility.”
He can’t hit for anything. Though he has to stick around because without him there’s no backup middle IFer. I vote Shelley off the island. He’s done nothing to show me he’s useful/. At least Ensberg’s done something in the majors before. Duncan’s Kevin Maas.
Ensberg sat against two soft tossing lefties and is now in the lineup against one of the better young RHP in the AL.
Not sure I understand that.
I agree with whozat…. Shelley’s probably the one to go. He’s been riding the great two weeks he had last year for a while now and its time to move on. Gonna miss his enthusiasm though.
“Ensberg sat against two soft tossing lefties and is now in the lineup against one of the better young RHP in the AL.”
That seemed really odd to me as well. Like…why is he even here if he’s going to sit against exactly the kind of pitchers he’s here to hit? Seems like Girardi’s already decided to give up on him. Ok, but who else is in the organization that’s a better bet to help the team start beating some lefties?
I understand the sentiment about Shelley. I really like what I know about him. I don’t think that his intermittent ABs are enough to make a decision about him, however, he has not really contributed. He needs some regular playing time. Unfortunately, with Jason, Shelley’s not likely to see regular playing time. It’s a tough situation.
Typo – I meant that his intermittent playing time is NOT enough to make a decision about him.
For all those bashing Giambi he has been there only offense lately besides Matsui. He was the only Yankee with 2 hits last night and he has been getting on base much more consitently
“I understand the sentiment about Shelley. I really like what I know about him. I don’t think that his intermittent ABs are enough to make a decision about him, however, he has not really contributed. He needs some regular playing time. Unfortunately, with Jason, Shelley’s not likely to see regular playing time.”
I like what I know about him as a person. But, he’s not up here to be a regular. He’s up here to be a platoon guy, because his history suggests that hitting lefties is the only thing he does particularly well. That’s the role he needs to fill. If he can’t adjust to that, then…well…it doesn’t really matter what he’d do with regular time at this point. Until/Unless they decide to cut ties with Giambi, there won’t BE regular playing time. And nothing Shelley’s done has started to push the envelope on Giambi either.
Because he’s like the guy in your office that walks around hurriedly carrying a piece of paper.
He needs to look busy. He’s covering up the fact that he’s not in control, has no experience, and doesn’t know what works. He’s not managing, he’s flailing.
Does anyone think the Yankees have a “Guess the Lineup” lottery going each day? Now, THAT would be funny. Pete?
If you look at May so far, Giambi’s been useful at the plate, so…
“He needs to look busy. He’s covering up the fact that he’s not in control, has no experience, and doesn’t know what works. He’s not managing, he’s flailing.”
If you think that’s true, you’re not paying attention. At all.
Don’t know if anyone has asked this, but any reason Moeller is not being used? Maybe being saved for Ian?
whozat – I agree with you about Shelley. Also your last comment about Joe G. (I presume).
Maybe Girardi should just pick a lineup and stick with it. Stop playing games. Why is our #2 hitter hitting 3rd and our #3 hitter hitting 2nd? Why is Jason and his monsterous .190 average hitting cleanup and our best offensive hitter of late hitting 5th?
whozat,
It’s hard to argue about Shelley being the one to go. I wonder if there’s a bit of a hangover from the Spring Training incident. I’d still keep him for the time being because he’s about the only guy on the bench capable of hitting the ball hard.
Gonzalez has done nothing to warrant a demotion. He’s hitting .290 ( 4th on the team) with a .353 OBP ( 5th on the team). Ensberg, on the other han hasnt produced at all. His ‘05 season is irrelevant to ‘08.
whozat-
I’ve notice Giambi’s coming around a bit. Cano a little less so, but much better from the both of them overall in the last week, 10 days.
Yes Giambi has been hitting better as of late. But can someone please tell him that there are other things than hitting singles,homers and walks. DOUBLES!! When you smash a ball to the wall. Try getting to second.
DUNCAN=MAAS
So true.
I say from now on. We try to guess the lineup before its poster. Like a game of Bingo/Lottery. The winner gets one day to say anything on this board without being critisized.IMMUNITY.
“Don’t know if anyone has asked this, but any reason Moeller is not being used? Maybe being saved for Ian?”
Wasn’t he used for two games in a row just a couple days ago? He’s an inferior player to Molina…why would you want him used more often?
I dunno…2 lefties, a righty, 3 lefties, then 3 righties.
Doesn’t this help the opposing manager manage his bullpen better? Bring a lefty in for the top of the order and not have to worry about a righty for 6 batters??
This team REALLY misses Arod and Posada in that lineup. But the good news is this: when everyone is back, some teams are REALLY going to pay dearly when they face the Yankees. $30 million or not, Arod makes this lineup totally different.
“Ensberg, on the other han hasnt produced at all. His ‘05 season is irrelevant to ‘08.”
Totally agree Drive 4-5. I think he’s had the benifit of the doubt from day 1. His bat just isnt the same this year.
Agree Arod and Posada help but the starting pitching is really skating in all this. Wang obviously is doing great but the 2 thru 5 slots are getting less than 6 IP per start which compels this team to carry a bus station full of relievers. You keep asking for 3+ from yor pen 4 out of 5 nights, they are going to start getting tagged.
O’s are making noise about tying this thing up.
Id rather have Colt 40 Fineberg play 3rd base instead of Ensberg.
on another note….the picture of Mariano Rivera’s face photoshopped onto Steve Erwins face that they have on Nomaas is outrageous.
So is it safe to assume that Igawa will be leaving to make room for Kennedy?
“Bring a lefty in for the top of the order and not have to worry about a righty for 6 batters??”
It would probably matter normally, but Tampa’s bullpen lefty has been pitching to both righties and lefties equally well anyway.
“some teams are REALLY going to pay dearly when they face the Yankees. $30 million or not, Arod makes this lineup totally different.”
Like Schilling said a couple years back. You have to take advantage of the Yankees when their hurt. If you dont and allowed them to hang around. It will comeback and bite you.
4 games out. With all the injuries and nothing from our 2 young studs. Arod coming back next week. I say we got em right wear we want em.
“Ensberg, on the other han hasnt produced at all. His ‘05 season is irrelevant to ‘08.”
He continued to be effective against lefties in both 06 and 07. Gonzalez has a whole 4 more hits than Ensberg in the same (tiny) number of ABs. And he’s never really hit particularly well in the minors. I think Ensberg has a shot to actually help this team against lefties this year. I think that Girardi has not deployed him in a way that would allow him to be able to make an informed decision on that. Despite facing a bunch of lefties in the last week, Ensberg’s gotten two ABs. He’s here to play against lefties. We won’t know if he’s going to help us unless he plays against them. Play him, and if he stinks, cut him.
Giambi should be hitting AFTER Molina. Matsui is a run producer and Giambi not.
If we’re ever going to get any consistency out of the lineup, the lineup needs to be consistent first.
“I think he’s had the benifit of the doubt from day 1.”
That’s because he hasn’t had an OPS under .830 against lefties for years. And he had a good spring. Why shouldn’t he have gotten the benefit of the doubt? He’s only, you know, performed well in an area where the Yankees have been weak.
“Like Schilling said a couple years back. You have to take advantage of the Yankees when their hurt. If you dont and allowed them to hang around. It will comeback and bite you”
This Yankee team probably isn’t as good as the Yankee teams of yesteryear. What they are mostly is a couple years older in the field and searching for reliable starting options on the mound.
Hey CB, I guess Girardi must have been listening to you. He’s batting Abreu 2nd tonight.
O’s have the bases drunk with the immortal Jay Payton up vs. Okajima. Okajima has struggled with inherited runners.
Looking at the BVP from James Shields against the NYY hitters – if there was a night to pounce on a pitcher it’s tonight. Let’s go!
Case in point.
6-3 Orioles.
GRANNY!!!!!
HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
I got the Sux anti-mojo!!!!!
If Girardi wants consistency out of the lineup, shouldn’t the lineup be consistent first?
Watching the O’s on MASN… that’s how I like it ! Grand slam off of Okajima !
I’m from Baltimore, pardon my excitement…
“Obaasan”
That’s Japanese for “granny”. Oka not so good today. 6-3 Baltimore.
Fredo – I take full credit for any and all Sux losses. Just because I do. I give them every ounce of my hate that I can muster. They can be doing fine until I tune in and then they fall apart.
Doing my part to make this a better country.
GO O’S!!!
GO YANKS!!!
Sox should have been out of the inning a couple different times. Pedroia effed up on a grounder and Hansen had Roberts struck out and the ump missed it, but as we all know here, when you’re playing bad that’s the kind of stuff that happens.
At least the Yankees have an excuse for their poor performance. The Sox are finding new and unique ways to lose every night and do not have reinforcements on the way.
it’s time for the veterans to get this team turned around. i have no doubt they’re working hard. they need to go out, play hard, and have a little fun.
Au contraire. Everything about Girardi’s body language and attitude with the press suggest he’s defensive, he’s been hiding stuff and he’s not relaxed. He doesn’t have experience, that’s just a plain fact, he’s barely completed one year in the manager’s chair.
The ever changing lineups are a futile attempt to find the magic formula. He’s under enormous scrutiny, and has impatient bosses — he has to appear like he’s doing something. Chances are, all the line up changes are doing is having a negative effect on the hitters.
He is trying far too hard, and he doesn’t have the answer.
Sorry dude, but that’s flailing.
He’ll be a good manager one day. But that day is at least 5 years away.
whozat,
Hate to disagree with you, but Ensberg is too one dimensional to be of value here. He’s slow of foot, doesnt bunt and plays only the corner positions. When A rod comes back, they dont need Ensberg at all. Using your logic about past performance, perhaps the Yanks should bring back Bernie.
Its amazing what a year makes in the bullpen. The White Sox a couple years back were unhittable and won the Series. Then we had the Red Sox shut down pen last year. Now it seems like their pen is blowing every other game. Maybe this is our year to have the bullpen be our strength?
GoSox -
Don’t force me to be fair and objective when it comes to the Sux! It kills my soul to do so. But I have to say that the Yankees really don’t have enough excuses as far as I’m concerned for not scoring runs. Two great players out of your lineup should not be all the difference. Hank is right. Yes we have players hurt but that means the rest have to play harder and smarter. He’s right.
HOWEVER, Manny being Manny really looked like a fool on that last play. When’s the last time someone threw their helmet at the first base umpire because they were called out at first? He’s really a jerk sometimes.
i wouldn’t get too excited to face shields, he’s really starting to put it together. his last start was a gem, 9IP 0R., his start immediatly before that one was his only clunker all year, 3.2IP, 7R. he allowed 3ER or less every other outing. take away that start against boston and he’s one of the best pitchers this season.
“He’s batting Abreu 2nd tonight.”
I think it’s worth trying. Abreu;s skills taking walks work out well for a #2 hitter. It’s also valuable as a #3 hitter as long as there is a quality clean up hitter.
Shields throw a ton of strikes. He’s not going to walk guys so they’ll need to get hits with men on base to score runs.
Jeter is hitting .452 with runners in scoring position this year. .452 – I know that sounds impossible given how few runs they’ve scored but it’s true. By far the highest on the team.
Abreu is hitting .378 with RISP but he’s so selective at the plate I’d guess that his .378 is related to him drawing a lot of walks with runners in scoring position decreasing the number of at bats he gets.
Matsui is only hitting .273 with RISP.
Where the team really gets killed with RISP is the 5th slot – Giambi is hitting a pitiful .103 with RISP.
yeah why change the lineup as is it is doing so well!!!!!!!
again are you morons… yeah sitting Ensberg is the reason they were not winning, we should tell that to houston and san diego maybe if they get him back there fortunes will turn for the better!!!!
the stupidity from the peanut gallery, is awesome…Girardi knows more about baseball then you buffoons so be quite….
who should hit 4th Molina? How about Ensberg??/ Yeah…….
“Using your logic about past performance, perhaps the Yanks should bring back Bernie.”
Yeah, he was great from ‘05 through ‘07.
Actually…he wasn’t. Ensberg, on the other hand, has been productive in a needed dimension (getting on base against and hitting against lefties) for the last several years.
“He’s slow of foot, doesnt bunt and plays only the corner positions.”
Who the hell cares about bunting and stealing bases? This team’s issues with scoring runs have WAY more to do with putting runners on base in the first place and hitting when they’re in scoring position. Sac bunting and risking the precious few baserunners they have would be dumb. We’re talking about a need for someone who can hit left-handed pitching to slot in SOMEWHERE on the field that a lefty currently plays. 1B would be fine.
If Ensberg’s “one dimension” is “gets on base against and hits lefties while playing better than Giambi at 1B”, then of course I want to keep him. If he can’t do that, then he’s gotta go. Only way to find out is to play him against lefties…which Girardi hasn’t done, which I disagree with.
All these line-up changes are giving me motion sickness. Sometimes change is just for change’s sake and evidence of not knowing anything better to do.
All of the Rays starters have been shining. Shields is one of their best starters and would have been further ahead if he wasn’t out for part of last season.
Please don’t think that we’ll take this game because it’s Shields on the mound. That is the last thing you should be thinking. If you want to consider that Moose has been pitching great and that maybe something might have set a fire under the Yankees offense and that is the reason we could take tonight’s game, that to me is legitimate.
People who underestimate the Rays end up with egg on their faces. They probably don’t have one bad starter at this point in time!
“again are you morons… yeah sitting Ensberg is the reason they were not winning”
Didn’t say that was the reason they’re not winning right now. However, I think that finding useful right-handed bats to swap in for one or more of the Yankee lefties would do a lot to help their issues with southpaws. Seems to me that’s exactly why Duncan and Ensberg were put on the team in the first place. Seems dumb not to deploy them in that role, unless you’ve already decided they’re not going to hack it. That’s all I’m saying. You’ve got two guys who are here to hit lefty pitching. Either play them or cut them.
if nl mvp ryan howard can bunt with RISP in the phillies game last night, there is no reason giambi can’t.
“Shields is one of their best starters and would have been further ahead if he wasn’t out for part of last season.”
Which part of the season did he miss last year? He threw 215IP’s and made 31 starts.
“if nl mvp ryan howard can bunt with RISP in the phillies game last night, there is no reason giambi can’t.”
I can guarantee that teams are EXTREMELY happy when they see Ryan Howard squaring up for a bunt.
“if nl mvp ryan howard can bunt with RISP in the phillies game last night, there is no reason giambi can’t.”
Unless, you know, he’s horrendous at it. Which seems pretty likely, given that I doubt he’s done it in 15 years.
SA-WEET!
Thank you Orioles.
actually it seems that the ray’s should be heavily favored tonight with shields v. moose, but im subscribing to the ‘thats why they play the games’ theory and predict a yankees in in a long, high-scoring game.
im sorry but this guy is a professional athelete being paid $20M and you’re saying he cant do what pitchers who cant hit .100 can do routinly in the n.l.?
I have a strong feeling Yankees are going to take tonight’s game. Of course that and 50 cents is worth a cup of coffee. But I also have a strong feeling that Hank’s words might act as a motivational tool and help some players get off the shnide.
We’ll see whether I need to eat those words at the end of the night. I just really feel we are going to win tonight. Hope I’m and that it’s not just transference euphoria from the joyful scene I just witnessed.
Hey, ever notice how the Sux get thug-like when things aren’t going their way? I seriously haven’t seen Yankee players react the way those guys do. MUY MACHO!!!
Oh no !!! ……. Bahhhstin again !
“im sorry but this guy is a professional athelete being paid $20M and you’re saying he cant do what pitchers who cant hit .100 can do routinly in the n.l.?”
Those pitchers practice bunting ALL THE TIME and have been for years, because they’re called on to do it frequently.
Giambi, as I said, likely hasn’t dropped down a bunt in 15 years. It’s a skill like any other. All asking him to bunt does is drastically increase the chance that he’ll make an out. The odds of him popping up or bunting his way to 2 strikes are WAY higher than him dropping down a successful bunt. I mean…guys who DO bunt sometimes screw it up plenty often. Take Melky for example.
wow! did kornhieser just say that the ray’s have never been 7 games over .500 and they are 6 over now! gotta squash them tonight.
chowdah -
Time for me to rollerblade with GUSTO!
later.
Trisha –
I want to know where you buy your coffee!!!
Which is more hilarious? Pavano missing ST games with bruised buttocks, or Buchholz going on the MLB 15-day DL with a broken nail?
ok before I go my last post until later
SJ since you said your going to Trenton soon pay attention to Reegie Corona 2 for 3 today w/ a double, 2 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB
2B Reegie Corona in his last 10 games:
.375 AVG, 12 for 32, 6 XBH, 6 RBI, 4 BB, 3 SB
9 games in May: .379/.455/.621 an OPS of 1.075
a light bulb may have started to glimmer in his head.
until later Lohud faithful.
whozat, considering the lingering issue of Wang’s fingernail, I’m going to keep my mouth shut about Buchholz.
“a light bulb may have started to glimmer in his head. ”
or, it’s a small-sample size fluke.
I mentioned this earlier. I was listening to the radio and they said Steve Phillips mentioned that the league was on pace to score 1000 runs less this year than 06. Pitchers are throwing less velocity. More injuries and the top 5 of 8 teams in the leading the league are the youngest. Meaning they didnt and couldnt afford to go to performing enhancements. He also said that the weather was not the reason. Thoughts?
Brandon,
He also made 3 errors today, leading to 5 unearned runs.
I really wish people would stop harping on the Sox. As of right now the Yankees are chasing the Rays. The Rays are a good team. I’ve said it before on here, they’re the East Coast Angels. They will be a thorn in the side of the Yankees for years to come unless the Yankees can field a more athletic team.
This is a demanding sport, if you continue to put a team of guys who can’t run or field out there you will get burned.
Back to what I first said…enough with the Red Sox obsession. They’re a very good team and might very well win the division, but enough already. When did Yankee fans turn like this.
so i jumped in here to see if anybody had commented on manny’s high-5 today but didnt find any. add another to the MbM highlight reel!
“Which is more hilarious? Pavano missing ST games with bruised buttocks, or Buchholz going on the MLB 15-day DL with a broken nail?”
C. Kaz Matsui having some type of hemroid problem and the team didnt lie about it. Embarassing.
If i had to chooce from the two. Pavano’s buttocks.
george brett missed a ws game b/c of hemroids, but this year’s current frontrunner is felix pie of the cubs missing a few weeks this season b/c of a twisted testicle which required surgery!
The Kaz Matsui “anal fissure” was definitely the best DL in MLB history.
Abreu stinks period. He lost his ability to take walks. If I believed he could regain it then I would bat him lead off. Force him to concentrate on getting on base instead of whatever he is doing now.
“twisted testicle”
Im affraid to ask how he did that.
Steve Phillips said baseball is down 1,000 HR’s since 2006.
and the average velocity for pitchers is down. He said the steroid era is over.
I don’t know if the steroid era is completely over. but it does appear a lot of players are off the juice. and overall play looks down this year.
Anyone watching Kim Jones’ interview of Johnny Gomes? The guys has a “you know” count of 30 per minute.
“Abreu stinks period. He lost his ability to take walks.”
His OBP this month is .440, over 100 points higher than his AVG. His OPS this month is over .900, and I just read an article that put his defense tops among RFers according to the fielding bible.
So…I guess I wish the whole team stunk that badly.
Ys Guy -
A couple of people here mentioned Manny’s antics today.
Let’s go Yankees.
What did Manny do this time?
“What did Manny do this time?”
Who cares?
offense will explode 2nite!
May 14th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
manny made an excellent running catch to rob mallar of an xbh, kicked off the wall and high-fived a fan in the bleachers before turning and throwing for a dp at 1b! CLASSIC MANNY!
SJ…
Isn’t Corona pretty young and a decent prospect? This is his 1st yr. at Trenton I think.
He is not a retread no talent guy is he?
I thought i saw him play in Staten Island about 2 yrs ago….
I am not saying he is the next jeter but he is progressing, is that accurate???
thanks…
Manny was also safe at first on that play in the 8th inning …
Doreen,
It hard to believe he purposely did that. Heres my take. Manny sticks his glove out while jogging. Catches the ball. Kicks the wall while high fiving an O’s fan. Throws the ball back in thinking its 3 outs and gets the dp. That sounds more like Manny.
SoS27 -
I didn’t see it, so I couldn’t say, but your way sound much more believable!
“Isn’t Corona pretty young and a decent prospect? This is his 1st yr. at Trenton I think.”
He’s young. He’s never hit much. I don’t know that he was ranked on any of the prospect lists this offseason.
The Yankees are only 4.5 games out despite appalling play. The pitching has been good considering the injury to Hughes and Kennedy’s loss of nerve (which he will get back).
I am actually optimistic that this team will make a good run this year and am very glad they did not get Santanna. If they did they would probably be in the same place and he would be taking the same lack of run support as Wang.
So cheer up.
Manny is in his own little Manny world..
Must be an interesting place
Definitely an interesting lineup for tonight. Hope it works.
Have you look at Abreu’s walk rates? AL/NL 12%/16% BB/K career 11/13 this year 16/32 and yes Abreu STINKS as an all around player! He is so over rated it’s sad that people think he is a great #3 hitter.
hopefuly his speech will inspire the team.
I wonder if Mussina can pitch past the 5th inning for once.And yes the Yankees for the past three years started off badly but soon that will not hold up all the time.
SA,
As crazy as it sounds, sometimes I wish he were in our world.
Doreen – believe me I have to WILL myself to go blading after coming home from work. Luckily I have a partner who goes with me so it makes me more fun. The problem is that we had to kick off for quite a while because I was having a house built and then ended up with a builder who took the money and ran.
So we’re just starting to get back into it, so you know how that feels. I will say, though, that it is really one of my favorite things to do when I am up and running!
And of course my favorite moment is when we’re done and I come home and jump into the shower – right now!
LOL mel.
I also hope the mini-meeting inspires the team..wakes them up…something.
I would like to see signs of life. I know they can do it, but boy the past 2 games have been hard to watch.
Manny did another thing today that was weird. He threw his helmet at the first base ump in the 9th when he was called out at first. Then he started bitching at the ump. Remy said he was lucky he didn’t get tossed.
Mr. Exceptional – I will invite you to skip over my posts, sincerely, because I live to trash the Sux. You haven’t walked a mile in my RI Yankee shoes, living in Sux territory and so growing up in the heart and heat of the rivalry.
Guess what? I don’t care about any other team and what they do. As long as the Sux lose and if they finish below the Yankees, I can breathe.
Doreen – the gusto part of my blading was because the Sux lost…
GO YANKEES!!!
GO MOOOOOOOSE!!!
Be back in a few.
“AL/NL 12%/16% BB/K career 11/13 this year 16/32″
Which of these ratios are which? Are those first ones league average percentages? Abreu’s numbers in his AL career versus NL?
What are you trying to say? Also, basing ANY argument about ANY player with Abreu’s track record on this April is pretty dumb.
MOBoy – Moose has been GREAT!
Fran, I’m calling this a definite win. I’ll have to see what wrong score comes to me in the next little while.
“His OBP this month is .440, over 100 points higher than his AVG. His OPS this month is over .900″
Wrong.
last 7 days ba .217 obp .308 ops .656
last 14 days ba .311 obp .426 ops .870
Those do not add to what you say. What is true is how inconsistent Abreu really is. Abreu is turning in to Bernie William last few years either red hot or cold as ice.
“I wonder if Mussina can pitch past the 5th inning for once.”
He’s done so five times already.
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com.....statType=1
Look at his numbers for May.
.333/.440/.476
This is my first time today checking into YankeeLand. Wow, I guess I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!
Hey, let’s look at the bright side: tonight we have a chance to gain ground on Boston AND the division leader!
On the other hand, you know what they say: it’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.
What in the world is VORP?
Doesn’t mean Abreu wasn’t awful the last two days, but so has everyone else been. Putting the onus on him particularly seems pretty random.
Abreu has not come close to his NL level in BB its down 25% in the AL. This year he is taking BB to K’s at a 16/32 rate when for his career it’s 11/13.
The guy is not even close to being a good player anymore. He is either great or terrible. I prefer a more consistent player.
“What in the world is VORP?”
Value Over Replacement Player.
The idea is to figure out how much better a given player is at is position versus a generic, readily available fill-in.
VORP=value over replacement player.
“The guy is not even close to being a good player anymore. He is either great or terrible. I prefer a more consistent player.”
You’re basing this on what…last year and one month of this season? Gosh could ANY of this be due to the fact that his team has struggled out of the gate again and he’s been pressing — like everyone else on the team? Nah. He’s probably just turned into a wholly different player.
Given that, once he got out of his epic funk last year, he was the same kind of player he’s been for a while, I’m going to consider last April/May an outlier. And, also, given that he’s really not doing poorly right now except for his strikeout rates…I’m once again not really going to be worried.
If Bobby Abreu is your biggest concern on the may 2008 Yankees, you’re an insane person.
They don’t have Arod and Posada. BIG FREAKING DEAL! They should still win! Those two do not break our line up. We still have more than enough all stars to get the job done. I’m getting tired of people bringing up those two up like they’re make or break. This is the Yankees people, not a 1 or 2 all star low market team.
The freaking Rays are in first place.. Where’s there Arod and Posada?
Please let there be some freakin’ offense tonight
Trisha -
Especially after work, you have to take your motivation where you can get it!
I haven’t had my blades out in so long, I’m not sure I’d know what to do with them. It’s a fn way to get a workout, if I remember
Did anyone see Jeter’s pregame handshakes with the rest of the team? Bush league. /sarcasm
Seriously, I hope the team wins tonight because as boring as this team has been lately, the discussion in here has been equally boring as well.
Everytime I’m about to cook up some Chef Boyardee I have to calculate its Value Over Replacement Pasta. Usually it’s pretty high and I have a yummy snack.
On the other hand, Jose Molina’s Value Over Replacement Posada has been pretty low.
Jennifer -
If you’re here tonight, I wanted to tell you, my family is planning a trip to Toronto this summer (although in August not when the Yankees are in town) and we’re also taking a side trip to Niagara Falls (Canadian side). Here is link of falls tours. We’ve decided to try the Maid of the Mist thingie.
http://www.niagarafallstourism.....ences.html
Good luck and have fun.
lol
I love how at the end of that audio clip you hear Girardi talking over Danity Kane’s “Damaged”… “Do-Do You. Got a First. Aid. Kit. Handy?”
hahahahaha
Let’s go Mussina.
Jeter!
MEMO:
TO: THE YANKEE HITTERS
FROM: THE FANS
RE: HITTING
—-
Please beware that you are allowed to score runs.
Thank you.
Manny being Manny…
http://tinyurl.com/3ngwvv
I’m out. Good luck to Moose & the Gang. And you guys, too, of course.
whoaaaaaaaa big cat! nice pounce!
Wow, careful there Giambi. Don’t wanna hurt something.
“The Rays announced 20 minutes before the game that they signed LHP Scott Kazmir to a three-year extension worth $28.5 million. There’s an team option in 2012 worth $11 million.”
And everywhere, Mets fans die a little inside.
I know! The plan is to lull the Rays into thinking this is going to be a quiet night and then – whoosh, second time through the lineup, a Yankee tornado!!!
“Where’s there Arod and Posada?”
BJ Upton? Carl Crawford?
Are you SERIOUSLY asserting that you don’t get how losing ARod and Posada is a HUGE hit on the Yankee lineup?
Hahaha. I hope that’s the plan Doreen. I really do.
Oy
“They don’t have Arod and Posada. BIG FREAKING DEAL! They should still win! Those two do not break our line up. We still have more than enough all stars to get the job done. I’m getting tired of people bringing up those two up like they’re make or break. This is the Yankees people, not a 1 or 2 all star low market team.
The freaking Rays are in first place.. Where’s there Arod and Posada?”
Christ, at least someone has some sense here. ENOUGH WITH THE A-ROD AND POSADA EXCUSE. Because that’s all it is, AN EXCUSE. There is NO REASON the lineup WITH or WITHOUT A-Rod and Posada should score ONE RUN IN TWO GAMES.
The team without those two is more than capable of scoring runs and winning games. The bottom line is that THEY AREN’T. They’re not playing how they should be playing. That’s it. That’s the end of it. The season is 1/4 over, enough with the excuses. If the team can’t score runs without those two in the lineup, they don’t deserve to make it to the playoffs.
Doreen, it definitely is a fun way to get a workout! In the groove I absolutely love it. Getting back into the groove, not so much.
I will go where the brave dare not go and make some predictions that would seem to make little sense based on the recent history of our Yanks.
1. Moose is going to pitch a shutout.
2. Yanks will start getting to Shields around the 3rd inning.
3. Yankees will take this game.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
And oh yeah – if we take this game I will definitely credit Hank. He’s the one who created Jaime Mussina!
We need to capitalize NOW.
hey all.
okey dokey Yankees. let’s see some run scoring in tonight’s game, just for a change of pace.
Dr. Cox, I don’t want to hear that you’re switching from this game to watch Ugly Betty or some such.
risp and no rbi’s what else is new
Someone is really going to have to tell me when they play Ensberg over Gonzalez. I still don’t understand.
Trisha:
Those are some solid predictions and I actually agree with them for the most part.
However, just as you predict the Yanks will get to Shields in the 3rd I believe the Rays will get to Moose around the 4th or 5th. Once they get on base, they will run the hell out of Mussina.
that is the very reason the yankees are not going ANYWHERE this season, hitters like ensberg who choke if a man gets on
Endsberg strikes out, then grounds out. Way to go.
gee how bout that…men at 2nd and 3rd and neither of them come home.
Dang it
Nick:
Not tonight. Its man night in my house and what I say goes.
Translation: The woman is out with her sister so I am home alone. But im not whipped or anything…
yankees scoring a run from 2nd/3rd ? HA
it will never happen.
Now now, the journey of a million miles begins with a single step. Prior to this you didn’t even see Yankees on the base paths.
Patience young grasshoppers.
Dr. C – this will be interesting to watch based on our respective predictions. I can tell you this. If Moose does allow baserunners I will have no difficulty believing they will run him ragged. These Rays have no quit in them!
stupid Rays fans don’t even heckle correctly. they say “Yankees suuu-uuuck” and it sounds stupid. it’s supposed to be “YANK-EES-SUCK”. i mean, come on. blue jays fans do it wrong too.
fools.
….
DA YANKS!
Brian HAHA. It is just like Morgans blog entry telling fans how to heckle properly.
GIDP, way to go Moose!
“UPDATE, 7:25 p.m.: Word is that Hank Steinbrenner is in the house. Surely now the Yankees will win. Perhaps he’ll coach third for a few innings.”
Pure genius… Great line!
Brian -
And we Yankees fans should know!
Double play proved muy importante.
Very nice!
Melky!! What a throw!
Ankiel-esque!
Give Hank a bat and let’s see what he can do
Wow, you never want to make the third out at Mo Ensberg. Great play by the Melkman!
And that’s the power of DEFENSE!
A spark from the Melkman, I love that kid.
Too bad about Kazmir. I always had an eye to his free agent class.
Melky ur great
someone call the cops because Melky Cabrera has a gun!
DA MELK! DA YANKS!!
I’m liking what I’m seeing.
Dr. C – I am going to hang in to the end of the 5th to see how much our stuff is solid. Then I have to do one of my quick errands and it’s back.
Nobody is going to convince me that these Yankees haven’t woken up a little bit because of Hank.
Melky rocks
Trisha:
We’ll see how much Hank can scare them straight as opposed to his old man.
And if they cant get up after that play by Melky then I dont know what will do it.
Hmmm. Well I said AROUND the 3rd…
What is really amazing about that is there was basically a 10″ (or so) radius where Melky could have put that ball to record the out.
I just wish the Yankees hadn’t made two outs in the time it took me to type the above.
I like the way this Shields kid pitches. Challenges every hitter and just throws strikes.
the offense is national league bad
Looks like the Yankees are making another Cy Young pitcher out of Shelds
the NL seems to be slugging more this year. now, i don’t have a whole lot to backup that claim because i don’t pay much attention to the NL, i’m just going by the fact that i’ve seen a lot of high scores in NL games when i check the scores at the end of every day. man, wouldn’t it suck if this is the year the NL finally beats the AL in the ASG…at Yankee Stadium?
Has there been a GREAT Yankee moment in the last 5 years?
The only one I can think of was Boone’s HR…
Maybe Alex’s 3 HR and 11 RBI off of Colon???
“Has there been a GREAT Yankee moment in the last 5 years?”
Um, did you not see Giambi make that defensive play in the first inning?
Matsui’s granny his first AB at the Stadium?
How about da melk robbing Manny’s homer?
Jeter diving into the stands to catch a ball against the Sux while Nomar sat on the Sux bench with a booboo?
im getting really desprite early in the season… im really starting to think the Yanks should spend big money next year if they don’t get a lick at the post season
And Arod taking that snotnosed hayseed Papelsmear deep with his walkoff. Yes indeed!!!
Dr. Cox–
Hpw about the Boston Massacre II a few years back? That was a great weekend to be a Saux-hater. The NYY basically knocked them into 3rd place for the rest of the year with that 4-game sweep.
It was…. beautiful.
As was the A-Rod bomb off of Papelbon in the rain to take the lead. That was a Yankee moment, IMHO.
Great job so far Moose
“Jeter diving into the stands to catch a ball against the Sux while Nomar sat on the Sux bench with a booboo?”
There ya go. Oh and Of course Giambi in the first inning…haha
The AL is slugging and scoring less, than it usually does.
http://tinyurl.com/6ptf7m
Good call Trisha! I knew there was a defensive play I was forgetting.
The Melky rob of Manny at the wall by the bullpen was great. True bliss!
See, this is why I asked that questions. All of you are bringing up great memories that are making me believe and realize that it is only May 14!! We got this!!
Keep em comin…
Trisha;
After that homerun he covered the camera with his hand. Classic.
Hey Pete – if the Yankees have a “let a fan hit clean-up day” at the stadium, enter me in the contest please
I think the only thing injured on Nomar during the night of Jeter’s dive into the stands was his ego.
Truly a classless guy, by all accounts. After four years of bartending my way through college in Boston in the late 90’s, I saw Nomar out and about a few times. He was a classless jerk with fans.
And that was in his hey day when Nomar was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-MaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !
God I hated him. Crappy tipper too, FWIW.
The Boston Massacre II was a fun couple of days.
Good times..good times
bb77, boston massacre was a 5-game sweep. 2 double headers in 3 days.
Hey Dr. Cox–
How about the game last year when Bobby Abreu ran full steam towards the wall, jumped up, CRASHED into it, and mad ethe catch to save the ga–
Ohhhh…. wait.
Thats right E– good looking out!
“BJ Upton? Carl Crawford?
Are you SERIOUSLY asserting that you don’t get how losing ARod and Posada is a HUGE hit on the Yankee lineup?”
Give me a break. Damon, Jeter, Abreu, Giambi, Cano, Matsui, Cabrera. All bums? Not capable of scoring runs?
What is that… 6 All Stars and one future.
Once again, We’re the freaking Yankees not some low market 2 all star team. Arod and Posada are nothing more than an excuse.
Just got in. I see that I haven’t missed much in the way of offense. I am surprised that the Yanks haven’t touched Shields yet. They have a really good record against him. He has yet to defeat him.
In days of old when Yankee bats were bold and runs were of no concern,
The Yankees would hit and never spit the bit,
And watch opposing pitchers burn.
Well I think I will run out and do my errand now so I get back sooner. Looks like the Yanks are pushing the envelope with the offensive outburst I predictged…
GO YANKEES!
I’ll be thinking about more of our great plays. I know there were a ton.
Okay here’s one I’ll leave you with, even though it was a while ago. How about Giambi’s defining moment as a Yankee? When he hit a homer (was it a granny) in the bottom of the 14th at the Stadium against Minny, in the pouring rain, to win the game for the Yanks.
He had been HORRENDOUS up to that moment, and I remember having tears coming down my face when he did that because that’s what sometimes happens to me when I am very happy or amazingly overwhelmed by something.
(You should have seen me the night of Aaron bleepin Boone!)
Is there a World Series in May that the Rays have won ? These announcers are clowns and if I have to watch another dogpile for a 10th inning win in May…I am going to get sick….If Mo was not Mo he would put one in the back over the course of the season of every clown that ran out on the field
A TWO OUT HIT!?!?!?!?!
Trisha…wait…
1-0
There it is!
That qualifies as a Great Yankee Moment Mach May 2008.
FLIPPIN YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so happy I waited around. Dr. C, this counts as “around the 3rd” yes?
ROBBIE CANO DON’T YA KNOW
Yes, first to score again. Our record is great when we score first.
Nice job Cano!
The Yanx take the lead for thr 1st time in this series !!!!!
Incredible.
Nice Robbie!
Yankees must win 29 in a row!
Cano must’ve been reading the comments section on this blog lately. Doesn’t want to be optioned to AAA.
Hey, Ill give it to you…
But lets hope my prediction does NOT come true now.
BX 12 Fordham RD
They usually say, “Act like you’ve been there before,” but with the Rays, they really haven’t. Their win last night put them in first place with a tie for the best record in baseball. Did they overreact – yes and no.
whoa. Did we just score a run?
(Evening all, been a while!)
Yeah, let’s hope…
Well I think we’re gonna get more from Shields, so even if yours is true, we still should be okay.
ok mike, there’s your run…now go win us a game.
Doreen….so based on that they will openly weep in September when they are 14 games back ?
My take on the Rays right now:
Let them have their moral victories. Its good for their team and good for their struggling fan base. We all know that if people claim to be Rays fans its only because of what they are doing now…but isnt that how all teams get fans?? By winning??
I say let them have their moment and shove it down their throats when September-October comes.
Doreen, I have no trouble whatsoever with those Rays kids celebrating like it’s their last day on earth. When you have had to put up with the abuse they have from being considered the dregs of the league for so long, and then you’re on top of your game and something you probably thought you’d never see – first in the AL East – you have earned the right to party hearty. Good for them I say. They deserve the feeling.
Giambi is just painful to watch….
instead of counting sheep when I cannot sleep I just count salary coming off the books next season…
“Farnsworth, Giambi, Pavano….” all the way to $80m
Wow – a 2 out RBI. You would think the Yankees dodn’t think they existed anymore.
2 out hits are how teams win.
nice Moose!
You know who the Rays remind me of? The 2001-2002 New Jersey Nets.
Sure, the nets had the Jason Kidd trade, but they had been perennial doormats, and all of a sudden their team turned around in a hurry. It was a lot of fun to watch.
The Rays are kind of fun to watch this year, if we ignore the whole AL East competition thing.
“I say let them have their moment and shove it down their throats when September-October comes.”
OK, but maybe the cowbell-down-the-throat shoving can come a little sooner?
BX12 -
Could be. But, then, they HAVE been THERE before.
Just trotting out my new tagline!
Be back.
If our pitchers can’t hold on to this one run lead they simply don’t deserve to win. They’ve been whining about run support and now that they’ve finally got it they need to shut up and close the deal. It’s ridiculous to expect the offense to put up runs every day. Bats are fairly small and the ball’s pretty small too and there’s a lot of area for the pitcher to throw to, so I don’t see why Wang and the others expect to get wins when they give up 1 or 2 runs per game. They’ve been spoiled into expecting 3-4 runs or something per game which is ludicrous considering the money we’re paying for this offense.
(It’s a joke)
Rays are going to have an economic day of reckoning when these kids all need to make more than a Home Depot cashier in a couple of years….Kazmir, Longoria…are stitched up but the others are going to need theirs…
They draw 12,000 a game and are lucky to have PBS air their games…..
“Looks like the Yankees are making another Cy Young pitcher out of Shelds”
Um…he’s actually really an excellent pitcher. I think _he’s_ the one who’s made himself good.
“Damon, Jeter, Abreu, Giambi, Cano, Matsui, Cabrera. All bums? Not capable of scoring runs?”
No one’s saying they’re not underperforming, however, that’s a lineup that’s REALLY vulnerable to lefties, first of all. And Cabrera is not a future all-star. Jeter’s not taking his walks, so he’s getting on base at really an unacceptably low rate, Damon was on fire for a while, but the middle of the lineup was struggling to drive him in. And we know all about Giambi’s problems.
Should they be scoring more? Yeah. But, saying that the loss of your two best right-handed bats and replacing them with replacement-level guys is just an excuse? Ridiculous.
Trisha-
They were so ecstatic, and I know they were a bit over the top for a regular season game, but it must be so much fun for them right now.
how many years left on the Damon deal ? two ?
back to work bats and get some more runs
Ahh… Girardi, another Yankee lohud blog reader.
It only took Girardi a quarter of the season to realize Molina shouldn’t swing the bat in a possible DP situation.
Hank should say something before every Yankees game.
please please get this runner in
Show us some of those 2-out runs again!
That’s it! Go Yanks!!!!
nice hitting Bobby!
so I guess we’re doing the two-out rally thing tonight. ’s fine by me!
Thank You
I’ll say please more often
Wow… that 2nd RBI was proudly bought to you by The Fear of Hank.
Lucky > good!
I don’t believe it. Could this be a sign of revival of our offense? Two consecutive innings with 2-out runs!
Jeeeeeeeets, that was in the dirt…
Grab something. Brace yourselves. Moose will blow up this inning, giving the runs right back.
Jeter bats third and this is what we get? He’s a number two or bottom of the order guy and has been since last years playoff series. Too many GIDPs and swings like that one. IMHO
“It only took Girardi a quarter of the season to realize Molina shouldn’t swing the bat in a possible DP situation.”
Well, he WAS actually hitting really well until he went down with the hammy thing. So…
alright moose. big inning here. stop em, kid. Big 3-5, come on kid!
Chien-ming Wang was just spotted asking his interpreter to explain what this run support business is.
another run? wow
Hank = the great motivator
These Rays broadcasters are doing unintentional stand up comedy…
good one Nick
Mussina splits- pitches 61-75 in a game over the last 3 years… .292 BAA and he’s right in that area now…cross fingers.
I live in Tampa and Magrane and Staats are the biggest homers I’ve ever seen for guys that have no real reason (besides who owns them) to be homers. They are shameless…reminds me of Scooter except Scooter always was a Yank so its more understandable. Kind of like Hawk Harrelson too.
Wow…Moose’s era just dipped below 4. That’s remarkable.
with their assessment, though? The Rays are a more entertaining team.
Giambi becomes a first baseman!!!!
Big G flashing Leather tonight…it must be our night! no?
only 65 pitches through 5 for Moose. Good job
Good job Mussina!
2 diving plays for giambi tonight! daaaaaummmm! you go big boy!
Golden Glove Giambino??
Note to all young player’s on this blog, he wouldve been safe had he ran through.
He’s at 65 pitches.
Another run or two would be good
Give Giambi the gold glove!!!
Not with that particular assessment when Arod and Jorge are out. Look every team is more exciting when they are winning and stringing together ABs. They are not largely different than the end of last year. Were they more entertaining then…no. Because they were losing and we were hot. They hate slow play and taking pitches.
Another good outing by Moose. If the Yanks keep this up, Hank will start coming to all of their games.
these seeing eye singles are just what Robbie needs.
I don’t know if it’s because Cano is batting sixth or batting after Matsui, but it should happen more often.
This ump has a huge lateral strike zone.
Rays sign Kazmir to 4 year $39.5 million.
Robbie is at .200 now. Next stop .275
Ah, the mendoza line.
Is it me or did Moose and pettitte switch bodies this season?
Why do they call it the “mendoza line?”
No Jax…its 4 years 28.5 million according to the Rays announcers and ESPN. maybe some option years bring it up?
Man Melky looks like he stole Cano’s funk
Oh yeah-Let’s go Cavs!!
“Is it me or did Moose and pettitte switch bodies this season?”
Actually Moose learned to pitch with reduced stuff, while Pettitte just stopped takin the roids.
its getting very close to farnsjobamo time!
Doreen,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendoza_Line
Gosh, we may have a chance to see 2 line crossings tonight… if robbie gets another hit he’ll go above it and if molina gets another out he’ll go below it! Exciting!
Now Moose has 2 runs so if he screws this up it’s all on him.
Actually Jax I think you have it right. Its 3 years but can go to 4 for that amount.
As a lonely – pro – Moose voice on this blog going back 2 years I would appreciate a little dap for the much-maligned Stanford grad.
Without question he is the smartest, most quotable pitcher on the squad and he has delivered a TREMENDOUS first 2 months (considering his stuff left)
ALL HAIL MOOSE!
Rebecca (psst – Andy and Jamie Moyer pitch from the same side – don’t mix in w/ Hankenstein)
Moose could go 7, maybe even 8.
TK…he’s doing his job…I am not going to go overboard. He should be pitching well for 11 mil per year.
i like those one-pitch outs!
Thank you, Tseng.
I haven’t been the biggest Moose fan the past couple of years, but the man is shutting me up. He is getting it done and I am very happy that he is.
I don’t like that Joba commercial. It reveals the sign for a fastball.
huge dap for moose and the moose fans. it really seems like he’s made it all the way back to 2006 form.
3rd time Hank spoke out before a Moose start and Moose has pitched well.
Moose should ask a beat writer to call Hank before everyone of his starts.
Agreed — Hail Moose! Is Igawa still on the squad? Does het get to pitch to one left-handed batter this evening before heading back to Japan? (I think a nice parting gift to Cashman is in order.)
urgggg, picking on Moose is no longer as fun as it used to be.
check out thsi pic of ensberg http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/.....age/205022
Our 2nd best starter is Moose this year, I’ll take it!!!
sportsline picture = not attractive
a pitchout? where did they think he was going?
Evening all. Long days of working, quite a pain.
Think there is something wrong with MLB tonight, shows the Yankees with a monsterous 6 hits and a terrifying 2-0 lead… WTF.
Seriously though, with exception of Hughes and Kennedy, the starting rotation had definately done its job this year. Pettitte is not the pitcher he once was but he usually picks it up in the second half (or with that occassional HGH)
molina is officially a NL pitcher in the line up
big joe -
So he’s doing his job – you had him down for 6-3 at 5/14?
BS!
Did Pavano pitch to $11M a year? How about Zito in SF? If you want to comment at least think before you do it!
Nice bunt. I like.
excellent! nice work jose! the first bunt you can debate, but up 2 in the 7th, thats where you need to use it and he executed it perfectly both times!
I’m not trying to take credit for Moose’s recent form or anything, but I think you can pretty much track his turnaround to my pledge to buy the case of Moose bars. And remember that he left his last outing with the score tied; it took some Yankee offense to make him the winning pitcher of record. Since I actually ordered the Moose bars, he hasn’t given up a run. Earned or otherwise.
Coincidence? Maybe.
Nick – did you actually receive the Moose bars? And if so, how were they??
Nick
Buy another case. We need all the help we can get.
Damon’s bat are made of low grade, cheap pine. A toothpick is stronger.
When was the last game he didn’t break a bat ?
Nick in SF –
Wasn’t your “pledge” during Moose’s most recent start – i.e. after 3 or 4 Moose wins in a row?
I’m not sayin’ , I’m just sayin?
I go Ohlendorf for the eighth but it won’t happen.
was that a fist pump I just saw from their pitcher? Where are Mike and Mad Dog when you need them?
what if moose was 2007 moose. Wow. We would be finished
Joba and Mo should each pitch an inning tonight with a vengeance.
Let’s go Moose!
TK If your bar is Pavano for 11 mill then you can give me and everyone else 11mil…come on. When you give that kind of jack you expect an era around 4 and a winning record, no? I do.
TK…its way better than I expected and I am happy with it but its just earning his pay to me not like we got him for a bargain.
Is this Jax? or is it Bizarro Jax? How can we live in this mixed up world?
RayBlay, they haven’t come yet. But I didn’t order them until yesterday (I think?) so they’ll probably come tomorrow. I will give a report after I’ve tried one.
Of course I’m the one regulr LoHud poster who doesn’t have his own blog, but maybe I’ll post a few pictures onto my flickr page. Which flickr page? This flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9.....451651434/
mussina is the f****** man this year. hell yeah.
TK…here are some other stats with your Pavano and Zito.
Webb – 5.5 million
peavy – 6.5 million
beckett – 10.5 million
I just think when you give 11 mill you expect an era around 4 and probably at least 14 wins is all. Pavano rots I totally agree and that was money wasted but lets not pretend Moose is a hero yet.
“Damon’s bat are made of low grade, cheap pine.”
I thought it was all the ash and maple bats that are breaking these days. They’re light and strong, but a bit brittle? So, if you get good wood on it, it’s all good…but they’re easier to saw off.
How many big joe’s can there be? Moose is sitting on 253 career wins – nattering nabobs need not apply
“Is this Jax? or is it Bizarro Jax?”
Real Jax, Red Sox troll took over my name last night thus some of the odd comments.
Looks line Mussina is beginning to become a pitcher and work the plate. Like it. Maddux did it for years.
Nice pictures Nick
TKinDC, no, my pledge was before Moose’s last start, on Saturday, and it was just based on the results of that start. I set the bar (no pun intended) pretty low, but that’s because I wanted to buy the bars anyway.
While we wait for the pitching change, here’s another great Mendoza moment:
http://www.zippyvideos.com/790......_mendoza/
real class there, the ray fans booing moose on his way off the field. maybe the rays are arriving but thier few fans still have a way to go.
MOOOSSSSSEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
“Webb – 5.5 million
peavy – 6.5 million
beckett – 10.5 million”
These are all young pitchers who haven’t gotten to their free-agent payday yet. It’s totally different.
Carlos Silva just got 4/48. He pretty much defines league-average. League average these days is mid-high 4’s era, around 200 IP.
Maybe it sucks, but contracts are way up. 11 mil is a pretty reasonable deal for a league average pitcher, if Moose can provide that.
I was hoping that was a mooooooooose call from the many Yankee fans there
wasn’t watching – I think that was the Yankees fans with a MOOSSSSEEEE call
“real class there, the ray fans booing moose on his way off the field. maybe the rays are arriving but thier few fans still have a way to go.”
Those were Yankee fans saying “MOOOOOOOOSE”
Besides…how would it be classless to boo a guy who’s beating you? That’s who you’re supposed to boo.
Hello Ohlendorf. Make this nice and easy
Yup, Moose has had a very good career no doubt about that. I am not arguing what he did until say 2006 (although 1-2 and a 5+era in the last 3 postseasons is not great).
big joe -
If you think you can equate $’s per year and e.r.a. you have not paid any attention to baseball.
I only brought up Pavano to prove that point but you still don’t seem to get it. Guaranteed contracts have nothing to do with productivity.
“Looks line Mussina is beginning to become a pitcher and work the plate.”
Moose has always been a pitcher. He’s had to adjust to not being able to put guys away in the same way. And it looks like he has.
TKinDC — the pledge was made before Moose’s last start and just based on the results of that game. I set the bar (no pun intended) pretty low. I wanted to buy the candy.
um – can we get two more outs here, please
Glad to have you back real JAX! (that other guy? not so much)
Whozat – “11 mil is a pretty reasonable deal for a league average pitcher, if Moose can provide that.”
Totally agree. I just don’t think the guy is a hero is all…he gave great effort tonight though and his last few but lets see how the season turns out is all I ask. Don’t coronate him as the moose of old yet and I won’t call him “old moose” Deal?
come on Ross- 2 more outs, that’s all we need
I disagree with the move by Girardi taking Moose out. Moose was cruising and deserved the shot to finish the inning, especially over Ohlendorf. As I write that he lets up a single. I just think it was desperation move that is about to go wrong…and there goes 1 run.
Why pull Moose after 87 pitches? Girardi…
Lets have that poll again tomorrow morning
that was a DP ball !
Noooo.. Ross Don’t screw this up for Moose!!
Freakin hate indoor hits…if they had a real field that was a double play… Well, strap it on, here we go.
Boy YES gun is way off. They have Ohlendorf 87,89. Gameday says 94,95,96.
Ross must think it is a good idea to start every hitter 1-0
Well, there goes the lead. Rays win 4-2.
TK they gave him the 11mil after a season with a 3.5 era…you think he’d have got that deal after last year? NFW!
that was hot
Thank you Jeets!!
Why did Girardi pull Moose? It made absolutely no sense and is not costing them big time. Moose was cruising and barel ymissed on that walk. In fact, the excuse of him getting out of there without a loss is a stupid one at that because the tying run was not even on base at that point and Moose was only at 87 pitches, more than enough to get them through.
Thank god Ohlendorf got that nice play made just now or Girardi would have cost them the game.
thank you, but they should have made the first play !
Girardi better be thanking a higher power right there. That ball was smacked. Jeter for once was in the right place.
Jeter saves the day!!!!!
Phew!
*now costing them
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good I guess but it was the wrong move and it came very close to losing them the game.
Wow that was lucky. Nice work by el Capitan.
What I just saw!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just got back in. Had the game on the radio. Boy was Moose tremendous.
phew
OK, my heart skipped a beat there…
Actually I’m still waiting for it to restart again.
Jordan – They had to pull him there. He was tiring and they wanted him to leave without possibly getting the loss. It was right.
ok – insurance runs (I know, thats asking a lot)Joba to Mo now?
Huge DP!
Nice homegrown Yankee DP!
Here is some good Mendoza info:
http://www.zippyvideos.com/790......_mendoza/
DAMN WELL BETTER MAKE A WEB GEM TONIGHT!
Shame on everyone who lost faith. Let’s have a survey on that.
“TK they gave him the 11mil after a season with a 3.5 era…you think he’d have got that deal after last year? NFW!”
Please keep making my point for me – all this typing is exhausting!
One thing I will say is Girardi is he’s giving his guys, all of them, every opportunity to prove they can come up in the big spot. The question isn’t whether or not he’s doing a good job, it’s are the players proving they deserve his confidence.
Let’s get some insurance runs
kittens are cute.
FSN here in Tampa has a commercial for their Rays with Delmon Young appearing solo in the screen in the old uni’s. Nice Marketing.
Has Olendorf ever not let an inherited runner to score? I might be wrong but I feel like he always allows the runner to score. I don’t like him being used in the 7th inning especially with a runner on base. He isn’t good in those situations. The Yanks need to start doing the Giambi shift on Floyd he always pulls the ball between 1st and 2nd in the same spot.
lazy MIDDLE INF it should have been 2-0:x
big joe,
I disagree. Get the loss? He let up his first walk of the night. How does a man on first mean he’s going to get the loss? If he lets up another runner, yeah I take him out, but not there, not for Ohlendorf. Moose has all ready shown tonight he can get the DP multiple times. I just don’t think Girardi going to Ohlendorf is a better move right there, but that’s just my opinion.
Moose has really come through this season so far. I have been extremely impressed with the bullpen as well.
I see some signs of life in this offense tonight. They just need to score some more runs
Here’s where you put in a pinch runner for Giambi and put in your defensive specialist at first.
What? Giambi is the defensive specialist?
Never mind.
Ollie hasn’t pitched in a while, if I’m, not mistaken. Coming in with runners on isn’t the easiest thing to do, especially after not haven pitched for a bit.
Count our blessings. This has been an awesome night. Plus it just thrills me to the core to see Mike Mussina smile and laugh.
YOU GO HANK!
Ohlendorf’s future is as the 7-8 guy. Might as well start him off now. It seems like Make Joba a Starter Plan is beginning.
“kittens are cute.”
Brian – have you ever seen one of those ‘here is you brain’ here is your brain on drugs’ commercials?
Hey Joe, how about letting your #2 starter pitch?
Offensively, I dont see a lot of runs scored, but I see some better AB’s and what seems to be a better approach at the plate. Thats what I have been hoping to see.
WHy isn’t Girardi pinch-running AG for Giambi? He can move the AG to 3d and Ensberg to 1st.
“Here’s where you put in a pinch runner for Giambi and put in your defensive specialist at first.
What? Giambi is the defensive specialist?
Never mind.”
Nick, LMAO!
“Ohlendorf’s future is as the 7-8 guy. Might as well start him off now. It seems like Make Joba a Starter Plan is beginning.”
:waits for destiny is dynasty’s “I don’t see it happening” comment:
Really would have liked an insurance run there.
Yikes-I guess Aaron Heilman strikes again for the Mets
TKinDC:
yes i have. but i’m not on drugs im just drunk
Exactly, why you pinch-run for Giambi, to try to steal a base, and to avoid the DP.
Wasn’t that self-evident?
oh Aaron Hielman …god have mercy on you
Joba time baby
Moose’s era after the 7th over the last 3 years is .285 and OBP is .323. I think Joe G was right there.
Okay, more bold predictions. Joba is going to be lights out, nothing like the struggles we saw the last few games.
Joba looks angry. Probably imagining the DOG’s head in the cathcer’s mitt.
Cheers to you Brian from PA !
I consider us the founding members of a grass roots pro-Yankee pro-alcohol groundswell! our motto is any useless truism!
Blue Skies = GOOD
Did you mean BA and not ERA there, big Joe?
That would be a sweet ERA, though.
timely hitting where art thou
lol ok TK.
fact is i’m 21 and in college so it’s in my job description to get drunk
Ken Singleton just said the Yanks don’t go back to Tampa until September. Good.
No I mean BAA (average against) and On Base Percentage…I wish it were ERA. I think those numbers say Joe did it right.
Uughh..Another walk for Joba. Why does he walk someone and then always look at the mound?!! Joba STOP shaking off your catcher. I really am getting tired of him doing that. Molina calls a fastball and he wants to throw his slider on a 3-2 pitch. Throw your 95 mph fastball especially on a 3-2 count.
Brian, what college do you go to? Anywhere in PA?
Let’s go Joba!
c’mon Joba
Mike and the Mad Dog today said that it is drawn down the middle 50-50 on people who like Joba punching his fist and people who do not. They went on to say that EVERYONE 40 and under loves it and EVERYONE 40 and over hates it.
Lets try this out. list your age and whether you like the fist pump or not.
I am 23 and I f’n love it.
44 and I love it also!!! Hope to see it tonight.
is anyone else getting nervous?
studying again…how’s the game going?
Well it certainly wasn’t a move that didn’t have any reasoning behind it, thats for sure.
Dr. Cox,
Is this a general vote on pitchers who fist pump or just Joba? I think this group would be biased if its just on Joba but it would be interesting to see what we think if say Josh Beckett did it to us or Edwin Jackson.
anyone glad Baldili hasn’t been seen in a while?
just as I typed that he struck him out.
Yeah Angel…but Moose gave us what we needed tonight. Of course so did CMW last night.
33, I don’t have anything against it at all.
am not getting nervous
“anyone glad Baldili hasn’t been seen in a while?”
Rocco Baldelli’s dealing with a very odd disease/condition. He -could- be finished.
I don’t love or hate the Joba fist pump. I just don’t it should be an issue.
jordan: i attend west chester university in west chester, pa
The Tribe w/another shut out, 3 out of last 4 games….amazing!!!! Yanks scoring 2 runs, amazing
21 – couldn’t love it any more – and we’re one pitch away from it!!
Here comes the fist pump!
big joe:
Valid point. Im gonna say all pitchers who strike out the batter with 2 outs to preserve a lead.
If Beckett had 2 on with 2 out in the 7th inning and he struck out A-rod to preserve the lead, I would not fault him for pumping his fist.
He sure did. He definitely did his job. He looks to be gaining a bit more confidence with the pitching adjustments he’s made.
oh – and my dad is 44 and LOVES it, he LOVES the energy
NO FIST PUMP
I’M SAD
Trisha – keep up with your predictions. They deserve a fist pump (like Joba’s performance)!
GO CAVS!!!!!
Hey, the ump fist pumped there! WTF!
Molina w/ the fist pump !
The one issue I have with Joba, is he sometimes uses WAY too many pitches to put away people. That’s fine as a 1 inning reliever, but when he’s starting, he’ll need to ‘pitch to contact’ a little more, or he’ll be a 5-6 inning guy.
Yeah! That’s the Joba we know and love.
Dr. Cox – tell the truth.
Have I been hot tonight or what!
molina and the ump pumped their fists in the air on that K. 27 and im outraged.
JOBA JOBA JOBA!!!
Damn, i turned my head. Was there a fist pump?
Yay Joba!
uh oh…that was quite a fist pump by Molina
Where’s the fist pump? Goose has a lot of pull….
“The Tribe w/another shut out, 3 out of last 4 games….amazing!!!! Yanks scoring 2 runs, amazing”
4 out of 4 if you count Cliff Lee’s 9 inning ND
He needs to do a cartwheel
Is there any better staff pitching than the Tribe? I might change my predicition of WS Champs from Boston to Cleveland.
The only fist pump I saw there was Molina… What’s up with that?
That is right V, forgot. They are my 2nd favorite team!!
Joba only fist pumps at home what part of that don’t people get.
Suzyn called the 2nd strike a “hitable” pitch.
I you gave that pitch to SW a 1000 times, how many hits?
“Hey, the ump fist pumped there! WTF!”
I know! He’s going to have a more senior retired umpire come out and say in the papers tomorrow about how in the old days they never did that.
For shame.
Brian,
Very cool. I’m a 21 year old Gettysburg College student
Yeah Amanda from La,
I’ve got Electromagnetics in front of me…you?
Dr. Cox,
OK then 36 and I don’t care for it. (I love it for Joba but hate it when its against the Yanks so I have to say no)
Thank God for pitching… at least we have that… sigh.
Come on Yanks!!!
96 years old and I prefer he raise the roof
Trisha:
Your predictions were fantastic. I am glad mine did not come true.
And Brandon, Joba also pumped his fist in Toronto last year so Its not only at home.
They’ve pulled Mussina early in his last few years and I don’t really get why… He looked especially sharp tonight… I know he’s old, but unless he’s really struggling, he could’ve finished the 7th
Fran -
I really do a pretty good job when I am not held hostage by “the superstition”. (NOT THAT AGAIN!)
CANO’S BACK (i hope)
Cano break out night!?
I think Hank woke up Robby…
i don’t care about the fist pump. i mean hell, the new york media needs to get a life. k-rod and papelbon have been doing it their whole careers and no one talks about it. joba does it and the ny media hates him for it instead of loving how young and talented he is. it’s a shame.
where has this Robi been
Cano 4-4, AMAZING LOL
big joe,
fair enough. but because I love it from Joba so much I cannot argue or call bush if another pitcher does it to us.
Joba doesn’t do the fist pump all the time. It has nothing to do with Gossage saying he shouldn’t do it.
V said:
“The one issue I have with Joba, is he sometimes uses WAY too many pitches to put away people. That’s fine as a 1 inning reliever, but when he’s starting, he’ll need to ‘pitch to contact’ a little more, or he’ll be a 5-6 inning guy.”
I don’t think we have to worry about that for this season…Joba will most likely remain in the bullpen for the duration of the 2008 season…
GO YANKS!
Cano is having a great night, just what he needed!
Seriously, why all the ire for Joba. Papelbon makes faces, postures and does everything short of choreography for the past 3 years, not a word. Move on people.
What was the superstition?
the non-fist pump will be just as big of a story as if he did it
years = starts… my mistake
“Brian,
Very cool. I’m a 21 year old Gettysburg College student”
Just finishing up my degree next Fall. Can’t wait to finally be free
(I’ve already got my job offer (from the company I’ve been working at for the last 2+ years)).
“I don’t think we have to worry about that for this season…Joba will most likely remain in the bullpen for the duration of the 2008 season…”
Surprised you waited that long, I said they’re preping him to start an inning ago.
MadDog Russo would call Robbie’s hit a “useless tack on hit” if the Yanks win.
ooh that chaps me!
is MO coming in?
Well I guess it’s not too early to share with you that Ian is going to win tomorrow night. Kamir is still coming back and won’t be lights out for the entire outing, though we may see some vestiges of brilliance.
Pretty low scoring game, Yankees win.
You might be right about that Joe.
“V said:
“The one issue I have with Joba, is he sometimes uses WAY too many pitches to put away people. That’s fine as a 1 inning reliever, but when he’s starting, he’ll need to ‘pitch to contact’ a little more, or he’ll be a 5-6 inning guy.â€
I don’t think we have to worry about that for this season…Joba will most likely remain in the bullpen for the duration of the 2008 season…
GO YANKS!”
Not this again.
He’s going to be a starter by mid-July. There are too many talented relievers being promoted in the minors that none of them replace him in the bullpen.
“anyone glad Baldili hasn’t been seen in a while?”
The guy has a disease that could not only end his career (probably has), but could impact his entire life. His mitochondria don’t work right. Basically, the power cells of his body don’t work right. And I’m not talking like…he’d feel low energy like he has mono. I mean his body has a hard time powering everything that every cell in his body has to do.
Some reporter wrote an article calling him out for not toughing it out or something. That guy is just a flat-out bad person.
Dr. Cox
I just can’t stand Papelbon and his antics so I guess thats a key reason.
Ugh. The Celtics decided to wake up
Melky bad AB
ugh
Have to love Melky taking strike 3 right down the middle knowing the runner is going. Amazing that Gomes can steal 3 bases but Cano can’t steal 1.
Thats why the hit and run is stupid with our team.
well that sucked
um robinson, you can run faster if you look at second.
Hmmm…this might be a stupid question.. but is Melky under obligation to duck his head so that the catcher has a clear sight of second base like he just did?
That really sucked
TGIFizeek: are you saying that Pap’s little jig was unchoreographed? I think he had help from half of the Boston Riverdance troupe.
Dynasty: nice joke.
OK new question…what do you all say about the slide feet first into 2nd for a steal that MLB players are all doing now. Is it just me or did they used to dive head first way more often. I mean simple physics says to slide feet first you literally have to throw your weight back and that slows you down vs a head first…I don’t get it
I’m betting, that Destiny is Dynasty is Mike Francesa
They are bringing in a new pitcher for Morgan Ensberg? what am i missing?
V
cool man, and where will you be graduating from?
“I think Hank woke up Robby…”
Yes – of course – and Moose would never have gotten wins 252, 253, and 254 without Hanks encouragement. It is only an accident that Moose won his first 251 without Hank foot in his ass.
Or, we could deal with reality.
come on Cleveland!
““anyone glad Baldili hasn’t been seen in a while?â€
The guy has a disease that could not only end his career (probably has), but could impact his entire life. His mitochondria don’t work right. Basically, the power cells of his body don’t work right. And I’m not talking like…he’d feel low energy like he has mono. I mean his body has a hard time powering everything that every cell in his body has to do.
Some reporter wrote an article calling him out for not toughing it out or something. That guy is just a flat-out bad person.”
He actually IS still working out and trying to come back…
“The Sports Xchange reports that Rays OF Rocco Baldelli, on the 60-day disabled list with a muscle fatigue disorder, has resumed full workouts after missing about two weeks with an infection. He took batting practice before Tuesday’s game against the Yankees.”
“They are bringing in a new pitcher for Morgan Ensberg? what am i missing?”
I dunno bored ?
cavs down by 7 now gees
“V
cool man, and where will you be graduating from?”
New Jersey Institute of Technology (blegh) – Mathematics (Finance)
“They’ve pulled Mussina early”
I guess they’ve decided he starts to lose it around 90 pitches, so they’re loathe to leave him in at that point with anyone on base. Not sure I necessarily agree with how much they’re doing it.
“Joba also pumped his fist in Toronto last year so Its not only at home.”
He did that this year, when he K’d Thomas. I think it was his first appearance of the year? And he’d had a poster of the guy on his wall as a kid…so I can kinda see how he’d be jazzed about it.
Either way, I really don’t care. The emotion feels real to me, and he’s not pointing at people like Eck used to, or jawing at guys.
I’m really sick of hearing “yankees suck”
Its pedestrian and old.
Big Joe:
If you are trying to break up a double play, I was always taught to slide in feet first. In fact, I was always taught to slide feet first no matter what.
So there you have it, I am Pro-Feet First and Anti-Sliding into first. Ever.
On Monday night Joe G brought in a pitcher in the bottom of 8th with two outs and down 7-1 so I think Maddon is ok doing it here.
hmmm – Reyes needed the work? seems like an unnecessary pitching change
Just looked at Mussina’s line, very good tonight
20,936 at the game. Why is there a team in tampa
By the way…I can’t stand Maddon, so it hurt to defend him but I wanted to be objective there.
Living on the edge. Insurance run do actually help.
Man, Cleveland’s SPs haven’t allowed a run in 43 innings…
Is there a reason that I am not aware of why Ensberg ever plays 3rd over Gonzo? Gonzo should play it everyday until Arod comes back. I know Ensberg got a lucky hit today but there is no reason he should be playing let alone on this roster. He is horrible and swings threw every pitch.
who’s pitching?
Dr. Cox – I agree on DPs totally but my point was on steals.
Come on Mo!
“OK new question…what do you all say about the slide feet first into 2nd for a steal that MLB players are all doing now. Is it just me or did they used to dive head first way more often.”
They did. And risk jamming fingers and wrists. The difference between just letting your upper body fall back to go in feet first and pulling your upper body down to dive isn’t actually that much, and it certainly doesn’t justify the increased risk of injury. You mess up your hand, you can’t hit at all. That hurts the team a lot more than the fractions of a second you might lose on steal attempts…if you even DO actually lose any time.
Is anyone here from White Plains or a surrounding Area??
Cleveland is scary, if their bats ever heat up, they will be a very good team
Let’s go Mo!
can i change my vote for player of the game – it was Moose – I might have to say it’s Cano after that catch!
no bloop shot tonight
I hope Mo has an easy inning, and this is not another inning where Mo has no location like yesterday.
No man’s land? You mean Ca-no man’s land!
(sorry)
“I guess they’ve decided he starts to lose it around 90 pitches,”
I agree – but I think they KNOW that Moose is cooked at that point.
I think it is laughable that people this that Moose should “man up” to pitch 120. That would be stupid. Why doesn’t Paplebon “Man up” and pitch the 5th thru the 9th?
Moose is very effective at what he does. God bless him!
I get to see the Tribe daily…
2 outs, come on MOOOOO
One Mo time!
so far, 2 outs, 5 pitches
Cliff Floyd is hitting .423 – sheesh…
Mo = Greatest Of All Time
GOAT!!!!
Whozat, Ricky Henderson did a “study” on it and he said that it was significant slow down given the amount of times the plays are so close. I tend to go with the all time steals leader on this one. But To your point Joe Morgan likes your side of the argument.
“He is horrible and swings threw every pitch.”
Hm. Then explain to me the walk, and the full count he was hitting in just now?
Gonzalez isn’t much of a hitter. He never has been. Ensberg’s hit lefties well for several years in a row now. The Yankees are weak against lefty starters. If Ensberg finds it, that’s a win for the Yanks. Given that he was on base twice tonight against a REALLY good pitcher, seems like a good thing for the Yankees.
com on MO
Mo! Mo! Mo! Mo!
Finall, a win!!!
Rishi:
He missed 30 games.
GREAT JOB MO….9 PITCHES, FINALLY, A WIN A WIN go Cavs…night all
Angel, I’m almost embarrassed to tell you what it is because it is going to sound soooo stupid. Please don’t trash me when I tell you. Actually the superstition is based in another superstition that quite a few people seem to know about.
If you find a coin face up it is supposedly good luck. If you find it face down, you’re basically supposed to leave it where it is. I usually turn it over and then walk away from it. Well I swear to God this is true. On days that the Yanks are playing, if I find a face up coin, we win. If I find a face down, we lose. Now the good news is that I don’t find coins every game (for instance it didn’t happen today.) But when I mentioned it yesterday I had found a face down dime. That’s why I said what I did. And I wanted us to win just so I could finally say “see, it was all in my head the whole time!” It just happens, I don’t know why it happens, but it’s like the forces want me to be prepared or something!
This is a true story, and it will sound so strange. My dad died suddenly a few years ago and it was devastating, as you can imagine. My nephews and nieces took it really hard. Well one nephew who was 10 at the time was at my dad’s house and he and I took a walk. While we were walking, we found 31 cents in coins. 18 cents was face up, 13 face down. I had already been tuned in to the face up-good, face down-bad. We picked up the coins and I told my nephew the “significance”. I told him that my dad was looking down on us and giving us a message. I said the Yankis were going to win 18 of their next 31 games.
It happened just that way.
So when I find a coin on the day of a game I can’t help but fall into the superstition.
TK
“I think it is laughable that people this that Moose should “man up†to pitch 120. That would be stupid. Why doesn’t Paplebon “Man up†and pitch the 5th thru the 9th?”
We agree on that. Joe and Dave have it right.
now time to watch KING JAMES regulate
“Whozat, Ricky Henderson did a “study†on it and he said that it was significant slow down given the amount of times the plays are so close. I tend to go with the all time steals leader on this one. But To your point Joe Morgan likes your side of the argument.”
For a ‘base stealer’, where a large function of his value is his ability to steal 120 bases a year, yeah, that fraction of a second is important.
For a regular player, who’s going to steal at most 5 bases a year, no, it really isn’t important. Not worth risking injury over.
Moose has won 5 straight starts. Fascinating. And people were expecting him to be no more than a 4th/5th starter before the season started.
What is this winning thing?
We won! WooHoo
“Cliff Floyd is hitting .423 – sheesh…”
Not any more!
2 games behind Bosux in the loss column.
GO MOOSE !!! GO YANKS!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m glad we won and all, but jeezus… 4 runs in 33 innings. That’s sad. This offense is still sucking. I’m still very concerned. They’ve shown no signs of breaking out of whatever this funk is.
Here we go!!! We’re gonna get this team rolling now. Bullpen has been lights out, bats are coming around (Cano, Giambino). A few wins over 500 for the remaining stretch before Jorge and Alex come back and we’re on our way UP UP UP!!!
hey did anyone notice Mo run out and touch second base while they were shaking hands? Anyone know why he did that? does he always?
“Whozat, Ricky Henderson did a “study†on it and he said that it was significant slow down given the amount of times the plays are so close.”
Well all the studies I’ve heard about contradict Ricky. On average, it seems that the difference is fairly insignificant. Maybe for him, it was a significant amount of time. Besides, I’d much rather have a guy lose a few percentage points off his steal rate than jam his thumb and be out of the lineup for two weeks.
Does anyone live in White Plains or a surrounding area?
Im moving up there and I would like to know a few things about it.
Good win, boys.
V – Jeter and Arod hurt themselves running to first. You risk injury everytime you are making a play. If its worth stealing then do it right. If you want to play safe just take your lead and hold it at first – JMHO
I get Cano but WTF did Giambi’s bat do tonight ?
Nice to break the Rays home winning streak. Now, for a great streak of our own. Call me crazy, but I think Kennedy will hold his own tomorrow night.
“I’m glad we won and all, but jeezus… 4 runs in 33 innings. That’s sad. This offense is still sucking. I’m still very concerned. They’ve shown no signs of breaking out of whatever this funk is.”
Change your name to blackcloudy615
“We agree on that”
Cool big joe! Winning is the best deodorant for all our minor stuff!
GO YANKS!
Trisha – I like your prediction for tomorrow. I’m with you. And I am superstitious too so I won’t laugh at you. (My dad died suddenly a few months ago.)
It’s really too bad Hank didn’t call the team out earlier. May have been in first place by now!
Excellent pitching job and Mo still perfect in saves.
V
May 14th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
“I’m glad we won and all, but jeezus… 4 runs in 33 innings. That’s sad. This offense is still sucking. I’m still very concerned. They’ve shown no signs of breaking out of whatever this funk is.â€
Change your name to blackcloudy615
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don’t let the facts cloud your posting.
Robbie said Jeter (yes the slacker) and Long helped him out.
Jeter stressing line drives.
WOW MOOSE has six wins!
Great story Trisha
“V – Jeter and Arod hurt themselves running to first. You risk injury everytime you are making a play. If its worth stealing then do it right. If you want to play safe just take your lead and hold it at first – JMHO”
I totally disagree
I’d rather not have Cano risk injury to -maybe- get an extra fraction of a second (he would still have been out). That was a hit and run, not a steal attempt.
“This offense is still sucking. I’m still very concerned. They’ve shown no signs of breaking out of whatever this funk is.”
Shields is a legit really good pitcher. I’d have been surprised if they shelled him. Yesterday bothered me, because I saw some swings early in counts against a guy that ALWAYS has had trouble commanding his stuff. And Garza basically just threw fastballs the other night. That’s kind of sad.
Hopefully Kazmir will have his traditional spotty control tomorrow.
But, the Rays have mostly starters with really good stuff.
“The Yankees are just one game under .500″
Thanks, Ken.
I’m actually going to be able to do something that I will love – watch Baseball Tonight and see highlights of the Sux losing, the Yankees winning, and possibly a Yankee web gem or two!
YES!!!
hey did anyone notice Mo run out and touch second base while they were shaking hands? Anyone know why he did that? does he always?
I’ve seen Jorge do it too but I never noticed Mo doing it.
“don’t let the facts cloud your posting.”
There’s a difference between facts and 24/7 negativity.
I’m still very concerned. They’ve shown no signs of breaking out of whatever this funk is.
I thought overall they had much better ABs tonight, even if they didn’t clobber the ball all over the place.
Jeez. C’mon NY Cavs of Cleveland!!!!!!
Was Mo doing that as a homage to Jorge?????
Jimmy, thank you. Whether or not another coin prediction every came true you can bet there was no question in my mind that those coins were from my dad. Makes me tear up to think about it.
Does anyone live in White Plains or a surrounding area?
Dr. Cox
I live just south of White Plains. I’ll try to help if I can.
“Call me crazy, but I think Kennedy will hold his own tomorrow night.”
If he throws strikes he should. The Rays like to swing. Bartlett is really a hole in their lineup right now, their leadoff guy is struggling, and so’s their cleanup guy.
whozat
The thing that I just don’t get – is why the Yankees always seem to have to get out of the gate in neutral in the past 5 years. I understand this team is old, but the fact that just in the past two years alone everyone seemed to be in a funk except one player (2007 was arod, 2008 is matsui) is astonishing. This team is better than this but can’t seem to get out of this offense funk.
Moose has as many wins as Wanger. Incredible.
are the Marlins winning again ?
I am all for giving some credit where it is due. We finally got to see a game where the Yankees played small ball to win a game. Bunting runners over by Molina, even the missed hit and run was worth seeing, even though it didn’t work.
Mussina was really pitching well tonight. He showed a lot tonight.
This was a good win, a needed win.
What I don’t understand is why it has taken so long to try moves like that.
Cano was hitting hot tonight. Maybe he can now keep the climb going upward on his BA. Giambi made two good plays to save extra base hits. He still needs to stop hitting to the shift though.
This was a good game that Girardi managed tonight. While runs were at a premium, its nice to see some smart moves to get a run or two in.
Outstanding pitching tonight, liked the way Mussina was mixing everything up, curve looked really sharp. The bullpen held its ground yet again.
Offensively I hope this is the boost Cano needed to get back up to his level of performance. And somebody please tell Jeter to stop swinging at the first pitch.
Don’t look now but Moose is tied with the most wins in the AL.
I’m with “V” – at the end of the year they don’t ask how you won the game, they just count wins (like tonight !!!!) and
those other non-mentionables
the best thing about this game is that i think we are only a few wins away from no more anti mussina
“I thought overall they had much better ABs tonight, even if they didn’t clobber the ball all over the place.”
In general. I love Cano going back up the middle over and over. I’d like to see Melky get back on track; he had some poor ABs today, I think. Ensberg on base twice, worked the count deep the other two times.
V
This isn’t negativity, it’s facts. They scored 4 runs in the past 33 innings. That isn’t sad? This offense isn’t sucking? Is this good? You may think so, but I guess I have unrealistic high standards of this teams capabilities. I consider this more frustration than negativity. To me, negativity would be “This season is over!! Time to go eat a drano sandwich” or whatever. I just wish this team would play up to the capabilities we all know it has.
“But the man makes plays when the Yankees need plays to be made.”
Hyperbole, thy name is Peter Abraham.
Jimmy… Are you sure Moose has 6 wins? Nooo, that couldn’t be right. Could it?
Wow.
Robbie goes 4 for 4.
Joba strikes out three in the 8th.
Yanks are 2 back of BeanSox.
Perhaps Big Stein should ground Hank, take away his allowance.
Whozat has it right.
Shields pitched two CG shutouts in 2 of his last 3 starts: one against the Angels and the other against Boston.
Those aren’t exactly weak hitting teams either.
The Yankees needed excellent pitching to beat him and we got that from Moose and the bullpen,
The hitters weren’t lollygagging tonight, they just ran into a strong pitcher.
Girardi on the DL – I heard that Joe G whispered into Cano’s ear before the game about hitting;
and told Moose how to pitch;
and told Giambi how to play “D”;
he was just holding back early in the year to increase the drama. the actual performance of the players has nothing to do with them at all. IT IS ALL ON THE MANAGER!!!!
“just in the past two years alone everyone seemed to be in a funk except one player (2007 was arod, 2008 is matsui) is astonishing. This team is better than this but can’t seem to get out of this offense funk.”
Injuries haven’t helped in both of the last two seasons. Damon and Abreu were both slowed down early last year by injuries. Cano’s early slump tendencies are another factor.
Also, part of it is that Damon’s not really an elite leadoff guy any more. When he’s on, it’s great…but he was below average last year, and he’s below average right now.
I was hoping that Melky’s early performance was him turning a corner, because if he can take his walks I’d like to see him up there. But he’s not doing that as much this month.
This win takes a lot of pressure off IPK.
I think we’ll see the good IKE tomorrow.
“Perhaps Big Stein should ground Hank, take away his allowance.”
you realize what we saw tonight it’s responding to his comment right ? I mean players should earn thier money he was talking about Ensberg,Cano,Giambi,Abreu and Damon, 2 out of 5 ain’t bad.
Did anybody expect there would be any point(s) in this season where Moose’s overall season is better than Beckett’s?
Jeter and Jorge had real good starts in 2007- if memory serves
It’s a scientifically proven FACT:
Hanks opens his big mouth, Moose wins the next day.
Cashman fire
Damon trade
Jeter stay
Abreu trade
A-Rod stay
Matsui stay
Giambi trade
Cano sent to AAA to learn how to serious in his job
Duncan sent to AAA to learn how to play smarter
Cabrera stay
Molina stay but he should hit better.
Ensburq trade
It’s a good thing that Cashman didn’t listen to a lot of people on this blog and DFA Moose early on this season! He has been great and is probably the #2 starter on the team right now.
There have been a lot of ugly games so far this year.
But given the injuries, poor pitching by the kid, and the poor offense the team is in a pretty good position for this time of year.
The biggest question coming into this year was the pitching staff – both the rotation and the pen.
What we’ve been seeing recently from the pitching is very encouraging.
Perhaps the biggest question coming into the season was whether they had a pitcher to fill the #3 slot.
Mussina has been outstanding this year. It looks like he’s figured out how to transition his career to be effective without that good fastball he used to pitch off of.
With Mussina as the #3 they only need 2 starters from Rasner, Joba, Kennedy and Phil to round out the back of the rotation.
Hopefully Mussina can continue pitching well over the whole season.
That’ll give them extra time for the younger pitchers to develop while the team competes.
The hitting is going to come around. We saw that from Robbie tonight.
“Robbie said Jeter (yes the slacker) and Long helped him out.
Jeter stressing line drives.”
Not Jeter. He doesn’t live up to his captainly duties at all.
When is Moose pitching next? I just wanna be ready for the next statement from Hank the day before..
“Is this good?”
No. But they did some good things tonight against a really good pitcher.
“What I don’t understand is why it has taken so long to try moves like that. ”
Because against guys that aren’t dominant pitchers, it’s usually a losing proposition to waste outs like that.
BB Is that the best you can do
Fran, thank you for understanding those superstitions. And my heart hurts so much for you about your dad. Life’s toughest stuff isn’t it.
Exactly. Shields isn’t some scrub at all. While like whozat said, there were a few poor AB’s over all I thought their overall approach of their AB’s were much better.
I can handle them getting beaten in their AB’s by good pitching after a good AB, but I don’t like it when I see them giving away their AB’s with a hacking away wildly approach.
I guarantee it had more to do w/ Hank and Joe than Jetes telling him hit line drives
Call me crazy but the DEVIL Rays are not going to fade this year.
“When is Moose pitching next?”
Five days hence
Did I miss you explain the superstition from last night? I was a little curious about it.
whozat
Injuries in my opinion, are due to age (especially last year). This team doesn’t have the flexibility yet to handle that kind of drop in production (with this bench anyway). Damon’s slow down in production is also due to his aging. I honestly don’t know what’s up with Cano. And Melky is still on his learning curve. But it still doesn’t explain how all but one player can simultaneously be not hitting. They’re not taking pitches. And they all seem to be hitting directly at people.
TKinDC, so that’s what happened?
The bunting and the hit and run are calls by the manager. While, yes, the players have to do them, in order to do them you have to attempt them. We haven’t seen that from this team except for one other game this season.
That’s what I’m giving credit to Girardi for. Calling for those plays made the difference. Funny thing, its like the Rays play… just like Hank said they should. See, Hank’s the genius.
Yunel Escobar is making me look like a genius in my FL
BBTonight – just said they thought Hank Steinbrenner motivated Robby.
Never underestimate the words of a Steinbrenner owner!
(btw, context of my last post: after tonight, Moose is sitting on a 3.99 ERA. Beckett? 4.21. Gonna have to check tomorrow after baseball ref updates for tonight’s games and see how the ERA+’s compare…)
Angel – check out 9:56 p.m.
“Call me crazy but the DEVIL Rays are not going to fade this year.”
they aren’t and same w/ Baltimore the SP is solid on both of those teams and the BP is good.
Well I am going to be 1/2 right…I said that the BoSux and Yankees would be tied at the end of play on 5/15, with records of 24-19….the BoSux have done their part…now if the Yankees can win tomorros….that will put them at 21-21,,,and let’s assume that they WOULD have won the game that was rained out ( I know,,,a stretch )….then they would have only been 2 games short ….anyHoo…after we win tomorrow…we will only be 2.5 back of the BoSux ( still only 2 back in the loss column ) and for what this team has played like and played with ( injuries to key players that 2 of which REMAIN out )….we are looking PERTY GOOD…..Looking forward to JOBA in the rotation and Rasner continuing to impress…..Wang/Andy/Joba/Mussina/Rasner does NOT look too shabby, y’all !!!
“you realize what we saw tonight it’s responding to his comment right ? ”
Brandon – you’re smart right? So at what point in the at-bat, when the ball is flying through the air at 90+ m.p.h. do Damon, Jeter and Abreu think about Hankenstein f-ing Steinbrenner?
or was this irony? sarcasm? onomatopoeia?
Jimmy27 – you’re not crazy.
Sunny, sometimes hitting is luck in the placement, or rather lack of luck. That isn’t an excuse, it just is the way it goes sometimes.
Giambi’s problem though is he is so pull happy he is almost always covered when he hits the ball. That is more on him than Cano’s.
One more time for the heck of it.
Medooooooooooooooooza!
http://www.zippyvideos.com/790......_mendoza/
BBTonight is going to have a segment called Manny being Manny a little later in the show. They said it will be from his first hit and they’re calling it really good stuff.
TK
You CRACK me up.
TKinDC he was alert for the first time, because the team was noticing it, they’ve been telling him to hit line drives time in and time out, the only thing that change tonight is Robi may have noticed the owner is paying attention.
Robbie needs tough love?
Anybody else miss Stephen A. Smith and Missilini in the mid-days?
“Cashman fire
Damon trade
Jeter stay
Abreu trade
A-Rod stay
Matsui stay
Giambi trade
Cano sent to AAA to learn how to serious in his job
Duncan sent to AAA to learn how to play smarter
Cabrera stay
Molina stay but he should hit better.
Ensburq trade”
Oo, I can play this game too.
All I need to do is pick the correct lottery numbers and I won’t have to work ever again.
Ok I am going to get some things done before bed. Good win tonight.
Will see you all tomorrow.
PEACE!
See, Hank’s the genius. :lol
I was afraid of this. Hey GotDL – We can celebrate the win though! (i suspect you are a bosox agent on a mission to make hank an owner-manager!!!! LOL)
“Injuries in my opinion, are due to age”
Hello? Kennedy? Bruney? Wang last year?
Trisha – “Life’s toughest stuff isn’t it.” It’s a feeling that you can’t describe until you have been through it – a hurt that will never go away.
I heard that Hank is coming to NYC this weekend for the subway series. That would be good – make sure that the Yanks continue to listen to him and win!
Girardi on the DL
I understand that – luck is part of the game. But man, this team seems to be a lot of bad luck.
Giambi has always been a pull hitter – ever since his knees went. You need to have strong legs to be able to hit the other way. Him I don’t count, but the rest of the team doesn’t have that excuse. They just need to start having better at bats. Start somewhere.
“This team doesn’t have the flexibility yet to handle that kind of drop in production (with this bench anyway).”
Show me a bench that CAN handle the loss of the MVP and the most potent offensive catcher in the AL. And neither of their injuries are because they’re old. You could say that about Bobby and Damon last year; age and poor conditioning. And Matsui got DLed last april too, I think.
I think that the injuries last year and this year have caused them to press at the plate and lose their approach. Look at jeter, not taking his walks. Abreu was doing the same thing in April, though he’s been better this month (not really these last few games).
“Baltimore the SP is solid on both of those teams and the BP is good.”
Baltimore IS going to fade. Their offense is pathetic. Cabrera’s peripherals still aren’t good, and they’ve not got that much else. And they have no depth at ALL.
“Robbie needs tough love?”
yes he’s the mold of what Hanley Ramirez’s physique was, the mold of what Miggy Cabrera took from Jim Leyland, he needs a butt whipping every once and awhile, that’s why Bowa got to him, Joe T. was soft w/ him Donnie use to ring him out, Bowa the same.
Brandon maybe he finally got hid A__ in gear- let’s hope.
whozat they will hang around for awhile (Balt.) but yeh that’s what I meant.
Sunny, the thing is Giambi is working on hitting the other way all ST, yet he rarely does it in games. I know some is his legs, but it doesn’t have to be all hard hits.
“TKinDC
May 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
See, Hank’s the genius.
I was afraid of this. Hey GotDL – We can celebrate the win though! (i suspect you are a bosox agent on a mission to make hank an owner-manager!!!! LOL)” Bite your tongue! I really don’t see Hank as manager, though it would be fun TV. Imagine the Hank show! Wah-Hoo!
TK
What injury does Kennedy have? Wang had a fingernail split. Last year – Abreu pulled a shoulder. Damon had leg cramps. Matsui had knee surgery. Jeter was hit by 1000 pitches. Giambi had that foot thing. Half the pitchers threw their backs out or something. This year, Jeter and Arod strain their quads, Posada rips his shoulder, … It just seems like a lot of these things were bad conditioning and general physical stress from playing a lot of years. It happens, I’m not blaming anyone. I’m just saying there’s a lot of 32+ players on this team.
“Anybody else miss Stephen A. Smith and Missinili in the mid-days?”
Umm no, not really.
Is it true Hank will be in the house this weekend? I’m at the game saturday. I wonder if he’ll pull the countdown lever. Big Stein pulled it for the season opener.
“Anybody else miss Stephen A. Smith and Missilini in the mid-days?”
No.
whozat
May 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
“This team doesn’t have the flexibility yet to handle that kind of drop in production (with this bench anyway).â€
Show me a bench that CAN handle the loss of the MVP and the most potent offensive catcher in the AL. And neither of their injuries are because they’re old. You could say that about Bobby and Damon last year; age and poor conditioning. And Matsui got DLed last april too, I think.
I think that the injuries last year and this year have caused them to press at the plate and lose their approach. Look at jeter, not taking his walks. Abreu was doing the same thing in April, though he’s been better this month (not really these last few games).
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for the first part – see my previous post…
The second part – I couldn’t agree with more. Nail on the head. Pressing at the plate.
“What injury does Kennedy have?”
Sorry – meant Hughes. Wang, Moose and Abreu started the year last year w/ pull muscles (2 hammies and an oblique)
That is where small ball comes into play though. When you have to go to small ball playing it helps with stopping the pressing at the plate.
It gives a new option to go to, so the pressure eases a bit, and then they aren’t pressing as much.
how you let Allen rebound that !
I guess I need to make my point more clear… I’m not dissing the team, but a team with it’s core players (catcher, 3 bman, SS, 1 bman, DH, LF, and RF) all over 32 years old, the physical stress takes a toll on the player and are usually prone to injuries. It sucks that it happens, but you have to admit, it happens an awful lot on this team, well conditioned (2008) or not (2007). When players start dropping, others try to pick up the slack (owner neck breathing not withstanding) and they start to press at the plate and take poor at bats. Take no pitches. Just an observation and I just get frustrated that this team can’t seem to make the adjustments when players (even MVP’s or the most production catcher in the majors) takes a hit. But even Kevin Long said that they’re both good for about a run or run and a half per game and that this team is capable (even without arod and posada) to score 5 runs a game. That’s it. No smoking gun here.
Mo’s comment right there tells me Hank had alot to do w/ tonight’s game
“Wang had a fingernail split.”
More than that. Wang missed the first month last year due to hamstring injury.
Great game by Robbie Cano.. I think he gave his bad luck to Melky
Is anyone watching this “Manny being Manny” montage on BB Tonight??
What a character he is. He is very, very funny. Whenever I see him cut off Johnny Damon’s throw I still laugh ridiculously hard.
So Kennedy vs. Kazmir tomorrow…
Any predictions?
Melky threw out a runner at 3B so I doubt it was bad luck, just a little off in his swing.
PREDICTION?
PAIN….
Brandon what did Mo say?
“So Kennedy vs. Kazmir tomorrow…
Any predictions?”
we’re going to need runs
Dynasty, I actually went on record two days ago on these two games. I have the Yanks taking both.
don’t even get me started on our “Director of Performance Enhancment”… nice title by the way. I’m still waiting for the consession drink guy to get promoted to “Director of Juicing”
Don’t forget Ian Kennedy tomorrow everybody. I’m a bit nervous, not about the game but nervous for him.
anyway- off to bed. Good win. Go Yanks!
“Anybody else miss Stephen A. Smith and Missilini in the mid-days?”
Hell to the no
“It’s a feeling that you can’t describe until you have been through it – a hurt that will never go away.”
Fran, that definitely says it all.
You know, I truly think that tonight was the beginning of the Yankees turn around.
Sleep very well!
See you tomorrow.
Trisha- Sorry, I was up and down and missed your explanation. No that isn’t silly at all. I would never laugh at anyone’s superstitions, especially when they have to do with missed loved ones like your dad. Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, so I see no reason why fans can’t be either. It is kinda freaky how it worked out, especially with that 18 of 31. Sometimes I think things like that happen for a reason, specially when they’re associated with people that are no longer with us. Kinda their way of showing their presence is around and they’re still watching over us.
I see now why you found it hard to explain it without saying what it was though, lol.
Destiny – I predict a 6-4 win for the Yanks!! Kennedy and Kazmir both go 6 innings
I have a feeling if Manny was on our team the fans would love him. People would say he is real and a kid at heart or something endearing like that.
Stephen A. Smith & Mike Micenelli? Good riddance. If only they had taken that idiot Max Kellerman with them. Static is more informative and a lot more entertaining.
“Brandon what did Mo say?”
I don’t want to misquote him, and I probably will…
they asked him about how the team came out w/ more focus or intensity, like the game was important
Mo said “we came in tonight playing like it was our last game”, he referenced the players not wanting anyone to beat them at thier job.
It just makes me think about Hank’s comment
“I have a feeling if Manny was on our team the fans would love him. People would say he is real and a kid at heart or something endearing like that.”
yeh right
I’m latino and I know that’s not true
I dont think I would, Dee. There have been Yankee players where I’ve rooted for them when they wore the pinstriped laundry only.
Ok thanks Brandon.
Not that HE needed a pep talk.
Angel – like Wade Boggs? I had a hard time cheering for him, myself.
I think Boggs and Manny are from the same planet and it ain’t this one. Boggs was a weird dude….weird dude
Yep, Ellen and Kevin Brown. I’m never going to hope a player that I don’t like sucks, and i’ll root wholeheartedly for their Yankee success – but I wouldn’t be upset if I didn’t have make that sacrifice either, lol.
for me it was Randy Johnson. I never liked him and it was so hard to see him in pinstripes.
YanksAngel:
Couldnt agree with you more on that one.
for me it’s Damon, and I still don’t like him even as loveable as he is I can’t stand him. My common sense is he helps this team more than not, my heart tells me he’s on a mission from Boston to suck on the field
Manny is not my thing, my favorite Yankees are Mo and Wang, so I like the few words and all class type. But face it, all the guys who listen to M&MD religiously? They would love Manny if he was a Yankee.
“But face it, all the guys who listen to M&MD religiously? They would love Manny if he was a Yankee.”
I’m tellin you trust me Manny would be ripped here in the early years and even now, his personality would trigger the most “act like a Yankee” calls ever.
If Joba is getting this much heat for pumping his fists then Manny would be called out almost every at bat for the ish he pulls.
Whether it be not husseling, posing, high-fiving fans when he should be hitting the cut off man, etc. etc.
when he shouldn’t be intercepting the cutoff man
If Manny was a Yankee? Good lord. Crazy and crazier spend three days discussing Joba doing a fist pump.
Their heads might explode with Manny.
Brandon you’re assuming all Yankee fans have the same standards as yours.
Don’t forget, many Yankee fans listen to M&MD and are making them the reigning sports media king of NY. There were also fans who booed Latroy Hawkins so hard that he was forced to change his #. So yeah, sad but true, people would have loved Manny.
If I wan Wang ,I will feel happy,upset and angry.
Happy for the team win today.(YNN2:RAY1)
Upset for the team loss yesterday.(YNN1:RAY2)(Because the team had a lot of opportunities to score some runs.)
Moose and Wang gave one run in seven IP in the series,but Moose is winner.
Last game to Indian,Moose gave up three runs in five IP and to be winner,but Wang gave up three runs in seven IP to loss the game.
The hitters didn’t give any support for Wang and scored zero for his recent two games.
Wang should stop to blame himself ,because it was not his fault. It’s the hitters’s fault.
When the baby boss blame the team,after the team seem better.The team should be blamed every day.
“Anybody else miss Stephen A. Smith and Missilini in the mid-days?”
I don’t miss SAS himself, but I miss the presence of a black sports radio host on the air.
Russ M
There is not a team in Tampa.It is in St Pete.