Comments on: Home cooking doesn’t suit the Yankees

By: Fat Loss 4 Idiots

Fat Loss 4 Idiots — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:11 +0000

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By: trisha - still supporting Farnsy like crazy!

trisha - still supporting Farnsy like crazy! — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:16:50 +0000

The potential good news is that the Yankees are one of the few teams who have a winning record on the road…

By: stf

stf — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:51:13 +0000

What’s wrong with Bobby Meachem. The guy let them run when he should stop them and stops them when they should run… FIRE HIM.

By: snickers

snickers — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:03:26 +0000

seriously, look at how johnson and wright oitched in games 3 and 4 of that detoit series. even if arod hit two homers in each game the Yankees probably would have lost. this does not excuse alex’s poor performance, but it is hard to blame anybody on the offense when the pitching doesn’t give the hitters a chance. look at wang last year. he was a disaster against cleveland. arod and abreu hit homers late in game 4 but novody remembers because the game was out of reach.

see, the yankee pitchers in the late 90’s generally had better performances in the postseason, so when a guy like a tino or brosius hit a homer, the score was geenrally close enough where you were more likely to remember it. the yankee offense actually did pretty poorly in those postseasons.

By: NYYankFan

NYYankFan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:03:03 +0000

“Why do people perceive he is unclutch.”

Because going back to the 3 SS days of the late 90’s, when the argument came up about who was the best SS, the only way Jeter could win the argument was by saying but he’s clutch and he has rings. His numbers and his skills both defensively and offensively paled in comparison to A-Rod and Nomar. Yankee fans, myself included, used the argument but Jeter is clutch and Jeter has the rings. That would make A-Rod unclutch and ringless. Once they both started playing for the Yanks, I realized I didn’t have to hate on one to make the other look better. They both bring important skill sets to the party and if they could get some pitching like they had in the late 90’s, the ringless discussion would be over.

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:01 +0000

What’s next, Stuart Little? Rodriguez’ salary? Is there that much difference between Rodriguez’ being the highest paid and Jeter being the third highest? Quit being stupid. You call people Rodriguez apologists and groupies, but, what does that make you? A hater. Is there a difference? Only in your mind, which doesn’t function very well.

By: snickers

snickers — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:58:35 +0000

snickers do you forget when arod batted .421/.476/.737 against the twins in ‘04 playoffs? do you forget when he batted .409/.480/.773 against the Yankees in the ‘00 playoffs? arod will have more series like this when he gets more chances.

do you remember when reggie jackson hit .125/.222/.125 in the 1977 alcs? does that mean he stinks at hitting in any alcs? of course not. it is a small sample size. duh.

arod hasn’t won a world title yet because he has not played on a team with a 25-man roster that played well enough to win a world title. There are 24 dudes there besides him. Sure he is expected to the best, but you need at least a dozen other dudes to play reasonably well at the same time.

look at jeter and jorge last year in the 07 playoffs. they were putrid. oh but because they won a world title back in 2000 they are immune to criticism now? that makes no sense.

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:55:20 +0000

Fred, you can look up the 2004 ALDS against Minnesota or his first three games against Boston in 2004. Perhaps you can locate something in there. You could even compare them against Jeter’s numbers in the same games, just for laughs.

By: stuart

stuart — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:55:13 +0000

so the arod groupies are green beret, snickers, and dfox.. newsflash no one is saying Jeter is the best player in the game now and especially ever…

the arod groupies say that about arod all the time.. those are lofty heights that demand results. WHen talking about the yankee failures by there terrible pitching staffs the last few years you conveniently forgot arods epic failures against detroit.. I may be wrong but I think 1 for 19 is about right….

arods only big time high pressure carry the team moment was the minny series a few years ago when he came thru that is it..

when the yanks win it is convenient that it is because of arod but when they fail it is a team game.. again in case you cannot read, there results this year are not because arod has failed but all I have said numerous times is if he could hit better with RISP, or late in games it would help a ton and since he is the “best player in the game” I do not think this is unreasonable..

By: DFox

DFox — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:53:34 +0000

“Best players carry there team, best players come thru more then there teammates, why is that hard to understand?”

You make the worst arguments, they are so easy to counter the stupidity.

Here: A-Rod might bat lower in division series, but when it counts the most, league championship series, A-Rod bats a whopping .315. He really turns it up when the time comes.

Isn’t that just silly?