Girardi postgame audio
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Podcast on Aug 27, 2008 
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Here is Joe Girardi’s postgame press conference in its entirety:
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If you don’t want to listen, here’s a quick recap: It’s not the end of the world, tomorrow’s a new day and sometimes you don’t get the results you want.
The Yankees are now 10.5 games out of first place in the division and seven out in the wild card with 30 games to go.
I want some of what Joe is smokin’
Red Sox go 15-15 (unlikely)
Yanks need to go 22-8 (hysterical laughter ensues)
I want to like Girardi I really do. But he makes it so damn hard. At least torre would admit when things were going south. I never wanted to get rid of him in the first place but it is what it is.
On a positive note, I watched Hughes pitch tonite and he looked really good. Not quite ready, but pretty good.
If he learns how to use his change up he will be what he was supposed to be. He kills rightys but has a tough time with lefties, thats where the change comes in.
I want to like Girardi as well. I feel most fans do. However I have to side with Pete and others when he either blatently lies to the media or better yet, acts as if tomorrow is just another day.. If the team plays off of Joe’s statements I predict we go 10-20
Brian, how did melky do?
Listen to Hank’s comments!
http://www.newsday.com/video/?.....nks0828-wn
I was dead set against Girardi from the beginning. I never wanted to see the results of his first year turn out like this, though.
I think there was a lot more to his being fired from his first managing job than what was reported.
13 years later, we finally see who the real Clueless Joe is.
thanks trisha!
haha thanks Trisha.. At least someone is honest
Joe smokes Pineapple Express.
lol nice Hank
“They sucked”
Maybe we can trade some veterans who clear waivers before the 8/31 deadline…
I wonder if Cashman has Donny baseball on speed dial?
being blind to the facts isnt being optimistic, maybe he really doesnt realize that the team is close to,, if not already, out of the playoff picture..
Girardi’s loyalty and stubborn nature may doom us.. No changes? You cant try the same thing over and over and expect different results..
Abreu’s too passive, we dont need another table setter, bat him 2nd or lower down.. Bat Arod 3rd.. Arod’s left always with the decisive hit being up to him cuz Abreu will get out or walk.. and then Giambi behind him is batting .250 and even worse w/ RISP.. can we move him down the lineup now? talk about lack of protection.. Let Nady or Matsui, guys who can be situational hitters get some important ABs..
Donnie baseball would be even more of a disaster than Girardi, same with Willie who was fired himself for faliure to control a clubhouse.
It’s Bowa or Showalter time.
why does hank care that they sucked, the season was over two weeks ago right? clown.
Not from a lack of effort huh Joe?
Sure fooled me!
blee, if he still thinks this team has a shot at the playoffs let alone the world series, he should be fired at exactly 11:58 this evening
Wow!
Hank is like the “anti-Girardi”
No sugar coating there.
AHAHAHA. That clip is hysterical. Only took 2 minutes for the “I BELIEVE IN MY GUYS” crap.
Can we please bring in Bobby Valentine? At least HE has a personality.
in 2006 boston finished in third place in our division, did they not?
what did they do in 2007? does anyone remember? i cant remember i think i cut that memory from my brain, its in the garbage along with 2004
my point is hopefully this team wont let this season dictate what happens next season, for example look at the rays!
Yeah Bowa could help. I mean realistically Girardi isnt going anywhere, so we are just wasting our breath. At the very least a intense guy could be added to the coaching staff, a la Bowa the last few seasons. Paul O’neill anyone?
I hope this team gets it together in the offseason.. I have hope they will. It starts now though..
Dear Peter:
Looking this team made me heart broken….. Yeah, there will be a new season. In that new season, CMWã€Joba will stay healthy in rotation all season. In that new season, Yankee will get rid of some AAA player who covered with MLB uniform……
This OCT., we will see 8 teams, but Yankee will not be there.
“Maybe we can trade some veterans who clear waivers before the 8/31 deadline.”
Never happen, but should.
Cashman didn’t want Bowa back for some odd reason— yet he retained Long, Pena, and Thompson.
The only coaches Girardi got to pick were the BP coach and 3B coach, everything else was selected for him– so why couldn’t they make Girardi take Bowa?
Very erroneous decision by Cashman.
Time to be a Twins fan and hope they can win the wildcard.There only 2.5 games back.
If the Twins could can go past the Red Sox and Phillies beat the Mets then maybe this won’t be thast much of a bad season.
“It’s Bowa or Showalter time.”
Wow what a great idea. Bowa can go nuts on the guys and improve Cano’s play at the same time.
LOL @ Hank
That actually made me laugh
Not to be a total Spock or throw gas on the dwindling fire but…
Logically speaking if Girardi says Arod has hit with RISP for his whole career and Kepner goes out and says Arod hasn’t done it for certain seasons or for the postseason or whenever then technically, he hasn’t hit with RISP for his “whole” career. There are holes in his resume. It’s no big secret and sort of a non issue. If anyone thinks that this season was Arods fault, then they don’t even deserve to be in the same room with Girardi.
I think the point is ..is that Girardi sometimes talks out of the side of his mouth and it is not really productive.
Girardi needs to deal with the press not for the press’s sake or for our sake but for his teams sake. And when he’s hiding things or fibbing a little or spinning things unrealistically he is putting additional pressure on the press to find things out from the players themselves which is a distraction for them.
Torre was a master at making everybody feel good with his open door policy with the press. Jeez even I miss his postgame “fireside chats” that sometimes even made the fans feel good about what was going with the pulse of the team. Girardi is closer to Captain Queeg in that respect. The paranoia issue needs to be addressed if he is going to be here in the future as it is not helping the team.
At the end of that clip Girardi said that there are a lot of things you do different as a manager. YES, BUT EVIDENTLY TAKING GIAMBI OUT OF THE 5th SPOT ISN’T ONE OF THEM!
Rekallchen
“Yankee will get rid of some AAA player who covered with MLB uniform…”
who do yo mean?
Not to be a total Spock or throw gas on the dwindling fire but…
Logically speaking if Girardi says Arod has hit with RISP for his whole career and Kepner goes out and says Arod hasn’t done it for certain seasons or for the postseason or whenever then technically, he hasn’t hit with RISP for his “whole” career. There are holes in his resume. It’s no big secret and sort of a non issue. If anyone thinks that this season was Arods fault, then they don’t even deserve to be in the same room with Girardi.
Hank from NY Times:
“There is going to be a lot going on this off-season,†he said. “I promise you that.â€
Girardi says “this is a game of execution, you have to execute day after day after day.” Who’s he planning to execute 1st!!!
I like what Hank did. They haven’t responded to anything, maybe the will respond to being insulted by the owner. I doubt they wan’t Hank insulting them and telling them they sucked.
Bronx,
Exactly Joe’s problem. Either he can sleep well at night knowing he is lying/skewing the facts or he has the mind erasing laser that Will Smith used in Men In Black
I think the point is ..is that Girardi sometimes talks out of the side of his mouth and it is not really productive.
Girardi needs to deal with the press not for the press’s sake or for our sake but for his teams sake. And when he’s hiding things or fibbing a little or spinning things unrealistically he is putting additional pressure on the press to find things out from the players themselves which is a distraction for them.
Girardi’s paranoia issue needs to be addressed if he is going to be here in the future as it is not helping the team.
I think Rekallchen meant AARP.
There is a lot of talk about evaluating the players, the manager and the GM during the off season. And those are certainly worthy aspirations but I believe that that will all be for naught if the ownership itself doesn’t look at itself to see if they have the ability to make critical decisions about all of the people mentioned above.
It didn’t take Peter Angelos in Baltimore long to ruin a proud and profitable baseball operation in that town. Even a cash cow like the Yankee organization can be seriously undermined with just a few bad contracts (re: Giambi, Jeter, Arod, Abreu, Andy, Posada, Cano). Wow thats approximately 115M for seven players. All that money for a SS in serious decline, a decent 3B who is a head case, a 2B with an attitude problem, a catcher that no one has any idea if he can be an everyday catcher next year. A CF with no arm and a gimpy DH who thankfully can still hit even if he can’t play the field and the all the rest are just spare parts.
Signing 2 C.C.’s wouldn’t help this offensively challenged as well as defensively challenged team. I mean this will take a couple of years to work through.
Hal and Hank are on the clock and I wonder if they are up to the task?
R.I.P playoffs
1995-2007
expects a-rod to hit .400/12/40 in meaningless september games
It’s a good thing I don’t have a TV in my dorm at college. If I was actually home watching these games, it would be pretty rough.
This must be the “ugly” part Pete was talking about early last week.
can’t believe that 2007>2008 when this year it seemed that they have the better advantage [on paper wise]
suxs to be a Yankees fan rite now, and it suxs that I will go to school in a couple of days and hear non stop rants from Met fans on how the Yankees sux.
grr
I’m sorry, but can’t a writer ask Joe why he doesn’t change the lineup, instead of saying in generalities,what changes you think need made.
I again hope that we put Mussina on waivers with an agreement that he would be traded only to an AL contender, to give him a shot at 20 wins, and with the knowledge we’d like him back as FA.
Jason Bay said this about pedroia :
“He’s a beauty. He’s kind of, I think, the Energizer Bunny for this team,” Bay said. “You know, he’s the one that stirs stuff up. Every team has got to have that guy.”
whose that guy for the yankees? jeter? damon? who?
Somehow I envision Girardi at season’s end sitting in some dark room alone rolling a pair of those relaxation balls in his hand and muttering something about how someone “stole his strawberries”
I think I love Hank. How funny was that!
Does he enjoy playing the clown? Must be.
The Yankees need him around more often for comic relief.
Damn, our boys are tight.
At this point, you just have to laugh. Ah, playoffs, it was good to know ye.
“You know, he’s the one that stirs stuff up. Every team has got to have that guy.â€
“whose that guy for the yankees? jeter? damon? who?”
Ponson stirs up a mean martini from what I hear.
Bronx Jeers:
hahahahahaha good one, can u imagine ponson handing out drinks after games like these? lol
you gotta have faith
Mekly was so-so. 1-4 with a RBI and a walk, but still looked lost at the plate at times.
One thing i forgot to mention before was how great Hughes curveball was. He struck out six batters with his curve. I’ve never seen it look that sharp.
Remember in the Sopranos, when the aging head of the New York crime family dies, and his dimwitted son tries to take the reins? The one who thinks he’s a player, thinks he’s going to be a Hollywood producer, thinks he’s got what his old man had… Thinks he’s smart, but is really quite dim?
Girardi reminds me of that guy.
Thinks he’s sharp, but everyone around him is rolling their eyes when he’s not looking.
yeah…a horse farmer is going to put the yanks back on top! if hank went to some of our games i might care about what he has to say!
Bye-bye Girardi and bye-bye Cashman.
This was not a “transition” year, this was a fuc*in’ trainwreck.
Blow it up.
As a Yankee fan just like you it has been painfully obvious that this team just isn’t good enough to make the playoffs. People say “if Torre were here”…TORRE IS NOT HERE! Whether you like it or not Girardi is our manager and we must deal with that. This team through all of the injuries and more injuries has been expected to be able to make the playoffs and that just isn’t reality. Look at our pitching staff..Ponson, Rasner and now Pavano. It’s ridiculous for us to think they will make the playoffs with 3 of our pitchers who basically suck. I have for weeks now accepted the fact that after 13 seasons we have no playoffs coming. With that being said, it’s my hope that the “higher ups” do this organization right this off season b/c the whole IPK and Hughes thing was a PURE DISASTER!!
How about this ? ” I am an idiot, I don’t know my @$$ from a hole in the ground. Hank, please fire me. ” ???
Girardi: “We hit some hard foul balls tonight!”
I’m beginning to wonder about Joe’s sanity….
Hey, the Mets blew a 7 game lead with 17 to play, ya never know.
cashman and girardi need to go, its too bad they didn’t get sweet lou ,he would have been great for this team. Arod is the best player I have seen in many years but when the money is on the line he chokes,he is not a clutch player never has been ,as a yankees fan for over 35 years I wish they could get rid of him and go after manny he may be crazy but the son of a bitch can hit when the game is on the line. Go after CC for one thing if he is in pin stripes and wong is healthy as well as Joba that will be 3 in your face lights out pitchers, if they can land one more than they will be in the mix at playoff time for years. As far as hitting goes change batting order to get alex out of the pressure hit him 3rd of 5th. Get rid of cano and giambi,keep matsui and damon, .goerge
Mondo, call me