Comments on: Today in The Journal News

By: bigjf

bigjf — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:12:47 +0000

And very upsetting about Mr. Sheppard. I wish him well.

By: bigjf

bigjf — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:09:57 +0000

Just for that statement by Posada alone, I’d say you’re not catching my pitching staff anymore. Joba’s got all the tools to be an ace, and Posada is concerned about tendinitis? Sure, it could indicate that Joba’s body isn’t fit to be a starter, if it recurs, but tendinitis is not always necessarily a red flag. For all we know, the difference in workload between being a starter and reliever, integrated this season by the “transition” phase, could have been what caused the tendinitis to begin with! Organizations go by precedent. They saw what happened to Mark Prior, so they decided on a system of limiting innings and getting creative on ways to get the pitcher to continue contributing while not exceeding that limit. But not everyone is Mark Prior. Every case is different. And while a reliever doesn’t have the same workload, it has less recovery time than a starter, which can be even worse on a shoulder. Now Posada might be right, but with Joba’s kind of stuff and what we’ve seen out of his starts, I’d be willing to risk him starting again. But I wouldn’t do the transition again. I’m not wholly on board with that idea.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:16:30 +0000

Charo left Fernando Valenzuela for Alfredo Aceves back in the early 80s. She wanted to date someone closer to her own age.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:14:17 +0000

Pete—

You gotta remove the / from the link to the Yankee Hottie.

And it seems like there should be a good rivalry between the Yankee Chick and the Yankee Hottie, no?

By: JB

JB — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:53:23 +0000

That sucks that Shephard can’t be at the game.

Not sure how bad his condition is but it would be great if they had a camera crew at his house just to make sure he’s given the props he deserves for all his years.

By: 86w183

86w183 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:09:45 +0000

Harry G——you gotta lighten up buddy.

You undermine much of your own argument when you wrote “The reason he got injured isn’t because his arm couldn’t handle the load of a starter.” and then one sentence later you wrote, “We don’t know and can’t know the real reason.”

Well, which is it Dr. Harry?

I think 99 % of observers feel Joba should be a starter IF his shoulder can hold up, but there are legitimate concerns about that “IF” your bellicose blatherings notwithstanding.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:08:48 +0000

Wait a minute, wait a minute—there’s really a baseball player named Lance Broadway??

By: fuhgoobagaz

fuhgoobagaz — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:53:30 +0000

Giambi isn’t a great hitter. Sorry, but when you are batting .260 and even less with RISP, then “great hitter” doesn’t define you. If Giambi stopped pulling everything that he sees and hit the other way things would be different.

A-Rod probably wouldn’t be this year’s MVP, but his production wasn’t bad this year. His biggest problem was pressing to get something done, and almost every time the umpire called a questionable strike, you could almost bank on it that A-Rod would strike out swinging at a ball out of the zone.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:51:41 +0000

That is not Charo, she’s Tatiana, a Mexican entertainer for kids.

By: DCR

DCR — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:31:01 +0000

Some of the statements on this blog really shock me. “If A-Rod had someone respectable hitting behind him…..” huh?! Giambi is a great hitter. He might not hit for average but he’s hit 30HR this year. I will take that production any day. Oh, and if the Yankees were in the playoffs then A-Rod is definitely this years MVP. He’s having a great season and this team looked like dog crap without him. All you haters are spoiled.