Tonight in the playoffs
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Oct 12, 2008 
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Go Phillies!
Not the best start for the Jets here.
SA: It’s only one touchdown!
OMG Jets. Can you geta touchdown without a penalty?!
I know! Thus-not the best start to the game.
What’s up with all these penalties? Get it together people
I think that could have been the most penalties in a 2 minute span.
jennifer: For a non-brawl situation, it’s gotta be up there
Laverneous definitely should have caught that.
Laverneous definitely should have caught that.
You can say that again.
He had it, but it looked like it popped out.
I think they need to wear these uniforms more often.
Wow, that Jet offensive line is doing itself proud. As a former left guard myself I can respect that kind of domination. Nothing like getting into a defender’s chest and driving him out of the hole and onto his back as your tailback comes charging up behind you for a score. Best feeling there is.
off topic: did anyone see ‘Life On Mars’, on ABC last wk?
forgot to check it
best run have ever seen Thomas Jones make. It looked like Washington.
“Reacher
October 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Joel Sherman’s column in the Post today suggests Cashman will not dabble in the free agency marketplace to fill the first base and centerfield positions but will focus on trades (utilizing pitching prospects) and the present roster; free agency, so Sherman opines will be the marketplace for pitching needs.This appears somewhat consistent with Cashman’s sporadic comments during the past few weeks. On the other hand, the bluster from Tampa states loud and clear that the “vault is open†for any and all needsâ€â€”classic Boss rantings. Is this inconsistent? Did the left hand know what the right hand was saying/suggesting? Cashman presumably closes the door to Boros and his position free agents whereas Hank openly greets Mr. B….he “winks†and says come directly to me…classic Boss style!!
Don’t rule out any free agency signing, position player or otherwise, irrespective of what the NY press, or the national pundits, might suggest. They typically don’t get it right. The Santana situation sticks in Hank’s craw and he won’t let Cashman forget it. I don’t believe for one moment that Hank has less influence than Hal; Hal’s “presence†and Hank’s physical absence was for media consumption.
The red carpet will be rolled out for Boros in Tampaâ€
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10.....133256.htm
hopefully, the plan goes as oulined. With Tampa on the huge upswing and Redsox not going away, the Yankees are in a fix. This plan is as good as any i’ve seen, to continue to build the club.
I did email Joel Sherman, letting him know Hank Blaylock should’ve been mentioned (among the trade names)
prediction: Dwight Lowery will have his first career INT, before the game is over.
Hey ho gang! What choices tonight. Trying to switch back between the Patriots and Dodgers, wanting both to lose!!!
Anyway this is for aardvark, who last night said he thought Beckett did a decent job and gave his team the opportunity to win. A few of us disagreed with that assessment. Anyway, this line was from today’s Boston Globe:
With a horrendous start from Josh Beckett
(isn’t it supposed to be “an” horrendous start…)
GO PHILS!
GO CHARGERS!
off topic: did anyone see ‘Life On Mars’, on ABC last wk?
Saw it. It was alright
why do i feel like the Jets will lose this game?
Man Jets, you’re killing me!
“isn’t it supposed to be “an†horrendous start…”
I don’t think so. I think that if it was a soft H you would use ‘an’ but with the hard H I believe that ‘a’ is appropriate. But i’ve been wrong before.
Lions 3 Vikings 2 at the half
It’s like a baseball score
The Jets are keeping Cincinnati in this game. These are the kind of games that make me nervous. An 0-5 team in with a back-up QB and nothing to loose.
exactly. You don’t let an 0-5 team (with talent), hang around.
Giants didn’t have an easy time ofthe Bengals, either.
need an INT, here.
“You don’t let an 0-5 team (with talent), hang around.”
Good teams don’t. Teams like the Jets do.
vinny-b
Because you are a jet fan, you are programed to be doom and gloom.
“Rebecca–Optimist Prime–staying to write the story
October 12th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Giants didn’t have an easy time ofthe Bengals, either”
nope. They didn’t.
“Giants didn’t have an easy time ofthe Bengals, either—
Cowboys didn’t either, but they and the Giants were facing a seasoned NFL QB.
Who had a bad elbow.
“jennifer
October 12th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Because you are a jet fan, you are programed to be doom and gloom”
well stated.
: )
LC!! Caught a ball in triple coverage!!
time to go for the bomb
That beer festival looks cool!!! I want to go!! (look at ad on right!)
nevermind. Lost track of field postiion.
Game FIve 2001 WS is on YES. It’s up to the ninth inning.
SEE!! Programed for doom and gloom!!
“Game FIve 2001 WS is on YES. It’s up to the ninth inning.”
Don’t think the ’01 World Series was the best I’ve seen overall (1991 has that honor), but those three nights at the Stadium were as riveting as it gets.
Leon is a player
jet fans, there is a pretty cool jet message board. If anyone is interested i’ll post it. Not sure that I am really supposed to though.
JetsInsider.net ?
Fredo: They were exactly what NYC needed at the time.
Itdidn’t matter so much if they won or lost, they just needed to play.
And they made it unforgettable.
theganggreen.com
update
Can the esteemed folk on this blog help me understand the point of Pete’s last diatribe against the Yankees.
He says the Rays and the RS are now far better operations than the NYY and we are in for a rough ride going forward. I love the competition, and look forward to the excitement of future seasons, but didn’t the Yankees take the season series versus the Rays? And all of those games were important to the Rays. And didn’t the Yankees split the season series with the RS? One can argue that no one was paying attention to the last game of the last game of the season, but that was no blow out by the Sox.
And I understand the arguments about using injuries as excuses, but I am hard pressed to see the RS in the same position if they had lost their equivalent of Posada’s offense for all of the season, or Wang’s steady pitching for as long as he was out.
The games that kept us out of the playoffs this year were lost to teams like Texas, Detroit and Pittsburgh, which no one is holding as stellar examples of baseball operation.
If the Yankees had the core capabilities to win the season series against the Rays, then they had the ability to win against these ‘lesser’ teams. The fact is they didn’t. So why is that not a scathing impeachment of the manager on the field, who kept telling everyone that it was ‘still early’ until one could hear the fat lady warming up?
Back Bench,
Winning consistent teams beat up on the inferior and do well enough to more than hold their own against the better teams. The Yankees of 08 did not fit into this category. It’s my opinion that the fault was no more with the manager than with the players and the general manager. Consistency, or lack thereof was the key, perhaps due in part to (i)group aging (“the physical capacity to do it everyday”), (ii)motivation (these guys make a helluva lot of money and for the next contract “it’s the stats,man”, and that’s what counts, and (iii) gross inadequacy at key positions (1B, CF, starting pitching).
The shortfall IMO was attributable to a confluence of (i) player attitude, (ii) manager’s immaturity in dealing with personnel (perhaps due to an absence of common sense), and (iii) most important of all, gross failure in prospective personnel planning, the responsibility of the general manager.
For reasons stated in prior posts, this off-season is most critical. The money is there due to the lapsed contracts to do what has to be done to compete…and the free agents to fill most of these needs are there. Time is of the essence. Let’s see if Cashman seizes the moment and does what he has to do.