Game 15: Athletics at Yankees
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Apr 22, 2009 
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Game time: 1:05 p.m. (on YES)
YANKEES (8-6)
Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira 1B
Posada C
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Matsui DH
Cabrera CF
Ransom 3B
Pitching: LHP CC Sabathia (1-1, 3.57).
Sabathia vs. the Oakland hitters.
PITCHING FOR OAKLAND: LHP Brett Anderson (0-2, 4.85). The rookie has never faced any of the New York hitters. Anderson took the loss but pitched well against the Red Sox last week, allowing two runs on five hits over seven innings. He walked two and struck out five.
Anderson, 21, is one the prospects Oakland received from Arizona for Dan Haren in 2007. He pitched in the Olympics last summer. Anderson has good command, a solid fastball and above-average breaking pitches. The Yankees always seem to have trouble with young pitchers they haven’t seen before and this guy is a good one.
RUNNING ON EMPTY: Oakland hasn’t homered in its last six games. They have three all season, the fewest in the majors.
THE RUNNING MAN: Brett Gardner is 17 for 19 on SBs in his career.
CANO STREAKS ON: Robinson Cano has hit in nine straight and 13 of the 14 games this season. Previously a .237 hitter in April, Cano is at .377 with eight games to go this month.
WE’RE TALKING OBP: Nick Swisher has reached base in 22 of his 53 plate appearances. He is, however, 3 of his last 21 and fallen down to .311.
MO’S THE MAN: Mariano Rivera has a scoreless streak of 12.2 innings dating back to last season.
A FEW RANDOM NOTES: Thanks to my colleague Ernie Palladino for calling in the lineup. … I am not covering the game today. Instead I’m getting an early start on the trip to Boston and will catch Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band there tonight. Bruce tore it up in Boston last night, doing a cover of ZZ Top’s I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide. My brother-in-law Dave was texting me all night about the show and loved it. Hopefully we’ll see a good one tonight. I’m hoping he’ll do Kingdom of Days, my favorite song off the new record. … Johnny Damon strongly recommends Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas and Handlebars by Flobots for your iPod.
Thanks for reading, enjoy the game.
UPDATE, 12:26 p.m.: Heard from some folks at the Stadium that Chien-Ming Wang threw another bullpen and it went well. But we’ve heard that before. As Dave Eiland has said several times, he needs to take it into the game.
UPDATE, 3:41 p.m.: Greetings from Exit 5B off 95 North in Rhode Island. I’m at “Rhode Island’s only 24-hour truck stop.” It’s quite a garden spot.
I’ve been listening to John and Suzyn on XM Radio (which sounds so much better than WCBS) and was struck at Joe Girardi’s use of the bullpen.
On a cold, rainy, he let CC get in trouble and give up the lead in the seventh inning despite his being well over 100 pitches. This after a 120+ pitch effort in his previous start. Sure, that says that the Yankees want to get everything they can out of CC. But it also speaks to the lack of trust Girardi has in his bullpen beyond Brian Bruney and Mariano Rivera.
Meanwhile, Jon Albaladejo and Phil Coke were up before Jose Veras and Damaso Marte. Some roles, it seems, have shifted.
It’s 7-7 in the eighth and I’m getting back on the road. Enjoy the rest of the game. Somebody is bound to hit one out sooner or later to break that tie.
The Melk Man!
hope to see a solid start from CC today…lets get some momentum going into boston…should have a full pen especially with the offday tomorrow
I would be interested to hear what the Yankee pitchers think of the mound. Rivera, in particular.
Leaving for Stadium shortly. Hope the weather lets us play today.
I know I’m late to the game on this – sorry!
I understand concerns that people had about the length of AJ’s contract, but I don’t think that necessarily means we need to withhold any kind of judgment on him. Plenty of people had short-term concerns about AJ – whether he could hold up in NY, whether last year was the result of it being a contract year and whether it was just a 2nd half hot streak. In essence, there were many who were skeptical about AJ’s transformation. Yes, it’s only been 3 starts, but in those 3 starts, AJ has shown himself to be a stopper (even though he didn’t win his last game). He’s been under a lot of pressure in those games to, at the very least, save the pen – and he’s done that. He’s both battled and dominated; everyone knew he could do the latter, but what about the former? Could he do that? IMO, yes – we’ve seen that he can. It’s what is most encouraging to me – I see AJ now as a pitcher, not a thrower. As to NY, he’s handled that just fine. In his press conference, AJ said that he would always be accountable; so far, that has proven to be true. This attitude will stand him in good stead in NY….or anywhere for that matter.
Myrtlebeachfan, I believe you mentioned that the Yankees might regret that they gave AJ the 5th year. IMO, if AJ gives us 4 great years, then you just live with the 5th. That is how I look at it anyway. I don’t think he should be treated any differently than any other pitcher in terms of injury. I can see Yankee fans everywhere hitting the panic button if AJ lands on the DL for any sort of injury, even a relatively minor one. Unless it’s an arm injury (and I’m not going to sit around waiting for that), then I don’t see the big deal. Pitchers go on the DL all the time – then they heal and move on. Many of his injuries in Florida from what I can tell were flukish – two seasons in a row he got hurt covering 1B in ST?
Would be nice to see a good start from CC today – he’s been a bit up and down.
This courtesy of poster on another site on Wang delivery last year vs. this year (from MLB):
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.....4184208179
Boom Boom Pow? I find that song very annoying. Go with Blame It by Jamie Foxx or any of the new Fray stuff if you are going for some new music. Kings of Leon is also a good up and coming rock band
A few days ago Melky homered for the second straight day and was not in the lineup. Yesterday Brett had perhaps his best all around game of the year and isn’t in the lineup.
Why does Girardi choose to sit a guy who just played really well when he mixes up the lineup? Wouldn’t sitting Nick Swisher (1-13 last four games) make a little more sense?
I know Gardner is a LH hitter and Oakland is throwing a LHP but Gardner had a 2-run single vs LHP last night. Young players need positive reinforcement — you produce, you play.
I’d like to get Brian Bruney’s music recommendations.
I agree 86. Yesterday i said the same thing about girardi. It baffoles my mind why he continues to do this to the young guys. they come back after the day off and suddenly cannot hit again. I agree it is swish that may need the day off to recharge, and brett and melky can man the field for one day.
Lets Go Big C, I’ll be watching on MLB TV from my office… door closed and pull the old George Costanza, act frustrated all day so my boss thinks I’m over worked and busy…
I hope that Big C takes then deep into the game today, and go into Boston and have our 3 guns dominate the series…
86w183
I think Gardner’s positive game yesterday “allowed” Girardi to give him a rest.
Although largely unnoticed on this board and apparently, by the blogger, since he’s never mentioned it, Gardner has been struggling to make plays. Girardi knows it, and he was not about to give him a breather unless he was taking a seat on a good note.
My theory, any way.
Time to hit the road. Hope we get the game in. Go Yanks!
That’s an interesting thought, but young players need to play, especially when they are feeling good about themselves. He doesn’t need a break, but Swisher might.
Hopefully it doesn’t matter with CC dominating!
anyone have the matchups for the weekend?
Lets Go Big C, I’ll be watching on MLB TV from my office… door closed and pull the old George Costanza, act frustrated all day so my boss thinks I’m over worked and busy…
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I do this almost everyday and it works like a charm. People think i am so overworked and angry.
Day game after a night game, why not rest Gardner?
Do you think that Gardner didn’t get huge congrats for his good game yesterday? You think the manager really didn’t let him know they appreciated his offense AND defense in contributing to the game?
Gardner will be fine. This is a logical time to give someone a blow, and Melky DOES need to get into games sometimes.
“anyone have the matchups for the weekend”
Lester vs Chamberlain
Beckett vs Burnett
Masterson vs Pettitte
I believe the weekend is:
Friday – Lester/Joba
Saturday – Beckett/Burnett
Sunday – Wakefield/Pettite
Masterson? interesting – is that a result of the rain postponement?
“Masterson? interesting – is that a result of the rain postponement?”
Think he’s in the rotation because Daisuke is hurt.
*Beckett vs Burnett*
Wow that’s going to be a great matchup. Very similar pitchers, should be fun to watch.
Masterson took Daisuke’s spot and they might push that because of the rain out they had
“Kings of Leon is also a good up and coming rock band”
KOL has been creating SOLID music since 1999, they are hardly new and up and coming.
Just beause they are now being played on Z100, doesn’t mean they are new.
Why must he change the lineup every single day?
Kings of Leon are really good. They are more popular in the UK even though they are an American band but they are pretty established. Their most recent album has gotten them a lot more exposure on the top 20 stations.
On last night’s broadcast, anybody hear that Swisher, after just 12 games, proclaimed Joe G. the best mgr he ever played for? A shot at Ozzie. Ozzie said’ “He can say whatever he wants. I’ll still be managing after he’s done playing.” Can’t wait to play the CWS! Maybe a little bench jokeying back and forth during that series?!
Swisher didn’t take a shot at Ozzie Guillen. He was simply praising Girardi.
A-Rod did the same thing trying to praise Jose Reyes and the media (including Pete) made a very big deal about a non-story.
Guillen is just an ass and wanted to gripe about something because that’s how he is.
I have to laugh at Guillen though because he now pretends to be some kind of hard ass as a manager but he was never like that as a player.
Well, besides the fact that Pete is rooting for Gardner, he probably hasn’t made a post about his defense because it hasn’t cost the team. At least not at an alarming rate.
He’s mentioned Ransom’s defense because it’s indefensible.
Besides, Pete’s too busy poking at the hornets’ nest, trying to stir up a caste uprising!
Johnny Damon strongly recommends Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas and Handlebars by Flobots for your iPod.
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I noticed the other day that Handelbars is Johnny’s intro song. Cool song from a rap-rock hybrid band from Denver.
I thought Beckett’s pitching in tonight’s double header? How can he pitch on Saturday?
A caste uprising! LOL! Maybe Pete could play Mel Gibson’s role in Braveheart!
mlb has penny pitching the second game tonight.
I noticed $800 seats in some sections to tonight’s concert. While you are crusading for the common man, maybe you could convince Bruce to give the average Joe a break too?
Tex. That’s right. I got my righty flame throwers mixed up. Must be the guts.
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let’em all die in exasperation
Have’em all healed of their lacerations
Have’em all killed by assassination
Awesome song.
I’m not that old (only 35) but I have never once listened to Black Eyed Peas.
Not really my kind of music.
The Springsteen album is his weakest in years, but I’m sure he’s still the same in concert, so yeah.
How about a playlist from Nick Swisher, Peter? Please. That would be a trip, at least!
“He can say whatever he wants. I’ll still be managing after he’s done playing.”
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Very good Ozzie. Yes you will be doing a job that a 70 year old can do long after Swish hangs it up.
I like Ozzie but he’s certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed.
I’m sure there will be plenty of hand-wringing when the expensive seats are empty this afternoon. If the big-money buyers aren’t showing up for night games, there’s no chance they are going to the Stadium for a 1pm Wednesday game–that might cost them whatever cushy job they’re still clinging to.
But, as a result of this, I’m sure we’ll have the pleasure of reading and hearing more about how much of a disgrace the attendance gaps at the new Stadium are. So far I’m pretty sure every game recap I’ve read in a NY paper since Opening Day has mentioned it, and I look forward to more and more populist rage flowing in the days to come.
espn news with highlights of the game. They called him Li’l G! I can’t believe it, has that name really caught on? Much better than “Squirrel”.
lol. Ancient Hawaiians had animal protectors that “watched” over them. For instance, a family’s “amakua” might be the shark, so they gave the shark great respect (who doesn’t). Maybe Gardner’s amakua is the squirrel.
A few thoughts on the sparse crowds:
Someone mentioned (sorry, I forgot who) that maybe the Yanks thought many of the empty seats might be ‘corporate’ ticket holders and they might be afraid to be seen occupying expensive seats in this economic climate. Fine. I assume the Yanks will sit on the names of these ticket holders so they won’t be publicly lynched for having already spent that much money on premium seats and they’re not even showing up for the games?
I wonder how many of those seats were gobbled up by scalpers & ticket agents when they went on sale, and the scalper / agents just can’t sell them.
Yesterday’s weather wasn’t that good for a baseball game. Today’s either, and it’s an afternoon game. Summer time afternoon games fill up, but a cool misty April afternoon game? I wouldn’t expect a packed house.
Topic of ‘wine & cheese crowd’ vs ‘real fans’ tempering the noise levels? I’m sure that’s a significant part of it, right along with real fans being supplanted by ‘corporate fans’. That the stadium’s upper level isn’t as close to the field probably has a lot to do with noise levels as well as the HR’s we might continue to see.
On the topic of the HR’s … The wider shape of the stadium’s upper level changing how the air moves make some sense. But there are days when there’s no breeze at all, and this first week or so is simply too small a sample size. I’d give it a year or two to draw any conclusion on the HR’s. You have to compare season totals of the new vs old stadiums to how many HR’s there were at other parks in any give year. Until then it’s all just speculation.
“I thought Beckett’s pitching in tonight’s double header? How can he pitch on Saturday?”
Beckett is suspended right now. He’s can’t be pitching today.
I’ll be seeing Bruce on May 3rd at Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday party at MSG.
It’s gonna have Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, and many more singers.
Ansky,
“I wonder how many of those seats were gobbled up by scalpers & ticket agents when they went on sale, and the scalper / agents just can’t sell them.”
Good point.
Buster’s Blog:
The Tampa Bay Rays are in a bit of a funk, Carl Crawford acknowledged after the club fell to 5-9 with a loss to the Mariners Tuesday night. Consider some of the ways that the Rays are not performing up to their standards of 2008.
Starting pitching: Tampa Bay had arguably the most consistent rotation for five months of last season. So far this year, their starters have combined for an ERA of 5.20 and have issued an unusually high number of walks (36 in 83 innings), after averaging less than three walks per nine innings last season.
The bullpen: In short, the Rays’ relief has been as much of a problem this year as it was a major asset in 2008. Opposing hitters combined for an on-base percentage of .309 against the Tampa Bay bullpen in 2008. This year, so far? A .378 OBP.
Strikeouts: They’ve averaging about 8 ½ per game so far this year — 119 whiffs in 14 games — which is an increase over last year. Don’t blame Pat Burrell, though — he’s got just eight whiffs in the team’s first 13 games, and there are seven Rays with more.
B.J. Upton, nursing a tight hamstring, figures he’ll be in the lineup tonight, as Marc Topkin writes.
Joe Maddon set a Rays’ record, and he is not concerned about his contract status, writes Marc Lancaster.
I thought Beckett’s suspension did not actually involve him missing a start?
Its naturally to sit Gardner over Swisher since the Yankees are facing a lefty. Lineup is stacked with Righties and Switch Hitters today. What I’m most encouraged about is Posada catching a day game after a night game. Thats a good sign. And Hideki’s opposite field double and hard hit liner back up the middle last night was a good sign. Dare I say the awkward opposite field double against a lefty, where he is almost falling to the ground but manages to poke it the other way, is vintage Matsui? Hopefully Hideki can keep it going
William: As an avid Springsteen concert goer, I can tell you that the most expensive ticket at his shows are $95 (before ticketmaster fees). If you’re seeing $800 tickets you;re seeing them on the secondary market and that has nothing to do with Bruce. Anyone going to the shows in Philly next week?
Yea, suspending Beckett for 5 games was stupid. They should have made it 5 starts!
William Buckner,
That’s right. I forgot about the “suspension”.
The Yanks are 2 games over 500 for the 1st time this short season. Today they get to 3 over and start the climb to 10 over.
Fine, folks want to fill the premium seats up, tell the Yankees to hell with them and when we get into the stadium move down the those rows en masse, what the heck are they going to do call the riot police.
I’m not saying people don’t have legit beef about the seating, but I see nothing to lose sleep over, When the Yankees start having the stadium looking like Atlanta, Washington, Pittsburgh, etc, then it will be a real embarrassment. People are still filling the park, it is those seats at their outrageous prices that aren’t filling. The Yankees brass of Trost, Levine, etc got greedy. Now instead of continually moaning about it, in the Desperate Housewives tone, how about the media spend their time asking Trost and Levine what tangible actions they intend to take to fill those seats, that should be the real question.
Yeah, I don’t think Beckett will miss a start.
If anything, he just gets pushed back a day.
Doreen,
It doesn’t. He just got pushed back.
Country Club,
I hope the team can meet those “Torre” milestones in May, and not July.
You guys see the replay of the ump getting hit by the bat? It was actually a broken bat. Think we’ll see something done about the bats, now that an ump has gotten hurt?
Don’t expect any action by the Yankees in the near-future. It would be imprudent to act in a rash manner when there have only been 5 games played thus far. They should allow for a little bit bigger sample size and see what the trend is.
Is average attendance going to go down or up after the first homestand? How can they avoid a bigger PR mess by potentially refunding some tickets and upsetting others who have already purchased @ higher prices or who would have purchased at the adjusted prices? How are tickets moving for later in the season? How is the team performing?
The Yankees have the option to wait and see how to best approach the situation, and its only logical to presume they are going to sit on the option as long as possible and then take action, if necessary
Doreen
The though that scalpers & agents may have gobbled up the good seats and now they can’t sell them, that throws off the perception of the value of the seats for the rest of us. If the Yanks ticket office tells management that 95% of the $300-$2600 seats are sold (or whatever) but far fewer people are buying them from the agents & scalpers, the team won’t have any way of knowing until the stadium’s only half full that their assumption they prices they set for the tickets being a good value for the dollar mi-i-i-i-ight be a little skewed.
Attendance was about 73% last night. I wonder if they base that on how many tickets were sold or how many people actually showed up? Either way, I wonder what the difference between the two numbers is.
The rich folks who want to avoid the “Legends” stigma should just give their tickets to the panhandlers in front of their buildings.
Or how about giving them to some kids or their doorman or some celebrities?
Seriously, it is a problem, but not that big a deal. What matters to me is the W-L record. If the Yankees heat up, the seats will warm up, too.
I realize this post is after the fact, but I would like to express thanks to everyone who has expressed their condolences over the weekend. It means a lot to me.
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At what time were we two over .500 last year? IIRC wasn’t it not until the end of May?
“Yeah, I don’t think Beckett will miss a start.
If anything, he just gets pushed back a day.”
MLB.com says he isn’t missing a day. Just getting pushed back 1 day to face Burnett instead of Joba.
Sitting Gardner after a good game is a positive thing. It’s much better to sit out a game after a good game then it is after a bad game. You don’t have to sit there thinking about the negative aspects of last game.
Why in the world is Ransom starting over Pena….
Cal
When I go to games I almost always go for the cheap seats. It’s OK if anyone wants to call me cheap … I’m just not a wealthy guy. If the Yanks want to fill up the premium seats so it looks better on TV, I’d gladly take an upgrade for a fair price. Like … maybe $20.
I noticed on the highlights that the crowd on TV as seen from the CF camera barely shows the tops of the heads of the people in the first row behind the plate so you don’t get a sense of the crowd density. Ah .. probably that’s just a coincidence.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....8;c_id=mlb
A few thoughts from Olbermann.
-Joe Kerrigan blurb on Karstens/Ollie
-Good fan in Yankee stadium gave the bat that flew out of Gardner’s hands away to a kid (w/ video)
-New York OF struggling, manager concerned.
Worst call I ever heard on Francessa yesterday when someone suggested that the umps start calling high strikes in Yankee stadium to curtail the long balls ????
m – Yeas, and if they sell more chili dogs the seats will warm up too.
Ransom is a lefty killer… thats why he is playing
Pena will play against most righties.
Brought over from the previous post.
What sucks is that we peons (by which I mean the people unable to afford hundreds of dollars a ticket) scramble to get a hold of highly scarce affordable tickets, while the seats essentially reserved for the super wealthy, to whom it is painfully obvious the front office catered much of the new ballpark, stand empty. It generates ill will among the majority of the fanbase in a “perception is reality” world. The issue is less that I specifically can’t sit in one of those seats, but that NO ONE IS. Work out an agreement with the Boys and Girls Club to stick underprivileged kids in them, put them up for auction a day or two before. The demand is there, just not at the current price point.
Due respect to the Washington franchise, but we are not the Nationals, and there should not be empty seats less than a month into the season at a new stadium, recession or no recession.
I would add that if the seats are paid for and not being used, the number is not so great that the Yankees couldn’t contact each owner and try to work out an arrangement to make sure they are used for each game.
We’re gonna get A-rod back sooner rather than later. We can handle Ransom for the moment.
what i’d like to know is why ransom is still starting at 3rd? i really don’t get it.
m- I saw a clip of the Toronto game and that was pretty scary. The article said that was the second time he has gotten hit in the head and ended up with a concussion. I hope he’s going to be alright.
I see that the same people are still yammering on about Cano’s career April marks and “slow starts”. Never mind that that was because of one bad April out of his first three…’06, ’07, and ’08. He hit a combined ;291 in April of ’06 and ’07. I guess that doesn’t feed the animals, though. I didn’t bother figuring in 2009, but, it does bring up his April totals to .260. Not such an annual slow starter after all.
wow how many springsteen shows do you have to see, the man is completely overrated songwriter in my opinion
I have seen Bruce over 40x and NEVER have I been disappointed.
I’ve never been a class warfare guy and I don’t understand why Yankee fans are so upset and “shocked” that the club has catered to the wealthy for those premium seats.
I mean, the Yanks went corporate the day they bought Babe Ruth from the Red Sox and then built Yankee Stadium a few years later.
The Yankees going corporate is nothing new. They’ve been that way for 90 years. We’re just now seeing it on a grander scale in the 21st Century because of the new digs.
People who have such contempt for rich people are hypocrites because we all want to be rich ourselves. Millions of people buy lottery tickets everyday for a reason – they want to be rich, too.
I hope those who continue to whine over this issue are not the same people who insist on the Yankee payroll to be over $200M+ a year and demand all the best free agents year after year – especially when they have the gall to miss the postseason as they did in 2008.
Yankee fans demanded they get Sabathia at whatever cost. Many wanted Burnett as well – although not as many as Sabathia. They demanded the Yanks get Teixeira, ya know, for a measly $180M because the Yanks print money in their basement.
A large contingent is going to demand Matt Holliday next offseason.
The Yanks have to pay for all of these things (and their new $1.5 billion home) somehow, so they are entitled to charge whatever they want if people are willing to spend that kind of money. If not, the market will fix this issue and the Yanks will have to lower their prices for those premium seats.
Basically my point is that Yankee fans helped create this monster so they’re going to have to live with it’s consequences.
To anyone who cares- heres the link of the ump getting whacked in the head with a broken bat… http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.co.....8;c_id=tor
I agree Yankeesgirl, Bruce is the man.
So will the weather hold up?
Tom in N.J.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:56 am
I’ll be seeing Bruce on May 3rd at Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday party at MSG.
It’s gonna have Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, and many more singers.
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Pete Seeger and The Weavers have been around forever. Love his music and some of the best were with Woody Guthrie and later Woody’s kid, Arlo.
I figured that springsteen was closer to 90 than Seeger.
Rebecca:
The Yankees were two games over .500 on April 16 last season (9-7), again on April 23 (12-10), and then not again until June 13 (35-33), which was in the middle of a 7-game win streak that kept them at least 2 games above .500 for the rest of the way.
RDG: Some light rain now, but it should be fine for the game. Nothing like Monday.
In my honest opinion, I think the real test drive for the new stadium is going to be the first Boston series (although its only two games on a Mon/Tue).
We’ve all heard the mixed reports about the atmosphere being much more quiet. I’ve even heard from some people that they’ve been made to feel awkward for trying to get people to make some noise.
Much of this probably has something to do with the fans adjusting to being in a new place…looking around in awe, etc etc…I really really hope that the Sox coming into town, along with their traveling circus, will wake the place up and remind people that its okay to be loud at a baseball game.
After all, we’ve had one opening series against the Indians where people were still walking around looking at the place rather than the game (plus the fact that we were blown out in two of those games), and 1 rainy night game against Oakland.
We need a few Boston games to see how this place is really gonna play out.
Giuseppe Franco
What’s good for the team is good for the fans, and vice versa. Empty seats benefit nobody. If it were empty bleacher seats going unsold it would be indicative of a deeper problem. Empty megabucks seats has a theoretically simple solution. It appears to be less of a “class” issue and more of an elasticity issue. While the Yanks should rightly take their time in analysing the problem and determining the correct long-term pricing solution, there’s no reason they can’t have those seats filled tomorrow with kids from YMCAs in the Bronx, or something like that.
Starting to rain heavy in south jersey…hope they can get this game in!
For those that said earlier that the rocket to center field by Giambi last night wasn’t smoked are delusional. Gardner didn’t misread it. It was a Hell of a catch on a ball that was hit directly over Gardner’s head and slicing away. Keep in mind that the wind was blowing right to left.
I personally don’t care who plays the bulk of the games in center field. I’d prefer that both of them catch everything and both hit .350. Makes winning games that much easier. Jist don’t downgrade the catch and effort of the play.
Gardner made a nice catch last night but didn’t REALLY do anything at the plate. He was 1 for 4, with three pretty weak ABs and the one hit was through a drawn-in infield single.
Yeah, he hit it fairly hard, but its probably an out with the infield at regular depth and a LOT of 2nd baseman gobble that up and keep the runner at third even playing on the grass.
To suggest this was somehow a building block game suggests to me that the bar on Gardner is pretty low for some fans.
I hope he suceeds, but if he does he has to meet average ML standards. 1 for 4 with that one being a single isn’t that good.
William:
Make a deal with you, if Bruce is charging $800 a seat, I’ll give you $800. If not, you give me $800. What do you say?
Because you don’t have the slightest clue what you are talking about. His seats are $100 max. You’re seeing what the scalpers charge.
Springsteen is, in fact, quite a bit cheaper than most touring acts in big arenas.
I’m not saying, by the way, that wealthy people aren’t good baseball fans. Anybody can be a good fan. What I am saying is that the Yankees have overpriced their tickets.
If you want to have 500-1000 luxury seats, go ahead. Have all the luxury suites you want. But to make the entire field level above the means of the average person changes the personality of the stadium. It’s unnecessary in my opinion.
How in the world can the Yankees have entire vacant sections in their stadium at field level? That never happened before.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....038;half=1
Rebecca,
The Yankees were 2 games over on two separate days. April 16 & April 23. They would not get above 2 games over and stay there until Friday, June 13th.
Did anybody bother to check the tickets of the people that were in the bars watching the game instead of sitting in the rain?
look @this pic
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04.....f=baseball
Oooh. Guy Incognito beat me to it. I was going over and over the 2008 schedule, searching in vain for games over .500. I thought for sure it was a mistake.
Was at the game last night and I will say it felt pretty empty (relatively speaking) but it was FREEZING COLD and a lot of those luxury seats have access to indoor areas so people might have been there…it wasn’t even packed in the “cheap seats” so what does that say?
As for noise – honestly we made some noise but it was just so cold! i’ve been to April/May game before, but I’ve never felt like a block of ice at a baseball game before
Springsteen bought me a hamburger once here on the Jersy Shore. I forgot my wallet in the car and he happened to be behind me in line with his wife and he picked up my tab.
oh – and this season is a little different – no need to kill yourself to see the new stadium – it’s going to be around a while – unlike the last few years where people wanted to get in as many games at the old place as possible…my sister bailed last night b/c of a meeting and she would never have done that last year or the year before
Pete nailed it with the BOOM BOOM POW reco. Nice to see Johnny agrees.
I played it and my 2 year old son started grooving. HILARIOUS!
thanks Pete!
m and Guy Incognito: thanks! Hope we can make it three over today!
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that the Yankees decided to take the idea of luxury suites a step further. And it makes sense financially. I think a couple of things went “wrong.”
First, well, the obvious one is the economy going south.
Second, they allotted far too many seats to this idea.
Third, if a luxury suite goes unoccupied – nobody knows. If a field level luxury box goes unoccupied it’s obvious to everyone.
There’s clear weather just to the west of the Bronx. Unless the front simply doesn’t move-and that has happened-I would think they would get today’s game in.
“Springsteen is, in fact, quite a bit cheaper than most touring acts in big arenas.”
With Phish being the exception. All of the tix for their summer tour are $50. No more, no less.
I’m looking forward to the Beckett – Burnett match up as well. I think it will be a “you bean me, I bean you back” type game.
What is with these stupid day games during the week? Are the Yankees trying to have lower ratings? It sure would be nice if I’d actually get to watch CC pitch one of these days.
Yankeegirl49
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
I have seen Bruce over 40x and NEVER have I been disappointed
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Very Impressive Yankeegirl. I have seen him 26 times and wish I had seen him more. My profile picture on facebook is of me 3 feet in front of him in FTL last May. Front center in the pit.
Where are you from?
The blog is becoming excessively classist lately.
I’m as liberal as people come, but it’s getting a little bit ridiculous the way that Pete and some of the posters are going after people who can afford some of the more expensive seats.
I understand that the Yankees are the primary target, but the comments are becoming quite offensive and it’s beginning to sound like a class war. Let’s reign it in a bit and talk baseball.
Teixeira is happy the Yankees screwed up the Stadium and ticket prices. If they hadn’t someone might notice that even though he has made excellent defensive plays, he’s batting .211.
ALB3: I can only speak for myself, but as a student, even a grad student, the seats I can afford right now are limited to grandstand, bleachers and maybe terrace. It IS an issue.
I’m glad some people can afford the more expensive tickets, but many of us-including people that, you know, LIVE in the Bronx-cannot.
Thank you, ALB3 – I agree 100%.
Nothing unites more than sports so the class warfare is a bit shocking.
Are the Yankees trying to have lower ratings?
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Last I checked, the Yankees don’t create their own schedule.
MLB makes the schedule for everyone – which helps explain why the Yanks play a lot of night games on “getaway day” when teams like the Pirates, Royals, Brewers, etc, etc. play in the daytime.
I mean, who wants to watch the Pirates anyways unless your team is playing against them?
Being the most watched team in the sport has it’s pros and cons.
Mike R:
Except that the same problems plaguing Bruce fans are happening to Phish phans as well…tickets sold out online in about 3 seconds, and the secondary market is eating us alive. The cheapest ticket for the Tuesday show at Jones Beach is $70, and that’s still a lot of goo balls.
The band is great for pricing below $50, but they don’t understand that it doesn’t mean a thing when no one can actually get tickets at that price.
As I said earlier, Yankee fans helped create this “corporate monster” so they are going to have to live with the consequences.
The Yanks have been a white-collar corporate organization for 90 years. The Mets are the blue-collar team in NY.
It seems there are people who didn’t notice this until they spent $1.5 billion new home and charged a helluva lot for luxury seats.
Those who continue to whine about it are often the same people who insist on the Yankee payroll to be $200M+ and demand all the best FAs on the market every offseason.
ALB3
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
The blog is becoming excessively classist lately.
I’m as liberal as people come, but it’s getting a little bit ridiculous the way that Pete and some of the posters are going after people who can afford some of the more expensive seats.
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we’re all SO happy for you here that you can afford your seats in the Imperial Boxes. and pete is not going after people such as yourself willing and able to shell out one or two grand for a seat. most of us are simply upset that seats that cost 350.00 last year are about 2K this year. MOST of us can’t afford it. it looks bad having huge swaths of seats empty and the lack of energy coming from the field level is just sad.
“The Marlins (11-3) came into PNC Park averaging 6.4 runs, but the Pirates’ fourth and fifth starters have shut them down. Ross Ohlendorf pitched seven innings of two-hit ball Monday in Pittsburgh’s 8-0 win, then Jeff Karstens allowed a run and three hits over six innings in a 3-2 victory Tuesday”
-anybody else really starting to regret that trade? I couldn’t be more stressed out when Marte is on the mound and the best case scenario for Nady is that he’s DH’ing in 6 weeks…I really liked Ross Ohlendorf, he’s got great stuff and he’s an incredibly smart guy. Oh well, hindsight is 20-20 I suppose. I guess I do remember being pretty pumped about the trade at the time….
“The blog is becoming excessively classist lately.”
Ha ha ha. People will argue about almost anything here.
Sky Blue? I think not you better check again.
I love it when the game goes south and people start complaining and then people start complaining about the people complaining.
Once I posted a complaint about the people complaining about people complaining but unfortunately no one complained.
-anybody else really starting to regret that trade? I couldn’t be more stressed out when Marte is on the mound and the best case scenario for Nady is that he’s DH’ing in 6 weeks…I really liked Ross Ohlendorf, he’s got great stuff and he’s an incredibly smart guy. Oh well, hindsight is 20-20 I suppose. I guess I do remember being pretty pumped about the trade at the time….
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When KArstens played for us, he went down twice with injuries. We have plenty of pitching and we do not regret the trade. Nady helps, and will be back. Marte can be a good lefty against Ortiz or something like that. Ohlendorf too did not pitch well in NY overall. Nady was the best part of the deal, so no i dont think they regret it.
My problem with the poor-selling lower deck seats is not that the Yankees charged too much for them. That’s a sales and marketing issue that needs to be calibrated over time.
I DO have a problem with the fact that the Yankees seem to have absolutely no plan or idea for filling those seats. It’s embarrassing to see those seats empty and know the reasons behind it. None of it speaks to confidence or any idea that a Yankee game is an enjoyable place to spend an afternoon or evening.
I hate the new Stadium, but I don’t think I would if the Yankee corporate office and people who planned the whole thing brought anything sensible to the table. Everything, from badly-priced seats to barring kids from seeking autographs to the rampant and intrusive advertisements, seems to have been designed to make visiting the facility a baffling ordeal.
ALB-
I understand what you are saying and I know the topic has been posted by ALL media outlets and fans too much, but this is an issue, at least for some of the fans.
I will tell you this much. When I went to a game in 2006, I was able to find a ticket 2 rows behind home plate. This ticket cost me 130 dollars. For a poor college student, that was expensive for me and it was the only game I was able to go to that year. While the view was amazing, security yelled and nearly tackled me down for walking out of my section. Might I also mention that it poured and there wasn’t any batting practice.
The point isnt to complain, the point is that you can’t value one baseball game at 2,625 dollars. I mean, can you imagine paying that much to sit there in the pouring rain to see only 5 innings of baseball?
Nonetheless, I will never be able to sit in those seats again, so I am glad I did when I had the chance. The fact this seat when from 130 in 2006 to 2,625 in 2009 is ridiculous. For the average fan, it was possible to sit in those seats, even if it was for only one game and by myself.
When did “class warfare” as a topic become equivalent to child molesting and waterboarding? Hey, nobody asked the thought police to come on over and stop the discussion.
We like talking about the expensive, empty seats at brand new Yankee Stadium, about how the Yankees have mistimed the market for ultra luxury seats and thus come off as greedy pigs. I personally hate the fact that there is a “no access” ring around the stadium now in the front rows before games.
And I really, really don’t care for overly sensitive types who don’t like certain topics and who feel the duty to intervene, condescend and redirect our lowly discussion topics.
Just my opinion however. Feel free to condescend further.
Tony:
I don’t. For one thing, (theoretically, at least) nothing Pittsburgh does will impact the Yankees in any way, shape or form unless the two teams meet in the World Series, and while you can’t count out anyone in April, the chances of the Pirates winning the Central or the Wild Card in the NL are slim.
The Yankees don’t exactly have an easy road, either, but Pittsburgh is not counted as being among their obstacles.
The trade was made for the Yankees to ‘win now’ last year. Had Joba stayed healthy, had Marte not been used excessively, it is entirely possible that the Yankees would have made it to October.
None of us expected Nady to get hurt.
Today’s turnout will probably be like 15,000
that’s what happens when you don’t care about the fans and price them out of seats.
For the record I would have no problem at all if the seats were sold and filled at the current prices. The issue is not the high prices themselves, but that they appear to be too high and are resulting in empty seats. The empty seats are the problem.
I just have one question.
Who would win in a foot race? Gardner or Bubba?
mel,
Watched the game last night. Your Lakers look pretty deep, lengthy, athletic and a tough out. I have to tell you. There are 2 sports teams that I will watch just to root against them no matter who they are playing. SOX and LAKE SHOW. The only teams i think that can beat them are the Rockets or Cavs. Rockets have their hands full and might be tired if they make it to the second round. Looks like your stars are aligned.
The whole dynamic of this place is depressing.
Enjoy the game, folks.
Joe Kerrigan (wasn’t he our bullpen coach before?) raved abuot Jeff & Ross in the spring. They changed their arm slots and, so far, it seems to be paying dividends.
Lots of gray in the Giambino’s hair – both facial and at the temples. But he still looks good.
Thank god Pete doesnt charge to read or post on this blog. Then we would really have a problem. I still think soon enough we will need a credit card and be over the age of 18 to get in here with the HOTT Silletto adds taking over.
The Yankees “sold” me a ticket to today’s game.
If I wanted my Friday plan, I had to buy today’s game. Nice huh? Having already taken off from work last Friday to go to that game, no chance of me making it today.
Luckily I don’t have the Legends seats so no one will miss me.
Tex’s New Best Friend and Christina –
you both make pretty good points. I was thinking about this last night and somehow when I thought about it again this morning I forgot the main conclusion I came to last night – it’s not like there would have been anywhere to put Ohlendorf in the rotation. Phil Hughes isn’t up yet; there’s no way Ohlendorf would have had any chance, not to mention they were using him as a reliever. No one would really have guessed he would be pitching this well, this soon, or even that he’d be starting, and Nady has been a good pickup – nothing you can do about injuries, it’s just a part of the game. So I guess what it comes down to is just me seeing Ross go 7 IP, 2 hits and saying “man, I’d like that guy pitching for me” – really shouldn’t lead to me reflecting on the trade overall, so my bad.
There is a lot of whining about everything with the Stadium. Some complaints are legit, some aren’t.
As far as ticket prices, here is the deal. You don’t like them? Don’t go. If enough people don’t go, the prices will eventually be lowered.
Fact is, once school is out and the weather is better, the place will be full. If it isn’t, its more of a reflection on the state of the economy than it is on the state of the Stadium because there are empty seats all over baseball so far this year.
They just don’t get their own front page stories as they do re: Yankee Stadium.
Its called “supply and demand”. The problem is, most of the seats are sold so, they can’t give those seats away since they are already sold.
Its also a challenge to drastically reduce the price of those seats right now because you penalize the folks who have paid full price for the seats. Teams aren’t usually in the rebate business. Once they get your money, they don’t like giving any of it back.
They also can’t get into the habit of moving folks down to those seats because it is unfair to those who paid for the seats.
I think one of the problems is, when you charge what they charged for the seats directly behind home plate (ie: in the TV camera’s view), the place always looks “empty”, even if it isn’t.
NYC is an expensive place and, sadly, baseball tickets have also become very expensive.
However, as Guiseppe said, most of you want the Yankees to continue to have 200+ million dollar payrolls and the best of everything. Well, everything has a price.
At the end of the year, the legitimate complaints will be addressed and changes will be made. Its how it is with every team that opens a new ballpark. Stuff comes up and you address it.
As far as design changes, they can’t do anything to the stadium in season because its against MLB rules. They have to petition MLB for design changes to be implemented in 2010.
Its a little early to do that now because the sample size is too small.
If you’re an embarressed Yankee fan by some of the empty seats at Yankee Stadium, put a bag over your head and shut up about it. That way, nobody knows that you’re a “Yankee fan”.
Doreen
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Lots of gray in the Giambino’s hair – both facial and at the temples. ***But he still looks good*** .
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With or without a first baseman’s mitt?
I don’t know about Yankee fans creating a corporate monster. Yankee fans do want to see a winning team, but I don’t think the majority of Yankee fans were asking for a new stadium. The reason the Yankees built the new park was to make more money off of its fans.
The team didn’t go bankrupt last year with a $200M+ payroll and last year’s ticket prices. I bet there are a lot of fans that would rather the Yankees kept the old stadium and left seat prices alone.
I’ve already been to 2 Yankee games this year and I think the stadium is great. There are definitely problems they need to work out, and the prices for field level seats is one of them. Blaming the fans for what ends up being a half empty field level doesn’t make sense. The Yankees thought they’d be able to get more than they can and will now have to adjust. That’s not the fans fault.
SoS,
One game at a time. But it was nice to see that the Cavs can lose focus, too. Mutumbo’s taunting people with his finger wag comes back to bite him. Finally, at the age of 57, he’s done with a career-ending injury.
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I’m not saying what the Yankees did was right, pricing people out. But it looks far worse because of the economy. When this whole machination began, it was a different time. Not saying what the Yankeed did was right, but if the economy weren’t so bad, there wouldn’t be empty pockets of seats at the stadium. They were simply working within the economic environment that existed at the time. And the demand for season tickets at the new stadium was clearly high at the time.
I’m not wringing my hands over the Nady/Marte trade. Karstens was horrible here with a few exceptions and did not have the stuff to pitch in the AL East.
Ohlendorf was blocked by more talented options.
Just because they become viable on the Pirates doesn’t mean they would have succeeded in NY and the AL East.
I knock Cashman when he deserves it, but he doesn’t deserve knocking for that deal.
At the time he filled 2 huge needs for the club last season. The idea behind the trade was a great one and you can’t fault your GM for doing that.
Karstens and Ohlendorf had no future on this team. We have an influx of pitching talent and the were just a quik fix. Please dont forget they now play in the national league. Hell Igawa could dominate in that league.
If you’re an ***embarrassed**** Yankee fan
Me? I’m only embarrassed by my spelling deficiencies and lack of typing skills. Not so embarrassed that I’ll correct it any time soon, though.
I watched the flight of that line drive from Giambi last night from the RF grandstand, and it was definitely not a mis-play by Gardner, to echo what GB said–off the bat that ball looked like it was ticketed for either directly off the wall or over it into Monument Park in dead center. It was amazing that he a) got to the ball in time and b) held on to it since he was running full-speed and immediately hit the deck.
As for the weather, it was definitely not baseball weather but I’ve been colder at April games (2 years ago I sat in the bleachers for the first home series against Baltimore and literally thought I was getting hypothermia). The crowd last night seemed pretty loud at the right times from where I was sitting, but it was extremely quiet during the non-eventful innings and downtime.
There won’t be a game-long sense of urgency and on-edgeness/extended noise among the fans until a) the weather is warmer b) the Red Sox come to town.
People showing love for this blog on WFAN. Evan loves this blog? That’s nice. Free Benigno
GB,
That’s why we need an edit button here! lol
Seriously, some of these folks ought to go back and look at the attendence for World Champion teams in ’77 and ’78, a World Series team in ’81 and through a big chunk of Donnie Baseball’s career.
There have ALWAYS been empty seats in the Stadium until the last 4-5 years, when it became an “in” thing and a touristy thing to go to Yankee games. They became an event.
Truth be told, there were a good number of “posers” and frontrunners in those crowds too. Its not just limited to the new Stadium.
The difference between then and now is, “then”, those seats were unsold. “Now”, most of those seats are sold and people aren’t using them.
I don’t know of a way to force people to use their seats. That’s the issue and there isn’t a “snap your fingers” solution.
just let bums in after the 3rd or 4th inning if the seats are still empty…
Hey, no matter what, the Yankees still don’t have the attendance issues my poor NJ Devils do…
SJ- First off, I have to say, your posts are always logical and a good read. I agree with what you have to say and you make a valid point- if you dont like the prices, then don’t go.
That’s that route I am trying to take. It is hard because in Albany, there are very few options of places I can go to see a game. I save my money for the mere fact of being able to go to a game; it is the one thing I realy do enjoy doing besides teaching kids.
That being said, as the prices have climbed over the past few years, I have stopped going to the stadium. I instead, travel to Toronto when the Yankees are in town and I can see 3 games there for the price of one yankee game. Is the experience the same? no. But baseball is baseball and Toronto is a beautiful city.
With or without a first baseman’s mitt?
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Giambi owns a first basemans mitt?
Man you never know what you have till its gone(dh at first). Texiera is so freekin smooth at first. Made me remember that a first basemans job is more than just taking accurate throws from the infield. When was the last time G started a double play? Great move Cash. What a difference to the defense a first baseman makes.
Looks like I will be listening to John and Suzy today as my cable television is not working for some odd reason. At least I can deal with them on occassion.
“we’re all SO happy for you here that you can afford your seats in the Imperial Boxes. and pete is not going after people such as yourself willing and able to shell out one or two grand for a seat. most of us are simply upset that seats that cost 350.00 last year are about 2K this year. MOST of us can’t afford it. it looks bad having huge swaths of seats empty and the lack of energy coming from the field level is just sad.”
Well, this would be great if it was accurate.
I’m a college student that is in debt. What that means, is that the amount of money that I am worth is NEGATIVE and not positive. I owe the US government loan money because, despite earning a full scholarship to college, I have incurred cost-of-living loan debt.
So no, I cannot afford to go to a single game to see the Yankees play. I live in South Carolina and I watch the games on my computer, content and happy with the fact that I get to watch the team at all.
Ticket prices will settle where supply and demand dictate them to. But don’t act like it’s a class issue when all it really is – is a money issue. Our payroll is bloated, this stadium was expensive, and we can’t expect to get cheap seats when all of this is going on.
When the economy rebounds, people will be able to better afford these seats and this discussion probably won’t be happening. Let’s not confuse the Yankees with Citi, Bank of America, and AIG.
As I related in another post, here is an example of the corporate parnoia gripping sports today.
At an event my company ran a few weeks back, one of the banks that took TARP money was a major sponsor. They didn’t want their name in front of their suite. Not only that, they put red paper across the door so nobody could see into the suite. They also didn’t want any photos done in the suite of their guests.
They didn’t want people to see who was in their suite having a good time.
I suspect some of the same paranoia is in place with some of the corporate seats at the Stadium.
Crazy times we are living in these days. People pay big money for tickets and DON’T want to be seen at games. That’s a far cry from how it usually is.
Bet the Marlins would love to have the Yankees attendance “problems”. Now that’s embarrassing.
“The blog is becoming excessively classist lately.
I’m as liberal as people come, but it’s getting a little bit ridiculous the way that Pete and some of the posters are going after people who can afford some of the more expensive seats.
I understand that the Yankees are the primary target, but the comments are becoming quite offensive and it’s beginning to sound like a class war. Let’s reign it in a bit and talk baseball”
I love when rich people talk about a class war.
Guess what buddy, Its an issue when only ONE class can afford to attend these games. To try and defend the rich and priveleged who are buying these tickets and not even going to the games is a complete and utter joke.
I dont want to make this personal, but I will. Comments like this drive me nuts.
embarressed
If you’re an embarrassed* Yankee fan
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GB,
I got your back. You thought the correct way to spell it would be caught in the filters(a$$). I get it.
Why are the expensive seats empty?
Maybe the bleacher creature “box seats suck” chant finally sunk in.
I went on Stub Hub yesterday and tickets were going for $1 in the bleachers. Sitting in the bleachers is much more fun anyways. There were legends seats for today’s game going for $300. I know that is a lot but I’m sure it was around that price in that area last year. I hear you get free booze and food when you sit there as well.
Christina,
I believe teams should have designated areas of the stadium that are “family” and “affordable” tickets.
I’m not talking 4 rows behind home plate. I’m also not talking about bleacher seats either.
I think teams can do this, especially in this economy. NFL teams are doing it this off-season for 2009.. If they can, the Yankees and the rest of baseball can.
Aside from that, its a beautiful building with two obvious design flaws. One, obstructed view seats. In today’s stadium design game, that’s inexcusable. Two, the net. Another inexcusable thing because it hurts TV coverage.
They can’t change the obstructed view seats. They can do something about the net and hopefully find “affordable” and “family” areas as the summer unfolds.
If they do that, the building is a winner. Its a terrific venue.
how they didn’t go out and try to get themselves a utility player who can play 3rd & hit a little is a joke…Ransom in 44 AB’s has 7 hits,5 rbi’s,3 runs scored & 2 walks why is this guy even in the major leagues
WFAN just said its raining in Yankee Stadium. Anyone watching YES network that can provide an update?
Is the game delayed?
“UPDATE, 12:26 p.m.: Heard from some folks at the Stadium that Chien-Ming Wang threw another bullpen and it went well. But we’ve heard that before. As Dave Eiland has said several times, he needs to take it into the game.”
Exactly, we have heard this before. If he isnt throwing 94-95 in his side sessions, then they arent good side sessions. Until we hear that his velocity is back, no side session is a good side session.
It isn’t that cold. Suzy is nuts. I was just outside.
Dr. Cox,
I hear you. I also don’t understand why a persons wallet is associated with they’re ability to be a fan. If you have some money, you are “wine and cheese.”
And for the record, I don’t have money, wine, or cheese.
Game is starting on time. Light drizzle in Midtown.
SJ44
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
GB,
That’s why we need an edit button here! lol
Seriously, some of these folks ought to go back and look at the attendence for World Champion teams in ‘77 and ‘78, a World Series team in ‘81 and through a big chunk of Donnie Baseball’s career.
There have ALWAYS been empty seats in the Stadium until the last 4-5 years, when it became an “in” thing and a touristy thing to go to Yankee games. They became an event.
Truth be told, there were a good number of “posers” and frontrunners in those crowds too. Its not just limited to the new Stadium.
The difference between then and now is, “then”, those seats were unsold. “Now”, most of those seats are sold and people aren’t using them.
I don’t know of a way to force people to use their seats. That’s the issue and there isn’t a “snap your fingers” solution.
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I’m not so sure that an edit button’s going to do me much good. I’d hit the wrong button and wipe out the computer or blow the circuits on the east Coast. some computer savvy geek will track it back to me and post it all over the boards.
as far as attendance goes, look back at the pennant runs in the ’60s, or, even the late ’90s runs. People only have so much money right now, so, going to games in the cold and rain, are going to be low on the list of things to do. As you said, when it warms up and kids are out of school, the parks will fill….as long as the economy starts to rebound. Even the rich draw lines. If they don’t, they won’t be rich for long. One thing they won’t be, though, is be miserably uncomfortable.
GB7-
Without, without!
anyone have a link to listen to the game online?
Link to listen to game online…..http://stream2.wtsnam1270.com/
Free Radio:
http://stream2.wtsnam1270.com/
haha none is there!!!!
Lower those prices now!!
S.o.S.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
With or without a first baseman’s mitt?
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Giambi owns a first basemans mitt?
Man you never know what you have till its gone(dh at first). Texiera is so freekin smooth at first. Made me remember that a first basemans job is more than just taking accurate throws from the infield. When was the last time G started a double play? Great move Cash. What a difference to the defense a first baseman makes.
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As the old joke goes, Giambi and Michael Jackson have things in common. They both wear a glove on their left hand for no apparent reason.
how does holliday have a lifetime ave of 348 vs the yanks?
Don’t any of you remember back to the 80′s? Games on WPIX? A good night for attendance would be 25,000. Most of the time it was in the high teens. The place was empty. Once in awhile when they had a big series (usually the Blue Jays back then) the place would get into the 40′s and 50′s.
Think about this. In 1992 the Yanks averaged 21,589 a game. In 1997, the year after the first World Series win in a long time they averaged 31,856. Here are some more numbers. People seem to have a short memory, Yankee Stadium wasn’t 50,000+ a game until the last few years. This is average attendances.
1998 36,484
1999 40,662
2000 37,956
2001 40,807
2002 42,736
2003 42,785
2004 47,778
“how does holliday have a lifetime ave of 348 vs the yanks?”
2007 interleague series.
CC , 1-2-3 with SO on Giambi.
Hey all
1. I’m sure the Yankee players realize that the economy is in the toilet and it isn’t helping put people in seats.
2. The Yankee organization will figure out a solution if there is a solution.
3. You can’t tell people who are in the restaurants, lounges, etc. to go sit in their seats since one of the touted features is television everywhere.
Didn’t get to read through all of the posts but I can see that this empty-seat angst is going to permeate every blog for a while and that Pete is going to remain the head cheerleader.
Soon Arod will be back and then the whole seat thing will be a distant memory.
so how do you guys think I feel?
I’m a grad student with about $200 to my name.
My brother works for one of the big banks, and it’s not some cushy job either-he’s acknowledged he’s probably taking ten years off his life.
My father thinks that my politics should be dictated towards my brother’s needs since in a few days he’ll not just have himself and his wife to support, but a kid as well.
What’s good for me is not necessarily good for him.
Oh, My God!!!!! Look at all of the empty seats. I’m so embarrassed.
Meaning Pete will have something else to pick on.
oh ok just looked like a lot of abs for a 3-4 game series
Damon with a beauty of a swinging bunt.
joltin’ remember that series, the Yankees were absolutely killed.
jenn,
didn’t we got swept?
jennifer -
Right after it seemed like they were on a roll, too! That was a horrible, horrible series for the Yankees.
24 abs in a 3-4 game series..seems like a lot jennifer
Can someone explain that play for me? Shouldn’t infield fly rule be called?
Damon’s the faster runner over Mark, and I’d rather have him at 1st (with a chance to steal), but the A’s by dropping the ball, instead of catching it, get to replace the speedy guy with a slower guy?
Huh?
If hitters think they are going to run up the pitch counts by waiting for balls from Anderson, they won’t be around long.
Doreen- That was a terrible west coast trip. I almost flew out to San Fran with a friend to see the Yankees. But decided against it.
Hate the 2-out RISP positions. Wish we could get men on base with less outs.
infield fly is designed to eliminate easy dps and triple plays. must be multiple men on base.
ed- Yep it think it was alike a 1-8 west coast trip. Something really bad.
I have no problem going to a half packed game. Sell outs can be a pain in the neck.
“Oh, My God!!!!! Look at all of the empty seats. I’m so embarrassed.”
to join my embarrassed colleagues, I am wearing a bag on my head at work.
(with little ear holes, so I can listen to the game of course)
As the old joke goes, Giambi and Michael Jackson have things in common. They both wear a glove on their left hand for no apparent reason.
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GB,
lol. Nice. Can we also say that they dont wear a glove on the hand for no apparent reason? If you have no use for it cover it up.
V
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Can someone explain that play for me? Shouldn’t infield fly rule be called?
Damon’s the faster runner over Mark, and I’d rather have him at 1st (with a chance to steal), but the A’s by dropping the ball, instead of catching it, get to replace the speedy guy with a slower guy?
Huh?
Has to be less than two outs, and runners on first and second or bases loaded.
Yeah why wasn’t that an infield fly rule?
Is it because there was only one runner on base and no chance for a DP?
robbie will hit one out
Jennifer-
Good choice for you, it turns out.
my bad
1st and 2nd or bases loaded with less than two outs to call the infield fly rule.
why can cano never hit with people on base?
Thats 2.
i hate when he swings at pitches that would’ve hit a rightie on the knee
Holliday will hit one out
Is Holliday really hitting .265 with 0 HR?
Coors anyone?
Yankees always succeed with leadoff walks on 5 pitches
cc throws too many pitches
Mark Melancon is making an absolute mockery of the minor leagues:
http://www.thebaseballcube.com.....ncon.shtml
Jose Veras, Jonathan Albaladejo or Edwar Ramirez, who goes?
I love when rich people talk about a class war.
Guess what buddy, Its an issue when only ONE class can afford to attend these games. To try and defend the rich and priveleged who are buying these tickets and not even going to the games is a complete and utter joke.
I dont want to make this personal, but I will. Comments like this drive me nuts.
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This isn’t the financial section of the Wall Street Journal or the comments section of the Millionaire’s Club Magazine.
How many of us do you think are rich?
I’m going to assume 99.9% of those who read and contribute to this blog regularly are not rich by any stretch of the imagination.
Some of us are just people with common sense and don’t understand the hypocrites who despise rich people when everyone on this board would love to be that financially secure.
And here we go. Anyone with a foreign name like Suzuki, Ichiro, Choo, always hurts us. Close your eyes!
yanks playing 500 ball, probably will lose today
“to join my embarrassed colleagues, I am wearing a bag on my head at work.
(with little ear holes, so I can listen to the game of course)”
I, on the other hand, broke down and bought one months’ worth of MLB Premium TV, where I am watching this game in hi def. (Seriously, worth the $5 difference per month to get the Premium version.) This time I was smart enough to uncheck the little box that said they would continue to charge me every single month.
come on CC
“Coors anyone?”
Little premature, no? Not a big enough sample size to say he’s totally a Coors product. But, he is definitely going to hit fewer HRs playing in the Coliseum–that place is cavernous.
my prediction for the CC:
6 innings: 5 hits, 4 walks, 5 runs
Sigh…
That idiot just reached over and gave Holliday a HR.
Damon could had caught that. stupid fan.
Did some idiot reach over and make that a homerun? If so throw him out!
looks like i might be right, sorry.
Throw him out, and ban him from the stadium.
i guess the kitschy seats on the fence might have to go
Thanks for walking that leadoff man you dumb arse.
#1 – The Yankees are morons for designing such a crappy stadium
#2 – What kind of dopey Yankee fan gives the opposing team a HR? THrow the loser out.
man now we need 4 solo homers to catch up
Gonna argue the call!
the Yankees should take out the first row of seats – add a moat and a few crocodiles. (of course when the Yankees are at bat – the moat closes)
A Fan reached over and caught the ball?
The fans should not be in a position to reach over the fence.
What did I tell you guys… every foreign name guy will kill us.
Throw that idiot out and never let him back in. What a doof. Unless he’s a closet Suzuki fanboy.
Love Paul Cartier busting out the “Family Guy” theme song on the organ while the umpires review the call.
Love Paul Cartier busting out the “Family Guy” theme song on the organ while the umpires review the call.
SA, affirmative. looks like it.
Can our announcers please stop talking about how difficult it is to see a pitcher the first time? How it will take a “couple of times through the line-up?” If that is really the case — how come our rookies tend to get knocked around? (most recent example, Claggett against the Indians). If that is really the case, why not just have a revolving door of rookies (heck, pull people off the street) and have them each pitch three innings?
For whatever the reason, the Yankees have problems with rookies; other teams do not.
Can our announcers please stop talking about how difficult it is to see a pitcher the first time? How it will take a “couple of times through the line-up?” If that is really the case — how come our rookies tend to get knocked around? (most recent example, Claggett against the Indians). If that is really the case, why not just have a revolving door of rookies (heck, pull people off the street) and have them each pitch three innings?
For whatever the reason, the Yankees have problems with rookies; other teams do not.
Have a great time at the bruce concert. Hopefully you get Lost in the Flood. it’s such a great live tune
Why would a Yankee fan want to interfere with a play on the field that doesn’t help the Yankees? Makes no sense to me.
That’s somebody in the “cheap seats” acting like an idiot.
One thing the Yankees are going to have to do and that is find a way to keep fans from reaching out onto the field.
Dumb move by that fan because Damon might have had a play on that ball and saved 3 runs.
dt- lol, when the Yankees are batting give them lacrosse nets.
That ball was gone. No need for replay
That fan should have his ‘Yankees fan’ status permanently revoked. Idiot.
someone tell me this isnt a depressing game…empty seats, rain, a 3 run hr where a yank fan who throws the ball back steals one from damon…cc keep throwing balls maybe we get a rainout
it’s hard to tell if the ball was over the fence – it was high enough, but it sure looked like Johnny thought he was going to catch it.
That’s what I thought they’d say – you can’t really tell, so the HR is going to stand.
What’s up with the CC man?
I’m going to assume 99.9% of those who read and contribute to this blog regularly are not rich by any stretch of the imagination.
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GB,
I would like to add another percentage. 90% of us are losing money by always being on this blog rather than working.
Thanks Ed. Someone throw that fool outta there
Wang take this fat toad CC with you
CC is getting hit hard. Balls in the middle of the plate. Cano saved him another hit.
replays would be good if they didn’t take 10 minutes
Damon jumps like a girl. If he could have got up on the wall, he would have been able to make the catch. Instead he leaps 4 inches off the ground and directly into the wall. Lol.
It was a home run get over it, CC has not looked good a lot of hard hit balls early
So did they uphold the call? Would Johnny have caught it?
I think they need to make an announcement, any fan who interferes with play might be banned from the stadium.
Is anyone watching the same game as me?
That ball clearly wasnt catchable for Damon!!!
Damon scales the wall like Swisher does, he catches that thing.
that guy was a double a-hole not only does he rob damon of a chance to catch the ball but also they guy sitting next to him
Did they throw him out?
Supposed to rain all day in the Bronx. Lets hope they call the game because CC is vintage right now.
I wonder what the Yankees did to annoy Kurt Suzuki.
Giuseppe – check this out. Not ALL people want to be rich. I don’t buy lottery tickets. I devote a lot of my time to causes and charities and while I don’t tithe I give a good deal of money to my church every year. If I wanted to be rich I definitely would have chosen another branch of law from the one I did.
I managed to buy one awesome ticket for one game in my life. I didn’t spend a fortune but was able to justify it to myself because I never made the trip to Tampa for spring training, so that was basically money I never spent. I likely will never see a front row seat in Yankee Stadium again and I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to do it once.
That said, I understand why the Yankees priced tickets the way they did, understand they did not plan on a flagging economy – who did – and understand that it would be good if they could do something.
Just want to set the record straight about society not all clamoring to have big big bucks. Not everyone is that way. I have no problem with anyone who wants to be rich, rich, rich. I’m just not one of them.
what kind of an ahole wearing a NY cap and a glove robs damon then has the stupidity to throw it back!!??
CC is pitching pretty poorly at the moment.
Too inconclusive to overturn it but, Damon may have had a play on that ball.
Hey Matty, go back and look at CC’s April last year and then the rest of his season and get back to me.
We have enough imbeciles that post in here on gamedays, why would you want to add your name to the list?
Can’t wait for the headlines tomorrow declaring Sabathia a bust after four starts.
CC walking AA players
Now if that seat was empty, Johnny may have had a shot at the ball.
Man I thought we were Cubs fans for a second. I thought they were the only ones who took pop flies away from their own home team.
Pour some beer on that guy!! Wait. Thats too expensive. Glove will do.
CC isn’t looking so hot.
Again. Another start where CC doesn’t have it.
walked powell??? really? .222 and no homers?
CC is 11-10 with a 4 plus era ( for his career) in the month of april. Thats why I’m not that upset.
Come on CC. You can do better than this
why would you wear a green poncho when we’re playing the A’s? just a thought…
Sabathia needs to stop walking people
“Heard from some folks at the Stadium that Chien-Ming Wang threw another bullpen and it went well. But we’ve heard that before. As Dave Eiland has said several times, he needs to take it into the game.”
so eiland is saying wang was throwing in the bullpen out of the proper arm slot( measured by ptitch/fx) that he was in last year and throwing at 93-94 mph with the sinker which was sinking the way it did when all was right.
i think it’s more likely that eiland’s eyes saw 91mph out of an arm slot that was a foot high in the bullpen and thought he looked fine.
i don’t think wang is fine in the bullpen. if he is , give us the numbers-radar gun and f/x release info. otherwise it’s just the opinion of someone who doesn’t seem to know what’s going on with wang.
i doubt that wang has had it in the bullpen in any of his starts. i think that theory is rapidly becoming an urban myth . if it’s repeated enough times it become “true”.
eiland really needs to say he doesn’t have a clue what’s happened to wang and then there’s a chance he can begin the process of fixing him.
when we see wang throwing 93-94 mph sinkers out of the lower arm slot that he was last year, i’m pretty sure wang will be fixed.
i honestly don’t know what the big mystery is to eiland. wang’s velocity and release point are way off. maybe wang simply needs more time to develop strength to get the velocity and his release point. i have no problem with that. he was injured and it takes time to come back to normal. but don’t say he’s fine in the bullpen when he’s probably not.
because the yankees are just giving subjective viewpoints of wang, i ‘m assuming they have no hard data that he is indeed fine in the bullpen. with no measurable data, they don’t know he’s fine in the bullpen and they need to quit saying he is.
CC still throwing gas, just need to get it out of the middle of the plate.
Joltin’ Joe
Wait! what? He stole the ball from Johnny than threw it back? Ban his entire family.
why do the fans keep throwing the balls back this year…Werent you instantly tossed out of the old stadium for doing it?
Get to work bats
What was not easy to tell was the depth of that ball hit to left. If the ball was on it’s way down on the field side of the fence, the guy was a a lot higher than Damon and it could be he grabbed it before Damon could. Depends on how far into the field (or forward) the guy reached. Ah, well.
I’m hoping the rains really get going and the game is called, or in the alternative, the Yankees start hitting. Please?
would it kill the yanks profit margin to lose the front row of seats, have an aisle like the “old house” as kay calls this the “new house” ?
When will we learn to not walk the leadoff hitter.
You never reach over the fence for possible homerun balls hit by the opposing team.
What a clown! It is cute that him and his buddy dress alike when they go on a man-date.
Can this 200m team go on a little winning streak?
Just want to set the record straight about society not all clamoring to have big big bucks. Not everyone is that way. I have no problem with anyone who wants to be rich, rich, rich. I’m just not one of them.
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Good for you, Trisha. But you are most definitely in the minority.
Most people want to be rich – that’s just human nature especially for those who have struggled much of their lives.
But I’ve never understood the class warfare crap. Rich people are “evil” but those same people would do anything to have that kind of financial comfort in their own lives.
It’s just hypocritical and nauseating at the same time.
Randy,
They don’t put a radar gun on bullpen outings, nor do they film them.
That’s why he is going to pitch a simlulated game in Tampa.
When you throw a bullpen a day before a start, all you are doing is mechanical work.
We have to see if he can take it into his start, which will have the gun on him, and also be taped.
Oh, and the last time they showed the replay, I caught a glance of the face of the ‘beer guy.’ His eyebrows raised – so I’m thinking he thought the fan did a bad, bad thing there.
SJ44
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Why would a Yankee fan want to interfere with a play on the field that doesn’t help the Yankees? Makes no sense to me.
That’s somebody in the “cheap seats” acting like an idiot.
One thing the Yankees are going to have to do and that is find a way to keep fans from reaching out onto the field.
Dumb move by that fan because Damon might have had a play on that ball and saved 3 runs.
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If it continues to be an issue, I can see a6-8 foot high fence ringing the walls and anything that hits the screen is a home run. It’s things like that that will ruin getting souvenirs for everyone else.
“Again. Another start where CC doesn’t have it.”
This is his 4th start, lol. Take a chill pill.
Matsui’s resurrection from the abyss continues.
“Is anyone watching the same game as me?
That ball clearly wasnt catchable for Damon!!!”
doesn’t excuse the fan for not letting him have a chance.
take that first row of seats out and put that big railing back.
Maybe some life left in Matsui’s bat? Swinging well lately.
While it’s not surprising, it still amazes me how the YES announcers NEVER mention the dearth of fans in the premium seats. Those are some firm orders from above, no doubt.
I wish DirecTV didn’t black out the away team’s feed.
Godzilla! That’s a start.
Well the yankees just love hitting solo shots lol
Homer Matsuiiiiii
Looks like Matsui is starting to snap out of it.
CABERA….
Okay, so we might be going the alternative route – scoring runs of our own! Great hit by Hideki. Knees must be feeling much better.
There ya go!!!!!! Melky!!!! What a shot!!!
Melky homerun. Wait till tomorrows paper talking about the wind effect again.
Melky goes back to back!
jennifer..
if it was me i would have quietly caught it, not look into my glove and sat down. johnny never makes that catch.
Good thing the Yankees didn’t throw Matsui away because he struggled for 7 games
Godzilla and the Melkman deliver!
there is two of the 4 solo shots
Giuseppe – I think you have something with the struggle aspect. I have never had to struggle.
Are these legitimate shots or wind-blown?
now to hit with people on base.
Ransom spoils the party.
omg then ransom embarrasses himself, he just looks helpless
and Randsom strikes out lol
Both guys were leaning against the wall, with their arms straight out. I don’t know how the umpires missed it.
That fan better hope for one of 3 things.
1. Rain out
2. Yanks comeback and win
3. Purchase an entire catchers gear
I forsee him being jumped in the parking lot after the game. All Yankee fans know every game matters.
Nice job Matsui and Melky!
Just saw the HR replay on MLB gameday. That fan is an idiot.
And from the Yankee launching pad, we have this update!
Anyway, YAHOO DA MELK!!!!!
I’m always gonna love Melky.
That Oakland 1B is worse than Giambi on the field. Yikes.
Listening to the game on the radio… is the Oakland defense as bad as it sounds?
Both of those Home Runs were crushed
hardwired,
i doubt they mention it today on a rainy wednesday on a game that started at 1:00 in april.
another day for solo shots?
“That Oakland 1B is worse than Giambi on the field. Yikes.”
he’s.a.rookie.
those two homers were totally legit. nothing to do with wind at all
Ed
A rookie playing out of position at that. I wonder what Geren is thinking.
Those two Yankee home runs were gone anywhere in baseball. Nothing park or wind aided to them.
Both HRs were legit – nothing wind-aided about them.
Hardwire
if they mention the empty seats they will be fired like Red Barber in the 60s
The empty seats today have zilch to do with ticket prices.
It’s a weekday and the weather is rotten. They are playing the A’s not the Red Sox.
Like any other season, the Stadium will be filled up regularly when the weather warms up and the kids are out of school.
RussW210,
the yankee bombs were legit, the 3 run “homer” hit by the A’s however was not.
I’m working from home, and I thought Melky’s HR was a replay of Matsui’s (the crack of the bat sounded similar).
Anyone else love video and audio on MLB.com?
can cc pitch in the drizzle, wind or cold?
I meant LOSE video and audio. Duh
Sabathia has to lock it down and stop sucking.
it is just amazing how bad the yankees can be when runners are on base. can’t only depend on homeruns to win a world title.
Word of the day.
EMBARRASS
GB. You should feel embarrassed for starting all this.
trisha – i belive it is only free until 4/26, after that you have to pay for it….
vb03,
well he’s doing the Scott Hattesberg move then.
While Melky and Hideki’s homers were not wind aided, Suzuki’s definitely was. It was a pop up to left field, and the guy has zero power.
time to walk the leadoff hitter?
LOL This blog rocks
SJ44: That’s somebody in the “cheap seats” acting like an idiot.
One thing the Yankees are going to have to do and that is find a way to keep fans from reaching out onto the field.
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They could price the seats by the wall at $2500, keep those idiots in the cheap seats where they belong, out of the game
S.o.S.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Word of the day.
EMBARRASS
GB. You should feel embarrassed for starting all this.
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I’m embarrassed for you that you keep bringing up my embarrassment.
Just kidding, S.o.S.
CC is all over the place.
Damon drops it. Ugh.
CC can’t throw strikes today….Damon
didnt i say damon sucks in the of
>This is his 4th start, lol. Take a chill pill.
stating facts = emotional state opposite of chill
John Sterling annoys me.
“And he dropped the ball! How do ya like that??!”
I don’t like that at all John, thanks for asking.
Damon damon damon
Cody Ransom has some hops.
Hey Saucey, it may do you good to listen to the not just watch it. The fan who caught the ball had his glove sideways not in out in front of him. Damon made a terrible jump but the ball was still feet over the fence!!!!! The fan did not interfere with the ball. Blame Sabathia!!!
So that’s where the 60″ vertical would be useful in baseball.
wtf is jeter doing
Oh dear
Wow, Jeter looked silly there. But someone should have been at home, either Posada or CC.
What the heck is Jeter doing throwing to home? stupid stupid stupid.
Did Jeter just forget how many outs there were?
WOW. Posada has a brain lock, there.
This team is re god damn diculous…how do I even watch them day after day?
Welcome to mets baseball……
Since when did we become baseball special ed.
Great job by Jeter..If Arod did that everyone would make a big deal about it..
Ok, I thought the Yankees played today. I am pissed at MLB, I have this high school varsity team wearing Yankee uniforms on my screen.
Mama frickin mia
Well if someone was at home plate, Giambi would have been out.
ughhh. well that was nice.
Jorge is backing up first, and how do you expect someone who just threw the ball to you to back up home.
Was Jeter more concerned about going out tonight?
What the hell? Am I watching the remake of the bad news bears?
Does A-rod get that? maybe !!! Posada had to stay home
and that was horrible
That play was either on Posada or CC. Someone should have been there taking the throw, esp with a runner at 3rd.
Wow, after 15 years Jeter makes a mental error
what was jeter thinking?
Is Walter Matthau managing this team?
Posada completely wrong on that play… as unearned a run as you’ll ever see. Still I think Jeter had a shot to get the runner at first.
oh well, two more solo HR please!
How could CC possibly cover home on that play?
What is he Houdini?
Are you guys new? You have Giambi dead as a doornail at home that is the correct play especially when the way CC gave the throw to second there was no way he could get anything on the throw to first. That is a bonehead play by posada who needs to stay home with a man on first.
Just a horrible defensive inning for the Yankees.
Posada can’t be backing up first on that play with a runner on third. He has to stay put.
Damon drops a ball he should have never called off Jeter to try and catch. Even Ransom’s play is a play you should be able to make because the ball was hit off the end of the bat. He’s just not a very good player though so he can be excused. Damon and Posada need to know better.
CC limiting the damage to one run is good because the Yankees gave the A’s 5 outs that inning.
That looked like minor league team out there
CC’s a slow starter I can’t wait till mid-season
Wow… watching the replay, this is great fundamentals by the mighty mighty Yankees.
Third*
Posada should have stayed home. There is little advantage for him backing up first as the runner on third is taking home anyway.
Rish – I had to pay for it today.
I cant believe that cashman and giradi both said that cody was in fact a better defensive player than arod…..LOL
I think that play is on Jorge. With a runner on third you HAVE to cover home.
That was Jeter’s fault, he clearly forgot how many outs there were…we’re giving runs away now, how bout seats instead!
lmao if arod did that this place would implode. and so would the stadium. haha
Posada should have been there. I guess the throw by Jeter went off before he even realized no one was there.
DD
From the angle, the guy was sideways AND forward, it’s just not possible to tell how much forward he was.
Hey, CC threw the pitch, but, the fans have to stay away from those.
dp inning over..
Maybe it’s a good thing I can’t watch what’s going on. lol
No doubt its on Jorge, Jeter did what anyone with a brain would do
What a monumental f-up. Hopefully, they can make it up.
vb03
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
That play was either on Posada or CC. Someone should have been there taking the throw, esp with a runner at 3rd.
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Sabathia made the intial play. That was on Posada.
vb03
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
That play was either on Posada or CC. Someone should have been there taking the throw, esp with a runner at 3rd.
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Sabathia made the intial play. That was on Posada.
Yeah when there is a runner at third the catcher always stays home
Id like to be the first to blame Meachum for that double brain fart. It was either him or Alex.
***initial*** play
I am simply appalled by the lack of in game knowledge that is being displayed on this post. We are starting to see those who have played this great game beyond the stage of little league. You never back up first with a runner on third …if they didn’t get the out at first then Giambi could have just ran home because no one was covering. Simply sad
I didn’t see it but why would Jeter throw home?
To force Giambi to collide with Posada? I don’t know. I never heard of of a routine 1-6-2 .
Jeter would have never turned the DP at first, CC’s throw was too far to the opposite side of 2nd base and the runner was already 3/4 of the way to 1st base.
CC can’t back up first or home. Posada had to make a choice, and he chose to cover 1st. It was a mistake in speed judgement, but its reactionary at that point. Anyone could have done the same thing, even the best of defenders.
I’m sick and tired of seeing all those empty seats.
There was 1 out….Jack Cust hit the ball….no way is it even close. Jeter has to throw the ball to 1st.
nobody can explain why jeter goes home on that play? one man was out, easy dp ball, why in hell would he come home. get the out at 1st, inning over , right? did i miss something.
Can we stop defending jeter please? jeter had cust by a mile!
I’m going to rewind that last half-inning & play Benny Hill music while watching it.
If Jeter forgot how many outs there were, wouldn’t he have walked off the field?
If you have ever played baseball, you know that instincts take over sometimes. He thought he had the play at home (he would not have completed the DP at first base) and figured Posada would be there. So he threw the ball to home plate.
And for those saying CC should have been there, do you think he can teleport? He just fielded the ball four seconds earlier.
Hopefully CC gets better real soon. He has looked really bad. He has zero command against a team with a terrible offense. He should cruise threw there lineup.
I feel the need to say on a daily basis that I was wrong about Tex. The reason is he aint’ just good. He is great. I didn’t think we needed him. Now I think we can’t live without him!
What are you guys talking about Jorge screwing up? Jeter should have thrown to first.
HIP HIP JORGE!!!
For Jorge to be at second, this Stadium is a launching pad!
Cody Ransom can’t play. Anything positive he does is a surprise to me… his 3-run double the other day was a pop fly that the guy simply gave up on.
Berroa was a better choice and would be a positive move now even if just for a week or two.
Ok Yankees…2 in RISP and no men out. MUST get at least two runs here.
Jorge drills a double to make up for the gaffe.
OH YES!!! POSADAAAAAA
“I love when rich people talk about a class war.
Guess what buddy, Its an issue when only ONE class can afford to attend these games. To try and defend the rich and priveleged who are buying these tickets and not even going to the games is a complete and utter joke.
I dont want to make this personal, but I will. Comments like this drive me nuts.”
You mustn’t be able to read very well, or you would have seen the comment that I made about how I am worth negative money.
That is also known as being in “debt” or “bankrupt.”
The United States Department of Education owns my soul.
So no, it’s not a rich person complaining. It’s a person that’s as poor as is possible complaining about the class related prejudices prevalent on this blog.
But let’s suspend this idiocy and watch some baseball.
Get em home Robbie
One of my favorite moments. Runners on 2nd and 3rd with nobody out. You just get the feeling that if you’re going to plate runs, it definitely will happen in that situation!
ok lets pick up the capt..i like what i’m seeing
does this double tie Posada with Yogi on the all time list or does he surpass him? I know it was close
I was thinking that too, that Jeter forgot about the number of outs. With the DP assured, it makes absolutely no sense for him to have gone home with the ball. Crazy, and a really poor defensive inning.
Second and third now after the single and double. Get runs back. They’ve picked it up of late, but were brutal with RISP before the last game of the Cleveland series.
I hope Montero keeps improving behind the plate and becomes our future catcher. Posada has spoiled us by making us expect good hitting from the man behind the plate.
lets keep politics and whatnot out of here, strictly baseball please, this is an escape for many, please respect that
How can people get on Cody Ransom for not making that play? He jumped three feet in the air and got a glove on a rocket liner, stopping it from going into the OF where the weak armed Damon probably wouldn’t throw out even the Big G. Saying Cody can’t play because he didn’t make a circus catch is just pure stupidity.
Coach you could not be more wrong.
It was anything but routine. A slow developing play with a bad feed to second. Jeter would have had to throw off his back foot and Cust was already 3/4 down the line. Giambi decided to break late from third which was why he was out by a mile at home if posada is there. Jeter made a great heads up play and it just turned out that no one was there.
Come on Robi
Cust had about 6 feet left to get to 1B when Jeter released the ball to home plate. No way he’d have turned two if he went to first.
Posada may not be the most technically proficient catcher in baseball, but, you almost never see him make two mistakes like today and yesterday on the “wild pitch” from Bruney that was a foot off of the plate and low…not in the dirt.cg
Checking in from Field Box 104 on a wet day at the stadium.
Wasn’t planning on going today but when I checked the ticket prices this morning I couldn’t resist. They’re almost giving them away.
That 3 run homer by the A’s didn’t look like it was hit that well. Godzilla crushed his.
“They don’t put a radar gun on bullpen outings, nor do they film them.”
sj44-
precisely my point.
so how does eiland know wang is fine?
my premise is that eiland is wrong about wang in the bullpen.
this whole idea of wang needing take it from the bullpen to the mound assumes that eiland has wang fixed in the pen and then wang the athlete, because of being hurt or whatever is then, not performing in the game.
i think wang doesn’t have it in the pen and then takes that to the mound.
… to be continued when a game isn’t on. didn’t realize it was a day game.
on a game note , even before today , melky has had good numbers. it’s nice to see.
“CC’s a slow starter I can’t wait till mid-season”
The problem is that he doesn’t get to go the NL Central Abyss this year – he’s going to have to figure it out in New York – where someone brings it everyday.
Jeter had a choice and may have made the wrong one. Posada had no choice. You NEVER abandon a base that can be aquired to backup another base. He is 100 percent wrong, it’s not debatable.
But I also agree Jeter should have thrown to first after seeing the replays… but at least that IS debatable.
Cano is just awful with people on base. im interested to see his numbers with men on vs. no one on.
Cano is just awful with people on base. im interested to see his numbers with men on vs. no one on.
Oh come on Swisher. Great hit but dude you aren’t Brett Gardner.
He is….stupid!!! But, nice rbi.
Why swish?
Swisher gets greedy on the move to 2nd, but ties the game anyway.
Yes! All tied up!
good swish. bad swish.
Vince,
Why would Jeter? Walk off the field?
He thought there were no outs. They got the force at 2nd and then Jeter threw home trying to get Giambi at home.
Had he known there were 2 outs and Jack Cust running to 1st he would have had the inning-ending DP.
at least cano got the run in – too many times the runner just ends up stranded there
Swish was a great pick up
All tied up baby!
Swish nailed at second, and a nice slide there, but the guy has been money. Tie game.
i actually dont mind that play by swish, be aggressive, put the pressure on the defense to make plays
does everybody think they’re as fast as gardner or something??
There is no point in arguing who was wrong and who was right between Jeter and Posada. They both did a bad job.. as did Damon and Sabathia for walking a guy.
This rain is bad. If we get another run they should fast forward to the middle of the 5th and call the game.
lol!! That was a classic slide to second by Swish. Never seen someone end up on his back.
Did anyone see the play from the Mets left fielder Church last night? Embarrassing.
lol!! That was a classic slide to second by Swish. Never seen someone end up on his back.
Did anyone see the play from the Mets left fielder Church last night? Embarrassing.
YOU DONT COVER MANY GAMES-A LOT OF USELESS INFO YOURE GOOD 4
Agreed Tex. I didn’t get the hasty calls to trade him or Nady before the season, and the Yanks picking him up but also keeping him has been huge.
CC WILL NOT LAST THE LENGTH OF HIS DEAL – WATCH
Even though they are getting out I do like to see aggressiveness.
“I’m sick and tired of seeing all those empty seats.”
Shred Em, seriously, then you are going to have to find a way to immediately focus elsewhere when they show empty seats. It’s akin to what I do in a movie theatre if either extreme violence or snakes are on the screen. I put my head down and won’t look until the moment has passed. It works.
If people in the Stadium own those seats, and you know some do, it will remain a problem certainly in bad weather since you can watch the game from other venues in the Stadium. But in the meantime, there will also be letigimately empty seats for some time to come. So if it is going to ruin your enjoyment of the game, avoid it. We all still love baseball and our Yankees. The games will continue to go on. That’s where your focus has to be.
Just a suggestion.
Im not mad at swish because they would of just walked Matsui and pitch to Randsom but that would of cleared Randsom for the next inning
“Did anyone see the play from the Mets left fielder Church last night? Embarrassing.”
It was actually Daniel Murphy, who is an abomination in the outfield–Santana called him out for costing them a game in Florida last week (2 weeks ago? whenever they were in Florida). He is a DH waiting to happen, because he can hit but he’s got no defensive ability.
The play last night in left was by Murphy, not Church.
Most hits in first 2000 games since 1920 is Al “Bucket Foot” Simmons.
jete will cop to not knowing there were two out in the post game.
There’s just no DP there. Jeter would have had to throw across his body with a runner bearing down on him. Cust was about six to eight feet away from the bag, running hard. No way he has the arm strength or momentum to produce a bullet to 1st.
Randy,
What he says publicly doesn’t have to jive with what he says privately. He’s not going to say, “the guy had a bad bullpen”.
He had a bullpen. That’s really all it is. Until he brings in into a game, there isn’t a pitching coach in the world who can do anything but say, “good bullpen”.
They have the same video we have. We just have to see if they can fix him.
Personally, I think Brian Bruney has been the one guy correct in this whole ordeal. Wang isn’t confident pushing off his foot and that is leading to all of his problems.
Good hit by Swisher, brain dead play trying to stretch it into a double. Killed the inning.
What was wrong with CC’s third inning? He threw fine. His defense betrayed him. He can’t do anything about that.
Patrick,
On that play, Posada has to stay behind the plate. He doesn’t have to back up first. His priority is the plate. He made a mental mistake. It happens.
Turn the page and move on. New game now.
Hey Miggs!
I definitely plan to get back to the Stadium soon. Going once really makes you want to go again and again and again!
Shred ‘Em —- I wrote not a word about that play, so watch your accusations and insults. I wrote Cody Ransom can’t play because he can’t… not at this level. That’s why everything positive he does surprises me. He did a nice job getting a glove on that ball and it surprised me.
the yanks are looking to win this game in spite of themselves.
Murphy is still young and with enough experience, he can become a serviceable OF…but as of right now, he’s scary bad.
win ugly yanks, win ugly, we’ll take it.
jete will cop to not knowing there were two out in the post game.
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How is that a cop????
Remember when I said Cody Ransom was the worst player in the bigs and all the homers here had their yankee blinders on and said we didn’t need ARod? hahahahah good call, guys!
yankees are wack man
“Cano is just awful with people on base. im interested to see his numbers with men on vs. no one on.”
This is just not true
.250/.333/.500 but com’on 16 ABs your gonna squawk on the #5/6 hitter w/ 9 RBI and batting .377/.441/.604
you people have no clue
jete will admit not knowing how many out there were.
He’s not going to say, “the guy had a bad bullpen”.
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sj,
Wouldnt it be better to say his session wasnt that good so they have the option to give him a phantom injury?
This kid on the radio just suggested David Wright for Jake Peavy. Oh man… oh man.
Cano is a .278 hitter with RISP, .289 with men on base and .318 with no one on.
Like ARod last year his worst stats are whenever there is a runner on second base. It’s not really surprising for two guys who seem to be easily distracted.
I cant take this!!! jeter made “THE MISTAKE”!!! get over it.
I think he knew how many outs there were, the thing is he thought he had a better chance at Giambi than cust
Jeter will “admit” to not realizing there was nobody at home.
Ransom can hit a fastball and regularly makes the routine plays at 3rd. That’s about it, I don’t think anyone else expected much more out of the guy.
What does not knowing how many outs there are have to do with throwing home? He was trying to get an out.
“my prediction for the CC:
6 innings: 5 hits, 4 walks, 5 runs”
I’m close. Just need 2 hits, 2 walks, and a run in 1 inning. He is at 70 pitches through 4.
I just read on rotoworld.com that Wong is going to start saturday over burnett against beckett now. yankees giving up already
Melky needs to play cf everyday
Nice play. Oh here comes Randsom lets see how many breaking balls he sees
“It’s not really surprising for two guys who seem to be easily distracted.”
How they are easily distracted?
86×183 …. guys who would rather look good and lose then look bad and win, from “White Men Can’t Jump,” Billy Hoe (Woody Harrelson) to Wesley Snipes.
“Ransom can hit a fastball and regularly makes the routine plays at 3rd. That’s about it, I don’t think anyone else expected much more out of the guy.”
Do you even watch the games? He can’t hit ANYTHING. And he ROUTINELY botches the routine plays. How many balls have gone under his glove? How many times has he made bad throws on routine plays that pulled guys off the bag? I can’t believe people are still defending this scrub
Derek really tagged that one.
this is why Jeter is the captain!!
Jeter is on the juice.
Did anyone see that guy in the green t-shirt behind home plate, second row up? He has the entire row to himself!!!
another legit homerun!
Cut Ransom
Who’s defending him? I’m saying that if you expect him to hit like an average major leaguer and defend similarly to A-Rod, you’d be sorely disappointed.
And Jeter goes yard.
Imagine if the yankees ever hit a homerun with runners on base??!!
And just as we should expect, Jeter makes up for his mistake.
Look I’m happy about the HRs but if Jeter’s shots aren’t telling you that the Stadium’s a launching pad, nothing will.
jeter making up for his own issues
I love him.
I just knew he was going to make up for that miscue….wish I would have written it before to show my super-intuitive powers.
Jetes! We forgive you
The only Pitch Randsom can hit is a belt high outer third fast ball. Thats it! And the captain with 4 shots already
Is there something wrong with Burnett?
Yes!! It looks like Jeters wrist is just right.
He just passed Wade Boggs for # of hits through 2,000 games with that homerun.
that ties YS with the Municipal stadium in KC for most hrs in the first 6 game of a stadium
oh yeah and as stated before, why is ransom still in this lineup? it’s seriously a joke at this point
The difference between a constantly beaned Jeter and a completely healthy Jeter is night and day.
oh captain my captain<3
I think the wind-blown argument is pretty good right now lol
Thank goodness we’ll only have to put up with the Ransom complaints for less than a month.
Look I’m happy about the HRs but if Jeter’s shots aren’t telling you that the Stadium’s a launching pad, nothing will.
jeter’s hr is a hr anywhere.
Bandbox.
That ball was well hit. That’s not a wind aided HR. The wind currents are in RCF not CF.
Can we like hit a 3 run home run?
Jeter is like a Kevin Elster for our time.
None of the HR’s today are wind aided. That ball Jeter hit was smoked.
It was similar to the ball he hit out in Tampa to RF last week. Another pitch he crushed.
I watched Jeter all last week and he was CRUSHING the ball in BP.
I had to look twice to see who was in the cage.
trisha,
that was a bomb, no help needed.
vb03,
I expected him to be just as bad as he has been so far. It’s delusional Yankee fans that thought we could do without ARod and that Ransom would fill in just fine. It doesn’t surprise me that most Yankee fans are that stupid. After all, many “fans” cheered Jason Giambi yesterday but booed ARod after his MVP season. Because Giambi did so much more for this team then ARod….
Thank goodness we’ll only have to put up with the Ransom complaints for less than a month.
thank goodness we’ll only have to put up with ransom in our lineup for less than a month. actually, i wish it was less than a day.
“That ball was well hit. That’s not a wind aided HR. The wind currents are in RCF not CF.”
Trevor… a homerun was hit to left CF the other day that was a popup off the end of a lefties bat. The wind is going everywhere out lol
Oh the disclaimer! disseminate this.
Totally true about the homers, SJ44. Monster shots. 4 HR already for Jeter.
I think Jeter will cop after the game to getting all of that pitch for a homerun.
Look I’m happy about the HRs but if Jeter’s shots aren’t telling you that the Stadium’s a launching pad, nothing will.
jeter’s hr is a hr anywhere.
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Yeah but i don’t think it travels that far in old yankee stadium
Jeter’s HR looked pretty well-hit to me to almost straight away CF and very high.
I hate that the legit HRs are all going to be in question.
Jeter juicing? Ha. I like the power (but would also like a good OBP).
Cut Ransom
He isn’t an adequate major leaguer in offense nor defense, and certainly not even 1/100 of the impact player that A-Rod is.
Dee
Can’t wait to get A-Rod back as well. Personally, I thought that 3rd base should have been a platoon, so if one got cold, you can switch him up with another one – and not have to live with the 3-42 stretches Ransom has so graciously blessed us with.
what is the problem you guys are really insane you are not real fans
Jeter hit one out in Camden to a deep part of the park.
He has some power. I don’t think any of his HRs were helped that significantly so far.
But he will get some that are helped by conditions, that’s for sure. So far, he’s hit them really hard.
who ever said that thing about rotoworld reporting Wong (its wang u dumbass) is starting is wrong where on the website do u see that. Don’t say sh*t that isn’t true
how did Ransom catch that ball? What is he doing? He is suppose to miss that and let it go for a base hit. He sucks!
All of the HR’s today were legit-except for Suzuki’s. That was a pop-up and it was evident as Damon just kept drifting back and back until he had no room left to make the catch.
CC’s done well to right himself and limit the damage after Suzuki’s popup homer.
vb03,
Agreed 100% with everything you said in your last post.
Under,
Let me guess…post-98 yankee fan? how old are you, 12?
Holliday open to NY
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/
personally i dont think hes all that great, plus the last thing the yankees need is another long, high salary contract
IDK if Jetes HR leaves another park to CF, well hit but IDK if it leaves another place.
methinks the children are getting out of school
The yankees and Jason Zillo are clearly paying Ransom to play just horribly on purpose. By doing this the yankee fans will be so sick of Ransom that they will be welcoming Arod back with red carpets. Great PR move seems brilliant.
CC’s started to get his groove back. He can get into the seventh if he has a fast sixth. Only 80-85 pitches right now, I believe.
Can we get two more frames from CC?
Not a terrible line. He has rebounded and could have gotten away with fewer runs with some better defense.
Let’s add some more.
Great weekday entertainment today at the LoHud….
“personally i dont think hes all that great, plus the last thing the yankees need is another long, high salary contract”
QFT. How many more players like this are we going to stack ? literally we need other types especially when it comes to this team.
wasn’t that a movie? When CC gets His Groove Back?
“Patrick,
On that play, Posada has to stay behind the plate. He doesn’t have to back up first. His priority is the plate. He made a mental mistake. It happens.
Turn the page and move on. New game now. ”
I think you missed my post where I said that both guys made a bad play. Technically Posada should be backing up first but he should know on that play that Sabathia can’t get back to home in time. Anyways, it doesn’t matter now.
Not a fan of Holliday. I think he’s a good player, but not worth the money that’s going to be required to land him. Don’t underestimate the Coors effect.
“They have the same video we have.”
sj44-
what they don’t have that i have is that the original coach who developed the pitch told me in detail exactly how he did it. i wouldn’t have a clue about wang if i didn’t have this info. you know you don’t say everything you know at times on the blog because it would violate trust with someone. that’s where i’m at now.
there is nothing coming out of girardi or eiland when they talk about wang’s mechanics that is remotely the same as what wang was taught in the first place that created the devastating sinker.
you know , it is possible to have experts make mistakes. think wind tunnel effect. i think this is an example where the highly valued pitching coach simply doesn’t understand something. wang’s sinker is a weird pitch. when he was at his best he did it from a low arm slot. he did not get up and on top of the ball.
eiland may be giving all the right info for a traditional sinker ball pitcher, but wang’s a unique case. i’m sure the foot injury has been the tipping point that has caused wang to lose the sinker, but eiland and the yankees still need to do the right things to get him back to where he was.
the answer is simple. get him in shape and use the same mechanical instructions that he was taught in the first place.
CC has retired eight in a row. He’s given up 4 (3 earned) runs in 5 inningss.
Ryan,
lmaoo its working. believe me.
Crosby is smooth out there..wish he was at 3rd for us
milking these commercials for all their worth. that’s the second time they’ve cut in after the first pitch.
that’s one less seat they have to sell.
Shred em,
My bad. I should have said Yankee homers. I got in after Suzuki’s and missed it.
Pat M
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Great weekday entertainment today at the LoHud….
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It’s funnier than watching Soupy Sales on Saturday mornings.
CC : If he gives one more inning, 6 innings, 3 ER . Looks like a quality start to me. If not for that other unearned run it would have been.
Okay, I defer to everyone here about that homer – I think. I was working and not watching so I can’t say it was a cheapie.
But that still doesn’t make the new Stadium other than a launching pad. I’m still voting for that at this point, having personally watched some really cheap hits fly out.
If that changes, well good for that also.
One thing we’re seeing from Jeter this season is that he’s really driving the ball to the opposite field.
That was something he didn’t do much of last season and was little more than a singles hitter.
It’s a very good sign to Jeter driving the ball that way because it shows his legs and wrists are healthy and strong.
Actually Patrick he probably read your post because you don’t ever vacate a base that can be taken in an effort to back up a play to another base. That is just a fundamental. So technically Posada should be covering his base the plate, especially after he saw that CC would not be covering home because he was throwing towards second base.
I love cano..
3 hits for C.C. in 5 innings. Not bad. He might have been pitching a shutout if it wasnt for the bad pop fly call and the bad news bears inning.
I think cano has hit in every game except for one this year
cano hits with bases empty, like clockwork.
As much as I will fall on my sword about both Pettitte and Tex, I will equally claim full credit for absolutely believing in Robby Cano.
“trisha – I am panic proof. April 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Giuseppe – check this out. Not ALL people want to be rich. I don’t buy lottery tickets.”
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but you still want the Yankees signing guys like CC and AJ. The biggest part of Giuseppe’s point was that it’s hypocritical to demand the Yankees spend tons of money on players but then complain that the best seats cost too much.
I went to many more games pre-1996 than I do now but that’s the price you pay for a winning team.
“86w183
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Cano is a .278 hitter with RISP, .289 with men on base and .318 with no one on.
Like ARod last year his worst stats are whenever there is a runner on second base. It’s not really surprising for two guys who seem to be easily distracted.”
Are these fans retarded making comments like these. Dont they know that thats also due to pitchers making better pitches when theres runners on base. Learn some freaking baseball.
fyi, boston woke up.
Pigpen Suzy?? Really??
trisha – i agree. The stadium is a launchpad. Seen some real cheap HRs so far.
lets blow this game open so i can relax
You gotta have faith
haha yeah it is working wonderfully because there is no possible way any “major league” baseball player can possibly be this bad without trying to fail.
They should call the rain. You can’t even see the field. CALL THE GAME…
Think Halladay will end up with the Sox.
9 in a row for cc
86w183 is a racist. Go after Jeter and all his double plays.
The stadium has to be a launching pad because I read in this comments section that Jeter is nothing more than a singles hitter now.
If CC gets through this inning unscathed I will be wrong.
“86w183
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Cano is a .278 hitter with RISP, .289 with men on base and .318 with no one on.
Like ARod last year his worst stats are whenever there is a runner on second base. It’s not really surprising for two guys who seem to be easily distracted.”
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You retard its only 15 games and you should be happy he is off to a hot start, just wait till it weather warms up, and if you think a a player is going to hit over .320 which i think Cano will and not get a big hit your an idiot.
Ryan,
hes not THAT bad, with the bat hes horrendous, defensively hes just okay, and thats what bothers me, if you are not going to hit at least save a couple of runs with your glove. im not asking for much lol
Gotta be careful with Cust. Popup = HR lol
“but you still want the Yankees signing guys like CC and AJ. The biggest part of Giuseppe’s point was that it’s hypocritical to demand the Yankees spend tons of money on players but then complain that the best seats cost too much.”
I don’t know if you meant me personally or you mean the collective “you”. If you did mean me, you didn’t read my post because it’s the opposite of what I said.
“Gotta be careful with Cust. Popup = HR lol”
Nick green has a double and homerun today. I swear if Nick green is going to hit like this im just gonna lose it. Everything that can go right, goes right for the Red Sox. We need a name for this new law. Any suggestions??
“Think Halladay will end up with the Sox.”
I actually see him go to the Mets. They could then trade Murphy and have a good Holliday-Beltran-Church outfield.
I think the Bartman guy in the left field must feel relieved that the Yanks cameback to take the lead.
And no surprise there, they walk Cust.
since when is Nick Green this good
The powerful Kurt Suzuki is up.
Will Suzuki hurt us again? Make sure there are tons of hardcore Yankee fans standing next to that smart guy who stole the ball from Damon.
i havent seen anything here from holliday that we should go spend he money on…. swish, ajax, melky, gardner, and one higher profile player should be fine.
“since when is Nick Green this good”
People overachieve when they go to the Sox.
Rish, since the pressure of wearing pinstripes was taken off his back.
I always liked the guy though. He really worked hard for the Yanks.
Smooth scoop from Tex.
Why in the hell would the Jays trade Halladay in the division…man some people are stupid
Tex pickin’ ‘em left and right!
Teixeira is defintely the most complete 1B in the game.
That’s why you can’t walk batters.
And CC gives up the lead…
bleh
What’s the point of that arm in CF when it’s not even accurate.
Does everyone who walks have to score????
Sabathia is pitching like crap today.
runs…
that Nick Green would have been really helpful here
Oh no.
I read: In play, runs
those walks always come back to haunt
Melky has got to make a better throw then that! Come on Melk man I love you but that was a shot and you had the ball when he was rounding getting to third.
Walks=runs
I don’t really think Nick Green is that good…Scott Baker was throwing he and his teammates batting practice today. Guy has given up like 7 home runs so far in 2 starts this year.
Tie game. Sabathia blows it. Mark Ellis of all players.
I wonder if CC having bad command has anything to do with him throwing so much last season. I am assuming it is because he is a slow starter and hopefully he will come around…very very soon..
Brandon, why you hating on Melky?….get a life!
why does walking people always come back to bit you in the butt?
the line drive was a changeup right over the middle
4 run inning for the Yanks coming
Halladay isn’t going to the AL East.
Holliday isn’t going to the Mets (unless they want to include Martinez which is highly unlikely in exchange for a high priced OF).
This is why I wanted Johan instead of C.C.
The A’s stink!!! cc should of pitched a shutout today with 10 k’s.
As he gives up a hit to a AAA hitter. 5 runs to a lineup like this is just terrible. But if Damon and Jeter helped him out and the umps made the right call it would of been a different game.
Stands more than half empty… crappy day.
Its hard to tell from here but it looks like CC is getting squeezed on some pitches. Is he?
OK, Sabathia is at 100 pitches. Here was my prediction:
6 innings, 5 hits, 4 walks, 5 runs
Here was the result
6 innings, 4 hits, 3 walks, 5 runs
He will probably come out for another though. But do we want that?
CC has not looked good in any of his starts this season.
Let’s hope that he follows his usual performance and figures it out after April. Burnett is the ace of this staff right now, closely followed by Andy.
CC’s walks are killing him. 3 walks, 4 hits, 5 runs.
Gotta say this about that. Yankees picking up Yankees is what it’s all about. CC is still in there working. Yanks are getting him runs. He starts slow, but he’s still in there like a work horse. I see this coming to nothing but good.
oh man… they tied the game and its already game 15 of the season… they might as well pack it up and go home. Why play the rest of the season, nobody is going to games anyway.
*sarcasm*
among the things to worry about, sabathia is near the bottom of the list. As the weather warms up, so does he. The cold damp weather is never an easy day for a guy that big. That’s a lot of person to get the blood flowing through.
With me I’m talking about Halladay signing as a FA to the Sox. I’m not talking about him being traded.
TL
This is an age old argument. Santana costs prospects and money. CC just costs money. Twins were asking for Hughes++++, don’t forget.
This is a grinder game….Good teams win these types of games
“CC has not looked good in any of his starts this season.”
Are you forgetting his second start of the season?
“This is why I wanted Johan instead of C.C.”
Yea, would have been good short-term. However, he is a tiny man with a slowing fastball and prospects to give up. Eh
Santana is only doing as well as he is because he’s in the NL, just remember that.
“But if Damon and Jeter helped him out ”
You mean Damon and Posada? What did Jete do?
Jeter got lucky hes done he is old like a dinosaur and you people waste your brain cells and rot away like jeter
First of all
Boston Dave, I could be wrong but I’m assuming that the people talking about Hollidays destination are talking about as a FA not in a trade. If they mean a Trade then The mets would be my only thought of where he would wind up being that they should be in contention and may need an outfielder.
CC’s arm is going to blown out by august.
brandon
melky had almost no chance of getting him.I know you love gardner but why hate on melky…
Bullpen battle
‘Brandon, why you hating on Melky?….get a life!’
All I said was for a strong arm what’s the point if it’s not accurate, how is that hating ? It’s the truth, bat wise he’s doing good today, still a ways to go.
“This is why I wanted Johan instead of C.C.”
——————
a) nothing like making judgments 4 games into a 7yr contract
b) It’s not Johan vs CC. It’s Johan vs CC, Hughes, etc
all you Jeter lovers should got to a big party and I will date rape you
Melky’s play as of late is screaming “play me.”
Anyone else’s tv blinking? (I have directv so it could just be the weather messing with the signal)
“Everything that can go right, goes right for the Red Sox. We need a name for this new law. Any suggestions??”
The Monster Effect
If Melky makes an accurate throw it is at least a play at the plate, I don’t think he would’ve been out, but they would’ve had a shot…but the ball is slick out there and Melky probably didn’t get a good grip.
Have Pena pinch hit so he can bunt and try to get a base hit. Ransom is essentially the pitcher at this point lol.
Maybe some of you should look at CC’s track record against Oakland I believe it is one of the few teams that he has a losing record against and high era. I know I saw the stat yesterday.
dumb
pitching change to go after Ransom? what am I missing?
Perfect throw.
Wow what a throw!
if we win today then it would be a 4-2 homestand, pretty good if you ask me.
That was a bullet from Suzuki.
I really don’t understand how Brett Gardner’s lovers can show their face’s, it has only been 15 games, but, the guy is hitting .250, .250. common.
Of freakin course he gets a hit now. My god
now if Melky was still on base.
Melky caught stealing. Which means Ransom will now get a hit.
melky should’ve scored.
schmuck.
Ryan,
Oh, ok. That’s possible then via FA.
The Mets are highly unlikely to get Holliday in a trade. They don’t have anyone to give up except Fernando Martinez who is possibly one of the top 20 prospects in the game. They’re not going to trade him for a half season of Holliday.
We’ll see. I think Holliday is overrated (still a very good player but not elite) anyway. I’d be shocked if the Mets are the high bidder for him because they don’t have the firepower to make a deal.
Ransom finally gets an extra base hit and there’s no one on base.
He found his fastball on the outer third of the plate there.
Melky, you are not Gardner.
Let’s get the whining and moaning started about Cabrera going, again. Never mind that it took a perfect throw.
thats anybodies happy zone, Ken
LOL ofcourse after the caught stealing
So why not have Gardner pinch run for Melky? I know Joe probably wants Melk to play the whole game but still
Jetes will come through!
Wow that pitcher is stupid never throw Randsom a belt high fastball on the outer third of the plate. But im happy
Oh Melky, don’t you know, you just don’t give up an out on the bases when hit maching Cody Ransom is batting behind you. And now you know why.
I just love listening to John Sterling. Described Jeter’s earlier home run as a bomberoo of a home run.
“So why not have Gardner pinch run for Melky? I know Joe probably wants Melk to play the whole game but still”
I think he wants Gardner in for Swisher since it is a close game, if they are winning. He will pinch run Gardner for whoever if it is still tied in the late innings.
..and the Captin comes through again!!
gardner pinch run for melky? lmaooo
this blog is to much sometimes.
Jeter does what a captain does…
LEADS BY EXAMPLE!
First of all Derek Jeter is back baby!!!!
derek jeter. best yankee clutch hitter so far this season.
And by the way, if you can guarantee that Ransom was still going to get that same hit if Melky had stolen second (possibly they would have pitched to him different?) then I won’t mind the whining about Melky.
Captain clutch always hustling
JETER!!!!!!!
That’s some clutchiness right there.
jeter is the man
Great hitting by Jeter. That was a tough pitch to pull over SS.
Classic Jeter…doesn’t look pretty…but it works. And somehow he manages to make it into second by a fraction and take the extra base…there really is something intangible about him.
John Sterling just had me believing that Jeter got thrown out at 2nd. Quality play-by-play as always.
would’ve been 7 to 5 though.
::shakes fist angrily at melky::
4 homers and 10 rbis already. man he is rollin.
Jeter MVP!!
Doesn’t surprise me that it sounded like Sterling said Jetes was out on that play. Ughhh
Damon has another infield hit. The guy is rolling.
I think the wind is even helping the line drives!
Cue shot!
i love johnny damon. i really do. i hope he’s in pinstripes next year. i know he’s not the best defensively but i still love him.
Andrew
It was a close play.
Tex up with RISP. Lets get-er-done!
Old man Jeter doing good
Jeter…A very special ballplayer
Amen, Andrew. i’m at work…got all excited, then I hear Sterling’s call…then he said he was safe!!
Gotta love him!
Why is Singleton talking about a double Steal!?
I love the switch hitting in our line up
Tex comes through!
Nice job Tex
Sterling: “You’re on the Mark, Teixeira!”
grafxkid – how are you listening to the game? I can’t get it through the 880 website.. need something else.
This is the kind of team that having all of the left handed and switching bats stacked in the middle really helps….no left handed relief pitching.
WOW….the A’s have 4 hits…and 5 runs….ugly!
Da bats are coming alive.
I’m hardly panicking about CC, but he hasn’t pitched well outside of one game in KC. Others have noted elsewhere that he’s not striking out people and he’s also walking a lot. I hope this is just due to the fact that he’s a slow starter. I will give him that he hasn’t gotten his doors blown off and he’s kept the team in the game to the point where they now have the lead. I’m not sure I want him going another inning though…….
This is the kind of game we would have lost last year, 9 more outs guys!
Come on Jorge
Ah okay that makes it a little more understandable re: Jeter at 2nd, thanks for that info Doreen. Still, Sterling could have either a) waited instead of saying “the throw is…in time!”, or b) said something like “close play at 2nd and Jeter is….” and then just gotten it right.
But hey, you take the good with the bad…or, in his case, just the bad with the ridiculous catchphrases.
TEIX!! yea man u earn that money!! lol
finally 2 out hits with RISP. Last year made me nuts
Good call on no pinch runner, my bad. huge tex
If Gardner threw that ball that Melky threw, it would have bounced in front of second base and stopped before the mound.
These criticisms are ridiculous.
Get more runs
Has there ever been 3 guys to share the MVP trophy?
Cano!! Jeter!! Tex!!
The offense has battled big time in this one…CC and the pen need to win this one now.
Nevermind
Is everybody happy that they signed Texeria
http://stream2.wtsnam1270.com/
streaming the game
Finally getting stuff done with RISP. Lets not walk any leadoff hitters now please.
Sterling isn’t good – and you’re right, he should know by now on close plays, just wait for the ump’s call. It’s the RADIO for crying’ out loud – people can’t tell you’re calling it after the fact!
Russ: http://stream2.wtsnam1270.com/
let’s see…will CC stay in for the 7th and give me agita?
oh gawd
Thank you Coach.
Seriously, some posters on here need to be put in straightjackets… is there such thing as a digital straightjacket?
RussW210
I’m listening through MLB Audio. Of course I paid, but I saw someone post this website to listen for free:
http://stream2.wtsnam1270.com
Enjoy!
rain delay in Boston (bottom 7)
they are unlikely to call this game with the 2nd game coming tonight so it could be a long day of waiting for the Sox and Twins. Maybe that will help cool off the suddenly hot Sox bats.
where can you go online to listen to the game for free?
The captain doesn’t get as high as he use to but hes still got it lol
nevermind
Ball ball single.
THROW STRIKES!
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From Coach
Joe is going to regret leaving him in
who is warming – i am vomitizing
CC = BB
WALKS KILL YOU BUM!!!
CC has to attack the zone. Walks kill.
TAKE CC OUT FOR GOD SAKES HE IS CHOKING!!!
say goodnight CC.
alby and coke warming
Now you have to bring in a strikeout pitcher and take out the walk machine.
grr.
Alby, Coke, should have been in
You just never want to give away a free out when your top slugging third baseman is at the plate. Ransom is always one swing away from fireworks.
Wonder what the Yanks do if Holladay is up with 2 outs?
A-Rod update
He ran the bases for the first time today and was charging slow rollers.
Jeter is not getting a lot on his throws.
Oh this is a mess.
Girardi showing a lot of faith here.
Sabathia vs Holliday. Um, this will be in the paper tomorrow with the title: Clueless Joe 2
ugh
Nice job there Girardi.
Horrible, horrible, horrible job by Joe
And Sabathia blows it again. G-A-R-B-A-G-E
And Girardi’s faith is unrewarded, and he goes right back out.
Holliday nearly took CC’s head off.
Wow CC gives the lead back. At this point he doesn’t deserve a win.
Welcome to NY CC
Did he just forget how to manage this year?
Grady Little moment there.
Girardi has been miserable with pitching related decisions this year, which oddly enough was his strong suit last year
Joe Girardi: CC, you ready to blow this game for me? Good, lets do it!
Sabathia pitched another bad game and Girardi is a complete moron
If anyone gave me CC plus 7 runs, I’d take that bet any day.
CC has left a ton of pitches up this inning.
Joe goes out after that lucky play where the line drive hits the mound and doesn’t take him out.
Next pitch…shot up the middle. Tie game.
Everyone needs to relax we will be getting more runs. It is important to hold it here.
Another fantastic managing job by Girardi. Seriously, how bad does a pitcher have to look and his pitch location have to suck before a manager realizes it is time to go to the pen. I can see why Girardi was blamed for burning out the arms of the Marlins pitchers, as a former catcher he has to better understand pitchers today.
Girardi is getting a little too relient on his starters, I think. I was at the game last night and I was surprised he stuck with Pettitte throughout the whole 7th after he had labored at points. He left Burnett in for quite a while Sunday, as well…I wonder if it’s a matter of not trusting his bullpen guys yet, or putting tons of faith in his starters, or what.
yankees have to win despite sabathia, their ace.
oh but he’s a battler.
yeah, he’s battling himself. that’s great.
Those boos were awfully loud from a stadium that’s so empty
2008 yanks = no hitting with runners on
2009 yanks = giving leads right back
Nice over managing Joe, lets hope this does not cost us the game.
I have confidence in the Yanks scoring again. Unfortunately I have no confidence they won’t walk the world on base.
And why did Girardi keep him in so long again?
I don’t understand that move. I mean, I like Joe Girardi mostly, but the way that he manages the pitchers is ridiculous sometimes.
Put Coke in there, or someone. Don’t let a tired and erratic CC give up the lead. Especially with a warmed up bullpen and plenty of options.
a couple batters too late joe, and they boo CC, how nice.
Seriously.. Girardi is going to blow this guys arm out.. There is nothing in CC’s past history that has him this high up in pitch count this early in the season.
Fire Girardi. This guy is a freaking idiot. My god. Any one of us could have done a better job.
So CC blows another game from us throwing 120+ pitches for the second time in a row.
lame
Sorry – 112 this game.
“It’s the RADIO for crying’ out loud – people can’t tell you’re calling it after the fact!”
Ronald Reagan used to do radio re-creations of Cubs games from teletype reports in the 1930′s. I doubt he said ‘it is high, it is far, it is… caught’ too often.
WTF is Girardi thinking here?
Last start CC throws 124 pitches. Ths time he starts the 6th with 2 run lead and at 100 pitches
Tommorrow is off day
USE THE FREAKING BULLPEN
Instead CC gives up the lead AGAIN and has another high pitch game in APRIL
WTF is Girardi doing ?!?!?!
This is at least the second dumb (non) move by Girardi already this season. Why even leave him in? All he’s done is give back leads today.
Girardi and company get me more aggravated than CC does here. The 120 pitch limit I think is retarded. He should be treated as any other pitcher who is over 100 pitches with men on 1st and 2nd with no outs. Take him out, Period. and then you let him pitch to a righty Holliday, give me a break Girardi.
I hope Joe hasn’t become close enough with this young, exciting group that he loses objectivity.
How do you keep him in with their best hitter coming up to bat, and the last at-bat was basically a lucky out?
Come on Joe!
Let’s win this game now!
no way CC should have been back out there on a cold rainy day with 100 pitches and after a long half inning…I just don’t get it
“V
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Melky needs to play cf everyday”
Hey, fake me, I don’t know if you got the memo. Pete will be banning the IP of trolls like you if you continue.
Cut the crap, and stop playing hookie from your elementary school.
Prick.
Alby should have faced Holliday. #1 reason is percentages, and #2 CC just gave up a line drive the AB before.
Hopefully the offense can do it again…shouldn’t be in this situation. So much for pitching carrying us until A-Rod comes back. Don’t take this as a bridge jumping post, I think pitching will still end up being the strong suit for us, just obviously not the case thus far.
I guess Girardi wasnt watching the 2004 yanks-sox series
I guess Girardi wasnt watching the 2004 yanks-sox series
Coke? Oh Gawd. Here is where you he’s got to come through
I do however believe we will win this game. Its that type of day.
nice job you fat toad
7 runs against
is this is what you get for $161 million these days
4 starts only one decent one good going you BUM!!!
It’s pretty disheartening that Sabathia has pitched 3 bad games and only 1 good game this year.
Of the 7 runs given up so far, three have been by way of walks and one from the error. The offense is giving us every chance to win.
How much money did we give this guy?
He can’t throw a first pitch strike to save his life.
Hope he gets better as the season progresses, otherwise he will be the biggest free-agent bust (according to money spent) in baseball history.
And the thing is we have an off day tomorrow so there was no excuse not to go full out with the bullpen. Stupid move the Joe
Girardi has to stop letting CC get to 110-120 pitches this early in the year. He’ll be out cold by July.
Ok then.
Giradi is a horrible Manager. No way CC should have been out there!!!
Coke does the job. Thank you somebody.
Has No Mas started the Girardi losses yet
There is no one in the bullpen to go to. CC should be able to give us 7 decent innings. Instead, we really haven’t seen anything out of him that shows he’s worth his contract. CC may pitch great May-Sept, but it’s time he get out of his head and learn how to pitch in April and October, too.
Not the best day for CC and/or maybe Girardi.
i wonder if girardi will bring CC back in for coke in the 8th. why not. doesn’t matter how one is pitching, just leave him out there until he’s completely gassed.
That non-move by Girardi was as dumb as it gets. He’s made several significant managing mistakes this year.
all you “how much money” guys need to go ahead and jump off that bridge already…CC always starts slow and he will still end up dominating before the season is done. Anyway, giving up the lead is on Girardi there.
Girardi’s handling of CC here is inexcusable
Also, yes it is April but does anyone else find it a tad bit worrisome that our ace starter gave up 7 runs to the worst offense in the league?
That was 100% on Girardi. No way Sabathia should have been there to face Holliday. You could make an argument that he should never have come out for the 7th in the first place. He was LUCKY to get through six. He didn’t have his control today.
“Hope he gets better as the season progresses, otherwise he will be the biggest free-agent bust (according to money spent) in baseball history.”
Wow.
matty c you must live a miserable life
Wow, the bashing on here is crazy today! I agree Girardi shouldn’t have let CC come back in after the 6th, but Wow!
Win or lose, I REALLY like what I have seen out of Jeter so far. I am his biggest naysayer and he has been nothing but clutch of late.
Looks empty in Fenway too. Gotta be the weather and the fact that its a day game .
Even though the lead is gone with the way the team has been playing I have a lot of confidence we’re going to win this game.
They seem to have a knack of pulling out the close one this year. At home, bats rocking, I like our chances.
We need to relax about Charleston. He never starts off strong, he has an awful april career record.
The thing that does bother me about C.C, is that I think he has good stuff, but not excellent/great/santana stuff.But he is a workhorse, a good person, and he shown that he can take a team on his back and carry them to the postseason.
“How much money did we give this guy?”
Pet Peeve alert: We? Are you partners with the Steinbrenners or did you just send them a check for the CC Sabathia fund?
Let me just say that I’m not worried about CC. I’m worried about the manager not knowing when to take out his starter.
Didn’t he leave AJ in too long during his last start and Albie how to bail him out
Is anybody following along with the Sox game? Might they call it in the 7th? I would love to see my Twins run-line bet voided for not going the distance.
I guess until the weather warms up and CC remembers how to pitch, we are down to: Burnett, Pettitte, Chamberlain and pray for rain.
This 120 pitch limit disgusts me. the Front Office should be raising their eyebrow to his management style. Bring in Mattingly!
CC was horrible all day, lucky for us the A’s offense suck or it would of been real bad. He gave us 6 innings and we had the lead he should not have gone out for the 7th
“CC may pitch great May-Sept, but it’s time he get out of his head and learn how to pitch in April and October, too.”
Is that you, Mr. Steinbrenner? I didn’t think you were up on the Internet. Hemming and hawing about CC will make a lot of sense after he’s strung together a sequence of good starts. And please, don’t try to pluck him down with the other imported SP busts of the recent past. Unlike those guys, CC isn’t a total headcase and also has a track record of dominance. Calm yourselves down. He is still not exactly getting Chien-Ming Wang’ed out there in his bad starts.
I wish there was some sort of electronic scarlet letter to identify all the people who are calling CC a bust on April 22nd…
CC had some good middle innings, though. He had looked settled in. Not fair to say it was a totally bad outing. Bad beginning, bad ending, good middle.
Cano is rocking.
Cano..dont you know.
Cano continues to rake
“We need to relax about Charleston.”
Are the baby bombers struggling too?
Cano with a single. Woot woot. If this was inning #9 in would be Gardner.
Robbie starting things off
dr. cox,
its also a makeup game as the game was rained out last night
CC is ruining my fantasy team right now.
sigh
I’m waiting for the “Sabathia is a bust” and “Girardi should be fired” barrage now.
Foul =(
Sorry Doreen, it was a bad outing. 6.2 IP, 6 hits, 7 runs, 4 walks, only 2 K’s.
My God John Sterling is annoying.
Sabathia should be fired and Girardi is a bust =P
Matty C:
What is the matter with you. It’s been 4 starts and guess what, he didn’t pitch THAT bad today. Yes he let the lead up, and you’ll have that. He will only continue to progress, go longer and rack up the wins.
You must not know alot about baseball. Either that or are 13 years old calling people a “fat toad.”
Take it easy.
I agree – I’m getting a little worried that Girardi is starting to become more torre-esque (i.e. no clue what he’s doing)lately –
todays none move on sabathia and a few days ago when he made ransom bunt with matsui was on first (matsui was forced out at second) – then the next inning swish doubled and he pinch ran for him…these 2 moves really makes you scratch your head thinking what the hell is going on..
It really is weird that girardi used his pitching staff so well last year and this year he does not know what he’s doing. Once they fell so far out last year that they need to win every game he yanked the starting pitcher once they started to lose it… so why not use that philosphy all the time. What a ridiculous decision to leave cc in that long.
90million year old Springer needs to be destroyed.
I’m not worried about CC other than the fact that he’s being pushed to 110 pitches every start so early in the season. He’ll get it together soon enough.
Swisher’s foul ball bounces off an empty seat. The horror.
I almost forgot how “enjoyable” it is to listen to Sterling on radio.
It’s like he’s broadcasting the game from a dark closet.
Well bad move by Joe, CC was not good today…the yankees will live
Great AB by Swish. Let’s go Hideki!
2 on. Lets get that RISP up.
“My God John Sterling is annoying.”
He’s had Swisher hitting 2 home runs in this at-bat judging by his yelling about foul balls.
Let’s go O.
Patrick -
Bad outing in total, but he had a good middle and he had settled in.
I hope for better overall from Sabathia, though.
Godzilla is an RBI machine when healthy…
Let’s see what he can do here!
Let’s Go Yanks!
If the Yanks win with a stink effort by CC I will be happy
The downside to trying to pay attention to a game while at work is that you can’t.
So what I want to say is that I know CC is out of the game but I personally am not worried about his starts since he is noted for starting off slow. As long as the Yankees keep picking him up, I believe we’ll be fine. Is all.
Back to work.
Terrible move by Joe – he’s going to blow CC’s arm out…..and on a day when the big man didn’t have much. He should have been grateful to get the lead and then run with it. Francesca’s right – Joe has zero faith in his pen outside the 8th inning. This is not the same man that managed the pen last year. He let AJ throw too many pitches and already this is twice in April that CC has thrown well over 100 pitches, close to 120. I think Joe is getting uptight with all the pressure he’s under to win
Terrible move by Joe – he’s going to blow CC’s arm out…..and on a day when the big man didn’t have much. He should have been grateful to get the lead and then run with it. Francesca’s right – Joe has zero faith in his pen outside the 8th inning. This is not the same man that managed the pen last year. He let AJ throw too many pitches and already this is twice in April that CC has thrown well over 100 pitches, close to 120. I think Joe is getting uptight with all the pressure he’s under to win
Springer is wild. Very wild.
DO NOT SWING AT THIS PITCH MATSUI!
This guy can’t throw strikes
When I die , I don’t want to come back as an empty seat –
they get no love.
why isnt giradi pinch hitting and bunting for matsui
Betsy, youve been doubling up alot lately. Trying to get your point across any way shape or form, huh lol.
Ill take it
DROPPED! WOOHOO BASES JUICED AND NO OUTS!!!
I don’t think Girardi is going to “blow CC’s arm out” but it doesn’t make sense to me why he stretches Sabathia out on games where he clearly doesn’t have good stuff. Last time out and today Sabathia struggled to throw strikes so Joe inexplicably has him throw 110+ pitches.
With the slop Sabathia was throwing today Girardi should have yanked him after 6 and been overjoyed that the Yanks had a lead.
Haha, Matsui lucks out there. Bases loaded.
Just don’t strike out Melky
Nick in SF…..Very funny as always
should have bunted there even though they got the runner to third…. thats a bad move in a big spot
“Bad outing in total, but he had a good middle and he had settled in.”
CC always has a solid middle.
spring can’t find the zone and melky is swinging at garbage.
0-2 to melky… automatic strikeout?
Damnit Melky take one for the team
can melky do something here?
Billy Beane can never put together anything resembling a good defensive team.
This is where it would pay dividends to have a better bench, you would like to have a PH for Ransom with the bases juiced.
what an idiot
WTF Melky.
Wow what a terrible swing.
hahaha this is the part where the yankees dont get a run in with the bases loaded and no body out.
i hear some cheering at the stadium – a nice, healthy ‘Let’s Go Yankees” chant.
Bad AB for the Melk.
Sterling just said he struck out on a pitch over his head.
Was it really that bad?
that was the worst AB of the season so far
just atrocious
just hit it somewhere…
What as that melky
Melky has reminded us both why we liked him and why we didn’t.
10 says we dont get a run out of this at all.
and this is why gardner > melky
he takes pitches
WTF???? At least with Cody you have a shot for the grand slam. This makes ZERO SENSE.
Watch for the bunt.
Wow did anyone ever think they would see the day that Brett Gardner would pinch hit??
Can someone please explain to me why John has to scream what is happening into the mic. Hello I don’t have a tv so I can’t see what is happening, and if you scream I don’t understand!!
This is terrible. Gardner doesn’t have enough power to even get a sac fly.
DT
Yes, that bad.
Come on Gardner.
Pel
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
that was the worst AB of the season so far
just atrocious
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Have you seen some automatic 3 strike outs Ransom has had lately?
lol lol
great player, that Melky is
lol lol
great player, that Melky is
Well, so much for Melky being more disciplined at the plate.
Sabathia is not going to blow his arm out throwing 112 pitches anymore than he would throwing 100 pitches.
Sabathia himself has said a number of times that he needs to throw more to get into a rhythm rather than less.
There’s nothing to worry about with him. He’ll get it together soon.
annnnnd thats why melky is a benchwarmer and not a starter..
CC gave up 5 runs in 6 innings. Girardi lets him pitch into the 7th and when he gives up 2 more runs then he takes him out. One thing for sure, CC is no Johan Santana.
Just take pitches on this guy! He can’t throw a strike!
DT =
Yeah, it was.
I think he was trying too hard.
I never thought I’d see “Cody” and “grand slam” mentioned in the same sentence.
Then again, Gardner isn’t exactly my favorite candidate for a PH either.
I fully expect the Yankees to score zero runs here. Melky + Gardner = fail
This is a smart move
hahahahahhahahahahhahaha
disgusting
This is very pathetic we cant get a run
Good lord. Same ol’ Yankee baseball.
Wow, this is absolute failure on the parts of Melky and Gardner.
Two awfully ugly ABs by Gardner and Melky.
Are you kidding me
bases loaded and we can’t get in a run? cmon fellas
annnnd thats why gardner is also a benchwarmer and not a starter…
………
Jeter has to do everything today, doesn’t he?
>Have you seen some automatic 3 strike outs Ransom has had lately?
Did you see that Melky AB?
NO PITCHES IN THE ZONE WHATSOEVER!
unbelievable…
the yankees – AROD = pathetic
Are you kidding me??
Grand slam, anyone?
Gee, I didn’t know the Yankee Thought Police were out this early.
Hey, brain-dead so-called Yankee fans, you don’t have to be Dorothy in the Emerald Forest to post on this site!
When someone making Sabathia’s money (and I was opposed to signing him in the first place, see the archives) craps on the mound like he’s been doing, he’s not going to get hearts and flowers from Yankee fans.
Get used to it!
and it’s the weak bottom 3rd of the lineup that kills us
Pathetic. Honestly, if Jeter comes through here its an anomaly. How many times can we ask this man to save the rest of this team??
Melky and BG were just pitiful there.
In the ongoing debate between Gardner and Melky – can we chose none of the above?
AAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDD thats why Gardner should be a benchwarmer and not a starter. He’s hitting .242 now for the season. Yawk.
Jeter up the middle watch
RBI walk maybe?
J/C this team could hit its way out of styrofoam box.
They really get undisciplined when there are RISP. Must scare them
waaaah *queue the violins*
Paging Mike Cameron to the white courtesy phone….
missed you guys.
Melky gets a HR and a walk today and people still want to get on him, tough crowd.
Melky is still better than Gardner.
had their chance!
What is the chance we win this game if they don’t score a run? .006% ?
“Melky gets a HR and a walk today and people still want to get on him, tough crowd.”
I’ll give him the homer but he was caught stealing after the walk. Then Ransom got a double.
cannot count on jeter for everything, but ths is just painful.
Ransom in his last 25 AB’s is 7-25 (.280). He has been swinging the bat better and can drive the ball to the OF or go the other way. I would have let him hit.
PATHETIC!
Springer pulls a Houdini.
Pathetic
Pffffffft !!!!!!!!
we lost
i had flashbacks of 2008….
What a disaster. They had Springer on the ropes and didn’t capitalize.
I love Gardner but pinch hitting for Ransom there was stupid. Girardi is doing his best to lose this game.
Sterling: “What pitching by Russ Springer.”
Let’s not kid ourselves here. Melky’s at bat was beyond awful, and Gardner’s wasn’t too very much better. Jeter got jammed. That was not good pitching, that was being given two of three outs.
Disgraceful.
According to Gameday, the pitch Melky swung at for Strike 3 was HEAD HIGH. It was at his head. I’m just sayin’.
Melky was definitely anxious at the plate.
swing at ball 3, sure why not
This was the biggest failure I’ve seen in a long time.
You have to put it on Melky because he didn’t have a patient at-bat and allowed Springer to gain some confidence back.
There was a questionable call on 2-0 to Jeter and Gardner’s at-bat was atrocious.
No excuses should be made for anything. That was the worst baseball I’ve seen.
That was beyond pathetic. Laughable actually.
Pathetic!!
Liked the Gardner move, but he was an idiot and did not put the ball on the ground
I miss the game updates!!!!
Call 911!!!!!!!
Yankee players choking on a mysterious gas in the air… HURRY!!!!!!!
I’m not laughing ZMAN… come to expect it.
Jerry Springer is one tough pitcher.
Flying chairs, angry spouses, gritty gardners and whiffing melky’s and he still gets the job done.
I don’t think you can blast the decision to PH for Ransom, despite the result. He hits one pitch in one part of the strike zone, and that’s about it.
i understand bringing up Gardner v Ransom, but wouldn’t you bunt him in that situation? How we don’t score in that situation bogs the mind.
It didn’t go past a lunging Jeter!
here we go..
The YES gun has to be off by 2-3 MPH. Albaladejo isn’t going to hit 95 MPH any other way.
Really, is it any question that A-Jax is better than gardner right now? im predicting we see him alot earlier than we thought
Hokiehill
Bunt with the bases loaded? Only if you can do it perfectly.
i wouldn’t be mad at melky if he didn’t swing at such a RIDICULOUS pitch. i mean it was way over his head. you just can’t two that with 2 strikes and the bases loaded
what? no vera$$???
They better not lose this game now after having that kind of run scoring opportunity and failing miserably.
That was beyond pathetic. Ransom would have had a better at bat even than either Melky or Gardner.
Well i guess the yankees didn’t want to win the game today. If we give up a run here we will lose
This has been the same crap we’ve been watching for years now.
Was that a Jeter-induced single that other SS’s might get to, or was that truly a “nice play by Jeter” as Sterling described it?
Was that a Jeter-induced single that other SS’s might get to, or was that truly a “nice play by Jeter” as Sterling described it?
Un-freakin-believable.
I obviously don’t watch every game of every team, but the Yankees are (and have been for quite some time) TERRIBLE with the bases loaded, nobody out. It’s like a stigma.
Marte warming. God help us.
come on Alba
Christina. If there were updates it would look like this:
1:30 – Bad pitching there for CC
1:31 – 3-run homer. Bad.
1:40 – Yanks get it back on solo homers, wind-blown.
2:00 – CC blows it.
2:40 – Melky caught stealing. Figures. Runs score though.
3:00 – CC blows it.
3:30 – Bases loaded.
3:40 – RISP-death
4:00 – well, it was a close game for a while but we knew it was over after the Yankees blew their chance in the 7th. Good game, Yankees are now 1 above .500.
Man, this is nauseating. Girardi has pushed so many wrong buttons today.
I really thought we were gonna see Bruney this inning. Why does kurt Suzuki own the yankees.
Vito,,,,Ransom cannot hit a breaking ball…..Springer is a breaking ball pitcher…..Do you watch baseball, or do you just pop off with knee jerk bs….
If Oakland scores a run here, this game is ovah!
15 hits to 7. My God!
Too bad we are too stubborn to bring up Robertson or Melancon.
Really, is it any question that A-Jax is better than gardner right now? im predicting we see him alot earlier than we thought
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Gardner, for all his faults, is doing pretty well. I don’t see them making a move and bringing up AJax sooner than expected.
Get the feeling that the Yankees just don’t feel complete unless they can blow at least one game a series.
this is the perfect opportunity for wang to come in for relief.
What exactly is the point of Marte?
Come on Alby
“If Oakland scores a run here, this game is ovah!”
Yep yep. You can count on it being over right now though because I don’t think I’ve seen the Yankees blow it like they did in the 7th then come back to win. They don’t deserve to win.
i have to agree. one really ugly loss each series at least
Wow. That looked pretty good.
the old guy springer sent two up and in purpose pitches to the youngsters and took them out of their at bats. melky needed to walk around after the up and in pitch made him flinch. he never got back into the at bat.
this team is still not a good situational hitting team.
Lots of fouls. This will end in a walk.
Well, NYY must not be leading in the game. The idiots are out from under the rocks.
And, the 3:50 post is not me.
If I am looking for one run I would take a fly ball by Ransom vs a grounder by Gardner. They both have a good chance to whiff however. Here is a situation where Juan Miranda on the bench would have helped. Too bad his callup was less then 24 hours.
If Crosby gets hit with RISP there is no God.
One more Alby
you can do it…I wonder why he wasn’t in the 7th inning
If we don’t win this game, we could finish the day behind the Red Sox.
Why do people find it to be an acceptable excuse when the guy just says I don’t pitch well in April? We can’t expect him to figure it out? Seriously, how long has he been doing this that he can’t pitch in the cold weather? It’s ridiculous fatalism to just take it for granted that he’ll never be good in the beginning of a season or the postseason. I think we have every right to complain when a guy puts up three starts of the putrid quality he’s given.
If you need a diversion, apparently it is already time to start voting for all-stars:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....8;c_id=mlb
I would expect us to walk Crosby…seeing as he’s such a dangerous hitter and all
Great job Alby.
GreenBeret – I just noticed he mocked me at 3:47 as well lol
Yea were back in business baby. This Alby kid is starting to show me something!
Alby the racist dragon!
Let’s score a run and forget about that embarrassment.
randy l.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
the old guy springer sent two up and in purpose pitches to the youngsters and took them out of their at bats. melky needed to walk around after the up and in pitch made him flinch. he never got back into the at bat.
this team is still not a good situational hitting team.
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Afternoon, Randy. When did Springer learn this new pitch? The consistant 90 MPH fastball?
Ok.
What do you have to say, Gossage, about Albaladejo?
Albaladejo must be building him some trust in Girardi’s eyes, no? He’s definitely passed Jose Veras and Edwar on the depth chart.
A run is all they need. One of those solo HR’s would work.
Yeah Alby
Wouldn’t it be nice if Joe used him in the 7th but no Joe had to lose his brain today>>
I almost want the Yanks to lose this game based on principle.
And I’m glad CC is not pitching in Fenway this weekend. You’d think the guy could keep em under a run per inning I don’t care how slow a starter he is.
How many LOB by the Yanks thus far?
“They don’t deserve to win.”
You’re right, RussW210, they don’t deserve to win this game, but sometimes the team that doesn’t deserve it ends up on the winning side anyway.
Let’s hope the Yanks pull this out.
Tie game, late innings. Why not save Gardner for pinch running situation later in the game? I know Ransom has not done much with the bat, but Gardner’s biggest weapon is his speed, not his bat. Especiall off the bench.
Good part of our order coming up. Lets get it done!
Alby!
I don’t want to bring down the mood or anything, but has anyone else noticed that Mo does not look quite the same this year?
His location has been a bit off and he’s gotten a lot of helpful calls from umpires, while looking more hittable than usual.
I’m thinking it’s just me or he’s building arm strength, but Ive been a little worried.
9 team LOB
Seeing Albaladejo have a strong 8th inning only makes you wonder more why he wasn’t in the game in the 7th.
Hopefully this won’t be a Girardi loss and it’ll be forgotten about in the morning.
This kid is nasty
Anthony…i don’t think there is a pitcher out there who says “i just pitch bad in April” and isn’t trying to get off to a better start every year. But as a fan it is certainly legit to state that as a fact if it is in fact…a fact! Using CC as an example, i dont care if he goes 1-1 in 4 games in April as long as he has 18-19 wins by the time the season ends…especially if he ends the season for us like he did with the Brew-crew
Love the confidence Alby is starting to build. A few more appearances like that, and he’ll join the Mo/Bruney club.
Great job by Alba… say hello to Girardi’s 3rd favorite guy in the pen.
STOP CREDITING SPRINGER!
If this game stays tied in the 9th, and Marte is brought in, forget about it.
Zooboy –
Gardner was PH’ing there to take the DP out of the equation. Even if he grounds out, he likely beats the throw to first. Groundball still scores a run there with 1 out.
Ball 5!
LETS GO YANKEES
LETS GO RANGERS
” I think we have every right to complain when a guy puts up three starts of the putrid quality he’s given.”
Nope, sorry Anthony, not according to rule 5 of the Yankee Thought Police Handbook.
“I almost want the Yanks to lose this game based on principle.”
Which principle is that, the one where they don’t make the playoffs again
Yankees putting more men on base.
leadoff walk! Will Damon steal? Can we manufacture a run?
another gift….
The A’s are practically begging to give this game away. Yankees, WAKE UP and accept the gift!!
Lets get one and then get Mo come on yanks!!!
Why do people find it to be an acceptable excuse when the guy just says I don’t pitch well in April? We can’t expect him to figure it out? Seriously, how long has he been doing this that he can’t pitch in the cold weather? It’s ridiculous fatalism to just take it for granted that he’ll never be good in the beginning of a season or the postseason. I think we have every right to complain when a guy puts up three starts of the putrid quality he’s given.
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It’s not what Sabathia says about Sabathia. It’s about what the back of his baseball card says about him.
He has a history of slow starts in April and that’s just the way it is. Teixeira has the same issue.
So you really think paying them a lot of money is going to change their historic tendencies?
I’ve got news for you. It won’t.
They are going to be the same players whether they make $10M a year or $20M+ a year.
When Yankee fans clamor for these guys during the offseason – you’re gonna have to accept the whole package – the good with the bad.
Tell Damon to walk off the field. We can’t have any runners in scoring position to score.
Marte is not real, he is Felix the cat with a Mask on
everything to tex is outside. dont pull the ball….
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a guy on the bench right now who could pinch run for Damon and then play LF in the 9th?
Pop out, 1 away. Have Damon steal now.
what is with all the pop ups…can we at least move the runner over?
Swisher is just going to blast one out
I’ll jump on your train ALB3
Wow, that sounded bad hahahaha
I love how Kay jumps on every call that clearly isnt fair…
Ray,
Exactly!
gb7-
i think think the old grizzled veteran schooled the yankee farm hands melky and gardner who have never been taught how to take pitches and put the ball in play at will.
More popups.
And this is why I love AL Leiter haha
3-4 guys up with a leadoff walk. UGH!!!!!!!!
STEAL DAMON
Cano, please hit a double..
this is so ridiculous
Yeah I’ve been told that MLB players hit pop ups
If we can pull this game out it would be great. If not, I am still not worried about anything. The offense if averaging 5.4 runs/game without A-rod, Matui injured and Texiera off to his usual mediocre April.
Imagine what they will start doing in the months to come.
And what the hell is the Yankee Thought Police. That doesnt even make sense and is beyond corny.
“gb7-
i think think the old grizzled veteran schooled the yankee farm hands melky and gardner who have never been taught how to take pitches and put the ball in play at will.”
Just like he schooled that young rookie Derek Jeter?
Leadoff walks score….except for the Yankees.
Not scoring in that 7th inning was crushing.
10 LOB through 8….
at least it isnt 20 i guess.
Yeah this Kid is Nasty. He has a good cutter, no where as good as Mo but really good
calling it: Kay will bring up how Mo wasn’t that good in non-save situations last year.
I hate how the A’s have their best hitters up the same inning the Yankees have the bottom of the order up.
Hard to fathom even being in this situation right now. If we see Veras or Marte or Ramirez, say adios.
please no Marte…please…
I’m playing game catch up. We had the bases loaded and nobody out and plated nothing????? How in hell did THAT (not) happen!
I hear sandman!!!
Mo is coming in, he has to come in
Hate to say it, but this has the feel of a loss. Yanks may rue blowing that opportunity in the 7th inning. Mo is not good in tie games. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Oakland squeez out a run here in the 9th.
why rivera in a tie game?
does someone need to nail 2008 into girardi’s head?
dude, get your own name…
Mo in a tied game is always somewhat more nerve-wracking.
Mo? We couldn’t go to Bruney first?
You knew we’d lose the game after the way the top/bottom of the 7th went.
YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I KNEW IT!
“calling it: Kay will bring up how Mo wasn’t that good in non-save situations last year.”
Should he not? It was true.
randy l.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
gb7-
i think think the old grizzled veteran schooled the yankee farm hands melky and gardner who have never been taught how to take pitches and put the ball in play at will.
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I don’t remember him throwing that hard 18 years ago when he was with the Yankees.
And Mo gets squeezed on the first pitch.
Here he goes about Mo’s tie games!
Ok, worst case scenario is the Yankees lose. That means they split the home series again. But they still have NOT lost a series since Baltimore. Even though it seems like they are trying their best to give games away, this will all even out by the All Star break.
its cause we’re gonna score in the bottom of ninth
Cody Ransom seems unerring on his throws to first.
There, I said something nice.
>Should he not? It was true.
wasn’t a commentary on Mo, but the predictability of Kay’s trivia
At least Rivera doesn’t have to face Scutero in this game.
Mo should be the spokesman for Dial Soap or Old Spice because he is just filthy out there…. If the Yankees had a lead I would suggest he drill Cabrera.
Doesn’t it seem like the pesky guys always get to Mo?
why rivera in a tie game?
does someone need to nail 2008 into girardi’s head?
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Why bring in Mo when we have unhittable relievers like Veras and Marte….Idiot
……
“Ok, worst case scenario is the Yankees lose. That means they split the home series again. But they still have NOT lost a series since Baltimore. Even though it seems like they are trying their best to give games away, this will all even out by the All Star break.”
Exactly. Thank you for the sane, rational thought. People are crazy.
cano with a botched throw
I still can’t believe the Yankees didn’t score in the seventh inning.
here’s 2 more thoughts –
didn’t mo have trouble when he came in last year in non save sitautions? wake up call… mr girardi…
why was this a day game when both teams have an off day tomorrow? it seems the yankees play better at night (at least to me)
Q: if tonight’s game at Fenway is rained out, does that mean Beckett can’t start until Sunday? I don’t know where he is in the suspension count.
Pel
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
cano with a botched throw
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a recent head injury, or, have you always been stupid?
No that was Cano almost making an incredible play. Not a botched throw.
Oakland is much better than their record indicates…..They’ll be a factor come September…..Too many good arms
nice play Cano!
great play
Excellent play by Cano.
Mo!
“I don’t remember him throwing that hard 18 years ago when he was with the Yankees.”
gb7-
to tell the truth i don’t remember much about him though i knew he used to be a yankee.
GreenBeret7 April 22nd, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Pel
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
cano with a botched throw
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a recent head injury, or, have you always been stupid?
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You Crack me up GB
That play by robby was GORGEOUS!
Nick in SF
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Q: if tonight’s game at Fenway is rained out, does that mean Beckett can’t start until Sunday? I don’t know where he is in the suspension count.
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Yeah, it’s a 5 gamer instead of a 5 day suspension.
Cano taking those merengue classes in the offseason really paid off.
I still don’t understand why we can’t send down either Veras or Ramirez, who are both garbage, and bring a fourth bench player up. This is nonsense.
Dr. Cox
Exactly. Thank you for the sane, rational thought. People are crazy.
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your welcome. Behind all my irrantional blabber are actual sane thoughts. People need to look at the standings, look who is struggling, and they will see the Yankees are right where they should be for the third week of the season, considering the mess their pitching staff is in.
So it would have been nice to lock down this win in the 7th inning, but I’ll take a walk-off and series win right before Fenway.
Gardner needs to be ready to run if Swisher gets on or if not, if Matsui gets on….Yanks have a need for speed!
Sterling was talking about Ransom at 3B that inning – when he was pinch hit for in the 7th – the man is good.
I am looking forward to a Yankees run this inning putting a sock in the mouth of all you masters of panic.
They can’t send down Veras because he’s out of options. C’mon, this has only been addressed 700 times the past week.
When I left it was 5-4. I expected to come back to a 7-5 game in hand. Instead I saw a 7-7 game.
Didn’t Zeigler start his career with 30 or 40 something straight scoreless innings?
Springer had his best seasons with the Angels….Was on the 02 Championship team…..Yanks grind it out and get the win now
I miss Dan Giese.
No real reason why.
I just do.
Not sure if last September’s benching got Cano’s attention or not. Going to have to wait to see how his defense is when he hits his first hitting slump.
oops, didn’t mean Gardner, he is already in. Meant Pena
Swish is god, he’ll hit one out.
“Cano taking those merengue classes in the offseason really paid off.”
I thought the knock on Cano was that he partied too much.
Brandon did you see him LQ’s or in Jersey this offseason? lol
Another leadoff walk.
>a recent head injury, or, have you always been stupid?
i know vision goes with age. it happens to all the octogenarians. i feel for you.
Its too bad the bottom of the lineup after matsui is automatic outs. Damn
My God, what game am I watching. Can IE update any quicker when trying look at the bench… uughh
Sorry, retarded jean (from my mother’s side) just kicked in.
Godzilla!!!!!
Have no fear ladies and gents.
I just downloaded the ” Jet Steam ” app on my Iphone and am setting it to “high”
You know what would be great if GGBG could pinch run…but wait the Genius Joe pinch hit him in the 7th
ugh, just a deflating game….i dont like where this is going
Looks like we might be getting extras. Matsui grounds into a DP.
Walk off would be fun.
panayioti
That would be gene…sigh
You know, when Melky hits this walkoff HR, nobody will care about his bad at-bat
what are the chances of Melky ending this game right now?
oh… my… godddd
melky: the quicker, whiffer upper
bonus cantos, baby
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO not marte!!!!
Onto the 10th.
Now it’s trouble time
Oh… my…. god…….
Bruney coming in?
yep…
yay, a DP and a Melky strikeout
We’re never going to win with this inept lineup that can’t get a big hit to save their lives.
hey other Luigi, grow up and stop impersonating me
Marte in…??
Marte in…??
I don’t think Melky could have strung together two worse ABs than his last two attempts.
who’s next? Marte, Vera$$?
Oh no its Felix the cat…umm i mean Marte..yankee faithful hold your breath
Uh oh, I think Marte is coming in now…
Melky back to his old self.
Wait…when was he never not?
Marte is in. Get those good luck charms/religious effigies/human sacrifices ready so he puts up a zero.
Marte is coming in.
Ryan (Im just waiting till the shine wears off)
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
panayioti
That would be gene…sigh
See what I mean, for normal people yes, but if you met my mother, you would understand
GB7: I understand about the games vs. days, I just didn’t know how many games had so far counted towards the suspension. I see on mlb.com that today’s first game in Fenway has been called after 7 innings. So I think Beckett should have to remain suspended an extra inning or two into his next start.
Luigi
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Green Beret, were you in my country during the war, as you may be my daddy, you a like a Pizza and have a tatoo.
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Doesn’t say much for your opinion of your parents if you think that, does it?
Put Bruney in the game. Day off tomorrow.
Maybe they can squeeze out a run in the 10th.
Now the A’s get to tee off Veras and Marte
What a deflating loss this will be. We had 3 games over in our sights.
the lineup put up 7 runs. i don’t care how many chances they blew, if they lose, it has to be on the pitching. you can’t expect 8 runs a game…
Lord….Marte is in. Do they just want this game to end?
Rationalize it any which way you choose, but if they lose this, it’s a complete giveaway and will really sting.
wasnt there talk of registration last year? what ever happened to that, seems like a great idea to me
Marte?
Marte!!!
Not feeling good about Marte’s wildness.
let the walks come.
Don’t worry Marte will do well i just sacrificed my dog
Does anyone actually think we’ll win this game?
You know what you big babies. Try S’ing TFU about Marte. He’s a left-handed specialist and if he’s being asked to get extra outs it’s not his fault. He’s ours and you should be cheering for him the same way you cheered for CC who gave up 7 runs!
That’s what I think anyway.
By “pitching” you mean CC, i hope?
Damaso Marte he’s our man…
If he can’t get em out…
no one can!!!!!!!!!!
followed by a grandslam. i think he has given up more Slams than anyone.
Marte in the clutch!
Friggin garbage!
Yippee you got the fat man disease
Sorry I mean the CC disease
Keep walking people it works!!
He better friggin lift this A-Hole
Leadoff walk. For the A’s this time.
Marte may have just walked one of the worst hitters in the league, but he will get a double play ball here. So don’t worry.
Two Things
1. Kevin Long may be great/amazing at teaching mechanics and correcting flaws… but for the life of him cannot get situational hitting across to ANYONE.
2. Cue up the circus music and Monkeys on Tricycles… Here Comes Damaso Marte
marte = Kyle Farnsworth.
Nick in SF
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
GB7: I understand about the games vs. days, I just didn’t know how many games had so far counted towards the suspension. I see on mlb.com that today’s first game in Fenway has been called after 7 innings. So I think Beckett should have to remain suspended an extra inning or two into his next start.
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Yeah, he’ll be pushed back one more game.
I’d make him come into the game with bases loaded, no outs and 3-0 count on him in the third inning as part of the suspension.
well the yankees certainly arent paying marte to just be a lefty specialist
And maybe Marte is still injured from the WBC.
And if your 16 hit Yankees had gotten more runs across we’d have won this game.
I just don’t like people trashing our relief pitchers.
Well he is still alive…well he comes Ichiro with a mask on.
aaaaaaaaaand here we go again! marte’s ONLY job is to get the left out and what does he do? he WALKS him. 12 millions dollars! arrrgghhhh
Well that was as predictable as the sky is blue.
Just watch…the A’s will either bunt or steal a base. Oh yeah, Marte is awful at holding on runners.
yeah i meant CC. my point was the offense is not the problem today at all.
Who else knew this game was over when Marte came in?
i’ve never seen him but rajah davis sounds fast.
AD, that would be because situational hitting is not taught.
trisha- Don’t be such a homer Marte stinks, he has 0 control, 0 command and 0 guts.
His slider needs to dive low and in to get a DP ball. Come on, Marte!
Marte please don’t make me suffer just give it up already please
I think your on to something with the Circus music. I suggest that if your ERA is above 10 at the end of april you have to warm up to the traditional clown music
Marte is not a lefty specialist. He was a closer with Pittsburg. The fact that others messed up in this game doesn’t excuse Marte from throwing strikes. Yeah if things had gone well, we would never see Marte in the game, but how does that say anything good about Marte? We should feel sorry for him because he was actually asked to play baseball?
Where is Melancon? Dave Robertson? I know Marte is making a lot of money but what a terrible pitcher.
Okay obviously 4:30 was not me.
LOL I’ll kill him myself.
go Marte go Marte go!!!!!!
can we bring back mike stanton circa 1998
pitcher has to give his catcher a chance. Bad effort on Marte.
Girardi must have dinner plans
This is just ridiculous. I mean honestly.
Why, why did Joe put in Marte?????
Wow Suzuki looked rather silly there.
Marte is nasty when he throws those types of pitches! He left everything over the plate in that at-bat and that was why he wasn’t striking anyone out. It’s about time he threw one of them.
lets go E-Ram!!!!
“Orginal Luigi April 22nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
can we bring back mike stanton circa 1998″
He of the 5.47 ERA? Seriously??
I think were due for one of the rather nasty performances from edwar.
Well every now and then a blind squirrel finds a nut….he still sucks
“Who else knew this game was over when Marte came in?”
All the same people who knew the game was over when the Yankees loaded the bases in the bottom of the 7th and had nobody out and didn’t plate any runs?
Lets go flaco
“go Marte go Marte go!!!!!!”
There ya go, that’s the spirit, Matty, let’s all join in…
Go Marte go! Go Marte go! Go Marte go!…..eeeeeeeehhhhhhhh……..oooopsie…..Marte is out of the game, already?????
We needed to win in the 9th, the weakest part of our line-up is coming up next. If they score here its over.
Speaking of blind squirrels . . . .HEEEEEERE’s Edwar!
Marte may be nasty but he has 21.00 ERA..
he is a sack of cr-p…Soft, stupid signing for 3 yrs……
yankees with 7 runs but unclutch today.. hope there pen can do something…
A’s broadcast just showed a martini lady dozing in the front row. How can she sleep in an extra inning game with Marte and Edwar in da house????
No Al from BK, Marte doesn’t stink, you stink.
can we bring back mike stanton circa 1998
well, we found out what made Stanton so effective when he made the Mitchell report.
These Girardi pitching decisions are making me nervous.
Marte to start the inning? Really? Marte?
Now here comes our 6th pitcher today. Let’s go Edwar.
By the way, its freaking cold and miserable here. But I never leave early.
This teams weaknesses are clear:
1. Hitting with RISP
2. Anyone in the bullpen not named Rivera/Bruney.
3. CC not pitching like 160 million bucks.
4. Wang forgetting how to pitch.
Aaand another walk.
More walks.
LOL I’ll kill him
Marte isn’t hurt. He just isn’t good anymore.
Some guys can handle NY and some can’t. For whatever reason, he seems to fall into the latter catagory.
As far as the game, IF they lose (and they haven’t lost yet), its a team effort.
CC couldn’t hold the lead. The offense, once again, failed hitting with RISP late, and their AB’s’ with the bases loaded and 0 outs were simply dreadful.
The defense gave away runs today with awful play and its come back to haunt them.
CC will come around. He’s always been a slow starter so, I’m not worried about him.
I think the defense will be better when Arod gets back on third base.
The hitting with RISP? Its been a weakness of this team for years now and it just seems to get worse. You can’t teach it. You either are good at it or you are not.
For some reason, probably guys pressing too much, the Yankees simply aren’t a good hitting team with RISP.
Marte? If he continues to struggle for another month, its going to be a problem. They need the guy to be better than this. Especially at 4 million a year.
The A’s are not a good matchup for flaco they so many pitches
Let’s load the bases, then bring in Sparky Lyle!
Just wipe the cake off his butt and dude’s ready!
Well summarized, Al
I’m so happy the team has a day off tomorrow!
“No Al from BK, Marte doesn’t stink, you stink.”
My feelings are crushed, are you 10? When that run crosses the plate Marte will be the loser.
Do not have a TV missed the great AB’s in the bottom of the 7th, If they had 1 more position player could have sent someone up with some pop instead of Gardner. melky and gardner overpowered by a 90 MPH pitcher!!!!!!!
Do not have a TV missed the great AB’s in the bottom of the 7th, If they had 1 more position player could have sent someone up with some pop instead of Gardner. melky and gardner overpowered by a 90 MPH pitcher!!!!!!!
Okay I’m going to call a ground out – and hope I’m right…
KP – Its gotta be addressed at some point during spring training, in the season, It is ridiculous, they have been really bad with RISP. Believe me, its Taught, I had to learn it when I played
Striking Out on a 1-2 pitch that is 2 feet above the strike zone would result in me running until I puked.
It can be taught, and Long needs to figure it out. Kinda comes with the territory
The fan’s weaknesses are clear:
1. Trying to make categorical judgments about a baseball team after 15 games.
2. See 1.
Or perhaps a pop up!
Nice job Edwar!
Cmon Edwar! Get this last out…. NICE!!!!!!!!!! Lets get a run now!!
They get out of it. Whew.
Thank God. Hopefully they can smack one to the jetstream.
Ramirez has been good when he hasn’t been forced to throw a lot of pitches.
But Marte and Veras have been terrible.
Nice Job flaco
Lets Go Offense
lucky gammons annointed Crosby the next great SS, that predicition has looked as good as most of his other predictions…………
ok – this is it…let’s go
SJ44, That basically sums it up!
Please Pena, get hit by the pitch. Start us off.
it is Kevin Longs fault melky swung at a pitch over his head since Long has never mentioned to him swing at balls in the strike zone only.
guys give it up…………..
I agree with Bryan. That is a BINGO!
I disagree with SJ. Marte still has a lot to offer.
I’ve long since learned that because a certain poster (whoever it may be) on this forum says something, it isn’t necessarily etched in stone. After all, I didn’t want Pettitte or Tex!
“Marte isn’t hurt. He just isn’t good anymore.”…that’s a small problem since Cash just gave him a three year deal.
Gammons knows next to nothing about evaluating talent, he needs to stick to covering transaction rumors, etc.
Trisha,
Marte isn’t good. I don’t know what happened to him but, the guy has the “Felix Heredia” look on the mound.
His entire body language screams, “I can’t do this”.
Relief pitchers are weird cats. They have almost an off the charts cockiness, followed by the ability to forget bad outings quickly.
Marte has no confidence out there and he takes bad outings back out there with him. Its why he is pitching so tentatively.
I don’t want to call him “soft” because that may not be completely accurate.
However, he does exhibit a certain “softness” out there that makes it very tough for him to succeed.
how many pitchers have each side have left?
maybe put wang in to pitch the 11th, see how he doesnt with no time to think about it
man i was so angry i typed like i was dyslexic…woops. haha
thank god we got out of that innning…myself included, we need to all have a little more faith in the bullpen. It’s still early, and overall they really have pitched well. (note to self…keep trying to convince yourself that Marte has nasty stuff and will come around……)
Well top of the 11th here we come
The 4:46 post is not mine. Nice to see the gutless fakers back though.
Tex walk off….. i feel it.
Tex, RBI Double
Why is Michael Kay calling Yankee games?
I’d rather have Yogi.
steal second
ok, tex. time to step up and show us why we brought you here.
Stuart – Great Point! How many big time free agent signings did he get right this year?
The Answer is 1 Manny (shocking bold prediction)
But he (gammons) Knew that Tex was going to Boston, he Knew AJ was going to Atlanta, and he knew for a fact that CC was going to the west coast.
But I Digress, great point again!
stop trying to pull outside pitches.
ARRGHHHH CC!!!!
ARRRGHHH OFFENSE!!!!
ARRGGGGHHHHH those seats!
=)
I never heard of this closer in my life and even he dominates our line-up. I’m cringing at the thought of the top of the 11th.
So bats go cold… bullpen blows up I smell it.
All because that fat turd couldn’t hold a 7-run lead
“The 4:46 post is not mine. Nice to see the gutless fakers back though.”
Yeah, SJ, at first I looked at that and thought What the Hey…..
Then I realized we have had a lot of problems with this last year. That was definitely not your style. Nice to see you this year.
But I agree with the entire SJ post, except for the Marte part!
Al from BK, okay maybe that was a little harsh. But see, Marte did not give up the winning run.
I of course hope we win this game but it isn’t the end of the world if we don’t. It’s one thing when you’ve had a well played game and the pen gives it up. I still don’t trash our players then, but I can understand the disappointment posters may feel. But when the team has had as many hits as the Yanks and didn’t plate more runs than they did, and in addition had the bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th and couldn’t put the game away, I think it’s unfair to be overly harsh and judgemental with the bullpen who more often than not help rather than hurt.
Is all.
Ziegler’s actually very good. Opened his career with ~30 consecutive scoreless innings last year.
If A-Rod is here those late inning situations become a big headache for other managers now its Tex followed by a crippled Matsui not exactly the most imposing sight on deck.
So the leadoff man will get on here.
Not liking a Ramirez against Giambi matchup.
Al, Ziegler’s been the closer for Oakland since the middle of last season. In 2008 his ERA was 1.06. I can’t even fathom why you think it’s so impossible that he would pitch well.
Bye Bye Balboni looks like he can still play. can we sign him?
Marte used to throw 93-95, with a nasty 85-87 slider. Lefties couldn’t touch him when he was right.
Now? He’s throwing 91 consistently. Even prior to when he hurt his chest. He lost the tilt on the slider and its flat. So flat that guys just lay off of it and take it for a ball. That leads to bad counts, walks and trouble.
Gotta find a way to get him right because they aren’t paying 4 million a year to be a Mike Myers-like lefty specialist.
They need innings out of the guy. Especially with the shaky nature of the back end of the rotation (innings-wise) and other areas of the ‘pen.
Hold it here please because zeegler can’t pitch the bottom of the 11th
Well, at least it wont be a 4 pitch walk. Maybe 5.
Marte needs to be used strickly as a LH specialist….He’s better than what he’s been showing…..Coke needs to developed into a reliable left hand option….
Al from BK the guy didn’t give up a run for something like 30 straight appearances last year as a 29 or 30 year old rookie, he is not some push-over bum reliever. He was going to be their closer this year, splitting duties with Joey Devine who just had Tommy John surgery.
Him dominating the Yankees’ lineup is not some big disgrace. Leaving the bases loaded against Russ Springer is another story.
“So bats go cold… bullpen blows up I smell it.
All because that fat turd couldn’t hold a 7-run lead”
This game truly is CC’s fault despite my Marte bashing. No team should ever have to score more than 7 runs with their ACE ON THE MOUND!
“Not liking a Ramirez against Giambi matchup.”
Not liking a Rarmiez against anyone matchup. It is just a matter of time before Oakland takes the lead.
“All because that fat turd couldn’t hold a 7-run lead”
I too would have been upset if he blew a “7-run lead,” but he never had a 7-run lead, Matty.
Al, what are you talking about? Matsui isn’t batting anywhere near Teixeira in the lineup today. You need to slow down, buddy.
Pick your poison . . . Veras is warming up
“This game truly is CC’s fault despite my Marte bashing. No team should ever have to score more than 7 runs with their ACE ON THE MOUND!”
And how about Melky + Gardner batting with bases loaded in the 7th?
Fault goes around to everyone here. This game is over.
B-B-B-B-arry Zito is pitching a shutout through 5 innings vs. the Padres. The Giants just got their first hit in the bottom of the inning, of course.
“thank god we got out of that innning…myself included, we need to all have a little more faith in the bullpen. It’s still early, and overall they really have pitched well. (note to self…keep trying to convince yourself that Marte has nasty stuff and will come around……)”
Tony in Albany, you rock!
All because that fat turd couldn’t hold a 7-run lead
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When exactly did Sabathia blow a 7-run lead?
Have you bothered to watch the game?
Their biggest lead was 2 runs all day.
This isn’t CC’s fault. How about the fact that they had bases loaded, no outs in the 7th and didn’t score a SINGLE RUN?
Pete – Next time you have to go to boston take I-84 to the mass pike, not only is it faster but it brings you right to fenway. You can completely avoid the state of Rhode Island and its ridiculousness.
ramirez is good for an inning, but not meant to throw multiple ones. just not fair to expect more out of him.
2-0 to the first two batters. 99% chance of losing this game here.
WOAH! POSADAAAAAA
Hip hip JORGE!!!
Do we not have Brian Bruney available today cause I would very much like to win this game having invested the better part of my day in the outcome lol.
Jorge!
“ramirez is good for an inning, but not meant to throw multiple ones. just not fair to expect more out of him.”
Yea but you can’t go to Veras lol
“And how about Melky + Gardner batting with bases loaded in the 7th?
Fault goes around to everyone here. This game is over.”
Its not their fault Melky and Gardner are players who would ride the bench on any other team. However a Cy Young winner who makes 25 million a year should be able to hold a weak hitting club to less than 7 runs.
There is hope yet
Two parts of the broken bat just spiked into the floor.
Veras or Ramirez versus Giambi. What does it matter?
is veras all thats left? Can burnett warm up?
Russell, you sound like a blast to watch a game with. Settle down. They might win, they might lose. Random “this game over is” proclamations aren’t helping anything.
Here comes Veras!!
This has homerun written all over it. Given that he is actually able to throw a strike.
Not sure about this one
if giambi survives, i dont like the matches vs. holliday either.
Well Veras comes in…Just keep it in the ball park please
Veras blessing himself once may not be enough.
Giambi upper deck shot coming
Note to “ourselves”. A run, or runs, in the top of an inning does not schedule the game has been lost.
Nice job Posada!
Veras against Giambi? Can you say walk??
Nice job Posada!
Veras against Giambi? Can you say walk??
so we can assume veras walks giambi as per his first walk quota.
Veras against Giamb? You’ve got to be kidd……….
Someone wake Suzy up and tell her Bruney is still down there. She just said it is the end of the pen.
Sweet Mother of Chirst. Hold on, everyone. I have a feeling this is going to be U-G-L-Y.
Get Wang back here pronto… we might need him if this game goes 18 innings.
someone explain this move to me….why do you take edwar out with 2 outs for a single batter(who happens to be Jason Giambi, hitting .230), and on top of that replace him with Veras. I’m actually not being completely critical here, I’m wondering if someone (Green Beret? SJ?) can explain the thinking behind it.
Not going to be pretty.
My money is on Veras hitting the big G
“This game is over.”
Who says?
You gotta get the last man out, you can’t take a knee in baseball.
Besides, it’s still tied ain’t it?
…and the Girardi Dunce puts us into an extra inning game with his complete mismanagement ( AGAIN ! ) of the pitching staff. He is a complete dolt….was he REALLY a catcher, or was that his evil twin ?
good match up here… c’mon Veras, pull the rabbit out of your hat.
Ziegler is tough. He set a rookie record for most scoreless innings at the beginning of a career last year.
Its why not scoring with the bases loaded, 0 outs, hurts. It put Zeigler in play in this game.
This is an interesting move by Girardi.
It speaks of two things:
1. He has NO faith in Ramirez. If he did, and he felt he could keep the ball away from Giambi, he would keep him in the game. He’s afraid Jason will sit on a change and hit it out.
2. He’s trying to see if Veras can get it going so, he’s putting him in a game deciding situation. IMO, he has to do this because if Veras can’t get the job done, they can’t waste a roster space by keeping him on the roster. Not with Mark Melancon in Scranton and the issues of this offense hitting w/RISP.
They need another righty in the ‘pen beside Bruney to step up. Girardi is giving Veras his shot. Let’s hope he can do the job.
“Pete – Next time you have to go to boston take I-84 to the mass pike, not only is it faster but it brings you right to fenway. You can completely avoid the state of Rhode Island and its ridiculousness.”
Rhode Island is one of the best states in the nation. Why in the world would you choose to avoid it? Where are you going to go instead? Connecticut? Please.
Your comment is foolish and ignorant.
Now the bullpen is empty…hold the game now and get the win in the bottom of the inning please!!!!
Veras in, Giambi goes yard,
I think it’s hilarious that everyone has given up on Veras when his K/9 last season was around 10 and he had a solid ERA over 65 IP.
Folks, he’s pitched 5 innings. Saying he’s done is completely freaking absurd.
Did Suzyn forget about Brian Bruney? Also, isn’t Steven Jackson on the roster right now?
Giambino swinging for the fences. If we don’t score bottom of this inning we are in trouble because Mo, Coke, Alby have been used and Bruney has pitched a lot lately.
Veras pulling a Veras. Holliday next. Close your eyes.
I’ll kill him !
And Veras, as usual, walks his first hitter.
What a shocker!
Veras is not long for this team.
Andrew- Yeah I forgot about Steven, unless he was sent down. So we still have two bp arms down there.
and now our bullpen is getting squeezed by the ump ?…I smell toast.
1-2 count to a walk
come on already
Well BB the Yankee standard.
The hilarious thing is that if the roles were reversed everyone here would assume Giambi will K.
So when Veras blows this game what are we going to do with him?
Walk Holliday. Intentionally.
And Veras fails again. Geez, why so many breaking pitches when Giambi is late on the fastball? Can’t keep having guys in the ‘pen who can’t throw strikes. Its a real killer.
Whew I thought Veras wasn’t going to walk Giambi, good to know Armageddon is not coming soon
“Pepitone
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
When I was with the Yankees, we didnt Buy pennants like we try and fail to do now. I also blow dry my wigs with Jens big mouth. What a loser. And Luigi and GB7, Just go Commando and do it with each other, as long as I can watch.”
Sorry, pal, that wasn’t even a good imitation.
“The hilarious thing is that if the roles were reversed everyone here would assume Giambi will K.”
That’s because Veras would be on Oakland. Thus more successful.
This could get rocky. Here we gooooo
It stinks that Marte doesn’t have any options left. He needs to work out his mechanics in the minors. He is just wasting space in the bullpen along with Marte. You can’t pitch someone who can’t find the plate.
Why is there such loyalty to this guy? He literally does this everytime. These Yankee coaches have blind loyalty.
Unreal…..
Just as advertised.
The righty’s in the pen are not great outside of Mo and Bruney has been good.
Now can the offense do something?!?
Lets end this homestand in proper fashion with the first walk off in YS history!!!
nice pitch by Veras. Now can we get a run!
Jorge is going to end this game.
Outman is warming up for Oakland.
Is that a cool name for a reliever or what?
We’re running out of pixie dust with this bullpen . . . need a run here.
Ryan (Im just waiting till the shine wears off)
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Lets end this homestand in proper fashion with the first walk off in YS history!!!
Yep, give Michael Kay another item to talk about
Lets end this now.
Nice job, all you freakin whining crybabies.
What a pathetic bunch of whiners.
“I think it’s hilarious that everyone has given up on Veras when his K/9 last season was around 10 and he had a solid ERA over 65 IP.
Folks, he’s pitched 5 innings. Saying he’s done is completely freaking absurd.”
Bryan, welcome to the lohud Yankees blog, where the fierce and gritty posters fall apart regularly and turn on their team in a NYC heartbeat.
With fans like these…
oh sorry the biggest lead was 2 runs
my bad…. that must excuse him from giving up 7 runs because if it was actually 7-0 he would have known to pitch better
outman, that name is awesome.
Tony in Albany
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
someone explain this move to me….why do you take edwar out with 2 outs for a single batter(who happens to be Jason Giambi, hitting .230), and on top of that replace him with Veras. I’m actually not being completely critical here, I’m wondering if someone (Green Beret? SJ?) can explain the thinking behind it.
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If I were Girardi, the last thing that I’d want to see is for Ramirez to hang a changeup inside to Giambi and speed up his bat.
SJ, I agree with your assessment about Edwar and to a degree about Veras who in my opinion is just one grade better than dog meat…He’s just too up and down ….
Wang should pitch next inning.
“Bryan, welcome to the lohud Yankees blog, where the fierce and gritty posters fall apart regularly and turn on their team in a NYC heartbeat.”
It makes for entertaining reading..
Eddie and Jose very lucky today. The A’s don’t seem to want this, let’s take it.
Posada swings at ball 3. Thank you.
few say he is done, but he does give up first batter walks on queue.
Bryan,
Veras isn’t “done”. But, the Yankees have a dilemma with him.
He hasn’t pitched well at all this year. Even on the Holliday out, he was lucky. He put a pitch right in Holliday’s wheelhouse and he just missed it.
The walks are killers.
The dilemma is, he’s out of options and the Yankees have 2 kids, Melancon and Robertson, who frankly should be on this roster right now.
If he can’t get the job done, they can’t hide him on the roster. They are going to have to release him.
They don’t want to for exactly the reason you wrote. He can be effective.
That said, like with Marte, you can’t hide these guys and just wear out Bruney and Coke. These guys have to step up and be MUCH better than they have shown so far this year.
“So when Veras blows this game what are we going to do with him?”
I don’t know Russell, what ARE we going to do with him when he blows this game? You must have some ideas.
People are bashing Rhode Island now?? What next, Dachshunds and Yorkies and Pedroias???
This game is torture. So is this game thread. As ugly as the weather has been lately in NYC.
Nice to see the bullpen held in the 11th.
oh sorry the biggest lead was 2 runs
my bad…. that must excuse him from giving up 7 runs because if it was actually 7-0 he would have known to pitch better
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Here’s a question for you.
Did you favor signing Sabathia during the offseason like 99.9% of all Yankee fans?
I hope they bring Robertson back after the 2 weeks is up. As long as he spots his fastball he got people out and competes out there. He throws strikes something that known of these relievers do.
I think Cano is going to drive one!
I don’t think that was a breaking ball. He swung over 2 pitches practically in the dirt.
Yankees deciding to swing early now.
someone is going to crack one
Manny ! Manny ! Manny !
I mean !
Robi ! Robi ! Robi !
Do you think Swish would explode if he got the game winning Hit!?
I don’t think that was the real Pat M.
Hard to know when trolls are around.
Bronx Jeers, are you here? I need you to complain about the people who are complaining about the complainers – so I can complain about it.
It seems like the Yankee batters are just waiting for Oakland to score a run. The pitcher can’t find the plate and Posada swings away at the dirt.
I think posada just wanted to end this game.. he’s been behind the plate since forever…
The good news is cano is batting with nobody on..
run scoring play
SMH
Posada swung at terrible pitches. Cano swings at terrible pitch. What next?
That was a ball
Does Swisher come up to “Let it Rock”?
As Cano swings at a pitch over his head. Love the patience. It could be 1st and 2nd no one out.
Come on Swisher, hit one out. I don’t think I can bear another inning with Veras.
Next inning we will walk the leadoff batter.
Still no offense so far…
This game would have been over 5 innings ago if the clueless outfielders (Melky and Gardner) could put the ball in play with any kind of authority.
You got 2 scoreless innings out of the Marte/Veras/Edwar gang and we still can’t score.
This isin’t going to end well.
we’ll win it in the 12th
Here comes Veras to give up runs…
I feel bad for Jeremy Guthrie. They were just talking about what some of the Yankee pitchers and what Mo gets per season. Guthrie is Baltimore’s top pitcher and gets league minimum.
I hate this team right now.
Why in the world can’t we get a run in this “launching pad”?
Sigh.
I want to scream. Too many innings of anticipation and we’ll probably lose.
Close your eyes, here comes falling behind the leadoff hitter!
Where’s Wang? Is he in Tampa yet? Excellent time to get some work in.
Well I guess it’s time to bring in our long reliever… OH WAIT
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I don’t get the people here who want to comment on other fans expressing frustration. People are allowed to think whatever they want. If you have a problem with the argument, then argue with it. Telling people they can’t complain is ridiculous. You don’t like it? Don’t read it. Simple as that. Nobody is telling you you have to read it or agree with it, or are you that weak-minded that you can’t handle other people expressing different opinions?
Leadoff hitter not on base? It’s a small miracle.
:::fingers crossed:::
outman? now that’s a good name for a pitcher.
Even the Yankee announcers sound dead
Finally got Suzuki out.
We need a walk-off and soon! We are running out of pitchers!
Can’t believe that they’d call the Twins/Boston game after 7 innings and then play the 2nd game.
Veras showing signs of life…i like it
Wow does Veras, uh, stink. Good call men…
“This game would have been over 5 innings ago if the clueless outfielders (Melky and Gardner) could put the ball in play with any kind of authority.”
This game would’ve been over if the clueless Girardi had taken CC out at the right time, preserving the 7-5 lead.
Thank you CB
Bad call by the umpire but I’ll take it.
What was that Veras looked like a real pitcher just now
Ump stretches the zone a bit for Veras.
Veras is pulling a rabbit out of his hat today….I like it!
Now it’s time for Matsui to end this.
There’s a good chance Veras will be the odd man out when the bullpen gets upgraded, but for today, that’s some high-grade dog meat.
Matsui, and then garbage coming up…It is sad that this team can’t put any hits or even good at bats together.
Veras looked downright nasty that last inning, reminding me of when he had it going last year. I love how people forget so quickly that he was our eighth inning set-up man for a fair amount of the season last year….it would be big for the club right now if he could find his form again….
O Danny BOY!!!
lets hope gieser blows!
Wait. What pitcher was that? Because that surely wasn’t Jose Veras.
If the Yanks know anybody they know Giese.
4 hours and counting…
Giese looking amazing. Figures lol
For all you people saying the Yanks should call up Dan Giese – here he is.
Does anyone think that theres any way there is more than 20,000 people at the stadium today? I don’t see it at all every section appears 1/10th full.
>Wait. What pitcher was that? Because that surely wasn’t Jose Veras.
It was Sarev Esoj.
what inning was the last yankees hit?
Veras is feast or famine. He either blows away the batter or he walks the guy on 4 straight.
This is far from a must-win, but it’s always tough to play extra innings and burn through 6-7 pitchers without picking up a victory.
Let’s hope this game doesn’t fall into the hands of Steven Jackson.
Giese looks real good. Nice pitches there. Thank you Yankees.
Nice dive and hook, Hideki.
Giese showing his stuff.
We can’t even hit Dan Giese
These guys should be embarrassed. And we have 2 automatic outs with Melky/Pena
I have such ambivalence here. I don’t want us to hurt Giese but I want the game to be over.
What is Giese thinking right now?
“I remember Melky, that’s the guy who can’t hit”
Result: Strikeout
isn’t there a rule about pitching on consecutive days? how many innings or pitches before a pitcher is considered unavailable to pitch the next day? sorry, I’m a little bit of a newbie.
Another K for Giese.
A-Rod where art thou?
We look asleep at the plate.
LOL no comment.
God I cant stand Melky.
is everyone trying to win the game on one swing?
Figures another easy inning for an Oakland pitcher…I don’t know why I expected anything different.
after veras who is there?
Outside of the HR, Melky has looked awful at the plate.
Maybe Pettitte can volunteer to throw a bullpen session?
swish?
Kay – “Going to be a tough play”
Result: Easy out.
Onto the 13th.
Barry Zito, scoreless through 7.
should I be warming up to throw the 12th
bruney is all thats left no?
At this point I guess the A’s win by default we got no one in the pen.
Oy vey. Now who’s going to pitch.
“after veras who is there?”
Either they push Bruney or we see Steven Jackson. After that a starter will have to volunteer lol
Can we stop the arguments for Melky now? Sure, he hit a homerun, but those last three ABs were just miserable. Gardner may not be any better, but at least he will TRY to work the pitcher. Melky just gets up there and hacks, and prays he hits something.
Dr. Cox
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
God I cant stand Melky.
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I doubt that you’re anybody’s favorite, either.
When the Yankees work overtime…. I work overtime. My boss is impressed.
I’ve always hated extra innings because I see it as a matter of whichever team makes a mistake first loses. The longer it goes, the more it gets to that way. Winning in extras is more a matter of luck than skill. Of course it’s always nice to be the home team.
we have so many empty seats y not sit down melky there
So just because I wanted CC on the team means I can’t talk about how bad he has been so far
Didn’t know that thanks for the help
By the way that was not my post earlier…..I said earlier that Oakland has some real nice arms…They’ll be a factor in the AL West…..Some real ab’s by Melky….. By the way I like dogs, have 3 and my wife is a Vet….
Arod available to pinch-hit?
Umpire starting to call balls just below the knees
Is Wang with the team today or in Tampa?
CC is probably eating at NYYsteak while the Yanks attempt to hit the ball and Jeter is pissed because he missed his reservations.
Pat M – you are lucky you added that “is a vet” part – or you’d be sleeping on the couch.
i still feel a tex walk off. if they ever decide to pitch him inside.
This game has drained all the energy out of me. After the 7th inning collapse I have been stablized
“When the Yankees work overtime…. I work overtime. My boss is impressed.”
They just said Steven Jackson is warming up in the bullpen
Poor Steven Jackson…he is going to be thrown into the fire next.
DT: That is now my facebook quote lol
Pat M: what a coincidence, our own GB7 is a vet too. No wonder you guys get along.
Hopefully this is just an early season aberration from CC. He can’t be this bad all year, can he?
Pat M, I KNEW that wasn’t you!
Even CB was like com’on a few more inches I would have.
A’s have the right idea. 3-2 count and I see a lot of them just sticking the bat out there trying to tap it away and draw the work. Usually works too.
Veras showing his stuff.
The bottom of the 13th is the Yanks to win. Jackson is warming up and he has never been good in AAA. The odds of him pitching a scoreless inning against the middle of the lineup is very slim.
please don’t let me have to watch Steven Jackson pitch
please oh please!!!
Was Veras just wagging his finger like Dikembe Mutombo?
Except for the first batter walk, Veras has been outstanding.
Veras deserves some kind of award for this performance today. He should have started instead of CC!
Nice call on Veras geniuses!
Ha ha