Did you really think we were going to play small ball this year?

We are going to rely on starting pitching, OPS, and our BP. That’s how the team was constructed and no one was moaning about that a couple of weeks ago. This is news?

Believe or not, teams win this way. We’re not, nor WERE we, in a position to turn into the Rays.

Say whatever floats your boat, but opposing pitchers are not going to have a picnic with the middle of our order when it’s

Tex
ARod
Cano

You might take some solace in the way CC threw last night; might get excited by the fact that our BP just added a jewel in Melancon – anyone who says that’s a premature judgment has not seen this kid live much.

And I don’t know who the 3-4 automatic outs will be once ARod is restored. Cabrera/Gardner? They won’t BOTH play when Alex is in there. Even if Molina is giving Jorge a breather, I count two autos.

Who else would qualify as an “automatic out”?

Jeter
Damon
Tex
ARod
Cano
Posada
Matsui
Swisher
Cabrera/Gardner

We are going to be in the race all year.

Lovers of Boston apparently choose to ignore the imminent declines of Ortiz & Varitek and the fragility of Lowell. That won’t get better as the year wears on.

Jason Bay is a nice player, but he’s not Manny; you don’t lose Manny and actually get better for it.

This is the first entire season they face in a long time without the Great Redeemer’s bat at cleanup to bail out and erase bad outings by their starters.

If you think Ellsbury is going to be a world beater leadoff man every night, you don’t know much about him. He’s a better player than Gardner, but this guy goes through “Gardner-like” stretches trying to get on base.

It’s clear though, that Red Sox paranoia is in full-swing here. The people prone to this over rate them and undermine us.

There is going to be a need for patience as far as position players the Yankees may have right now in the lower levels of the system.

But where are these players the Yankees missed?

Bench
Swisher
Gardner/Melky
Ransom (OUT)
Molina

PITCHING
CC
AJ
Wang (OUT)
Pettite
Joba

CL-Mo
Setup-Bruney (OUT)

This is not a team of players with one guy out like the Red Sox. The Yanks have 4 very good hitters out or hurt and their top utility guy too. Arod is perhaps the best hitter or one of the best hitters in baseball or at least in the conversation. That is a huge loss. These guys will get healthy! Losing Wang w/o really knowing it devastated this team with 3 automatic losses and a huge drain on the bullpen. (Note Wang should have been out at 4-2 or even earlier in game 3 but again one has to wonder about what Girardi is doing!). Pitching Bruney so much in 1st couple of weeks was a killer now too and may set him up for being injured all year. Stupidity charges a high price! I am so happy for everyone who wanted Joe to be gone that you got what you deserve. I hate it that our Yankees are having to pay the price of inept management, especially Girardi. Girardi is a moody self absorbed control freak. The sooner he is gone the sooner the issues will be resolved. Maybe he can take away the chocolate candy from the players too. I believe the clubhouse does not respect Joe G. End of story.

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Umm..what’s Manny doing in that group? They keep Manny, they beat Tampa last year and win the WS, and we have to hear about the new “dynasty.” Didn’t happen, so they don’t get to be in the dynasty conversation.

The idea that it was a good move to get rid of Manny is just beyond ludicrous.
I was advocating for us to sign him.

Manny is Manny. Just ask David Ortiz.

More on that later since the tome I started to write somehow disappeared and I am now on the way to somewhere that I feel I have been since Friday night – the dentist’s office!

GO YANKEES!

Actually the end of those 18 of 24 home games is Memorial Day.

If the Yanks still are struggling then we can all have a Memorial Day panic.
Others can bring charcoal and lighter fluid, I’m bringing beer and an umbrella.

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I’ll bring the potato salad!

Also, lay of Tex! He is swinging at anything he can reach trying to help the team out but other teams still prefer to walk him. Arod is needed to protect him.

The team is pressing! Duh! This is still April folks, and the Yanks have played fewer home games than most after an extended spring as well. I am sure they are tired and wanting to be at home for an extended time! Again, Girardi needs to use the pitchers properly. He can’t have Bruney when he comes back being the most active RP in the majors (like he was in 1st 2 wks of season). He has to use Marte only against LH batters. He needs to have a long man. Melancon needs to be the 7th inning guy. Bruney the 8th. Mo the 9th. Let Veras spot for the one who needs a rest. I also like Robertson and Coke for 1 inning or less situations. None of those guys should go more than 1 inning.

If the Yanks still are struggling then we can all have a Memorial Day panic.
Others can bring charcoal and lighter fluid, I’m bringing beer and an umbrella.