(credits to Steven Wright…)

honestly, never had a problem bringing in snacks/candy. my father is a diabetic, so we pretty much always had a bag of some type of candy with us.

I think the first game in Detroit showed some signs that things may be starting to improve.

I think CC pitched his best game yet. And by pitching the CG in gave the BP some much needed rest.

They do need to start hitting but I think you can see some positives.

I think the series against the RS was more the Yankees needing to get there act together rather than the RS being superior. If I was a RS i wouldn’t have been very satisfied with the pitching in the first 2 games.

Isn’t there a saying that you are only as good as you starting pitching? I do think the Yankee Pitching is better than they have shown.

patrick-

it doesn’t surprise me that those who tend to be sabermetrically inclined think it will all just work out over time, that coaches don’t matter, that clutch and having a winning edge don’t exist.

the point is everything matters. looking ahead, looking behind, and having an edge now.
the yankees have beaten a mediocre team in the mid west one game, but they got their butts kicked when it mattered in the northeast in a big series.

until the yankees can do what they did yesterday in boston in a series that matters we don’t know anything about their ability to win in crunch time.

that said , hughes performance was just what the yankees needed . as i said last night, he was up to 92-93 after 90 pitches with command.

patrick , you should start a movement to get rid of wins and losses as a measure of success because you don’t seem to believe wins matter. maybe just go by bill james pythagorian theorm to create the standings.

i’m just saying all isn’t well just because hughes looks like he’s arrived. he’s one guy. they need to get it going so that they are operating on all cylinders.
with that i’m out of here. work beckons.

Who did Posada catch? I think Wang would destroy the stats for either catcher. Team ERA is bad so it is on the pitcher as well.

I saw to many times when Posada set up for a pitch and it wasn’t thrown in that location. The pitch to Lowell that he hit out was supposed to be low and away. It was thrown up and in. Catchers fault? No.

Pitch to Bay from MO, supposed to be low and away. Instead right down the middle. Catchers fault? No.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that Molina is a much better catcher than Posada. It isn’t even close at this point. It makes sense that Mussina wanted Molina to catch his games. I would bet that most of the Yankee pitchers prefer Molina, but most would not say anything because Posada is a veteran and a leader of the team. Molina calls a great game. He has soft hands and he is calm behind the plate. Posada always seems to be jumping around back there. At times it seems as if there are some pitches that would be called strikes that are called balls because Posada doesn’t hold the glove still or even try to frame the pitch.

Posada is a much better hitter than Molina, so I hope that Girardi can find ways to have Posada’s bat in the lineup on a regular basis, but I would like Molina to be behind the plate more frequently.

to battle the rs you can’t have melky,gardner,pena/berroa in the lineup at the same time.

we will be fine & we have tons of pitching in the minors also.maybe not as much overall talent as the rs but not far behind.

we are right there with cano,wang,hughes,joba,ajax,melancon & more.

what happens if hughes,melancon,joba,ajax,brackman & one or two more turn out to be stars?

we pull even or blow the rs away.

it is early & time will tell based on performance going forward.

the rs prospects are a year or two older than the yankees prospects on average so it is unfair to compare.

bowden is almost 24 yrs old,anderson almost 23 yrs old & so on.

hughes will be 23 in june & we have seen a lot of him since 07.

i believe it is a matter of the rs bringing their prospects up at the right time but the yankees at times bringing in theirs a little too early.

if we can develope a few pitching stars like hughes,joba & a few more,a few position prospects we will be ok.

what a difference one game makes.

francessa on wfan ripping the yankees saying the rs are better on every level & then hughes pitches an absolute gem with melancon doing ok also.

a year ago everybody saying pedroia is much better than cano.right now cano is destroying pedroia.5 hr/17 rbi to 1 hr/7 rbi.

i take cano now in a minute.

I agree. The outcome was icing on the cake. The performance was stellar.

ANSKY,

I know you asked SJ, and I am no expert, by any means (:lol:) but just casual observation, Melky hasn’t looked particularly “hot” at any point, and I think that’s why people are kinda surprised to see the batting average where it is. So, maybe (?) – maybe it’s sign of true growth rather than a streak? I hope so.

yeah, and if that iceberg would have melted the titantic would have been in good shape too