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Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jun 22, 2009 
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The LoHud Yankees Blog is going off-line from noon-1 p.m. today for maintenance.
I’m told by Jeff the Tech Guy that we’re upgrading the software and that’s a good thing. I’ve learned not to argue with Jeff as he is usually right about these things.
In the hour that we’re away, I urge you to sit quietly at the office and meditate. Or perhaps you could do some work. Just come back later, we’ll be here.
Thanks.
work? what’s work!?
volume control on audio clips please!!
Oh No
Guess I should do some work?
What am I going to do for an whole hour without this blog?
Does this mean I may need to leave my basement?
This would have been a lot better if Bob Sheppard were reading it.
Your attention please…ladies and gentlemen…on behalf of the Yankees, the Junnal-News of Westchestah…and the LoHud Yankees Blog……There will be a short…periodofMAINTENANCE…to be perfoahmed…later…this ahfternoon! We ahsk…for your PATIENCE…and we will see you…later today…on…theblog.
Can Jeff the tech guy create a LoHud Yankees iPhone app?
SJ, I see Tony and the Spikes are going to be in SI next month-July 16-18. I may have to go and try to get an autograph.
Can Jeff the Tech Guy install something that imposes a limit on the number of whiny comments posted from any IP address?
“Guy Incognito
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:17 am
This would have been a lot better if Bob Sheppard were reading it.
Your attention please…ladies and gentlemen…on behalf of the Yankees, the Junnal-News of Westchestah…and the LoHud Yankees Blog……There will be a short…periodofMAINTENANCE…to be perfoahmed…later…this ahfternoon! We ahsk…for your PATIENCE…and we will see you…later today…on…theblog.
”
ha ha that’s great….is he going to come back at all this season or is he done for good?
I guess I come off as a troll sometimes or someone who doesn’t like the game, but that is the furthest thing from the truth. I love the game – I think baseball is a perfect sport. I eat up it’s history and I had about the best time imaginable at the HOF. I love the Yankees – I love the individual players as well; I could never just root for the uniform – I’m just too emotional. I enjoy rooting for the people who wear the pinstripes. I’m just a pessimist. I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, so I will try not to post much when I’m feeling particularly negative. However, I don’t think it’s being trollish to say the Yankees are the same team they’ve been or that they aren’t as good as the Sox or that they have now blown much of their WC cushion. No matter how many comebacks they’ve had this year, how is it not worrisome that they continually put themselves in that position?
On another note, great news about Ian. It would be wonderful if he could pitch again this year.
Tom,
He will only be in State College thru Wednesday. He goes to the Johnny Bench Award dinner fo 3 days and will be in Charleston, WVA (full season A ball) for the rest of the season.
The SAL is in their All Star Break right now which is why he is in State College for a few days.
Betsy,
It’s obvious you love baseball and the Yankees.
You just need to better handle the ups and downs of a long season.
Sambuca usually works for me. lol
The Yankees are a good team going thru a rough patch right now.
Betsy/Rocketbooster,
Your love for the Yankees is unquestionable, but you need to keep your emotions better in check during the long baseball season, otherwise, you’ll blow a gasket.
Betsy.
I have never read a post from you that I did not think you did not love the game. Your passion is clear and so is your honesty.
-dennis
Well that’s a bummer, SJ. Well, a bummer for me at least…
Too bad that the Pirates Sally League team already swung by Lakewood in May.
If we don’t all make it to the other side, it’s been good knowing you all. Godspeed.
[buckles up, holds breath]
SJ, yes..I need a drink AND a little perspective. I used to call myself the Paul O’Neill of fans – expecting way too much of human beings.
Dennis, thanks – I appreciate your comments. I also appreciate the fact that you (and Ray) come to this blog and engage in intelligent back and forth re: Sox and Yanks. I enjoy chatting with fans of other teams, but unfortunately Sox/Yanks talk usually ends up degenerating into some sort of catfight. FYI – I love Boston. I hate the Sox, but the city itself is fantastic.
@TampaYank
Sadly I believe you have heard the last of Bob Sheppard at the Stadium. He’s 98 years old or something like that and if he wasn’t able to announce at the beginning of the season it’s doubtful he’ll be back at all. He “retired” on top, though.
Fittingly, the Yankees’ PA announcer is the best in history.
SJ, quick question. Has anyone come up to your nephew and said they know of him because of his uncle on this blog?
Is this some sort of Blog Rapture, where only those who were good are able to move on?
12:07 not offline yet. Or am I just magical?
Anyone see Henry’s Twitter?
3 ahead of $400 million offseason
Betsy
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 am
I guess I come off as a troll sometimes or someone who doesn’t like the game, but that is the furthest thing from the truth. I love the game – I think baseball is a perfect sport. I eat up it’s history and I had about the best time imaginable at the HOF. I love the Yankees
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Betsy, I don’t anybody with a bit of common sense would take you as a troll. Perhaps a little too emotional to deal with ups and downs during an imperfect season. That’s not bad, but, it sure fires up the ulcers and ruins a good beer. I don’t think anybody has put you in same category with the idiots, either. No problem with getting annoyed by a game, but, it’s best to let the annoyance pass after about 10 minutes. Kick your husband or throw a foam brick at the TV. I stress the “foam” part of brick. Otherwise, you’ll go broke buying 65 TVs a year. Don’t throw shoes, either. You’ll look rather silly going to the store with one shoe.
Internet Nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
testing, 1 2 3.
This back to working?
Hello?
looks the same to me. what changed?
Wow, the sight looks totally different! Such increased functionality!
Sorry, being a wiseass after another un-clutch DJ performance.
Hi
Wow, that U.S. Open was really disappointing and anticlimactic.
By the way, what in the world was Jeet doing during that at bat?
“Wow, the sight looks totally different! Such increased functionality!
Sorry, being a wiseass after another un-clutch DJ performance.”
LOL
So the Yankees starters are awful
Their bullpen is terrible
And they don’t hit
three aspects of a great team right there
Guys, Jete said it was a good pitch to swing at. He said if he could change anything, it would be the end result, not not swinging at the first pitch. Build a bridge and get over it. Its a new day! Plus, its 1:3oish and ive yet to see any rain in NYC today….
Look on the brightside. The league may uphold the protest, and then we’ll have another shot at the game!
And maybe A.J. Burnett will go totally w/o injury for the enitire year.
It could happen, right?
Bryan-Actually, the starters and bullpen have done pretty well. We’re just in a hitting slump.
Actually, I don’t even blame yesterday’s loss on the hitters. We scored five runs. That loss can be traced back directly to Tomko.
Too many actuallys.
Anybody read the Red Sox butt-kissing article by Davidoff today?
Hello all.
Agree Bryan.
We’re in a deep funk right now.
There was a change for me. My personal info got erased. Anyone else?
How cool is this blog? I’m pretty sure that is the only blog in history that had an update on how the maintenance was going.
Pete, next time do it in the middle of the night? After all that’s when all the…come out.
The Yankees currently rank 25th out of 30 in team ERA at 4.64
That is good pitching right???
The closer to 30 the better?
Nice try
Selective use of stats. Since May 1, the pitching has been much better.
They are in a slump. It happens to every team in the league.
If you think the team is so awful, why be upset? They are just fulfilling your expectations.
Bryan-You said pitching FUNK.
Lately we’ve done well. Past 6 games we’ve held the opposition to 3 runs or less five times. The one time we didn’t our Ace went down in the second inning.
To quote you, nice try.
Here is an article on Youuuuuuse to read if bored:
Youuuuuuuuuse adapting to new role in ‘pen
Right-hander has Girardi’s confidence after strong outings
http://tinyurl.com/l8rgoq
No where in my posts did I say funk
Thank you very much
Thank you SJ.
I’m sorry. Bryan did not say funk. Mike did. Anyway, the point is the same.
SJ and everyone–
Saw that JOnathan Mayo interviewed your nephew and said the piece will be up on MLB.com shortly. Looking forward to reading it.
Bryan-See post below.
@ Guy Incognito
yeah he’s had a great run for so long but I don’t like his replacement(don’t know his name) trying to copy his tone, the Yanks need someone w/ their own style not trying to be Bob
Bryan is right
Full year stats are selective use of stats?? Since when
So if the Yankees miss the playoffs we can say but they had the best record in September!!!
You guys are too much
Yeah, Jeter said if he could do it over again he would do it the same…I trust his judgement over his abilities in that situation over anyone here, or in the media. tough stretch going here but we have the talent to pull through it. one game where we click on all cylinders would be a nice way to spark a winning streak…
Matty C-But they’ve been doing much better.
Matty C,
We did have the best record in September in the league last year. Funny how they played their best baseball of the year when the pressure was off.
Test
Looks like Ian Kennedy will be back in AAA shortly to start rehabbing. Good luck IPK…
Um, the pressure is NOt off.
We’re very much in it and better pitching kind of helps.
When they pitch, they don’t hit. When they hit, they don’t pitch.
Offense comes and goes as it pleases. They’ll probably have another 15 run game soon…. and that will pad their runs scored total.
Kernal
I forgot that… now I don’t care that the Yankees missed the playoffs last year cuz they won the battle for September
SA,
Thanks for that. Reading that was bittersweet.
Wait until Betsy gets a hold of it. I don’t think she’ll take it well.
It’s disappointing that they won’t be stretching him out, but it’ll be nice to see more appearances by Phil.
I hope the Yankees strongly consider putting Phil in the starting rotation next season. Even if he stays in the bullpen for the remainder of this season.
TeixMVP,
So you’re saying they had a legit chance to make the playoffs last year when they were 10 games back of Tampa and Boston in mid September?
Scott, that has really only been a trend as of lately. Hence the cold streak. That is the problem.
We’ve clicked once, and we’re far too talented not too do it again.
The sad part about John Henry’s Twitter is that he has LOST more than $400 million worth of his client’s money.
Keep spending your valuable time tweeting you old geezer.
Jeter didn’t lose that game yesterday. Gopher balls and errors did.
Ah, the troll who comes on here and calls me different names to annoy me. Hello, troll.
XFactor, I NEVER said that. Or hinted at it. It was over by then, easily. Since when was it over now? This is June, not September genius. And better pitching now kind of helps. A lot. With any baseball team.
“Yeah, Jeter said if he could do it over again he would do it the same”
Wasn’t like he ws swinging at one in the dirt. Some argument that after walking the previous hitter, you wait him out a bit. Then again, you have a pitcher who is in the position of not being able to fall behind the hitter and really needs a first pitch strike. Don’t have any problem with that at bat.
Stop looking at talent. Start looking at results.
When have we ever played up to our talent? It’s like AJ Burnett… great talent, mediocre results. Same story here.
Matty C June 22nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Bryan is right. Full year stats are selective use of stats?? Since when? So if the Yankees miss the playoffs we can say but they had the best record in September!!!
You guys are too much
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NOW things are crystal clear! Cashman (and maybe others) once said the Yanks play 162 one-game seasons. A small sample size to one person (one game) is a full season to others. So that means (in something like ‘dog years’) that the Yanks have been in a season-long slump for something like 8 of the last 12 seasons.
Now … THERE’s some serious grounds for griping! And ruining a good beer too, of course.
Wow, I gotta stop whining about the whining … it’ll give me a bad rep if it hasn’t already!
Emo, we DID have a stretch where we played up to our talent.
Obviously there are no gurantees. It depends if you think this cold streak is an aberration or a trend. I think aberration. You clearly think trend. Which is fine. But I disagree.
ANSKY-Ha ha, funny.
“The sad part about John Henry’s Twitter is that he has LOST more than $400 million worth of his client’s money.
Keep spending your valuable time tweeting you old geezer.”
Now there is a great post
New thread.
“you old geezer”
Yes. 59 is ancient.
“Yeah, Jeter said if he could do it over again he would do it the same”
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This is why Jeter never gets frazzled in big time situations – because he knows the reality is that he’s going to make outs a lot more than hits in a clutch situations so he does his best and moves on regardless of success or failure. It’s the guys that think failure in that situation has some kind of mystical hold on them going forward who end up doing worse in those situations than their average dictates. The ones who do better than their average dictates are the ones who are relaxed enough to take advantage of the pitcher’s lack of composure.