Comments on: Today in The Journal News

By: Fan mail from some flounder

Fan mail from some flounder — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:26:23 +0000

tastic:

“Great job, Girardi and Long.”

I don’t recall either of them in the lineup. Hmmm…

By: haiku-man

haiku-man — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:14:24 +0000

I sure hope Jeter doesn’t go to the All Star game,hitting into double plays,and cost the AL home field advantage.

By: seekyn

seekyn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:08:20 +0000

It’s time to shake up this anemic offense. Let’s stop the excuses, let’s stop the bs about facing “new” pitchers, and stop the cliches about luck and it’s a matter of time.
Girardi has consistently mismanaged his pitchers and games, as he did in his last job.
Get rid of Berrora, bench or trade Matsui, give the older guys like Damon, Posada and Jeter more rest, give A-rod regular days off, remember that Swisher will have streaks but is basically a platoon player. Could Shelly Duncan be any worse?
It’s time to try some of the AAA hitters. And why not give more time to Cervelli with Posada taking days off or DH’ing occassionally?

By: 86w183

86w183 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Patrick — Good numbers… to me the bigges thing is five runs or less in 11 of 13 games and three runs or less 7X.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:49:01 +0000

Well I think the offense can still be effective without A-rod. I’m simply saying that if A-rod comes out of his slump I think the rest of the offense will follow. If he doesn’t, they can still score but it will be more difficult.

Honestly I don’t care how it happens, the Yanks need to score more runs.

Here are the runs scored from the Red Sox series and onwards:
0, 5, 3, 9, 2, 15, 5, 2, 0, 5, 1, 5, 0.

Other than the games against the Mets they have been VERY bad. They are averaging 4 runs scored over that stretch of 13 games. Take out the 15 run game and it’s 3.08 runs per game.

By: Hokiehill

Hokiehill — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:43:47 +0000

the lack of a real person doing advanced scouting is an interesting point. I know with the video technology available that may not be as valuable as it once was, but I’m curious how many other teams still have advance scouts on the payroll…also, the video technology only works if the Yankees use it…any one with the inside info on how players utilize the video scouting reports?

Thanks

By: DB

DB — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:40:36 +0000

You could throw Dave LaPoint against the Yanks today and he would shut the Yanks down. Those three Nationals pitchers throw garbage. Their fastballs avg 89 and their breaking stuff was 82. All of them. It was pathetic. Every batting order in the game has their way with the Nationals except our star studded bunch of flakes.

By: Doreen

Doreen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:35:15 +0000

Oh man -

Please. You inferred they pounded Lannan himself. I did write they apparently wore him down. I did not say the Yankees did well against him or anyone else in the last week or so. They scored the majority, by far, of their runs against the bullpen. I felt what you wrote was misleading to anyone who didn’t watch the game, or look at the boxscore.

No need to be snarky. No sane person here would try to say the Yankees have played well lately. However, Lannan pitched a good game last week against them. It does happen, you know, that a pitcher has a legitmately good game against the Yankees.

By: DB

DB — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:34:58 +0000

I hope people on this site start seeing how much of a vapor lock Swisher is. He has no business batting 2nd in this lineup. I’d rather see Cano, Melky, or Gardner there if Damon is hurt.

Don’t let his numbers fool you, the man has no baseball sense and it has cost the Yanks a handful of games so far.

There is no reason why having ARod in a slump should cause the whole lineup to shut down. It’s like this team lives and dies by ARod. Which is all well and good when he is playing like himself.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:28:39 +0000

their should be *they’re*