Comments on: Good, but not yet good enough

By: Bye Bye Yamkees!

Bye Bye Yamkees! — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:47:26 +0000

If Boston hadn’t boned their potential 10-0 homestand (they went 6-4). The Yankess most likely would have been 6 out at the break.

but then again…it’s all relative!

Great weekend for Boston! 3 from KC (and thank you Ankles!!! You never surprise us when you play the Yanks, but if you look at us the wrong way, we’ll sweep you out of the playoffs again!!!!!!!)

Boston really does rule….don’t they?

$130mil team salary….not too shabby!

By: Tank

Tank — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:34:12 +0000

Why can’t the yanks play like the angels? First to third all day? That’s right, they have a bunch of slow, old players! There’s two guys on the team with speed, a 35 year old and a first year full time player.

Speed kills. Doing things like sac flys, bunts, situational hitting, great baserunning, are things that win games and championships.

Perfect example, in 04, Dave Roberts single handedly kept Boston in that series and eventually won it just on his legs from off the bench.

By: joe b

joe b — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:14:19 +0000

Sept 21-27…3 vs LAA & 3 vs Boston…..Could be their swan song

By: BWare

BWare — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:28:01 +0000

“Walkoff wins are a product of luck, more so than skill…”

A necessary condition for a “walkoff win” is that you’re the home team; consequently, there will be no walk-off opportunity in half of your games. As such, walk-off stats are not indicative of anything meaningful, except for mob scenes at home plate and SportsCenter highlights.

Regarding Yankees v. Angels…

I’m an Angel fan in the LA area and, while it was great to see my team polish off the Yankees, I don’t read anything more into it beyond the fact that we somehow have enjoyed sustained success against the Yankees. There are certainly other teams out there that have given us absolute nightmares this season. Our play against the Rangers this season has been absolutely sickening — and that’s not counting the games where the Rangers abandoned the game at hand and started playing Home Run Derby with our pitchers. The Boston post-season debacles are well documented.

Our saving grace this season has been owning the NL West sans the Dodgers (11-1 vs. the Rest of the West).

The Yankees will be fine in the second half, but I won’t anoint them with a playoff berth now any less than I would the Angels. That said, the Yankees and Angels are great teams that will battle well into September — both have issues and problems that they’ll eventually work through and grind out.

Word to the wise, though: Don’t drink the Halladay Kool-Aid…that would virtually guarantee vacation planning beyond September with all the arms, legs and firstborns subject to sacrifice at the altar.

By: john Evans

john Evans — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:24:23 +0000

You all need to get lives, and soon.

By: Jones

Jones — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:55:35 +0000

“Yeah…if Cashman’s really smart, he’ll be able to convince the Mariners to take some of the Yanks’ fake prospects. If they move Pena or Nunez in a deal, one needs to be kept to allow him to progress further. Igawa and no more than half his salary, along with Nova or another AAA starter/reliever like Kroenke. Igawa would do ok pitching in that airport.”
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Pena most likely isn’t going anywhere

By: KO

KO — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:33:53 +0000

There are some tweaks to be made with the Yanks’ roster and our starting pitching has to come together. But the talent is there. It’s not that they have to play better against the better teams. That doesn’t matter one bit. The Yankees don’t need to worry about the other teams at all… all they can worry about is themselves. Some of the coaching staff is questionable (cough Girardi and Eiland), but this team is better than it has been in the recent past. So they still can’t win in Anaheim. I’ll worry about that if they meet in the playoffs. Say what you will about this team, but one thing is, they don’t quit. Espcially our lineup, I don’t care if someone is scuffling or if Tex melts under the boos… our offense never quits. There’s more fight in this roster than in the past few years. I’m still confident about this season, I have been since the start. We’ll be there in the end.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:30:55 +0000

Yankees.. Please don’t trade young players(have prospects) for Halladay…
We will regret it in the future. I promise…

By: Role Call

Role Call — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:16:39 +0000

Don’t blame Cashman if he doesn’t get anyone.

There are very few guys available who are better than what we have, unless you acquire a stud like halladay, haren, lee etc.

We need reinforcements, but the reinforcements may not be there to get.

By: GreenBeret7

GreenBeret7 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:16:04 +0000

Betsy
July 12th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I agree – I would not trade real prospects for Jared Washburn..

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Yeah…if Cashman’s really smart, he’ll be able to convince the Mariners to take some of the Yanks’ fake prospects. If they move Pena or Nunez in a deal, one needs to be kept to allow him to progress further. Igawa and no more than half his salary, along with Nova or another AAA starter/reliever like Kroenke. Igawa would do ok pitching in that airport.