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11 Responses to “Trenton playoff tickets on sale”

1. Jerkface August 19th, 2009 at 9:42 am

   Venditte is a reliever.

2. randy l. August 19th, 2009 at 9:46 am

   sj44-

   it’s funny that the people on the blog who know the most about catching have no problem with posada. yes he gets lazy with his body sometimes, but overall he’s in the top three or four in the league even at this point in his career.

3. pat August 19th, 2009 at 9:53 am

   Choice of criteria one sportswriter uses to decide on who to vote for MVP. Sometimes it’s just about the numbers and sometimes it isn’t.

   http://www.newsday.com/sports/.....-1.1378705

4. Erica - always OPPC August 19th, 2009 at 9:54 am

   I am curious how Pete judges the MVP. Since he is an actual sports writer and they are the ones who vote. Although, not sure if Pete votes or not.

   Pete can you enlighten us?

5. Rishi August 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am

   interesting article on batters getting hit and “machismo”

   http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....ml?eref=T1

6. SJ44 August 19th, 2009 at 10:01 am

   Randy,

   Exactly. Is he the greatest defensive catcher in the history of the sport? No. However, even that guy would have trouble catching AJ! lol He’s a handful to catch.

   You called it perfectly a while back. He has a tendency to get lazy with his glove placement. Other than that, he’s one of the 5 best catchers in the game right now and he’s 37 years old!

   The thought that Cervelli or Molina should be catching everyday, and Jorge just DH, is so fundamentally dumb, it doesn’t require any response.

   For some reason, some of these folks have decided Posada can’t catch anymore. To that end, everytime there is a problem, its his fault. If the facts get in the way? They are ignored.

   Its not a coincidence the Yankees are playing as well as they are this year with him in the lineup. He’s that important to the team.

7. ditmars1929 August 19th, 2009 at 10:03 am

   What, no $2500 seats in Trenton??? Does Trost know about this??

   Erica, I believe Pete needs two more years of beat writing before he’s allowed to vote. If I remember correctly, you have to be a baseball writer for something like 10 years/seasons, and Pete has eight.

   The big debate these days is letting purely internet writers being allowed to vote. Traditionally, you have to be employed by a newspaper. I think that’s why espn.com writers such as Keith Law and Rob Neyer aren’t allowed a vote.

8. CB August 19th, 2009 at 10:03 am

   “Why do some of you assume its Posada that screwed up the other night?

   Posada gave AJ a sign for a pitch and in mid-pitch AJ forgot the sign and stopped his windup.

   That’s what happened and its Posada’s fault?”

   I couldn’t agree more. What a joke this has become.

   I’m not sure if people are really serious anymore or are grasping for yet another straw man argument to continue sticking to half-baked beliefs they can’t give up.

   After the game AJ owned up to the fact that he blew the sign. Not Posada. AJ did.

   It’s really not that hard to read a sign. Rookie pitchers do it.

   But if you’ve lost your concentration out on the mound, then yes, signs will get blown.

   And that’s what happened with AJ. It sounded like AJ just forgot that they had switched up signs with a runner on second. And before people go crazy about why did Posada switch up signs – teams do that routinely so the guy on second won’t steal the sign.

   It’s a mistake on AJ part. It happens. You move on. Even during that game when people were going nuts about AJ pitching a bad game I told people that the game was only 50% over and it wouldn’t be surprising if AJ settles down and give up nothing else. Which he did.

   AJ pitched a good game. He did not lose the game for the yanks. The bats did.

   That said, how is posada possibly supposed to make AJ remember the pitch signs mid-inning? Is he supposed to sit on AJ’s shoulder and whisper them to him while he is in his wind up?

   It’s not a matter of Posada and AJ “getting on the same page.”

   It’s primarily the same issue AJ has battled his whole career – he must maintain his concentration out on the mound.

   Posada is far from a gold glove catcher. But he’s far from being a bad catcher. He throws guys out at a good clip. He could really move his feet and his glove hand better. But overall he’s fine. Not great. Not bad.

   Combined with his bat Posada is a fantastic overall catcher. Offense plus defense he is so much better than most teams average catcher he gives the team a huge marginal advantage. He’s approaching discussions for the hall of fame. That’s how good he is.

   No catcher can make the pitcher remember a sign.

9. ditmars1929 August 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am

   Oh please, not the does Jorge suck or not debate, yet again. If you don’t know the value of Jorge, then you’ve either not been watching for the last dozen years, or you just became a Yankee fan last week.

10. Stateman52 August 19th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    We were ushered out of the picnic area in Trenton when we threw our beer cans at a custodian.

11. jpb1973 August 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    An important question for tonight’s game…is Alfredo Aceves available and if so, will he be effective? With Gauguin pitching I don’t expect that we will get more than 5 innings out of the starter and I wouldn’t want to burn the short relievers before the Boston series.