We as Yankees fans just have to be grateful for the crumbs they decide to throw our way. It stinks, though. The beat writers usually get it right, though, at least, so the morning papers today are a joy to read.

The Yankees did it during the season with Gardner and they saw how it shook the Angels players.

I’m a little miffed at Padillia being chosen the “Clutch” player late night. CC went deeper in the game, had more strike outs, and they had the same number of ER.

I also didn’t understand one of the MLB talking heads saying that CC didn’t dominate. What game was he watching? Abreu, who they were praising all over the place for his plate discipline was held hitless. The whole Angels lineup couldn’t get anything going against him. Isn’t that being dominating? And with the cold weather it was a far more difficult thing to do for CC (or any pitcher).

“The Yankees trumpeted their postseason ticket prices a few weeks ago, proudly saying they had held the line on prices. But apparently they didn’t go far enough.”

Way to do your research Pete. The Yankees actually WANTED to go lower on their postseason prices… but MLB wouldn’t let them. MLB sets a minimum and maximum price for postseason tickets, and they wouldn’t let the Yankees charge less.

The attendance at the game was 49,688. I don’t think the stadium can hold much more than that without selling standing room tickets. Just as an example, game one of the Division series against the Twins was 49,464. I don’t think there’s room for much over 50,000, so I don’t think Pete really knows what he’s talking about. There are always going to be some unoccupied seats because there are last minute things that people can’t anticipate that could cause them to miss the game. Some people also were probably hiding back in various lounges or whatever to avoid the ridiculous cold as some people literally can’t sit in that kind of cold for an extended period without health issues.

It just feels like another needless shot at the Yankees to attempt to endear himself even more to Sox fans – all 12 that are still reading boston.com’s blogs.

I always found it rather unprofessional and strange the way he’d defensively lash out at any comments that didn’t kiss his buns, and it’s VERY refreshing to have some writers blogging on Lohud now who don’t feel the need to do the immature “fighting back” at comments that they don’t agree with.

I hope he’s enjoying writing about all the exciting games the Sox are playing now. I’m sure there were a few close golf matches these past few days.

I definitly prefer Matsui to Posada as DH.
Don’t change the present good pace of the team.

TB

In which part of manhattan?