Comments on: Yankees sign Dominican prospect

By: haiku-man

haiku-man — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:36:12 +0000

When Pujols career is over he’ll still have at leas 8 fingers empty. Tha’s what happens when you’re the big fish in a small pond, it’s always about him!

By: BigJoe44

BigJoe44 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:56:23 +0000

I think that Gaudin did a very good job last year as a fifth starter when the Yankees needed him, and I have no problem with him in the same backup role for 2010.
I agree that Wang is worth a flyer. It’s hard to go wrong with a ground ball pitcher in NYS, as long as Wang can get back to being a ground ball pitcher. Also, he seemed to tire at the end of both 2006 and 2007, which was a little worrisome, but hopefully having all this time off will help him with that fatigue.

By: Bo Knows

Bo Knows — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:46:42 +0000

Personnaly I think the Yankees can’t afford to let him go and star for someone else. They have a time frame to monitor his recovery and I think will propose some sort of incentives contract. This would bring him on scene around the All Star break. Probably a good thing. Also I really like the Gaudin, Mitre backups. I agree that LF is more important and it’s not JD returning.

By: BigJoe44

BigJoe44 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:42:40 +0000

That should be ‘Sherrit’

By: BigJoe44

BigJoe44 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:40:32 +0000

Bo Knows

Do you remember Jimmy Sherret from the WHA. Brother of a good friend of mine. My buddy would come back from seeing Jimmy play with Gordie Howe autographed hockey sticks. They never lasted longer than a week on the outdoor rinks.

By: BigJoe44

BigJoe44 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:37:29 +0000

Seems like hockey is taking over a Yankees blog.

What’s the concensus out there regarding Wang. It would be great if he came back healthy and able to pitch, but do the Yankees take a chance on him?

By: Bo Knows

Bo Knows — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:37:25 +0000

You’re partially right there, he had some smart people around him. But Sather had the hutzpah to go get guys like Ken Linseman and MacTavish (he was an unheralded player on those teams – a great, great penalty killer), and he plucked Reijo Ruotsalainen – who New York neither understood nor appreciated for the impeccably skilled player he was – because he wanted a power play with Reijo and Coffey on the points.

John Muckler, though, is a complete (censorable word). Good coach though, except when it came to the power play. The Oiler power play – for all its talent – was very poorly conceived. But that’s another story.
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I was on scene with the Oilers from the WHA days. I can truthfully state that I coached Mark Messier. (He was six at the time and we called him Snotty). When you had the Oilers talent, you didn’t coach the PP. Throw them out there and let them do their thing. Only one thing I liked about Sather, his quote on Mcdonald. “Even a fire hydrant can score 40 goals playing with Gretzky”.

By: BigJoe44

BigJoe44 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:34:32 +0000

They say there’s no respect in the game now, but those Flyer teams from the mid 70′s were built with one thing in mind. Of course, they were also very talented and successful, and entertaining to a point, but there is no way any team today could (or should) try to emulate them.

By: bodhisattva - Destiny Wears Pinstripes

bodhisattva - Destiny Wears Pinstripes — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:26:18 +0000

BigJoe44
November 24th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Bobby Orr came from Parry Sound, about 100 miles from here. Back in the day we had Bill Barber who played with Philly, and more recently Darren Turcotte who spent some time with the Rangers. Watched a lot of kids come through here with the OHL team who went on to the NHL. Winters are long, and we can’t ice fish all the time.
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Bill Barber, one of the few Flyers who actually used his stick to play hockey, rather than try and take opponents’ eyes out.

By: bodhisattva - Destiny Wears Pinstripes

bodhisattva - Destiny Wears Pinstripes — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:23:44 +0000

BigJoe44
November 24th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Gary Bettman keeps trying to drive it into southern markets where the only ice people see goes into their drinks. Northern USA and Canada is where it belongs.
Also, I agree that Dunn might be able to do the job here, but I don’t like the thought of him here.
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Here’s one my brother penned on that subject:

Oh, oh way down south in the land of cotton
Flames can’t skate, they are rotten
Suck away, suck away, suck away
Dixie Land

They did alright in Calgary, though, lol.

I remember my response when the Oilers sold Gretzky to the Kings. I said “Calgary just won the Cup…”….. That’s another team that never got its due.