Yankees-Twins in progress
Posted by: Brian Heyman - Posted in Misc on May 16, 2010 
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Update, 1:25: Wow, impressive hitting by Justin Morneau, going the other way with a low-and-away breaking ball from Sergio Mitre and sending it to his teammates in the Twins’ bullpen beyond the left-center fence – 1-0, Twins.
Update, 1:44: Great job with two-out hitting by the Yankees. Jorge Posada grounds a single into center. Marcus Thames wins a 10-pitch at-bat with Nick Blackburn, drawing a full-count walk. And Randy Winn, batting .179, lines a triple to the right-center gap for the 2-1 lead.
Update, 2:05: Nice work by Mitre so far, unlike in his last spot start in Detroit on Monday, when he gave up four runs and five hits in 4 1/3. So far, he has allowed just one run and two hits in his four innings.
Update, 2:36: Nick Blackburn had been much tougher in May (1.69 ERA) than he was in April (6.85), so the Yankees needed to take advantage of first and third and no one out. And they did with Mark Teixeira’s bloop RBI single to left-center. Denard Span just missed his second diving catch of the game on that one. But A-Rod misfired with a runner on third and one out. The grounder to third ended up with Derek Jeter out at home. It’s 3-1 after five.
Update, 2:43: Mitre just gave up a leadoff single to Orlando Hudson. David Robertson is warming up.
Update, 2:44: Robertson is coming in. Mitre got a nice hand trotting off. You couldn’t have asked any more of him, one run, four hits in five-plus.
Update, 2:54: Nice job by Robertson after walking Joe Mauer. Big strikeout on 3-2 against Morneau, although strike three looked a couple of inches off the plate. Morneau wasn’t pleased with plate ump Tim Tschida. Then Michael Cuddyer lined into an inning-ending double play. Somewhat interesting Girardi didn’t go to Damaso Marte against the Twins’ big lefties, although he hasn’t been reliable. Not that Robertson really has been, either.
Update, 3:38: Joba Chamberlain was able to work into trouble and almost work out of it, getting Morneau swinging before Cuddyer lined a single off Teixeira’s glove. So Mariano Rivera will come in with the bases loaded, looking for a four-out save.
Update, 3:45: Well, that didn’t work out too well for the Yankees. Walk to Jim Thome to force in a run, then grand slam to right by Jason Kubel. The Twins have been overdue, losing 12 straight to the Yankees. Rivera hadn’t allowed a run this season, covering 11 innings, and he hadn’t blown a save this season in seven tries. It’s 6-3 Minnesota going to the ninth.
Update, 4:10: Rivera had arrived with 51 consecutive saves at home, tying Eric Gagne for the major-league record. His last blown home save came at the old Yankee Stadium, on Aug. 13, 2007, against the Orioles.
Update, 4:22: Singles by Winn and Pena to open the ninth against Jon Rauch. Is there a comeback in the works?
Update, 4:30: No comeback. Derek Jeter, Brett Gardner and Teixeira struck out to end it. 6-3, Twins win. Finally.
Let’s go Yankees .
I’d just be happy with 3 runs in 5 innings from Mitre……this game is a freebie
Welcome back.
Though, I would like to see the lineup continue their hot hitting from yesterday. It’s frustrating to see them have big game every once in awhile and then not take it into the next game; the big guys need to carry this team.
SAS
Sorry aboot that. If you dont mind me asking, what does SAS stand for? Your initials?
Hey all, anyone know how I can watch the game. My Time Warner Cable is showing just a black screen whenever I turn to TBS. Does anyone else have this problem, or know where I can watch the game?
Blackburn has 9 strikeouts in 40 innings. I know Chien-Ming Wang pitched to contact, but this is ridiculous. The Yankees will pound him.
I guess we just suck on Sundays.
# Jon May 16th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Hey all, anyone know how I can watch the game. My Time Warner Cable is showing just a black screen whenever I turn to TBS. Does anyone else have this problem, or know where I can watch the game?
YES
Wow, Morneau is a great hitter.
Gardner last 7 games.
7-29 (.241) average down to .322 from .348
AJax last 7 games
5-30 (.167) average down to .331 fro .371
last 6 games 3-25 (.120)
Jon,
If you are in NY the game is on My9.
What made that Morneau homer even more impressive is that the wind is blowing from left to right at 15 MPH.
Thanks OPPC I am in New York.
Brett Gardner
.322 .398 .407 14BB 15K 2HR 12RBI 28R 17SB
Austin Jackson
.331 .382 .446 13BB 45K 1HR 10RBI 28R 6SB
Melky Cabrera
.194 .287 .231 14BB 15K 0HR 8RBI 10R 0SB
The Yankees will pound him.
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did we pound him in 2009 ALDS?
CR9
SAS are my initials. I asked the other day whether I should change to my first name. The ladies on here said that it did not confuse them that I had such a similar handle to S.o.S. and to leave it as is.
So, I did. What are your thoughts on the subject?
4 batters, 2 strikeouts for Nick Blackburn.
Jon May 16th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Hey all, anyone know how I can watch the game. My Time Warner Cable is showing just a black screen whenever I turn to TBS. Does anyone else have this problem, or know where I can watch the game?
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Put a crowbar in your wallet and buy MLB-TV.com?
Blackburn, who last won three straight starts from May 21-31, is 0-1 with a 5.89 ERA in four starts against New York.
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That would qualify.
I saw the homerun in mute. First I thought double but than this …
WOW
Betsy,
My English major friend ..is it “SAS is my initials, or SAS are my initials? I should know but neither looks right to me.
GB,
This game is on MY9 not on YES if that helps.
When was the last time they showed a Sunday afternoon game on MY9?
It’s “are”, SAS, because you’re talking about more than one thing……..Hope that helps
still cant find the channel though anyone else have time warner cable?
Betsy,
I didn’t know you majored in English. So did I.
2009 ALDS:
Nick Blackburn
5.2 innings, 3 hits, 1 run.
my bad GB!
Game 2, that is.
I remember my friend’s sister-in-law had a baby boy a few years ago and they were thinking of naming him Andrew Scott. Sounds ok, right? Well, the kid’s last name begins with an S, so had they named him Andrew Scott, his initials would have been A S S. His parents didn’t want him to go through life like that, lol, so they chose another name
Would Jorge be able to score on a triple?
SAS,
What Betsy said
Sorry GB,
I thought you asked the question. I should have known better but I didn’t read above the question.
How are you doing today?
great at bat
Jon,
I am watching on Time Warner. The game is on 9 or 709 in high def.
Gotta love 10 pitch walks.
Vasquez pitched 7 innings of 2-run ball in his last start, a hard-luck 2-0 loss to the Tigers, thus deserved the start today. Instead Girardi in his classic overmanaging mode starts Mitre who is best served being in the bullpen.
Why doesn’t Girardi just tell Vasquez 7 IP 2 ER isn’t good enough to pitch on normal rest? And why doesn’t Girardi tell the rest of his starters they have no viable mopup man for the next four games in case one of them gets knocked out of a game early? Cuz that’s what he’s telling them with this stupid move. What if Mitre gets knocked out early today? Who mops up with Aceves out? Ivan Nova? If Nova, who mops up in case Hughes, Sabathia, Burnett, or Pettitte get roughed up?
We’ll never know if Vasquez would’ve pitched well enough today that the Yanks could preserve Mitre for the next four games if no starters are roughed up before Friday.
Randy!!!
Fran, that’s another thing we have to talk about when we get together again!
Yep, I majored in American Literature in college, but I’ve always loved to read and write. I’m the go-to girl in my department at work when people need advice on grammar, wording, etc……..I get a kick out of that, lol
Nice job by Winn.
Winn with the two run triple… !
“Would Jorge be able to score on a triple?”
Yes!
Stupid, awful bottom of the lineup
The Winn Cries Mary!
So much for the Randy Winn DFA calls for at least 2 more games.
Betsy,
I just read about Andrew Scott. Believe it or not, I loved that name for our son, but for just that reason, we did not use that name. One of my nephews married a girl whose first and last name were AS. She dropped her maiden name and uses here middle name.
That’s the type of swing I want to see from Winn. Blackburn is a contact pitcher, and there was no need for Winn to swing for the fences. All he had to do was swing and try to guide the ball, and that’s exactly what he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Betsy,
Definitely. We’ll pick a date real soon for City Island.
Forum apologies due to Winn and Thames, I would say. Where do people get this idea that Jorge not DHing has anything to do with his ego? Is this just completely made up or are people actually pulling this from somewhere.
People were BRUTAL the other night. Since I didn’t complain about them, I’m exempt.
SAS
Your handle is fine! No need to change it! Now I know for the future!
I just saw SAS and assumed San Antonio Spurs! Silly me!
I, too, was an English major.
Trisha
Thanks for helping to cause the Red Sox collapse last night!!! For you, I’ll even feel slightly bad for Ramon Ramirez!
That was a big hit by Winn, but, a great at bat by Thames set it up.
2 out hits and hitting with risp are so big. Great job Randy!
Tom,
Where did you go to school?
I think trisha would support an edit button after that last post
These complaints aginst Girardi by the children are hilarious
They want Mitre to fail, but he is not going to – he will pitch a very good game.
Sherman probalbly made up lot of the stuff in his article, but if the decision to skip Javy was based on that logic, it is still sound.
SAS, I feel bad for kids whose parents give them truly hideous names. My name was sort of unusual when I was younger, but it’s more common now. It’s actually my real name, not a shortened form of Elizabeth.
Great AB by Thames is right! He set up the entire inning. Against a contact pitcher, he just kept fouling off pitches, waiting for a pitch he could smoke or a Ball 4.
So, for all the English majors, what is your favorite book/who is your favorite author?
Book? Huckleberry Finn. Author? Edgar Allan Poe.
mitre looks pretty good..i like
Nice quick inning by Mitre. He looks pretty good so far.
another great inning
I love the people that say the Rays have a better lineup than the Yanks. At no point will you ever see the Yanks hitting someone such as Gabe Kapler in the 3 hole/
Did they say why Thames is in RF and Winn in LF? Thames has only about 65 games in RF in his career…
Wow, nice job Mitre – and right after the Yanks score as well. So far, I’m fairly pleasantly surprised.
Winn now has 6 RBI. That’s actually pretty good for a fifth outfielder considering the Yanks aren’t at the 40-game mark yet. He’s on pace for at least 24 RBI. If he drove in 2 more runs for 8 total through 40 games, that’s a 32 RBI pace, only 19 RBI less than what he drove in for San Francisco as an everyday player last year, and he matches as many homeruns he hit last year if he smacks another homerun which I think he will.
Btw here’s to Mitre having as good an outing as he could have today – he looks good so far with 3 IP 1 ER – I just wanted Vasquez to start today because he pitched well enough to win vs. the Tigers on Tuesday but drew an even better opposing starting pitcher which sometimes happens.
Sean & Co. May 16th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
2009 ALDS:
Nick Blackburn
5.2 innings, 3 hits, 1 run
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Happy now?
Yes.
Betsy
Not an English major, but:
Book: Catcher in the Rye (let’s see if anyone can figure out the joke here!)
Author: Steinbeck
But I want more.
Cookiepuss, Vazquez pitched Wednesday, not Tuesday. Pitching today would be on 3 days rest, that’s why Mitre is pitching.
correction: kurt vonnegut
ChrisAutriche,
My guess would be that Thames is in right because there isn’t as much ground to cover.
I never liked Catcher in the Rye; I read it once in HS and was just annoyed by it, lol. Catcher in the Rye – CR………I got it, lol
The Brett Gardner Slump continues ………
lol @ Tex on the video screen haha
“People were BRUTAL the other night. Since I didn’t complain about them, I’m exempt.”
No exemption for complaining about LoHud commenters, unfortunately.
Teix is coming up short against Blackburn today, he’s only 1 for 2.
Rutgers ’02
Indiana University of Pennsylvania ’04
Pitt ’07.
Betsy,
My favorite book – To Kill A Mockingbird
Author – Shakespeare
“The Brett Gardner Slump continues ………”
And so does the moronic trolling.
Did they say why Thames is in RF and Winn in LF? Thames has only about 65 games in RF in his career…
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Probably because LF is bigger and WInn has more range
Betsy
That’s not the joke! lol
Have you ever seen a movie with Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, and Patrick Stewart?
Real favorite Book: 1984
I read it once in HS and was just annoyed by it, lol.
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Betsy,
I think everyone has read Catcher in the Rye in HS. They still teach it.
Lackey threw 38 pitches in the 2nd inning and Walked Damon with bases loaded, which brought in run #2. After 2 innings, he’s at 51 pitches, yikes!
Betsy,
As a none English major, with lots of English lit in my background, Gone with the Wind is unquestionable my favorite book. For English class I liked the Thomas Hardy books.
BBFan I’m not a kid and I don’t want Mitre to fail, I want Vasquez to succeed and Mitre to be used for what he is best at: a swingman/mopup man. Girardi is not alowing Vasquez to do that and he is misusing Mitre. It’s nice Mitre is pitching well SO FAR, but he could’ve been used as a mopup man for one of the next four games as the other four starters can’t always pitch well enough that the Yanks don’t need a mopup man. I’m looking at this Twins lineup and no one concerns me outside of Mauer and Morneau.
There is no logic in having Vasquez miss his turn in the rotation after he posted 7 IP 2 ER against a good team with a pretty potent offense. Vasquez must have some “What do I have to do to get the ball every fifth day?” anxiety and self-doubt. Now he has to be even better vs. the reeling Mets with the media circus which always swirls around the Subway Series no matter how pathetic the Mets are. Three starts in three weeks (5/1, 11, and 21) does not do well for anyone’s confidence which is a BIG part of a starter’s mindset.
Either The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne or
Don Quixote.
Author – Shakespeare
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Shakespeare was never an author.
That has been proven. Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere wrote all those works.
This is a concrete fact. Indisputable.
Gardenhire’s got to be tearing out whatever hair he has left watching all of these line drives settle into Yankee gloves.
SAS,
I actually never read Gone With the Wind, but I have seen the movie many times. I do love it.
CR9, I don’t know what the joke is either. Because J.D. Salinger was a reclusive New Englander?
Favorite book: “My Life and Hard Times” by James Thurber.
I hate My9
Fran, that’s another one I haven’t read since HS. One of my other favorite books is Uncle Tom’s Cabin……
Shakespeare? I loved Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Tempest and Twelfth Night…….
Mitre is looking really good so far.
CR, nope – I am not a movie person at all!
Great job by Mitre to keep the pitch count down.
Fran, I know – and I think it’s overrated. Then again, to be fair, I haven’t read it in a loooooooooooooong time.
Mitre not doing bad, Vazquez certain did well against NL, maybe that’s the thinking !
Anon, I think many would disagree with you about Shakespeare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.....p_question
SAS, I loved the movie – never actually read Gone with the Wind. I also adore Greek Mythology., Actually, I think the Odyssey is my favorite book/novel/epic poem ever…..sorry, Huck!
Well, I’m sure Girardi and the Yankees see Vazquez as the de facto 5th starter now, so if they have to make any moves, they’ll just end up skipping his turn. Hughes and Vazquez pretty much swapped places.
The joke is from the movie Conspiracy Theory with Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, and Patrick Stewart.
The joke is, people that generally believe in conspiracy theories own the book Catcher in the Rye.
It comes from the guy who killed John Lennon. He claimed that government agents used key words in Catcher in the Rye to trigger previously implanted orders for him to kill Lennon.
Fran, that’s another one I haven’t read since HS.
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Betsy,
I read To Kill a Mockingbird in HS and taught it many times when I was teaching.
Nick, I never read that; didn’t Thurber also write “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”?
CR, oh really ? LOL….Mark Lindsay Chapman I think his name was; what a nut case.
Gone with the Wind is well written, and I think you would enjoy it despite the fact you have seen the movie.
I read it in 8th grade when I had a bad case of the flu, and my mother handed it to me. Even though I was sick as a dog, I couldn’t put it down. I remember it as though it was yesterday. My Mom read 2 or 3 books a week ,and we had wonderful times discussing good books.
My mistake, but o.k. then, why skip Vasquez vs. Boston after he pitched 7 IP 2 ER?
Hughes still faces Boston, it’s Sabathia and Burnett our 1-2 punch vs. Tampa Bay, and the rotation vs. the Mets is Pettitte/Vasquez/Hughes with Mitre on standby in case Vasquez stinks and Mitre wasn’t used for the four games before Vasquez, although Ivan Nova is on standby as well.
I got news for all of you:
You can’t baby/protect Vasquez forever or assume Sabathia/Burnett/Pettitte/Hughes will be the rotation in the postseason. If someone gets hurt in August and is out for the year, Vasquez might have to make a postseason start vs. Boston or someone else. ‘Say Hughes has a great year: 18-5, 2.87 ERA, top 5 in the Cy Young Award voting (he could win it with that with the state of starting pitching nowadays), but Pettitte is out with a season-ending injury in September. The postseason rotation is Sabathia/Burnett/Hughes? You really wanna overuse Hughes like that? I think you’d need to start Vasquez in Game 4 of one of the postseason series, if you want to protect Hughes from long-term injury.
Fran, if I recall the ending right, it was rather depressing……….
Did anyone on here now have to read Beowulf in Middle English because I did. That was tough in 9th grade.
SAS, I’m sure I would love it; books are always better than the movies. That’s great that you would discuss good books with your mother…….
Betsy
lol Yes. The guy that shot Ronald Reagan also owned Catcher in the Rye.
FWIW, I dont own the book, nor do I like it! It was only meant as a joke!
Fran, I also loved To Kill a Mockingbird from H.S.
Betsy, Langston Hughes is my favorite author along with Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Also big fan of Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Big Sleep is one of my favorite books.
What everyone is missing about the move to pitch Vazquez on friday is that this decision puts all the starters back into their original slots #1-5 and keeps Hughesie in the #5 slot making it easier to follow whatever plan they mave have had in regards to his innings limit.
Vazquez goes back into the #4 slot and the future off days that I’m sure they had factored into Hughes Rules may allow them to back to that original plan and not have to devise an entirely new one as they had to with Joba last season when he had to move up into the #4 slot in the ‘ro.
SAS, yes. I took a course in Middle English in college………..that was sort of rough, but I liked it well enough.
Cookiepuss,
Please read back for all the great reasons why Vazquez is going to be skipped. Like setting up CC and Pettitte to start against Cleveland who suck vs lefties.
Also ‘the rules’ go out the window in the postseason. So if hughes is going to help us win a WS by starting, he will start.
Its at maximum an extra 27 IP most likely, as he would pitch once in each series. While CC would pitch 2-3 times, and Burnett would pitch 1-2 times.
I think I read To Kill a Mockingbird as a new novel. It is a wonderful book.
winn just missed a bomb
Bronx Born, the only thing I’ve ever read by Hemingway is a short story called “The Hills like White Elephants” – I hated it. I do have “A Moveable Feast” and I intend to read it one day because I love Paris.
I loved The Great Gatsby, but haven’t read it in years; my ni ece just read it for her HS English class and she loved it as well.
CR9: ah, no, I never saw that movie. Funny, but I would wager that a lot of people own ‘Catcher in the Rye’.
Betsy: Yes, Thurber wrote that too. It was a short story. Best combination writer/cartoonist of all time???
Please, no one ever mention Joba as a starter again !!!
He’s “good to go” right where he is and BELONGS !!!
CR, oh – lol.
One of the most chilling stories every has to be “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson……still gives me shivers thinking about it.
Too bad Winn doesn’t have a little more power.
CR9,
Reagan’s would be assassin John Hinckley also had a copy of Catcher In The Rye in his hotel room.
I once had a half baked idea to start a walking tour of Central Park with all the locations in the book and terminating at the Dakota but imagine all the weirdos that would take it?
this just in, “Yankees fire Girardi, hire Cookiepuss as Manager”.
Is it too much to ask for 6 more outs from Mitre? Keep it together….
Again Cookiepuss they wouldn’t have had to reshuffle the ‘ro were it not for the rainout last week.
By throwing Phil tomorrow and keeping everybody on their normal rest this allows them to realign the ‘ro as it was supposed to be at the start of the season and I think keeps the “Hughes Rules” plan intact.
Look at it from the big picture…
Fran and Betsy,
If you go to City Island to a place I can walk, I would love to join you and meet my new friends. Don’t feel that you have to include me in any way. I understand if you 2 want to go alone.
Nick, I know the story, but I’ve never actually read it…I’d like to, though.
Oops, how can I forget Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? He was a true genius. Most people know him only for Sherlock Holmes (brilliant stories), but he also wrote the Lost World (about a group of explorers that finds dinosaurs living in South America), which is an absolutely brilliant book.
SAS,
I read Beowulf in college. I taught it in HS to my AP English class (or what was supposed to pass for AP English) and they hated it.
SAS, we would love to have you join us – the more the merrier!
MG, lol
Only the choicest cuts today on the Meat-tray.
They really should start banning garbage like Beowulf in schools. It is a perfect waste of time.
More focus on science and math.
SAS,
You are certainly welcome. Do you live on City Island? I taught at Theodore Roosevelt HS on Fordham Road which is how I discovered City Island.
“Thanks for helping to cause the Red Sox collapse last night!!! For you, I?ll even feel slightly bad for Ramon Ramirez!”
CR-9, you know you never get anything less than my best, especially as it concerns them and theirs!!!
And I am privileged to announce that Detroit is leading 3-1 in the top of the 4th. GO ARMANDO GALARRAGA!!!
And oh yeah CR-9, Sergio Mitre is also one of my guys.
And vinny-b’s too. A shout out to vinny-b because for a while we were the only two rooting for the guy. Someone actually called him garbage. 
“I once had a half baked idea to start a walking tour of Central Park with all the locations in the book and terminating at the Dakota but imagine all the weirdos that would take it?”
Bronx Jeers
LOL!!
Betsy, moveable feast is an incredible story. you should read it. i love paris as well. one of my favorite cities. although lately prague has moved up to my favorite now.
Fran,
No one asked me if I hated it or not, it was part of 9th grade English. All those early English writers were part of that year along with Romeo and Juliet. We never read American novels which I think was a bad oversight …however that is what the school I went to offered. It has stood me in good stead all these years.
Please, no one ever mention Joba as a starter again !!!
He’s “good to go” right where he is and BELONGS !!!
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If Joba pitches well this year he should be a starter again. Like Hughes. Can’t mess with what works.
I just realized that I may see Phil on 6/1 against Baltimore, woo hoo!
Bronx Born, great call on Dashiel Hammett. “Nightmare Town” is a greal collection.
Bronx Jeers, I once toured the Dakota, one of my classmates had a grandma who lived there, and my English class visited. We were reading “Time and Again”. I don’t think I had seen “Rosemary’s Baby” so I wasn’t creeped out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F....._1880s.jpg
Tolbert continues his mission in life to ruin the Yankees.
nice play Pena
wow nice play by pena
Nice play by Pena!!!
Mitre got through 5. Nice job.
Fran,
I live in Westchester but at least I know where City Island is and have been there many times, but not in the last 10 years.
Bronx, Paris is my favorite place in the world…….I just love it. I’ve not been to Prague yet, but my parents loved it; I don’t think anyone who’s been there has anything negative to say about it.
This the Yanks thread or “Back To School?”
Trisha
Ive always been behind Sergio Mitre. While he may be garbage, I think he could be a serviceable spot starter. He did nearly no hit the White Sox last year.
But, to be perfectly honest, the reason why I am behind Mitre figuratively is that Mitre is gorgeous. He has a gorgeous face, and the finest tooshie I have ever seen on a man!!!
PENA!!!!!
Good afternoon, Trisha
why do so many of you think your baseball knowledge is superior to a manager with 15 years of major league experience (Girardi), a bench coach who caught for 17 years, and the other coaches who have a ton of experience as well? Girardi may be a little stubborn about some moves but he’s still an intelligent guy who by and large makes good decisions, the team’s record speaks for itself.
Betsy
Dont run on the field to try and hug Phil! Or you may get tased!
God don’t make junk.
Is Time and Again the book about the guy that time travels? The author wrote a sequel, I believe. I had both of those books at one time, but they have disappeared into oblivion.
I’d have to put Walter Farley up there as well. As a young girl, I just adored his Black Stallion books………and they still hold up today.
I think I just puked a little.
Shakespeare was real. The Francis Bacon myths started well after both were dead. Product of the English class system that they couldn’t accept that their greatest writer was not noble.
Now let’s get some more runs.
“…for a while we were the only two rooting for the guy. Someone actually called him garbage.”
Yellow card for the first part of that, for inaccuracy.
That someone would call a major league baseball player garbage is just reprehensible!
RAMON!
CR, lol – I would be too nervous, believe me. I went to Phil’s autograph signing at Roosevelt field last year (met Erica there) and I said some stupid nonsense about how I was glad he wasn’t traded for Santana, lol. I felt like a complete idiot; immediately after that, I put his picture away and haven’t looked at it since. It reminds me of what a fool I sounded like, lol
If Joba pitches well this year he should be a starter again. Like Hughes. Can’t mess with what works.
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When has IT worked? 3 starts after all-star game last year and that’s about it. Joba doesn’t have the mentality that Hughes does.
On the other hand, Joba’s numbers in pen are outstanding and he could be the replacement for Mo.
must.
is it what is known as “going book club”
get .
Pena can run
SAS,
The curriculum didn’t include American literature until 11th grade.
Send me an email to Fran0322@aol.com so I have your address and I’ll let you know when Betsy and I plan City Island.
Trisha,
You’re invited too
Nice to see the sloth getting batted around today in Detroit.
this.
wow great job jeter…perfect execution
Girardi small balls it with this hit and run (run and hit). Will Gardy bunt?
Betsy, if you can get yourself to Prague go. It is an incredible city – living history.
runners. home.
The SS was covering so the hit & run would have been a hit anyway
wow, AWFUL at bat by Brett
As bad as Vasquez has been, at least the Yankees didn’t give him 80 million dollars.
suboptimal, Gardy.
boy gardner has struggled since hitting his last homer…hasnt gotten a hit since
Yea. Brett Gardner is not Slumping.
Tex needs to get that run in. Need some insurance here.
Gardner should have bunted because Tex probably would have been walked to keep the DP in order – and if he wasn’t, then we’d have Tex up
Tex!!!
good placement tex
Tex!
Good job by Tex
This is just a sad day for us Yankee fans.
We deserve a little luck after all the crap we’ve had to deal with lately…….
Betsy
lol You did not sound like a fool. You probably just sounded like a lovestruck fan! Im sure Phil was flattered!
Nick,
This is before or after Lennon’s murder?
Warning: Answering “before” could be hazardous to your health.
8 for 9. I didn’t realize someone could own a pitcher worse than A-Rod owned Bartolo Colon.
They should walk ARod and pitch to Cano.
Sergio only had 2 people rooting for him? Quite a small fan base. Poor guy.
Maybe we need to get a group together to support our boy Mitre?
PFOMs?
Darn………….disappointing day for Alex coming off of yesterday
Supoptimal, Alex.
Hit one, Cano. been too long.
suboptimal, Robbie.
Not a great inning – they only plated one and that was on a lucky double. Gardner as awful and Alex and Cano didn’t do the job
span covers a lot of ground out there..hes always on my screen
Robbie’s back to hacking away.
great job mitre, just one of those day situational hitting will be bad
Robbie hasn’t been good in awhile……..
No SJ? No CB? No Chad? No good!
CB watched Barca clinch La Liga today!
Congratulations CB on Barca winning.
Bronx Jeers: I think it was after. But I’m not 100% sure.
Hummm, is the strike zone a 2 inch by 2 inch box?
Can you confirm this?
Mitre has pitched well, but he is at 80 and you really don’t want him facing the meat of the lineup again.
where marte. mitre great job. bad manging by giradri again
Wow. Big spot for D-Rob. I like the move though.
DRob warning. He started out well yesterday but the end of his outing was not pretty.
this could be a really big outing for robertson right now..coming in with a slim lead against mauer morneau and company coming up….hopefully a nice boost of confidence if (when) he succeeds
Mitre gave the Yankees the 5 innings they wanted. Now let’s hope the rest of the bullpen comes through.
Five plus innings from mitre… Can’t ask for much more… He did a fine job
Fran,
Email sent.
That should have said, DRob WARMING. Freudian slip, perhaps? LOL
I am going to go out on a limb here and say Robertson fails.
LGY there weren’t a whole lot of people supporting Mitre, especially when he started having problems last season. But I know vinny-b and I stuck with him. He had a great ST but there were still posters here who didn’t want any part of him and said ST proved nothing.
Isn’t Cervelli a great catcher????
See ya now!
LGY there weren’t a whole lot of people supporting Mitre, especially when he started having problems last season. But I know vinny-b and I stuck with him. He had a great ST but there were still posters here who didn’t want any part of him and said ST proved nothing.
Isn’t Cervelli a great catcher????
See ya now!
Well, good job by Mitre………….have no faith in Robertson.
Why would you bring in Marte in the 6th inning?
This is the only move he could make.
Was there any news about Park being brought up?
Was he, and maybe Logan sent down?
Trouble here
For once, Girardi is not managing by the book, bringing in Logan (if he’s still up).
He has made the right decision. Let’s hope it works out for us.
Detroit 5-1 going into the 6th.
SAS – looking better all the time.
Robertson really stinks right now, jeez.
CR9 May 16th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Was there any news about Park being brought up?
Was he, and maybe Logan sent down?
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move will be made after this game – they wanted Nova around in case Mitre needed the back up (according to Twitter before the game)
Can’t keep walking in relief
What did you expect from a guy with an ERA of 10.24?
D-Rob has no game plan.
Man I’m pretty sick of D-Rob. He can’t put hitters away anymore.
DRob has just become a walk machine lately.
They’re not activating Park till tomorrow.
I don’t know what’s happened to DRob.
Park supposed to be up tomorrow
I guess he will walk to base loaded
He’s not even close – begging for HR here
I’m not seeing how facing two of the toughest lefties in the league is supposed to boost Robertson’s confidence, but I hope it works.
One thing he can’t do is let this turn into a big inning.
Why would you bring in Marte in the 6th inning?
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Because its a big spot? And the next time Mauer/Morneau would bat would be in the 9th? Vs Mo?
Trisha,
I’m not sure what Cisco has to do with Mitre?? Can you clarify?
Park is being activated tomorrow.
Logan threw 40 pitches yesterday. Pretty tough to use him today.
Sometimes, you are shorthanded and you have to deal with it.
This is tough to watch.
That was a good pitch………
Huge out. But where’s the curveball?
Can’t throw strikes, where’s his curve ?
Lucked out there
huge k….huge
Lol I’ll take it.
Big strikeout there
wow, lucky one
Great minds……
And he’s arguing!
He got cheated earlier this year in ABs against the Red Sox.
That pitch has been a strike all day for both teams.
He’s supposed to be a docile Canadien. And he’s arguing.
Great pitch !!!!!
How did Marte do against Mauer and Morneau Friday night?
Not exactly confidence inspiring.
luck. Ill take it
Wow, lol………….
Lol the Twins have the worst luck.
terrible terrible baserunning…thank you hudson
He just got a big out, and right back to 2-0.
I forgot Logan threw 40 pitches yesterday. It was only decision to make for Joe!!!
PENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DROB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow, LOL, lucky inning!
giradri pure lucky there.
Pure luck, but he deserved some
whew,I was thinking bad thoughts.
Twins are snakebit
I liked Wells’ laughter there at the prospect of the Twins never winning again at Yankee Stadium.
Robertson looked awful………but we got lucky.
Just like you draw it up! lol
Sorry LGY, I’ll repost for you.
LGY there weren?t a whole lot of people supporting Mitre, especially when he started having problems last season. But I know vinny-b and I stuck with him. He had a great ST but there were still posters here who didn?t want any part of him and said ST proved nothing.
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Isn?t Cervelli a great catcher????
See ya now!
SAS,
I answered your email.
Nice DP to end the inning.
Jeez. The Twins cannot catch a break in Yankee Stadium. Not complaining..just saying.
Wow, haha.
I’m just waiting for Gardenhire to reenact the Atlanta Braves minor league manager meltdown scene any day now.
I would not bring Robertson out for the 7th -who, then?
Sometimes, it is better to be lucky than good.
I would not bring Robertson out for the 7th -who, then?
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Its actually Who, but
Ivan Nova
Regardless of the result another poor outing for Robertson.
That pitch to Morneau was not a strike.
Maybe that inning will give Robertson some confidence. Throw strikes and let the defense do the work. The control will return. I’d let him pitch the 7th inning.
Can we please smack Nick Blackburn around now?
Anyone know where a Twins fan site would be (other than the one sponsored by MLB.com)
Well, hopefully that gives D-Rob some confidence, but he pitched scared that inning. Got a gift call on the strike 3 to Morneau. That pitch wasn’t even close.
Cuddyer hit it on the screws. For Minnesota, this is like the Yankees series in Detroit. Just a lot of bad luck.
Jerkface, you think Joe will do that in a close game ? I figured he was only here in case Mitre blew up………
Reading through the comments; people speculating about why Winn in left and Thames in right instead of the other way around.
I wondered that too, and the answer I came up with = Sun. Maybe Girardi thinks that Winn will be able to do a lot better dealing with the sun directly in his face. So far so good.
Regardless of the result another poor outing for Robertson.
That pitch to Morneau was not a strike.
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That may be, but he had a couple of strikes called balls that outing
When you find out that My9 nightly news won the outstanding award in Emmy, you know Emmy sucks.
That wasn’t a re-post, that was a three-post!
The only choice is leaving D-rob in, or throwing Joba for 2.
Jerkface
Spot on. A couple of his strikes were called balls. And that strike 3 to Morneau has been a strike all game.
I thought the pitch to Morneau was a strike – borderline, but a strike. That said, Robertson was awful…………….he was awful yesterday as well.
now is the time to slather on some runs
Trisha,
Cervelli isn’t playing today.
Still not following…
Galarraga just came out of the game. Nice job though for his first game back. Top of the 6th, still 5-1, 2 outs, 2 Suxers on base (if anyone is interested)
Trisha
Thanks for the Sox updates!
Sent you an email!
timbritton Second time in as many days that Hudson is doubled off on a line drive. #twins #yankees
Trisha,
I am also not getting what you are saying about Mitre.
Any real Yankee fan always wanted Mitre to do well.
can Seattle get some more runs here – feels like they need about 5 to feel safe with that BP
CR9
As a Man u fan this might interest you…
In dutch newspapers it’s reported that Man u offered 23mil to Ajax for Suarez…
LGY,
you don’t understand, Trisha is the only one with the foresight to see that Mitre would be good. She is a unique and special snowflake.
That pitch to Morneau has not been a strike all day.
It was close to the other batters box.
I hate Nick Blackburn.
It was close to the other batters box.
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Overhead view said otherwise. And if you look at Brooks PitchFX zone, it is clustered with a bunch of other strikes.
So yes, it has been a strike all day.
LGY I was playing with you.
Leyland has Bonderman on in relief. Okay inning over.
Not happy to see Robertson out there, but we really have no choioce…..
Roger
Thanks. Saw that, I dont know much about Suarez, but Ive read he could be the perfect striking partner for Rooney!
Speaking of Francisco Cervelli, where is Non Sequitur Man?
I was hoping his brain teasers would become a daily feature.
LGY
Im watching on TBS, and they keep Pitch Trax up all game. And that strike 3 to Morneau HAS BEEN A STRIKE ALL GAME!
Look no further than the 1st Gardner AB of the game!
K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trisha. A twins website is Star Tribune go to LaVelle Neal’s blog. Lots of Twins fans on there.
Go Bombers, hopefully only need Joba and Month yet in this one.
jerkface, I am a unique and special snowflake. We all are.
Mitre didn’t get a lot of forum support so it makes me feel even better for him that he is doing so well. But then again, this forum isn’t full of posters who give players the benefit of the doubt just about ever.
If we’re talking futbol, there’s a story in today’s NYP about Thierry Henry going to the… Red Bulls????
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports.....z3eC20wX2H
Thank you Unknown!!!
This could be the outing that changes the course of Robertson’s season……
The last pitch to Morneau was outside. But, pitch #3 should have been called a strike.
Oh. I am watching on MY9 and they didn’t give an overhead view or have the strike zone box.
Didn’t really look close from my angle, but looks like my eyes are deceiving me.
uhhh
Wow, Robertson is a wimp out there – he’s afraid of Casilla? Awful.
Only way you are going to get Robertson right is to use him.
Whether it’s luck, skill or a combination of the two, you have success, you build confidence.
They don’t have 10 bullpen arms Girardi can pull at any given time.
They NEED Robertson to get out of this funk.
He is very very good.But Ajax wants more than 23mil euro for him.Probably around 30..
LGY,
MY9 showed the overhead view. FLaherty said it was borderline but called all game.
Also D-Rob just got squeezed for ball 4 on a pitch blackburn has had all game.
Nick
I saw that yesterday! Im so excited!!! HENRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Red Bull already have Juan Pablo Angel, who is pretty good.
New England Revolution have never won an MLS Cup, like the Red Bull.
But NE has suffered some devasting collapses.
In the finals one year, they had the lead with 5 minutes to go, and lost 2-1!!!!
how has Casilla managed to walk twice in this game!
bottom line after everything
D-Rob= 2 scoreless innings
He got it done, but Robertson is completely unreliable at this point.
Robertson escapes. Good job. Now it can be Joba and Mariano to finish up.
Balking Bob Davidson just got Robertson. Even though it wasn’t a balk.
Nice play by Pena to end the inning.
robertson.. 2 innings. no runs. i’ll take that
CR9, other than the fact that the Gardner K was on a pitch on the inside corner that clearly had some of the plate your contention that the strikeout pitch to Morneau, which was clearly outside, is the same pitch, is about as accurate as everything else you post, which is not at all.
Robertson also threw two pitches to Casilla that were called balls, but should have been clear strikes.
He’s not pitching as bad as it initially appears. He’s getting squeezed by the ump, despite being “bailed out” on that one pitch to Morneau.
DROB!!!!!!!
All he has to do is throw strikes, and he can/will be successful!
good job by Robertson, now it’s joba-time.
OT: 20 mil for Suarez is peanuts, we want 30-35, at least
“MY9 showed the overhead view.”
lol. Looks like my eyes are really deceiving me.
Anyway, I still don’t think that was a good outing for Robertson.
Oh, I agree they need Robertson; he’s a talented kid, not some over the hill bum. I have no problem with Joe bringing him in there – just don’t have faith in him right now.
MG
Sorry that you are not up-to-date.
Strike 1 or 2 in the Gardner 1st AB was outside. Same spot as strike 3 to Morneau!
Betsy,
Did you even see that “Ball 4″ pitch? It was right on the inside corner and above the knees.
The umpire today has consistently not called strikes on pitches that the catcher has moved his glove on, but that’s no excuse if the pitch is in the zone. Some of the calls have been ridiculously inconsistent.
NYYs pitchers seem to have trouble with hitters like Casilla and Willits. They can seemingly knock the bats out of their hands, but, always seem to walk them.
Anyway, I still don’t think that was a good outing for Robertson.
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He is missing his location every time
Henry should go to the US to play some football.He not good anymore and I guess that’s what you do then..
Betsy,
nobody is “completely unreliable” if they just pitched 2 scoreless innings.
Not everybody is Mariano Rivera.
This is a step forward for Robertson. He got some big outs today.
LGY
I was not attacking you. You are right, the strike 3 to Morneau was easily Ball 4. But it had been called a strike all day.
The only pitch that was clearly not a strike to Casilla was pitch #5. Pitch #1 was the only other one that I wouldn’t question calling a ball, since it was just on the edge of the zone.
I have complete faith in Robertson. K numbers like his don’t happen by luck. He is righting the ship and is our best hope for a 7th inning bridge. Nice work today by him.
SJ, he didn’t look good, IMO. He got very lucky – not so much with Morneau, but as with the DP. Do all pitchers get “lucky” sometimes with line drives? Of course, but he was not sharp at all and he walked the #9 batter to bring up the tying run. It was progress because he didn’t completely collapse, but I agree with LGY – not a good outing.
Funny listening to David Wells on TBS talking Yankee baseball !!
Wells has gotta be one of my favorite Yanks. He won some big games for them.
keithlaw #tehfear RT @mikeaxisa Holy crap, Cuddyer has 12 GIDP this season. He’s on pace for 54. The single season record is 36 by Jim Rice in 1984
http://www.startribune.com
Go to sports then the Twins coverage and find Mr. Neal’s blog column/article for today called” will the Twins get swept out of the county?”
Comments there are usually a running comments by twins fans from the game. They sound miserable I’m sure. I live in St. Paul and I am loving this win streak for the Yankees over them. Of course as a Yankee fan.
This is the only way to get DRob back online. And it didn’t hurt at all today.
CR9,
I didn’t say you were attacking me.
Nice hit Gardy.. Now take #18
Good work, Gardy, now can we please start the Ceremonial Homers?
I like Wells, obviously because he was a Yankee. And listening to Wells today is fun, but Wells is a classless guy.
IMO also, he doesnt have any loyalty to the Yankees.
I want a steal.
joba time i hope
DRob may not have looked good but he got through two innings without being touched. He deserves props for that.
LGY: I think I can help mediate this dispute.
“Forum support” is a subjective term, but if Trisha is saying that few LoHud commenters gave Mitre much of a chance at being a successful starter (or maybe even role player) last season, I think that’s basically accurate. Only two would be hyperbolic.
Her original statement on this topic today — that only two LoHud commenters were rooting for Mitre — is another matter. “Rooting” is also a bit subjective, but lots of good folks were rooting for Mitre to do well in his appearances even without necessarily having confidence that he would do so.
LGY
I know. I just wanted u to know that I wasnt!
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What a slump Gardner is in!! What a terrible piece of hitting!
Joba and Mo time. C’mon baby, six more outs.
Nick, precisely.
Betsy,
you expect too much out of relief pitchers.
When a guy is struggling, it takes time to work thru things.
It’s not figure skating. You don’t get style points.
2 innings, 0 runs, and he gets the ball to Joba.
Bottom line, he did his job.
Sometimes, outings like this are the kind of outings that get guys out of slump.
Come on JD Drew. For us Yankees, hit one out.
Why would Tex go for that first pitch?Let Gardner steal second and then try to get that RBI
People can lose faith in Robertson, but simply put he is the best option for the 7th inning role, because of his arsenal.
The Yankees need to get him right , and hopefully they will.
Come on. Slaughter those Tigers.
SJ, I wasn’t expecting him to be perfect, but his location was still bad. That said, he managed to get 6 outs without giving up runs so I’m happy with that.
TBS HD is way better than My9 sucking SD
i guess kay forget with joba was sitting 95 as a starter in 08…
Rconn, I agree – the Yankees have to get Robertson straightened out. Once he does, he’s a good pitcher……….
I get MY9 HD on Directv. Do NYers not get MY9 in HD?
Wells going on and on and on an on…
I just want it to be known that I always said Mitre had value, even when they got rid of Gaudin, and I will use this to gloat over everyone when he does well, and not bring it up when he does poorly.
Give Span credit there.. took some pitches
CR9.
yes.
Joba never hit 95 as a starter
Trenton has a 12-6 lead over Binghamton in the 7th. Bleich got rocked but, Daniel Brewer is 1-4 with a homer, David Adams is 1-3 with 2 RBI. The big bat has been Brandon Laord, who is 3-4 with 2 homers (grand slam) and 7 RBI.
They had no chance to get Hudson; I’m surprised they even threw to first.
nice play by tex and pena getting that lead runner, tough play
# Pete May 16th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Joba never hit 95 as a starter
Yes he did
Joba never hit 95 as a starter
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2008 Joba averaged 95 on his fastball as a starter
“Joba never hit 95 as a starter”
thats just a flat out lie….he hit 98 as a starter
Cliff Lee (Sea) is holding Rays to 0 so far after 5. Matt Garza is at 100 pitches after 6
Sea 1 Rays 0
Betsy, considering the situation that Robertson was thrust into , he did good…Yeah the liner for the deuce was an atom-ball, but overall he can fell good about himself when he showers today and build upon that……..He’s needed for the Yanks to maximize the clubs success in 2010
oy, Joba
I would have brought in Mariano this inning.
I know it’s not by the book, but Joba has saved games before.
And Mariano is the perfect guy to do that with. He has no ego. He doesnt care about getting a save.
C’mon, Joba.
Leave Joba in Joe….
Pat M, I definitely agree he’s needed…………
Come on Joba!
Maybe DRob was a bit lucky — much like Alfie the windswept Yorkshire Terrier — but the end result was positive and he will live to bark another day.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/l.....Ei5xUPabYJ
wow joba got lucky
you dont see many people with that red-ish bat like morneau..funky
to clarify, i meant bring in Mo to start the 8th, Joba for the 9th.
joba will prevail…(knocks on wood)
You don’t bring in Mariano for a 2 inning save in May coming off an injury in a series you won the day before you play the Red Sox.
It’s up to Joba to get out of it.
yeah! nice K!
big k there…nasty slider
Yeah, Joba!
One more!
Gotta get Cuddyer hard up and in.
do these guys not watch the game? he threw two curves to mauer
Aww, Nick – I hadn’t even read about that. Poor dog – very happy he’s ok
# RalphieD (OPPC) May 16th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
do these guys not watch the game? he threw two curves to mauer
I know. So sick of these 2.
Oh, F***
Last thing we need is a Po injury.
“I just want it to be known that I always said Mitre had value, even when they got rid of Gaudin, and I will use this to gloat over everyone when he does well, and not bring it up when he does poorly.”
wasn’t there also this little thing that aceves , gaudin, and mitre were really in a competition with hughes in spring training when a lot of people thought hughes had it locked up from the get go ?
i mean the nerve and audacity of a lohud forum yankee fan to think hughes was head and shoulders above mitre and gaudin.
Oops, I thought that hit Jorgie’s hand. It did not.
For Scranton, Reid Gorecki ties the game at 6-6 with a 3 run double in the 8th inning. Montero is 0-4 with a GIDP and 2 strikeouts.
Thanks SJ
DRob’s job when he comes out of the pen is to not give up runs which is what he did bothe today and yesterday.
All pithcers both starters and relievers have days when they just aren’t at their sharpest just like all bus drivers, teachers,cops, traders whomever.
Sometimes you guys are so fair weather when it comes to your “team” it’s funny.
DRob has been the same guy his whole career….gives up very few hits,walks alot of guys and Ks a ton of hitters.
He walks guys because he throws a wipeout curve which is generally actually a ball but the hitters can’t holdup and usually can’t make contact with it that’s why it’s a true swing and miss pitch.
The disciplined hitter who can lay off that pitch can have great success against DRob because his fastball although very good is not a plus type fastball that he can get away with just saying “here it is hit if you can”….that’s who he is!
Having said that I think with more work he’ll begin to build off of these “ugly” but successful outings and settle into a grove like he did last season.
According to the article, Alfie is a Silky and not a Yorkie.
if that’s accurate, I regret the error.
awww man….that was weird
SJ
I didnt mean Mo for a 2 inning save.
Kay said on Wednesday that the competition for the 5th spot was one where everyone had the same chance…………um, no. Joba and Phil were ahead of everyone………..
Ooh, bad luck. I agree with bringing Mo in here.
Joba fails
Should have left in Joba.
Cliff Lee is smokin after 6 innings, 1-0 Sea, 86 pitches. Garza out with 100 pitches in 6 innings.
Det 5 bosox 1
well this should be fun…i hope
it’s mo time.
Champ, I don’t think you know the meaning of the term fair weather. Give me a break. To be a fair weather fan means you only support your team in the good times, not the bad. It doesn’t mean that you have to think every performance is positive; the lecturing is not necessary
Not after 21 pitches. This is the right time to bring in Mo.
Really had no other choice due to Joba’s pitchcount.
My mistake on the scranton game. It was Chad Moeller with the 3 run double. Russo just gave scranton the lead with an RBI single. 7-6 Scranton.
not Joba’s fault Tex couldn’t handle that line drive..
ouch 2-0
Mo just got cheated.
That ball 2 was a strike for Blackburn all DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, this isn’t good.
Made a good pitch to Cuddyer, he just managed to get the bat on it and Tex couldn’t quite handle it.
And now Mo is getting a squeeze job? C’mon!
ick…come on mo…fight back
Dancing all around trouble the entire game.
Joelsherman1 Best OBP among active players (min 20PA) vs. Rivera is Thome (.450). And it is Rivera v. Thome, bases loaded, 2 outs in 3-1 game in 8th
2 minutes ago via TweetDeck
Exactly – if Joe wants Joba for tomorrow, he had to come out
I think the best thing Robertson takes out of that outing is confidence which he could definitely use right now.
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Nick,
Nice job mediating. Maybe you could make some cash on as a mediator
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Just got back from walking the dog. Bases loaded? Did Joba look bad?
in ’08 Joba was throwing 99-100 as a starter late in games.
In that game against Boston where he outpitched Beckett his last pitch I believe it was his 107th pitch to end the 7th inning he threw a 99mph 4 seameron the outside black Mike Lowell just practically jogged back to the dugout talking to himself.
He hit 95-96 several times last year as a starter in games when he broke out the 4 seamer that Eiland had him put in his back pocket pretty much in favor of the 2 seamer/pitch to contact/keep your pitch down approach that they had been trying to get him to implement.
*cash on the side*
Wow…….
what a CHEATJOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best closer in baseball history, this happens to!
dammit
Not good. Second pitch of the AB changed the entire AB.
Robertson got that strike….
um…one more out, please
Question is will Mo be available tomorrow?
well, Nick Blackburn deserves to win.
what was that up and away pitch that mariano walked thome on?
i just tuned in and was really surprised to see another cutter.
nuff said; Joba fails big.
Oh my god
speechless….
ballgame
I AM SICK TO MY STOMACH !!!
wow
pulled him, rivera and tex blew the game
:/
wow
Nova will have to come in in the 9th……..
Oh well…
Robertson fail and Joba fail
Kubel? really
Exactly Bets
You spent all offseason raving about DRobertson and how he should be the eigth inning set up guy and yada yada yada…..kid has 3 bad outings in the 1st month of the season and now you have no faith at all in him as per your own words even when he comes in and does his job.
Is that not the picture of fair weather?
As soon as they said it was Mos’ 13 th appearance, I knew it was gonna be bad !
What a sick joke.
They cheated Mariano Rivera, and that’s what happens.
Oh well, it’s early in the season. This game is far from over.
And this loser classless David Wells is laughing.
Whaaaaaaaaat/???
What were the odds of that, like 100-1?
Twins got the break they needed.
Even Mariano is human.
Shows you it can happen to anybody.
What the hell just happened
Kubel just homered off a pitch that was called a ball to Thome.
Mo would have struck Thome out, if the ump hadn’t shrunk the zone on him. He was nailing corners the whole AB.
“Robertson fail and Joba fail”
what does robertson have to do with this? and your leaving out Mo
The HP umpire will call a strike now, but he cheated him when it counted.
I agree that everyone was rooting for Mitre to do well. I should have said that not a lot of posters believed that he could or would. But obviously there were certainly more than two. I remember vinny-b only because we posted back and forth to teach other on it.
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Is Mariano hurt?
Yeah, Champ, I said that – because he’s really struggling. You are totally picking and choosing what comments to focus on. Why don’t you point out where I said that Robertson was talented and that he’s a good pitcher when he’s right?
I still can’t believe this.
That was all Joba’s mess.
I can’t believe what just transpired this inning.. No way this happens if Tex comes up with that play..
I don’t know, I trust Chan Ho more than Joba
Thanks for calling strike three now, ump.
Comeback time.
Only thing worse than Mo blowing it is SJ44
Joba wasn’t bad at all, just a bad break on liner and FORGOT to cover 1st. !!!
2 changes for 3 runs – they can do this
This would have been a game the Yankees stole anyway. The offense was abysmal today.
The missed strike two call to Thome was terrible. Just awful. Still another series win, so you go get them tomorrow.
Joba has to attack hitters. That’s the lesson learned here.
I’m not giving up yet, lets go offense. but that ball 2 to Thome changed everything.
Yeah, but Wells was also laughing a few innings ago at the Twins’ ineptitute in YS… maybe he’s not ‘loyal’ to the Yankees, but I think he’s an equal-opportunity laugher.
omg, stop complaining ump calls.
OH MO!
Yes, it happens even to the great Mariano. He was due to blow a save. What are you going to do?
# PL May 16th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Robertson fail and Joba fail
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Um, what game are you watching? Robertson had nothing to do with that inning. He was already out of the game after pitching two scoreless. That’s a fail?
How bout Joba fail and Mo fail. That would be more accurate.
Did Joe get all the bats out of the line up yet? We should mount a comeback w/ Pena, Winn,Thames and Golson. Terrible job by Mo.
I still like Joba in the 8th, no problem !!!
Maybe Wells is just drunk.
I just came home, turned the game on, mariano gave up a walk and a grand slam???
Was it a cheapie??
Exhale on the umpires. Bottom line, they danced around trouble all day. Sooner or later a good team is going to capitalize.
Rather it be in a house money game than a series deciding game.
You just knew something was gonna happen after Tex didn’t come up with that ball. Oh well what can you do. Can the Yanks rally?!?!?!
Yeah, they won the series, but this (if they lose) is just a temporary punch in the gut. wow………….
The offense was definitely awful, so so much for getting hot. They keep doing this – one good game, get your hopes up, then back to struggling.
The Twins were due to break the hex at some point, too. They are a good team. We still have a couple of innings to make it up, but at this point it seems like it might be their day.
Son of a effer.
Okay, O, pick up Mo.
Bill Selby hit that grand slam for the Indians.
# 57′ Yank May 16th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Joba wasn’t bad at all, just a bad break on liner and FORGOT to cover 1st. !!!
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Good point. I hadn’t even thought of that. Think they could have got Cuddyer if Joba was there to cover? I’m not sure they would have got him anyway, but it’s still a good point about Joba not covering.
Grand slam was a legit shot but to a .220 hitter slumping badly!
Joba is a punk anyway, I don’t like him a bit.
Sorry, one inning. I cannot type today for some reason.
Mariano is not hurt, he’s underused. He needs to pitch 3-4 times each week to stay sharp. Let this be a lesson to Girardi.
I don’t want to see Mo in the 9th unless the Yankees come back to tie – let Nova pitch and save Mo for tomorrow.
I’m still in shock, lol
Sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition.
Mo is human too.
Still we have too more innings to go and we have a chance to win.
“Maybe Wells is just drunk.”
Impossible.
that ball four looked funny to me which is why i asked?
you don’t see mo miss much like that.
he hasn’t pitched much and coming in bases loaded isn’t ideal for obvious reasons.
PL May 16th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Robertson fail and Joba fail
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Exactly how did Robertson fail? 2 hitless, scoreless innings? (This should be an interesting answer)
Fair weather fans? Good grief champ.
Robertson faced 3 guys yesterday and only got one out. He has looked bad all season consistently missing the glove. Relievers are volatile. They can have great stuff and look great one year and then lose it the next year.
Just because he came from the Yankee system does not mean he is destined to be great.
Arod looks terrible
You will get over it moron because I’m not going anywhere.
Now come up with a new name to say the same stuff you say everyday.
i just want to know what happened on that ball tex didnt catch…it didnt look hard to catch
feels like a while since cano’s had an offensive presence
Rivera’s cutter was down in the sweet zone for a lefthanded swing as it only broke maybe 2 incehs….Basically it was a hanger ….
I wonder if Mo was even warmed up. I highly doubt he thought he was coming into this game. The Yanks won the first 2 games and Girardi of course overmanages and brings him in. There was absolutely no reason to take Joba out of the game.
Thank God I didnt have to hear Michael Kay or else I might have broken something.
Joba would of been out of the inning Teix should of made that catch. I guess he just didn’t see it.
Let’s blame the umps
That Mo cutter just got too much of the plate. If twins get this win they deserve it, I mean how many line drives have they hit this series.
Games like this happen. The Twins were due some good fortune and got it. People need to get off the ledge.
would mkay shut up
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com.....8;c_id=nyy
NEW YORK — Curtis Granderson advanced to new stages in his recovery from a left groin strain on Sunday, fielding about 15 balls in center field and taking batting practice before the Yankees’ finale against the Twins.
Granderson has been out since May 2 with the injury and believes that it is realistic he could rejoin the lineup by the end of the month. Granderson also threw and ran at 60-foot intervals.
“Everything’s on track so far,” Granderson said. “I feel like I’ll get introduced here soon to get as similar to game-like repetition as we can and just see how the body reacts.”
Granderson still needs to run the bases and practice stop-and-go movements, which would put more impact on the affected area. He assumes that he will need about 25 at-bats in Minor League rehab games to get his timing back.
“The fact that it’s still not bothering me is a very good thing,” Granderson said.
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Well this is good news at least……..
People who always compalin that Girardi overmanages need to find something else……
Betsy,
this “awful” offense leads the league in runs scored.
Don’t overreact over one game.
Sooner or later the Twins were bound to win a game in NY.
Pack it up Yankees – YOU lost to a better team today. Rivera was schooled!!!
Use Nova for the 9th inning. He’s changing places with Park anyway.
That whole 8th inning was a joke. Rivera got squeezed so ridiculously on Thome or he would have been out of that inning with the score at 3-1. Every one of those pitches except maybe that first one would have been a strike for Blackburn, and the 3-2 pitch was strike 3 with 95% of home plate umps behind the plate.
The pitch Kubel hit wasn’t bad, but of course it never would have gotten to that point if this umpire weren’t such a joke.
Girardi is an ass who should’ve left in Joba. Instead he told Joba “You’re not good enough to finish the eighth inning.” Girardi overmanaged again.
It is a statistical fact (which anyone can bring up here as I don’t have it readily available) that Mo pitches better when he starts the ninth/an inning than when he comes into the midde of an inning. Did I think Mo could’ve got the last out with or without walking in the run? Absolutely, but he is more likely to pitch out of a bases loaded jam of his creation then get out of one created by someone else.
Oh well, most likely 24-13 although the game isn’t over yet, and if they lose today, that’s still another won series and a loss off a .667 pace, big deal. It’s difficult to play .667 ball cuz even if the Yanks lost today then bounced back with 5-2 through next weekend, that’s still a win off a .667 pace. ESPN $#%^&* the Yanks again with another Sunday night start cuz don’t tell me that plus a rainout Tuesday didn’t throw them off in Detroit. Nice job by MLB not giving the Yanks an off-day between Boston and Detroit, too.
And I am not even saying Robertson won’t turn it around. I think he will and today was a good confidence boost for him.
But, don’t color it like Robertson has been great this season.
Rivera has pitched 3 times in what 3 weeks? Tough situation to bring him into. I know he usually has excellent command but Girardi usually gets burned when he over manages.
No one is blaming the umps. but that was a missed strike two call on Thome .That’s a fact, and it changed the complexion of the at bat.
The Yankees deserved to lose this game and they did. It happens. It’s still a good series for the Yankees, and the Red Sox and Rays are both losing. Not a big deal.
The Twins lose another series to the Yankees and we have a Twins troll here? lol
Gotta love the Internet.
Twins Rule
Yeah you lost the series. So I wouldn’t talk.
See this is why Girardi doesn’t like talking about injuries to the media. Gardenhire knows Swish cant bat left handed.
SJ, I did not say the offense was awful – I said they were awful today. Really, not everything I say is an overreaction. It’s mid-May now – and Tex and Alex have not been consistently good. I’m not necessarily worried, but yeah – it’s annoying and at least slightly concerning. I’m not blaming the O for the game – that was all on Joba and Mo.
Matt
The HP umpire is Tim the Cheata’ Tschida. We couldnt have expected anything more out of him.
Overreact after one game? Betsy overreacts after one pitch!
This feels like a game the Yanks are gonna come back and win.
What happened with Mo? I have Twins coverage so not exactly getting an objective answer to that question from them…lol
First batter faced entering in the middle of an inning: .195 .231 .276 .507
First batter faced to open an inning: .201 .236 .278 .514
Mariano is good regardless
whos gonna play rf now?
They haven’t lost the game yet, lol – last time I checked they still get to play the bottom of the 9th.
As long as Garnenhire is managing the Twins – the Yankkes still have a great chance to win this game.
was Swisher announced? or is he still available to PH?.. That would be a complete was by Girardi if so
Michelle – if “getting burned” when he “overmanages” means winning the World Series every year…let him overmanage away!
This is Chamberlains mess in the 8th to begin with……It happens folks, it’s baseball…The Twins are a very good club…….
Did anyone catch that mistake that was called a balk by Robertson. Buck Martinez said he balked because he didn’t stop before throwing to 1st. Wells remarked I must have been gone too long from the game. You certainly don’t have to “stop” before throwing to 1st. 8.01 c
So what’s the consensus here? That’s a win today would have been icing on the cake but it turns out that the cake was an ice cream cake from Carvel that Girardi bought for his buddy Ron Gardenhire?
Girardi!!!
Oh please, Phil. SJ thinks I overreacted, so what? That doesn’t mean I did……….Holy cow. You can’t express ONE iota of concern here without being lectured.
And Miranda contnues to swing at nothing.
Nothing but balls in this AB.
Rob B, I asked Fran if Mo was getting squeezed because it looked like he didn’t get a few of those pitches. But I wasn’t sure.
As long as Mariano is fine (no pain in his side or whatever it was) then I’m fine.
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Hey someone asked yesterday if Cervelli could play the outfield and the person got chopped down and was told to be grateful he was getting playing time. (don’t remember who asked or who responded) Well Michael Kay said they’ve been working Cervelli in the outfield.
Miranda can’t cut it up here ! AAAA
What a pathetic AB from Miranda.
LOL Rconn says the game has been lost and MY posts are getting picked apart. Nice how that works.
Should have just kept swish in. He would have walked.
Quit blaming the umpires. They called the strike zone the same both ways. The Yanks will probably lose – but they took the series and have the second best record in baseball (pending today’s games, of course).
How did Girardi overmanage?
He didn’t. Mariano was human today.
It happens. Get over it. Mo will.
I don’t think its necessarily lecturing, people are just reacting to others posts. Which they have every right to do. *shrug*
Betsy – you don’t just overreact…you overpost. SJ was right, you were wrong. Move on.
You can’t blame Girardi for bringing in Mo to face Thome, but what in the world is he thinking there?
He is burning his entire bench to pinch hit for Golson. You know the righty is up in the pen, why are you even sending Swisher up there in the first place? What do you think Gardenhire is going to do, bring him in to face Pena instead who is a much better hitter from the left side?
What a joke of an at bat from Miranda. How are you out in front on the changeup when he hasn’t even thrown a single fastball in that at bat? What is he “changing up” with? These hitters are all going up there trying to hit home runs, he didn’t even come close to adjusting in that at bat.
I don’t think Mo was warmed up for that inning. Not that it’s a good excuse, but the wheels came off that inning quick. His cutter didn’t cut like it normally does. That’s either underuse or not warmed up.
And he did get squeezed on that at bat to Thome.
# Carl May 16th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
This feels like a game the Yanks are gonna come back and win.
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Wish I had that feeling !!!
A real gold glover would of had Cuddyer’s ball. Teix has no range his firstbase play is overrated. Miranda is a better fielder.
Nova in. Guess they’re just waiting to end this game?
winn and pena coming up in the 9th….tough to start a rally like that…but hey who knows
Mo got over it right away. That’s why he’s so great. Nothing fazes him…They had beaten the Twins, what, 12 straight times? The Twins are a good club and they had the same record as the Yankees coming into this series. They were due to win one and Mo was due to blow a save. It happens.
No harm, no foul.
Well Mo now has an Era of 1.59 !
He definitely didn’t look *right* from the start, G Love.
Sometimes the man is human. It happens. *shrug*
Betsy,
I didn’t say that.
Although it’s pretty likely, games like this are a market correction. If they lose this game, it’s really not a big deal That’s my point. They beat one of the top teams in the league 2 out of 3.
“A real gold glover would of had Cuddyer’s ball. Teix has no range his firstbase play is overrated. Miranda is a better fielder.”
you probably have seen miranda play 1st base for like 3 games…
Kubel hit a good pitch, down and in, but leftys hit that sometimes.
Phil
Why dont you just leave Betsy alone and move on yourself!
couldn’t we have put Swish in right for Miranda?
so what if he faced 3 hitters yesterday and got one out. That happens these guys are humans not robots and he’s also facing very good hitters on the other side.
This microanalyzing every pitch and every ab and determining if it was awful or great is laughable… that’s not the way the game is played….nor judged!
Mo is the only guy in the game who comes out of the pen doesn’t walk anybody,doesn’t give up runs or hits and he just gave up a grand slam.
So some guy sitting on his couch is gonna type awful job by ‘Mo in that spot, mistake to bring him in should brought Marte in….c’mon.
Mo got beat by a good hitter in Kubel who by the way hit 25 hrs last year and hit .300 so the fact that he’s hitting .220 right now is irrelevant he’s not a career .220 punch and judy hitter.
Girardi made the right move bringing in Mo. He was warmed up. If Joba gave up a grandslam all you people would complain about how come he didn’t bring in Mariano.
The 180 million dollar first basemen cant catch a little line drive what a joke.
Angel,
He usually has a performance like this early in the season and then goes on an assassin like run.
If today was it, good.
I don’t think he had his good stuff and there was a reason. I tend to think it’s underuse and/or not being warm and ready to throw his best stuff.
“TWINS RULE May 16th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Pack it up Yankees ? YOU lost to a better team today. Rivera was schooled!!!”
Twins Rule, that’s funny. A short while ago I made my way over to a Twins forum so I could compliment your team on how well they play and tried to commiserate a bit about how some teams just play better against other teams (I used Angels owning the Yankees as an example and then explained that both Detroit and KC used to own the Yankees and they both had losing records) and said it wasn’t necessarily an indication of one team being superior to the other.
Then you come here and post what you did.
Good job.
“TWINS RULE May 16th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Pack it up Yankees ? YOU lost to a better team today. Rivera was schooled!!!”
Twins Rule, that’s funny. A short while ago I made my way over to a Twins forum so I could compliment your team on how well they play and tried to commiserate a bit about how some teams just play better against other teams (I used Angels owning the Yankees as an example and then explained that both Detroit and KC used to own the Yankees and they both had losing records) and said it wasn’t necessarily an indication of one team being superior to the other.
Then you come here and post what you did.
Good job.
gfd May 16th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Well Mo now has an Era of 1.59 !
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Tragic. How will he go on?
# XLJ May 16th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
A real gold glover would of had Cuddyer’s ball. Teix has no range his firstbase play is overrated. Miranda is a better fielder.
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Are u feeling well ? Miranda is only avg. at best as a glove.
These TBS idiots talked over and over about how Morneau supposedly got cheated in the 7th inning.
But they haven’t mentioned once about Mariano getting squeezed. I guess they just forgot about it.
CR9 – I’m pretty sure I wasn’t addressing you.
Lots of kids on here who overreact or blame the umpires or think the world is crashing or that Girardi is terrible.
It will only get worse as the summer wears on.
Clogging the board with useless posts…like Betsy and many others.
CR9,
He totally got squeezed against Thome. Still, he had to throw a strike and not walk him there on ball 4. That pitch wasn’t close.
Joba is a starting pitcher he has no business pitching the 8th. Trade Javy and put Joba back in the rotation where he belongs!!
“Well Michael Kay said they’ve been working Cervelli in the outfield.”
the yankees need another outfielder who doesn’t have the power to reach the warning track ?
though being able to play another position never hurts.
This year’s team isn’t the comeback type. This game is over. We won series again and Boston lost so I have no complaints.
Mo hasn’t been used that much and may be a bit rusty. But I’m sure he wouldn’t make excuses for his performance. He just didn’t have it today. It happens.
Phil
Im also pretty sure you werent addressing me.
But if you think Betsy’s posts are clogging the board, then pass by them.
By attacking her for her posts, all you are doing is helping clog the board.
This game’s not over. It’s not like Nathan is in the pen…although even if he were, we’d still beat him.
Yep you’re right, he does, G Love.. the scutaro homer vs Oakland is an example. People forget that because he’s so amazing 95% of the time and has been so good for so long. I think there was a game against the O’s too where he looking to be not himself. He hasn’t really pitched a lot during May, so far.
He really looked a little off today.. good thing is these lapses of being human never seem to affect him. He has an amazing ability to move on and put them behind him. Some fans seem to find that much harder to do.
# G. Love May 16th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
CR9,
He totally got squeezed against Thome. Still, he had to throw a strike and not walk him there on ball 4. That pitch wasn’t close.
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According to the pitch tracking I’ve seen, yes it was close. It was just off the plate. It just looked worse because it was up at the top of the zone instead of the bottom.
bottom of Yanks order come up, no chance
A good outing by Mitre became irrelevant.
On the upside, another series win for the Yankees.
A win by Toronto and loss by Boston put more distance between those 2 teams.
Rays on the verge of winning.
The world did not end today ………..
Tampa 2 Sea 1. Bosox lost 5-1
I’ve pretty much stopped posting during game threads and I even post infrequently over all, due to the monopolizing of the board that goes on at times. You can’t get a word in edgewise sometimes.
G Love
You’re right. Ball 4 was not a strike. But I dont care. I had to hear these sick TBS bums complain about the strike 3 to Morneau on multiple occasions, long after it happened.
I’d like to hear some objectivity and some complaining about the greatest closer in baseball history getting cheated.
Mariano is human, hasnt pitched much in recent weeks, these things happen.
And this game is NOT OVER.
# Jerkface May 16th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
First batter faced entering in the middle of an inning: .195 .231 .276 .507
First batter faced to open an inning: .201 .236 .278 .514
Mariano is good regardless
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…before he walked in a run and served up a grand-slam today.
Betcha his ERA when entering an inning is higher esp. after he gave up 5 runs X earned.
If it is I win you lose cuz it’s all about ERA not the performance of the hitter.
Btw those splits are so close and he’s been so dominant in games where he’s started the ninth and on rare occasions the eighth, spare me he’s as good as or better when he comes into an inning than when he starts off one. Mo beyond the stats (what I should’ve included) is better starting an inning.
Angel,
You can almost set your clock to Mo having a game like this early in the season. I’d be more upset if this was the 3rd time he had one.
His next appearance he’ll lock it down with authority.
And this game is still not over. I recall beating Minny many times in the 9th.
Who else do we have in the bullpen? I don’t think we have a long man now.
# XLJ May 16th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Joba is a starting pitcher he has no business pitching the 8th. Trade Javy and put Joba back in the rotation where he belongs!!
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Yep, you’re SICK !!!
It’s no shame. YOU wild carders lost to a 1st place team.
champ,
You are the one who brought up yesterdays game like he did some great job, while really he did not.
This has nothing to do with Mo. It has to do with Robertson and how he has looked all season. Not just on one pitch or one at bat.
If you think he has done the job so far this season, that is great. I don’t think he has and the past 2 days have not been particularly encouraging that he is turning it around right now.
Unlike you, I do not have some deep attachment to Robertson or any other of these relievers that come from the system. If he does not get the job done, I have no problem with them finding someone else. That doesn’t make me a fair weather fan.
hey phil
i find betsy to ask honest questions about the game.
she’s not a know it all. she’s not a blog hog.
i don’t see the problem.
this pitcher sucks
No matter what happens in the 9th, we won the series. As long as we win series we’re in good shape. This series, next series, season series, division series, league series, WORLD SERIES!!
XLJ May 16th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Joba is a starting pitcher he has no business pitching the 8th. Trade Javy and put Joba back in the rotation where he belongs!!
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That makes as much sense as shutting down the NYC subway system.
Rally Yanks Rally! Who wants Pie!
lol at how jeter cut that ball off…that was funny
Hey folks, Mariano River gets the universal Hall Of Fame strike zone even against a Veteran like Thome……That pitch was out of the Rivera strike zone, and it was a ball……That’s it, end of discussion……It should never have come to that if Joba does his job and not give a free pass to 1st base
For the record, I like what I’ve seen of Nova. Between him and Romulo Sanchez, I wouldn’t want to be a struggling reliever in the Yankee pen.
Cashman keeps bringing up arms that help.
“It’s no shame. YOU wild carders lost to a 1st place team.”
yankees record> twins record
Al East > Al Central
No, its not over at all. Now, if we could just get the memo out…
If you all just ignore the trolls they go away – it’s all the lack of human interaction leading them to show up on boards no one wants them to be on…
winn! nice
Come on Yankees rally!!!!
How devastating would it be to the Twins if we came back!
Winn!
Wait, stats are meaningless.
If Mo’s ERA is lower when he comes into innings, it’s cuz he has less batters to face.
If batters hit better vs. Mo when he starts an inning, it’s cuz he has more batters to face.
Whenever Mo comes into an inning, he has less margin of error but more opportunity to succeed and a quicker inning to finish i.e. bases loaded, 2 outs, a one pitch pop put and he’s out of it.
If we are to look at any stat, it should be the percentage of games Mo comes into to start an inning not counting his starts. That percentage is overwhelmingly more than when he comes into an inning. Therefore, by virtue of him being chosen to come in to start an inning most of the time, he is better then.
This is more or less a rhetorical question but is it necessary to have a postmortem after every game the Yankees lose? (I’m not saying we’ve lost this game) Is it ever possible that the Yankees will lose a game because teams lose in the course of a season, without having to pick apart everything about the team and making a pronouncement on the “problem”?
The Yankees know how to win games. Not everyone makes the Olympics every game. Can we let them have a little room to be human and breathe if they lose a game and just close the page and wait for the next game?
come on pena…find any way to get on base without making an out!!!
I know its not his fault, but why do the Yankees lose whenever Posada starts at catcher? Its really weird. I don’t think the Yankees have won with him behind the plate since he came back from his injury…
PENA!
Yes!!! Come on Yankees!!!!!!!
YEAH!
Randy and Ramon FTW!
“No matter what happens in the 9th, we won the series. As long as we win series we?re in good shape. This series, next series, season series, division series, league series, WORLD SERIES!!”
BINGO!
“Wild carders?”
Um…it’s May. We’ll worry about who is going to be the wild card come September.
ask and you shall receive
If the Yanks pull this out, maybe the Twins fan will think twice before going to another team’s forum to trash them. Karma isn’t fun if it isn’t good karma.
don’t DP, bottom 2 guys’ve done their jobs well
Update, 4:10: Rivera had arrived with 51 consecutive saves at home, tying Eric Gagne for the major-league record. His last blown home save came at the old Yankee Stadium, on Aug. 13, 2007, against the Orioles.
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Oh, that explains it! Mo, being the benevolent one that he is, decided not to exceed Gagne’s record. He figures that it’s about the only thing Gagne will ever be remembered for, while he is a certified Hall of Famer.
What a classy guy!
Hang tough Jete!!
good pitch to get DJ out
Come on BG big hits.
bullcrap.. pitch wasn’t even close!
Still in this.
So because Phil thinks I post too much, I should stop? LOL whatever. Angel, if you were on the receiving end of some of theses posts, you wouldn’t think it was so shrug worthy. Then of course they don’t respond…………what a surprise.
Rconn, you said “they deserved to lose this game and they did”.
Jete continues to struggle
wth is he swinging at?
oh, he’s overmatched
fly out to end the game
Come on those aren’t strikes!
big strikezone there
Why is TBS not complaining about that strike 1 to Teixeira.
And then strike 2 was where Mariano get cheated on ball 2.
What a job by the Twins closer! Twins win!!!!!!
maybe if Trisha stayed off our forums we would stay off hers.
Randy, thank you for defending me…..Phil can think what he wants, but he doesn’t run this place. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as overposting; for the few times that he posts, he actually overposts.
Jon Rauch getting a way better zone than Mariano Rivera
Tampa won!
WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TIM CHEATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
effing piece of carcillo.
# trisha – OPPC member who sees, hears, and knows all. 28 is on its way!!!!! May 16th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
This is more or less a rhetorical question but is it necessary to have a postmortem after every game the Yankees lose? (I’m not saying we’ve lost this game) Is it ever possible that the Yankees will lose a game because teams lose in the course of a season, without having to pick apart everything about the team and making a pronouncement on the “problem”?
The Yankees know how to win games. Not everyone makes the Olympics every game. Can we let them have a little room to be human and breathe if they lose a game and just close the page and wait for the next game?
Great point !!!
come on tex…keep the dream alive
This is absolute garbage. The location of both of first two pitches to Tex were in about the same places as the pitches Robertson was throwing Casilla, and Mo was throwing to Thome. Yet the Yankee pitchers had balls called against them and Rauch gets strike calls.
typical cheating umps
BS!!!
“maybe if Trisha stayed off our forums we would stay off hers.”
YAWN!!!!
I went there to compliment the Twins. Get a brain. And like you almost knew what forum I posted on.
pathetic way to get the last 3 outs.. stand there looking at it!
so anti-climatic…
Worst loss of the year
Oh my god can 2 minutes go by without a comment about an ump.
Cheap sh**.
They f***ed us. So be it.
Just have to hope to not see Tim Tschida behind the plate for us too many more times.
Mariano dont get NO CHEAP CALLS.
And this effing loser RAUCH gets 4 cheap calls.
ew.
Mitre did a really good job, Yanks took the series.
All is well.
Well, Mo gets over these things easily because he knows he did the best he could. Tomorrow, if he’s needed, he’ll probably be lights out.
Ugh. Now starts the overanalyazation of Mo’s bad outing.
The only way the Twins can beat the Yankees – they have to cheat.
blargh… what a bad taste… can’t wait for the sox to get here so I can wash it out with a sox romping.
Joba needed to do a better job ………Mo will get most of the attention, but it was Joba who got into the mess.
2 games back way to go Yankees, still waiting for Tampa to come down to earth, because they find ways to win!
This is more or less a rhetorical question but is it necessary to have a postmortem after every game the Yankees lose? (I’m not saying we’ve lost this game) Is it ever possible that the Yankees will lose a game because teams lose in the course of a season, without having to pick apart everything about the team and making a pronouncement on the “problem”?
about as necessary as you always trying tell everyone a better way of doing things.
Don’t worry about Jeter ! If that’s our worst worry, then we’re home free !
is not joba fault tex can’t catch a cold.
tex choked twice, rivera gave up, jeter looked pathetic
CR9……You offer good insights and you also have gained some cred here, however that is compromised when you go on these rants about game officials being biased and you toss around the word cheating as if it’s an everyday occurrence……In my opinion, you really should try to refrain from these type of accusations ….It puts a rather dim light on you….Take it for what it’s worth…..Stick with your baseball observations and you’ll never lose the respect of your peers here……
Mariano Rivera should be embarassed by his pathetic performance today. Our 40 year old closer decided to take his 2 week vacation then comes back and throws like freaking Kyle Farnsworth. MARIANO.. we would be better off without you.. our closer is Joba Chamberlain, get lost!
Randy,
Nope.
The “new” LoHud consists of the following:
1. The regulars.
2. Trolls.
3. Chicken littles who believe every loss is the end of the world, call for immediate firings and roster changes, and believe its the start of a season ending losing streak.
Its a joke but, the powers that be seem to not want to do anything about it.
nice troll impression by whatever
Not one of the pitches that was called a strike on Teixeira was called a strike in Thome’s at bat. Just a terrible job by the home plate umpire.
What are you supposed to do if you are Teixeira in that spot? You can’t hit those pitches, they are 2-3 inches off the plate in either direction. Swinging at those is going to result in a weak out somewhere, and the umpire hasn’t called them ALL GAME.
Umpires don’t matter? Give me a freaking break. He missed almost every pitch in the 2 most crucial AB’s of the game, and turned around those at bats and probably directly affected the flow of the game. If Thome is called out on strikes on that almost IDENTICAL pitch that is a first pitch strike to Texeira, there is no way the Twins even come close to sniffing a win in this game.
There is no nonsense like the “fallacy of the predetermined outcome” here. If the pitches are called consistently in the crucial at bats there, they never even get a chance to score those runs.
Mets’ Jon Niese reinjured the hamstring that he tore last year…..I think he suffered the same type of injury that Phil did. Hopefully he’ll be ok…
This was just one of those backwards games where everything you expect to go wrong goes right, and everything you expect to go right goes wrong. The bottom of the order was hitting while the top of the order sucked, Mitre pitched lights out, Tex made a bad play in the field, and our two most reliable relievers blew the game late. It just happens every once in a while. It really sucks though.
whatever,
You topped yourself today with the most moronic post you have ever posted here and that’s saying something.
You are now officially the dumbest person posting on this forum.
Congratulations!
Last time Twins won in NY, Luis Rodriguez hit a home run for them. Today, Rodriguez hit one against the SWB Yankees.
And Matt, after Maier and the blown call down the LF line in the ALDS last year Yankee fans are forbidden from making any complaint about the umpire
SJ
Don’t forget to add your huge alpa ego to your list, it stand out to your high mindedness, know it all!!
Dylan,
Bingo!!! Intelligent life breathes on LoHud! lol
Just one of those days.
Turn the page and move on. Still won the series and you have a big week coming up.
Now there’s a team with problems Betsy. They got swept by the Marlins.
Wow anyone who wants to hate on Mo needs to get the hell off this blog. You were probably the same pathetic fans that booed him a couple years ago. Honestly, Mo is above criticism at this point. He had a bad game. Big frickin deal! He has only won a million games for us and has been the most reliable pitcher ever. Unbelievable.
Reminds me of a random loss that the Yankees had many years ago to Baltimore, when someone hit a grand slam off of Mariano. We all gasped at the time, but he dominated the rest of the season. Today was just one of those days. It’s too bad Seattle can’t score more than one run a game this year, or else they would have taken 2 out of three against the Rays.
Thank you “um”.
Coming from you, I take it as a compliment.
And you are right, I do know it all. Forgot more about baseball than you will ever know.
You can now post more nonsense under another name and cry about how the season is “over” because they lost today and make yourself look more like a fool taking shots at me.
It doesn’t change a thing.
Fran, I still get frustrated that you have to be pollyanna to post on this board.
Can’t find fault with a 24-13 record and 2 head-to-head games this week with the Rays at the Stadium.
When can LoHud commenters have a little room to be human and breathe?
(also a rhetorical question
)
Just got out stepson graduation and I find this. Well Minnesota had to win sometime.
I guess this is how you blow up a jinx lol!
Yanks take the series, yet again.
Phil goes tomorrow, looking forward to taking both from Boston.
Kubel’s hit was legit. He guessed and pulled a pitch that, normally, he shouldn’t have been able to pull like that (outside a bit off the plate). But it was the bad calls leading up to that AB that were so frustrating. Maybe Robertson got a gift call on the K to Morneau, but many of the balls called against Yankee pitchers today were not balls. They were borderline, but the fact that Rauch got those calls and the Yankee pitchers didn’t is rather infuriating.
It’s not the end of the world, but it’s sad that the Yankees couldn’t get this win when they very well should have. The bullpen didn’t pitch as bad as the end result might have you think.
I blame Curtis Granderson.
Nick, I wouldn’t know – I’m not allowed that breathing room.
SJ no offense, but you sound like a complete jerk. It’s not your job to monitor what a bunch of morons post on the internet, it’s Chad’s and Sam’s job if they choose so. I’m all for good baseball talk and all, but there’s no need to sound like you’re better than everyone else.
You cannot be series JR.
The Twins had the bases loaded with no outs in that inning. Let that sink in before you even think about blaming the Mauer call for them not scoring in that inning.
Idiot Twins fans think the game would have played out the exact same way if not for that call, which is just foolish to say the least. Marte fell behind 3-1 on Kubel in the next AB. Do you think they just lay one in there with the bases loaded? No way. 1st and 2nd, no outs, oh look, the EXACT SAME SITUATION. Funny.
And two calls do not mean the team has been the beneficiary all the time. What about Swisher “not tagging up” in the playoff game last year? It didn’t matter, but it could have been a huge run playing in Anaheim. What about the call against the Angels in 2005 where they ruled Cano was out of the baseline in the deciding game 5 with 2 runners on when a ball was thrown down the right field line? That probably ended the Yankees’ chance of winning that series.
Thinking that the Yankees always get the calls is beyond ridiculous. If you were to aggregate all of the calls of the season that went either way in a Yankees game, I can almost guarantee you it will be very much against the Yankees. These calls don’t even out when they decide a game, and if you want to see what getting calls is like, try looking up the Gameday of a Red Sox game in Fenway park and compare it to this one.
Alert to all: If anyone takes serious ANY thing sj says, you are crazy. He’s an overrated nothing. Every one is entitled to their opinion, whether sj likes it or not, it’s a blog. Let his hate filled jabs, be like water on a ducks back rolls right off.
“# Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) May 16th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Mets’ Jon Niese reinjured the hamstring that he tore last year…..I think he suffered the same type of injury that Phil did. Hopefully he’ll be ok…”
He suppose to pitch Friday vs Yankees. Now it’s Vazquez vs who?
i knew girardi needed to rethink his duncan donut decision.
Trevor, I don’t know. They were going to pitch that Japanese pitcher in place of Perez, but he had to pitch today. I would guess Ollie………….
Psyluk,
Sarcasm doesn’t show up well on the internet.
I have a troll who posts under 5 different names here. I know who he is, where he lives, and what he does for a living.
When he posts here, I take sarcastic shots at him because I know it drives him crazy.
That’s all it is.
This felt like last year. Mo was on that unbelievable stretch then we go up to Seattle. Mo strikes out the first 2, then a pinch hit double, then a walk-off by Ichiro. I shook this one off already. Lets take out our frustrations on Dicek and bury the sox.
# Psyluk May 16th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
SJ no offense, but you sound like a complete jerk. It’s not your job to monitor what a bunch of morons post on the internet, it’s Chad’s and Sam’s job if they choose so. I’m all for good baseball talk and all, but there’s no need to sound like you’re better than everyone else.
What are you talking about? These childish trolls already ran off some of our best posters to River Ave Blues. This is the only blog I go to where the trolls can run free. Its sick. Pretty soon all the good posters are going to be gone.
Carl, after that game, Mo went out for ice cream, lol; shows you how he handles bad losses. He moves on almost right away – which is probably one of the reasons he’s lasted so long. I don’t even blame him for the game – Joba didn’t get the job done, period. The offense didn’t do it’s job, either. Phil to the rescue, yet again, lol.
Per Suzyn,
-Girardi said that he had never seen Mo walk in a run and that Mo is run
- Thought Mitre was great
-Thought Tex was shielded on the line-drive in the 8th inning
-Vazquez will be the long man in the bullpen until Friday.
Carl, who went to RAB?
If so, that’s too bad, but that’s their choice.
“I would guess Ollie………….”
I hope not. He tends to all of sudden put things to together facing the Yankees.
Betsy: it all works both ways. On a Yankee discussion board, a lot of people are inevitably going to respond to the kinds of things you post, optimistic, pessimistic, worrying, or otherwise. That’s just the way it is.
Tomorrow night the Young Master will be on the mound and I hope the night ends with me breathing in a shake at In-N-Out!
No, that was Joba’s run, Joe, since Joba put him on base.
Bad approach by Jeter in the 9th. He was swinging for a homerun should of just kept the line moving. And whats a up with Gardner he is chasing the high fastball he usually has been pretty discipline maybe he needs a day off.
Mark Teixeira = Goat of the game. Cant catch a routine lineout pathetic display by the so called gold glove first basemen.
What? May 16th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Alert to all: If anyone takes serious ANY thing sj says, you are crazy. He’s an overrated nothing. Every one is entitled to their opinion, whether sj likes it or not, it’s a blog. Let his hate filled jabs, be like water on a ducks back rolls right off.
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Do you really mean that every one’s entitled to an opinion?
# Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) May 16th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Carl, who went to RAB?
If so, that’s too bad, but that’s their choice.
Take a look at their game thread. You will see a lot of names.
Suzyn also said that Alex spoke to the media and said that the Yanks win and loose as a team and that the offense was also at fault for not tacking on runs.
sj
I’ve never said the season is over. You so blindly insult you’ve confused me with one of your many targets of your vitriolic jibber-jabber.
You know nothing of my experience, in your quest to have to know it all , you’re blinded my your
own sickening conceit.
If you think that “um”, you don’t know what you don’t know.
One day, when you least expect it, payback time.
Can’t wait.
Nick, I’ve no problem with people responding, but IMO, but I don’t need to be lectured, especially since others have said similiar things without similar responses. Plus, in some cases, they are simply dead wrong.
The problem I have here is that people have no tolerance for anyone expressing the slightest bit of concern for anything regarding the Yankees. I do not in any way think it’s an overreaction to be slightly concerned that the big guns have not found any consistency yet and it’s mid-May. I’m not referring to trolls with their stupid comments about a loss being the end of the Yankee world; some people (yes, including me) find that not everything is so hunky dory. It doesn’t mean that we don’t have faith in the team……………
I learned a baseball at a very young age…I was a 10 years old playing my first Little League game vs. all 11 & 12 years olds…….My first at bat was in the 6th inning with the bases juiced 2 outs, tying run at 3rd……I weakly popped out to the 2nd baseman to end the game…I felt terrible as my eyes swelled up with tears….My mgr. sat down next to me and simply said, it’s one game, today WE lost, but we’ll get to play in 2 days and just move on because this is going to happen again at some point, you can’t win them all……I’ve viewed the game in the frame of mind ever since, both as a ballplayer and as a fan…….It will make the game more enjoyable guys……It’s a game, and you move on to the next game….You can’t win them all
Fran (the original) and OPPC member May 16th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Suzyn also said that Alex spoke to the media and said that the Yanks win and loose as a team and that the offense was also at fault for not tacking on runs.
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Love that Alex.
This bullpen is garbage!!! You are praying anytime Marte or Robertson is in the game they both stink. Joba is a starting pitcher and doesn’t he belong in the bullpen. Boone Logan cant throw strikes. They are so reliant on a 40 year old closer.
“What are you talking about? These childish trolls already ran off some of our best posters to River Ave Blues. This is the only blog I go to where the trolls can run free. Its sick. Pretty soon all the good posters are going to be gone.”
river ave blues game comments aren’t exactly on a high level .
i don’t really see that as a good option.
that said the troll thing and lack of sam, chad, and seth doing anything about it is troublesome.
i know with pete, if there was something really objectionable, once he was emailed, he’d have the comment removed pretty fast.
Carl, I only recognize one name and that’s from NYYFans………not that it matters. RAB is ok, but I would never post there.
Chad keeps saying that he bans these people, but they change their IP addresses all the time. I don’t know, did these trolls keep returning like boomerangs when Pete was here?
Pat M, awww – I felt sorry for you as I read that story (but it’s a good lesson to learn).
sj
Don;t threaten me , bring I’m waiting, but don’t threaten me, you don’t scare me. Did you get that, you run your mouth, and shoes over only!!
They need an ignore function here desperately
Tough “L”. Mo just didn’t get that pitch to Kubel inside enough. Twins are a good ball club and today ended a streak of 12 consecutive defeats at the hands of the Yankees. Was going to happen sometime. They’re coming with their two best the couple nights. All will be well.
*the NEXT couple nights
Mo blows his first save at Yankee stadium, with a Grand Slam, you don’t see that often!
You don’t see Rivera blow a save anywhere, by any means, very often. Hope an opp comes up tomorrow night. He’ll get it done. Book it.
Baseball Lesson is what I meant to post….Sorry
RAB game posts/commenting in general have gotten progressively worse and extremely predictable.
Everyone celebrating big plays/pitches, criticizing Girardi, copying and pasting a lohud comment to criticize even thought it is usually a troll or the responses are completely off base, and chronic misuse of the BABIP statistic.
IMO this is still the best place to post outside of a few particularly bad game threads. Today was not bad.
It’s not the end of the world folks. They won the series. They are only two games back and we are still in mid-May.
Let’s put this in perspective. Losses are tough but they will happen. Can’t hang everybody because we lost.
Just put it behind us and go after ‘em again tomorrow. That’s why they play 162 games not 40.
Pat M
Thanks. I appreciate your observations and your character.
I really dont care about ‘cred’ or gaining respect from my ‘peers’ on here.
What I care about is having good discussions about differents sports, books, tv shows, etc.
Also, a secondary goal is to enlighten others as to the corruption in sports. We will NEVER see a fairly called game from Tim Tschida. EVER.
I am confident in that, as I am confident that I will never make it to the age of 40!
LGY, I agree – I still visit other boards, but I don’t post on their game threads at all as usually they are WAY too reactionary.
Betsy, I’m not unsympathetic and you don’t deserve the abuse you get from some quarters.
But ultimately, I think the repsonses that we all get on here — the regulars, at least — are driven by the content of our own posts more than anything else. That goes for you, me, SJ44, GB7, and the rest.
Just food for thought.
Tomorrow night, food for Phil!
The Magic crowd is chanting “Refs suck”
I wonder why!
Only had the game on for a 10 minutes, and already it’s Celtic Officials as usual.
No, Mo doesn’t blow many saves that often but it does happen.
Every year there is some stretch where Mo looks hittable and then he goes onto another tear where no one touches him for 2 months.
We’ve seen this year after year. Let’s not act like we’ve never seen this before.
Still, as I said before, people really need to be more tolerant of those they disagree with….
Nick, I agree, lol…………
Actually, it will be food for YOU. The most Phil will be having tomorrow night will be a sandwich – no Mexican food (which is his favorite, apparently).
“Also, a secondary goal is to enlighten others as to the corruption in sports”
Insomuch as secondary goal and obsession mean the same thing.
Dwight Howard is frustrated that his team has been cheated all game.
And here is Mike Breen and Stan’s brother, Jeff Van Gundy saying you have to ignore calls.
WHY????????????????
These calls affect games. You’d think Jeff would lick his brother clean now as he did last year against the Lakers in the finals.
But No. Blood dont matter to Jeff Van Gundy. Green Matters.
Mo is the least of my concerns with the team; in fact, he doesn’t even make the list.
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) May 16th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Still, as I said before, people really need to be more tolerant of those they disagree with…
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Hopefully Betsy, you will read and heed your own little advice above…
Next time Mo goes out there, he’ll get the job done – period.
Tough loss, but tough losses are part of baseball. The good teams will rebound from them and play even harder. I think the Yankees will.
Whoever, I have tolerance for other opinions, but I do not have tolerance for hypocrites and for those who attack me.
This is exactly what the Knicks used to do in the 90s. We used to play clutch and grab, and foul people.
And we got called for it.
But here the Celtics are grabbing everyone, strangling everyone, and the referees are just saying “Were gonna let you get away with it Celtics”
No foul for Vince Carter, but a foul for Rasheed Wallace.
“Dwight Howard is frustrated that his team has been cheated all game.”
A point you’re able to make after watching 10 minutes of a game that’s been for two hours?
And a foul for Pierce.
It’s a foul whenever they go inside.
But Vince Carter got his uniform stripped off 3 times on one possession, and NO FOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn. i didn’t say Let’s Go Yankees!!! today
OMG A foul!
Down 18 points.
Thanks Celtic Officials.
OMG A foul!
Down 16 points.
Thanks Celtic Officials.
Im f***** crazy furious again.
This sick murderous punk Mike Breen yelling like a maniac over a basket to go back up 18 points.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Murderous???
I thought Joba looked a little tired today.
I worked all night slept about an hour today and caught mid to later parts of the game,
Maybe someone can tell me why it is Mitre only went 5 innings, did he throw a high number of pitches?
I wonder what is the point of having him in the rotation to give the others a blow when he only goes 5-6 innings today burning out the pen.
He seems to me to be a decent alternative if he could longer into the game.
Maybe he just needs to build up his arm strength.
We did take the series but I felt this imight have been another we let slip away.
RIB:
Mitre’s limit heading into the game was 80 pitches. He was at 79 thru 5.
Here comes Toronto breathing down our back. We could be 3rd place soon.
As long as Russell loses on Survivor I will be able to rest well.
If you truly believe in the saying that on any given day, any team can win in the game of baseball, then you will feel okay whether a .217 hitter ends up beating you or whether a “scrub’ team is the one who does it. Losses happen. Ineffective pitchers can have great games and effective pitchers can have bad games. As long as your team is winning more than losing, you’re in good shape.
Enjoy the evening Yankee fans.
We’re 2 games back of a team on a pace to win 113 games this season.
It’s not often a team wins 113 games in the regular season meaning, Tampa will come back to the pack at some point and we still haven’t played our best baseball of the season and had our 3-4 hitters hitting with any consistency.
It’s just a complete JOKE! Rasheed the cancer Wallace misses a dunk, and they bail him out with a foul.
There was not even any contact at all, and it’s just a foul. SIIIIIIIICK!
The Magic are just going to have to ignore the referees and play their game for the rest of the series. Just work the ball around and get open 3 pointers and hit them.
These piece of carcillo referees are just able to take games over.
who’s the player let go by wash. in spring training. we could put him in left, better what we have..
Rondo just threw himself on the ground expecting a foul call.
Unfortunately, one noncall will not deter Rondo from doing it again.
Cut the lead to 10 points, and a foul. and a foul. and a foul. and a foul. and a foul. and a foul.
And there is the problem with Dwight Howard. He cant make inside shots with any sort of consistency. He just throws the ball at the rim, and most of the time misses it. If not that, they just foul him, and he misses free throws.
The Magic need Dwight to harness his abilities on the inside and create open 3 pointers.
But it seems all he can do is dunk.
I just read the group of posts and was disheartened. This supposed to be a forum to discuss baseball (or anything else we deem appropriate), but after a lose, time after time, the conversation turns mean and bitter.
I have checked in at RAB; they are people with foul mouths who massacre the team they are supposed to be rooting for. This blog seems that way too after unfortunate loses.
There are some people on here who know more about baseball than the rest of us put together whether you or I agree with them or not is another story. However, I appreciate what I have learned from them and hope to continue to learn.
I never heard of a ‘troll’ until I started reading this blog. Go find someone else to annoy like the Red Sox. You obviously have nothing to contribute on here.
Trisha,
I found another “Survivor” fan. I agree with you 100%
um … you 2 -
Provisions have been made for you to stay the night at Bellevue and proper evaluation tomorrow for your anger management session.
Dwight Howard simply cannot make a shot that’s not a dunk. He simply cant. Why continue throwing up bad shots and wasting possessions.
“Dwight Howard simply cannot make a shot that’s not a dunk. He simply cant. Why continue throwing up bad shots and wasting possessions.”
Surprised to see that he’s been working with Ewing. Certainly hasn’t learned shooting touch form him.
Good things to focus on instead of today’s lost.
1. Yankees won the series, bouncing back after Det.
2. bosox lost with their ace, and second most reliable pitcher (Lackey.)
3. Last time Beckett faced the Yankees he was smacked big time 10-3 (still in hi head bet you.)
4. bosox back to .500 (It’s becoming their home.) fan base on the ledge!!
5. Yankees get Chan Ho Park back soon, his long relief takesome s pressure off pen
6. Granderson is pain free and progressing back.
7. Javier pitched good last outing.
8. Sergio pitched good today, relief Joba had off day.
9. Rough week with all the players out, but Yankees are still in 2nd place.
10. Tomorrow starts a new week, and we as fans get to watch Phil go for #6, (which should be #7, if he wasn’t skipped in the beginning.)
11. Can you think of a better way to start a week, than Phil?
Can’t wait til Granderson gets back.
Did they give an update on Ace?
And when Swish gets healthy, we’ll be able to take off.
One of the great things about baseball is that even though this was a bad loss, the Yanks will be right back at it tomorrow. It’s a long season, folks. There will be more bad losses. But this is a very, very good team.
Haven’t seen one on Ace or Johnson, yet.
Remember when everybody didin’t want to play the Twins in the playoffs because they were due to beat the Yanks? Well chalk this game up as a payment to the “it was bound to happen sooner or later department”.
Actually, I think the Yankees got off easy. Mo blows a game that the Yankees were overdue to give back to the Twinkies. That’s killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
Joelsherman1 if u think #Yankees setup is bad consider in past 24hours former pen men Edwar Ramirez/Gaudin were axed by #A’s, Bruney by #Nationals
Oh well. Just a terrible loss for the Magic. Got down early, coming off of 8 straight wins and a lot of time off. Same as the Cavs last year, won first 8 games, came out flat, lost to the Magic.
Magic have a better team, better defense. If they can minimize the amount of possessions Dwight throws away just gunning the ball at the rim or backboard, they’ll have a much better shot in the rest of the series.
If the referees took back just 2 or 3 of their 15 cheap calls in the 2nd half, the Magic would have won. But that’s in the past.
It’s up to the Magic to look forward. It’s not how a team plays in Game1 that makes them a championship team, it’s how they respond to losses such as Game 1.
Joba_62 2 out of 3 against the twins. Boston in town next! Enjoy the weather and ur sunday night!
after next weeks 3 game set with Twins, are schedule goes
4 with the indians
3 with Baltimore
3 with Toronto
3 with Baltimore
3 with Houston
Joba didn’t even need to use all 140 allowable characters in his tweet to sum up the results of this series, inform us who’s coming to visit, and send a positive message to his tweet recipients.
If he’d been that economical on the mound, we might have swept!
Granderson could be back when we play 4 with the Indians
Pedroia didn’t play today because he’s injured, according to NESN.
NESN: bosox lamenting playing Yankees, Rays, and Phillies, because they have winning records. Billed as, “Run through Gauntlet.” they fear the “red hot Hughes.”
Nick in SF in Larkspur May 16th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Joba didn’t even need to use all 140 allowable characters in his tweet to sum up the results of this series, inform us who’s coming to visit, and send a positive message to his tweet recipients.
If he’d been that economical on the mound, we might have swept!
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Something else to feel good about, Yankees fans.
Beckett has in his last 3 outings served up 22 runs in 18 innings, sporting a 7.46 Era.
CC has had back to back loses, don’t you think he’s hungry, for the win?
Great game on Versus!
Philly versus Montreal!
Cant root against Philly after they helped me out greatly by taking out the Bruins.
Any Yankees fan should root against Montreal, because we dont want them getting one closer to the 27 championships of the Yankees.
Ledger_Yankees Yankees may use starter Javier Vazquez out of bullpen this week while relievers regain strength http://bit.ly/9gaCaE
Did you guys discuss Javy to the pen for the Sox series? Apparently his next start’s in question. What’s going on?
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-.....id=5193409
New Post: Tough day for past and present relievers
Chan Ho Park due back tomorrow.