Postgame notes: “I have a lot of faith in these guys”
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Notes, Podcast on Jun 19, 2010 
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As bad as the Yankees offense had been the previous two day, Friday was a low point. It had been more than five weeks since the Yankees had been shutout, and they hadn’t been shutout at home since June 18 of last year. They hadn’t been shutout by the Mets since 2007.
“Sometimes you tip your hat to the pitcher,” Derek Jeter said. “But we have to find some ways to score runs. We had a couple of opportunities tonight, but collectively we really haven’t been swinging the bats too well.”
The Yankees were 1-for-16 with runners on base and 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position. They stranded a runner at third base in the sixth, seventh and ninth. All of that meant a loss for Javier Vazquez, who deserved better after allowing one run through seven innings.
“Very frustrating,” Alex Rodriguez said. “Obviously if you can’t score runs you’re not going to win. Javy did a fantastic job out there for seven innings. He pitched his guts out and offensively we’ve got to step up.”
Hitting coach Kevin Long stressed that he trusts his hitters work ethic will make a difference: “Just keep grinding and keep going at it,” he said. “It’ll turn around. I have a lot of faith in these guys.”
Manager Joe Girardi preached big picture. “You can’t jump off the bridge because you lose a couple of games in a row when you don’t score runs,” he said.
Bottom line is, the Yankees offense was going pretty well on Tuesday and it vanished on Wednesday. It’s cost them three games.
Here’s Kevin Long.
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• Of course, the bullpen hasn’t been blamefree these past two nights. The Yankees relievers haven’t exactly kept the game within shouting distance. “Those guys need to help us out and right now they’re struggling a little bit too,” Girardi said. “When you’re not scoring runs and you can’t afford to make very many mistakes, sometimes you see more mistakes.”
• Rodriguez wasn’t tested with a ground ball, but he said his hip/groin felt fine after the game. Girardi said he’s planning to DH Rodriguez tomorrow.
• Jorge Posada said “I’m planning to” when asked if he’ll be catching tomorrow.
• Jeter’s attempted check swing in the ninth inning hurt, but Jeter said afterward that he probably did go around. “I knew it was close,” he said. “I probably did.”
• Vazquez stated the obvious. “I feel great right now,” he said. He lost for the first time since May 2, snapping a three-game winning streak. He’s pitched through the seventh inning in each of his past four starts.
• When Ike Davis hit an RBI single int he first inning, it was the first left-handed hit against Vazquez in 30 at-bats according to Elias.
• Although it worked out, Girardi said it wasn’t the right decision for Nick Swisher to tag up for second base on that fly out in the eighth. “Sometimes guys try to make things happen when you’re not scoring runs,” Girardi said.
• Girardi also said it looked like Francisco Cervelli left home plate a little too early on the play at the plate in the first inning. “It looked like he vacated a little too early,” Girardi said. “You want to be able to stand in there as long as you can.”
• Pretty funny line from Girardi when asked if Posada could have beaten out that sixth-inning ground ball if not for his injured right foot. “Maybe in a different life,” Girardi said. “I don’t know if you can go back 10 or 12 years ago and say it may have been closer, I’m not even sure back then he would have beat it out.”
• Lady Gaga was at the game tonight. I would include an AP picture of her, but it honestly might count as porn.
Associated Press photos of Jeter, Vazquez and Cervelli’s play at the plate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....feature=iv
Watch this video my friends. We’ll be alright. We’re the Yankees.
Hope the bats show up tomorrow. I work with too many Mets fans to get shut out this weekend
I’m sick of Girardi always painting everything positively
When is he going to rip the team? When is he going to call out Tex in the media like George would have? When is he going to throw water coolers?
The longer he stays status-quo, the longer this slump will continue.
I understand that even a very good offense can go through slumps even against mediocre (at best) pitchers, but I don’t understand why Park was used in such a big spot, nor do I understand why Granderson didn’t bunt against a LHP with Cervelli on 2B.
Yuck I just seen the Lady Gaga photos
Yanks will get rolling again soon. Whenever they get disgusted enough they get going.
Good lord Thank you Chad for not posting that picture of Lady Gaga! Yuckkkkk
Rich,
Management failure to be realistic about the player’s abilities.
Not realizing Park is not a high leverage reliever and Robertson or Marte should have been in there.
Not realizing Granderson’s entire career is an abomination against lefties and he was facing one of the best LOOGYs in the game.
Tip your cap? Jump off the bridge?
Maybe these guys do read LoHud after all.
Dang it. I just saw the picture too. Ughhhhh
Lady Gaga is one weird dude
He reminds me of Marilyn Manson. Is that guy still around, BTW?
Joe-
He/she is just wearing a Yankees jersey and like black lingerie underneath. Who wears that to a baseball game or even in out in public for that matter haha. Sooooooo strange.
How can FIFA not have instant replay? What a joke that non-goal was…..
Nick-
The Pac 10 shaped up perfeclty for Cal I think. USC on probation, Colorado isn’t good, Utah is a dangerous sleeper, 12 teams for a conference championship game, Oregon self destructing…. Pasadena bound!
T-rock-
It was ridiculous. That call of Findley too in the 1st half was bs. It hit him in the face then hit his hand. Intentional handball? lol At least Algeria helped us. Just got to beat them. They control their own fate unlike 4 years ago.
Hey Tyler, I left a response about that yesterday, I’ll reprint it here:
“Tyler,
I’ve been really distracted lately and haven’t given this whole football conference expansion business much thought, but I’m glad Texas and its pals didn’t bolt the Big 12 to join the Pac-10 — I think I said I was against it when we chatted about it a couple weeks ago.
I’m ok with Colorado and Utah coming in if it’s so important to get to 12 teams and be able to have a conference championship. In the short term, it shouldn’t matter to Cal during the window of opportunity while U$C is being sanctioned; I’m not sure, but I don’t think the new conference alignment will be up and running until 2012. Hopefully it takes a little longer for U$C to get back in shape — or hopefully Kiffen is a flop there, although I know I’m supposed to want U$C to be a marquee program for the good of the conference. Bah.
In the long term, more teams makes it tougher for Cal, but again the hope is that the whole conference benefits from the new size. We’ll see. So far the best reaction I’ve gotten from my buddies is a short text:
“Utah? Just what we need — roadtrips to Provo. I think I’ll invite all my wives to the game.”
Gaga’s a chick. She went to Sacred Heart in Manhattan.
Hahah sorry Nick…. I must have missed that somehow!
The farm is booming.
Betances, Brackman, Hall, Stonerburner, Heathcott, Murphy etc.
Lots to look forward to, even while the big league team is going through a slump.
lol I love the Provo comment. It seems like the whole expansion thing was a whole lot of nothing in the end. At least Mizzou ends up still in the Big 12 (or Big 10 now I guess?)
Chad
Thanks for the audio.
The bullpen in the last two nights had absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of these games. They weren’t good, but, the offense was worse.
No prob, Tyler, it’s easy to miss stuff here, and I responded in a different thread from the one in which you asked the question.
The Big 12 didn’t have a lot of its own history, but they’ve lost something from the old Big 8 with Colorada and Nebraska leaving. My dad still remembers visiting Boulder for a game as a Mizzou student, and that was a long time ago.
I have no idea how they’re going to align the 12 Pack (it has to be called that, right?), but it will be a travesty if Cal doesn’t keep playing UCLA and USC every year.
Hey Carl, I just watched your video – amazing. I had goose bumps the entire time.
thank you, thank you, thank you!
# cs in la June 19th, 2010 at 1:18 am
Hey Carl, I just watched your video – amazing. I had goose bumps the entire time.
thank you, thank you, thank you!
NP! I didn’t make it though
The pics I saw online of Lady Gaga didn’t appear to be porn.
Maybe those pics are tame for New Jersey, but Chad is from Missouri.
Wait, Missouri is the Show-Me state.
Never mind.
“Sometimes you tip your hat to the pitcher,” Derek Jeter said.
So sick of this line. Why even interview Jeter? Just copy and paste from his same old squeeky clean comments the past XX years…
How about throwing in a “we sucked”, or “I guess I’ll be getting a big pay cut next year”. (HA!)
Makes me yearn for Giambi, Damon, etc…
Today’s the REDSOX catch the NYY, I can’t wait for them to pass you Sunday. As long as Joe keeps making excuses for these over paid pansies, instead of holding them accountable for their part of the game loss, things will continue to get worse.
Yankees fans are still stuck on last year’s team /stats. This isn’t that team, the bull pen last year was lights out. Aceves covered a lot of flaws this offense is plaqued by now. This pen can’t get the ball to Mariano. Mariano hasn’t pitched since last Sunday Jeter has been flying under the radar as leadoff with bad at bats, and this skimpy offense has exposed all the batters, except Curtis who has been true to form, avg. Yankees when they finally get on base (rare) are no threat at all, even with bases loaded, they still can’t bring a run home.
All of Mlb is watching the fall of the Yankees and it’s a good thing to witness!
Phillies won last night so we didn’t lose any ground rooting for the Mets to pick up where the Phitins left off.
Here’s a better picture to paint Girardi – right now – this team sucks ass. No if’s and’s or but’s. You all suck and you know it. All against crappy pitching too. Moyer, Crapahashi, etc. Bullpen blows and you’re lucky you’re still within a range of first place.
Enjoy third place Philly Loser. You’re going to be stuck there for the rest of the year.
Abe-
Yankees will be in 3-4 soon. only 1 game between you and Boston, and by the way my team has offense and is winning games. Yankees are getting thumped today.
Abe-
When you say LOSER think of NYY, they can’t buy a win, and that’s a fact!
Phil Hughes is on his own, don’t give up 1 run, the team will chase it all of the game, then the bull pen will cough up more for an even bigger loss.
I think its best to avoid Lohud about 60 games a year.
The general theme last night after skimming through….Jeter is done and shouldn’t be resigned, Granderson is awful, Tex is awful, and the Yankees may never score another run. In fact they will probably get no hit this weekend according to one well informed poster.
I think part of the problem is that many Yankee fans only watch Yankee games and therefore have no sense of the baseball season as a whole. Half the teams lose every night and every team goes through bad patches. If they Yanks have played this bad and STILL have the best record in baseball, then how bad has every other team played at times this year…
Same people were ready to call the season over last year when they were 0-8 against the Sox…same thing every year when the Yankees play bad for a few days in a row.
Phil’s only defeat came against Pelfrey, Pelfrey will get the win today, because Phil has no backing
WHAT A SHAME because he’s a CY Young contender, along with Andy !!
Phunny coming from a Philly Nut job whose team was held scoreless for three straight games. Enjoy watching you Phillies go home in October in forth place behind the Nats loser.
steveoh -
Did you bother to read Jeter’s entire quote:
“Sometimes you tip your hat to the pitcher,” Derek Jeter said. “But we have to find some ways to score runs. We had a couple of opportunities tonight, but collectively we really haven’t been swinging the bats too well.”
Seems to me there’s nothing more he could say.
Why should Girardi embarrass the team in the media? No need to. First of all these guys are professionals; second, failiing to execute is not the same as failing to try and not doing the work. Clearly these guys are doing the work and care about the outcome.
Slumps happen. This, too, shall pass, even though while it’s happening it’s not much fun to say the least. And, really, seriously, it’s only been 3 days.
Blake-
Good morning.
Remember the atmosphere after we lost 3 to the Nats before the ASB last year ?
did you see Mr. S last night. Nasty CU, huh ? He’s gonna be a great one if he can stay healthy.
Looking forward to Hughes-Pelfrey tonite.
If Phil can throw a gem and outpitch Pelfrey for # 10 I have one hell of a tribute planned for him.
Blake-
I meant this afternoon not this evening. Brain fart. sorry.
blake -
I’m with you.
I’m getting dangerously close to not being able to come here anymore. And this is with this team in first place. It’s never enough for some people. They won the WS last season, so I suppose nothing less than total domination was going to be acceptable this season, even though one year has little to do with the next year, nor does other teams actually being good, too, have anything to do with it.
MTU,
Strasburg is borderline unfair. I think he has the best natural pitching talent (comibing stuff and command) of any guy I’ve ever seen.
This place is just toxic during game threads these days…
MTU -
Good morning.
Part of the problem is the revisionist history. Apparently not many from last night remembered the atmosphere from last year after the losses to the Nats, because, according to them, this team had a “different feel” last season, “more character,” and were a “team of destiny” who “gutted out” wins and “never gave up.” I feel like beating my head against a wall.
Doreen-
I just avoid the game threads. That seems to work out.
Registration would help.
I saw replay of Strasburg. He looks like a veteran pitcher. Quite a talent. He’ll be fun to follow, even if he’s not on the Yankees.
Talent like that comes around few and far between.
They have the best record still, only as long as the team tied with them keeps losing toot. If TB had won last night they’d be in 2nd. After today let’s see where you stand.
Can’t wait for the Yankees loss today, so that you can’t boast the best record, and continue to bury your head in the sand, and get real.
Blake-
Strasburg isn’t borderline unfair. He IS unfair and only will get better.
All pitches ++ and command. Sickening.
MTU -
After last night, I will do the same. It’s really no longer worth the knot I get in my stomach.
Abe-
Yankees will be on the cough too!
Doreen,
I agree that this team has a diffrent feel than last season….it has better starting pitching. Yankee fans have very selective memories at times.
I think I may have to join the others and just avoid the game threads….let the inmates run that nuthouse.
Doreen-
Some people delight in dancing on other people’s graves and love kicking people when they are down.
It’s the saddest side of human nature.
Color me the eternal optimist. A season is over when it’s over and not one moment before.
Philly Phitins -
Good morning. How are you today?
Your phillies won last night, but made up no ground on the Mets. Really, you ought to be rooting for the Yankees this weekend if you were a true Phitin’ Phil. You know the saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend??
I just like rubbing your chain Philly Pharthead – it brings me joy.
Doreen-
He is too blinded by his hatred of the Yankees to see the obvious.
Phil is a great pitcher, but he can’t do it all ,the offense needs to show up.
Phil is a great pitcher, but he can’t do it all ,the offense needs to show up.
Phitins-
Of course. And they will. At some point. Every team slumps during the course of a season.
Haven’t the Phillies been having a hard time scoring runs over the past month or so ?
It happens. Thats all. It’s a long season and it takes it toll on every team.
The Yankees will get on a roll again and when they do I wouldn’t want to be the rest of baseball.
blake, MTU -
Javy was great last night. He really has turned it around and I’m so happy for that. I wish there was a way that a guy who pitches great doesn’t have to get sacked with the loss, when it’s the rest of the guys that failed at their jobs. I guess that’s why you can’t put a whole lot of stock in W/L records for pitchers, you have to look at the total picture.
One of the things I find particularly irksome is that when the Yankees are winning, the “naysayers,” for lack of a more appropriate word, will be quick to point out the flaws in the wins, and are reluctant to extrapolate the wins over a season, but seem to approach losses in a completely opposite manner. I used to be able to just shake my head and scroll on past, but it’s finally gotten to me.
Anyway, I think with these Mets series, a lot of the angst stems from people having to work with Mets fans and having to hear the “trash talk.” I will admit that I am fortunately not in that position, but I do understand the sentiment.
Are the Yankees down? You’d never know it by the comment reminding me they have the best record, are in first place, how you went through the same thing last year yada yada yada.
I’ll remind you, This team can’t compare to the last years Yankees, ADMIT IT!!
Doreen-
IMO no one should focus on a few feathers when the whole pillow is laying there.
If people can’t take the heat they need to get out of the restaurant buisness, if you get my drift ?
Let people have their fun. We’ll have ours sooner or later.
The Mets like the lowly Phillies before them playing for them what is their biggest series of 2010.
You have to understand this is the high point of the season for any Phillie troll.
The day after the Yankees beat Halladay, I was on the road and listening to XM and they were talking about the Phillies a lot. There were people calling in wanting to fire Manuel. The broadcasters were saying the Phillies needed a spark, and maybe they needed to call up this minor league guy, a la the Mets, to infuse some energy. I mean the Phillies had a horrible record, were playing flat, apparently, and the lineup itself was out of sorts, with people batting out of their normal spots. The only really cure was for Rollins to come back, as he was (is) sorely missed and is the catalyst for the team.
And now they’ve won 3 in a row, beating Minny 9-3 last night.
These things happen. Good teams, even great teams, go through rough patches. Teams like the Phillies, the Yankees, the Rays, the Red Sox come through the other side, though. And there is far too much baseball to be played this season. Even if, heaven forbid, the Red Sox jump into first for a few days, it’s not time to panic.
Dominance is fun and all, but pennant races are more exciting. I think the Yankees have the horses to outlast the competition, and what they don’t have now, they will acquire during the trading time.
Phitins-
There is nothing to admit.
It’s a long season and just because the Yankees are slumping now doesn’t meant they will slump for an entire season.
And besides that it doesn’t matter which team is better than another.
What matters is who is left standing at the end of October.
And THIS team is certainly good enough to do that.
That’s all that matters. Try getting your mind around that.
You have to consider that this loser troll is on our web site because the Yankees are the best team in the game.
This is it, this the best, all he can do to extract revenge try to rewrite hisory for the shellacking his precious choking phillies took in the 2009 world championship.
Mtu
I unlike yourself realize this is just a game. I don’t HATE anyone, you are a foe, I want you to lose simple,it’s nothing personal.
Doreein
Yankees gained no ground last night either, but you lost ground to Boston.
There is no need for anger. In the end the team will do the talking.
Let him run his mouth. Let him have his laughs.
What he’ll find out in the end is “he who laughs last laughs the loudest”
That will be US.
Phitins-
That’s swell. Good luck with that come October.
Disappointment from last season’s loss must run pretty deep if this phillie troll or trollette has to come to the Yankee web site.
We’re still in first, we’re still the defending world champions and it is still only June 19.
I might add we are ahead of where we were at this stage last season.
Yankees aRe the best team in the game, that’s rich, you SHARE that with another team, for 1 more day! Then you have to GET REAL!
He doesn’t hate anyone that’s why he’s/she is on a Yankee web site 8:30 on a Saturday morning.
Philly Phitins -
I know that. It stinks. But I question why you care about the Yankees. I don’t care about the Phillies, and I won’t unless they happen to be facing the Yankees in October/November.
Doreen-
He’s had his say. Time to move on. Let’s let the teams do the talking.
If I had to look up to Greg Luzinski as being as one of the greats in franchise history I’d an inferiority complex too.
What Girardi said, “I have a lot of faith in these guys”
What he was really thinking, “Cashman…HELP”
Lowly Mets and Philly beat the “shared best record in baseball, didn’t they?” Not bad for lowly teams to shake down the NYY in their own yard , no less!
Good morning.
Thought I’d share a little “Pollyanna” perspective before the fury built up again this morning.
“You want to be skeptical. You want to be cynical. You want to believe this is just brave talk, and to seek the ways in which the current problems portend big trouble down the line. But we have to deal in facts here, and the fact is, if you’re not hitting the way you’re supposed to hit and you’re 41-26 anyway, that means you’re a real good baseball team. It means another part of your team is good enough to pick up the slack when one isn’t clicking. Add in the fact that this group of Yankees won last year’s World Series, and it’s easy to see why they deserve the benefit of the doubt, even from their notoriously fickle fans, even in the toughest media town in the game.”
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/0.....t-so-what/
The whiny, moronic children are ruining this blog.
They are just crybabies. They know nothing about the game, only show up here when they lose, and fill this blog with idiotic gibberish everyday.
They have already destroyed the game threads with their idiocy. With school out, they will destroy the rest of the blog because the LoHud powers that be don’t seem to care.
This was once a great place to talk baseball. Now? It’s a cesspool.
Phillies join the Mets as another team that could beat the Yankees in interleague during the regular season but choked in the World Series when it counted.
Phitins-
No one should take anything away from the Phillies.
When they are healthy they have an excellent offense.
Their problem IMO is their pitching, or lack thereof.
Doc can’t pitch every game. And I know what you’re gonna say about Moyer and Kendrick. But that’s meaningless because they beat a slumping Yankees team.
Get back to us when they can do that when WE are at full strength.
If you really want to be angry go kick Amaro’s azz. he’s the fool who traded away your best shot at the post season.
Doreen
I care as any team does that they are defeated, we’re rivals remember. I want them to lose. The title is up or grabs every year, We want it back, period! No hatred involved just competition!
Phitins,
Sense you spend so much time on this site, why not try and be respectful and join in on baseball conversation instead of writing what amounts to long winded versions of “Yankees suck” posts. We have Sox fans that get on here that engauge in conversations on both teams and baseball in general without argument.
I think CB said it all yesterday pointing out that last season the team was 0-8 at this point against the Sox, losing the series, swept by the Angels before the all-star break.
Peaks and Valleys are what it’s all about.
hard to argue with SJ44 on that point. I’m still onboard with registration… altho – at this point, I don’t think it will do much to curb the commentary on here. Pete at least policed this blog with some degree of regularity… the new crew doesn’t even seem to notice.
Pat,
There can’t be any perspective. It’s not allowed.
That would take using one’s brain.
Unfortunately, the children refuse to use theirs.
It’s easier to lose your mind over losing three games in June.
We’re not rivals Phitins. You made that up so you can feel better about your team. Your on no higher level than the Orioles.
I can prove this.
Read this blog and watch us converse the rest of the season.
You’ll notice that nobody ever mentions the Phillies because we don’t care.
How can you be our rival if nobody talks about your team unless provoked?
That’s not a rival.
That’s indifference.
Sj-
Some peole just have the up-the-butt view of life.
That’s their problem.
pat -
Thank you for that!!!
Does Dan Graziano write regularly for Fanhouse? I’ve missed his writing (used to be at the Star Ledger and I liked him), but lost track of where he went.
MTU
We know DOC ,MOYER, and KENDRICK’s sinkerball can beat you, Happ will be back soon, and Rollins, (a good leadoff player) and the team will be whole again.
You really need Ace, and Mitre back, and Tex to wake up.
Phitins -
It’s misplaced. The Yankees don’t really factor into the Phillies season until and unless they meet post-season. Unless you’re that afraid of facing the Yankees when it really counts?
Phitins-
Ace has a bad back. Tex will perform. Mitre is irrelevant.
And NO, I don’t think those guys beat a healthy full-functioning Yankee offense.
Sorry. try again.
And yes. Rollins is a very good ballplayer. They miss him.
Ace is definitely missed. He lengthened the bullpen. And Mitre was doing a good job in his absence. That definitely has hurt the Yankees at times.
Phitin
At the risk of giving you the attention you are so obviously looking for…..
The Yankees and Phillies ceased being rivals about 36 hours ago. The Phillies could go win every game between now and October 1 and it has zero impact on the Yankees.
You were amusing here for a few days when you were relevant. Now you are irrelevant and repetitive.
I would encourage everyone to say their final good byes to you and then ignore you until we are rivals once again unless you want to talk baseball instead of talking trash.
Imagine if the yankees only played once a week and fans had 6 days to stew over a loss…oh the horror.
SJ,
Did you see where our resident expert on what’s wrong with the Yankees predicted that they will get no hit this weekend.
I feel bad for Javy, what a great effort he gave last night.
Phitins-
Last thing I’m gonna say on the subject of Yankees vs. Phillies.
No team slugs it’s way to championships.
The phillies can have an excellent offense.
Their problem is they don’t have a strong enough Pitching Staff to get to/thru the last dance.
Pitching wins championships. The Yankees have it. The Phillies don’t.
If you want to get angry. Again, I say, focus your anger on Amaro the Bizaro because he let your ticket to the post-season just slip right thru his fingers. What a dummy. Brings you Doc and trades away Lee.
What a hoot.
Blake,
Yes. When they win again, he won’t show up.
That’s his MO.
That’s why he gets ridiculed here.
Doreen
Graziano seems to do free lance work now in not only baseball but does contribute to FanHouse on a fairly regular basis.
blake-
1. Yankees suck is an old tired redsox phrase, not Philly’s Yankees have the tools to win but they all seem out to lunch, on vacation, or counting their bucks.
2. I don’t join in because I’m not a cookie cutter, drone trying to fit in and please the wannabe self appointed , self important authorities on the blog.
3. I critique your team because you think they are still good, but Boston will knock you off your perch tonight, and lead by Monday. Yankees fans will still be quoting last year this time stuff.
Boston will be in first place tonight?
From an angry Phillie fan.
He hasn’t had a good night’s sleep since the series ended last fall.
Winning breeds confidence and that’s what this Yankee team is about to do. Soon Tampa Bay and Boston will play each other and beat each other to the ground while the the Yankees move forward.
Boston in particular will have played 43 home games after the Dodger series with lots of road schedule ahead.
The fate of the Yankees is in their own hands.
SJ44 -
So true about “that guy.” He makes some good points, but they’re irrelevant to me, and not to be taken seriously because he’s not even-handed, and he NEVER has a good thing to say and NEVER comes here when they win.
Plus, he really has an inflated opinion of his own opinion.
Phitins,
Ok so you have no plans of ever saying anything intelligent…cleared that up.
why is this phillies fan acting like his crap team is not in third place. Hey Moron they don’t have standings in Phily. Your crap team will not even make the playoffs. Apparently getting your s*** pushed in in the world series was really traumatic for you. go troll the mets and braves their the ones outplaying your overrated team/city you battery tossing idiot.
Thanks, pat.
I don’t run PHITINS, I came back here when DOC LOST, and was on every day since. You think you scare but you don’t you’re all mouth!
I said thePhillies would win and THEY DID!
Ahh, the predictability of the LoHud universe is at an all time high. Game threats for losing games are overrun with what I’ll call “strongly worded suggestions” (I’m trying to give them some credit) and the comments from the next morning are all focused on complaining about the various idiots/morons/trolls from the night before. *Sigh*
My prediction from May: This team makes it to the WS. Period. But that doesn’t mean we’re looking very good at the moment.. just so happens, no one else looks any better
And isn’t that a beautiful thing?
And in other news:
The Yankees will be there in October.
And the Phillies still don’t have enough pitching.
Doreen – “Plus, he really has an inflated opinion of his own opinion.
”
We should try to stay away from blanket statements that could apply to many-a-posters on LoHud
shouldn’t we?? lol
Blake-
Back to music for a minute.
Ever hear of a group called “Nickel Creek” ?
Good stuff.
Shame Spencer -
Oh, okay.
MTU, I like them quite a bit. You have good taste brotha.
MTU,
Try this band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BAiDKOqfvc
Doreen
Few people have made you forget there is a delete key on your computer but I believe we’ve found another one.
Last night I envisioned him in the corner of the TV screen during the game giving his take on what I just saw happening. He’s like Closed Captioning for the terminally negative Yankee fan.
Blake-
I guess it’s my recessive “redneck” gene gone active.
Can’t fix it.
GTLU
Jeter ss
Swish rf
Tex 1b
Alex dh
Cano 2b
Posada c
Granderson cf
Gardner Lf
Pena 3b
Shame-
Couldn’t have said it any better!
How many times on this your blog do you make PERSONAL attacks on each other character (that makes you feel superior,) when it should be about baseball, the team?
Bret-
I like anything but Rap.
If that’s heavy metal. I like AC-DC.
pat -
I’m done. “I’ve had my say and that’s all I’ll say.” (Ellen the Maid from Mary Poppins.)
Doreen – GTLU Stuff & Photos June 19th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Shame Spencer -
Oh, okay.
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Oh Doreen, don’t take me so seriously!! I certainly wasn’t implying YOU were one of these people with an inflated opinion of their opinion lol, it just made me laugh that it was being attributed to one poster (albeit a well deserved case to apply it to) because you’d think half the people on here were running the organization from the things that come out of their mouths (keyboards).
pat -
(but, yes, that’s a perfect description – “closed captioning for the terminally negative Yankees fan” – I love it!)
Shame Spencer -
I was laughing when I wrote that.
I agree. The comments section has gone “downhill” since Pete left.. This used to be a great spot to read informed commentary from fellow fans. Now its few and far between. I wonder if registration would help solve things and get rid of the “weeds”…
To totally change the topic, saw a great rockabilly-type band last night called Langhorne Slim. Good stuff. Check them out if they come your way. To make things even more interesting, Bruce Springsteen was in the house checking them out. It was at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park.
Saw the end of the ninth inning. What a tease. I hope the bats show up today. This is getting tiresome and my Mets fans friends are torturing me.
Couple of things I did take from last nights game:
Javy was fantastic. Best velocity and probably best stuff overall I’ve seen from him this season. Him getting it together really strengthens the rotation.
Cano is going to start being pitched around more and more. He did a good job taking his walk last night and passing the torch but teams are going to start making it a priority to not let him beat them. I’m not saying they should move him in the lineup but its something the Yankees and Cano are going to have to recognize and plan accordingly. What you worry about is that if it happens too frequently then Cano will start to expand the zone and get in bad habits. He is a guy that wants to swing the bat. Would having Arod hit behind him curb that somewhat? Maybe.
MTU,
I think you have dixie in your heart my friend
Blake-
I don’t know how a kid from Brooklyn turns out the way I did.
It’s all very confusing. Black sheep ?
Doreen
The problem is the Yankees success since the Mid 90s has developed a breed of younger Yankee fan who expects nothing but absolute perfection from the Yankees and domination of the opposition….. All theyve known is success. A “bad” year to them is winning 88 games and not getting to the playoffs. Unfortunately, we have a fair share of spoiled fans who act like children any time the Yankees lose a few games.
Line ups go through slumps, that’s part of a long season. But the pen is terrible. Joba is inconsistant. Marte and Park are terrible. Robertson was pretty bad, but for a 6-7th inning guy I actually like and been better recently.
Fortunately there are no great teams this season – every team has warts. Hopefully someone from minors can come up and help or they can make a trade to help (though I hate trades for pen help).
Lol, just had to make sure Doreen, this place can be like the wild west sometimes. I don’t need to be unintentionally insulting people!!
Right now Posada is a better hitter than Arod, since Arod is hurting pretty bad. Let them pitch around Cano and let Posada make them pay.
Why hasn’t anyone figured out yet that Phitins isn’t some troll Philly fan, he’s someone’s alter-ego from this board. The way he has stuck around after the series, the attitude towardss the board. It’s pretty obvious.
Agree about the pen. It’s more of a problem than the offense, IMO.
The runs the pen gives up late in games limits comeback opportunities.
That’s why I think Cashman will look to add a bullpen arm.
Even if Ace comes back, without the addition of another arm, they have too many unreliable arms out there.
It’s the up and down nature of relief pitchers.
YANKEES SUCK!!!!!!