The Official New York Yankees Thread

Cliffy6745

The Jeagler wrote:

go.
rays.

1st
Place

The Juggler

Cliffy6745 wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

go.
rays.

1st
Place

for now...

rival.

lucky to leave in sole possession. saturday's game was stolen. the rays were the better team. could have been a weekend sweep.

Cliffy6745

rival. wrote:

lucky to leave in sole possession. saturday's game was stolen. the rays were the better team. could have been a weekend sweep.

If saturday's game was stolen, wasn't Friday's as well? One bad pitch.

rival.

Cliffy6745 wrote:

rival. wrote:

lucky to leave in sole possession. saturday's game was stolen. the rays were the better team. could have been a weekend sweep.

If saturday's game was stolen, wasn't Friday's as well? One bad pitch.

this is true. those were two outstanding games.

i was wrong about arod hitting the catwalk. i'll be at the stadium tomorrow night with my parents. their first time they are making it out to the new home. wouldn't mind a-rod going homerless tonight!

Cliffy6745

rival. wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

rival. wrote:

lucky to leave in sole possession. saturday's game was stolen. the rays were the better team. could have been a weekend sweep.

If saturday's game was stolen, wasn't Friday's as well? One bad pitch.

this is true. those were two outstanding games.

i was wrong about arod hitting the catwalk. i'll be at the stadium tomorrow night with my parents. their first time they are making it out to the new home. wouldn't mind a-rod going homerless tonight!

Definitely, two good teams playing great baseball.

That is great. A bunch of my buddies were there for 500 and said it was awesome, hopefully you get to see 600.

Newch91

Thurman Munson. Watching his Yankeeography right now and it is really great. My dad's favorite player in all of sports. At 2:30 is the game Bobby Murcer won for the Yankees after Thurman's funeral.

CROJAM95

tonite for christs sake :twisted:

BinauralJam

Newch91 wrote:

Thurman Munson. Watching his Yankeeography right now and it is really great. My dad's favorite player in all of sports. At 2:30 is the game Bobby Murcer won for the Yankees after Thurman's funeral.

he was my former's bosses favorite player, one day i was lookin over his stats, so i said, well ya know he doesn't have the greatists numbers in the world, he said "It was the way he played the game, his leadership, clutch play, tough and gritty, ya had to see him everyday to understand" Stats don't tell the whole story.

Cliffy6745

This is good stuff from Frankie Pilliere

To put it as simply as possible, A-Rod’s bat speed is not the same, and neither is his ability to consistently generate powerful swings. Rather than debate about what caused this, let’s dig into what the problem exactly is. Mechanically speaking, the questions are where has that bat speed gone and why is he not generating the same levels of power. Essentially, it all comes down to his lower half. When he’s right, no hitter has the balance and strength in the lower half that he does.

[...]

Without creating that coiled spring effect before he releases his hands and with less drive of the hips toward the baseball, bat speed is going to suffer. And while there is no official measurement of actual bat speed available, we’ve seen Rodriguez get beat more often by the fastball without that powerful base from which to hit. It’s just not possible to produce the same bat speed.

[...]

If you’re an optimistic person, and expect the Rodriguez of old to return, what you’ll see is a smaller, abbreviated leg kick where he has very little movement in his lower half before he drives his hips at the ball. You’ll also see his head stay much more centered over the middle of his body and far less upper body involvement. If he can accomplish all that, we’ll see his bat speed return and the more prolific home run numbers will follow.

Cliffy6745

Looks like we are going to have a tie atop the al east

Cliffy6745

Might be on a little skid here with Moseley going tonight. I don't really have any worries about this team, especially with such a large lead to get into the playoffs but it would be nice to avoid a little skid here with Boston coming into town this weekend.

neilybabes86

its gonna be a dogfight..

tampa won't be the same next year so they're going hard

Cliffy6745

neilybabes86 wrote:

its gonna be a dogfight..

tampa won't be the same next year so they're going hard

Good thing they didn't pick up a bat. That lineup does not scare me.

neilybabes86

Cliffy6745 wrote:

neilybabes86 wrote:

its gonna be a dogfight..

tampa won't be the same next year so they're going hard

Good thing they didn't pick up a bat. That lineup does not scare me.

yea but they are gonna play like the indians from major league

Cliffy6745

neilybabes86 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

neilybabes86 wrote:

its gonna be a dogfight..

tampa won't be the same next year so they're going hard

Good thing they didn't pick up a bat. That lineup does not scare me.

yea but they are gonna play like the indians from major league

Haha, very true. Both should get into the playoffs but it would be nice to win the East and avoid the Rangers in the first round.

Champagne Breakfast

Are any of the newly acquired guys under contract with the Yanks beyond this year?

neilybabes86

Champagne Breakfast wrote:

Are any of the newly acquired guys under contract with the Yanks beyond this year?

berkman and wood are both gone..not sure about kearns

Cliffy6745

neilybabes86 wrote:

Champagne Breakfast wrote:

Are any of the newly acquired guys under contract with the Yanks beyond this year?

berkman and wood are both gone..not sure about kearns

I dont believe he is under control next year.

Newch91

We need Pettite.