2007 Yankees

Allie

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

check this out,the archives in the times are now free. here's the story from pettitte's first victory in 1995:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DB1338F93BA35755C0A963958260

"He was not been depicted" Don't they proof these things?

What a great blast from the past
"Just a regular..." he turned out to be a little bit more than that!

and Manager Buck Showalter! wow.

igotid88

Ian Kennedy will miss tomorrow's start due to a stiff neck. Good comeback in the bottom of the 9th. Now let's win it.

xavier mcdaniel

clemens is scratched with a tweak in his left hamstring, hughes makes the start

kyle farnsworth said his shoulder stiffened, which would explain why he didn't pitch.

giambi said his foot is feeling better

this game was the longest of the season at 4:45, two minutes ahead of the comeback win last week in Boston.

stpmattb

nm

xavier mcdaniel

i like baseball as much as the next guy, but this is by far among the worst ones i've ever seen..

Fighting Hellfish

that was the game nobody wanted to win. Except for maybe ARod

tvismyfriend

Can anyone give me a quick recap of what happend? I was at work and didn't get home untill the 9th.

NCBRI

The Milkman Delivers! Maybe this will help him break out of his slump.
Wow, the bullpen is getting taxed these last two games.


Was listening to Bill Simmons podcast and he was interviewing ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews. Turns out she's a big Red Sox fan which broke my heart, but she had some great things to say about the Yankee players. She absolutely gushed over Jeter and Posada and how great they were to her to the point that she said it almost makes you want to write them a letter after the season to thank them for being so nice and making her job easier. She said a lot of the Yankees were really great including Damon, Giambi, and A-Rod. She did say there was one person in the clubhouse who goes out of his way to make her job difficult but wouldn't say who.

xavier mcdaniel

some tidbits from this one, which by the way watching it makes you feel like you played in it.


this one bodes well for the postseason maybe - the yankees began this season 4-13 in one run games but have won 13 of the last 19 one run games.

The Yankees used a club record 10 pitchers (whether Farnsworth is a pitcher is up for debate but he does get paid to pitch). It's one shy of the AL record for pitchers used in an extra inning game. That honor goes to the Seattle Mariners on Sept. 25, 1992 in Texas (Eric Hanson, Rick DeLucia, Russ Swan, Mark Grant, Eric Gunderson, Jeff Nelson, Calvin Jones, Juan Agosto, Mike Schooler, Dennis Powell and Brian Fisher).

In the first two games of this series, there have been 33 pitchers 18 for the Yankees, 15 for the Blue Jays. A combined 825 pitches have been thrown in this series.

Alex Rodriguez's three RBI bring him up to 146. That's the second most total by a Yankee since 1939.

Jeter has quietly put together a nine-game hitting streak while Doug Mientkiewicz is batting .450 since returning from the disabled list.

BetterManningNYG

NCBRI wrote:

Was listening to Bill Simmons podcast

that was your first mistake...

NCBRI wrote:

and he was interviewing ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews. Turns out she's a big Red Sox fan which broke my heart

ummm... yeah... she works for ESPN and has been involved with jason varitek. those are two pretty strong indicators that somebody is probably a red sox fan. sorry dude. don't worry about it though... you can do better...



good win today. hopefully joba's arm won't fall off.

NCBRI

Good win. Joba's first save.


Nice to see Al Reyes not blow one in the Tampa/Boston game this time. I issued all kinds of shit at him while watching the end of the game yesterday.

In Pettitte and Wang, the Yanks probably now have more dependable starters than Boston who really can only count on Beckett at this point.

Any chance Joe leaves Farnsworth off the postseason roster? That guy is like a science experiment gone horribly wrong.

xavier mcdaniel

NCBRI wrote:

Good win. Joba's first save.


Nice to see Al Reyes not blow one in the Tampa/Boston game this time. I issued all kinds of shit at him while watching the end of the game yesterday.

In Pettitte and Wang, the Yanks probably now have more dependable starters than Boston who really can only count on Beckett at this point.

Any chance Joe leaves Farnsworth off the postseason roster? That guy is like a science experiment gone horribly wrong.

they should devise the kyle rules as in never pitch the guy unless you're up by 15 runs..

BetterManningNYG

NCBRI wrote:

Any chance Joe leaves Farnsworth off the postseason roster? That guy is like a science experiment gone horribly wrong.

sadly, they have no one to replace him with. joba and mo are the only reliable RPs they have.

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

they should devise the kyle rules as in never pitch the guy unless you're up by 15 runs..

they have kyle rules (because of his back problems). they're virtually identical to the joba rules except that nobody cares because he sucks.

xavier mcdaniel

BetterManningNYG wrote:

sadly, they have no one to replace him with. joba and mo are the only reliable RPs they have.



they have kyle rules (because of his back problems). they're virtually identical to the joba rules except that nobody cares because he sucks.

hopefully he's someone else's problem next year. he's among the reasons why the first three games have lasted 13 hours 23 minutes.

but i will say this for cashman, his deal to acquire jose molina is a very good and underated deal.

BetterManningNYG

new york magazine is reporting that a-rod has agreed to a ten-year, $300 million contract with the chicago cubs. this (illegal) deal would also make him a partial owner of the team:

http://nymag.com/news/sports/38017/

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AqvNP27dN.Fnrvp1c47Fru0i0bYF?slug=txyankeesrodriguez&prov=st&type=lgns

it's probably not true, but you never know with scott boras. i'm sure that any team with interest in a-rod has already submitted an illegal offer.

Allie

BetterManningNYG wrote:

new york magazine is reporting that a-rod has agreed to a ten-year, $300 million contract with the chicago cubs. this (illegal) deal would also make him a partial owner of the team:

http://nymag.com/news/sports/38017/

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AqvNP27dN.Fnrvp1c47Fru0i0bYF?slug=txyankeesrodriguez&prov=st&type=lgns

it's probably not true, but you never know with scott boras. i'm sure that any team with interest in a-rod has already submitted an illegal offer.

this was in the Post too
He denies all

xavier mcdaniel

BetterManningNYG wrote:

new york magazine is reporting that a-rod has agreed to a ten-year, $300 million contract with the chicago cubs. this (illegal) deal would also make him a partial owner of the team:

http://nymag.com/news/sports/38017/

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AqvNP27dN.Fnrvp1c47Fru0i0bYF?slug=txyankeesrodriguez&prov=st&type=lgns

it's probably not true, but you never know with scott boras. i'm sure that any team with interest in a-rod has already submitted an illegal offer.

I can't see how that's true, especially since that's tampering and any potential owner that does that i'd think would be not be allowed to buy the cubs and another thing none of the guy's sources are quoted directly.

BetterManningNYG

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

hopefully he's someone else's problem next year. he's among the reasons why the first three games have lasted 13 hours 23 minutes.

but i will say this for cashman, his deal to acquire jose molina is a very good and underated deal.

i've always liked jose molina. i think he's one of the best backup catchers in baseball. he could probably be a pretty good starter on many teams. they should definitely try to re-sign him. he's a great insurance policy in case posada starts to decline over the next few years.

that would be great if they could find a taker for farnsworth, even if they have to pay his salary. they don't need his dead weight taking up a roster spot that could just as easily go to one of their prospects.

BetterManningNYG

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

I can't see how that's true, especially since that's tampering and any potential owner that does that i'd think would be not be allowed to buy the cubs and another thing none of the guy's sources are quoted directly.

any team that signs a-rod is going to become the subject of a tampering investigation. that's a given. it's gonna be a question of whether or not the yankees can prove it more so than whether or not it actually happened.

regarding this specific story, one common theory is that boras started the rumor himself in order to drive up a-rod's price.

xavier mcdaniel

BetterManningNYG wrote:

i've always liked jose molina. i think he's one of the best backup catchers in baseball. he could probably be a pretty good starter on many teams. they should definitely try to re-sign him. he's a great insurance policy in case posada starts to decline over the next few years.

that would be great if they could find a taker for farnsworth, even if they have to pay his salary. they don't need his dead weight taking up a roster spot that could just as easily go to one of their prospects.

molina is probably the best backup catcher they've had since joe girardi and the list of backups includes - sal fasano, wil nieves, kelly stinnett, john flaherty, chris widger, alberto castillo.

and i bet he can help with some of the advance scouting of the angels, especially with their pitching staff.