2007 Yankees

stickboy

The Champ wrote:

I'm sure, but he's been fucking awful in October in recent years..

Anyway, I feel great today..The Yanks got spanked around like the little bitches that they are, and the Phills were swept ..

aaawww
you musta been like my poor roomamte
his piece of shit team held it down all yr..ALL YEAR LONG! and lost it in the end!
HAHAHAHAHHA
and he had to deal with me for 4 games SCREAMING, saying FUCK the INDIANS tWERE IN THE PLAYOFFS, I WANT ANOTHER RING!
I can understand where youre coming from... ur luckier tho
u didnt have to deal with the shit my poor DIEHARD met fan roomate

all he kept saying is that shoulda been my mets..HAHAHAHAHHA suckers!
next yr the mets are gonna be worse anyways

and hey Champ..when u have 26 rings, all the history and Im not gonna state the obvious cause non yankee fans know more it seems about the team than us diehards...u better believ its a some kinda God given right...either that or if there is a God there is NO DENYING who HE ..or SHE roots for..c'mon now


go vote on espn on how much yall hate the yankees so we can win in another category
It feels good to be the no.1 target, always

its like someone said tho b4..when u win so much all the time its hard to stay motivated every yr and its also expected in NY..comes witht the territory

we need to relite the fire and come back and win another 4 in 6 yrs so we can be hated some more

stickboy

Champagne Breakfast wrote:

JOE GIRARDI.
Mattingly would lead to a 80's like slump for few years. They need an agressive manager who will let the young guys lead. If there's any constant with the Yanks losing the past few years its that they had no emotion and heart. Girardi won't stand for that.

its GONNA be Girardi
hes too familiar with most of the faces in the dugout already so the transition will be much easier. Besides I think hes the only one that can motivate them and someone else like torre they would play hard for. The Marlins fucked up on that

Champagne Breakfast

DaytimeDilemma wrote:

I hope all the Yankee fans realize that Roger Clemens is a thief and just stole Steinbrenner's money. He shouldn't have come out of retirement. He looked so bad in Sunday's game is was laughable.

True.
....only reason why I think Roger was worth it. Actually 2 reasons.
But the most important was the Yanks had some young future stars that got to spend a season with one of the best pitchers and competitors of all time.
Having Joba, Hughes, Kennedy, etc etc be around Clemens for a year as basically a player coach was priceless.
Clemens also provided at least somewhat of a firery spark and aggressiveness that the team had negative off. I beleive without Clemens attitude, aura, and knowledge this 07 team would not have made the playoffs.

JSBE

founds this haiku at the end of rob neyer's chat today. i thought it was pretty funny.

Sizemore rounding third . . .
Here's Damon's throw to the plate . . .
Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce

NY PJ1

JSBE wrote:

founds this haiku at the end of rob neyer's chat today. i thought it was pretty funny.

Sizemore rounding third . . .
Here's Damon's throw to the plate . . .
Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce

he was the only guy who showed up .....

josevolution

Champagne Breakfast wrote:

True.
....only reason why I think Roger was worth it. Actually 2 reasons.
But the most important was the Yanks had some young future stars that got to spend a season with one of the best pitchers and competitors of all time.
Having Joba, Hughes, Kennedy, etc etc be around Clemens for a year as basically a player coach was priceless.
Clemens also provided at least somewhat of a firery spark and aggressiveness that the team had negative off. I beleive without Clemens attitude, aura, and knowledge this 07 team would not have made the playoffs.

i would just add that with out AROD the yanks don't even sniff the playoffs .....

Flannel Shirt

If Georgie fires Torre, he is finally 100% senile.

The man is a winner. When I, a Red Sox fan, think of the Yankees, the first thing that comes to mind is how much I hate them, and then Joe Torre. The man is all class. His guys are Posada, Rivera, Jeter, Pettitte. All class individuals.

He just handles things well. Shit, you and I know to bring Jaba in the 8th and Rivera in the 9th. We know how to play lefty righty matchups. Thats not his skill. Its keeping his team chugging along and not getting worried or excited. The fucking team was 15 games out a playoff spot with a couple months left and ran away with the wild card.

The guy knows when his pitchers are in trouble. That is his #1 skill if you ask me. He sees them getting in trouble and pulls them before teams can break a game open or make it close again.

That said, fire the fucker. No sweat off my balls. Bring in Donnie Boy so we can win the division 20 years in a row.

Solat13

Just curious what Yankees fans think about the rumors about big Stein wanting Tony LaRusso taking over the Yanks?

JSBE

intodeep wrote:

HEre is a good article from Fox on what hte yankees should do. I don't agree with all of it but for the most part it has some really good ideas

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/MikeGwizdala/2007/10/09/If_I_Were_George_Steinbrenner_I_Would

after reading the article (which i personally wouldn't call good, other than the fact that it went position by position)...

if a-rod wants to sign an extension, obviously the yanks will bring him back.

melky in a package for johan santana? yeah sure - if the package includes melky, and either joba, hughes, kennedy, etc. and another top prospect. and why would the twins want to trade away nathan when he's not a free agent, and why to the yankees? the twins may not be super rich, but they're not dumb (except for letting big papi get away).

unless the yanks can move melky or do a sign/trade with abreu (much like sheff) i don't see them signing either torii hunter or rowand - and even then you have a log jam at dh/lf/1st with damon, matsui, giambi, duncan, etc.

signing posada to a long term (3-4) deal is a huge risk since he's 36. if the yanks do, have fun paying a 39-40 year old catcher $12mil+ a season.

a starting rotation of pettitte, wang, hughes, joba and kennedy sounds great, but pettitte has to want to come back. and yeah, roger is not under contract, but mussina is at $11mil. the yanks will have to pay some $$$ to get rid of him. same with igawa and no one would take pavano unless it was for something dirt cheap like a nothing prospect and half his remaining salary.

they have to bring back rivera, but same thing applies to him as it does for posada. any long range contract for $10+ mil a year will bite them eventually where he is 39.

"Finally the deadweight must be cut. Some how some way the Yankees have to shed the bad karma and equally bad contracts of Carl Pavano, Kei Igawa, Jason Giambi, Mike Mussina and Kyle Farnsworth."

well duh and good luck in that brian cashman.

JSBE

Flannel Shirt wrote:

If Georgie fires Torre, he is finally 100% senile.

he's getting close to 100%, but torre's contract is up, so technically he wouldn't be fired.

Flannel Shirt

Pinella. He's drop the Cubs like they were hot for this gig.

NY PJ1

fuck pinella he sucks to,,,,takes out his ace after 85 pitches for a game that never happened

NY PJ1

keep mo

posada to the mets

arod to whoever wants him

save that money for johan

than ur rotation in 2 years is santana wang hughes joba and ian kennedy not to shabby

Allie

NY PJ1 wrote:

keep mo

posada to the mets

arod to whoever wants him

save that money for johan

than ur rotation in 2 years is santana wang hughes joba and ian kennedy not to shabby

what are you talking about? They need to keep Posada around for as long as he can play and they are willing to pay him.
He hit .338 this year

NY PJ1

Allie wrote:

what are you talking about? They need to keep Posada around for as long as he can play and they are willing to pay him.
He hit .338 this year

he is mid 30's and he will never have another year like this
so people will be overpaying him and we should not imo
signing him for long term at big money is not the best thing to do
catchers break down and he has been around for awhile

stickboy

Solat13 wrote:

Just curious what Yankees fans think about the rumors about big Stein wanting Tony LaRusso taking over the Yanks?

w
heard them talkin bout it on Mike n Mike today..like they said...how will he hold up in this meida circus u know?
Girardi already knows what he has to deal with. He would be my top candidate hands down..One Joe passes the reigns over to the next Joe

stickboy

NY PJ1 wrote:

he is mid 30's and he will never have another year like this
so people will be overpaying him and we should not imo
signing him for long term at big money is not the best thing to do
catchers break down and he has been around for awhile

bro...dont sleep on Jorge
I said the same thing about Pudge and Pudge has been around a LOT longer and he STILL got it. I think we can get another yr or 2, let a younger catcher come up under him like Jorge came up under Girardi
Jorge was this yrs. Joe Mauer

Allie

NY PJ1 wrote:

he is mid 30's and he will never have another year like this
so people will be overpaying him and we should not imo
signing him for long term at big money is not the best thing to do
catchers break down and he has been around for awhile

You don't know what he'll do next year
He's part of the old guard, a veteran, he can be a mentor

I don't think he should be signed long term either, maybe a 1 yr deal

Solat13

stickboy wrote:

bro...dont sleep on Jorge
I said the same thing about Pudge and Pudge has been around a LOT longer and he STILL got it. I think we can get another yr or 2, let a younger catcher come up under him like Jorge came up under Girardi
Jorge was this yrs. Joe Mauer

One thing you have to remember about Posada. He's 35, but a young 35 in catching terms. He's caught 700 fewer games than Pudge has. So he probably has a lot more in the tank than Pudge does even though they are the same age.

Allie

stickboy wrote:

w
heard them talkin bout it on Mike n Mike today..like they said...how will he hold up in this meida circus u know?
Girardi already knows what he has to deal with. He would be my top candidate hands down..One Joe passes the reigns over to the next Joe

agreed
but
I think Mattingly would do a good job also
he knows the players too and I think they might have a little bit more reverence for Donnie b/c of his history

some of these players like DJ and Jorgie have played with Joe, it might be a little weird for them to take orders from Joe G.
We'll see how it goes.