The 2008 New York Yankees

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  • Champagne Breakfast
    Champagne Breakfast Posts: 1,526
    Joba bringing the heat today. Gets outa bases loaded 0 outs jam with 2 big K's!!! (4 in the first 2 innings!)
    What the hell happened with Gonzalez being out at home?
    PJ - 36
    EV - 5
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    Champagne Breakfast wrote:
    Joba bringing the heat today. Gets outa bases loaded 0 outs jam with 2 big K's!!! (4 in the first 2 innings!)
    What the hell happened with Gonzalez being out at home?

    how many innings are they going to allow him to pitch today?
  • Champagne Breakfast
    Champagne Breakfast Posts: 1,526
    singularity wrote:
    how many innings are they going to allow him to pitch today?
    this is considered his first "full-time" start. which means I don't think he's really on a pitch count like he was before.

    now 5k's thru 3
    PJ - 36
    EV - 5
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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    he's allowed about 105 pitches today. Most pitchers get the hook shortly after 100
  • Champagne Breakfast
    Champagne Breakfast Posts: 1,526
    Joba's final line.....
    5.2 innings; 4 hits, 3 walks, 9 k's; 100 pitches
    PJ - 36
    EV - 5
    (**Letterman'02, Irving Plaza, Storytellers, Beacon, ACL, Spectrum 3&4, Bridge School '10**)

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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    great to win a 2-1 game. Always nice when you don't hit much, and win. For my money, there is absolutely nothing better in sports than Mariano Rivera coming into a daygame at Yankee Stadium to close it out. Something about the sun shining down on the Stadium.
  • Champagne Breakfast
    Champagne Breakfast Posts: 1,526
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    great to win a 2-1 game. Always nice when you don't hit much, and win. For my money, there is absolutely nothing better in sports than Mariano Rivera coming into a daygame at Yankee Stadium to close it out. Something about the sun shining down on the Stadium.
    Not to mention Mo striking out the side....

    40-33. Doesn't look too bad. Not great, but not bad (especially with all the injuries thus far).

    What was their record this time last year?
    PJ - 36
    EV - 5
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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    40-33 would have looked bad in Spring Training. It looks pretty damn good now. I have to say, I thought Giambi was done as a major leaguer, and Damon was done as a leadoff hitter.
  • NCBRI
    NCBRI Posts: 1,902
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    I don't know. Being a coach for over a decade and then a manager for four years, would he want to go to the minors. That being said, he might have to rebuild his reputation because no matter how badly the Mets botched his firing, he still has that collapse on his hands and that might not be convincing enough for future employers unless he proves it on a level such as the minors.


    I'd love to see him in pinstripes coaching 3B right away. Maybe next season.
    Brian
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    go padres.........we suck.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    7 straight eh..
  • myhook
    myhook Posts: 284
    Champagne Breakfast wrote:
    What was their record this time last year?
    Last year they were 35 - 33 on June 19th 07'. They were in 2nd place and 9 games back of Boston.
    Hey, you wouldn't hire a clown to fix a leak in the jon so why do you let these hooligans tear down the biz? YEEAAHHH. I don't care if he is Mr. Notorious BIG, can he croon?
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,631
    igotid88 wrote:
    http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/06/12/2008-06-12_ambidextrous_pitcher_pat_venditte_headed-2.html

    They showed a clip on Sportscenter of the S.I. Yanks vs. the Brooklyn Cyclones. And he was pitching against a switch-hitter. And everytime the batter tried switching sides. Pat switched the glove to his other hand. He finally struck him out and the batter slammed the bat.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,631
    They seemed destined to lose today. Robbed of hits. Not getting calls. But even tough Mussina didn't pitch great. He did go 8 innings. And saved the bullpen in case Geise can't go long.
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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    igotid88 wrote:
    They seemed destined to lose today. Robbed of hits. Not getting calls. But even tough Mussina didn't pitch great. He did go 8 innings. And saved the bullpen in case Geise can't go long.

    I thought Mussina pitched pretty good. Damon killed him with that "double" in the 5th. No way that should have been ruled a base hit. It hit him in the glove. The whole inning, and game, change if he catches that ball. To Damon's credit, I bet he said after the game that he should have caught it. (I haven't seen any coverage, I've been too wrapped up in my fantasy teams and Huston street coughing it up in the 8th and 9th innings tonight) Still, another great game by Mussina. Who would have thought he pitch into the 8th inning even once this year? Not me.
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,631
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    I thought Mussina pitched pretty good. Damon killed him with that "double" in the 5th. No way that should have been ruled a base hit. It hit him in the glove. The whole inning, and game, change if he catches that ball. To Damon's credit, I bet he said after the game that he should have caught it. (I haven't seen any coverage, I've been too wrapped up in my fantasy teams and Huston street coughing it up in the 8th and 9th innings tonight) Still, another great game by Mussina. Who would have thought he pitch into the 8th inning even once this year? Not me.

    Boston and Tampa lose finally and we can't gain. But didn't lose ground. But damn. Did you see the S.I. poll of MLB players on who's overrated. Jeter voted #1. And A-Rod was there also. A-rod overrated?
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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    igotid88 wrote:
    Boston and Tampa lose finally and we can't gain. But dodn't lose ground. But damn. Did you see the S.I. poll of MLB players on who's overrated. Jeter voted #1. And A-Rod was there also. A-rod overrated?

    Laughable. The previous week, the poll was: What player would you choose to start a team with:

    ARod was 1st, Jeter was 2nd.
  • NCBRI
    NCBRI Posts: 1,902
    igotid88 wrote:
    Boston and Tampa lose finally and we can't gain. But didn't lose ground. But damn. Did you see the S.I. poll of MLB players on who's overrated. Jeter voted #1. And A-Rod was there also. A-rod overrated?


    The Reds announcers were talking about that on the broadcast last night. Their take (and mine) is that it has a lot to do with how much money those guys are making when you look at the results of the poll. How else can you explain calling A-Rod overrated?

    That Volquez/Hamilton trade is looking like one hell of a deal for both the Reds and the Rangers.
    Brian
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,631
    NCBRI wrote:
    The Reds announcers were talking about that on the broadcast last night. Their take (and mine) is that it has a lot to do with how much money those guys are making when you look at the results of the poll. How else can you explain calling A-Rod overrated?

    That Volquez/Hamilton trade is looking like one hell of a deal for both the Reds and the Rangers.

    yea. but even if you go by how much they make. A-Rod has lived up to his contract compared to other overpaid players.
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  • NCBRI
    NCBRI Posts: 1,902
    igotid88 wrote:
    yea. but even if you go by how much they make. A-Rod has lived up to his contract compared to other overpaid players.


    They are all overpaid in my book, but those guys are over the $20 mill. per year mark and some people get caught up in those numbers too much. A player's salary has nothing to do with how they play on the field especially when you look at the Yankees roster. You hear a lot of naysayers point to the Yankee payroll and say they should win the WS every year. That's not a very logical argument. Just because they treat their players better in monetary compensation doesn't mean that they have the best team. It is still about what the player does when he is actually out there on the field.

    But you are right about A-Rod in relationship to other players. I'm not sure how anyone could refer to the best player in the game as overrated.


    BTW..........damn Reds. I thought we were catching a break by missing Harang this series, but those kids have shut us down. It looks like Geise pitched really well yesterday which is a good sign though.
    Brian

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