2007 Yankees

JSBE · July 2007

Allie02 wrote:

well at least now we're only 7 1/2 back. Big Papi is hurt and if we keep things up, I feel optimistic about our chances to regain 1st place, as long as they stay scrappy and keep fighting.
I think it's going to be an interesting 2nd half.

1st place? easy. for a team that just got back over .500 a week ago, you sure are jumping the gun. you beat the crap out of the d-rays this weekend. sox still have 15 games to play against them, btw. papi will be out a couple days and will probably play wed/thurs in cleveland.

since june 1st (which was the first game of the series the last time the sox and yanks played each other) the sox have been playing horrible (17-23) and the yanks have been very hot at 30-17. although the thing that should concern you (not me, because it makes me happy) is that you're barely getting 5-6 innings out of your starters. moose couldn't get out of the 5th the other night and desalvo couldn't get out of the 5th last night either.

i would LOVE it it cashman was dumb enough to trade away proctor or farnsworth. you get rid of either one of those guys and the bullpen will be in big trouble.

if the yanks keep playing this way i can definitely see them gunning for a shot at the wild card, but even then it will be tough since the mariners have been hot lately (2 games out of the wild card) and the tigers and indians are neck and neck and probably will be for some time (i think the wild card will be the 'loser' of those two teams). the twins are only 1/2 game behind the yanks for the wild card too.

NCBRI · July 2007

The Yanks can't worry about what other teams are doing. They have to stay focused on winning ballgames on a consistent basis. If they do that, then good things will happen in the standings.

Allie · July 2007

JSBE wrote:

1st place? easy. for a team that just got back over .500 a week ago, you sure are jumping the gun. you beat the crap out of the d-rays this weekend. sox still have 15 games to play against them, btw. papi will be out a couple days and will probably play wed/thurs in cleveland.

since june 1st (which was the first game of the series the last time the sox and yanks played each other) the sox have been playing horrible (17-23) and the yanks have been very hot at 30-17. although the thing that should concern you (not me, because it makes me happy) is that you're barely getting 5-6 innings out of your starters. moose couldn't get out of the 5th the other night and desalvo couldn't get out of the 5th last night either.

i would LOVE it it cashman was dumb enough to trade away proctor or farnsworth. you get rid of either one of those guys and the bullpen will be in big trouble.

if the yanks keep playing this way i can definitely see them gunning for a shot at the wild card, but even then it will be tough since the mariners have been hot lately (2 games out of the wild card) and the tigers and indians are neck and neck and probably will be for some time (i think the wild card will be the 'loser' of those two teams). the twins are only 1/2 game behind the yanks for the wild card too.

Ah, ye of little faith

You must be a Red Sox fan. This is the Yankee thread so may I suggest you go

> thata way...
We are designed for dramatic comebacks. Do I need to remind you about Bucky Dent? Or Aaron Boone?

Puh-leeze, if we stay scoring 21 runs, we don't need to worry about quality starting pitching

Allie · July 2007

igotid88 wrote:

He's too young for you.

Wow, can you take a hint? Do I ever respond to anything you say? Um, no, I don't and I'm done being polite about it or politely ignoring it.

The question was directed at Xavier, NOT at you. You're like borderline obsessive and it's creepy.

Allie · July 2007

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

nope, most tv guys are annoying. they stick their microphones in and their camara guys never say excuse me when they bump into you. the exception is the YES Network at Yankee games and SNY at the Met games. (i apologize in advance to anyone in TV production since not everyone is like that). A lot of times, you get better answers from guys like Jeter once the TV people are finished.

Hmm. Interesting.
Well next time you holler at DJ tell him you know some cute girl from Queens that wants to meet him and make him dinner

Michael Kay is the most annoying human being, possibly ever. He talks just to hear the sound of his own voice.

xavier mcdaniel · July 2007

I'll agree with you on Kay. Friday night he questioned two official scoring plays that were ruled errors and said on the air that a fifth umpire should be the official scorer. There's a couple of problems with that.

One is that the official scorer enforces the rules in terms of errors, unearned runs and so on and the umpires are there for judgement calls balls, strikes and so on.

Two is that a lot of umpires are very sensistive. I'm sure an umpire who is an official scorer would be that way if a team complains about an error in the ninth inning of a blowout.

Allie · July 2007

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

I'll agree with you on Kay. Friday night he questioned two official scoring plays that were ruled errors and said on the air that a fifth umpire should be the official scorer. There's a couple of problems with that.

One is that the official scorer enforces the rules in terms of errors, unearned runs and so on and the umpires are there for judgement calls balls, strikes and so on.

Two is that a lot of umpires are very sensistive. I'm sure an umpire who is an official scorer would be that way if a team complains about an error in the ninth inning of a blowout.

well I didn't see the plays or the game so I can't adequately comment
but the official scorer is also usually biased towards the home team anyway

He just likes the sound of his own voice and he's never actually played the game, so he comes up with these cockamamie ideas. He had a fight on air with Joe Girardi one time. It gets so bad that sometimes when I watch I put the game on mute just to hear it in peace

xavier mcdaniel · July 2007

Allie02 wrote:

well I didn't see the plays or the game so I can't adequately comment
but the official scorer is also usually biased towards the home team anyway

He just likes the sound of his own voice and he's never actually played the game, so he comes up with these cockamamie ideas. He had a fight on air with Joe Girardi one time. It gets so bad that sometimes when I watch I put the game on mute just to hear it in peace

in many other towns but definitely not in new york.

but here are some notable items from the game:

- was the 25th time they scored 20 runs
- the 38 runs in the last two games is two shy of the team record for the highest total in consecutive game. That was set May 23-24, 1936 at Philadelphia
-largest margin of victory since a 19-1 win at Baltimore on July 25, 2000
- first time they recorded 20 hits in back to back games
- the first time since July 21, 2005 at Texas they hit six home runs
- shelly duncan is the first Yankee to hit three home runs in his first six at-bats since 1947.
- matsui has homered in three straight games for the second time with the Yankees. He also did it 9/29-9/30/2004 vs. Minnesota.

likepilateihaveadog · July 2007

Duncan is the new Shane Spencer.

And that's a good thing.

Allie · July 2007

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

in many other towns but definitely not in new york.

but here are some notable items from the game:

- was the 25th time they scored 20 runs
- the 38 runs in the last two games is two shy of the team record for the highest total in consecutive game. That was set May 23-24, 1936 at Philadelphia
-largest margin of victory since a 19-1 win at Baltimore on July 25, 2000
- first time they recorded 20 hits in back to back games
- the first time since July 21, 2005 at Texas they hit six home runs
- shelly duncan is the first Yankee to hit three home runs in his first six at-bats since 1947.
- matsui has homered in three straight games for the second time with the Yankees. He also did it 9/29-9/30/2004 vs. Minnesota.

You don't think the Yanks scorers are biased towards home cooking? Come on!

Where do you dig all these stats up? I was wondering if the 21 runs was a record. That was crazy. How many pitchers gave up the 10 runs in the inning they were scored? What was it, the 4th, or the 5th?

xavier mcdaniel · July 2007

they were on the postgame notes. and i don't think they are biased, i sit right next to them and i see them looking at the best replay possible to make the call and many times on the Yes Network the angles are not that good.

NCBRI · July 2007

Was such a rout today that I watched most of the HBO documentary on the Brooklyn Dodgers between innings. I stopped it every so often to check in on the game and was amazed that the game was still on and not much "baseball time" had elapsed. I did turn back in time to see Leiter talking about how he actually gets questions about whether or not he was partly responsible for Kazmir getting traded or Valentine getting fired when he was with the Mets. The documentary, btw, is excellent stuff. I reccomend it to anyone who is a baseball fan, but especially those in the New York area.

BetterManningNYG · July 2007

NCBRI wrote:

I did turn back in time to see Leiter talking about how he actually gets questions about whether or not he was partly responsible for Kazmir getting traded or Valentine getting fired when he was with the Mets.

dude... that was crazy. al leiter really went off on the mets' organization. he basically implied that that they tried to blame him for the kazmir trade, and that now mets fans hate him because of it. he said it spoke volumes about the "sad state of the organization" that they would operate in such a way.

i don't know the whole story, obviously, but i was pretty shocked that he would go on a rant like that in the middle of a YES broadcast.

igotid88 · July 2007

Allie02 wrote:

Wow, can you take a hint? Do I ever respond to anything you say? Um, no, I don't and I'm done being polite about it or politely ignoring it.

The question was directed at Xavier, NOT at you. You're like borderline obsessive and it's creepy.

What are you talking about? what hint? You do respond to some of what I say. When have you ever been polite? If I was metsfan(no offense) you wouldn't say this. I was just joking with you. And that was not being obsessive. Why does everyone read too much into what I say or write?

Gary Carter · July 2007

BetterManningNYG wrote:

dude... that was crazy. al leiter really went off on the mets' organization. he basically implied that that they tried to blame him for the kazmir trade, and that now mets fans hate him because of it. he said it spoke volumes about the "sad state of the organization" that they would operate in such a way.

i don't know the whole story, obviously, but i was pretty shocked that he would go on a rant like that in the middle of a YES broadcast.

i dont hate leiter at all, the kazmir thing was cause of peterson saying he wasnt ready.sounds like leiter is bitter for the way the mets let him go or he was thinking he'd get a job on sny

BetterManningNYG · July 2007

metsfan531941 wrote:

i dont hate leiter at all, the kazmir thing was cause of peterson saying he wasnt ready.sounds like leiter is bitter for the way the mets let him go or he was thinking he'd get a job on sny

yeah, that had been my understanding. peterson wasn't really a big kazmir fan. i don't know where the rest of this stuff came from.

leiter definitely came across as bitter. it was a weird rant.

Gary Carter · July 2007

igotid88 wrote:

What are you talking about? what hint? You do respond to some of what I say. When have you ever been polite? If I was metsfan(no offense) you wouldn't say this. I was just joking with you. And that was not being obsessive. Why does everyone read too much into what I say or write?

why u brining me into this for

Gary Carter · July 2007

BetterManningNYG wrote:

yeah, that had been my understanding. peterson wasn't really a big kazmir fan. i don't know where the rest of this stuff came from.

leiter definitely came across as bitter. it was a weird rant.

was this todays game.thats really shocking he'd do that, oh well

igotid88 · July 2007

BetterManningNYG wrote:

yeah, that had been my understanding. peterson wasn't really a big kazmir fan. i don't know where the rest of this stuff came from.

leiter definitely came across as bitter. it was a weird rant.

It's been talked about on the broadcast in the past a couple of times before. I think even on Michael Kay's radio show also. I like Kazmir. He is being wasted in Tampa Bay.

igotid88 · July 2007

metsfan531941 wrote:

why u brining me into this for

I'm just saying you would've been treated better. If you had said something worse. I'm just going by what you have said you've written in the past. I didn't mean anything bad by it. Just saying that everything I say gets looked at differently. Sort of Like A-Rod.

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