Wouldn't be the 1st time the team got real old real quick and failed to compete. Of course the last two times it happened, it resulted in multi-year stretch of abysmal finishes. Conicedently the Mets during the same time frames won championships while the Yankees struggled to make the post season (69,86)
It being a rainy Sunday and no Mets on TV, I decided to watch the Yankee game. They do look like an old tired team. Listening to the announcers on YES is like listening to somebody describe a funeral. Give me exciting Mets baseball anyday over that garbage, and listening to SNY with Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling.
failed to compete? The Yankees had the game in hand. Personally,i'm not that upset with the injuries to the starters,because hopefully some guys will be called up and start the youth movement in our rotation. Petitte is pitching well, Wang will be back and has already proven to be solid. The jury is still out on Igawa. The line up is more than fine so i'm not worried. The Yanks are more likely to make the post season than the mets imo.
I don't think you can call them a team that fails to compete. Take todays game, for example. They were down until, I think the 7th inning. Posada came through the clutch (as he has been doing all season), and the team got the necessary sac-flies and whatnot. It's unfortunate that Rivera couldn't hold the save. If you look at other games (and the season as a whole), you would see they do compete. They mail fail to win at times, but I don't think they never compete.
It's far too early to be worrying about this team. The only thing we should be worrying about right now is this strength and conditioning coach who is obviously doing a shitty job.
And if the best closer in baseball history didn't blow one of a few that he blows every year, no one would be talking about them being "old and tired" today. It's April 15 people. People were saying the Yankee playoff run was over in May of 2005, and they ended up winning the division. Let's hold off on saying they're going nowhere.
Another big thing is the farm system has a great deal of good, young pitchers (Hughes, Clippard, Ohlendorf, Wright, Kenard, Kennedy, Chamberlain, Betances to name a few). Within a year or two, most of those pitchers will either be in the majors or bonafide blue chip prospects. Then we will see less and less of the "old tired" Yankees, and see a young, exciting team
I thought 2005 was our 1965, 1982? Then it was last year that the topic was brought up again. Met fans will reach for anything.
This is actually pretty funny. Fail to compete? Without their best pitcher and Matsui for the first 11 games they are currently 1 1/2 games out of first. What that should tell you is what a runaway it will be when everybody is back.
The only way the Yankees will have another streak like that is if the Steinbrenner family sells the Yankees back to CBS.
20 of them before most current Yankee fans were born. Of course when you're spending the current season look up at Baltimore, Tampa Bay, and Toronto...not to mention the Red Sox in the standings I could see why it makes sense to reach back to past achievements that have nothing to do with this year.
6 is more than 2, right? and only 1 of the Mets titles happened when most current Met fans were born so 6 is better than 1, right?
You mean ancient history? Who cares. Thats as meaningful to me now as the Jets winning the Super Bowl in 1970.
