Agreed but its not just the guys talking, who speak like theyve never watched baseball before, at least one of them hasnt anyway, its the tech crew too. I mean last night they actually switched over to the TB game and it wasnt a gamebreak or anything just boop your watching a diff game now and the yankees arent on any channel. We pretty much missed that great catch by swisher because they were to busy showing us a replay of a routine double play, nothing special. I heard one of the announcers last night say in the ninth inning at the very beginning of Detroits little rally that "It is now a 9-1 ballgame..." you fucking retard that 1 run was the first run scored in the game FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE! Nobody crossed the plate. And countless other false stament just so they can expell hot gasses from their useless skin sacks.
No, I'm not kidding. Every time that over-payer POS steps up in a big situation he shits the bed. I get it, he had a great 2009, but since then he has been a professional stat-padder. He only hits HRs up 6 runs or down 8 runs. Bum!
While I'm certainly not going to applaud the "ARod's a bum" idea, he hasn't been hitting. At all. I get that he hasn't been healthy, but he's getting paid way too much to hit nothing at all. Tex too. The debacle of game 1 is going to kill us. I get that Verlander wasn't allowing hits, but his pitch count was already high, and it looked like CC was CC that night. The lineup could have outlasted Verlander, leaving Nova to have pitched game 2 rather than Garcia. That said, I don't hold anything against Garcia. 3 runs were his fault. The fourth was Girardi overmanaging again. You know you have CC Monday, you only used Rivera for 3 pitches on Saturday. So you bring in Logan a batter too late, then go with Ayala and Wade in a tight ballgame? Are Girardi defenders taking his side today too? How about PH Chavez for Gardner? If you're trying to get a run on the board and you're going to pinch hit for Gardner anyway, why not Jones? Girardi's explanation of Ayala was that it was a 4 run game and they still have 3 more games in the series. Really Joe? 4 runs is insurmountable for this team? Someone may want to remind him that the regular season is over. The tomorrows run out here. Now everything rides on CC and AJ.
I'd say we won the last world series because of Matsui, A-rod helped and if you read up I gave him that much credit, but since 2009 hes been a steaming pile of shit.
they can take verlander down, i just hate when they go to sleep at the plate against pitchers they should be eating for lunch. Let's face it, the Yanks are gonna have to slug their way out of this. Yes the two best pitchers are going today, but they have to hit in game 4 bigtime, win or lose today.
That's really what it comes down to. The Yankees aren't built to outduel the elite pitching in the playoffs. They're built to slug so much that it doesn't make a difference what the starter does. If you had told me Freddy Garcia would hold Detroit to 3 runs before needing to be pulled mid-6th, I'd have signed up for it right away. Poor managerial decisions put the Yankees in a position to lose yesterday, but still, the lineup should never have put us in that position in the first place.
Or Montero. I do think the Girardi criticism has gotten a little out of hand today. Garcia was on a roll, Jeter made a bad error, and Ordonez hit him like he always does. Should he go to his big three to get 11 outs in a game the team is losing by three runs? That's a little desperate, imo. I think it sends the wrong message. If it works out, you're still down three (they did score three runs, but you can't assume the Tigers have the same mind set with a smaller lead in a playoff game). If not, you lose a game that you manage like an elimination game. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and if you believe in this sort of thing, it gives the Tigers unnecessary momentum. Girardi wasn't too good yesterday. I probably would've gone to Soriano in the 9th. But some of the hate I've heard is ridiculous. I've been pretty happy with Girardi for a few months now, I think this is the best he's been since '08. Yesterday he needed to be a balanced manager, not too desperate or relaxed, and he was definitely the latter. But I'm damn glad he wasn't the former. EDIT: I don't feel good about Game 3 tonight, for the record. But I'm still glad Girardi wasn't managing too aggressively in Game 2.
