I think theres only 5 or so teams in baseball with worse records than the yankees. And noone answered me yesterday....did we skip Rasner because he had pitched too well in his previous starts? I guess hgh boy needs his regular spot
obviously they think Dandy is better than Rasner. Only Detroit and Seattle have worse records in the AL. In the NL, Washington, San Fran, San Diego, and Colorado are worse.
I'm actually kind of anxious to wake up in the morning and see if junc says 1 of 2 things... 1. How are the Torre haters looking now? 2. Remember, this team started 21-29 last season, it's still early.
I was saying for you guys to do that in the offseason and go through some growing pains with younger guys making up the core of the team. The Yankees apparently are too good for that and Hughes and Kennedy haven't been anywhere close as anybody projected. .500 between the two of them would have been a good start but do either one of them have a win yet? The saving grace for you guys is that everybody else in the AL seems to not be that great either. I still think Boston will win the AL East but when the smoke clears an 85 win Yankee team could be right in the mix for the WC. I'm not saying this was anything special by the Mets because they need to be somewhat more consistent instead of losing 3 of 4 to Washington in Queens. We'll see what they do going foward. BTW what are they gonna do about the rained out game? Maybe play a day game @ Yankee Stadium and a night game @ Shea in the same day. That would be pretty awesome. I think they did that once before.
Hey jonny. I was out all weekend, just like I said I'd be. (I've got a training class all week from 8am until 8pm, with a 2 hour drive each way, so I won't be seeing my kids all week. I spent the weekend with them. Saw Iron Man. Much better than wasting my time with the Yankees! I was in bed @ 8:30 last night, so I missed the game last night too.) I read through the thread. What can you say? In a battle of two underperforming teams, the Mets were far superior. I don't know how Cashman is somehow to blame for this bullshit. He's getting blamed for Giambi? For Igawa? Both of those moves were mandated by Steinbrenner. As for not trading for Santana, how good has he really been? Yeah, he's been better than Hughes/Kennedy, but has he been good enough to warrant also having given up Melky, plus a top-level minor leaguer? Because every frigging time I see the conversation go back to the non-Santana trade, I always see the people who are mad about it conveniently leave those pieces out. Not to mention, it's still early in the careers of Hughes and Kennedy. As I've said before, I don't think the return of ARod and Posada is going to fix anything. Unless Alex can once again carry this team for a month or two, it's just going to be one more guy in the lineup left unprotected. Ah well. A missed playoffs was something I said I'd be okay with in the offseason, and I'm not going back on that now. This team is finally getting younger, and after many of these overpriced contracts for old men come off the books in November, we can finally start fixing this team.
Did Pettitte pitch poorly? He left down 3-2? The pen blew that one, it was Wang that was awful this weekend.
Santana is actually doing well...And for his entire career, he has always been a much better 2nd half pitcher. 28 years old.
steinbrenner did not tell cashman to go sign igawa. im sure he told him to go get a jap like dice k...but he didnt say go get igawa
If Santana was pitching for us the way he has pitched SO FAR for the Mets the Yankee fans and media would be going berserk. He hasn't been bad but he hasn't been dominant yet either and they traded for a dominant pitcher. You are right he is a 2nd half pitcher but let's not froget he had a bad 2nd half last year.
Hughes. Kennedy. Cabrera. Top-level prospect. He ain't that good. Plus, he's pitching in the NL now (where most players have yet to face him). Let's see when he faces a few more AL teams, and gets to pitch against the same NL teams a couple times. So every single move has to work out? If scouting were that easy, the Yankees would win the title every year, simply by being able to buy the guys who were going to perform the best that year. You're just being ridiculous.
when did I say every move has to work ouot? we were talking about igawa. while we're on the subject, can you point out to me a couple cahman moves that HAVE actually worked out? gimme brian cashmans's top three accomoplishments.
Right, and on the flip side, one of the benefits 162 games season is that it rarely allows teams with talent to tank an entire season. Eventually, they string together enough to meet their level of talent. But I have a serious question for Yankee fans: If the Yankees don't put start building something strong by late-June, does Girardi make it out of the All-Star break? I mean, seeing Steinbrenner Jr. acting like Steinbrenner Sr. (of old), something will have to give. No?
What more do you want to see? He won 2 Cy Young Awards in the AL. Hughes/Kennedy/Melky...The only one that would hurt me is Melk, because that'd mean Damon in Center, but as bad as the pitching was BEFORE the season, you have to make the move...And the top-level may have been Jose Tabata, somebody I want to hang onto at all costs to slide right in RF once Abreu is gone. Minny would've taken some other top prospect, it's not like the Mets gave up Humber or a TOP Prospect...
Well, since 2006, he is 50-26 with an ERA of 2.99 and struckout 718 batters in 684 innings and opposing teams have a combined batting average of .217. This year he is 5-2 and he always has pitched better in the second half of the season. Additionally this year, because of rainouts and schedule he has pitched on "normal" 4 days rest only once.
Few observations from last night. Yankee Stadium is a dungeon. The monuments were neat, but other then that and the nostalgia factor what the hell is the big deal about that place? From where I was sitting in the lower part of the upper deck behind 1st base I didn't even have a good sightline down the line into the corner. The concourses are worse then Shea, and that's saying a lot. Same for the cramped ass bathrooms. Being my 1st time at the Stadium I didn't quite know where my seats were. At Shea as soon as you come out of the tunnel into the seating area there's a nice person in a bright orange and blue jacket who will show you where your seat is if you don't know. I didn't see one person I could identify as an usher last night. I found my seat, but it would of been nice to have some help. Also, seemed to me Yankee Stadium security was basically NYPD. At Shea its 2 cops and 10 security people. At Yankee Stadium that ratio is reversed. Especially during that fracas in upper right field after the 7th. Bob Sheppard misprounced "Delgado" and Called Marlon Anderson "Marion". Maybe that old geezer should hang it up. From what I saw last night, I cant imagine why Yankee fans who actually go to the games wouldn't want to be out of that building ASAP. Props to the bleachers, they actually stayed the whole game. The rest of the Yankee "diehards" were gone by the 7th. The stadium was mostly Met fans in the 9th. No Yankee fans I was sitting around admitted it was a fair ball on the home run...even after the text messages started coming in from the outside world saying that the replay was conclusive. If you're a fan of the game, you want the umps to rule correctly...even if it might hurt your team. It like that bullshit phantom TD Testaverde scored against Seattle when only his helmet and not the ball crossed the goal line. Who the hell wants to win like that. A lot of fights, more then I've seen at Shea during subway series games, but who knows who was starting it. As for the game. Oliver Perez, who knew. The DH sucks. Nice to see some clutch hitting with men on. Bring on Atlanta.
