You don’t have to make be serious to make sense. That shit was dumb, end of story.
Meh, I REALLY wanted the Yankees to get swept. Oh well, all pressure is on them, gotta bang out 2 in a row now. Think I’m gonna take the Rockies from here on out. Although I’m pretty certain Boston will do it.
Fair enough.
On another note, what the hell is up with Damon’s hair in his post-game comments? I thought I was looking at the actor for Vegeta in a live-action DBZ movie. Comb that shit, Johnny.
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Nah, just Lou. He fucked up by taking Zambrano out in the 6th when he was only at pitch number 85. Lord knows how that game would have ended where it could have gone.
Johnny Damon has been the Raging Demon of the Yankee offense. 2 HRs and 5 RBIs. The bats are waking up. And I still think Cleveland pitching is shitty. Funny how they all think Sabathia was the shit when he clearly was pitching LIKE shit.
Wang will have his stuff tonight, though. And Phil Hughes > *. The man is living up to this nickname of ‘Jesus’.
Love this shit. Jeter has been pure shit all series until tonight, and finished hitting A-Rod has at least been productive and/or hitting the ball hard the whole series. And if the Yankees lose, people will still talk shit about A-Rod and nobody will say SHIT about Jeter sucking it up until the last minute.
Just like in the '04 NLCS against the Red Sox when people first started giving A-Rod shit about not being clutch. Jeter hit .200 in that series and could barely get a ball out of the damn infield, but A-Rod got all the blame for it.
Just goes to show what I’ve always said: that the A-Rod hate has little, if anything, to do with production on the field, and that Yankees fans in general should castrate themselves. The same people that say he should be held to a higher standard because of his paycheck are too stupid to realize that the Yankees pay three of his teammates more than him. Clemens’s mercenary ass has been mediocre for 28 million prorated, but he gets a pass. Jeter always gets off based on being on the team when the Yanks won championships, and credited with all sorts of winning intangibles, even though those same supernatural abilities have gotten him exactly shit since 2000. For some reason people haven’t caught onto the fact that Melky Cabrera has no fucking business getting 550+ plate appearances in any season in the major leagues, much less playing CENTER FIELD, because he’s kind of awful. But they’re cool with him anyway. Giambi does steroids and is hurt half the time, but he only got shit for a little while, then he got congratulated for admitting it…kind of. But if they fall off, it’s always A-Rod’s fault.
so long Yankees, 6-4 Indians in the end.
Red Sox vs Diamondbacks in the World Series, Boston taking it, thats what im hoping for.
so, so long Joe Torre?
I’ll be the first to say it.
Fuck you Derek “Mr Double Play” Jeter.
Yankkes fans can rejoice knowing your team still didn’t get ass rape swept in an embarrasing fashion by the Red Soxs.
… I swear to god, you figure the only team with such a great record against the Yankees would do good against the Sox… NOOOOO!!! Dodgers blow, Padre’s choke, and Angels get raped. Bad year for southern california baseball.
Red Sox All The Way Wooo!!!
Here’s a tip for the Yankees. Rebuild. When you spend 3-4 times what you’re competition spends on players and you have less to show for it than the others there’s a problem.
i have a tip for the yankees too. PITCHERS. pitchers. PITCHERS.
Yeah, another tip for the Yankees: If you’re going to overpay, overpay on good, young players. I laughed out loud at the Yankees signing Damon to 13 mil per when he was a 32 year old CF with a broken ramen noodle for an arm, marginal power, and decent speed–none of which are likely to stick around as he ages. And now he’s playing in LF while Melky Cabrera–MELKY CABRERA!!!–patrols center. So the Yankees have a .757 OPS corner outfielder. In his second year. And it’s only going to get worse.
What’s particularly awesome about that deal is that they signed him basically to replace their former star CF, Bernie Williams, who, at 36, had declined too much to be effective. So in comes Damon, signed…through age 36. And he ain’t nearly as good as Bernie in his prime.
More specifically, pitchers who are not 70.
I actually think it would be best for both parties if ARod does opt out and sign elsewhere. Not because that would make the Yankees better, but because it would make them worse. Then they might eventually realize they need to build a more balanced team over more than a single offseason by signing whatever name player is available at the time. Guys like Hughes, Cano, and Wang are your building blocks now. Rather than trading for Shawn Chacon and Bobby Abreu, you should be pursuing the Uptons and Cabreras (the good Cabrera in Florida, not the shitty Cabreras elsewhere) of the world.
It’s all a part of the rebuilding process. I doubt that they’ll have a choice this offseason. A-rod’s likely gone. Clemens and maybe Petitte will retire. Rivera and Posada are both free agents. Joe Torre’s situation is well known by now. Next year’s Yankees team could be vastly different from the 2007 edition.
George forgot he won all those WS in the late 90s because he had team players. He didnt have a bunch of all stars but a bunch of guys who knew how to play and were willing to play together.
Jae Hoon is the only one here making good sense. I mean, if I was Warpticon, I’d go off on a tangent if I was suffering from 100 years of stink(go Cubs!). But yeah, they just have to rebuild. The team isn’t exactly the shittiest, but they are going in the right direction. Hughes, Cano, Joba, Melky and Wang are the future.
And no, this isn’t A-Rod’s fault at all. He had a pretty solid post season. Not as spectacular as I predicted(that went to Johnny Damon, amazingly). And I do see Pettite coming back next season. He still has good stuff. Nothing wrong with him at all. It’s definitely time for Mussina to give it up, but his contract says otherwise(for one more year, anyway).
@ The Granby: Yeah, no. Yankees actually did well against the Red Sox this year for a team that was really sucking hard. It would have been another neck and neck series, but I saw the Yankees edging that one out.
Oh well, I say keep Torre.
Are you serious? Do you know who Lou replaced Zambrano with? Did everyone say, “Oh man, not THIS guy, Marmol, he sucks ass!”
I fail to see how Lou “fucked up”, considering Marmol is the BEST reliever in the NL that ISN’T A CLOSER. Lou stuck to his gameplan of 3 starters (which isn’t necessarily the best plan, but it was a 5 game series so it was “doable”), and gave the ball to Marmol. He wanted to keep Zambrano fresh to stick to his “3 starter” rotation plan, which is again… fine. Marmol picked a VERY bad time to get cold, plain and simple.
And STILL, even IF Zambrano stayed in the game, it still would’ve been A TIE GAME. It would’ve meant that the Cubs needed to SCORE MORE RUNS, in which they were terribily anemic of, in this series. They just didn’t drive in runs when they needed to, period. Would they have scored more runs if Zambrano stayed in? We’ll never know, for sure. But with the way Soriano-Lee-Ramirez were swinging the entire series? I am inclined to think that “No, it wouldn’t have made a difference if Zambrano stayed in”.
But to blame this on Lou? The idea of “Putting Marmol in and taking Zambrano out” is bad decision in… HINDSIGHT. If Marmol had shut them down, and the Cubs gained a run for the lead (and the win), you would be calling Lou a GENIUS. No offense, but your conclusion reeks of bad baseball intelligence.
(fuck, I cannot believe I’m defending the Cubs, I’m a White Sox fan 
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85 pitches. He had about 20 or 30 pitches left in him. And with the way he was pitching, that was basically 2 more innings for him. Thinking about game 4 is just ridiculous. He had to go one game at a time, and if you’re looking to take game 1, then obviously your best starter is gonna be there because you never know what will happen. It’s a hard call, but it’s still 50/50.
But yeah, the bats did fall asleep and that’s what hurt the Cubs even more. I was shocked at how Soriano turned out in the playoffs.
I’d agree with you if a) Zambrano hadn’t been maddeningly inconsistent the last two games, and b) if he didn’t regularly pitch 110+ effectively. Bad Zambrano is bad. Good Zambrano is amazing. that’s been the story of this season. When he’s going, you leave him out there until he can’t go anymore.
Yes, Marmol is a freaking beast, which is that much more reason not to put him in if you don’t have to. You can’t pitch him every game, so save him for when you need him. 4th game prep doesn’t matter if there IS no 4th game. Definitely not down with that move on any level.
Wait, wait, wait. MELKY is the future? The same Melky that OPS’d .718 this year? Same guy that has all of 15 homers in over 1000 big league at-bats and had a whopping .769 OPS in the minors, as a corner outfielder? Help me out here. What exactly is Melky good at? He’s the classic 4th OF space holder.
So yeah, guess it doesn’t matter anymore anyway. Yankees are done, and if I was Torre I’d be hoping to be fired cause there is no way putting up with that money crazy idiot Steinbrenner could be fun.
As for the LCS series, I’ve got Cleveland in 6 and Rockies in 6, with Cleveland winning the whole thing. I like Cleveland’s one-two punch of Carmona/Sabathia a lot more than anything else the rest of the teams left have. The next Best thing is Beckett/Schilling, with Schilling being up and down this season. So yeah, Cleveland gets their first WS since the 40’s. Go Indians!