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Girardi offends baseball gods, costs Yankees series?
Normally, I’m not one to want to fire a manager mid-season, let alone mid-playoffs, but this year I would honestly consider making an exception. Now I know, I know he won a world series last year. But we’re not Detroit fans, we are fans of the New York Yankees! I realize that if everything went exactly right, the Yankees could still have lost this series. I realize that the Rangers are probably better than the Yankees as a sum of its parts than the Yankees.
Posted in Joe Girardi, Yankees, managers
Tagged alcs, Baseball, mistakes, Postseason Baseball, Yankees
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Great Quote #6
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
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Trade Deadline Thoughts. It’s about potential
So the trade deadline has come and gone. The Yankees were extremely active. But are they better than they were two weeks ago?
The simple answer is yes. We’re certainly not worse. Every player we got, we got for a song and a dance. I actually heard a guy on the radio today moaning and complaining about the unfairness of the Yankees situation.
Here’s the thing, Berkman, Kearns, and Wood are not the players most people probably think of when they first hear the names. They are serviceable. They will do steady work. They may even get really hot at some point in the next three months. But they don’t make the Yankees significantly better. What these acquisitions do more than anything else is keep these players off of the Rays and Red Sox.
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Contraction: An Opening Argument
Contraction.
I know, it’s a dirty word. Merely saying it to some people causes their eyes to bulge and their stomachs to contract with copious amounts of acid.
But this post starts my argument for it. Anyone who has been around me for any amount of time knows that I consider the National League to be mostly quad A ball. That is to say that it is barely a step above triple A ball. I recently heard Vince Scully say that we have “watered our summer wine.” He went on to say that he thought we were trotting out 3 or 4 teams each night that are nothing more than AAA teams.
Why!!! The Javier Vazquez deal just stinks
Seriously, why did we trade for Javier Vazquez? I want to think that Brian Cashman is a smart guy and defend him when people talk about his stupid moves in the past.
I want to tell them that George Steinbrenner made him do those stupid moves and as the owner of the tea, he has the right to make stupid decisions. I may not like it, but that’s the owner. He can do what he wants with his money. But then he goes and trades Melky for Javy.
I said then that I didn’t get it (I didn’t have this blog then, so you’re going to have to trust me here) and I don’t understand it today. I mean, I know that Melky is not exactly a future Hall of Famer, he’s not going to be a guy that makes the 100 greatest Yankees of all time, but honestly are we a better team today because of this trade? No. Are the Braves? Yes.
It just doesn’t look like Javier Vazquez can pitch in the bright lights of New York. Why fight that? Why try to change reality? Are we going to trade Gardy for Jeff Weaver next? Somehow, I doubt it.
Posted in Javier Vazquez, Pitchers, Players
Tagged Bad Trades, Baseball, Brian Cashman, Javier Vazquez, Yankees
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9 Reasons Joe West Is Wrong
In my conversations about Joe West and his inappropriate comments I am hearing a lot of “I agree with him.”
But that misses the point of my post on why Joe should be suspended. The point isn’t whether or not we agree with Joe, the point is that MLB has had a long standing policy of not allowing players or managers to talk badly about umpires, even when everyone including the umpires end up agreeing with them. Managers have been fined and suspended for much less. This isn’t about whether or not anyone thinks the games need to be faster (personally, I think that idea is laughable and very reactionary) but whether or not anyone can make disparaging remarks about other members of the MLB fraternity. To this point, MLB home office has said no.
Brian Cashman Proves D’nile isn’t just a river
So I’m on my way home from work today, just minding my own business. Did the little run to the store for some coffee and other essentials. I get out to my car, turn on the radio.
What do I hear?
I hear Brian Cashman being quoted as saying that Joba is a “starter that happens to be in the bullpen right now.” Really? I mean I’m one of those guys that used to defend Cash and say that a lot of his stupid moves were because of the George’s meddling, but now I don’t know. He just doesn’t seem connected to reality.
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MLB passes the Anti-Yankee Rule?
Major League Baseball passed a new post-season rule today. They have eliminated the day off between games 4 and 5 of the League Championship series (LCS).
The post season is just too long! Too much time off. Last year, the Yankees and Phillies had 14 and 17 days off during the regular season respectively.
During the off-season guess how many games off they had? ***Wait for it***
***Gasp***
14 days!!!
***Shudder***CRY***SHOW ANGST***
2010 Preview in Brief: Milwaukee Brewers
Can I be honest; I want to like the Brewers. I do. I think their uniforms are cool. I think the little goofy guy that slides down the slide is extremely cool. I like Prince. There’s a lot I like about the Brewers—except for their constant under achievements.
Manager Ken Macha is one thing about the Brewers that I’m not sure I like. I know he’s won places but isn’t he the same manager that questioned Jermaine Dye’s “heart” when Dye broke his leg? That’s just bush league.
9 Reasons…The Yankees May Not Repeat
9 Reasons the Yankees may not repeat this year:
- Pitching: If Andy gets hurt, the bullpen falls apart or Mo has a Joe Nathan moment this could all fall apart fairly fast.
- A-rod becomes A-Fraud: I’m not sure how I feel about A-rod’s long term place in Yankee history or if he will go down as a victim or a victor but in the back of my mind I keep wondering if he’s going to have an implosion year.