lol... bro, what that means is we need to figure out a way to beat the damn Red Sox!!!
Posted by djsunyc:
was at the game last night. man am i beat.
anyways, listen...the redsox have the mental advantage over us. it's clear as day. but that's still OK. minus the redsox games, we went 3-0 before the sweep and 4-2 after the sweep. that makes 7-2 minus the sox. what that means is that we have to continue beating teams at a high clip in the event we don't do well against boston this year.
I hear ya. Bottom line - I want the Red Sox in the playoffs so bad. We can beat them, no way you can convince me they're a better team than us just because they beat us a few times early so far. I can't wait 'til we get this straightened out -- A-Rod back, Bruney back, Tex is starting to come around now. I want a big win against these jerkoffs so bad tonight.
Joba's estranged mom got arrested yesterday on a meth charge apparently... gotta be tough on the guy... hope he channels that emotion into his pitching tonight & comes up big... the YS fans will be behind him i'm sure.
Posted by djsunyc:
was at the game last night. man am i beat.
anyways, listen...the redsox have the mental advantage over us. it's clear as day. but that's still OK. minus the redsox games, we went 3-0 before the sweep and 4-2 after the sweep. that makes 7-2 minus the sox. what that means is that we have to continue beating teams at a high clip in the event we don't do well against boston this year.
minus all our losses, we are undefeated!
Posted by Finestrg:
Posted by djsunyc:
was at the game last night. man am i beat.
anyways, listen...the redsox have the mental advantage over us. it's clear as day. but that's still OK. minus the redsox games, we went 3-0 before the sweep and 4-2 after the sweep. that makes 7-2 minus the sox. what that means is that we have to continue beating teams at a high clip in the event we don't do well against boston this year.
I hear ya. Bottom line - I want the Red Sox in the playoffs so bad. We can beat them, no way you can convince me they're a better team than us just because they beat us a few times early so far. I can't wait 'til we get this straightened out -- A-Rod back, Bruney back, Tex is starting to come around now. I want a big win against these jerkoffs so bad tonight.
Oh I do think we CAN beat them even though they've had the edge for a few years. The biggest difference is the bullpens, though. Ours instills little confidence in me.
Posted by TMS:
Joba's estranged mom got arrested yesterday on a meth charge apparently... gotta be tough on the guy... hope he channels that emotion into his pitching tonight & comes up big.
Man we really need that. Consecutive series sweeps by the Sox would be so hard to swallow!
Posted by Finestrg:
Posted by djsunyc:
was at the game last night. man am i beat.
anyways, listen...the redsox have the mental advantage over us. it's clear as day. but that's still OK. minus the redsox games, we went 3-0 before the sweep and 4-2 after the sweep. that makes 7-2 minus the sox. what that means is that we have to continue beating teams at a high clip in the event we don't do well against boston this year.
I hear ya. Bottom line - I want the Red Sox in the playoffs so bad. We can beat them, no way you can convince me they're a better team than us just because they beat us a few times early so far. I can't wait 'til we get this straightened out -- A-Rod back, Bruney back, Tex is starting to come around now. I want a big win against these jerkoffs so bad tonight.
Didn't the Mets beat the LA Dodgers like 11/11 times or something in '88 then lose to them in the playoffs?? It sucks shit continually losing to these bitches like this but the bottom line is regular season records against opponents mean very little when you get right down to it. Gimme these Red Sox in the playoffs this year with us at full strength and we'll see WTF happens. They'll probably be there - it's up to us to start playing better baseball
RIGHT NOW so we can be there as well. Our whole season starts tonight as far as I'm concerned. Go out there and beat the balls off these assholes tonight then just go on the tear of all tears...
[Edited by - finestrg on 05-05-2009 11:20 AM]
Posted by Finestrg:
Posted by Finestrg:
Posted by djsunyc:
was at the game last night. man am i beat.
anyways, listen...the redsox have the mental advantage over us. it's clear as day. but that's still OK. minus the redsox games, we went 3-0 before the sweep and 4-2 after the sweep. that makes 7-2 minus the sox. what that means is that we have to continue beating teams at a high clip in the event we don't do well against boston this year.
I hear ya. Bottom line - I want the Red Sox in the playoffs so bad. We can beat them, no way you can convince me they're a better team than us just because they beat us a few times early so far. I can't wait 'til we get this straightened out -- A-Rod back, Bruney back, Tex is starting to come around now. I want a big win against these jerkoffs so bad tonight.
Didn't the Mets beat the LA Dodgers like 11/11 times or something in '88 then lose to them in the playoffs?? It sucks shit continually losing to these bitches like this but the bottom line is regular season records against opponents mean very little when you get right down to it.
Wow, I don't think your example from twenty-one years ago justifies your conclusion. I'd bet that there's pretty large (though imperfect) statistical correlation between regular season and playoff match-ups.
we owned the Indians in regular season play a couple years ago & lost to them in the playoffs, it's not that unreasonable... but still, u gotta make a stand at some point & show the other team that u have a pulse at least! losing 11 straight in 1 season is pretty ridiculous... all those account for losses & negatively effect your place in the standings obviously too... we can't let Boston continue to beat down on us this season no matter if we're playing well vs. other teams or not.
hey, we swept them 5 games in boston (boston massacre part 2) in 2004 during the regular season. didn't mean anything games 4-7 in the playoffs tho.
our primary objective is to get to the playoffs. once your there, anything can happen.
Posted by TMS:
we owned the Indians in regular season play a couple years ago & lost to them in the playoffs, it's not that unreasonable... but still, u gotta make a stand at some point & show the other team that u have a pulse at least! losing 11 straight in 1 season is pretty ridiculous... all those account for losses & negatively effect your place in the standings obviously too... we can't let Boston continue to beat down on us this season no matter if we're playing well vs. other teams or not.
Yeah, I'd bet the correlation between winning percentages in the playoffs and regular season is around .80 if I had to guess without doing any studying. That basically means it's very strong but every few years you will find one glaring exception.
Posted by djsunyc:
hey, we swept them 5 games in boston (boston massacre part 2) in 2004 during the regular season. didn't mean anything games 4-7 in the playoffs tho.
our primary objective is to get to the playoffs. once your there, anything can happen.
don't sleep on the rest of the AL bro... it's not a given that the WC is coming outta the East this season... plenty of teams have improved from last year... even KC has a very nice young pitching staff anchored by the best pitcher in baseball right now, Zach Greinke who's been ridiculously untouchable all year... they're playing some good ball, as are the Jays & Mariners, & u know the Twins, Detroit & Chicago will make themselves known at some point this year... we can't overlook these games w/BOS, every 1 of them is huge.
Posted by TMS:
Posted by djsunyc:
hey, we swept them 5 games in boston (boston massacre part 2) in 2004 during the regular season. didn't mean anything games 4-7 in the playoffs tho.
our primary objective is to get to the playoffs. once your there, anything can happen.
don't sleep on the rest of the AL bro... it's not a given that the WC is coming outta the East this season... plenty of teams have improved from last year... even KC has a very nice young pitching staff anchored by the best pitcher in baseball right now, Zach Greinke who's been ridiculously untouchable all year... they're playing some good ball, as are the Jays & Mariners, & u know the Twins, Detroit & Chicago will make themselves known at some point this year... we can't overlook these games w/BOS, every 1 of them is huge.
but it's obvious there's a mental block against them. there's nothing that can be done...pointless to debate it. but the yanks have played well against non-redsox teams in the past 3 weeks. that's what i'm focusing on.
posada to the dl with a hamstring problem. that hurts. no arod + posada kills the lineup.
[Edited by - djsunyc on 05-05-2009 1:55 PM]
Posted by TMS:
gotta have 1 of our young kids show that they can come up big againt Boston for once... Joba really needs to give us at least 6 strong tomorrow night, hopefully a full 7...
joba's mom just got busted for selling meth...ugh
Molina & Cervelli are serviceable as backups but guys are gonna have to step up offensively while Jorge's out... also our guys can't afford to play sloppy defense & give up runs, cuz runs are at a premium now w/our depleted lineup... hopefully Tex's bat is busting out now & he can carry some of the load for a little while.
[Edited by - TMS on 05-05-2009 11:02 AM]
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by Rookie:
hey, headed up to the new stadium in a bit, my first at the new stadium. Go Yanks!
cool. i'm going too. before you head up, make sure the game is still on. they still haven't said anything so i'm guessing they are gonna try and play it (especially with it being an espn game).
The delay was great. I got to explore a little and spent some time in the hard rock cafe. Man i'm dead tired today. A win would have made the day go by a little better. Hughes had 70+ pitches by the end of the third and Lester was getting big outs. Just wasn't our day
Posted by Rookie:
Posted by TMS:
gotta have 1 of our young kids show that they can come up big againt Boston for once... Joba really needs to give us at least 6 strong tomorrow night, hopefully a full 7...
joba's mom just got busted for selling meth...ugh
yeah, that news broke this morning... hopefully he can channel his emotions to benefit him rather than distract him tonight... gonna be tough but this team really needs him to come up big.
Posted by Rookie:
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by Rookie:
hey, headed up to the new stadium in a bit, my first at the new stadium. Go Yanks!
cool. i'm going too. before you head up, make sure the game is still on. they still haven't said anything so i'm guessing they are gonna try and play it (especially with it being an espn game).
The delay was great. I got to explore a little and spent some time in the hard rock cafe. Man i'm dead tired today. A win would have made the day go by a little better. Hughes had 70+ pitches by the end of the third and Lester was getting big outs. Just wasn't our day
best seats imho are still the bleachers. best view of the game for the price and you can stand back there and hang out.
Posted by TMS:
Posted by Rookie:
Posted by TMS:
gotta have 1 of our young kids show that they can come up big againt Boston for once... Joba really needs to give us at least 6 strong tomorrow night, hopefully a full 7...
joba's mom just got busted for selling meth...ugh
yeah, that news broke this morning... hopefully he can channel his emotions to benefit him rather than distract him tonight... gonna be tough but this team really needs him to come up big.
Hope they can keep the press away from him till after the game. I wouldn't be surprised if Burnett gets the start tonight
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by Rookie:
Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by Rookie:
hey, headed up to the new stadium in a bit, my first at the new stadium. Go Yanks!
cool. i'm going too. before you head up, make sure the game is still on. they still haven't said anything so i'm guessing they are gonna try and play it (especially with it being an espn game).
The delay was great. I got to explore a little and spent some time in the hard rock cafe. Man i'm dead tired today. A win would have made the day go by a little better. Hughes had 70+ pitches by the end of the third and Lester was getting big outs. Just wasn't our day
best seats imho are still the bleachers. best view of the game for the price and you can stand back there and hang out.
I was in the upper deck 1st base side. There was a sign that read 'watch out for flying bats'. They must have meant the winged variety as we were waaaay up there. Looked like the bleachers were the place to be.
[Edited by - Rookie on 05-05-2009 2:12 PM]
