Funny, but the teams putrid record against the Red Sox this year is the difference between the sawx making the playoffs and the yankees perhaps having the best record in all of baseball.
All this with a no. 1 starter who is tired, and no the no. 2 starter not really having that title!
I appreciate the team not panicking to make a deal for a pitcher. We relied on offense and got the job done.
1st place and so far top record in the AL!
My expectation is we run into hot pitching and we going to be toast.
But we are in the playoffs and maybe, just maybe Jorge gets to be the hero one more time!
Dream series of Yankees vs. Phillies would be intense. An all star pitching rotation vs. an All star line up! Who steps up? Phillies bats or the Yankee pitching staff?
Some of you are likely too young to remember but one of the best series I recall was the Astros-Mets in the NLCS which the Mets were the team of destiny but the Astros had a hand of hot pitchers led by Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan. Those two both started their careers with the Mets and were traded to find great success with their new teams. Ryan became a star with the Angels and Scott was having a great season in 86'.
The Buckner miscue and the Red Sawx series was the headliner but for the mets to get there they got taken to seven games and wore out the Mets a bit for Series.
Yanks-Phillies would be a blast, providing of course its a close series!
Bonn1997 wrote:SupremeCommander wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:jrodmc wrote:They've said CC's not as effective on extra rest. I don't understand why we can't bring either Colon or Freddie out of the BP for long relief and get back to a normal 5 man rotation. Both those guys have been hurt. CC's a workhorse. You treat him otherwise and he degrades.
That's one possible interpretation but no one really knows if that's what's going on. I remember last year at the end of the season he looked a little less sharp and then after the we find out he needed knee surgery.
And why on earth after we've already clinched a playoff spot do they make him throw 127 pitches?
because we used 8 relievers earlier in the day?
Eh, OK. I was at work all day and forgot there was a double-header. I'd rather jeopardize a reliever's health with extra work than CC's though.
They were saying during the radio broadcast that even after he gave up the second home run that tied the game, that coming out would be CC's call.
MaTT4281 wrote:CLINCHED!I was pretty skeptical about this team earlier this year and there's still plenty of weaknesses that could get exploited in the playoffs, but fuck it!
Jeter's 3,000th. Mo's 602. Snatched the division away from Boston. I'm feeling some magic this year. Let's go!
this team was always good, I just think people gave too much credit to Boston... yeah, their lineup is awesome but there were always a lot of question marks about their rotation--and Beckett has had a great year (which most weren't counting on heading into the season)
Bonn1997 wrote:SupremeCommander wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:jrodmc wrote:They've said CC's not as effective on extra rest. I don't understand why we can't bring either Colon or Freddie out of the BP for long relief and get back to a normal 5 man rotation. Both those guys have been hurt. CC's a workhorse. You treat him otherwise and he degrades.
That's one possible interpretation but no one really knows if that's what's going on. I remember last year at the end of the season he looked a little less sharp and then after the we find out he needed knee surgery.
And why on earth after we've already clinched a playoff spot do they make him throw 127 pitches?
because we used 8 relievers earlier in the day?
Eh, OK. I was at work all day and forgot there was a double-header. I'd rather jeopardize a reliever's health with extra work than CC's though.
I personally agree
That said, Joe has been pretty good at managing the staff's workload throughout his Yankee tenure. Joe said when Hughes was looking unlikely that he'd go to alot of reliever in game 1, so I'm sure CC was mentally prepared for a big workload.
Nalod wrote:Funny, but the teams putrid record against the Red Sox this year is the difference between the sawx making the playoffs and the yankees perhaps having the best record in all of baseball.All this with a no. 1 starter who is tired, and no the no. 2 starter not really having that title!
I appreciate the team not panicking to make a deal for a pitcher. We relied on offense and got the job done.
1st place and so far top record in the AL!
My expectation is we run into hot pitching and we going to be toast.
But we are in the playoffs and maybe, just maybe Jorge gets to be the hero one more time!
Dream series of Yankees vs. Phillies would be intense. An all star pitching rotation vs. an All star line up! Who steps up? Phillies bats or the Yankee pitching staff?
Some of you are likely too young to remember but one of the best series I recall was the Astros-Mets in the NLCS which the Mets were the team of destiny but the Astros had a hand of hot pitchers led by Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan. Those two both started their careers with the Mets and were traded to find great success with their new teams. Ryan became a star with the Angels and Scott was having a great season in 86'.
The Buckner miscue and the Red Sawx series was the headliner but for the mets to get there they got taken to seven games and wore out the Mets a bit for Series.
Take your wistful Mets memories over to the Met's thread. They need the help.
jrodmc wrote:Nalod wrote:Funny, but the teams putrid record against the Red Sox this year is the difference between the sawx making the playoffs and the yankees perhaps having the best record in all of baseball.All this with a no. 1 starter who is tired, and no the no. 2 starter not really having that title!
I appreciate the team not panicking to make a deal for a pitcher. We relied on offense and got the job done.
1st place and so far top record in the AL!
My expectation is we run into hot pitching and we going to be toast.
But we are in the playoffs and maybe, just maybe Jorge gets to be the hero one more time!
Dream series of Yankees vs. Phillies would be intense. An all star pitching rotation vs. an All star line up! Who steps up? Phillies bats or the Yankee pitching staff?
Some of you are likely too young to remember but one of the best series I recall was the Astros-Mets in the NLCS which the Mets were the team of destiny but the Astros had a hand of hot pitchers led by Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan. Those two both started their careers with the Mets and were traded to find great success with their new teams. Ryan became a star with the Angels and Scott was having a great season in 86'.
The Buckner miscue and the Red Sawx series was the headliner but for the mets to get there they got taken to seven games and wore out the Mets a bit for Series.
Take your wistful Mets memories over to the Met's thread. They need the help.
They do. Im not.
Im a fan of the game. A great series know no prejudice.
Nalod wrote:jrodmc wrote:Nalod wrote:Funny, but the teams putrid record against the Red Sox this year is the difference between the sawx making the playoffs and the yankees perhaps having the best record in all of baseball.All this with a no. 1 starter who is tired, and no the no. 2 starter not really having that title!
I appreciate the team not panicking to make a deal for a pitcher. We relied on offense and got the job done.
1st place and so far top record in the AL!
My expectation is we run into hot pitching and we going to be toast.
But we are in the playoffs and maybe, just maybe Jorge gets to be the hero one more time!
Dream series of Yankees vs. Phillies would be intense. An all star pitching rotation vs. an All star line up! Who steps up? Phillies bats or the Yankee pitching staff?
Some of you are likely too young to remember but one of the best series I recall was the Astros-Mets in the NLCS which the Mets were the team of destiny but the Astros had a hand of hot pitchers led by Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan. Those two both started their careers with the Mets and were traded to find great success with their new teams. Ryan became a star with the Angels and Scott was having a great season in 86'.
The Buckner miscue and the Red Sawx series was the headliner but for the mets to get there they got taken to seven games and wore out the Mets a bit for Series.
Take your wistful Mets memories over to the Met's thread. They need the help.
They do. Im not.
Im a fan of the game. A great series know no prejudice.
It's not a matter of predjudice, it's a matter of reading comprehension. This is a Yankee thread. Soon to be 28 rings means I don't need to talk about others' great series. I'm a fan of Yankee greatness. You're not able to come up with a great Yankee memory?
To talk Mets on here is to depress the enjoyment level of the rest of the comments.
I remember the parades in the 80's. No one cares right now.
Ian Kennedy is a 20 game winner now! I can't fault the Yankees for not seeing this but man we could use him now.
I'm not going to say it but everyone knows what I'm thinking, because all the Yanks fans are thinking it after last night's game...
Garcia has to be the game 3 playoffs pitcher. I know there's some concern about his fastball being too slow but he's had a FAR better season than Colon, AJ, or Hughes.
Bonn1997 wrote:Garcia has to be the game 3 playoffs pitcher. I know there's some concern about his fastball being too slow but he's had a FAR better season than Colon, AJ, or Hughes.
Agreed.
I though Colon should've been moved to the bullpen a whiles ago... his two seam is devastating but if that's not working the wheels fall off. He should've been getting ready to come in for longer relief stretches, where he just throws two seamers and a pitch to keep the batters honest. and when he gets through a side he gets yanked.
Hughes has had a rough season... not to mention he's come from the pen before.
The debate really comes down to AJ and Garcia. AJ definitely has the better stuff. And maybe if the Yanks were trotting out some guys with average stuff I'd say take a chance on him. But CC and Nova have good-to-great stuff. I think a quality junk ball pitcher actually compliments the rotation. One guy can hit the upper 90s the other can hit the mid 90s and then you throw Garcia out there who just throws a bunch of offspee/breaking stuff. then you have to face upper 90s again.
I have a feeling one very good start will make up for the rest of the season in Girardi's and Cashman's minds and AJ will start game 3
jrodmc wrote:Nalod wrote:jrodmc wrote:Nalod wrote:Funny, but the teams putrid record against the Red Sox this year is the difference between the sawx making the playoffs and the yankees perhaps having the best record in all of baseball.All this with a no. 1 starter who is tired, and no the no. 2 starter not really having that title!
I appreciate the team not panicking to make a deal for a pitcher. We relied on offense and got the job done.
1st place and so far top record in the AL!
My expectation is we run into hot pitching and we going to be toast.
But we are in the playoffs and maybe, just maybe Jorge gets to be the hero one more time!
Dream series of Yankees vs. Phillies would be intense. An all star pitching rotation vs. an All star line up! Who steps up? Phillies bats or the Yankee pitching staff?
Some of you are likely too young to remember but one of the best series I recall was the Astros-Mets in the NLCS which the Mets were the team of destiny but the Astros had a hand of hot pitchers led by Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan. Those two both started their careers with the Mets and were traded to find great success with their new teams. Ryan became a star with the Angels and Scott was having a great season in 86'.
The Buckner miscue and the Red Sawx series was the headliner but for the mets to get there they got taken to seven games and wore out the Mets a bit for Series.
Take your wistful Mets memories over to the Met's thread. They need the help.
They do. Im not.
Im a fan of the game. A great series know no prejudice.
It's not a matter of predjudice, it's a matter of reading comprehension. This is a Yankee thread. Soon to be 28 rings means I don't need to talk about others' great series. I'm a fan of Yankee greatness. You're not able to come up with a great Yankee memory?
To talk Mets on here is to depress the enjoyment level of the rest of the comments.
I remember the parades in the 80's. No one cares right now.
Not a matter of who cares or not. If you comprehend what I wrote instead of being a snob you'd see I was making reference to a great series where great pitching nearly derailed the team of destiny. No mention of any Met players were there? No mention of "how great it was that year".......It was a baseball thing.
What was the common theme? That the Yankees and Phillies, the two best teams make the world series and it become a classic.
Baseball is filled with great moments, wishing for another yankee great moment is not so bad.
If you only watch to see the Yankees win perhaps your missing what baseball can be about.
Have you not learned humility being a knick fan all these years?
Nalod wrote:jrodmc wrote:Nalod wrote:jrodmc wrote:Nalod wrote:Funny, but the teams putrid record against the Red Sox this year is the difference between the sawx making the playoffs and the yankees perhaps having the best record in all of baseball.All this with a no. 1 starter who is tired, and no the no. 2 starter not really having that title!
I appreciate the team not panicking to make a deal for a pitcher. We relied on offense and got the job done.
1st place and so far top record in the AL!
My expectation is we run into hot pitching and we going to be toast.
But we are in the playoffs and maybe, just maybe Jorge gets to be the hero one more time!
Dream series of Yankees vs. Phillies would be intense. An all star pitching rotation vs. an All star line up! Who steps up? Phillies bats or the Yankee pitching staff?
Some of you are likely too young to remember but one of the best series I recall was the Astros-Mets in the NLCS which the Mets were the team of destiny but the Astros had a hand of hot pitchers led by Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan. Those two both started their careers with the Mets and were traded to find great success with their new teams. Ryan became a star with the Angels and Scott was having a great season in 86'.
The Buckner miscue and the Red Sawx series was the headliner but for the mets to get there they got taken to seven games and wore out the Mets a bit for Series.
Take your wistful Mets memories over to the Met's thread. They need the help.
They do. Im not.
Im a fan of the game. A great series know no prejudice.
It's not a matter of predjudice, it's a matter of reading comprehension. This is a Yankee thread. Soon to be 28 rings means I don't need to talk about others' great series. I'm a fan of Yankee greatness. You're not able to come up with a great Yankee memory?
To talk Mets on here is to depress the enjoyment level of the rest of the comments.
I remember the parades in the 80's. No one cares right now.
Not a matter of who cares or not. If you comprehend what I wrote instead of being a snob you'd see I was making reference to a great series where great pitching nearly derailed the team of destiny. No mention of any Met players were there? No mention of "how great it was that year".......It was a baseball thing.
What was the common theme? That the Yankees and Phillies, the two best teams make the world series and it become a classic.
Baseball is filled with great moments, wishing for another yankee great moment is not so bad.
If you only watch to see the Yankees win perhaps your missing what baseball can be about.
Have you not learned humility being a knick fan all these years?
If you could comprehend that fan is short for fanatic, you would understand the mild contempt I have for everything Mets. Again, you might want to peruse the thread. Not alot of Met's mentions in here. Having been born and misraised in the area, anti-Yankee is fairly common for Met's fans. A much milder case of anti-Mets is part and parcel of the Yankee aura. I think you could see the clarity of this in action should you take the reverse of your commments over to the Met's thread, touting great Yankee moments.
What I've learned being a Knick fan is that I can balance that homeless experience with being a snob Yankee fan.
Being a fan of a team and being a fan of a sport are two very different things. If you have reached that nirvana where the sport transcends your team allegiance, goody for you. I love basketball; I root for the Knicks. I mildly appreciate baseball as a game; I'm rabid about the Yankees.
To me, it's all about maintaining that even keel.
anyone else kind of hoping Giradi rests the regulars and the Yanks get swept?
My hatred runs deep
I know, it is amazing to see the blowsox collapse. Not that I really want to see Tampa Bay in the 2nd round (if we make it), but having Boston historically collapse makes me giddy!!!
SupremeCommander wrote:anyone else kind of hoping Giradi rests the regulars and the Yanks get swept?My hatred runs deep
Obviously it can't run as deep as Russell Martin's... hits into a triple play!
LOL....I hate the Dred Sux, but I really don't like that Tampa pitching rotation...
Prefer to see a Rays-Sawx one game playoff. No fan of the sawz but a one game playoff is a just way to end the season and it weakens either team.
Yankee AAA team hanging tough tonite. Blew a big lead but no sandman tonite.
never been so happy to get swept in all my life
SupremeCommander wrote:anyone else kind of hoping Giradi rests the regulars and the Yanks get swept?My hatred runs deep
Have to admit, I was in the same boat. Kinda bitter sweet about watching the Yanks get swept (even in meaningless games) but WOW! What a collapse by Boston! Rays come back from 7 down to win in 12, and Baltimore scores 2 in the bottom of the 9th to knock Boston out of the playoffs. I'm content.
