2009 Baseball Season

I am glad I did not have time to watch these, quite embarrasing really but its early in the season and I think the Yankees will pick up soon, well you gotta believe anyway.
 
^ I agree, even last year I never discounted them just because sometimes a reputation will give you a boost.

Girardi will be fired if this team isn't in good position come Mid-June, mark my words...

As for us, grinding out a win today > Cleveland, Paps fueled the rumors he might be ailing a bit
 
Anderson Searl said:
^ I agree, even last year I never discounted them just because sometimes a reputation will give you a boost.

Girardi will be fired if this team isn't in good position come Mid-June, mark my words...

As for us, grinding out a win today > Cleveland, Paps fueled the rumors he might be ailing a bit
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Completely agree on the Girardi bit. The Yankees never show TOO much patience. We already missed the playoffs last year.
 
With their payroll though do you expect them to be patient?
 
Leg-End said:
With their payroll though do you expect them to be patient?
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Maybe instead of spending millions on FA's and such, why not build with youth?

Cano, Hughes, Kennedy and Cabrera are already being shunned out of town
 
Anderson Searl said:
Maybe instead of spending millions on FA's and such, why not build with youth?

Cano, Hughes, Kennedy and Cabrera are already being shunned out of town
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Hughes was great tonight will be intresting to see what they do with him when Wang come back. I would say those players you mentioned are being shunned out of town Cano is a great player, Melky is a 4th outfielder at best and Kennedy everytime hes been up with the Yankees hes hasnt impressed hes in AAA now he will get his chance. Cashman is starting to build with Youth thats why he got Tiex, CC and AJ so he didnt have to trade the young players its just were a few year behind on the Sox.
 
Rooney1987 said:
Hughes was great tonight will be intresting to see what they do with him when Wang come back. I would say those players you mentioned are being shunned out of town Cano is a great player, Melky is a 4th outfielder at best and Kennedy everytime hes been up with the Yankees hes hasnt impressed hes in AAA now he will get his chance. Cashman is starting to build with Youth thats why he got Tiex, CC and AJ so he didnt have to trade the young players its just were a few year behind on the Sox.
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Nice post.

I suppose from by-standing view it seems like more Yankees folly, but it makes somewhat a bit of sense.

You just hope for your boys sake CC gets over that hump... Burnett has blossomed nicely early on.
 
Rooney1987 said:
Hughes was great tonight will be intresting to see what they do with him when Wang come back. I would say those players you mentioned are being shunned out of town Cano is a great player, Melky is a 4th outfielder at best and Kennedy everytime hes been up with the Yankees hes hasnt impressed hes in AAA now he will get his chance. Cashman is starting to build with Youth thats why he got Tiex, CC and AJ so he didnt have to trade the young players its just were a few year behind on the Sox.
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I still have a lot of faith in Kennedy. He eerily reminds me of Mussina. Which is obviously a very good thing. His problem last year was that he couldn't find his control. That's the key to his pitching style. He's definitely not the type to overpower you.

I'm hoping this is Cano's big year. He's been stuck in just average for awhile, but he's started out this year much better. In particular, the fact that he's showing an eye for a walk can only mean good things for himself as a batter overall. He's got all the talent in the world, he just needs to continue being patient at the plate. If he does, it's going to be good for him and the Yankees.
 
Anderson Searl said:
Sahweeeeeeeeep

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Prettiest steal with the ugliest slide, all in one play
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Love this. I had taped the game and was just rewatching it now and when Ellsberry slide home, Posada looked shell-shocked and Pettite was catatonic. First straight steal of home in 10 years for the Sox.
 
Book coming out claiming A-Rod has been using steroids since high school.

Wonder how he'll do now that he's off them, if it will effect his performance.
 
AlwaysRedwood said:
Book coming out claiming A-Rod has been using steroids since high school.

Wonder how he'll do now that he's off them, if it will effect his performance.
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Selana Roberts is clearly a bitch. She's milking Arod's fame for all it's worth. Can't believe someone's going to make money off of making allegations that Arod may or may not have done something. I'm just sick of this steroids crap. As a matter of fact, everyone I know is. I just don't care any more. Whatever advantage ARod had is nullified by the fact that probably just as many pitchers used roids as batters like ARod. Just leave it alone!! Talk about beating a dead horse.

Arod will be fine this year. As a matter of fact, I think he'll have a great year. Although.. last year Lowell was pretty poor coming off of the exact same injury. Only time will tell.
 
I agree the whole thing just stinks of cashing in.

A-rod did a game today too 1 for 6 with 2 walks and HR, played at half pace coming off a long layoff that aint bad, still yet to run full pace around the bases and sliding though.

I reckon he will be fully back and up running again in June, if he gets anywhere near a decent level before then its a bonus.
 
I still think its a farce that we haven't heard the other 100 odd names on that list but A-Rod is the only name we hear.
 
fecking snagging bases like a beast... looks like Tampa might have our number again this year, if they can translate that into a division run though is another discussion.

Toronto won again today and look good.
 
This is going to be a tough series for the Yankees going up against the Red Sux Lester then Becket. The Yankees bottom half of the line up doesn't look great still no A-Rod, Nady and now no Swisher.
 
Barbara Charles said:
OK, we were killed by Tampa over the weekend. Another biiiiiiiiig series starting tomorrow: Sox v. Stinkees at The Toilet.
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Wait, they're playing this game at fenway? I thought it was in New York? :confused:
 
Just read Posada has a hamstring injury add that to injured list of A-Rod, Wang, Marte, Teixeira (wrist, but playing), Bruney and Nady.
 
Zach Greinke is the only story so far this year. Everything else pales into insignificance. Oh, apart from the Yankees opening game at their new gaff and the gargantuan hammering Cleveland handed them.
 
In the midst of all this Manny bullshit, a REAL and tragic headline has come up that I think anyone who is a fan of BASEBALL can bow their heads to:

BOSTON – Dominic DiMaggio, the bespectacled Boston Red Sox center fielder who was overshadowed by his older brother Joe's Hall of Fame career, died early Friday at his Massachusetts home. He was 92.

DiMaggio was surrounded by his family at his death, according to his wife, Emily. She did not give a cause of death but said that DiMaggio had been ill lately.

"He was the most wonderful, warm, loving man," his wife of 61 years said. "He adored his children, and we all adored him."

DiMaggio was a seven-time All Star who still holds the record for the longest consecutive game hitting streak in Boston Red Sox history.

Known as the "Little Professor" because of his eyeglasses and 5-foot-9, 168-pound frame, DiMaggio hit safely in 34 consecutive games in 1949. The streak was broken on Aug. 9 when his big brother caught a sinking liner in the eighth inning of a 6-3 Red Sox win over the Yankees.

The younger DiMaggio also had a 27-game hitting streak in 1951, which still ranks as the fifth longest in Red Sox history. Joe set the major league record with a 56-game hitting streak with the Yankees in 1941.

The oldest of the three center field-playing DiMaggio brothers was Vince, who had a 10-year major league career with five National League teams. Joe died in March 1999, while Vince died in October 1986.

Dom DiMaggio spent his entire career with the Red Sox, 10 full seasons plus three games in 1953, and was teammates and close friends with Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky.

While Dom did not have the offensive numbers of Joe, he was generally regarded as a better defensive player with a stronger arm, although their career fielding percentages are identical.

He was a career .298 hitter with 87 home runs, while Joe was a .325 career hitter with 361 homers. Dom's baseball career was interrupted for three years (1943-45) by World War II when he served in the Navy, a military obligation that may have cost him induction into the Hall of Fame, Doerr once said.

DiMaggio and Pesky "were really penalized for that, and I think it was kind of a shame in a way because when you look, they have the numbers," Doerr said in August 2007 during an appearance at Fenway Park.

Dom played a pivotal role in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, a heartbreaker for Boston fans. He batted in two runs in the eighth inning to tie the game at 3, but he injured his leg while running the bases and was replaced in center field by Leon Culberson for the ninth.

It was Culberson who fielded Harry Walker's double and threw it to Pesky during Enos Slaughter's famous "Mad Dash" from first to home that won the game for the Cardinals.

Many argued that if DiMaggio had still been in center he would have handled the play better and prevented Slaughter from scoring.

"Watching the play had been pure agony for Dominic DiMaggio...," David Halberstam wrote in his 2003 book, "The Teammates." "His own injury, his own pulled hamstring, Dominic now decided, had been the decisive play of the game."

After the Red Sox finally won the World Series in 2004, their first since 1918, DiMaggio, Pesky and Doerr were on hand on opening day 2005 to raise the championship banner at Fenway Park.

On June 30, 1950, Dom and Joe DiMaggio homered in the same game, the first time brothers had hit homers in the same game in the majors in 15 years. They played in the outfield together in three All-Star games.

After his playing career, he started a successful company that manufactured upholstery and carpeting for automobiles, which he ran until his retirement in 1983. He remained active in many charitable and civic causes, supporting medical and education institutions, even serving on the board of trustees at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire. He also helped found the AFL franchise that eventually became the New England Patriots.

"Dominic DiMaggio was one of the most successful players of his generation in his post-baseball life," Halberstam wrote in his book. "He had become over the years a man of means, graceful, elegant, and wise."

DiMaggio grew up in San Francisco, one of nine children born to Sicilian immigrants. His mother was a teacher and his father was a fisherman. He is survived by his wife and three children, Dominic Paul, Peter and Emily.

Wake and funeral arrangements are pending, but will be held at St. Paul's Church in Wellesley.
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May he rest in peace, a true Sox legend and a great ambassador to the game of baseball.
 
A-Rod's back :) 1st pitch, 1st swing, 1st HR. Hopefully this pulls the team out of the hole abit.
 
What is the problem with Joba fist-pumping I keep reading about. People seem to have a problem with it even though Jonathan Papelbon and Francisco Rodriguez do it.
 
I don't see much wrong with it, if your striking someone out you have reason to celebrate no?
 
Yeah I think people just have a dig at the kid because of his off-field problems... nothing with a little emotion, take that away and baseball is nothing bor a snoozefest... and even with the emotion it can be.
 
Nearco said:
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As a Giants fan, I have to think all Dodgers are cnuts. But really, how was Blake to know the "air X" was a tribute to Wilson's late father? Still a bit douchey to do that in the safety of his own dugout.

Reminds me of the time Tim Cahill did a "handcuffs" celebration because his brother was in jail and got fined for it.

I'm sorry, m'lordships, back to your regular Yanks-Red Sox conversation.
 
first-place Rangers keep rolling tonight. pretty surprising so far this season. i'm sure once it gets hot here they'll fade. that tends to happen when game-time temps are 100* f.
 
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