Topic: Yankees Baseball

That was a “friendly’ game today against the frigging lowly Rays?

All I saw was this bastard “nobody Johnson” going out of his way and made a very hard tackle on Cervelli’s plexus burying his head and his upper torso into Cervelli’s body. That was not just a hard play this was a bastardly move of someone taking advantage of a rookie catcher at a time when he was most vulnerable besides his leg was barely touching the home plate. I justly told one of my friends watching the game: I don’t think that’s going to please Joe in the least whatever else I said cannot be printed here.

This is something that needs to be filed away for future use. It’s about time some of these frigging basement bargains start showing some respect. And this season will definitively be the right one to push them away from the plate they're accustomed to be hovering over. You let these bastards get away with this next thing you know that coward Lowell and other suxes will be taking their turns trying to hurt our players with impunity (I have to add that Pappy being as huge as he is and Manny most definitively don’t fall under that category they don’t play cowardly).

Just like old fashion baseball dictates this is an item to be filed away and make the piper pay when the time is right. Frigging Torre is gone and we should remind every ML team of that fact. There is a new sheriff in town. Now watch the tabloids going to bat for the frigging rays showing their true anti-Yankee colors.

Some rookie pitchers and others not so rookies are trying to land a spot on the roster they however keep digging a hole for themselves by not going after the hitters trying to avoid getting tagged and looking bad in the process. Instead of trusting their stuff they end up aiming those pitches without much success. The saddest part is that by pitching too carefully they don’t let Girardi take a good look at what they may bring to the table other than their fear of failure and that works against them.

Like we predicted a few tabloids went out to prove Girardi wrong engaging Zimmer, the old man who went up after Pedro and ended up weeping and apologizing to baseball fans, who took issue with Girardi this time.

Playing hardball means racing to first base on a weak grounder, on a fielder’s choice, trying to extend a single into a double, trying to break a double play, blocking a grounder with your body, playing the OF like Aaron Rowand does, blocking the plate if you are a catcher, covering first base on a bang bang play if you’re a pitcher but for an ineffective utility player going after a rookie catcher in ST when the catcher’s leg is barely touching the plate and he’s not expecting a charge hardly qualifies as “playing hard”; that’s intent to harm for no real baseball gain. That’s lame at best.

Trying to compare that to Joba’s buzzing someone (not drilling someone) also during spring training is reaching and knowing the tabloids there is no surprise there. The truth is the lowly rays owe us there and that marker should be called at the appropriate time and they know it will be called. At least that’s what real fans expect. If the lowly rays want to play old fashion baseball that’s what they will get.

Yesterday Hughes had a nice outing and he seems to be getting into his groove already with very good results but as he says let’s hope this translates into good to great games during the baseball season. It looks like it will.

This clown Maddon was sounding very condescending on Girardi in connection with that cowardly play on Cervelli: he claims he can cover any topic Girardi would like to go over with him from politics to Global Warming (maybe he could explain why we’re not getting all those Hurricanes during the warm months which numbers had been vastly overstated or those incredibly warm winter temperatures we had failed to get for a few straight years since that prediction) to restaurants to red wine (I’m sure he only drinks French Burgundy Grand Cru of course). See, he majored in Economics from that Powerhouse lafayette college in Easton, PA funny because the Moose graduated with an Economics major from Stanford and I’ve had never read such a pompous quote from the Moose, everybody knows he’s intelligent (the Moose and so is Girardi) but I have never read about the Moose boasting about it and Girardi just happens to have a Degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern his not too shabby Alma Mater. I’m sure Joe can take him up on any subject this clown so chooses.

The important one is baseball and during his illustrious MINOR League career (Maddon never played in the Majors) he batted .267 with only 5 HR. No wonder he wants his team to play hardball; the guy is talking from experience. I’m sure he can recall every single one of them (the 5 Minor league HR’s that is) in great detail.

The fat man keeps going at it. Zipper always had issues (his booze, his blood pressure, being a part time pr/ick sometimes) and I felt sorry for him when he quit the game blaming the Boss for it.

Of course I went along and blamed the Boss too. Now I’m not so sure, maybe I was too strong on the Boss and wrong at the same time. I’m glad Girardi is his protégé (the zipper has an ego to match that mouth of his and like I said I’m glad Girardi is like a son to him (the kind of son that leaves home early one day never to come back I GUESS).

If that hard play is routine during ST how come almost no catcher that is worth mentioning and you have there one of the best of all time YOGI, my favorite all star Yankee player, never recalls being driven to the ground on such a take during a ST game? Accidents have happened through the years and I do remember some careers being destroyed by plays like that either a catcher getting hurt, an OF slamming against the fence and dislocating a shoulder, a guy getting beamed, a guy getting hurt during a hard take on a SS during double play action and the managers’ comments have always been the same: “to get hurt in ST in such a way really sucks big time. This is ST for GS.”

Tell me that isn’t true. And f if you can’t tell me I’m wrong how could you now have the gall to say ST or not that’s the way to play.

So since there are a few more games left against the LOWLY AL EAST doorstep (far more appropriate than them rays) we should expect more of the same and our own Shelley should be dressed for the part as well as any oversized rookies trying to prove Girardi they belong in the Majors; the way Maddon never played while collecting his .269 Minor League career highest to go with those 5 HR’s barely making it over the shortest part of the fence.

I have a red wine question for him. How many ice cubes to go with your favorite red wine I’m sure he’s got that number down pat.

Our young studs are beginning to perform . . . . well . . . . impressive making us feel like if staying with them despite Santana looking so outrageously appealing was the right decision. It seems more like the question is will they be ready to deliver in two years or will they be the real deal this season?

It looks like this could be the year and that explanation of Kennedy challenging Young on a fast ball sort of like setting him up for a season game or games down the road seems plausible. Joba is beginning to look like Joba and that’s enticing to say the least but again this is still early ST and just like in their last outing they didn’t seem to be focused enough their talents are beginning to come through big time. We don’t want to get our hopes too high but it doesn’t hurt to dream about how good this season could be. Right?

The whole team seems to understand this is just Spring Training yet they are showing some very good signs of coming together and it is my feeling that this team will write a nice page in the history of our great franchise that I can almost taste it.

Pitching didn’t look this good this early last year and the team’s monumental effort never giving up in their quest to reach the post season was almost like a fairy tale. This might be a worthy sequel to that great effort. And Cano hitting with power the other way? I guess he’s picking up where he left off the second half last season. Good deal.

So that’s why they came out with those off shore accounts.

Leave it to the sux to test the system. They will do anything to beat any system, that’s their idea of leveling the opponents not the playing field.

The latest case in point: The trip to Japan. First it was Matsuzaka who was not going to make the trip now the latest: OH MY ACHING BACK the Beckett version. Foston brass knowing very well they will have a problem recovering from their long trip to Japan and mindful of the Yankees new rotation had decided that this is the year Beckett will have a back problem that will force him to miss that trip to Japan so he can be in top shape for the games he will start immediately after the team returns from that trip. How stupid can MLB be: incredibly stupid it seems. There is a pattern here and the tabloids as usual will pretend this time they all are stupid and not notice such a ruse.

The EVIL EMPIRE used to spend lots of money trying to land stars but never sunk to this level. The sux are no Evil Empire they’re just a bunch of as/s/hol/es.  So Bud you read it here. What are you going to do about this new twist by Foston to make a mockery of your rules?

Cashman is asking for patience for what seems to be a dream rotation for the future: Wang, Joba, Hughes, Kennedy and Brackman.

You won’t have any problems with the loyal Yankee fans; and Hank official stand (at least the latest) is the same: he’s willing to be patient because he trusts the young studs.

You know where your problems will be coming from: the tabloids Yankees haters and it’s up to you, Girardi and Hank to present a united front and don’t let the tabloids pressure you into doing something that will be counterproductive to having such a great rotation and I will even go farther saying that maybe by 2010 the dream rotation might even look different but more lethal nevertheless.

The above comments bring us to another realization: Theo is going to be sorry he got involved in the bidding for Santana jus to spike the Yankees.

Wait till they start facing that rotation. He’ll be b.itching like lucchino. By then there will be no Manny/Ortiz tandem. Ah time is SOO inexorable. Never to come back.

I thought we were going to wait a while before giving the tampa doormats a taste of their own brand of baseball, but no Shelley had to come and without any warning he tried to tackle the whole (lowly) team by himself, I have never ever seen such a case of selfishness and grandstanding in a player, a young player to boot. I like that in a player!

Maybe now that the point was made we can go on with the business of continue to get ready for the season which we expect to dominate (no bragging just the sheer realization that we have a great team, second to none), now that we got it out of our system let’s get ready to roll.

I hope this doesn’t force MLB to deviate from their most important business at hand which is making sure the sux are not trying to pull a fast one on baseball by leaving (on purpose) their best pitcher in Foston while the rest of the team pretends to open the season in Japan, a thing called bad faith, pushing the envelope, making a fool out of Bud Sellig, etc, etc, etc.

 As I've stated before, the main reason I hate the Yankees is because of their fans.  What a screw-ball you are Bruce.  Boston is not REQUIRED to have Beckett pitch in Japan.  The only one pushing the envelop or make a fool out of someone is you.  I need to add you to the "Big L" list.  What a "L"OSER you are.

A few thoughts on the tampa doormats and their style of baseball.

First of all their manager is a jerk who having been a loser who never made it to the Majors as a player and who’s trying to make a name for himself by using the Yankees. He made a name for himself alright: now we all know he’s an a$$hole.

Maddon cries that the slide by Shelley fits the definition of a dirty play with a blatant intent to hurt, so blatant that Shelley who easily weights more than 50% of what Iwamura weights came to an inch of making serious contact with the tiny SS but didn’t hurt him. Who’s playing hardball here?: that bastard johnson who went out of A STRAIGHT LINE when our catcher was barely touching the home plate and least expecting a charge or Shelley who went after Iwamura WHO HAD A VISUAL ON SHELLEY THE WHOLE TIME to deliver an old school baseball warning: WE WILL PROTECT OUR PLAYERS against low lives like you.

A few thoughts on the tampa doormats and their style of baseball.

First of all their manager is a jerk who having been a loser who never made it to the Majors as a player and who’s trying to make a name for himself by using the Yankees. He made a name for himself alright: now we all know he’s a jerk.

Another dirtbag on that team besides that bastard johnson is gomes who is trying to feed us a croak.

Maddon cries that the slide by Shelley fits the definition of a dirty play with a blatant intent to hurt, so blatant that Shelley who easily weights more than 50% of what Iwamura weights came to an inch of making serious contact with the tiny SS but didn’t hurt him. Who’s playing hardball here?: that bastard johnson who went out of A STRAIGHT LINE when our catcher was barely touching the home plate and least expecting a charge or Shelley who went after Iwamura WHO HAD A VISUAL ON SHELLEY THE WHOLE TIME to deliver an old school baseball warning: WE WILL PROTECT OUR PLAYERS against low lives like you.