Topic: Yankees Baseball

Have you noticed how all our successful players and pitchers concentrate (truly focus) on one and only one game at a time? Who? Mussina, Mo, Jeter, Abreu, Damon (I'm sure Matsui does too), A-rod, the X-Man, even Cano and the long gone Farnsy, that’s who.

It must work   . . . . .     wouldn’t you say?

Hey Pudge feel free to hit at will whenever possible, same game, same bats, same baseballs as you’d say.

When you talk the talk and keep on talking blaming us fans for “not believing in you as a team and giving you up for dead” at this point in the season and then on the next game you proved everybody right by playing the way you did last night because you can’t even walk the walk  . . . .   You my boys (you looked like kids playing against grown-ups) look foolish.

Is that clear enough for you?

All I can say is thank God next year we won’t be blessed with the BIG G’s bat and fugazzy glove at first. Is that sarcastic enough for you little G (as in Girardi)?

Major Leaguers beware this man “hates to lose” or so he says.

“He saw Coco running out of the corner of his eye but couldn’t get the ball (which was deep inside his glove) to home plate” It was more like “deep in my heart I know I can’t throw to home plate or second base for that matter even if my life depended on it” At $23 MILION BUCKS he can’t afford a decent glove? How weak is that Big G? Is he going to grow the stache again or shave it? AT $23 MILION BUCKS How weak is that?

In this economy and with two idiots running for President do you know how many families can live on $23 Million Bucks?

When are we going to get someone on the fifth hole to protect the current cleanup fool? Is anybody going to pitch to A-rod because they are afraid of BIG G? Get real!

The word is out: get a rookie pitcher A-rod is coming to the plate.

So tell us Hank   . . . . . .   I mean Hal (the power behind this farce) are we going to have the same crap for another ten years? Who needs a new stadium for that?

How come we haven’t heard someone say: “we are so lucky to have Kevin Long with us” lately?

If you had to choose between Long and Dave Magadan who would you pick? 

Regardless   . . . . . . .  this goes back to that fateful trade for I-rod.  I warned you Cashman you stupid idiot  . . . . . .  You and 99% of the media are guilty and clueless and I’m not the only who states it   . . . . . . .    Joe Nathan says the same thing “the Twins are in better shape than they were with Hunter and Santana”   . . . . . . .    just the opposite of what the media had predicted.

The reason I’m not attacking A-rod more forcefully this time is simple. Hank (or was it baby brother Hal?)  knew what he was getting when he signed him, he knew what he brings to the team and a clutch hitter? A-rod’s never been accused of being such animal.

How good is Cashman? You might ask.  How long has he been trying to get us a real first baseman at any price? Your guess is as good as mine but I can tell you one thing for certain: Theo would have gotten that first baseman OVERNIGHT.

Same thinking behind us getting Igawa instead of Matzusaka. Is that clear enough?

Last night’s game boils down to this: The Yanks thought they were going to have an easy game against Wakefield. I thought so too. Which goes against Maddon’s memo: There are no games more important than others; they should all be treated with the same respect. Beautifully stated. The same applies to the batters. Pettitte thought “No Manny, No Drew, And No Lowell? Great!  Wrong oh. By the time Andy realized it tasted like water he was drowning.

That came to a surprise to him because he was so busy staring down at the home plate umpire to realize he was doing a disservice to his team just like A-rod and Giambi. After all the talk about how great the team was it felt like an empty feeling hearing the same players explain what went wrong. Who cares guys? We lost a game we should have won and that’s the bottom line. And the sweetest and craftiest spin in the world won’t change that.

A-rod was guilty of trying to get a guy out when he knew that he was going to be late at first and he must have known he was going to get Giambi in trouble in the process and that I criticized more than going 0 fer at the plate, it looks like he’s always 0 fer at the plate anyway. But he should have eaten that grounder and stay put; better to have the crowd boo you than to do what came next.

Fans bad feelings and memories tend to linger a little longer than with players; we take things too personally like if we were the ones failing on the field and if we go hard on the players we are also hard on ourselves because we love the team and the players a lot more than the owners and the media. We are united for richer or poorer. When was the last time you saw the owners at a game?  My point exactly.

But until they sell the team or even thereafter these are our Yankees nothing but unconditional love from us real fans.