Topic: Yankees Baseball

I can tell you that Girardi can no longer ignore the fact that ALBALADEJO es un pendejo and I’ve been told that means he really absolutely, 100 percent suc&ks he might be a good pitcher a year, two years or 4 months from now but as of yesterday he suc&ks (this is not personal Albaladejo it’s just business).

I believe from all those arms in the current pen and in AA and AAA ball we must have some capable ones to shape an effective pen we are NOT doing the right job grading them and working on their kinks effectively; everybody seems to be in a hurry going NOWHERE meantime we have tons of capable arms but nobody is qualified to distinguish the good ones from the not so good ones. Believe me you could have in your system 20 relievers the type the sux and Detroit and Tampa  Bay put on the field every season and you wouldn’t still be able to tell them apart and bring them up to be effective in the Bronx.

We stink at developing position players and studs. Pena is a wonderful surprise because all he’s done is nothing short of spectacular and I firmly believe all the credit goes to him from knowing his limitations (here is a player that truly stays within himself the entire game an intelligent player and he comes from Monterrey, Mexico a city that glitters almost as much as NY maybe that’s why he’s not mesmerized by the big Apple), behaving on the field the way he feels is expected of him, to know what to do to maximize his abilities, a degree of maturity well beyond his years.

Count the number of players that year in and year out go on the DL with hamstring and quads problems and you’ll know what I mean when I say that professional soccer players practice very brief effective flexing routines before they start every game why can’t a baseball player do the same before every at bat?

Most professional baseball players are probably stronger and equally juiced than their professional soccer counterparts yet they neglect those major leg muscles it’s very intriguing since their professional careers and their families welfare depend on them playing healthy.

I can’t finish without mentioning that at bat by Melky (sorry Melky) when he tried to steal a triple from the sux. Any day of the week he succeeds but the stars were aligned for the sux they couldn’t do no wrong and a perfect throw by the sux RF and an even better relay from “inside of you” Pedroia beat Melky to third by a nanosecond (actually the tag by Lowell was also perfect).

It was a great display of aggressive running by Melky he tried to take the game to the sux and failed by the smallest fraction of time and speed) had he known he was going to be driven home in the next at bat he might have stopped at second but the intent was valiant and that could have been the game turning point.  AWESOME TRY.

MELKY IS LOCKED AND HE OWNS BECKETT BIG TIME.

How about that?

I spoke too soon Pena is regressing to AAA form (and then trying to throw to first when Crawford is already in Yonkers? That’s not heads up baseball). On the other hand Albaladejo showed last night why Girardi likes him and in the process started to get out of the doghouse (my doghouse that is).

In a game that was a typical rollercoaster ride the Yankees couldn’t get it done. The umpires made sure of that.

Is not the size of the dog that counts,

Coke insisted last night that he made a good pitch to Pena and reminded us that baseball is a game of inches (two inches to be exact) and said what we all know: Pena is a hell of a power hitter (and a great first baseman)  but I could have told you that    . . . . . . .     just ask the cooks that spoil the broth (I mean the Yankees higher-ups and that genius Torre) why they were in such a hurry to let Pena slip through the cracks and come back to punish the Yankees by beating them over and over and over.

Where was Cano and where has he been lately?   you might ask,

I told you geniuses that he was just profiting by not following the team's discipline at the plate and pouncing of the opposing pitchers who had been told to throw first pitch strikes to the Yankee batters but he thought he was smarter   . . . . . . . .    and forgot it was a team effort   . . . . . . . .    once the opposition got wind of this he’s started to see nothing but breaking stuff and his numbers are regressing to where they should be     . . . . . . . .     Oh but he’s a clutch hitter   . . . . . . .   wrong   . . . . . . .    he never was     . . . . . .     no one is    . . . . . .    maybe Manny      . . . . . . . .   maybe.

The problem is everybody started to imitate Cano and now we have a team that swings at anything that moves within the confines of the Bronx and then patiently strikes out LOOKING.

According to Teixeira “we just have to do the little things that win close games” while Swisher says that we “just have to get a good night sleep and come back tomorrow ready to do battle and play better.”

OK THEN     . . . . . . . .    LET’S GET GOING.

Just forget about the 4 game losing streak or the 4 game winning streak   . . . . . . .    it is done ONE game at a time.

"When it clicks it's going to be ridiculous," said Burnett. "Nobody's panicked. But once our pitching and hitting get on the same page, watch out."

Says the Zen master: “We shall see.”

I’ve been a Manny Ramirez fan longer than I’ve been an Arod fan.

But more shocking than that is to read about Pujols reaction to the news: “I’m here to talk about the Saint Louis Cardinals, not the Dodgers.”

Is that weak or what? I always thought that Pujols and Ortiz would be caught long before Arod or Manny. Ortiz for obvious reasons his profile says GUILTY and Pujols because his words always betrayed him.  When people were discussing the Bonds situation he made it clear he was 100 % in Bonds corner and every time there was a discussion about PED’s Pujols always took a different route than most baseball stars it was always like “I’m here to talk about baseball” and the roid’s rage was always more evident with Pujols than with the rest (Papy or Arod or Giambi or Pedro for instance) but the Missouri Free Press has always been more forgiving than in New York or any other city for that matter no wonder he loves playing in St. Louis.

The other piece of information I’ve heard regarding Pujols was one sports writer saying than Pujols was 100 % muscle no fat. I’ve heard than before regarding the NFL players and having been close to College sports I’ve heard the same thing regarding college football, baseball and softball players.

Have you ever seen Pujols butt (how about those thighs and calves? ).

How about that bat speed? How about a body that defies the laws of physics like Pedroia with an unbelievable bat speed or the rage of Youkilis and Beckett? Or Papelbon for that matter? All those are clear indications of roids use.

But innocent until proven guilty and that’s the way it should be. I’m bringing Pujols into the discussion because LaRussa has always had that holier than thou attitude like if the champions of the roids generation were miles and miles away from him. It happened right before his eyes and in his clubhouse(s) yet he always pretends he knows nothing about it and at the same time he reminds us he’s so intelligent so scholar like. You can’t have it both ways. This probably has nothing to do with the fact that Buck and McCarver will cover his team’s tracks very well.

We are all in for a rude awakening still.  At least the tests in place although very inadequate in my opinion are catching some players. Check the list of players whose number s have increase exponentially who have a doctors’ permission to take HGH and other components that would make you laugh.

Yet MLB allows for this to happen with the players union’s blessing.

As someone said referring to Roberts book: “It’s all about money.”

The teams, the players and the Networks taking your money, my money every sucker’s money.

All I’m trying to say (in far more words than I should) is that it’s very sad for baseball (about Manny and Arod and Clemens and Giambi and others I won’t mention Sheffield because he still claims his wife put something in his soup that he was not aware of) but we should be ready for more disclosures because people who report on the game are not more honest than the players are.

They were lining up to have their picture taken with Sosa and McGwire while at the same time writing about Baseball golden era now they are the front row journalist telling the whole world they won’t be voting McGwire or Sosa or Bonds or Clemens or Arod or Manny into the HOF.

Do you mean to tell me Bud Sellig didn’t know whose names were on that 104 players list that he handed to his buddy Mitchell? Yeah Right. All this happened during his watch a watch that made him even richer I might add.

Now you know why that book about Arod was rushed to the bookstores? You don’t thing they were alerted to the pending Manny news? Think again.

How many books do you think roberts would have sold if the book came after the Manny bombshell? EXACTLY.