Topic: Yankees Baseball

I'd like to report abuse to Michael casey. This loon is talking to himself, he's going to hurt himself. Yank (pun intended) these silly forums already !

That might do the trick at first b.

The disparity of the two Baseball Leagues makes for an interesting observation.

If Santana comes to the Yankees he makes them look very good on paper (I know he didn’t come and I’m ok with that) and MAYBE makes us a better contending team. No a much better contender mind you and the reasons are obvious: Tough time at Fenway and not a sure thing against Detroit, putrid against Cleveland (just like Sabathia is against Ortiz and Manny).

Now let’s move to the NL where Santana joins the Mets a good team from last year who couldn’t deliver the final blow and sort of took themselves out of contention at the worst moment.

A whole different scenario takes place. One single individual, agreed, one of the best pitchers in baseball (I don’t know about the best) joins the Mets and Voila! . . .  worry no more he becomes your ticket not only to the Post season but the World Series as well. It is what it is.

This couldn’t illustrate the dramatic difference between these two teams any better. Their two realities are not even close. Could you imagine the Yankees operating in the NL-east and getting Santana to join their current roster? What do you think the odds would be to win the WS for the next 5 years? Exactly.

But that’s not the way it is and those who are thinking “Hey Moron, you are in the AL East. Hello” they are absolutely right and no complains there. We’re trying to build a winning team for the future and that’s also fine with me.

Brian should feel good about himself and feel confident about our “wunderkinder” re-writing history, just leave them alone and don’t subject them to all that craziness that typified Torre’s last year tenure with the Yankees. Desperation will never beat careful planning.

Look at Santana: as great as he is. It took him 8 years to be taken seriously by the Twins (among other teams) and realize he was a special talent and 9 years to finally arrive at MLB and be successful. A Slow starter or MLB teams’ philosophies suck? I’ll pick door No. 2 thank you.

Nonsense is beginning to permeate the tabloids workstations (what took you so long?) like this creepy slime:

“Brian’s fate is now in Hughes hands”.

These pencil pushers agreed that Santana was great only after trying very hard for more than 7 years and only then the tabloids acknowledged he was a very good pitcher (I guess winning those Cy Young’s didn’t hurt either) YET Hughes already is on a short leash so are Kennedy and Joba I suppose.

We’ll be better than last year because:

Joe Girardi is not just getting paid to overlord this team like Torre used to do. This is a thinking Mgr., a working Mgr. (and very intelligent to boot) he does his due diligence not only before every game, every series but also before every season. And all those expensive stars better forget about the country club they used to have and get ready to do battle 162 games a year without putting any extra pressure on themselves, just sheer dedication to the team and to contribute to its record will do.

Unity of purpose, discipline at the plate from one to nine (the system that doesn’t need stars but they also come handy) unlike previous seasons there’s no reason why a man on second or third shouldn’t come home regardless of who’s at the plate and I’m not talking about playing short ball 100% of the time.

Just focus, execute and believe in your abilities, trusting your teammates fully and having instant amnesia for those games that invariable will get out of hand and being able to turn the page re-group and be ready to play to win the next one MATTER-OF-FACTLY. Ready and able to win the close games. Being able to score early and often as well as being able to come from behind and win. Great teams do that and I believe we have a great team. A very unselfish and dedicated team.

Morgan Ensberg hasn’t started playing yet and he already paid the team a great compliment. He said: “it’s great to join a team where every time you’re up they seem to have men on base” and I’d rather hear that than the other clichés thrown about by so many new Yankees year after year: “I’m here to help win another title”, “happy to join the most renowned or storied franchise in baseball history"    Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Topped by Randy’s own: “I know why they brought me here. To win their next world series title and I’m ready”

So as long as the Yankees Brass and ticket paying fans give the team a fair chance the team will be on the right track. Who cares about what all the tabloids freeloaders and the front runners nationwide who never get to go to Yankee stadium to watch a game think? 

Important aspects of the team performance should be deemed relevant and immediately (in most cases) be taken care of. The rest is irrelevant. And let’s treat it like it should be: “annoying static.” “Not mattering in the least towards our goal; winning WS Championships (at least trying very hard to).”

We don’t need any PR job. Yankee Stadium games are still the best ticket in town and we Yankee fans and those corporate free loaders (hey they need to abuse players the way they’re abused 9 to 5 by their corporate bosses, a true fact; the more you make the less politically correct your bosses are) will fill the stadium game after game.

So if the tabloids stop reporting about the team (wouldn’t that be something?) the fans won’t come?  Guys: GET REAL.

We knew the muts will never acknowledge the fact that because of the Yankees decision not to give the farm system away for Santana their savior, he practically fell on Minaya’s lap. An undisputable fact and we’re okay with that.

The spin has already begun and they tell us that they got Santana the premier pitcher in baseball (actually one of them) and all we got is three unproven prospects on our group of starters. That might be true; but give us more credit than that. Not even one out of three?

All I know is, and that’s a fact, our young guns are way ahead of where Santana was one, two, three years after joining Houston’s farm system. Believe it.

Man Oh man! What a night, what a game, what a play!

Intensity won the night, the Giants were the hungrier team (and not by much).

On a night when two great teams left everything on the field, the most courageous one won the night.  Eli Manning the so often vilified Giants QB didn’t panic and in the waning moments of the game kept his poise his wits and after escaping a sure sack he barely ran out of the pocket and connected with Tyree in the most unbelievable sang-froid pass you’ll ever see in a Super Bowl thereby sealing the Patriots fate. It had to be a rendezvous with destiny that Eli and Tyree faithfully kept.

Eli Manning the new Prince of the city.

Way to go GIANTS!  Way to go. Congratulations. Well done!!

Back to Baseball.

Educate me Lupica. You seem to have had  the inside track with unbiased Mitchell and were babbling like an idiot because you wanted to tell but your code of ethics wouldn’t allow it.

This is my problem: McNamee’s lawyers have been chirping non-stop going on the attack on Clemens on the media and the media headed by you has just obliged.

Then yesterday the following happened:  Contrary to what the media had predicted Clemens emerged from his meeting with the House lawyers and he stated that the meeting went well he and his lawyers even went further saying that Clemens told them what he’s been saying all along: No steroids injected by McNamee and no HGH. That fact alone would be surprising enough but get this:   Newspapers reported that upon hearing about what Clemens had just said McNamee lawyers suddenly decided to say nothing and that’s the way it’ll stay for the time being or so it seems.

Since you claim to either being too smart or have an inside track into this affair or being a body language expert or maybe you are relying on intuition. REGARDLESS.

Tell me spin professor, what gives?

Lupica we both know that in a court of law McNamee’s testimony doesn’t stand a chance.

Granted it’s a different standard of proof. But you guys rushed to judgment knowing how Clemens would react (or so you thought) but now the guy gets good counsel and meets with the House and yet he seems undeterred about his version of the facts. Is he a fool or there is more to it than we think we know?

Bruce4Real wrote =  Lupica we both know that in a court of law McNamee’s testimony doesn’t stand a chance. Granted it’s a different standard of proof. But you guys rushed to judgment knowing how Clemens would react (or so you thought) but now the guy gets good counsel and meets with the House and yet he seems undeterred about his version of the facts. Is he a fool or there is more to it than we think we know?=======================================

Somewhere Mike Piazza has a big smile on his face!!! When do the Yankless give back those tainted rings?

So the other shoe dropped. And I was sorry about McNamee and his son (which by the way nobody in the media really cared about). It was all bullshiit.

This is a king size rat, a dealer and a rat. How else do you explain this guy working with the rocket just last season while the rocket “was coming to the Yankees rescue”? It serves Clemens well for being so greedy. But back to the rat. Wasn’t he supposed to tell the whole truth so he could save his a$$?

How do we know all this DNA didn’t come from last season and not from the dates as indicated by the rat? In which case, did he tell the whole truth when asked to do so for WHICH he received IMMUNITY?

What else is he holding back “to help the rocket”? How could someone claim he was worried about the rocket and that’s why he wasn’t willing to ‘fess the entire truth to give the rocket some way out? By keeping all this DNA rich stuff?  So again was he telling the truth when he said he did?

I know this works both ways but the media doesn’t need my help they have already convicted the rocket in their court.

If the muts had any class they would say thanks Hank for giving us Santana. But that would be too much. Invertebrates don’t think that far. But why worry? Evolution takes care of them. Whatever happened to Kherub and his fifty non related “TOPICS”? Oh I see; He/SHE switched handles AGAIN.

Yeah. Evolution.

McNamee is scared stiff he knows his a$$ not Clemens’ is on the line and he’s looking desperate complicating his situation in the process. When the news first came out I felt sorry for the guy but when they started talking about he being a drug pusher I stopped feeling sorry for him. He was desperate and with good reason, a cop going to jail? That’s a no-no.

Listen to his lawyers talking about the new revelations:

“Brian kept all this material because he was afraid Roger was going to throw him under the bus”. Clarify something for me:  McNamee was being investigated for pushing steroids and other PED’s and he decided to give the Rocket instead, so who’s throwing who under the bus? 

The fact that he waited until now to provide this bloody material to the House lawyers (keeping this important evidence from Mitchell under oath) has all the appearance of entrapment. So much for good faith.

He was so thankful to Clemens that he wanted to make sure he’ll get Roger one way or another. So much also for the moral character and reliability of the star witness. He belongs in jail for being a pusher and for obstructing justice by manipulating evidence.  Whatever happened to chain of custody (of the evidence)?

People are saying this is a sick individual I say he’s a cold calculating felon who knew what he  was doing and decided to turn Roger in a callous manner. Remember the tape? “You tell me what to do! It looks so phony and distant now. Yeah You tell me what to do!

I no longer have any sympathy for this guy, whatever he gets he deserves, because he should be prosecuted for not being entirely truthful to the prosecutors who were after him and gave him immunity.

The Mitchell report’s stench just grew worse.

What a bummer. Girlie Curt (the one who gave us that croak about pitching the day after some carpenter crudely stapled one of his tendons to his ankle . .OUCH!!!) won’t be able to pitch this season.

I guess he’ll take those $8 Mill. from the sux as a down payment on their funding of Curt’s next endeavor: A fiercely brutal baseball video game. What a guy!

He’ll probably ask for those incentives in the contract to be paid because he tried but couldn’t fulfill his side of the bargain due to force majeure (his lack of cojones).