What a Shitty Night!!!
It is not the fact that the Yankees lost in the divisional series, it is always how they lose that pisses me off. They do so many things blatantly wrong and wind up shooting themselves in the ass. I am not here to take anything away from the Angels; they are a great baseball team and made all the plays when they needed too. One note on the Angels; I think the whole Bartolo Colon thing was bullshit. This same thing happened with Boomer Wells for the Yankees. Someone has to figure out whether this guy is hurt or not before the ball game. You can’t go out there and say 4 outs into the game, “Well Skip, sorry, I ain’t got it!” You put your manager and your team in a precarious situation, and it is unfair to them.
But I digress, back to my shitty Yankees. How many times have we watched this kind of performance from Mike Mussina in the post-season? A bunch that I can remember, a few years ago he lost every game 1 of the three series they played, only to be saved by the fact Andy Pettitte saved the team in game 2. But we no longer have Andy Pettitte because he likes Jesus and Bibles so Steinbrenner thinks he is weak. In the second inning with a 2 run lead and a 3-1 count on Garrett Anderson, Mussina who was shaking off fastballs from Posada all night, accepts Posada’s sign to throw a low inside fastball, to a lefty like Garrett Anderson. Well any intelligent baseball fan knows that is a lefties power zone, and what did Anderson do with it? Deposited it in the right field stands. Why would you throw that pitch? Honestly, they showed Posada giving the sing and I got out of my chair and was screaming “NO!!!” before he threw it, you can ask the Camel Jockey’s who live downstairs.
As good as the Yankees have been they have been a shitty defensive team. Everyone is talking about Bubby Crosby and Gary Sheffield running into each other and that being the pivotal play of the game. Did anyone else see what I saw on the replay? Gary Sheffield had already missed the ball; it hit off his wrist and was bounding away from him before he made contact with Crosby.
Then there was the anemic Yankee offense, the one thing you could count on all season long. This is the thing they had, a ferocious offense. Boy that was so not evident in this series. You see the fact that with all their expensive hitters they have no role players, no situational hitters. Alex Rodriguez will obviously take all of the blame for the Yankees lack of success; he did not drive in a single run. But because they have so many “great” hitters you have a guy like A-Rod batting second. Derek Jeter got on base three times last night, normally one of those times (maybe even in the first inning) if you had a number 2 hitter who was struggling (i.e. A-Rod) you may have him sacrifice Jeter over. However, you can’t ask a hitter of A-Rod’s caliber to bunt, instead you watch him swing away, poorly. What about Giambi, Sheffield and Matsui? Giambi did not do much in the way of knocking guys in, especially in the 5th when Jeter and A-Rod got on to lead of the inning. Then there was Gary Sheffield who is perhaps the worst situational hitter in baseball. His problem is all he is ever trying to do is to pull everything in the air, that’s hit, could you picture him hitting behind a runner (well he sort of did in the second inning, but that was clearly because he was fooled on the pitch). Then comes Hideki Matsui, while A-Rod will take all the blame, and even amount belongs to Matsui, who up until this series had been a clutch hitter for the Yankees. Well last night alone he left 8 runners on, 8 of the Yankees 11. All series he sat there and took fastballs and then popped up breaking balls, again like Sheffield never even making productive outs.
If it was up to me, and it certainly isn’t these are the guys I would have back in the Yankees roster, and in the dugout. Jeter, A-Rod, Cano, Giambi, Matsui, Small, Chacon, Big Unit, Rivera, and Girardi replacing Torre & Tommy John for Stottelmyre. I understand that we are going to have to have Jaret Wright and his partner in uselessness Carl Pavano back too.
What a shitty night, for the Yankees and other things. If my week would have went Sunday to Tuesday, skipping over the events of Monday that would have been great.
But I digress, back to my shitty Yankees. How many times have we watched this kind of performance from Mike Mussina in the post-season? A bunch that I can remember, a few years ago he lost every game 1 of the three series they played, only to be saved by the fact Andy Pettitte saved the team in game 2. But we no longer have Andy Pettitte because he likes Jesus and Bibles so Steinbrenner thinks he is weak. In the second inning with a 2 run lead and a 3-1 count on Garrett Anderson, Mussina who was shaking off fastballs from Posada all night, accepts Posada’s sign to throw a low inside fastball, to a lefty like Garrett Anderson. Well any intelligent baseball fan knows that is a lefties power zone, and what did Anderson do with it? Deposited it in the right field stands. Why would you throw that pitch? Honestly, they showed Posada giving the sing and I got out of my chair and was screaming “NO!!!” before he threw it, you can ask the Camel Jockey’s who live downstairs.
As good as the Yankees have been they have been a shitty defensive team. Everyone is talking about Bubby Crosby and Gary Sheffield running into each other and that being the pivotal play of the game. Did anyone else see what I saw on the replay? Gary Sheffield had already missed the ball; it hit off his wrist and was bounding away from him before he made contact with Crosby.
Then there was the anemic Yankee offense, the one thing you could count on all season long. This is the thing they had, a ferocious offense. Boy that was so not evident in this series. You see the fact that with all their expensive hitters they have no role players, no situational hitters. Alex Rodriguez will obviously take all of the blame for the Yankees lack of success; he did not drive in a single run. But because they have so many “great” hitters you have a guy like A-Rod batting second. Derek Jeter got on base three times last night, normally one of those times (maybe even in the first inning) if you had a number 2 hitter who was struggling (i.e. A-Rod) you may have him sacrifice Jeter over. However, you can’t ask a hitter of A-Rod’s caliber to bunt, instead you watch him swing away, poorly. What about Giambi, Sheffield and Matsui? Giambi did not do much in the way of knocking guys in, especially in the 5th when Jeter and A-Rod got on to lead of the inning. Then there was Gary Sheffield who is perhaps the worst situational hitter in baseball. His problem is all he is ever trying to do is to pull everything in the air, that’s hit, could you picture him hitting behind a runner (well he sort of did in the second inning, but that was clearly because he was fooled on the pitch). Then comes Hideki Matsui, while A-Rod will take all the blame, and even amount belongs to Matsui, who up until this series had been a clutch hitter for the Yankees. Well last night alone he left 8 runners on, 8 of the Yankees 11. All series he sat there and took fastballs and then popped up breaking balls, again like Sheffield never even making productive outs.
If it was up to me, and it certainly isn’t these are the guys I would have back in the Yankees roster, and in the dugout. Jeter, A-Rod, Cano, Giambi, Matsui, Small, Chacon, Big Unit, Rivera, and Girardi replacing Torre & Tommy John for Stottelmyre. I understand that we are going to have to have Jaret Wright and his partner in uselessness Carl Pavano back too.
What a shitty night, for the Yankees and other things. If my week would have went Sunday to Tuesday, skipping over the events of Monday that would have been great.
6 Comments:
Go cry in your HUGE bowl of soup!!!!!
Yes, A-Rod will take all the blame. And it's because he is paid so much, and is "the best player in the game, right now." Well, the best player in the game should produce, even if the other guys are struggling. Jeter did his job, the others didn't, but Sheff, Matsui, Crosy, Cano, Mussina, Johnson, and all those others aren't labeled as the "best player in baseball." Maybe A-Rod should just come out and say, "I'm good, until I have to be", and then maybe he won't get so much blame for the Spankees sucking in the post-season.
OK, first off. these ad posts that pop up are annoying loyal readers like myself, although there is little way to rid them, like commercials and TiVo...
The Yankees lost because the Angels were the better team. Yes, Giambi, Sheff and Hi-dek Mat-su are paid to produce, but the team between LA and San Diego pays their players, like Erwin Santana, to get people out and the young kid came up nasty, what with mixing a 93-plus fastball with a dropping curve. Give some credit when credit is due like Kris.
Why is the blame going squarely to A-Rod? So he's the best player in the game? Last time I checked, this is a team game. Kris may be fat, but he's right. The Yanks needed Cano batting second and giving away at bats with sacrifice bunts. They needed hitters to produce productive outs and show hustle on the bases.
They did not do this because the Boss didn't build his team to play that way. He built a team in the model of Earl Weaver - pitching and the 3-run homer. Unfortunetly, he paid for last year's pitching stats and with Unit, he paid for the D-Backs using pitching to send him home that year.
He's paying for what Yankee fans realize, but don't like to admit. Cashman is a great GM and will leave for Philadelphia, but when they took the power from Stick Michaels, they let The Joker run Arkum and that never works. Batman eventually figures out a way to beat him by using his greatest strenght and making it a weakness.
We might be watching the decline of this era's greatest baseball dynasty. Sure, people want to say the Braves, but they only have one title. Torre and the Yanks have, what 4 in the past 10 years with 8 WS appearances to match?
He'll leave and with it, the era of the Yanks as the premier organization in MLB will begin to fade. I'm not saying they won't win, but it will never be like it was before.
Reality OUT
Since when does post season play have any factor in who wins the MVP award or any award for that matter??? In the regular season, Arod had just as many game tying or game winning hits as Ortiz had, so that arguement isn't really holding any water either.
I'm not exactly sure what that Reality person is talking about but, anybody who uses a Batman reference is okay in my book! I would love for Cashman to come to the Phils but they'll find a way to screw that up.
TF
Hey,
At least the Yanks didn't get screwed over by the umps like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Orange County which is between LA County and San Diego but is close to DisneyLand in the southern part of California, but not too close to Mexico did. I think I got their whole name, but I might have missed something.
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