Baseball 2012 (3 Viewers)

Fusilier said:
Speaking of the Yankees and home runs, I heard that the team scored over 48% of their runs by the long ball this year. That's unreal! Of course, it also kind of explains their woes now. Without the home run, they don't seem to have anything. That Yanks can't manufacture a run if they wanted to.

Noah
Click to expand...

So far in 7 playoff games/67 innings, the Yankees have managed to score multiple runs in TWO of those 67 innings; they got 4 off of the Orioles closer in game 1 in the 9th inning, and 4 off of Valverde in the bottom of the 9th in game 1.

That is incredible to be honest.

And speaking of incredible, that Valverde meltdown in game 1 was the second most unbelievable inning I've ever seen in the MLB playoffs, the first was the game 6 meltdown by the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series.

Nothing will ever top that one.
 
Yankees problems are the 0fers
Cano , Rodriguez , Swissher and Granderson are 8 for 109
how can a team win with those 0fers
 
Solid win by the Giants last night. They brought their "A" game and it showed. My Cards were flat, looking at little like the Yankees with their inept offense! Didn't really agree with Holliday's slide into second base which took out Scutaro and broke up the double play. Seemed a little excessive. Some people may say "That's baseball", but I didn't really like it.

Noah
 
As if things aren't bad enough for Arod at the plate, at least he doesn't have a cold streak with the opposite sex.

A-Rod’s attention was elsewhere Saturday night after he was pulled for Eric Chavez in the bottom of the eighth, according to the New York Post.

While New York was headed into extra innings thanks to Raul Ibanez’s ninth-inning heroics, Rodriguez “openly flirted” with two women behind the home dugout, the Post reported.

A-Rod wrote a message on a baseball asking for their numbers and had a ball boy act as courier, a witness told the paper. One obliged after reading the note to nearby fans, the observer said.

“One of the girls, with darker blond hair, wrote … on the ball and threw it back at A-Rod, who gave her a big smile,” the witness said.

The Post’s Yankee Stadium gawker said A-Rod and the woman “exchanged a few glances after that,” but he got his head back in the game “once Derek Jeter got hurt.”
 
jazzeum said:
As if things aren't bad enough for Arod at the plate, at least he doesn't have a cold streak with the opposite sex.

A-Rod’s attention was elsewhere Saturday night after he was pulled for Eric Chavez in the bottom of the eighth, according to the New York Post.

While New York was headed into extra innings thanks to Raul Ibanez’s ninth-inning heroics, Rodriguez “openly flirted” with two women behind the home dugout, the Post reported.

A-Rod wrote a message on a baseball asking for their numbers and had a ball boy act as courier, a witness told the paper. One obliged after reading the note to nearby fans, the observer said.

“One of the girls, with darker blond hair, wrote … on the ball and threw it back at A-Rod, who gave her a big smile,” the witness said.

The Post’s Yankee Stadium gawker said A-Rod and the woman “exchanged a few glances after that,” but he got his head back in the game “once Derek Jeter got hurt.”
Click to expand...
LOL. I suspect that being a sports hero, with huge money, that A-Rod would have to resemble Quasimodo in order to strike out with the opposite sex (and maybe not even then).:wink2: -- Al
 
Yankees have just announced the lineup and it's almost mind boggling: no Arod and Nunez is playing ss. I could play better ss than him. Arod could play better ss with his left hand than Nunez. The guy is an error waiting to happen. They must be trying to run Arod out of town or something.

No Swisher.
 
jazzeum said:
Yankees have just announced the lineup and it's almost mind boggling: no Arod and Nunez is playing ss. I could play better ss than him. Arod could play better ss with his left hand than Nunez. The guy is an error waiting to happen. They must be trying to run Arod out of town or something.

No Swisher.
Click to expand...

The local sports talk radio are indicating this must have come down from above. Cashman (correctly) never wanted to resign A-Rod when he opted out of his contract, and apparently has Hal Steinbrenner and Randy Levine's approval to run him out of town. This appears to be a campaign to so humiliate A-Rod that he will wave his no trade clause and accept a trade to the Dodgers or Marlins, with the Yankees continuing to pay the lions share of his salary.

Swisher is obviously also not being re-signed (good riddance to one of the worst post-season performers of all time!).

The line up tonight is a message to Cano and Granderson - produce this postseason or they will also not be re-signed (in the case of Cano - a bad decision as he has produced in past postseasons) or have the option picked up on their contract.
 
As if things can't get any worse, Hughes was just taken out with an apparent injury.
 
So the baby is up and aint going back to sleep anytime soon so I tune in to the game via my computer. I am watching the gameday sequence in the 9th and see the pinch runner come in with 2 outs. Now logic says he will be running as soon as the game resumes to get to second and be in scoring distance. So what happens he sits there picking his nose and the next hitter gets a single, should have been a tie game at that point and on to extra innings nope. They have the new Mr sorta clutch come up. Unfortunately Raul strikes out to end the game. Someone needs to smack these guys around and show them how to play small ball again. Even the badnews bears could have made a run in that situation... Well at least the agony will be over in a day or so and its on to the hot stove and lets see what stupid deals they try to make in the post season. Not a happy fan at this point. Just waiting to hear what George has to say{sm4} that always makes me laugh.

Dave
 
The sun is setting on New York and Eastern baseball for 2012 and in a game or two we will be in the grips of the hot stove. With the way things have transpired in the last week, I'm sure the number one topic will be what it has been for the last week: Arod. The Yankees would probably like to get rid of him, whether he inititates it or they trade him. However, he has a no trade clause, not to mention the Yankees would probably need to absorb most of it.
 
Hi Brad,

I agree with you on the season! Maybe we'll see the Yankees eek out a win tonight but its really doubtful. As for A-rod I say send him to the minors and be done with it No need to trade him if they do that. He can sit the bench or play AAA but I just dont see the need to put the guy on the field if he cant do it in October.

Dave
 
Dave,

It's been an incredible end to the season around here and even for non-baseball fans what Arod does or doesn't do is big news. No one could have predicted how things would develop or that they might even be swept.

After another listless performance in the playoffs I'm sure that management will want to shake things up but there may be a limit to do what they can do. Maybe it's just a function that it's an older team. Time marches on for everybody.

Brad
 
DMNamiot said:
So the baby is up and aint going back to sleep anytime soon so I tune in to the game via my computer. I am watching the gameday sequence in the 9th and see the pinch runner come in with 2 outs. Now logic says he will be running as soon as the game resumes to get to second and be in scoring distance. So what happens he sits there picking his nose and the next hitter gets a single, should have been a tie game at that point and on to extra innings nope. They have the new Mr sorta clutch come up. Unfortunately Raul strikes out to end the game. Someone needs to smack these guys around and show them how to play small ball again. Even the badnews bears could have made a run in that situation... Well at least the agony will be over in a day or so and its on to the hot stove and lets see what stupid deals they try to make in the post season. Not a happy fan at this point. Just waiting to hear what George has to say{sm4} that always makes me laugh.

Dave
Click to expand...

Have to give the Yankees bullpen credit last night Dave, they shut the door for the most part on the Tigers after Hughes had to leave the game. Verlander wasn't really at the top of his game last night, they had some chances to get to him and couldn't.

The slump the entire team is in outside of Ichiro and Raul "Get me up to the plate in the 9th so I can hit a home run" Ibanez is incredible; do you have Sterlings call on that one last night too Brad so I can listen to it? Oh yeah, he waived at a nasty slider and struck out, so nevermind. I guess Raul was not so cool last night, right Sterling?

The only shot the Yankees had last night was for Valverde to come into the game, he'd have handed them two runs for sure in that spot.

The season comes down to Sherman Klump pitching his massive behind off to force a game 5, then Andy "I'm 112 years old and still pitching in the big leagues without any chemical assistance" Pettitte gets the ball.

If they win the next four and pull this off, you'll make history as no team in the history of MLB has ever come back from being down 0-3 in the.......................whoops, forgot about 2004.

Nevermind; you'll be the second team to do it if it happens.

I hope they somehow pull it off and move on and win the world series; Louis and his kids haven't been to the canyon of heroes to see a parade in what, 7 months now, seems like an eternity.
 
I have to admit George, that Canyon of Heroes parade reference was freakin' hysterical!^&grin
 
George if you ever need a reference to do color commentary for ESPN let me know because you rock! {sm4}

I will agree also that the Yankees Bull Pen has work pretty hard with nearly no offense to get them this far. Would love to see it go further but they just arent in it to win it this time.

Dave
 
jazzeum said:
As if things aren't bad enough for Arod at the plate, at least he doesn't have a cold streak with the opposite sex.

A-Rod’s attention was elsewhere Saturday night after he was pulled for Eric Chavez in the bottom of the eighth, according to the New York Post.

While New York was headed into extra innings thanks to Raul Ibanez’s ninth-inning heroics, Rodriguez “openly flirted” with two women behind the home dugout, the Post reported.

A-Rod wrote a message on a baseball asking for their numbers and had a ball boy act as courier, a witness told the paper. One obliged after reading the note to nearby fans, the observer said.

“One of the girls, with darker blond hair, wrote … on the ball and threw it back at A-Rod, who gave her a big smile,” the witness said.

The Post’s Yankee Stadium gawker said A-Rod and the woman “exchanged a few glances after that,” but he got his head back in the game “once Derek Jeter got hurt.”
Click to expand...

This is one of the women Arod was making eyes at.

 
Louis Badolato said:
I have to admit George, that Canyon of Heroes parade reference was freakin' hysterical!^&grin
Click to expand...

Louis; as you and I have discussed many times, I view sports as nothing more than the toy department of life, 99% of what say is meant in a comical way, you can't get to wrapped up in this stuff, your life is not any better if your team wins or any worse if it loses, there are FAR more important things in life to worry about.
 
DMNamiot said:
George if you ever need a reference to do color commentary for ESPN let me know because you rock! {sm4}

I will agree also that the Yankees Bull Pen has work pretty hard with nearly no offense to get them this far. Would love to see it go further but they just arent in it to win it this time.

Dave
Click to expand...

Thanks Dave, you've got your horse going tonight, so there is still a chance, if Cano and others wake up, who knows what will happen, some guys just melt in the pressure, others thrive in it...................
 
jazzeum said:
This is one of the women Arod was making eyes at.

Click to expand...

Say what you want about A-Rod, but give him credit; the man knows talent when he sees it.

Outstanding; wonder what his current girlfriend thinks of all of this..............
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 4 (members: 0, guests: 4)
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2024 XenForo Ltd.
Back
Top