Time to Break Out the Catch Phrases

by jscape2000 on Sep 3, 2007 12:58 AM EDT in News Comment 7 comments

Inexcusable is the only word I'm going to use to describe our series loss to the D-Rays. Not that I expect to beat every bad pitcher every time, but I expect to beat bad pitchers most of the time.

Andy is the only pitcher on the team who is any good at holding runners on, so it's not really a surprise to me that aggressive teams like the D-Rays and Angels are our Kryptonite.

So we move on.

Last week, I was merely satisfied by the sweep of Boston. This week, I want two out of three from Seattle.

Speaking of which, they're on a nine game skid and still out performing their Pythag by 5 games.

The Rocket leads off against King Felix (1.40 WHIP), then Ace Wang takes on The Other H. Ramirez (1.78), with Phil Franchise wrapping things up against Jarrod "I'm Not as Disappointing as You Would Think" Washburn (1.41).

As John Sterling will no doubt stress ad nauseum these are playoff games. Nothing else matters at this point. We've got a magic number for the first time all season after having legitimate reason to suspect the Yankees could be playing out the string in September.

"We play today...."

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It was also frustrating

that both the YES commentators and the WCBS dynamic duo kept saying throughout the DRays series how BAD the DRays were. How they led the league in this worse percentage and that bad statistic. Then they kill us. It seems like we try to phone it in when we play them and it gets us. I mean TB is horrible and we (on paper) look unbeatable.

I was at the Stadium last year for the horrible Tampa Bay blowout (TB had a double digit lead) and it looked like we had put some (pretty bad) Little Leaguers on the field. I had brought a friend of mine to his FIRST Yankee game and he kept saying, "These are the STORIED New York Yankees?" I said, "Well this is where they play. I'm not sure where THEY are today."

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Sep 3, 2007 7:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I'd actually argue that the

Yankees dropped 1 of 2 to the DRays. Hughes dropped the first game all on his own. Yankee bats could have once again bailed out a crappy start, but not doing so isn't cause for concern. The shaky status of our # 3 starter and the non-existence of a consistent, credible 4 and 5--well, that is.

Even if we manipulate a 4-man rotation for the remainder of the season, we're still down a pitcher and a half. I'd love to see Kennedy settle the question, or Hughes just settle his early innings. But Rocket appears to need extended rest these days, so I pencil him in as half the # 3.

by chrisNYY on Sep 3, 2007 12:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yup, after today's game,

Clemens is on the 10-days rest regimen.

by chrisNYY on Sep 3, 2007 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

TB second guess

Every team, every player has a let down after a big game or series...when the next opponent is weak. You could see this one coming on Friday and with Phil not showing much, we were never really in the game. Saturday, I thought the bats looked good and it gave Ian a nice first start. Maybe we played harder for the newest of the kiddie corps. I have no explanation for the pain on Sunday. I would have bet the house. So the head to head begins against the M's best pitchers. I can see another sweep in the cloudy crystal ball...and if so I wonder if we play up or down to the competition. We'll see.

Oh those bases on balls. Can anyone here throw strikes???

by mickey07 on Sep 3, 2007 1:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

You have to start to wonder

does it really even matter if this team does make the playoffs? You know the bats are going to tense up in the playoffs again like they have for the last several years, so unless they can find for Pettitte and Wang to alternate starts, backing into the wild card just to be quickly dispatched again doesn't seem to make a damn bit of difference.

Fear the Evil Empire

by pfistyunc on Sep 3, 2007 2:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I guess

you were the one that was confident with St. Louis going into the playoffs with Carpenter and no one else.

I agree it doesn't look promising, but as we have scene the last few years, alot of this is luck and who is hot.

Pride, Power, Cocktease

by ReLaunch on Sep 3, 2007 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is true

I fully admit that I have blocked the StL championship out of my memory since I still cannot fathom how such a terrible team won a ring. A lot is luck, but the Yanks' pitching will be terrible going into October yet again.

Fear the Evil Empire

by pfistyunc on Sep 3, 2007 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs