Do you feel emotionally detached?

by Edwantsacracker on May 8, 2008 8:09 AM EDT

NoMaas feels emotionally detached from the team. I'm shocked. How can you emotionally detached from a team that is playing like the Yankees are now. Reasons I'm excited about the Yankees:

1 Mike Mussina - Is Mike Mussina the lynchpin of our team? So many people discounted him as being done, but instead he has changed his style and is pitching well. Extremely well. If he is able to give us 170-180 innings of quality ball alot of the pressure will be taken off the kids. I hope that happens.

2 Mariano Rivera - I know its old news, but shit, the guy is good. And not just oh I'm Mariano Rivera I'm better than everyone else on the planet, so far he has been better than anyone could have expected. Completely dominating hitters.

3 Hideki Matsui - Dude is among the league leaders in batting. Sorry I wanted to trade you. He seems to be ok in the DH role.

4 Melky Cabrera - I always feel good when Melky does well, because he was never really supposed to do well. (I get the same feelings for Aaron Small) He came up to fill in for injuries. He stayed because we liked what we saw. The year started off with Cashman warning him that center field wasn't his, and that he had to battle for his position. Noted and answered.

5 Andy Pettitte - I was worried that we wouldn't be able to put all the bullshit behind us, but Andy comes out just like we never lost a beat. The guys like a quality start machine.

6 Wang - Comes out after a horrible postseason, (I don't blame him for it, I don't think it makes him "not an ace" but it was horrible.) and starts the year beautifully. He is mixing all his pitches to great effect. Instead of relying on the sinker, he has his split, slider, change all working for him. His slider and change are about the same speed with very different breaks on them and will have batters lining up on the Macombs Dam Bridge screaming its not fair.

I psyched when we win, I'm frustrated when our pitcher gives us a quality start and we can't even make it a ballgame by scoring a run, I react badly to blown saves even though I know he's just a rookie. I hate heavy steroid ingested dead weight in the lineup. But one thing I am not is emotionally detached.

Screw you NoMaas I bet Brian Cashman thinks your blog is girly.

Poll

Do you feel emotionally detached?

Yes! I only come to Yankee fan sites to express how much I don't care about this team

6 votes

No! If the Yanks smile, I smile... they hurt, i hurt... they cry, (yankees don't cry)

16 votes

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It's quiet

Last years comeback made it hard for “the season is done they can’t win, they’ll lose next year too” type posts.

However negative views from people with at least 1/2 of their brain working liven up the site.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

by Cbeck3 on May 8, 2008 10:03 AM EDT reply actions

More reasons to be excited

Farnsy, honest.

Veras, Tuesday night he look like he can help.

Rasner.

Phil and IPK will show up.

On the other hand they are talking about 2 Igawa starts.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

by Cbeck3 on May 8, 2008 10:05 AM EDT reply actions

Farnsy ...

I wish Roth wasn’t banished so I could dump on him. Farnsy is going to have a solid season. He’s relaxed, confident and throwing gas on both sides of the plate. He’s actually been a pleasure to watch.

I do think something has to be done about Giambi. I know we owe the guy big coin, but he’s freakin’ dead weight. Same thing with Cano, although he looked alittle better each of the last 2 nights. I’m not loving Ensberg either.

"Baseball is the background music of my life." -George Will

by Ronster22 on May 8, 2008 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Last year

even when they were struggling ARod was blowing up pitchers every night, making them fun to watch. Plus they had a few ARod-led miracle comebacks.

This year, aside from watching Melky, even when they win its more workmanlike than fun, and if they’re down by two runs or more they barely even flirt with rallying back.

The starts of Hughes and IPK, and the injuries to Arod and Posada have definitely taken some air out of the ball, and try as I might its hard to get excited about Mussina, Farnsworth and Rasner.

There’s no reason to believe that there is a lack of effort, but a dead offense makes it look that way sometimes.

Arod can’t get back fast enough, I’m not sure how many more times (if any) I can see Duncan in the cleanup spot.

I’m not emotionally detached, but I’m not excited either. I’m sitting in the theater wondering when the hell the show is gonna start.

"Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankees win."
-- Phil Rizzuto after hearing about the Pope's death

by matthaggs on May 8, 2008 10:22 AM EDT reply actions

A fine assessment

And very similar to how I feel about this team right now. Now that both Hughes and Kennedy are out of the rotation (although I believe Kennedy will be back within a couple of weeks), it definitely takes some of the excitement away for me.

It’s doubly tough when they are replaced by the likes of Rasner and Igawa – two guys that wouldn’t excite their mothers.

It also doesn’t help when two of their best hitters are out of the lineup. They do need to start winning some games with or without these guys because they will be digging themselves into too big of a hole if this keeps up for another couple of weeks.

by anaconda on May 8, 2008 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm a bit detached

but only because I live down near Philly and have to “watch” the Yankees on MLB Gameday.

I think what generates excitement on the Yankees is the fact that they can win games so many different ways. Maybe Wang is unhittable or Jeter makes a great defensive play or A-Rod homers in the ninth. So it’s sometimes hard to see Jeter, Damon, A-Ron, and Giambi come up in scoring situations only to ground out.

In baseball, the difference between a star and a journeyman may only be one hit in ten at bats. There is a fine line between being a good player and being a franchise player. I think half of the Yankees’ starting linup could be franchise players if they were on other teams. Bobby Abreau was that kind of lynchpin on the Phillies, but with the Yankees, he’s a big fish in a huge sea.

Giambi will come around this season or he’ll get replaced by the next phenom. That’s the business. I think the excitement comes from players who give it their all no matter how well they and their team are doing.

by TerraByte on May 8, 2008 12:48 PM EDT reply actions

Ed,

your poll doesn’t have an answer for those of us keeping one eye on the Yankees’ development and one eye on other things, like woodworking or the presidential race. Even so, while I’ve been moving out of the watch-every-game mode, I’ll still be there 3 or 4 games a week, in front of the tube.

Does that make me a bad fan?

Uh oh.

I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. -- El Duque

by LateInningRelief on May 8, 2008 2:23 PM EDT reply actions