Game 12: Cleveland at New York

My damn LCD tv went out and the repair guy can’t make it til monday. Can’t really tell by the online play by play. 2 in air usually isn’t good.

2 on no outs and 3-1 count

Is there a reason he is only topping out at 90? He used to hit 94-96

He keeps getting fouled off. His sinker STILL doesn’t sink and his FB is topping out at 90mph. With that stuff you are gonna get CREEEEAMED.

Not worried about his Sinker, that will come along. I am worried about his velocity.

Well yeah, Buck is a moron. With his 94-96 mph speed he has two 19 game winning seasons under his belt and went 8-2 last season. The reason he needs to keep his velocity is so when he throws a 96 mph heater its hard to hit, when he throws a low 90’s sinker the difference from his heater make it even harder.

But he needs to go down to AAA for a few weeks and get that Velocity up and the sinker down. Bring up Hughes for a couple starts to help get Wang’s mind and body right.

All his pitches are 90mph. That ain’t gonna work for him. You throw a 90mph anything and big league hitters are gonna knock it around. His strength was mid 90s fastball to throw the timing off his sinkers.

I feel for him. They need to send him down. Build up his confidence. We can’t give up 5-6 runs every start of his. Get Hughes up to take 2 -3 starts.

Joe Morgan? Joe Buck? Or Tim Macarver? I hate them all uniquely.

How ignorant is Yankee skipper. Your pitcher is awful and you wait till 7 runs to get someone up. This is not slow pitch.

We do not get Yankees on TV here and now they stink it up on national feed. Will be back to yahoo trying to find out scores.

Better to get all these kinks out NOW in April as opposed to October. We need Wang, we need him to get mentally right. If he can no longer throw in the mid 90’s I think he is done. Sinkerball is a touch pitch, if you don’t have you good sinker working and only have a 90mph fastball as your backup you are in serious trouble.

They need to figure away to fill those thousand dollar seats up. It is ashame and turns me off a little from the organization that you charge so much for tickets and then on a Sat game have empty seats.

The Yanks gave up 14 or more runs in a single inning?

Even if the Yanks lose (duh) and the Sox win we still have a game on them. Let’s not panic yet. 4 out of 5 pitchers are either doing well or good enough. Wang obviously is not ready, he needs some time in AAA and someone to really work on his mechanics and confidence. Plus it would be great to see Hughes up for a few weeks and get his confidence up. If we pay .500 ball in April I will be thrilled considering losing A-Rod and getting the new guys butterflies out of their stomachs.

But I am a bit sad that these days a regular Joe has to spend 60-90 bucks a game to get an ok seat. I am flying home to catch a couple games with old friends and we are looking at 80 buck seats for what is a mediocre seat. You have these millionaires and corporations buying these boxes and no one is sitting in these seats? I think the Yankees really need to tell these ticket holders, for every game none of your tickets are used we are charging you a use fee. I bet those seats would magically get filled.

Well it seems to me Molina calls a better game, period. BUT you can’t have a lineup that has Molina, Ransom and Gardner batting 7,8,9. But when A-Rod comes back you can at least have Posada DH more and have Molina catch more. Actually when there is a Left handed starter Molina should always start. He is terrible against RHP but decent against LHP. Sit Matsui out since he is a lefty and have Posada bat DH. Matsui is gonna have to prove he can DH, watching him swing has been painful, he is way out in front. He needs to get his knees right and platoon DH with Posada. Posada needs to be backup catcher next season and full time DH and Matsui as much as I love him has to go.

These guys are gonna need a massage and week off soon.

If we send wang down to get straightened out and call up hughes, what are our options for a seventh inning guy since joba would have to stay in the starting rotation?

He has had the 3 worst consecutive starts I have EVER seen in my life. Does anyone know if there has been worse??? What a nightmare!!! He can’t make another start untill he goes to AAA to work things out!

It is very simple, since Wang has an era approaching the price of a bleacher ticket, you need to give him a VERY short rope this game. The second he gave up 4 he should have been pulled. All you are doing by leaving him in is destroying his confidence further and making the hole unclimbable. Wang needs to go take a shower, go to the kitchen and get a snack for his ride down to Trenton.

and Who the F**K is Clagget?

i bet arods real bummed he not getting to play in the blowout.

The Sox are playing subpar too. Listen, in August and Sept this will all be a silly memory. I have faith Wang will get back to decent form sometime this season. Worse case scenario, Hughes comes up for awhile. Our pen has been over worked, CC will settle, AJ seems to fit in fine, Andy is Andy and Joba’s pitching ok, he needs to just recapture that pinpoint control and all will be ok. We don’t need any miracle seasons from anyone which is the strength of such a good lineup and rotation. On the bright notes, Swisher is more than capable of taking Nady’s spot, Cano seems to be back on track and 08 was a blip. The things that make me nervous is Matsui’s knees and Damon’s inability to track balls in LF. We basically have a bunch of CFers.

The most humiliating loss in ages and we aren’t even outta the 5th. Luckily the only people left watching are the people that refuse to walk out after paying 90 bucks for bleacher seats. Most of the people that own those million dollar boxes probably didn’t even know there was a game going on and probably think Chien Ming Wang is some sorta Pacific Rim hedge fund.

Im almost starting to think this team might be worse than last years team??? 4 blowout loses in the frist 2 weeks of the season and we already had to use or right fielder to pitch!! It may be early but this team is looking very subpar, again!! And like last year they can’t score with RISP!!

ESPNEWS is saying that they wouldn’t be surprised if Wang ends up on the DL before his next scheduled start. Enter Phil Hughes. And there still is the issue with the bullpin. Is it just me, or is being a yankee fan very stressful at times?

Chien-Ming Wang is a one-trick pony as a pitcher, and if the trick doesn’t work? Joe G. does not seem to get it

The Yankees right now are the laughing stock of Baseball. If I was a Sox fan I would be delighted. The highest payroll in baseball and we have a game like this. Nothing seems to be going right other than Mo, Swisher and Cano. We have the most expensive Stadium ever and we can’t fill the damn thing. The Yankees need to dig deep and decide what kind of team they are.