I felt bad for Luis. Anytime I see this kind of massive blunder on a big stage, it makes me think of all of the lives ruined in baseball by singular moments.

If you look at the history baseball has a long list of players who have never been able to overcome the stigma of being labeled a “botcher”. Seriously a lot of these guys have become recluses like Buckner moving to the desert of Idaho or the Angels relief pitcher Donnie Ray Moore. Donny according to a NYT article “was obsessed, according to some friends, with the failure of not recording the third strike that would have won the pennant for the Angels in the 1986 playoffs”. He ended up shooting himself and his wife three years later.

I’ll take the win, but lay off the guy who makes such a horrible mistake that there is nothing anyone can say worse than the tortured thoughts on his pillow every night.

But Girardi was getting a ton of flak even on this website for not bringing in his best reliever in a tied game in Boston. I would rather have seen Coke try to get the last out of the eighth, but Girardi wanted his best pitcher in against Beltran, which I can kind of understand. I think it doesn’t matter what Girardi does; if it goes wrong, it’s a bad decision. If it goes right, nobody cares.

That’s really the only issue I have with him: bullpen management. That’ll get better if they can get/find a dependable setup guy. I think you’re right in that the future of this bullpen is more in Cashman’s hands than Girardi’s.

Q: Tied in the 8th at home?
A: Mo.

Otherwise, you’re arguing that Mariano should only pitch at Yankee Stadium if the Yanks are leading in the 9th.

LOL, I know it wasn’t you, but people argued that Mo should be brought in on Thursday after CC.

Now he brings him in, now he’s dumb?

Please….

What message does it send to the rest of the relievers? Mo is now the 8th and 9th inning guy? Mo’s job is to CLOSE the game. What does he do when he comes in when the score is tied? He gets beat. Girardi has made a whole bunch of terrible moves in the last week. Setting up the rotation for a series in Boston in June? Throwing Wang against two of baseballs best offenses(Texas and Boston), and tonight Mo in the 8th. Girardi over thinks and it contiues to cost this team. This is why they play tight against the good teams.

up until the last couple years, the Yanks have always had some of the best coaches in baseball…now who the hell do we have? crafty Cone would be a great pitching coach!

Its what happens with young pitchers. The Yankees won.

Who’s to say he’ll be dominant again in the pen? What happens if this bullpen thin is epidemic? ALL these guys in the pen at one point were pretty damn good for a period of time, now they all suck.

Give it a break with the Joba to the pen. Cuz if he’s in the pen, who the hell starts? Don’t tell me Hughs, he pulls the same crap.

about Mo.