He should be parking cars by now…career 4.70 ERA, wearing pinstripes, good heavens!
Just get us a new Manager, Joe is in way over his head, coaches have no respect outside of Pena. Who else is out there right now? I mean I say Pena becuase I am not sure but guys like Leyland, Larussa, Showalter, Randolph, Tom Kelly would be decent fits…bring their own guys in…Tomko can enlist Eiland and Long in to help polish the cars when he’s done parking them.

this Giardi fellow needs to go, whoever he may be.

Girardi has done fine so far. I really can’t understand the constant criticism of him, but that’s NY for you. Even a 4 time champion wasn;’t even allowed to stay cuz the fans wanted him gone…..

I will always say give him until the end of the season to asses.

I don’t think its WS or die, cuz that’s a horrible way to think (and ignorant too), but he at least needs to make the playoffs and they need to be competitive (if a series goes the whole way and they lose then I have no problem with that.

i will say this too, i do like joe and he is a NL manager, young team also, good point…but not for this team and now now

i get the feeling a decision soon, with something, cant go on like this

maybe they will raise ticket prices again or cash will sign Hideki Irabu

I can certainly agree that Joe’s days should be (and probably are) numbered. His attempt to call the game from the dugout doesn’t make sense. Further, he seems equal to Torre in not understanding just what a bullpen is for. But please, stop telling us how great Torre was. He didn’t do a thing. He inherited a fine young bunch anyone could have managed, and when he had to start managing after three or four years, he flopped year after year after year. Now I realize I am a minority of one in this, but let’s allow him his years in LA, enter the Hall and retire. Job 1, get us a manager! How about Mattingly. NY’s problem is that George got old!

what happened to the attitude we had coming out of spring training? The team has had one serious winning run this year so far. Aside from that, we trail by 4 in the AL East, lead by 1 in the Wild Card, and I’m getting the sense Tampa Bay is going to get healthy and turn it on. Then what?

the OF left to right Damon, Gardner,Melky……….I like the ground Gardner covers. Yeah he’s got spaghetti for an arm, but Swisher on defense is a blooper reel. Since Posada is the everyday catcher pretty much, why not DH Swisher? And when Cervelli is in there, bench Swisher,DH Posada.

And replace with whom? Who would be BETTER and WHY? Answer that and then I can answer if it’s time for him to go.

JoeG is a likeable guy, but maybe not THE guy to lead the 09 yanks and beyond. Not so sure I like the job of his coaches either (hitting and bullpen). And Torre….please, Buck Show built that team of the 90’s and it was gift wrapped for Torre to win the first half dozen years. What did he do in the 00 decade? only decline year after year !! As far as the pitching, we need Joba back in the pen and leave him there, with Aceves doing the middle work it gives us 3 go to guys, Joba, Bruney, and Mo, then when we get into trouble in the 5th or 6th or 7th we could use a Joba or Bruney to get out of the inning before too much damage is done and still have 2 guns left for the finish. Let Phil H start, and allow him to grow the confidence that its his job to loose. And as far as the lineup, try turning Tex and Arod around, what Arod did for Tex in May/early June maybe Tex can do for Arod to get him going. So bat Arod 3rd and Tex 4th so teams can’t pitch around Tex to get to a slumping Arod. Sorry, but I agree that JoeG needs to go, maybe an old true Yankee like Willie Randolph can finish out the season and turn this team around.

Fire Girardi and bring back BUCK

Wang would be bullpen all the way until he proved he could be a starter again…0-6 is a no no…

Once again, I’m glad that Girardi is managing this team and not you. Cano hitting second? Are you kidding? So you want a free-swinger who rarely walks hitting in front of Tex and A-Rod? Cano’s OBP is about .330, while Damon and Swisher are both over .360. That is why Damon, and sometimes Swisher, hit second in the lineup, to get on base for Tex and A-Rod to drive them in.

Now, Cano is a great hitter, although sometimes impatient, which is why he’s important as the #5 hitter. He needs to provide protection for A-Rod so people don’t just walk him everytime he comes up. Cano has been OK this year, but not up to his ability. He really needs to start coming through with runners in scoring position. Posada isn’t a horrible choice to hit 5th, but Cano is really the better hitter at this point, although I’d say the margin is very slim.

And please stop with the Joba to the bullpen crap. It’s not going to happen, and it shouldn’t happen seeing as how statistically he’s our 2nd best pitcher so far this year.

And to the person who criticized Girardi for having Mo walk Longoria, why WOULDN’T you walk him? First base was open, and Longoria was far and away the best hitter in the league at that point in the season. It would be dumb to pitch to him, even with Mo pitching, and give him a chance to hurt you. The move ended up not working, but it was the right choice, IMO.

1) There are many new faces here. It takes some time for a team to gel
2) ARod out for a 2 months
3) Wang with zero wins
4) Girardi has no control of what happens to Joba.
5) Girardi didn’t sign Tomko
6) Early woes in the bullpen
7) CC, and Burnett yet to bring it with any consistancy
8) Rain rain rain, the great equalizer. I never seen a team play so many games in the rain. Forget delays, they have played while it rained a few times when they shouldn’t have been. It rains so much on the east these days that they can’t postpone these games and are forced to play. It’s July and I could count on one hand how many “It’s a great day for baseball” games they have played played

I’m just saying I’m not in love with Joe Girardi but we are one game out in the best division in baseball and Joe doesn’t seem to be in the top ten list of reasons why we are not 5 games up. I do like the national league twist he brings. I like the manufacturing of runs, the hit and run, the stealing, the bunting. I don’t want to live by the long ball. Especially since it stays cold on the east coast until July now. If we were 1 game up it wouldn’t make Girardi any better. The season is not over and the manager is the least of the worries right now. Thefact is when the Yankees PLAYERS are playing well we are the team to beat. We went on a run earlier that put us on top, and here we are in the middle of another run. I think the best is yet to come and we win the division in a walk!!!!!!!