The Yankees have won six straight! Lets keep it going! :beer: My third Orioles-Yankees game thread this year, interesting. VS. Tuesday: Bergesen vs. Sabathia (I was at Bergesen's debut, he isn't too bad) Wednesday: Guthrie vs. Hughes Thursday: Eaton vs. Chamberlain Should be a good series. O's coming in on a day off of rest. Hopefully Sabathia can take care of that though.
man, Markakis really scares me in that Orioles lineup. He is a hell of a player. Sabathia is on a nice roll, hopefully he keeps it going with another strong performance with Cervelli catching This is a big start for Hughes, probably his last chance (baring an injury) to show what he can do at the MLB level for a while. Chamberlain, I highly doubt we'll see any "redemption" for Huff's antics after his HR, hopefully just a strike out (or three)
Tell you what though, those 5 games to Boston will hurt. Especially if this is a 3 team race and it comes down to tie breakers. NYK little criticism, throw in the times of the games too next to the starting pitchers.
??? Those five games to Boston will only hurt if it comes down to tiebreakers and the Yanks go worse than 9-4 against the Sox for the rest of the year. Strange thing to comment on at this point.
Is it really that hard to fathom that the Yankees will lose at least 5 more games to Boston over the course of the rest of the season? And is it any harder to see the divisional race coming down to the two of them? He even expanded it and allowed for the inclusion of either Toronto or Tampa Bay. I am certain divisional record is going to mean something to at least one team in the AL East this year. I just hope that when that day comes we have an 11 game lead in the division.
Not strange to me at all. The future Boston series are precisely what evoked my post. Has the team given you any indication it can get up for a big series? Not to put words in your mouth but you are saying all the Yanks have to do is go 9-4 against Boston...all they have to do? LOL If playoff race come down to tiebreakers among the teams in the east...well right now they are on the short end if that stick.
I did not say "all they have to do." I said it only becomes an issue IF it's a tiebreaker situation AND if they go less than 9-4 against the Sox going forward. Neither of those things are even close to being a given at this point, so I don't know how you are so sure that those games against Boston "will" hurt. That's why it's a strange concern. I mean, they games DO hurt because they're five losses against a divisional opponent, when we hoped for only two or three... if Mo and AJ didn't blow those games, they'd be three games up on Boston and in second in the east instead of one game back. But, by those standards, the six losses against Baltimore and Tampa Bay so far are more harmful (because that's one extra loss in the division). So the five games against Boston matter for where they are right now, but for where they are in the future? Not so much. No. Right now they aren't even in a position for a tiebreaker to be considered. They are in third place. Tiebreakers occur when there is, you know, a tie.
I worded it poorly. Of course there is no tie right now. But I was thinking if Boston-NY were tied, NY was the odd team out.
Right. And that's such a big if with 100-some-odd games to go, that it seems like a strange time to offer this concern, you know?
Jesus Cappy, go run a regression to find out what you need to be drinking to stop acting like such a prick all the time.
The blood of a virgin. Female virgins (just in case you were going to volunteer). And I'm not trying to act like a prick. It's an internet forum. We are conversing. What's the issue? If anything, I was trying to help him feel a little better about those games. They're not likely to come into play (any more than other division losses will).
That's where I'm going to be sitting on Saturday. My son's first trip to Yankee Stadium. Maybe he will get a souvenir.
