Every year you say the same thing, and you disregard how awful he's been. The final 3 games of the Boston series, ok it was a slump, LAA the next year ok another rough 4 games but to carry into '05 then '06? and each and every series he was red hot entering it only to cool of under the pressure. I wonder when the excuses will stop? and actually it's 47 ABs not 35.
He had a good postseason in 04. I don't support your cherry picking of a few games at the end of that run. Fact is in 05-06 and 07 so far he's had 35 AB's, which is only 4 more then he had in the Boston series in 04. Point is it's pretty much impossible to glean any useful information about a player by grouping together a series of 15 or so ABs spread out over 4 years.
OK so the last 3 games of the ALCS don't count? Stop making excuses for the guy, he's been a joke in october. I realize you hate the Yankees and want to asee ARod stay here and continue to sabotage our chances but spare us the excuses.
That's exactly what Yankee-haters want, is for them to keep the best player in the league. You've figured us out! In seriousness, I hope he goes to play shortstop for Boston and they just spend all of 2008 absolutely faceraping the Yankees.
I hope so too b/c I know come october he'll "facerape" his new team. If Arod went to Boston in the winter of '03/'04 it's 89 years and counting for the Sox. The people on this board crack me they'll call for Chad;s head after a bad game, they'llcall for Joe's head after losing streak but ever year they watch ARod play like our worst player an they'll make excuse after excuse for him. it bogle my mind. If he doesn't show up in these next 3 games, good riddance. he has one final shot and he better come through.
Carmona was dealing filth last night. ARod has struggled in 2 games, no doubt about that. So have Posada, Jeter, Matsui, Mientkewicz, and everyone else. Sometimes you just have to credit the pitcher. It's frustrating as hell, but Carmona was dealing. You still wish someone would drop a hit somewhere, but it wasn't going to happen. If the bugs don't appear and the Yankees win that game, it's not that big of a deal. If there isn't a spastic strike zone, we win that game. And no matter what, ARod is the best position player in baseball. That's almost inarguable at this point. Everyone deserves a share of the blame offensively. Alex, once again, deserves a bigger share than most. But it's also just 2 games. It happens.
I know in Yankee land it's pre ordained that you guys make the playoffs every year so regular season performance is meaningless, but there are 29 other teams fanbases that would love to have the guy. This is the kind of attitude that makes people hate the Yankees and their fans.
Your drivel gets more comical by the post. Do you really not see the difference between a third baseman that plays 162+ games a year for a team and the QB that plays only 16? The difference in their respective positions? Like I said earlier, it will be Torre who is going and it will be Arod that gets him thrown out before re-signing...chew on that?
Plus, playing quarterback, you have a lot more control of the outcome than as a hitter. If the hitter is throwing dominant pitches, you're not going to hit them more often than not. If a quarterback plays well or plays badly, you can usually tell. Granted, sometimes the receivers don't help, or he has no time to throw, or the defense is playing well, but more often than not, you can tell if a quarterback is playing well or not.
Yeah, exactly. There is no position in baseball that compares to the importance of the QB in football. About the closest you could come is to compare all 5 starting pitchers as a collective group because the only important position in baseball is the pitcher to begin with. Even that would get diluted because of the length of the season.
Anyone interested in an extra ticket for Monday night? I'm going Sunday night, but I don't think I can go to the one on monday, and at last check, my friend was trying to sell 1. It's Tier 4 (behind home plate, 3rd base side), a few rows up. If you're interested, let me know and I can check for you.
hire him..how refreshing would that be, a manager with common sense. If Roger Clemens had been making the call, the New York Yankees really would have bugged out. Clemens viewed Friday night's insect invasion at Cleveland's Jacobs Field from both the dugout and a television in the clubhouse, and he concluded it was too distracting an environment to pitch in. "I would have probably pulled us off the field," Clemens said Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
If Joe Torre had any balls, he would have pulled the Yankees off the field and told MLB to deal with it. Chamberlain should never had been forced to pitch in those conditions. And Cashman and Steinbrenner should have stood behind Torre and said, screw TV ratings, this is freaking rediculous.
I don't know the rules about this sort of thing but wouldn't that have led to a forfeit or something? You can't just leave the field whenever you feel like it can you?
ummm, he was getting lucky the first few innings. dunno if you watched the game, but he was very fortunate to escape from a few innings unscathed. but lucky or not, yankees lost either way.
It would if you couldn't get the umpires to agree. If you made a big enough stink about it, they would have huddled and agreed. It wasn't like they weren't being bothered by them too. Every one of them was getting sprayed down with insecticide as well as the players.
