Yankees @ Rays 4/14 & 4/15 Series Thread

terrible news. Hope Harlan recovers, and quickly.

 

If he doesn't make it at least he lived long enough to see his son become a star.

On a game note, I wonder if the Yankees can activate Girardi to catch. He looks in shape and couldn't be any worse than Posada when it comes to throwing. Maybe hitting too.

 

Joba could be gone for quite awhile. I wonder who will be the setup guy while he is, Bruney?

 

We'd have to carry a lead into the 8th to ever find out.

Actually, we'd need to have a lead in the first place to even entertain the thought.

 

games in Tampa in that stadium are unwatchable

 

Haha..I thought both those things before posing the question but decided to take the high road for once.

Actually, I think it has been a week since he last pitched anyway.

 

Obviously I hope all the best for his father's recovery. I lost my father young, so I know how it feels.

Ignoring that though, at the rate things are going, he's going to be able to join the rotation ahead of schedule. He's not getting any work.

I'm growing excessively tired of these slow starts. If KC and Baltimore are ready to play, why aren't we?

 

He has 5 1/3 innings and we are already 13 games in. At that rate he would only have 33 innings through the first 82 games. If this becomes an extended absence for him he might be in the rotation by mid June. However, all the latest speculation is that they won't put him in it until next year. They would have to send him down for weeks or longer to stretch him out so that he could start after being in the setup role and for all of that time they wouldn't have available for anything.

I think that is why Girardi was so coy about using him as a starter anytime this year.

 

Unless you go there. Tickets are cheap. No fees for parking.

The new stadium is going to be nice..

This is the proposed site. It is where they play ST games. You can see the Trop in the background



Here is the render of the new digs

 

the new tampa stadium looks gorgeous

 

Having Joba gone sucks bad, now that hes gone we are really going to need him these next couple of days. I could see either Bruney or Ohlendorf replacing him.

Maybe having him gone and seeing someone else step up will finally give the yankees the balls to pull the trigger to make Joba a stater again.(Or show how much the bullpen sucks without him dooming him to waste his talents there for the whole season.)

 

We are in real trouble at catcher.

"Chad Moeller, whose contract was purchased Monday from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, was listed as the starting catcher."

Jeter will be playing with his sub .200 BA though. That replaces Gonzalez's .385 I guess.

 

Cano sitting. Gonzalez is at 2B.

 

Good move at this point in the season.

 

And Molina is supposed to just be day to day. Moeller's not good... but he's a third-string catcher... you can't expect him to be. They can afford it for five games or so.

 

I wonder why Ensberg is playing first when Giambi is finally starting to make good contact. Is he hurt too?

 

That was by far the best swing Arod has taken all year. He absolutely crushed that ball.