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I say no at this point but they sure played like a bunch of slugs didn't they? The Bobsie Twins wanted Giardi and they got him. They will never admit they are wrong. I still think he is the right person for the job. It is stupid mistakes that are killing them to. That steal of home last night. Andy didn't pay any attention to him. Also who would have thought when Wand came back he would have a 30 something ERA. We very well could have won and should have won 2 of the games this weekend. When your up 6-0 and score x amount of runs you should win the game. Friday nights game irked me the most though. I don't care what inning it is. If you have the bases loaded and no outs there is no reason and no excuse not to get atleast 1 of those runs in.That is pitiful.
Hughes is getting called or has been I believe so lets see what he can do. Cant hurt..lol
Neither team impressed me at all or looked really young. How many times did the red sox have Jaba pinned against the wall. 8 times they had RISP and couldn't do anything with it? Thats not impressive. Yankees had chances to and completly blew it. Both teams had the chance to blow the other out and didn't do it.The most impressive person I feel on the Sox now is Youk. Those numbers are just plain sick that he is putting up there. Jaba pitched a really bad game and Red Sox couldn't pin him down.
I really don't understand why so many want to see Nady traded. He is a hard worker. He is not a trouble maker. He only had 97 R.B.I.'s last year. He doesn't make alot of mistakes. He had 25 HR's to. Pretty solid year. Yes we have a bunch of OF's and Nick Swisher has done excellent for us. But he goes down we are in a bind.
Nady diagnosed with ligament strain
Ailment will not require season-ending surgery
fan comments (7)print this page e-mail this page post on facebook By Lisa Winston / MLB.com
04/21/09 3:46 PM ET
The Yankees got some good news on Tuesday when they learned that outfielder Xavier Nady's right elbow injury was diagnosed as a ligament strain and will not require season-ending surgery, according to a report on SI.com.
The club had originally feared that the injury, which has had Nady sidelined since April 14, might be a torn ligament which would have required Tommy John surgery. Nady has already undergone ligament replacement surgery once, back in 2001.
He reinjured the elbow on a throw in a game against Tampa Bay.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
Yankee Stadium Seating Could Be Cause of Home Run Derby
Posted 2009-04-20
The opening series of the New York Yankees' $1.5 billion park yielded 20 home runs, the most ever in an opening series in a new stadium.
Fourteen of the 20 home runs went over the right field wall, including a controversial game-changing home run hit by Yankee Jorge Posada on Sunday. The abundance of homers is raising concerns that the new stadium's design may favor fly balls, which should be alarming to the baseball team that invested $243.5 million on pitching last winter, according to the Daily News.
The wind on Saturday during the Yankees' 22-4 loss against the Cleveland Indians was mostly from the west at 15-20 mph. Given the layout of the stadium, the wind could have had an effect on fly balls in right field. Six home runs were hit by the Indians in the second inning alone.
Although the field dimensions of the new stadium are exactly that of the old stadium, the shell of the new stadium is shaped differently. AccuWeather.com meteorologists also estimate that the angle of the seating in the new stadium could have an effect on wind speed across the field.
The old Yankee stadium had more stacked tiers and a large upper deck, acting like a solid wall in effect, which would cause the wind to swirl more and be less concentrated. The new Yankee stadium's tiers are less stacked, making a less sharp slope from the top of the stadium to the field. This shape could enable winds to blow across the field with less restriction. In addition, the slope of the seating would also lead to a "downslope" effect in the field which, depending on wind direction, would tend to cause air to lift up in the right field. Fly balls going into right field during a gusty west wind would be given more of a lift thus carrying the ball farther out into right field.
If the stadium seating tier shape is indeed the issue, games will only be affected during times with the winds are from a westerly direction and above 10 mph. This typically occurs during the spring and the middle to late fall. The calmer weather during the summer should lead to a smaller number of home runs. In the meantime, the home run derby may continue.
By AccuWeather.com's Gina Cherundolo
As well they should be, To do something so stupid AGAIN and driving drunk AGAIN having lost their driving privledges.
You know, thats even worse. How many times you see that a person has been arrested before for dui. I just feel so bad about it.
I am sick over that, How awful. You finally reach your boyhood dream and your named to be a starter, you pitch in that game and your killed that night because some idiot ran a light and took off. Talk about a roller coaster of emotions for his family and friends. So excited earlier in the night and then complete devastation later that night.
Probably not, Shame his career had to end like it did. I have never been a fan of his mouth but as I said before, he was a pitcher of force. His win/loss record is not flashy as he pitched for some really bad teams but Despite the bloody sock caper, I think he belongs in the HOF
I agree, I think A-Rod would have been in the majors anyways but I totally agree, there is some players who have enough talent out there that are in the minors because they did it the clean way when some did it the cheating way. I think all the names should be released. If they were able to find out A-Rods name was a positive test there is someone who knows the other names and it should all be released. I honestly believed A-Rod was clean. Not just because he said so, I actually think he is a gifted player. I have always thought that since he 1st broke into the majors and there was a reason he did and that was because of the god given talent he had. One thing is for sure. You see some of these players who in contract years have MVP type years. I now believe when he won his last MVP thatPopeye A-Rod wasn't dipping into the spinich. I think he was getting injected then. He didn't all of a sudden become that comfortable being in NY.
Players better come clean. There is proof that the long arm of the law never gives up and in some cases it might have to reach farther to get you in some cases but they will still come after you.
Wanted since 1928: Cops aim to serve warrant
Document find prompts hunt for man accused of writing $30 bad check
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. - The Carter County Sheriff's Department is trying to serve an 80-year-old warrant for the arrest of a man who wrote a $30 bad check, although officers are unsure if he is alive.
The warrant, issued in August 1928, calls for the arrest of J.A. Rowland. It says he owes $30 for the bad check, $2 for the arrest fee and 50 cents each for the affidavit and warrant.
Clerks at the Glynn County Sheriff's Office in Brunswick, Ga., recently found the warrant buried in a records storage room while cleaning and mailed it to Tennessee.
Current Carter County Sheriff Chris Mathes told The Elizabethton Star he is still under a legal obligation to find Rowland.
So "Iron Man" Carl Pavonao has risen like a phoenix after his streak of buy one injury and get one free.Funny how he doesn't understand how his coach and teammates just didn't turn the other cheeck during his bottocks incident.
rofl. Manny being played by Whoopie Goldberg..lol
O.T. I got some of that one hot sauce sitting here thats in your pic. I had to look when I saw your pic to see if I recognize any of them. I have the Captain Redbeards Sharkbite Habanero pepper sauce. It is the best thing to clear your head..lol
Who is the bigger crack head? Manny or his agent. Time for the Dodgers to say ok Manny, go to the mystery team. We wanted you here but you have the devil for a agent and despite our repeated efforts and offering you a great deal you and your agent have turned us down. So thanks, but no thanks.
Nope,,, not at all.... em
A-Rod through the eyes of a 12 year old. I decided to let my son hear all the facts and listen to all the media and interviews on his own since he is a huge baseball fan as I have talked about before. Then we had a talk about it yesterday. 1st I asked him what he thought of the whole A-Rod situation. He said he thinks it stinks. A-Rod was someone he looked up to the past 3 years. I said well what do you think? You still going to support A-Rod and he said he didn't know what to do since he was on the yankees. I said it doesn't matter which team he was on. Do you feel A-Rod is wrong for taking drugs to help cheat so he could make more money and he said yes, he was wrong and I don't like what he did my son said. My son went on to say he was pretty disapointed in A-Rod.... We talked about it some more and I thought. These players think these kids don't pay any attention? They are so wrong.
lol em.
That would be whining.
LO, Yea, It can't just be your team lost. They were holding Harrison all night. And yea, how about that holding callin the endzone that gave the cards the 2 points for the safty. Yea, that was for the steelers to..lol Least Kurt Warner shows some class and tips his cap off to the other team. You don't hear him whining.
I have always respected the decisions that Theo makes and I think he has made some head scratchers that have turned out to be golden. Theo has a great baseball mind and all joking aside I think he has helped build up that team and the farm system is excellent. He has young mixed with old which took them to within one game of the world series again. The team without the additions was a playoff calibur team and now with the additions he has put on makes them a touger team. It is going to be some season.
I would NOT want to trade Nady. He had a solid year and fit right in coming to the yankees. He is everything the 96-2001 yankees were built on. Trading Nady would be a huge mistake.
Best headline I saw yet on it was this...lol
Indians sign Carl "Iron Man" Pavano
But as someone who watched many Yankee games last year one of their biggest faults was getting runners in that were in scoring position. You had some just swinging for the fences and end up doing nothing. Our new 1st baseman reminds m alot like Tino and Donnie baseball. He can swing for power but also is not above getting a single or a double to get the runner in. So many times this year they had a runner on 2nd and nobody out and he never crossed the plate. Thats bad and that was a big part of their problem in some very close games. I like our chances with the better pitching and some better hitting.
Happy New Year everyone. em.
Andy is going to sign. The 2 sides are talking again. Don't be surprised if it happens within a week.
Although A-Rods playoff failure has been noted very well, This talk of a player being judged on how many world series titles he has is a joke. How many did Ted Williams have? Was he a failure because he has none? No, it was a failure of the TEAM not to win one. Ted Williams was,is and always will be one of the best there ever was. If this was a individual sport then that would be a good argument. However it is a team sport.
Boston reaction to Yankees signing Mark Teixeira is swift and fierce
It won't be a very merry Christmas for Red Sox Nation, which a week a go seemed to be on the verge of celebrating Mark Teixeira's arrival in Boston, but now must deal with the slugging first baseman in pinstripes for the next eight years.
The reaction up north was swift and fierce, starting with Tony Massarotti of the Boston Globe, who summed it up as "a kick in the pants."
"Whether or not you wanted to see Teixeira in a Red Sox uniform next year, you're missing the point. The Red Sox wanted him and they wanted him badly," Massarotti wrote. He took issue with the stance of Red Sox ownership losing its high-stakes poker game with Scott Boras over "$1 million-$2 million a year, roughly 1 percent of their 2008 payroll."
"It simply makes no sense to stop bidding based on principle," he wrote, "particularly after dropping $51.11 million for the rights to Daisuke Matsuzaka and another $70 million for J.D. Drew."
Massarotti's Globe colleague, Nick Cafardo, wrote that "(the Angels and Nationals) were losers in this one, but not more so than the Sox, who got the old double whammy - losing the player they wanted to the Yankees." Cafardo talked to a general manager who "suggested ... that Derek Lowe has now become a key player," so maybe the Red Sox will take out their Teixeira frustrations on New York's other team - though the Globe reported on its "Extra Bases" blog Wednesday morning that Lowe is closing in on a deal with the Mets.
The Globe-produced fan site Boston Dirt Dogs took its usual stance - after fawning over Teixeira a week ago, their "Yankee Flipper" story featured several snappy one-liners, including "Bronx Bumblers Overpay for Overrated First Baseman, DH-Type." This from a site that a week ago asked, "Is There a Portuguese Prince on the Horizon in Boston?" and reminded the loyal legions "It's Pronounced Tei-SHAIR-ah ... But Boston Will End Up Calling Him Tex." They'll probably be calling him something else now.
Sean McAdam of the Boston Herald cautioned that the Red Sox must deal not only with the Yankees but also those American League champions from Tampa Bay. For any post-deal spinmeisters, he added, "Losing out on Teixeira leaves the Red Sox without an upgrade in the middle of their batting order. The Sox had projected Teixeira as the kind of run-producer who could replace Manny Ramirez in the lineup, without replicating Ramirez's penchant for off-field drama and distraction."
Last but not least, Curt Schilling was very reasonable writing on his blog, urging Boston fans to "Please stop with the greedy bum statements too, all of you screaming that would be saying nothing if the Sox had ante'd up. I'm surprised but I don't think nearly as much as most others. Why? Because not once, never, did you hear ANYTHING from Mark in this entire charade. This is how Scott Boras works, and his clients love him for it. Mark never said he wanted Boston, sources 'close to negotiations' did. That and a handful of nickels will get you a quarter."
Schilling also offered a succinct analysis of the Yankees' end of the move, writing, "I think the Steinbrenners, coming off a miserable last season in Yankee Stadium, are dead set on opening the new stadium with a World Series and they don't care how much it costs. Good for them. You can bitch all you want about the Yankees and greed but they spend money in a sincere effort to win it all, every year. What fan wouldn't want their teams to do that."
Tomlin made the right decision to. He is taking a beating for it but the players did not want to sit around for 3 weeks and get rusty. How about the other coaches that played their starters when they were already a lock in the playoffs. You don't hear about it because nobody got hurt.
The Marlins, not the Yankees, are Killing Baseball
There’s a lot of talk going around that the New York Yankees are killing baseball. They are outspending everyone, other general managers whine. They just bought the best hitter and the two best pitchers on the market! What are we supposed to do?
Get over it. The free market is the best way to go. Football has parity, but it’s almost ridiculous how quickly teams change. There’s no team identity from year to year, and very few trades (which are exciting for the fans). Basketball has an interesting mix of continuity and parity, but figuring out a deal in basketball is more a question of math than a negotiation of teams with needs. The maximum salary slots also create a sub-class of overvalued stars that just get shipped from team to team as the league waits for their bloated contract to expire (think Al Harrington).
No, the system baseball has is, for the most part, the best way to go. Teams have a chance of winning every year - just look at the small market teams that have found postseason success over the past five years (the Tampa Bay Rays, Florida Marlins and even the Detroit Tigers have used revenue-sharing dollars to good use). Blockbuster trades happen almost every year, and the baseball trade deadline is the most exciting deadline in sports. The state of the game is strong, despite the Yankee’s spending a good $70 million a year more than the second-most extravagant team.
A salary cap would just give these billionaire baseball owners more money - and they are the richest owners in major league sports. Using a revenue-sharing system to penalize the Yankees for their huge payroll is not a terrible system - provided, of course, that the smaller market teams actually use the money for good use. And that’s where the problem lies. The Florida Marlins are the team that should be shouldering your complaints. Some of the numbers are staggering.
Jeffery Loria bought the Marlins for $143 million after selling the Expos to baseball for $120 million. After receiving between $20 and $30 million a year in revenue sharing and having the lowest payroll in baseball, the Marlins are now valued at $244 million. That’s a tidy profit for a man that is claiming that he can’t make money in South Florida without a new stadium. In fact, those revenue-sharing amounts were often larger than the Marlins’ payrolls.
For example, this year the Marlins’ payroll was around $23 million. They are slated to receive $25 million in revenue sharing. This is the key wrong in baseball, not the Yankees’ spending.
The Marlins were a good team last year, going 84-77 in a division where 92 wins meant first place. Imagine if the Marlins decided to actually use the revenue-sharing money to sign Manny Ramirez for two years at $25 million. Throw in a little money for a starting pitcher, and this team could compete with the New York Mets immediately. Signing Ramirez away from the Dodgers would have a domino effect, as the Dodgers would need to spend a little more money on their offense to replace that run production. Even if they didn’t go as far as Manny, shouldn’t the Marlins be in on players like Pat Burrell and Ty Wiggington? They need a left fielder and a corner infielder, obviously.
Instead, the Marlins use a pump-and-dump system to give youngsters playing time, pump up their value, and trade them away for more youngsters in the hope that at some point all their cheap youngsters peak together and win them another championship. While this has worked for the Marlins, the fact that they are hoarding their revenue-sharing money, costs veteran players real money, narrows the field for prospective free agents, and adds to the perception of baseball as being a league of haves and have-nots. No, it’s not the Yankees hurting baseball, it’s the Marlins and Jeffrey Loria.
o.t. NE Who? They had a good season and that QB did a excellent job considering getting thrown in the mix the way he did He would be a starter on most teams. Even getting spanked by the Steelers the way they didn't wasn't really his fault and would have happened to any QB with no experience. Bill should have played him more last year instead of worrying about blowing everyone out all them time. That would have given him some experience and now is showing it backfired.
I saw a article yesterday someplace that said Manny is starting to realize that other people were paying attention to his antics in Boston. How can one of the best hitters of our time not be able to find a team as fast as he wants. Teams just don't want him. Boston let his get away with all sorts of nonsense for so long. Look at a few years ago when a team could have snatched him up off waivers. All it would have done was cost them money. No trading away talent. No losing draftpicks. Unconditionaly nobody wanted him.
Have a great holiday season everyone.
Thats a great story...
They not only have Hughes but will have Ian Kennedy to help fill in. I prefer Hughes for sure. But Kennedy might pitch better also without having the thoughts in his head that he was one of the saviours. Less pressure on him also.
Your right, sure they are throwing around the money but they are adding key elements that they need. Even if they sign Andy at 10 million they will still be and have Wang for 5 million they are still under what they spent last year on a team that was aging. Then next year they are shedding more money off the books.
lol It is kinda like spending 50 million just to have the right to talk to a pitcher who probably isn't HOF material either.
I think there was alot of pressure put on Hughes, they could sign both of those pitchers and take the pressure off Hughes and not expect him to be the saviour. Thats alot to put on any young guy but add to the fact every home game he is pitching infront of a sellout crowd and he feels the world is on his shoulders. With all those pitchers he will not be the focus anymore so it wouldn't be a bad idea.
The plan is he will be at 1st unless they make a rediculous off for another 1st baseman on the free agent market. As pointed out by domain we had a boatload of money come off the books and we still have money to spend. Sooo it would not surprise me.
I think Andy will end up signing, he is not thrilled with the 10 million offer it seems but he wants to pitch in the new stadium. They should get the Cameron deal done. I think Hughes problem is he is not as mature as all thought and he kept over throwing cause him injury. Keep Jaba in the Pen. One intersting note in all of that was Lowe was not really interested in signing with the Yankees as he wants the chance to go out on Top and until this week things looked bleak with the Yankees pitching staff. Now things look much better for them and Lowe is interested in pitching for the Yankees. So Andy better stop dragging his feet on this offer.