Mike Lupica wrote a whole column about how it is A-Rod’s fault, three days after writing a whole column about how if they lost, it would be A-Rod’s fault. You get the feeling that if he did not play and the Yankees lost, Lupica would switch to soccer or something.
On ESPN.com, Buster Olney tells us that “A-Rod Doesn’t Get The Job Done.” Well, there’s no argument there. He didn’t get the job done, though it might have been charitable if someone at least pointed out that he was playing with a sore knee and has a bad thumb. But when you’re making all that money, you’re not supposed to be vulnerable.
...Let’s put that all together: Over the last two postseasons, Jeter, A-Rod, Tex and Swish have been at bat 212 times - let’s call that a third of a regular season - and batted .198 with an OBP of .274. In all of those trips to the plate, those four have driven exactly 17 runs.
What accounts for this astonishing record of ineffectiveness? I’d be curious to see what you think, because I haven’t the faintest idea.
Let me add something more: Our ace, C.C. Sabathia, pitched 24.2 innings in the postseason in 2010 and 2011 and gave up 16 earned runs. That’s an ERA of 6.60. In 24.2 innings, he gave up 32 hits and walked 15.
...Al I can say is thank God for 2009, because without it this would have been one lousy ten-year postseason stretch.
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1. The Long Arm of Rudy Law Posted: October 07, 2011 at 09:38 PM (#3955486)My team made two postseasons during that time, and it's the greatest decade since they threw the World Series.
OK. Meanwhile Cano, Gardner, and Granderson were at bat 139 times and batted .331. News just in: sometimes some players have worse stretches than others.
Oh boo hoo hoo. Let me whip this thing out, by which I mean my massive sympathy for all of Allen Barra's suffering. Now, where the white women at?
Nope. The Voice is strictly commute reading for me.
of course His Jeteriness is The Greatest Yankee. I mean The Greatest Baseball Player of ALL time
except of course when he was getting his contract this last winter
You know, I didn't take this as a serious, literal lament. But then again, my sarcasm detector does go to eleven.
You know, I didn't take this as a serious, literal lament. But then again, my sarcasm detector does go to eleven.
I thought he was going all Keefe on us.
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