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I think they did, though he'd be really successful for a relatively short time with Seattle. They traded away a bunch of AAAA players. Casper Wells and Charlie Furbush have been on the Seattle roster, but they hardly have produced like The Fist.
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Jeez, were the Orioles the only team in the AL East this year that their fans loved?
Of course, that doesn't make them unusual at all for a Yankee team.
Well, no, let me rephrase that. There's not a serious chance this team sustains enough offense to win the World Series, but if they somehow did, they still might still rank below the 2001 and 2003 teams on my list of favorite Yankee squads.
They just come up small all the time, and have for weeks now.
I think they knew he would be solid but not that he would have these dominant stretches. They gave up a young 3B wo could still be good. The other guys were nothing special.
I think 2 of the 3 Rays fans loved their team.
Pulling from page 1...
Maybe, I don't know, it's partly their fans or something.
Really?
I totally saw that coming, and yet I still chuckled.
I've heard that forever, too, though I can't think of a particular catcher associated with the claim.
Was it Whitey Herzog who supposedly loved curveball pitchers, because he could not hit a curveball himself, when he was playing?
As noted Raburn achieved new depths of suckitude. Young is no lponger an OF. Their defense is BETTER with Fielder at 1b, Miggy at 3b, and Young at DH.
Other choices are Berry, Boesch, Kelly, all LH. They had Jeff Baker for a couple of weeks but he didn't it and they dumped him and went with Garcia instead. They really need an .800 OPS RH corner OF who can catch the ball. Garcia isn't it.
They came into the season without much depth in the outfield. They had Jackson, who was supposed to be pretty good (and of course played way above expectations this year). They had Brennan Boesch, whom the fans and presumably the front office expected to be decent-to-very-good. Then they had Raburn, who was expected to be an option at second base as well, and Dirks. Young was supposed to be able to play the outfield if necessary, and Kelly was the emergency fill-in. When all of these guys after Jackson hit poorly (some of whom never should have been expected to hit in the first place), their best minor league options were Berry and (apparently) Garcia. Why didn't they trade for a better outfielder at the deadline? I have no idea.
Edit: Coke to Tim.
I've heard it enough that I think it gets coached out. My experience was always that catchers called what we got the last guy out with. Since I really only had straight pitches with different sorts of spin, it didn't matter much.
But how can that be? Isn't he supposed to be a baby Miggy?
Alfonso Soriano was available.
--implied message of the commercial
OK.
Pettitte: I was just angry with myself, I didn't want to show Joe up in any way
Girardi: Andy is a competitor, he really wanted to stay in and win that game.
Translation.... Pettitte: Why did that prick take me out for Derek Lowe?
Girardi: Stop being a prick, you are losing, over 100 pitches and just put a guy on base.
Is there a character limit on this thread?
I'm not sure if Dombrowski was allowed to take on any more payroll, but Soriano honestly would have made some sense for them. And at any rate, when your right fielders are producing at a level well below replacement, it isn't hard to find a superior option somewhere.
Raul Ibanez.
1) The person who hired him to provide colour commentary on playoff games broadcast to foreigners and servicemen and women across the world.
2) The person who thought it was a good idea to broadcast the international feed in Canada with no second option.
Sutcliffe is worse than incompetent, but I blame his enablers more than himself.
EDIT: In fairness, most of the pitches have either been in the strike zone or pretty close.
Right. Big powerful guy who can get in a groove but good pitchers make him look silly once they know not to throw him a strike.
Although, again, keep in mind again the increase in playoff games over the years. Just like how Andy Pettitte may have more wins than anyone else, but that doesn't mean he's "better" in the PS than Ford, etc.
No.
I'm not sure that taking two called strikes to make the count 0-2 is a great example of the benefits of plate discipline.
I guess Girardi can. He'll be explaining it, postgame.
THAT must be it.
What does this make Dmitri?
I haven't been to that many Yankee games in the Bronx, but for my money, the moat has killed the vibe in the Bronx. It was (and I almost never pull for the Yanks) one of the best atmospheres in any stadium/arena/fieldhouse I've ever been to, and now it is shopping mall.
That Occupy Wall Street didn't last long enough to take over that area via flash-mob is one of the great tragedies of the piss-poor way that movement was run.
Just leave the same guy in, then, and have him alternate hands pitch-by-pitch.
Made it look easy
And in the event that he's on the bench to start a game, the item should change to "A-Rod pinch-hits."
Thanks. I hate those innings that ruin my concentration.
They really should have targeted places like this. Mansions in the Hamptons, steakhouses, boutiques, clubs, etc. It would have been chaos.
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