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While the crowd was busy booing one player on the offense last night, they seem to have forgotten that Pettitte's pitching was the real reason that game was lost yesterday. People still want to resign Andy for next year? He's got a 4.24 ERA and an ERA+ of 97. Not awful, but below league average. Wouldn't that money be better spent (because you know he'd want at least $11M or so) to throw into ...
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Andy Pettitte
C.C. Sabathia
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Al Reyes
At least that what Sam Borden seems to think . While constantly saying this season's struggles aren't "Joe Girardi's fault" and that "nobody can blame him" Borden continually hints and posits that with Torre, things might have been different because of some supposed magical ability he has. Joe Torre wouldn't have made a difference in how this Yankees season has gone, would he? Would he? Alex ...
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Joe Girardi
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If you don't want to be made out to be a jerk by the New York media for your entire career, try showing some frustration after a bad performance . “It felt like one of those days when I was warming up you could tell it was going to be a little bit of a battle," Kennedy said. "I’m not happy at all with my outing. Even though you don’t feel good, you’ve still got to produce, and I didn’t do ...
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Ian Kennedy
New York Yankees
Enough about Little Leaguers who get trophies for last place finishes and are never taught the values of trying to win and compete at something. Now this ? You have to be kidding me. "Sorry kid, you're outta here. You're too good. This League is for losers only."
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So over at Wordle , you can get a visual map of commonly used words from a website. Here's mine: I suppose I haven't been using "douchebag" as much lately.
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No, "Yankee Hottie" , I will not add you to my blogroll. This sort of shameless self promotion where one attempts to gain self confidence by having virgins all over the internet come to your site because you flash some skin and show off some cleave was bad enough when it was contained here , but now I see it's turning into a trend. Oh and don't get all "stop being misogynistic" on me for ...
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They were willing to pull Rasner from the rotation, but the Yankee brass still hasn't seen fit to send Sir Sid a-packin'. There has to be some kind of reason for this. Instead we get Brian Cashman saying things like "Sidney's pitched very well for us." No, Brian, he hasn't. He has pitched very, very poorly. Even the Sportswriters are giving him a pass. Instead of "release Ponson" we get puff ...
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Sidney Ponson
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Joe Girardi
Ian Kennedy
Joba Chamberlain
The Yankees enter play today 10 games out of the East. We can pretty much forget about that, for all intents and purposes. The hope here is the wildcard. Currently, the Yankees stand 5.5 games behind Boston, and 4 games behind Minnesota for the wildcard, with 38 games left to play. Boston has 2 more games at Baltimore, 3 at Toronto, then come to the Stadium for 3 against the Yanks before ...
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Minnesota Twins
Jeff Passan
Toronto Blue Jays
Oakland Athletics
Melky has been demoted to AAA. I don't see Gardner as the next Bernie Williams, but could he really be any worse than .242/.296/.337? Melky has never once in his career been a league average hitter and has gotten worse every season. If only they'd traded him a year or more ago, like I said they shoudl have.
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Bernie Williams
New York Yankees
Melky Cabrera
Brett Gardner
My annual quest for the Yankees to get Adam Dunn appears to be over in 2008 as well. Yes, I know Dunn strikes out a lot. Yes, I know he's not the best defender in the outfield. He's capable at first base though, and would make an ideal DH/1B/occasional OF guy, and strikeouts don't bother me that much when a guy has a career OBP of .380 and SLG of .520. Cincinatti writers and to some extent the ...
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Adam Dunn
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I know I've been saying for, oh about two years now that the Yankees should trade Melky Cabrera because his value in a trade was higher than his major league projections. When I heard teh YES guys go apeshit over Damon on the bench and Christian in the field, immediately I thought to myself "they're avoiding the really big issue here." I'll let Joel take it from here : The Yankees were held ...
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Joel Zumaya
Melky Cabrera
Johnny Damon
The more I think about it, what really amazes me is the Dodgers. They have two young OF who project really well currently in the majors, who are cheap and under control for many years and still have options left, and the Sox didn't get either Ethier or Kemp, one of whom is all but guaranteed to be banished to Torre's "sorry you're not a veteran" spot on the bench or sent down to the minors. ...
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Manny Ramirez
New York Yankees
Los Angeles Dodgers
Matt Kemp
David Ortiz
At least, that's how the Boston press and the brainwashed masses of Mass. will spin this trade. Let's see... Manny Ramirez, career OPS+ of 154 (with a 140 now in what the Boston press is calling a "down year/decline phase") plus $7M plus two decent prospects in Branson Moss and Craig Hansen for..... Jason Bay?? Bay's a good hitter (career 130 OPS+) but his career high OPS+ is lower than ...
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