thefastertimes.com - 10/23/2009
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A.J. Burnett, Nick Swisher, and Phil Hughes are the real goats of the Yankees' Game 5 loss, not Joe Girardi.
nydailynews.com - 10/23/2009
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nydailynews.com —
The Yankees will come home Saturday still leading
the ALCS, 3-2, still one win away from returning...
to the World Series for the first time since 2003, still with Andy Pettitte and CC Sabathia lined up to pitch them there. But let's get this out of the ...
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Manager Joe Girardi should be fired if the New York ...
yankees.lhblogs.com - 10/24/2009
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yankees.lhblogs.com —
With the forecast calling for a 90 percent
chance of rain and the chance of thunderstorms Saturday...
night, the question was logical. Still, Joe Girardi didn’t hesitate, saying he will pitch Andy Pettitte in Game 6 even if rain pushes it to ...
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Girardi will stick with Pettitte in Game 6
pinstripealley.com - 10/24/2009
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Grrrrr - I'm still peeved about last night's game
Subway Squawkers —
... But really, I don't blame Joe Girardi for the loss. I wrote in a piece for The Faster Times that Phil Hughes, Nick Swisher, and A.J. Burnett are my goats of the game. I note that Hughes has been terrible this postseason. And don't tell me he would have been better if he had started the seventh. He started the eighth in ALDS Game 2, and promptly gave up two runs to make the game 3-1. ...
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slidingintohome.blogspot.com 10/24/2009 — Jesse Spector of the Daily News wrote about this today, and I think he has a point. Spector isn't saying the Yankees will blow it, but if they do he thinks Girardi should go. Besides the terrible managerial decisions he's made that have directly led to the Yanks losing two games this series ...
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NY Post: Sports 10/23/2009
ANAHEIM -- A.J. Burnett placed them in a cavernous crater early. The trench Phil Hughes dug late wasn't as deep, but together the right-handed ditch diggers cost the Yankees a chance to punch a World Series ticket.
Burnett gave up four runs to the ...
Girardi gaffes let Angels rally back into ALCS —
NY Post: Sports 10/23/2009
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mark Teixeira had finally awoken and Robinson Cano had actually registered a huge hit, and if that wasn't a sign of the Apocalypse, it was at least a sign of midnight moving perilously close for the Angels.
The Yankees had done ...
