espn.go.com - 10/23/2009
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Uh-oh. The Yankees lost another game. Better start looking for a scapegoat. From the Newark Star-Ledger:
The number was illuminated for everyone to ...
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 ...
joshqpublic.com - 10/21/2009
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joshqpublic.com —
How ya like me now? The river will
not allow you to get with, Mr. Smith, dont...
riff. Listen to my gear shift. -LL Cool J Public Service Announcement : Ok, here we go! I’ve given grief to dear old Alex Rodriguez as much as the next guy. Probably more than the next guy. Not no ...
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All A-Rod All The Time
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com - 10/21/2009
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subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com —
Every Sports Illustrated Tom Verducci column ought to
have the disclaimer "this author has financial ties with...
Joe Torre, so take everything the writer says about the Yankees with a grain of salt." Make that a salt shaker. A day after writing an evisceration of Joe Girardi that he somehow missed ...
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Shocker! Tom Verducci slams CC Sabathia, A-Rod, and the ...
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It's About The Money - A New York Yankees Blog —
... Girardi realized awkwardly that he needs to bring Mo into the game. Stall tactics ensue. {And they're worried about instant replay slowing down the game?}
In comes Mo, end of threat. He's really good.
Fast forward to the top of the ninth. Two outs, and Scioscia decides to walk the tying run (ARod). I guess I get it, but wow, that took a leap of faith. A walk and HBP and suddenly the bases are loaded with Swisher. Take it away Steve Politti (via Neyer):
There it was, dead center on the scoreboard, and Nick ...
Yankees' Loss Inspires Frantic Search For New Small-Sample-Size Scapegoat [Mlb]
Deadspin —
... in a cool sun. Or I suppose Girardi could heed Politi's advice and, on the basis of 29 at-bats, bench a guy who hit 29 home runs and walked 97 times in 498 regular-season at-bats. Sometimes you just have to make a move, small sample be damned. This is the big time, the limelight, the show of shows, and as we all know, some guys just don't have what it takes. Politi: NY Yankees can't afford to give struggling Nick Swisher another at-bat [Star-Ledger, via Rob Neyer] Hughes blows it again [New York Post] Girardi moves let Angels rally ...
Being Yanks' leader in smiles and laughs not cutting it for Swish
Big League Stew —
... But those halcyon days now seem like ancient history for Swisher. I don't think I'm on board with a benching (Rob Neyer isn't, and as Politi's colleague Marc Carig points out, Brett Gardner and Jerry Hairston ...
New York Yankees' Press Clippings
BASEBALL HOT CORNER —
... Stop making sense: "And let's give Joe Girardi some credit for understanding how baseball players actually work."--(ESPN/Neyer) ...
What They're Saying: Nick Swisher
No, You're a Towel —
... it is a small sample size, it may be worth sitting him
The New York Post says that Swisher is working on tinkering his swing.
Inside Edge says that bad luck is the cause of Nick Swisher's problems.
Steve Politi says that the Yankees can't afford to give him another at-bat
Deadspin calls Politi's article a "frantic" search for a scapegoat with only a small sample size
Rob Neyer agrees and asks if Swisher is going to be the last good hitter to be demoted because ...
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Scioscia, outdoing the Alfredo Aceves move by manager Joe Girardi in Game 3, pulled out his bulldog starter John Lackey with the bases loaded and two out in the seventh inning last night an...
Girardi gaffes let Angels rally back into ALCS —
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