After sixty three years of following this team I am on a break until they show that they care about winning as much as I do, and that means a starting catcher that is acceptable to your number one pitcher.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
A baseball player actually taking a stance! I like it.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Jeet took his normal direction, the high road,by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Thanks for the reminder Hitman. Had a brushby with him at the New York Worlds Fair while in line for the New York exhibit. Needless to say he went in the special entrance with The Scooter and I think Mel Allen. My father almost passed out from the experience, he grew up idolizing The Clipper, and we both were Mel fans. I still drink Ballantine waiting for the blast. Every once in a while whenby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
A huge percentage of Yankee greatness has been their epic battles with Boston. I was at the away games of the San Diego World Series where we swept. Who remembers that? It was a so-what event for us, and the San Diego fans were happy just getting the chance to play in the big show against the Yankees. Would Bucky Dent have that famous middle name if the play was against the Twinkies?by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
It is no accident that Yogi 'Berra has more rings than fingers. A great catcher is a key to World Series appearances and victories. We will not have either will our current starting catcher. After sixty two years as a dedicated fan (including of course the CBS years) I am done. If he remains, I will spend my time and money with the team that has always been my back up team when we were out oby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
More importantly, to use that absurd term "he is what he is". What I mean is that he is not really the player who had 1.5 years of good hitting that the team and the announcers try to claim he is. He is a poor receiver a terrible baserunner, a hitter below the Mendoza line. How many years of terrible play get excused by his getting off to a good start with the team?by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Does it really matter? Can we win against the good teams with Gary Sanchez playing regularly, no lefty power, and not one high average batter? The Cashman plan has been in place for long enough to see that the stat-driven high-strikeout style works only against Baltimore and maybe The Rangers. We are in fourth place and have not yet played the good teams on the road. Waiting for a 185 hitterby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
They want to change the game to entice a target market that has a three minute attention span at best and is obsessed with digital data. It will never work, baseball is a game for people who enjoy being thoughtfully involved in nine inning (or more) games over the course three to four game series, linked together in a long season. Additionally, the difference between excellence and failure is sby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Suzyn was saying he was throwing grass up for the rest of the game. I guess that is to reinforce that his missing the play was because of the wind.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
How do you rest dentally? Not eat?by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Lou would brood silentlyl and let The Bambino handle the problem. Cal would challenge him to a fistfight in the parking lot.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
I have been hearing for ten years now about how a day of rest in April makes you less tired in October. Not buying it. 67 years of moving around this earth including years in the Marines when activity patterns were, to say the least, beyond my control, is my claim to expertise in this area. Maybe, just maybe, ten hours of sleep on Monday will help you reel less tired on Wednesday after five houby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
The game is no longer about keeping a manager happy. It is about metrics which probably say that resting a player after a good run of games is better in the long run. By the way, I believe this to be idiotic and have since organizations began in the 1980s to use six sigma techniques, designed for manufacturing, as a way to "teach" leadership (developing leaders has been my business forby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Lack of bat control is never fun to watch. Hitters have to guess and against a good battery that is tough. it is no accident that Yogi is the only player with more rings than fingers. When is the last time we had a great game called from behind the plate?by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
You are unfortunately (for our performance on the field) right on, and to make it even worse even the power hitters back then had what would now be considered stellar batting averages. OI course the pocket-protector crowd has ruled out batting average as a useful measure of talent.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Thanks for the update. Smooth move. The money from the sale went to the Steins and the money for the rebuy comes from the corporation. All legal, all very smart business, although I am not sure the minority shareholders see it that way.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Remember when Bird said after a bad strikeout game "I am going to have hundreds more chances as a Yankee"?by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
When they do the trade Cashman better be in the room to carry the baseballs back to the office. Sanchez would drop them.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Sanchez is the elephant in the Yankee room. Cashmans ego will not allow him to admit his mistakes. We have gone twenty years with just a handful of ace pitching, a disgrace given the payroll he has had access to. That is undeniable, so he tries to at least lay claim to hiring hitters. There were many months where Romine was the better player (both sides) than Sanchez, but Cashman lets him toby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
YES has been owned by Fox for some time now. The Steins sold it off and issued bonds around the same time to enhance family liquidity. It is something that would be a tough sell in a normal company but pretty easy when you own a franchise that thousands of one percenters would like to have their name linked to.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
For years I have been saying that no team could win the World Series with Sanchez as catcher. I still believe that to be true, but it is meaningless now because I am no longer clinging to the fantasy that Cashman has been selling for years about this team being built to win. It is not. The top four strikeout players on the team (of course led by Sanchez) record about as many as the entire teamby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
I agree with you about the temperature, but an even bigger problem in the post season is the quality of pitching. Long swings do not work well against the better pitchers, but since the velocity (they should be saying speed by the way) and length of home runs means more now than wins we are unlikely to see a return to interesting baseball.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
I sure seems like that, but I think it is not the pitching choices by the manager. It is the fact that for many years the Yankees have suffered from a one-inning per game scoring pattern. If that one inning does not put them in the lead they are often done. This is an inevitable consequence of the home-run or nothing style of hitting.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
I think it is because the Yankee style of power hitting works best with predicable pitching. By that I mean that when pitchers do not deliver their filthiest stuff (the stuff they save for in-season men on base situations) they have the time needed to load up their long swings. Have to produce that launch angle you know, so the ball goes a long distance which gets you on the home page video lisby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Correct. And that my friends is a Cashman responsibility. For ten years we have been the team that is supposed to win on paper. I am looking forward to the Steins demanding a team that wins on dirt and grass.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
I was at The Stadium one night when Posada did that and a relatively loud comment escaped my li[ps. The folks around me were not happy, we had already entered the age when that crap was excused under the heading of "saving their strength for when it matters". How often did we hear that about Cano?by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Sorry to hear that. My father in law is in mid-stage and will be going to a care facility soon.by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Agree. I am still loyal to my team, but have not spent the big bucks to go see them for years because I paid for way to many games where there was only one inning of action. I know this sounds crazy, but for years it seems as if you can tell the outcome of a Yankee game by the third inning. When was the last year when you would say a Yankee team had grit?by jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com
Good point. Metrics are based on history and even though they get updated daily the bulk of the data is dated. Responding to metrics has changed the game in a way where the metrics are no longer pointing to the correct solution. To be specific, the response to metrics made a Boggs type hitter less valuable, but the current state of the game returns that style to its prior value. If the game reby jersey person - TheYankeesBoard.com