Lubeck

Isn't this article made every year?

I was thinking the same thing. Before I start thinking about the next BBWC I'll let the chumps we have now go out and prove themselves. Still though a nice write up.

2-1 game bottom 7th. A very good Colon is wearing down, over 100 pitches and just gave up two singles with one out.

 

Obviously this is the highest leverage situation of the game...and what does Retardi do? He brings in the worst relief pitcher on the team not names sergio mitre.

 

Unbelievable. Robertson should have been in there..or Wade if you wanted to only use the best relief pitcher(non closer) in baseball(David Robertson) for one inning since he dominated the rays the night before.

 

Terrible call Retardi

Especially when you knew Madden was going to put up a right handed batter. Granted Logan got screwed by Granderson/Tropicana but bad call by the Binder.

Too bad....bunch of working folks in Albany are going to lose money because of rich, greedy dirtbags.

The NY AG is looking into suing the NFL and NFLPA with some law on the books that allows them to collect 3x the amount of economic activity that would have been generated if not for the lockout.

They used PEPPERS as the player to argue against Strahan? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Wow, I havent heard that trade rumor/suggestion. that would be insaely stupid for the yankees. Seriously, not even being a homer, Bret Gardner is the best left fielder in the AL and arguably the best defensive player in the game respectively to other positions.

 

Oh, and obvioulsy I agree with everything you just said/wrote.

I think they said on the broadcast a few days ago he was the #2 left fielder by some defensive statistic. I don't know who #1 is but I see him make outstanding catches almost every game and throw people out at the plate or double them off of second like he did in the first game today.

Gardner is special for me though because I was there for his first ML hit and I've been a huge fan of his ever since. It is nice to see he is worth it.

I'm not going to include Smith because I think he is going to come back on a short team friendly contract based on the injury.

Boss is clearly the #1. Like you said he has progressed really well as a blocker and can make big drive extending catches and has held on to a ton of balls that he easily could have lost because of a big hit right after making the catch. After him....Kiwi adds a dimension to the defense being he can go from a down line position or step back and create confusion pre-snap. I'd target him #2.

I have no idea what the Yankee overmanager is thinking lately.

 

Bret Gardner is the BEST LEFT FIELDER IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE and is mashing both lefties and righties. Yet he consistanly sits him for Andruw Jones against left handed starters...oh, by the way, Andruw Jones sucks at baseball.

 

The Yankees overmanager has said that he is going to put Jeter back in the leadoff spot when he returns from the dl too. Are you fucking kidding me? Gardner has almost a 200 point higher OBP than Jeter, is faster, doesnt strike out as much and hits for a better everything. Quite frankly, Brett Gardner is just a MUCH better player than Derek Jeter.

 

Gardner is arguably the best player on the team right now.

 

Although he has done a good job overall, Im starting to hate Joe Retardi

In most areas I have no problems with Girardi but this is definitely one that pisses me off. And then you get a report by some hack that Gardner is on the trade block for a straight up trade for Brett Myers? Fuck that. The past 52 games he's hitting .346 and makes great plays in the outfield. "Well we need to get Jones some at bats to get him going." NO YOU DON'T! Gardner IS going. You'll never see him lolly gag his way to first to try and beat out a double play.

lets look at reese's promise:

 

Mr. Reese told me that two years from the start of the 2008 league year, if I was currently playing at a high level, we?d either renegotiate my current contract so that it would be equal to that of the top five defensive ends playing or I would be traded to a team that would do that.

 

 

so 2 years after that was 1 year of him being in injured reserve, and 1 year of him losing his starting job during the season. is that playing at a high level?

Exactly what I was thinking. I wonder if Osi is not so good with the math that he doesn't realize his 2010 season came AFTER the 2 year promise.

i don't want to talk about it.

Great game today. Wilson is a heck of a pitcher. Can't believe he went that far in the game. As bad as you are feeling now though CB at least your team didn't lose on a walkoff balk

is jeter gonna be back in time to get his 3k on my rangers?

He has been on the DL prior to your post...so no.

I am going to tomorrows day game though so I hope the Yanks didn't blow their wad scoring 24 runs already. I can't believe they gave up a HR to Ramiro Pena.

...for a team having batters hit by pitches in consecutive games? 8 HBP's in the last 5 games is a bit much.

Girardi totally redeemed himself yesterday when he was caught on camera calling Carmona a piece of shit for nailing Tex and then getting in Actas face.

No story I have seen adequetly explains to me why the lockout was ruled illegal by the judge. To the best of my knowledge the CBA had a clause that allowed either side to opt out. The owners opted out. So what gives the federal government the authority to tell the owners they have to have a season? The best I have been able to comprehend so far is that it is some sort of labor issue. And the NFL is arguing that nothing should be done about the lockout until the National Labor Relations Board which has a dispute between the owners and players infront of it resolves that dispute....which to me seems like where a labor issue should be resolved not in a court of law.

Other than that the only thing I have heard that could explain how this ended up in the courts is the players arguing that the lockout is hurting them because the life of an NFL player is so short this time not playing is hurting their careers....but it has been what 2 months since the Super Bowl? How much have their careers truly been hurt? And by decertifying and essentially walking out of the mediated discussions in DC and not extending the CBA deadline wasn't it the players who were acting in bad faith? (Oh that happens to be the issue before the NLRB)

They were also the only team that isn't collecting season ticket money. Makes me kind of glad to be a Giants fan.

they want to see if it's a ground ball. If not, they have to scoot back to first.

 

they also want to see if the bastard got the sign.

 

 

Both times it happened tonight it wouldn't have mattered if it were a ground ball and actually in both instances it wasn't a hit and run unless the bastard didn't get the sign. They were about 50% of the way there or worse. I can recall a number of times when they looked almost immediately in the past but that wasn't the case tonight or in a lot of instances. I think it is them actually looking to see what the catcher was doing which does nothing to help them.

Per the Yanks post game: 1-5 against new pitchers, the new pitchers have a 1.5 ERA.

 

Never go Full Nazi

Exactly. And I need to see that movie.

I am surprised it lasted this long. I have no problem with women playing pro ball though. Hell, that Maya Moore could be a NBA star. Maybe, that's how they should fix the NBA combine the two leagues and make it coed. It couldn't hurt to try, the NBA is all time bad right now.

Well it was bleeding money for years. Only getting by because the NBA was subsidizing it. I think this past year was its first that it was in the black but that was with the NBA help.

My opinion is when people want to see professional sports they expect to see the best possible. And no WNBA team could beat an NBA team. And I believe that would be the same in any professional sport. Women trying to have professional leagues in sports that have male professional leagues will never work because you know watching the women play that it is inferior to the real product, a male version. There is a reason minor league baseball and development league basketball and hockey aren't a big deal anyone watching it knows there is something better out there. And I do not believe that is a sexist view it is the truth.

I mean what is the most famous woman beats man in a sport? Billie King vs. a guy who was WELL past his prime? Was that a fair example?

That usually means it was supposed to be a hit and run. If it's an all out steal, you're technically right. Ricky always sneaked a peek.

As Ricky would say, "Ricky is fast enough to sneak a peek"

Oh and if it were a hit and run shouldn't the runner be committed to the run? Or are they so instinctive to the play that they know there should be a hit so they have to look to see if it worked?

Unless the person accused is actually illegaly detaining people and forcing innocent people to be tortured lay the fuck off the Gestapo allegations. If you have any idea what the Gestapo and the SS-SD did then you have no right accusing a fucking commissioner who is only carrying out the orders of the owners to being anything like either of those organizations. And if you don't know what the SS-SD is then you are just using the Gestapo identify because you have a false impression on how shit worked in Nazi Germany thanks to Hollywood no doubt.

As far as the CBA negotiations go Goodell is nothing more than the press secretary. It would be like hating on Obama's press secratary for something Obama did (please notice I did not take a topic I am not trying to turn this political).

I was taught in little league and JV level HS baseball that when you are stealing a base you don't check home you just focus on getting to second (or third) and if you need to adjust your slide see what is happening infront of you don't lose momentum looking home to see what is going on....it won't change what is happening but it will slow you down. Was that something that was wrongly taught to me? Because I see way too many MLB players looking home during a steal attempt.

Every time the Yanks run into a no-name they have never seen they get completely owned. Seriously this is a trend I have noticed going back the past couple of years. Someone they have never seen before comes in and it takes a lucky hit to break up the no hitter. Oh wait going into the 7th inning and while not a perfect game (1 freaking walk) it is still a no hitter. Seriously if I were Buck Showalter and I wanted to win I'd drag up some kids from low-A to start against the Yanks.

Yeah, it was better then the NBA draft is gonna be. The NBA draft is filled with all european players and not very many college kids. It's gonna be the worst draft ever.

The only reason I know it happened is because there was a story on Deadspin on how pathetic the "green room" was. And based on the pictures....it was the cheapest conference room you could get at a Holiday Inn.

I'm more into the WNBA draft. I wanna see how soon Inna Vaginovic gets picked this year.

They already had their draft.

1000% agreed with you Joe. I would normally have the TV on for the entire draft. Not this year. I normally would have throughly read numerous draft previews and mock drafts. I haven't looked at a single mock draft. Its even noticable on talk radio. There are next to no callers wanting to talk the draft. The only thing football related I will read is Peter Kings monday article just so I can read the KSK ripping of it later in the day and be aware of the context for all the quotes, and in this mornings column he said on his Saturday morning NFL show on Sirius with Bob Papa there were two callers on hold, that was it halfway through the show.

Wow. Martin was totally targeted in that 9th inning AB for a HBP. And Buck called for it. And guess what. Karma delivers a HR. Fuck you Buck.