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New York Yankees Thread (THIS THING OF OURS) (pg. 100)
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| Vlad |
| Todays loss I consider a mulligan because it was Igawa pitching. |
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| djstopngo |
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
hmmm...i remember saying something about that. |
haha yup, good call on your part. I think if the Yankees win 75% of their games from here on out they'll take the wild card. |
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| steven-neil |
| quote: | Originally posted by djstopngo
haha yup, good call on your part. I think if the Yankees win 75% of their games from here on out they'll take the wild card. |
We're 7.5 games back with 61 games left to play and you are so sure that we're gonna scrape through by taking the wild card...I love your Boston spirit sir but deep down inside you are a little worried....
Ps...what is your name.... |
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| djstopngo |
| quote: | Originally posted by steven-neil
We're 7.5 games back with 61 games left to play and you are so sure that we're gonna scrape through by taking the wild card...I love your Boston spirit sir but deep down inside you are a little worried....
Ps...what is your name.... |
I'm more than a little worried. Once you replace Igawa (who is terrible) with Hughes (who is anything but) you'll have a very solid rotation. That said, I was very encouraged that we took 3/4 from the Indians. I was worried that you'd be able to trim the lead to 5.5 or 4.5.
My name's Ben.
oh before I forget, I thought picking up Molina was a really smart move for you guys. It minimizes the amount of offense you lose when Posada doesn't catch plus it allows you to keep Posada fresh and keep his bat in the lineup when you let him DH. Good stuff. |
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| steven-neil |
Did anyone catch the debacle with the A-Rod 500th home run baseballs..ing hilarious..It turns out that if he hit his 500th last night it wouldn't have counted due to the fact that we have an unfinished game with the Orioles still to play...
Also every time he came to bat the balls had to be swapped for verification purposes,,this was strange cos they kept walking him..Also he fouled a couple off into the crowd...It's kinda complicated and I haven't got the vocabulary to explain it proper...I'm sure James can elaborate.. |
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| Vlad |
| quote: | Originally posted by steven-neil
Did anyone catch the debacle with the A-Rod 500th home run baseballs..ing hilarious..It turns out that if he hit his 500th last night it wouldn't have counted due to the fact that we have an unfinished game with the Orioles still to play...
Also every time he came to bat the balls had to be swapped for verification purposes,,this was strange cos they kept walking him..Also he fouled a couple off into the crowd...It's kinda complicated and I haven't got the vocabulary to explain it proper...I'm sure James can elaborate.. |
They are doing the same with the Barry Bonds balls. The umpire carries specially numbered balls to use for those at bats so that whoever gets the balls, they can easily be identified. Im sure once the ball leaves the park, the umpire makes a note of which # ball it was that was hit. Im not sure if the balls are also signed by someone for verification purposes as well. |
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| djstopngo |
Things get really weird if A-Rod homers in the make up game with the Orioles tonight. If he did, that would mean his 500th homer occurred two days ago against the Royals since this make up game is essentially taking place "in the past."
That would make some random Royals fan very lucky. Baseball's such a weird game. |
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| steven-neil |
| quote: | Originally posted by djstopngo
Things get really weird if A-Rod homers in the make up game with the Orioles tonight. If he did, that would mean his 500th homer occurred two days ago against the Royals since this make up game is essentially taking place "in the past."
That would make some random Royals fan very lucky. Baseball's such a weird game. |
Then what though Ben???...Do they retrieve the 499 ball or do you think that they took this into account and already have...Cos I don't think they did... |
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| steven-neil |
| That was possibly the most exciting two innings of baseball that I have ever seen.... |
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| jerZ07002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by djstopngo
haha yup, good call on your part. I think if the Yankees win 75% of their games from here on out they'll take the wild card. |
The yankees don't need to take 75% of the games remaining. That would give them 99 wins this season, which is probably enough to take over the AL east. I think the yankees need 92 or 93 total wins to take the wild card. That's 38 wins or 63%.
| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
Todays loss I consider a mulligan because it was Igawa pitching. |
I agree. We have to lose some games, so doing it when igawa is pitching is fine for me. I'd rather lose games i think we're going to loss anyway. |
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| jerZ07002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by djstopngo
oh before I forget, I thought picking up Molina was a really smart move for you guys. It minimizes the amount of offense you lose when Posada doesn't catch plus it allows you to keep Posada fresh and keep his bat in the lineup when you let him DH. Good stuff. |
Agreed....molina is a quality catcher who could start for many teams. This is one of those little moves that will stay under the radar but wil pay off hugely. Hopefully we can keep him for a few years. it may lengthen posada's career because molina can fill in and we don't lose too much, so putting him in more than every fifth day is an option.
Cashman makes alot of bad moves, but this was surely one of his better moves. |
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| steven-neil |
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
The yankees don't need to take 75% of the games remaining. |
James,,don't listen to Ben..He's trying to do some Jedi mind trick bull on us....We're gonna win the Al East...Don't let him get inside your head dude...The wild card is not an option for us... |
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