I’m not a Yankee Hater, just a baseball fan, and it’s not good for one team to buy its way in annually. It’d be a good thing for the Yankees to have some off years.
I’m just praying the Red Sox miss the playoffs too. The Jays have to help that cause, so it’s a long shot, I’m afraid.
It is with great satisfaction that I see the demise of the Yankees.
It’s the Yankees. 'Nuff said. 
It’s them arrogant SOB’s on the Yankees. :rolleyes:
It’s the numbskulls who thought Joe Torre didn’t need to continue managing their team, 'cause he was washed up or something. Will be fun to watch Torre managing in the playoffs, while the Yankees work on their golf games and Brian Cashman updates his resume. :smack:
They are being done in not so much by the Sox, but by the Rays. Nice touch. 
It’s the YANKEES. 
I’m sure Cashman now wishes that he had let Mo and Posada go over the winter. This is a team in very dire need of a complete rebuilding, but of course with the new stadium opening next year, “We can’t do that”. And if they fall for the delusion that they can sign 2-3 guys off the free agent list (assuming that said players don’t want to sign elsewhere) and get right back in it next year, it will just make things worse. This is a team which will, in the next 1-3 years, need a new C, 1B, SS, CF and RF, DH, closer, and 2 starting pitchers*, but many other teams have been locking up their primo young players to long term deals before they even become free agents, such that the market for players who play prime defensive positions will be very thin. Until they develop some championship-quality homegrown players they’ll continue to spin their wheels.
[*And this assumes that their 2B Cano won’t need replacing as well after his current disappointing season. The failure of Melky to develop isn’t helping either.]
I’m another one who is glad the Yankees won’t make the playoffs this year. I’m so tired of Fox and ESPN broadcasting nothing but Yankees and Red Sox games.
You know Fox is praying that the World Series isn’t the Rays vs the Marlins!
The worst thing about NY-BOS games? Someone has to win.
Cano basically had one really bad month, that being April, when he was unbelievably bad; since then he’s actually hit well, and really picked it up in July. I’d say he’s one of their safest bets.
Mo has been awesome too. He’s a robot, remember. He’ll be good for another 20, 30 years, and then they just have to switch out the fuel rods, and he’ll be fine for another 40-50 years. So far this year Rivera has struck out 63 men and walked 5. That is not a pitcher you need to be worried about, unless you’re the other team.
It doesn’t look good elsewhere, but those are two guys I would say should be good for years to come.
Cubs.
Well, the rumor mill would seem to make it all but certain that Greg Maddux will be gracing the Dodgers’ doorstep any moment now. I don’t really expect him to be lights-out here, but I think if he can keep it at, say, three runs or less for six innings each start, he’ll be perfect for us. We could certainly use another solid starter, and everyone on the team loves having him in the dugout just to pick his brain.
Seems like both the Dodgers and Arizona are pretty hot these days. I don’t think Chicago’s going to have a cake walk in the first round* no matter who they face.
*This statement assumes Chicago will make the first round of the playoffs, which I admit is a silly assumption.
And, it’s official.
Greg “I have lost my touch and can’t pitch my way out of a paper bag” Maddux? Good luck Dodgers… 
I don’t care if he never throws a pitch. The man has a galvanizing effect on the bullpen in LA, and if the youngsters are smart, they’ll spend the next 6 weeks picking his brain for every tip they can get.
Colletti is doing us well this year. Manny for chump change and Maddux for less than that? Wonderful!
The Snakes are going down.
We’re replacing a pitcher who has an ERA of 6.05 and a questionable shoulder with a guy who has an ERA of 3.99 and 17 Gold Gloves. And what silenus said.
You’re right – what WERE the Dodgers thinking?
Your pickup was great, but you are so not beating the Diamondbacks. D-backs take the NL West. At least you’ll make it competitive.
Yanks just lost a heart breaker where Rasner pitched great and Damon dropped two balls in Center Field and A-Rod made a horrific 9th inning running blunder.
It was a strange game; Burnett pitched brilliantly, but the Jays couldn’t swing the bat, and then Damon basically handed away a game the Jays had tried really hard to lose.
A-Rod’s blunder looked really awful, but nine times in ten the first baseman does not make that play, and if you’re down by one you could really use the runner at second, so that wasn’t a bad gamble. He just got beaten by a great play by Overbay.
I was shocked Damon wasn’t given an error on the eighth inning play. What a strangely erratic night for him. He’d made one error all year going into the game.
This is a series where, really, both teams needed to sweep; New York’s playoff hopes are slim, and Toronto’s are anorexic and on life support, and the only hopeeither has is that they play a lot of games agains the teams they have to beat. The Yankees absolutely cannot be swept; Toronto has no choice but to sweep.
Your right about A-Rod, but it was crushing watching it live.
It is funny with Damon, the reason he can’t play CF anymore is suppose to be the fact that he has almost no arm not that he cannot hold onto the ball. I like him in left, I do not like him in center.
Why does Burnett pitch so damn well against the Yanks? He does it time after time.
Oh, by the way, Cubs.
Saw the Mets beat the Braves last night, for what is probably my last game at the Indifferent Confines of Shea Stadium. I haven’t been watching baseball that closely the last month or two, and was surprised at the number of unfamiliar names in the Braves starting lineup.
Anyway, my 9-year-old daughter, who’s seen the Mets play the Marlins and Nationals, got a little taste of what a rivalry sounds like, with the catcalls of “LAR-ry” for Chipper Jones, and (after the Mets took the lead in the 8th), the fake tomahawk chant, which must qualify as one of the larger examples of mass sarcasm.
Sorry about continuing our East Coast bias here.
Oh, sitting in front of us were a couple in Tampa Bay Rays t-shirts! Actual Rays fans! I touched them to make sure they were real.
What DSYoung said. I will be at Wrigley tonight and hopefully see us extend the lead yet further. Anyone in the neighborhood of aisle 222 row 2 seat 3, I’ll buy you a beverage.
Got to see Yankees-Jays live in person last night (wife and daughter and I are in Toronto, part of our ongoing tour of baseball stadiums). The Rogers Centre is actually a really nice place to see a game; I especially like that they provide statistics beyond batting average, HR, and RBI, on the scoreboards. Actually getting into the game was an irritating mess, because they put the “Will-Call” windows on the far side of the stadium, dedicated all of two windows to handling the traffic, then forced us to walk all the way back to Gate 5, on the opposite side of the building, to get in.
But watching Johnny Damon drop two balls was a lot of fun; I can’t for the life of me figure out how the second one was considered a base hit. The Blue Jays offense looks even worse up close; they’ll swing at anything, won’t they? But Burnett was awesome, and random Yankee-hating aside I was glad to see him get the W for it.
Good times.