I will pass on the information.

Rob

Our season tickets are in the tier seats, section 32 row H and you get a fantastic view of the entire stadium, including bullpen and big screen etc. I think the tickets are $19 each for individual games, a little extra will get you tier boxes. You can get stuck with crappy loge seats for that 40 bucks. The bleachers are a fun way to see the game without being ripped off too.

Anybody old enough to remember Munson coming up? (raise your hand). He was fairly highly touted and won ROY his first year with a .302 average. He was not a prototypical catcher, and had a weird throw to 2nd (however with an extremely quick release). His ‘sophmore’ year, he batted .251, and was still funny looking (with 16 hrs total over 2 years). Wonder if he would have made it to his third year if he was on this Yankee team.

Dandy Don was a good looking, but somewhat average player. Good D, solid guy, but not much pop. In his first 100 games, Mattingly managed 4 hrs and .280/.330/.405. Not bad for a Yankee team that was not good. Wonder if he would have made it to his next year if he was on this Yankee team.

Bernie was a skinny kid, fast on his feet, but not very imposing. In his first 3 years he averaged .261 with 20 hrs combined, and about a .720 OPS. Not bad for a Yankee team that was not good. Wonder if he would have made it to his next year if he was on this Yankee team.

There are some guys who come up dripping with talent, who will obviously be good. Others, under the right tutalage, take time to develope. If you want instant gradification, you are gonna miss out on a lot of potentially good/great players.

It’s nice to have RJ around, and I think he will do better. But he cost us:
J. Vazquez, Brad Halsey, D. Navarro and 9 mil. Add that 9 mil to the difference in JV and RJ’s salary, and poof, you have Carlos Beltran.

So why did we take RJ over J. Vazquez, Brad Halsey, D. Navarro and Carlos Beltran? Basically to punish JV for losing the 7th game of the LCS and pitching poorly for 1/2 season. JV and Brown (part of a staff that won 101 games) lost that 7th game, but a WHOLE BUNCH of Yankees batted .200 over THREE games… and that’s why we lost.

And if you hate paying Brown 15 mil for this year, RJ will be making a lot more in 2007.

For lack of ONE timely hit in game 4 OR 5 OR 6, we could have been looking at a young team of Vazquez, Halsey, Navarro, Beltran, Jetes, ARod, (re-sign) Matsui, Wang, Cano for years to come.

Last night, once again, we saw the lackluster ‘Womackian Yankees’.

As shitty as Giambi is this year, he has hit a HR every 30 abs. Womack hits a HR every 135 abs. Giambi’s OPS is .120 higher. Giambi can have a bad year and still post an OPS +150 over Womack. Bernies OPS is .080 higher then Womack’s.

Yup…. putting Womack in LF certainly shook up this team. I don’t know if I can stand an entire season of this.

Brown was garbage.

The lineup was garbage.

I’m too peeved to write complex sentences.

Now, with regard to Womack’s gettin picked off, enough is bloody enough already. You’re right of course, Cliff, about the spectral influence of luck, but it’s only legit to invoke luck when the team is otherwise playing tight baseball, mastering everything they actually do have control over.

Time and time again this team has played slop ball (and not just in the field, but on the basepaths, which is just utterly inexcusable), even as they were tearing through the lesser teams. Honestly, I find it alarming and though your points are well-taken, they fail to mollify.

I went to Fenway tonight, and Wade Miller was excellent. Double ouch.

Marcus… Best arm in RF?

Beyond that, he should bear in mind that Tier Box seats (front upper deck) are excellent seats in Yankee Stadium, at least if they’re in foul territory.

Yeah, I knew the “precise” joke was too subtle to be random.

Al, Cliff,

I have a question for you. My brother-in-law, who is a big ChiSox fan(irrelevant in this case), is going to be in NY for the July 4th game against Baltimore. He didn’t want to pay $40+ for an upper deck seat. Do you know the best way for him to get 1 or 2 decent seats for a reasonable price? Would it be best for him to just walk up to the stadium? Any pointers would be helpful.

Thanks,
Rob

Yanks miss both Santana and Radke in Minny, which is a nice trick.

Meanwhile, rilkefan, both bad and good teams both exceed and fall short of their Pythagorean expectations. Finishing above or below Pythagorus actually has little to nothing to do with the quality of a team (from what I’ve seen). And thanks for catching the precise comment, that was intentional.

We just manage to miss Santana but we do get Lohse, Radke, and Silva. I wish I could view the two terrible, terrible losses with as much equanimity as Cliff but it was another instance of the team coming up real small in a big series. But what do you expect when you start a right side of the infield of Rey Sanchez and Russ Johnson in the rubber match? And 3 straight single-digit pitch innings against Wells was unconscionable. Isn’t anyone on the Yankee bench in control? Cliff, I hope you’re right that it’s just two bad games, but oh the foreshadowing sure looks bad.