Billy Martin was one of the Yankee gentlemen? How about Richardson and Gil? Heinrich. Bobby Brown. Some gentlemen in the 60s and 70s too. I loved Dave Winfield, in case there is any question. So many good guys I used to cheer.

Is this Knobloch stuff on the level?

Moreover, how about his Papi news?

Moving this discussion from Cliff’s earlier thread, I find it is usually better to shift to the top thread here!

I’m back with JobaPhil. I know I said I wouldn’t 2nd guess the team on this. I’m not 2nd guessing, I’m … worrying.

Here’s the rub … Joba is just terrific now, three in a row, top of line starting. All jokes about the innings watch aside there IS an innings watch and the Yankees would be idiots to ignore it, just as they were idiots to pl;ay A Rod every day after his doc said rest the man.

So we can kibbitz about it, and be funny, but he will have to step down or risk messing up an arm that already has some red flags. This is a painful note in a terrific month. The mirror image is Phil being utterly lights out in the 8th (with Bruney scary shaky). Phil will be nowhere close to boosting his innings enough to start for 150+ innings next year UNLESS he migrates to the rotation, where he was, essentially mediocre-with-flashes.

Does anyone see a way around these two truths? (Other than saying ‘innings caps are for wusses’.)

If not, then we ARE going to have to see the two of them flip, at a time when both are excelling in current roles. Not only that, but Joba needs to be in the pen in about 20-30 innings (three-four good starts!) to have some innings in reserve for September and, we hope, a deep playoff run with him in the 8th inning! And Phil needs to start shifting gears about … Now!

I don’t like this, at all, I like them right where they are … but unless we keep both in the pen (Washburn, whither art thou?) which does not help Phil for next year, though may be sensational for us this year … I don’t see how to dodge this bullet.

Not as disappointing/unsurprising as them ignoring what Tom House had to say.

“You’re asking way too much,” Posada said. “You’re asking to give up the whole minor leagues and some of the guys here. He’s worth the price, but I don’t think what they’re asking is fair.”

I’m a little surprised — commenting so plainly on a potential trade is more Schilling than Posada, I would have thought.
I like it, though (despite the fact that “He’s worth the price” and “don’t think what they’re asking is fair” is kind of a strange conjunction, I think I see what he means). I wonder if Jorge would be suited for the front office post-retirement.

The WSJ is fine for business but their international reporting is barely adequate.

P.s. The Times is selling their Sox stake.

Anyway, its disappointing, although probably unsurprising, that so many critics of the PED era ignore what Paxton Crawford said about the RS.

I think Toure is a legitimately talented writer, but he is so far off base here it is laughable. There is really no need to rehash every asinine thing he wrote in here, but suffice it to say that calling Selena Roberts’ reporting efforts “meticulous” should immediately raise red flags.

Page 2, so we wouldn’t miss it.

While I applaud the News for getting the word “buggery” onto page 2, I think they missed a few opportunities with their tepid headline “He’s a repeat horse rapist.”

I’da gone with “Man’s Best Friend Is A Two Trick Pony.”