Comments on: Gotta Have It

By: jjmerlock

jjmerlock — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:38:47 +0000

[58] And Bruce – Jones placed immediately behind Granderson in the lineup.

Yes, Joe, lefty, righty.

Also, two masters of the strikeout/ineffective out placed back to back.

They should have scored at least four runs in the first four innings, and probably six.

By: Bronx Boy in NC

Bronx Boy in NC — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:22:19 +0000

It’s dangerous to comment based just on Gamecast, but I’ve been out. WTF is Alex doing in the 9th, first-pitch swinging with Ichiro on 1B? Gotta let him try to steal there so a bingle ties the game. Sounds like more all-or-nothing horseshit from a player who is fast becoming nothing but all horseshit.

By: mhoward120

mhoward120 — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:09:37 +0000

Even as of a month ago, is there anyone who expects that the Yanks would have made a deep playoff run? I think not.

By: rbj

rbj — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:09:21 +0000

[56] How many more years are we going to have to put up with this?

By: Bruce Markusen

Bruce Markusen — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:08:07 +0000

Absolutely brutal loss. To a bad, injury-wracked team that was starting one of the AL’s worst pitchers.

And I agree that Girardi again fell short. Why, oh why, was Andruw Jones starting again? Why was Russell Martin not starting when he has been swinging the bat well of late? Oh, I forgot that he needed a day of REST.

And this is not to give the players any leniency. That they could score two runs in the first, and not score again, against that pitching staff, is simply not acceptable.

By: jjmerlock

jjmerlock — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:06:37 +0000

I said it before – how do you have Granderson and Jones back to back in a lineup where it is totally predictable that you may need them to push runs across after a stretch of the lineup where guys get on against a pitcher with shaky control? How do you make that decision? They failed, but Girardi’s failure in making out that lineup card is pathetic. Just terrible.

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:04:25 +0000

I don’t get it.
Power is usually the last thing to go as players age.
ARod is NOT that old (see Thome).
What happened to his power?

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:03:21 +0000

This team really sucks

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:03:20 +0000

I’ve got four little words:

Let’s go Red Sox.

By: rbj

rbj — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:03:18 +0000

Figures.

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:02:34 +0000

You just knew that Ichiro would not be the last out in this game.

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:02:04 +0000

This team sucks

By: rbj

rbj — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:59:09 +0000

Jeebus, blue.

By: jjmerlock

jjmerlock — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:55:00 +0000

[41] see [47].

Girardi ate a whole plate of stupid before filling out that lineup card. Fatal Joe, fatal.

By: jjmerlock

jjmerlock — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:51:20 +0000

Apparently my swearing has finally got one of my comments caught up in moderation. The gist was that batting Granderson and Jones back to back was inexcusable, their lack of production in two successive bases loaded situations was utterly predictable, and I finally accept that Girardi’s abilities as a manager are laughable.

He was such a smart guy coming up. The above is so patently stupid that it is hard to imagine how it could have been allowed to happen. Ridiculous.

By: jjmerlock

jjmerlock — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:47:11 +0000

Fuck Girardi. I’m seeing the light. For a smart guy, he’s retarded.

This is on him.

The idea that it would be inconceivable that Granderson and Jones, being placed back to back in the order, would come up twice in the situation that they faced in those two bases loaded innings – kind of totally fucking foreseeable.

Bad enough that he played Jones, who should have been cut a month ago.

But putting two guys with that much miss in their swings back to back after a series of guys who get on base a lot – criminal.

I would like to assume that is the last we will see of Jones as a Yankee, but the cost is fatal. An absolutely ridiculous loss.

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:44:36 +0000

[23] Who is Scum-wad?
(And thats Mr. Scum-wad to you!)

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:43:40 +0000

Tonight in Baltimore:
Boston: Doubront (11-9, 4.91 ERA)
Baltimore: Johnson (4-0, 1.62 ERA)

We are looking at being tied for the Division.
ROOT FOR TB!

By: mhoward120

mhoward120 — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:42:42 +0000

Game over

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:42:10 +0000

Fuck. Gritner was safe.