The Yankees played like crap for the first two months of the year and June was nothing to write home about either. If they hadn’t stunk so badly then they run away with it. Who’s fault was it that they had bad starting pitching? Why no bench or pen? In spite of all that they threw out a line up with 7 all stars and proceeded to play like horse-bleep. If A-Rod doesn’t step up like Super Man then they are at least a dozen back right now.
With respect to your points about playing good/bad teams, the Yankees beat up on teams with bad records. When they had to go on the road they go 3-8. At home Tuesday they won on a 315 foot home run, last night they won by one run. Tight games but I wouldn’t go chirping like they completely ouplayed the Sox either.
If they come back and win then I will certainly acknowledge that they stepped up and did the job. The Yanks should also consider themselves lucky that Theo Epstein and the front office made bad moves in signing JD Drew and Julio Lugo in the offseason while not upgrading their bench like the Yankees did at the deadline. Cashman has also done a better job in drafting players than Epstein has.
HOW SWEEP IT IS!! Time to get out the broom and sweep the dirty stinky sox under the rug.
I’m sure Damon, Jeter, Abreu, Matsui, Giambi, Posado, and Cano will like hearing your theory about how if A-Rod doesn’t step up and be “Super Man” then the Yankees have no chance and would be 12 games back. All I’ve been hearing all season long is how great the Red Sox pitching is and how the Yankees pitching stinks. Well this Red Sox hitting more or less was held in check by the “over the hill” Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite, and Chien Ming Wang. Big Sucky, I mean Papi had that one home run, but was a non factor otherwise. And as for this dominating Sox pitching? Meh. Dice-K and Schilling were less than impressive and Beckett absolutley got spanked last night. So I don’t buy this crap about how dominating the Red Sox pitching is.
Oh yeah, the Sox will probably still win the division. But trust me, we’ll see you in the playoffs.
GO YANKEES!!! SCREW THE SOX!!
Injury List
Chien-Ming Wang
Carl Pavano
Mike Mussina
Jeff Karstens
Phil Hughes
... Before the team headed north from their spring training home in Tampa, Chien-Ming Wang, arguably their ace, went down with a hamstring injury. Carl Pavano, who has been on the sidelines with injury virtually from the moment he signed a $39.95m four-year deal, predictably followed Wang to the disabled list. That same day, Mike Mussina joined them on the DL, also with a hamstring injury. Kei Igawa was brought in from Japan to join the starting rotation, but he was demoted to bullpen duty after a couple of poor starts. His replacement, Jeff Karstens, who returned from injury on April 21, suffered a fractured right fibula after being hit by a line drive a little over a week later. Looking to give the team a jolt they brought up the prized, can't miss prospect Phil Hughes from their AAA affiliate. On just his second start the kid was in the seventh inning of a no-hit bid when the injury bug took another bite out of the Pinstripes. Another hamstring victim, Hughes would be out for four to six weeks...
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