[oh8eleven]

... end Yankees' season
That the Yankees lost was bad enough. That they went out without a whimper really p*ssed me off.
Half the problem belongs to the players who have forgotten how to play the game - especially playoff games. Small ball. You can't hit a 3 run homer with no one on base.
The other half of the problem is Joe Girardi. Yankees signed Jacoby Ellsbury to $153 million contract - and Giradri sits him the first playoff game. Oy.

[Artemis Webb]

Well, I happen to like Joe Girardi. But the Yankees don’t have a history of being terribly patient with their managers. We’ll see what happens.

[JeanLM]

Girardi is not the problem. Top of the order didn’t hit (or steal) after the all star break. None of the big money players 3-5 in the order hit for average. Beltran decent but the others not. Ellsbury doesn’t hit left handers as well as Young and he was in a slump. He pinch hit him and he popped out. Team was built to hit home runs in Yankee stadium and didn’t come through. Besides 2009 the Yankee post season has been much the same. Their big hitters fold when they see really good pitching, and recently the Yankees haven’t had really good pitching themselves. And I’m the husband of a rabid Yankee fan.

In hind sight they should have kept Russel Martin, signed Donaldson and/or Tuolowitski to keep them from the Blue Jays. Getting Price would have been good enough alone to win the division. But then that’s baseball.