Posted on 08/25/2005 10:30:21 AM PDT by raccoonradio
I just came back and re-read my post. Let me explain something. I like our young pitchers, but why are we bringing them in with 40 left, heading into Oct. expecting them to perform at playoff caliber?
(so I guess I'm not done:)
Of course those psycho lib places in VT would have Yankees stuff all over them.
All I know is that cross the lake over to Plattsburgh, Champlain and Chazy and you're in Sox territory. The ironic thing is, if you have DirecTV on the east side of the lake, you get NESN and the Sox, on the west side, you get YES and the Yanks.
Give the libs Alex "Slappy" Rodriguez any day. He runs like a girl, just like they do.
I prefer the "Yankees Suck. Jeter Swallows" version of the t-shirt myself.
Well, they do suck. A bunch of metrosexual pretty boys. In the case of Jeter and Rodriguez, I would say, FULL BLOWN GAY!
I hear ya, but what are we gonna do? Paps already hit his projected innings for the year. We can't rely on his fastball for 6 innings every 5th day heading into Oct. And I know we're all juiced up to see the Hansen kid, but that ain't gonna get it done at this time of year either.
Paps shoulda been with the big team after the first month of the season, he's 24. As far as I'm concerned, we better hope Shelled gets it together.
I just don't see this team as having the pitching this year...then again, neither do the yankees. In the NL you have Houston or St. Louis' top three which could pretty much shut anyone down. St. Louis' offense is better though.
I think the Angels have a good rotation but not the balanced line ups that the Yankees and Sox can throw at you. Chicago has good pitching but a line up without the OBP potential of the Sox and Yanks.
Agreed on all of that. Our lineup 1-9 is sick, when Tito "falls" into getting it right:) And that can overcome a lot, but playoff pitching at its best? I don't think so. We gonna need buckets of magic to repeat.
And do you know how much other front offices hate us? We've screwed a couple over and that is going to haunt us for a good bit of time.
I was 22, and old enough to see it as a replay of 1967.
How about "Yankees Yank"? :P
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