I am a big Yankee fan. Have been since I began to understand baseball back in 1973-74 (age 4). I stuck with them in the hell years of the 80's and early 90's when Mel Hall, Andy Hawkins, Dave Lapointe and the rest of the scrubs stunk up the place alongside all time greats like Mattingly, Righetti and Winfield.
This team is more disappointing than any of them. When Andy Hawkins lost a no-hitter 4-0, I thought it could not get worse. I was wrong.
The Yanks have made the likes of Mark Hendrickson, Hideo Nomo, and Doug Waechter look like Sandy Koufax, Don Dreysdale and Steve Carlton.
Williams looks awful, Giambi is done, and Wright was a horrible signing. This week we had back to back starters who have a grand total of 1 major league start between them....thats no good.
When you drop 3 out of 4 to the freakin DEVIL RAYS, thats unacceptable.
I love the Yankees, I always will. Baseball is my favorite sport, the Yanks are my team. Right now, they stink worse than John Kerry. Worse than Barbara Boxer. Worse than..well...they are better than the Royals...but not by much !
Right now playing against the Yankees is the cure for what ails you. What will cure the Yanks? Right now, no one knows.
My boss is a Yankee fan like the Empire State building is part of the NYC skyline. Think we'll talk football when I pick him up this morning...
Time. It's a long season and it's only the first week of May. They will bounce back. They always do.
You dark years (mid-80s to early 90s) coincided with my Mets best years (I know, mock me). ;-)
"What will cure the Yanks? Right now, no one knows."
Get back on Balco, go back to cheating, like the Yankees of old.
Back before Fay Vincent revised the rules for what is referred to as a "no-hitter," one of the funniest things I had ever seen was the photo of Andy Hawkins' 8-inning no-hitter against the Chisox when he pitched for the visiting Yanks.
Customary when a pitcher throws a no-no is a panoramic photo of the final pitch being thrown with the scoreboard in the background, showing all the goose eggs representing scoreless innings and no hits. In the photos of the White Sox's line score, you saw 000-000-04x; the Yanks committed three errors in the bottom of the eighth! They were behind 4-0 in the top of the ninth without having surrendered a hit!
Here's the game summary from Retrosheet.org, a great site for longtime baseball fans:
My Giants had Dave LaPoint for about a season and a half. I feel for ya. Whatta stiff.
WHITE SOX 8TH: Karkovice popped to second; Fletcher popped to second; Sosa reached on an error by Blowers; Sosa stole second; Guillen walked; Johnson walked [Sosa to third, Guillen to second]; Ventura reached on an error by Leyritz [Sosa scored (unearned), Guillen scored (unearned) (no RBI), Johnson scored (unearned) (no RBI), Ventura to second]; Calderon reached on an error by Barfield [Ventura scored (unearned), Calderon to second]; Pasqua popped to shortstop; 4 R, 0 H, 3 E, 1 LOB. Yankees 0, White Sox 4.