Posted on 04/17/2005 2:37:29 PM PDT by bikepacker67
BALTIMORE Apr 17, 2005 — George Steinbrenner is tired of waiting for his New York Yankees to get going. Now he's angry. Miguel Tejada hit his eighth career grand slam, and the Baltimore Orioles roughed up Kevin Brown and completed a three-game sweep of New York with an 8-4 victory Sunday. The last-place Yankees (4-8) have dropped four straight and eight of 10 overall.
"Enough is enough. I am bitterly disappointed as I'm sure all Yankee fans are by the lack of performance by our team," Steinbrenner said in a statement issued immediately after the game.
"It is unbelievable to me that the highest-paid team in baseball would start the season in such a deep funk. They are not playing like true Yankees. They have the talent to win and they are not winning. I expect Joe Torre, his complete coaching staff and the team to turn this around."
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Melvin Mora also homered for the Orioles, who took a 6-0 lead in the second inning and coasted to their sixth win in seven games. Baltimore improved to 5-1 against New York this season after their first sweep of the Yankees since 2000.
Tejada went 3-for-4 with two doubles, raising his batting average to .375 and his AL-leading RBI total to 18. He went 6-for-12 with eight RBIs in the series.
Daniel Cabrera (1-1) gave up three runs and eight hits in six innings, and streaking Brian Roberts went 2-for-4 with a walk and scored a run. Roberts, who has a hit in all 12 games this season, is batting .449.
Ruben Sierra and Alex Rodriguez homered for the Yankees, whose four-game losing streak matches their longest skid of 2004. New York, which went 14-5 against Baltimore a year ago, has been outscored by the Orioles 47-26 this season.
Making his 2005 debut after spending the first two weeks on the disabled list with a strained back, Brown (0-1) allowed six runs and nine hits in six innings. The right-hander walked two and struck out three.
Brown retired the first two batters in the first inning before Mora hit his second homer. Tejada then doubled and scored on a single by Sammy Sosa, who went to third on a double by Rafael Palmeiro before Brown retired Gibbons on a fly ball.
The GOP needs to run ads against her in New York pointing that out to the Yankee fan voters.
What made that night worse was that ESPN bascially turned the Sox-Yanks game into a three hour Kerry campaign commercial. I turned the volume down and turned on Joe and Jerry.
I'm reading that Manny lost the balls because of the high sky.
You know Manny, concentrating harder to judge a ball's distance can be taxing on the brain. Besides it's probably not specifically mentioned in his contract. ;^)
Do the O's have any plans to create their own television network?
The nice thing about Manny is he doesn't let his errors bother him. In fact I'm sure he forgets about them about a minute after he commits them.
Get ready for a New York Super Bowl in a few years. My dream is for the Pats to win that game!
Baltimore is a nasty line up to face and I am starting to like the Blue Jays. In two years I think that they will will take the division since their owners have decided to add about $20 Million to the payroll.
This is only April, we've got a long summer to go. As long as we're not in the tank in September, I'm not going to worry! I'm sure Steinbrenner is going to kick some ass before then, however!
Oops, you're right! Clark's error was after the Denkinger play. But in any case, my general point still stands, which was that giving the Royals an extra out was one of the key mistakes of their own doing that the Cardinals made that inning.
Not this year they won't. Baltimore can hit (gotta love Brian Roberts as a fan of the game) and Toronto has a few guys on their staff who can pitch like Halliday and Ted Lilly.
But, Yanks get rid of Kevin Brown and Bernie Williams contracts next year and they have Sheffield for one more after this year. They can buy more players but until they are willing to spend the time to build up the farm system they will always be racing against the clock.
Hey, at least George wants to win. Can't say that about some of the other owners in the game...cough, cough, Bud Selig, cough, cough.
Correct. The Cardinals should have been able to overcome that call.
It seems like they were a lot scarier with O'Neil, Brosius, and Knoblauch in the lineup.
"Baltimore is a nasty line up to face and I am starting to like the Blue Jays. In two years I think that they will will take the division since their owners have decided to add about $20 Million to the payroll."
$20 Million will get them one pitcher. Still no contest.
Salary cap is the answer for MLB.
I have no idea about that. We're not as prestigious as the NY clubs and a few years back, the news station, WTOP, dropped the O's from their game coverage, so the O's aren't really the kind of club that can make demands of any network or sink money into their own network. The Redskins rule the Metro area so anything the O's do will have to be in partnership with some other deep-pocketed entity, that's not already tied up with the Redskins. Just my opinion. I couldn't find any news on the Nats site about their TV deal.
No, with the job the GM has done they will be a good young team that can add a few veterans to the mix. Halliday and Lilly are good pitchers and they have guys in the farm system.
I think that the A's could have won the series by now if they'd had an extra $20 million to spend on players.
What you are referring to is Yankee team building....
"What you are referring to is Yankee team building...."
Yankee and to a lesser extent Red Sox team building is done in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
As a fellow Cub fan, I gotta disagree with you. I want the Yanks to lose every game especially against the BoSox.
Go Cubbies
Actually, Theo has done very well signing cheaper players like Ortiz, Millar, Mueller and Bellhorn. He's signed players for incentive laden deals and stayed away from chasing every big name that comes on the market.
Bung Hole Kim was his biggest mistake so far. Don't be surprised if in the next two years you see Bellhorn, Millar, Mueller, Damon and a that ancient pitching staff replaced by guys in the farm system. George, meanwhile, never learns from his mistakes.
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