SCOREBOARD!
Hinske:
HA!
Posted on 08/18/2006 8:27:35 AM PDT by Airborne1986
It's now or never for the New York Yankees.
The Yankees open a five-game series at Fenway Park on Friday with their alter egos in the American League East, the Boston Red Sox. Just 1 1/2 games will separate the two teams when that series begins.
Since the All-Star break, the Sox have slipped considerably, going 16-17 with problems surfacing with their starting pitching, relief corps and hitting (with the exception of David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez). The Yankees, meanwhile, seem to have righted themselves after a long year of struggles with injuries and under-producing pitchers such as Randy Johnson. New York has gone 20-12 since the break to move past Boston into first place, a five-game reversal in 31 games.
Yet even with the additions of Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle and the improved pitching of Johnson, the Yankees won't separate themselves from the Red Sox if they don't make a move during this series, because Boston may be the most resilient team in the American League, if not in all of baseball. ...
For all the Red Sox difficulties of late, especially with their pitching, they could be tied for the division lead by Saturday morning if everything goes right and if they continue to play at home the way they have thus far.
That would give the Red Sox the advantage in the series and for the rest of the season. They would have their top three pitchers — Josh Beckett, Curt Schilling and David Wells — going in the final three games against the Yankees, with a chance to turn the tables on them just when much of the world felt New York was ready to assert itself and pull away.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
That dirtbag isn't fit to wear pinstripes.
LOL
SCOREBOARD!
Hinske:
HA!
And Giambi, Sheffield, Mondesi are/were?
Who's playing RF for the Yankees this year?
Go look up Manny's stats. He's going to the HOF.
Abreu, he will go HOF too when all is said and done.
Much better ALL-AROUND than Sideshow Bob lool-a-like Manny.
Thanks for Damon, we took him bc unlike Manny he has class.
I think the second game is sched for 8 pm but I could be wrong.
Sox losing big in 9th, 10-3...meanwhile at least the Portsmouth NH Little Leaguers are doing OK--scored 5 runs
in top of first (ESPN2)
The NY/NJ area is soooo conservative.
I left for that very reason. I wouldn't step foot back in the People's Republic of NJ.
To Yankee fans: Thanks to George S. for his pledge to help the Jimmy Fund telethon. As for the team itself, we'll see what happens when this 5 game mini-playoff is over...Sox are not going away. If Yanks were such a great team wouldn't they be up by 13 games like the Mets are?
With all their injuries and struggles, it is a wonder the Beantown team is still trailing. They should be in 1st and not going home after this weekend series.
That is what speaks volumes. This is our B squad that has refused to let the hippy sox catch up with them.
You guys are lucky this series even matters.
I can understand your bitterness but lighten up....I'm sure the Yankees will win a World Series in this century.
Go read his book. He's a really upstanding family man...
Not
Do you even follow baseball? Subway Series???
Do some research before letting your own bitterness cause ignorance.
You Bawston folks are a fun bunch, I have really enjoyed this thread.
And don't worry, the next Century is only 94 years away and you can then celebrate again.
You talk a lot of trash as a fan of a team that got beat 12-2 yesterday by the Balti"less" O's.
You have my sympathy...keep the faith.
Don't you mean a team that beat your 12-4 today....LOL.
Man, you people DO NOT know how to talk trash!
Must be something in the water up in Kennedy/Kerry land.
Always, you too ya Big Lib.
LOL...JK
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