Under the lights in the Bronx

What'd I miss?! Oh, Pettitte giving up 2 already... :O

2 on Abreu Up, no out, bet we come out of this with 0. Takers?

GRRRRRR

I hate being right sometimes.

Not a good sign, you have 1st and 2nd no out, 1st and 3rd with 1 out, and you fail to score 1 at least. That my fellow bloggers is the sum of this season; hitting with risp.

We have told Cleveland they cannot have Abreu unless we get an outfielder back.

If you ask Matt, Duncan can play RF lol.

News on Bedard too: we're not interested, he has asked out of several games this year with a tired arm.

AJ Burnett is not gonna be dealt within the division but he could be a Pavano or he could be better than Sabathia.

Looks like the Yankees hit their quota on runs last night.
Gonna be a long evening.

I hate the red sox

Getting beat by the perennial Cy Young candidate John Lester I see.

There are some things I don't understand:

how salmon swim up stream...
Kepler's Laws or planetary motion...

and why the hell the yanks are so high on wilson betemit. This guy has the no baseball instincts, and swings at anything close to the plate. Sometimes he doesn't look like he knows what he's doing.

I can't stand this guy. I don't care how much "pop" he has in his bat. You have to make contact first!

Ok, Thats my anti-betemit rant for the day. Next time he strikes out, I'll probably rip into his .240 battin' *** again.

i meant "has no baseball instincts" -Ignore that extra "the"

If you ask Matt, Duncan can play RF lol.
By bpark23@gmail.com on July 3, 2008 8:08 PM

That's coming from someone who screamed for Girardi's firing earlier in the season, and who wanted that childmolesting roidhead Clemens, and that drunk Wells back in the rotation!!!

I never wanted Wells, I was taking the perspective of the Yankees org. I did want Clemens, now is pointless. I never wanted Girardi hired. Matt says Duncan is hitting at 160 average.

I don't share everyone's feelings on Abreu, we don't need him as much as we need pitching but with Sui's injury, we would need an outfielder if we dealt him to Cleveland.

This is why we should have sent Sui to SF, LA or the Mets, his knees are shot.

talk about someone who swings at everything-Shelley Duncan was on this team WAY too long this season. He's not that good.

This organization is obsessed with ballplayers with "pop". Yeah, hit a hair over .200, but if you hit a Homer every now and then, yer on the ML roster!

Well, in that case, why don't they go ahead and talk Rob Deer out of retirement!!

And did you hear about what Manny did to that 60 yr old guy that works for the Astros? He picked the guy up and tossed him on the ground when he wouldn't give Manny 16 free tickets to a game in houston.

I guess the Deadsox have a habit of throwing 60+ yr olds to the ground. This team has no class. The red sox aren't even diciplining him. Stuff like that is why i hate them.

Manny thinks he's Jamaican and Hank intends to sign him this winter.

thats 9 yrs too late!!!!

sign Texiera! ugh....

Couldn't agree with you more Micahel, I feel the same way you do about players like Betapuke. Everyone focuses on the fact that he has a little pop in his bat, but it doesn't matter since he's only a benchplayer where his ABs are infrequent, and limited. Watch his BA drop back around .200 or less soon. There are better benchplayers than him around the league, he adds nothing to what has been an anemic bench and a struggling offense.

and since when did JD Drew become a ballplayer?

this is annoying. can we borrow some runs from last night??

Don't forget about LaTroy Hawkins! He still has nightmares about Glenn Allen Hill hit that grand slam a few years back. yeah, so he has been the league punching bag throwing fast balls that look like beach balls to batters and cashman signs him.
WHY???

Benchplayers aren't what this team needs to be worrying about right now anyway, it needs pitching dump guys like Ponson, and trade for someone like a Bedard who can actually pitch!!

Hawkins is just one of many relief pitchers in the pen who have posted bloated numbers, the pen has become a disgrace to this team.

Does Hank even know that Hawkins and Ortiz hang out, they are best friends, better than Manny and Papi. I ain't lying son.

Look Matt, Don't get me wrong-I love this team...the stripes, the tradition, the stadium (RIP 2008)....But I get so mad when there are guys here that really have no business on this roster.
These guys immediately come to mind:
Hawkins
Betemit
Ponson
Professor Hubert J Farnsworth AKA "Kyle"
and don't get me started on pavano (his name doesn't deserve a capital "P").

Just don't ruin my summer completely by signing Chacon or godforbid BONDS.

If that happens, I'm jumping off the 59th st bridge. Talk about humiliating...

Hopefully this game clears up any confusion, we throw our ace at Boston's 4/5 pitcher and get 2 hit: we need Fuentes, CC, Sheff, etc. Come up Cash and co

Mike, I dreamed Chacon started right after we got Ponson...terrible.

Don't be surprised if Varidork busts out of his slump right here against Latoya....

Well I just got home from the game I could no longer watch. It seems less uglier and humiliating on TV. No scratch that—still ugly and humiliating. Especially with Latroy in the game.

I'm not going to say it.
"Told you so"....there I said it.
Attaboy Latoya! Way to keep the Yanks in this one....

Latoya? That’s the best name I ever heard him called. Good one.

The Yankees can make all the trades they want. It will not help they will be lucky to finish above .500. They hired the wrong joe.

I hear you michael!!! I've been bitching about the same players you mentioned since last season, this season hasn't changed at all with the addition of Ponson, Hawkins and others.

Oh my Matt, thats a BAD dream!!
Chacon is a disgrace. He should be charged for assault. No Matter how much I don't like our GM ( I run hot/cold with how I feel about cashman), I'd still want a player off the team if he grabbed the GM by the neck the way chacon did...
Go Cano! Way to hit .250....and her comes Betemit

I swear to god I saw that GIDP the second I typed "Here comes Betemit".... we'd have a run right now if Betemit actually GOT ON FREAKIN BASE...

I'm still holding out hope for this team until at least the end of this month. There's just no excuse for this team to be playing like it has been at home. Although, obviously, they haven't gotten up for this series, since that's the case can this team be motivated at all?

So lets see, we have:

Latoya Hawkins
Professor Farnsworth
Betepuke
Shamoo Ponson (doesn't he look like flounder from Animal House?)

who else am I missing?

At least Cano has finally started hitting, too little, too late? Cabrera has finally broken out of his slump way to go!!

Don't forget:

Igawawful, the entire Yankee bench, Ohlendorf, Kennedy, and Hughes (although I'm still very high on those two), and most of the pen!!

Motivated??? I don't know, how about PRIDE? Or love for the game? what about $200 million???
The fact that this team looks flat tonight shows you that the team actually takes 1 or 2 games off a week. Notice hopw they always look like dead fish the first game of a semi-long stretch of games?

At least David Robertson looks like he has potential...

michael,

That's all part of motivation. This team just does not give a crap about any of that plain and simple. One more name to remember, Crashman, he's responsible for putting this team together.

I forgot about Gei Igawaful...No I feel sick. Thanks for reminding me.

and THANK YOU Robertson for THROWING INSIDE TO SOMEONE!!!!!

I was afraid of this. The Yankees blew their wad last night. I still see that we are talking about needing pitching in the above posts. I'm sure having CC Sabathia would've helped today. That way we would only be using 3-0. There is no need to even discuss getting pitching until we start hitting. Why waste our time talking about crap like getting Sabathia or Bedard, or whining about Laturd Hawkins when we can't even score? When is enough going to be enough for these guys? When does the pride kick in? They should be ashamed of themselves. I hope the fans at the Stadium boo them off the field. I'm DISGUSTED by these losers.

Hey, Mike Lowell looks real good right now as a right handed first baseman, eh? With Matsui oft-injured, he'd be a great fit now, no? i LOVED the idea of signing him.
and remember who we traded him for? ED YARNALL. Remember him? I didn't think so...

I hope they don't insult me by actually putting up a run in the bottom of the 9th. Just take the goose-egg like the little biatches that you are. Just lay down and QUIT.

Why is Giambi DH'ing? His numbers at 1st are way higher. Call Sheff he'll DH.

chaz,

The Yanks are just following same pathetic pattern they have been following all season, it shouldn't surprise you. I kind of called it after last night's game, although I was just kidding at the time, but jeeeeeesssshhhhhhh!!!!

don't forget chaz, it was the pitching that cost this team the game last night, and the hitting that saved Ponsoon's fat butt. But again, this game just proves we both have legit concerns about this team.

Abreu is done, y'all failed to offload Sui, get it right like with RJ. Get money, get CC.

The Lowell deal was yet another Crashman mistake, I think Yarnall ended his career in Japan,I'm not sure on that one though. Thanks Crashman!!!!!!

You know chaz, in the late 90's when this type of slump would happen, the team would all start TAKING ptches and make the opposing pitcher work...pass the baton to the next guy. But with the signing of Jason "Idon'tneednostinkingoppositefieldhits" Giambi, the team became more and more home run conscious, even though Giambi takes alot of pitches...players like him who don't shorten up their swing in clutch situations (Arod) changed the patient, methodical approach of the championship teams from the '90's...I though Abreu would help change that...

Yeah, look at this-just as I'm typing it, Arod Swings at the first pitch and ends the game....

Chaz, disgusted doesn't quite describe it.

Fuentes?? They are asking minor leaguers, make it happen.

I would rather have a player like Abreu than a player who is falling apart like Matsui.

Giambi is our best hitter Mike,

Lester KO Pettitte in 2 = OMGU where is Santana?

Abreu>Sui but still we need better OF'ers

Well, Mr Chazbedlam, they did just that. QUIT.
Good job to Lester. Inspiring story with the cancer and everything...in fact, you got TWO guys on that team who beat cancer. TWO.
But I still hate the redsox. Hate em. I hope they get jockitch.

Abreu doesn't move like Damon or Sheff, he watch balls sail out. Juan Pierre is available.

Well another great offensive show by this El Stinko team. Many on this blog keep naming players who don't deserve to be wearing pinstripes. Although I totally agree with those named the bigger question is who brought together this bunch? Answer = Crashman. This guy ought be the first one FIRED. I have said this many times if you are looking for the responsible ones then start with this incompetent GM. Is anyone surprised at Andy's performance tonight, being called to testify in Clemens' trial and all. And A-Rod is it any wonder his problems? It starts with getting lost in Madonna's Golden Triangle. Oh yeah we are just friends. The guy is a soap opera and so is his team.

Welcome to 1983-1993. The Yankees are an overpaid bunch of wanna be's. Maybe Madonna could play second tomorrow? I cannot believe we've let this crew go as long as they have. They all have to go. Start next year from scratch. These guys do not belong in the stadium. I am a Jeter fan but I am getting sick of all the DP he is hitting into. Posada couldn't throw me out!

Abreu is a statue and so is Damon. We have NO speed in the outfield except Melky. Melky is the ONLY one that will run through walls (like O'Neill use to do, remember him in game 3 in 1996 WS, folks?). Way to evaluate players Crashman you idiot.

Agree with you coach but again who put this crew together? Answer = Crashman the moron.

Sorry folks that was O'Neill in game 5 of the 1996 WS for the final out.

Oh my god.... Another LaTroy Hawkins sighting. I thought we left him in Pitt. Hank needs to go into the lockeroom and fire everyone. I mean everyone. Even the guy that cleans the toliet. They all gotta go. Girardi is lost! The pitching coach should go back to AAA and take some of these bums with him. I am pissed. Why you ask? Because these jerks stink and the fact that people, including me this year, have paid up to $300.00 per seat. Did you all know that the same seats I have sat in for years went from $125.00 per seat this year to $250.00. Next year they are saying they will go to $700.00 per seat down there. For that money they better let me sing the anthem and throw out the first pitch. Actually they shoud let me pitch, because Ia know I am better then Hawkins and Farnsworthless. lol

Heck I'll take Charlie Brown over those guys. He may get undressed by linedrives but at least he can keep the ball in the park!!

No Doubt Giambi is one of our better hitters right now...what I was saying is I think he is in large part responsible for the change in the philosophy in the teams overall approach at the plate. That big contract plus falling in love w/ the short porch in right had way too much influence on Giambi...and other players followed suit...
we have all been complaining about the same things since 2002-when the Front office got all freaked out by the lack of production against the Diamondbacks in the 2001 WS...the decsions from back then are the biggest reason why we are all having a fit right now.
I think Giambi is an alright sort of guy. Will he ever help this team win a Championship? I think if it was going to happen, it would have happened already. That ship sailed years ago...If a few times a series he would just tap one to the vacated third base hole, with no one on, other teams would shift on him less. This idea that he'd "hit over the shift" hasn't quite worked, has it? Giambi is NOT Ted Williams...and Ted was one of the only guys in history who could pull balls through and over the shift consistently...

I just caught this on Pete Abraham's blog: According to Girardi, Matsui has not responded well to physical therapy. Doesn't look like he will be back before the All-Star break since he can't take batting practice this weekend. He'll need surgery in the off-season. Can anything go right for this team?

Now starting for the NY Yankees..... 1B Mark Teixeira

Hey Coach, Hawkins new name is "LaToya". He doesn't have the right to have Testicles anymore. He is the Major League Equivalent to "Glass Joe" from Punchout. He just keeps getting hit....

YANKEES MINOR LEAGUE SCOREBOARD July 3, 2008

Scranton/WB 0
Lehigh Valley (Phillies) 1 (2) SUSPENDED
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Portland (Red Sox) 0
Trenton 4
W: J. Jones (9-3, 2.28); L: A. Mills (0-1, 3.00)
HR: None.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_07_03_prtaax_treaax_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Tampa 1
Fort Myers (Twins) 2
W: M. Fox (4-3, 3.65); L: I. Nova (3-10, 4.92); SV: A. Slama (17)
HR: FTM: E. Tintor (3).
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_07_03_tbyafa_ftmafa_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Charleston 4
Augusta (Giants) 5
W: W. Joaquin (1-1, 3.69); L: C. Vacek (3-3, 4.54); SV: A. De La Garza (2)
HR: CHA: B. Suttle 2 (7).
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_07_03_crdafx_augafx_1&t=g_box&did=milb
Mahoning Valley (Indians) 1
Staten Island 10
W: B. Rulon (1-0, 0.00); L: A. Martinez (0-1, 4.00)
HR: None.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2008_07_03_mvsasx_staasx_1&t=g_box&did=milb
GCLYankees 6
GCL Tigers 2
W: Vizcaino (2-0, 2.08); L: Villareal (0-2, 6.23); S: Barreda (1)
HR: None
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2008_07_03_yanrok_tgrrok_1
You may also see http://www.yankeesdaily.com for details.

Someone see if Stump Merrill or Bucky Dent are still around? Maybe Stick can come back and lead the Yanks to a soild 4th place finish.

I'm Not surprised Godzilla didn't respond to therapy. I had a conversation w/ a friend of mine last year that the yanks should have looked to trade him to a West Coast team and sign a RT handed hitting out fielder ( The current alignment was an alternative we talked about too). Matsui is not going to be back anytime soon, and now he is as damaged goods as an Alou or someone.
The guy i wanted was Andruw Jones...But I am not liking that idea too much now!!
Folks, unless there is a miracle, this season is OVER. These guys look very very OLD....

I really do not mean to be so negative but it is hard not to be with the money spent on these guys.

Beer 9.50
hotdog 6.50
tickets to the game 250.00
Watching Latroy Hawkins pitch..... worthless

PS- Go to the hotdog guy across from the bat. $2.00 dirty dogs.... Awesome!

I didn't think it could get worse then Professor Farnsworth....then they sign Latoya, and it DOES get worse...much much worse....Worse signing of the decade. worse then Pavano-he at least came off an 18 win season and had won a WS. Hawkins? He never did ANYTHING to warrent a contract, let alone Paul O'Neil's Number. I know he was "honoring" Clemente, but he showed an obvious ignorance of recent Yankee History, and really did offend the fans, and I think he got to a few of O'Neil's old buddies too.
AND-no one would have cared if he was pitching lights out to a 2.50 ERA...
He doesn't deserve to be in the Majors, let alone on a team contending-THIS TEAM, THIS STADIUM, THIS TRADITION-for a championship.

This is the last year of the most heralded sports arena since the Roman Colloseum, and THATS your "big free agent" signing? LaToya Hawkins? Are you f-ing kidding me?? A guy who has one of the worst ERAs in the HISTORY of yankee stadium??? How do you NOT take stats like that Into consideration before signing someone???
So, Coach, this is how the Yanks justify those $7 hot dogs-Latoya Hawkins. He looks more like a Deer-In-Headlights the a ML Ball player. Pathetic.

michael,

Unfortunately, this is where you and I disagree, I don't think Hawkins is the worst acquisition the Yanks have made, there have been too many to say that about him (.e. Pavano, Jaret Wright, Betemit, Farnsworth, Johnson etc.). I hated this acquisition myself, because he is an average pitcher who has become very hittable. I stated at the begining of the season this guy scared me, and now everyone sees why. This guy should have been cut long ago, but like Betapuke this team has developed a mysterious hard on for this guy.

You are right Matt but again who signed all of these guys?

ESPN is reporting that Girardi held a closed door meeting after the game. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that. I wonder how many non-curse words were uttered.

$30 a seat for a Rays game.

Matt, I don't disagree with you one bit. But what I am saying is that all of the guys you named (exception betemit) at least had a track record of doing something significant as a major leaguer-Pavano won a WS, Wright shut down the yanks in 2007 playoffs, Johnson is a Hall of Famer, and Farnsworth at least at some point in his career threw 100 mph.

But for this year, the last year of the stadium and with a new manager, you sign the guy with the worst ERA in yankee stadium history? I don't think any of the other signings can boast a dubious stat like that. In fact, you cna make at least some far fetched arguement to justify the signings of Pavano, Wright, Giambi or the trades for Johnson, Mondesi, and Knoblach.

But this one has to take the cake, at least for me, because I felt the same way about Latoya as I did about Arthur Rhodes: "why is this guy even wearing a uniform?"

Bottom line, its a tie beetween miss Latoya Hawkins and Gei Igawaful as the worst free agent signings in the Crash-and-burn-man era. In Igawa's case, at least he got a few batters out. Hawkins is ALWAYS behind hitters and always allowing Inherited Runners to score.

My problem with the signing is "This is the bigtime free agent bullpen signing thats going to take this team over the top?". If there was any year they should have made a splash, at least it should have been this year.

Raise your hand if you are so disappointed with this season of mediocrity that you don't feel like even watching anymore games.

I sorta feel that if I continue to watch games and spend money (no matter how minute an amount) I am supporting the way they are running the team. Maybe I'll just turn off the screen when Hawkins, betemit, ponson, igawa, etc are in the game.

I am, of course, still going to watch games and listen to games...its just that I really expected that this team was going to really bust it this year, considering that the stadium is closing.

I don't know...maybe I wouldn't be so bent out of shape if it wasn't for the Rays. If they were still at the bottom the division, maybe the Yanks would only be 2-3 games back or even in first place.

I'm depressed.

Its time to dump Joe and hire Willie as manager. Joe is too connected to these players as a friend and needs time as a base coach before taking over a team again. Hank needs to prove he is the son of George and pull the trigger now before the season is lost.

Randolph would suck as manager of this team. He couldn't do anything with the Mets while he was there, and was pathetic this season, especially after this team wasted all of their high quality minor league talent to get Santana who has done nothing to help the Mets, what a waste!!! He's no difference maker!! Keep that loser Randolph from this team!!

micahel,

I hear what you are saying, and feel the same way you do right now about this team. I do have to disagree with you slightly about what you said about players like Pavano, and Wright. The Yanks signed those guys to big contracts based on what they did the previous season alone. That's a mistake, and very short sighted. IF you look at Pavano's career stats before his 18-win season he did absolutely nothing. You can basically say the same about Wright albeit he did have a little more success than Pavano, but just a little. He too had the best season of his career, just like Wright, and that's why the Yanks signed him. Pavano turned out to be an injury prone pitcher as we all know, even when he was healthy he was very mediocre. Wright turned out to be nothing more than an unreliable 5-inning pitcher. Heck, this team continued this trend by signing Ponson because he was having a good season, and saw him as an option to fill a hole despite the fact he is a 100-game loser and has horrible career stats. All of these guys had very short, minor histories of success, not enough to justify big contracts.

As for Farnsworth, he is nothing more than another Crashman mistake. Even before the Yanks signed him he had a rep of not being able to handle high pressure situations. Just ask any Cubs fan. He was another pitcher who was signed because he had a career year, again he was a mistake. A reliever who has a 100 mph fastball, but can't handle high pressure situations, and has been inconsistent, is pretty much worthless as a reliever. Just look at the results since he joined the Yanks. He is barely a decent middle reliever. All of these guys were mistakes!!

I don't disagree with you on any point in particular, Matt...

I just don't like Hawkins...

Well that makes two of us. Good to have company!!

He's gone! Now the Mets are going to sign him!!!Watch!!