I fucking love this kid.

Melky's offense has a lot of promise, but his defense is very suspect.

I don't know what it is with Melky. He doesn't track the ball well. He chases the ball, rather than run to where it's going to end up.

And Joe Morgan said "buttocks". I love Little Joe.

Sure, they might miss Sheffield the most, but that logic isn't logical.

Bases loaded for Derek Sanderson Jeter.

Maybe the Banter is the good luck charm tonight. Banter goes down and the Yanks start losing....

Glaving, Wagner, Randolph...He just totally confused everyone, and he said that Randolph was pitching. Good job, Joe.

Anybody else have trouble getting on the site tonight? Couldn't hook up with the server at all..

So he's a side-armer, huh?

Never mind...

Also, none of the three wanted to tell the well-worn story about Stick lying to Stein about Bernie--that there was no trade interest, so Bernie couldn't be moved? It was certainly part of the context of the "building the Mets" discussion. WHich I don't buy at all.

Some say that's why the Yankees won't bring him up. Bean refuses to work out, a la Wells, and they don't want to reward that kind of thing. Sets a bad example and all that.

According to the "Free Colter Bean" web site, his actual weight is well north of 300 lbs.

Please don't try to figure out what Joe Morgan is saying. I won't even intimate why Morgan likes Sheff over Arod, I don't want Ron Kuby serving papers on me. He's a fool, everyone who isn't a casual fan knows he's a fool. It's ESPN and Joe is in the Hall of Fame, that's the end of the story.

70 That would be idiotic, especially after Wells.

If it's true that he doesn't work out, well then blame him, he must not want it that bad. Wells is a proven pitcher who was not a fat blob when he made his debut. You have to earn the right to dictate your own work out routine. That doesn'y fly for a 10 year minor leaguer.

There goes Bean...back to Columbus I bet.

Dude,

Be nice to your neighbors. I'm just holding a grudge for Matt Smith.

Although if Bean could throw a strike here, I'd be a little more optimistic.

I'm out, let's hope they pull this out!

Now match that with your average Mets fan: we waz robbed!!!

Jesus, friggin Alex!!! Get a hit when it friggin counts!

Who cares if he's the only non-Rivera pitcher left? He shouldn't even be there.

Wow. A-Rod out?

At least Giambi got Cairo home.

Holy crap. They've replaced A-Rod with Cairo.

Until Shef is back,
Damon
Cano
Jetes
Giambi
ARod
the rest

Jete is batting .356 WRISP, a full .100 higher than Arod and Giambi.

That statement has many logical inconsistencies.

Hell yes! All Smith did was retire every batter he faced and didn't walk anyone. I simply cannot tolerate BB's from relievers.

Free Colter Bean, I mean really, he's 29 and tops out at 88 MPH for God's sake.

ARod did cream the ball his last time at bat. Damon has a 30 ft single, Bernie has a 50 fr double. Cano is the only one who has really hit the ball hard.

I'd just rather have Smith. :)

The Yankees didn't deserve to be even this much in the game anyway.

Yea. Good hitters, not great hitters, not Pujols, or Delgado, or Berkman, or Thome, or . . . . only Alex.

Disaster.

Craptastic run production by the Yanks tonight.

On the bright side... Schilling have been pretty crap lately....

On the bright side... Schilling have been pretty crap lately....

Hey, maybe the front office should drop Phil Hughes and a player to be named later on Bobby Abreu, if we're going to talk about potential v. results and winning now.

I don't feel so bad about this series. All things considered, the Yanks made a pretty good showing. Not having Posada really hurt us.

Yes, there were a lot of runners left stranded in this game, but that's sort of how Glavine works. Especially with NL rules. They weren't afraid to give up hits or BBs if the catcher and pitcher were coming up.

The key there is "pretty much." Every now and then, someone comes along to buck that trend. Over the last few years, A-Rod has hit significantly worse than his normal with RISP. There's no explanation for it. Overall, players in the Major Leagues hit the same in clutch situations. But on a player-by-player basis, aggregate stats lose meaning. A-Rod's splits bear this out.

Sometimes, individual performances transcend overall trends. It might by pyschology. It might be bad luck. But no amount of arguing by Cyril or anyone else can convince of that what we see every game isn't happening.

Does anyone know the team average w/RISP?
I suspect t's bad... especially if you subtract hits where we are already up by 5.

Now if Joe will just allow Bean to throw again...

Not much difference. Fine, he's not Pujols or Thome. Get over it.

Tonight was just an unlucky night for the Yanks. Overall, the team has been good with RISP.

I think we'd have won all three of the Mets games if Jorgie was healthy.

A-Rod...I like the guy, I really do, but the pressure does get to him. He was getting hot for awhile there. But the recent spate of injuries seems to have affected him badly. He's pressing, on both offense and defense. I wish he'd just relax.

so singledd's theory needs adjusting; Yanks are quite effective with men in sp; it's the close and late situations where they've not been doing well

This better be rock bottom.

Chacon is going on the DL to make room for Long. The bruise on his leg is really bad.

On another note: A lot of people complain about inter-league play, but what about the unbalanced schedule? Like ballpark funnel cakes, Yanks/Red Sox games are sweet, but being force-fed nineteen of them is torture.

Stinnett had one key walk all series, against Wagner when he was walking everybody. Otherwise, did he even get a hit?

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2640

225 Yanks/Sox back-to-back with Yanks/Mets is overkill. These games are overhyped and ridiculous. They're all just regular season baseball games, and seriously, from a New York perspective, who really cares if the Yankees beat the Mets or the Mets beat the Yankees? We need wins in the standings, not soap operas for FOX and ESPN. I'm getting sick of it.

All I'm saying is that some folks seem to glom on to some minor leaguer as if he's the second coming, and Monday morning quarterback when sh*t goes sideways with the big club, validating their GM resume.

Calm down. I'm guessing you didn't expect the results from Small or Chacon last season, like myself. Who knows? The Unit, much like Glavine in the recent past, seems cooked. It does not look good, but do you know it's over for him? I don't.

"Yanks sign Erickson? What, now he's on the roster? F! That guy is toast! Why wasn't Smith or Bean called up?"

Maybe they know something we don't know. Maybe not. It's a long season. Lotta sh*t is going to happen. Is Erickson already an upgrade over Sturtze? Yes. Will he implode? Odds are, probably. Then again, see Small 2005.

The "kids" are not the answer, no more than the "retreads" are the answer. Torre's cliche about "catching lightning in a bottle" continues to ring true — and you, nor I, nor Ca$hMoney really knows where that is coming from next.

What game were you watching? All the luck was with the yankees tonight. Infield doubles, infield singles, bad bunts for hits, seeing eye grounders.

Luck wasn't the yankees problem tonight.

What game were you watching?

I saw the one where the Mets made a few excellent plays in a row to turn double plays in key situations.

That's what luck is about.

All of your "infield doubles, infield singles, bad bunts for hits, seeing eye grounders" didn't exactly result in a a win for the Yanks, did it? If that was luck, where's the win?

i think steinbrenner secretly believes that pulling on the yankee pinstipes is like a suit of armour - that suddenly men who couldn't catch on with the royals would magically produce with the power of the pinstripes... ugh.