The Yankee GAME thread

[Optimist]

BTW, I dont see your Randy Johnson ERA update. Well I'll do it for you: 4.92 UNDER 5.

 

I think I'm gonna start a Josh Beckett watch: 5.02

The Sox will take care of that momentary lapse under 5. They should get him comfortably over 5. BTW: Are you bragging about a 4.92 ERA for Unit on August 14th?

 

Johnson's ERA after today's game: 4.98

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

Johnson's ERA after today's game: 4.98

 

 

...and Beckett's is 5.35

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

Thanks for picking me up guys. I forgot about that.

[a700hitter]

Johnson's ERA after today's game: 4.98

Missed it by that much.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

Missed it by that much.

 

Yankees didn't miss anything this weekend..

 

Thuuuhhhh Red Sox Loooose!!! Thuhhhhhhhh Red Sox Looooose!!!!

 

....I'll cut and paste that 3 more times later

[a700hitter]

Gloat all you want. Read my signature and remember that pain and experience the humiliation of being the first team in the history of the game to accomplish this. It's a record that can't be broken.

[Optimist]

That's all you've got? Something that happened two years ago?

[a700hitter]

That's all you've got? Something that happened two years ago?

That's enough until the Yankees can do that to us in our House for the AL Penant. It tops anything the Yankees have done to the Red Sox in my lifetime.

 

Edit: I know you remember the pain.

[Optimist]

The Red Sox are enduring a pretty epic beating right now...nothing, especially something that happened two years ago, is going to change that or how great this team, and the fans, should feel about that.

 

I really do enjoy seeing the people who proclaimed the Yankees dead and in a race for third w/ the Blue Jays not more than a few months ago so very desperate right now. Just another great thing from this great weekend.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

That's enough until the Yankees can do that to us in our House for the AL Penant. It tops anything the Yankees have done to the Red Sox in my lifetime.

 

Edit: I know you remember the pain.

 

To do that I guess the Red Sox would have to make the playoffs first. Enjoy 2004, in another 84 years You can feel that joy again.

[a700hitter]

The Red Sox are enduring a pretty epic beating right now...nothing, especially something that happened two years ago, is going to change that or how great this team, and the fans, should feel about that.

 

I really do enjoy seeing the people who proclaimed the Yankees dead and in a race for third w/ the Blue Jays not more than a few months ago so very desperate right now. Just another great thing from this great weekend.

Do you see the signature in your own post? I declared our boys dead before the Yankees boarded the plan for Boston. This team is not good. It can't beat teams with over .500 records when healthy, and when it's just a little banged up it can't beat the KC's and Tampa. This is just a bad season by a badly constructed team. It's not fun losing, but since the 1 and 5 road trip very few of us thought we had a chance at the playoffs. See the poll on the other thread. I don't think anyone thought this team had Championship possibilitites. The fans don't likle to see the Sox lose to the Yankees, but with "The Ultimate Loser" and a rookie pitching the first two games we knew it would be a huge uphill battle. I hope the FO learned a lesson by watching Damon clean our clocks these past 4 games, and I hope there is a bit of a s*** storm at their next meeting. But this doesn't come close to the way we slowly ripped your beating hearts out of your chests and showed them to you in the 2004 ALCS. It's not even close. Not the same solar system or universe. Remember the pain. The Red Sox did that to you. You hold an infamous record that can never be broken.

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

I must say, if the Red Sox fans have already broken out the 2004 material it must be over in their minds.

[a700hitter]

I must say, if the Red Sox fans have already broken out the 2004 material it must be over in their minds.

For more than a week, Optimist's signature has my quote: :The only way our boys get to the post-season is with a ticket. I knew it was over before your Yankees got off the plane.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

Today's Game:

New York (74-48) at Boston (69-54), 1:05 p.m. ET a.k.a The Hammer and the Nail Part 5.

On television: YES

On radio: WCBS 880 AM, WKDM 1380 AM (Español)

 

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/images/baseball/mlb/players/5806_small.jpg vs. http://i.a.cnn.net/si/images/baseball/mlb/players/4057_small.jpg

 

Cory Lidle (9-9, 4.64) vs. David Wells (2-2, 6.06)

Game Preview:

Lidle looks to wrap up Boston sweep

New York (74-48) at Boston (69-54), 1:05 p.m. ET

By Mike Petraglia / Special to MLB.com

 

The Yankees will attempt something on Monday they haven't accomplished since 1943 -- sweep a five-game series at Fenway Park.

Cory Lidle gets the call from Joe Torre while the Red Sox counter with former Yankee David Wells in the Monday matinee.

 

The Yankees' last five-game sweep against the Red Sox came from July 9-13, 1959, at Yankee Stadium. New York last turned the trick in Fenway from Sept. 9-12, 1943. If the Yankees win on Monday, it would be their fifth five-game sweep of their archrival.

 

The Yankees completed their remarkable comeback against Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon approximately 12 hours before they are scheduled to take the field for the series finale. Sunday's game didn't end until 1:26 a.m. ET Monday.

 

"[sunday] was certainly a big game for us," starter Mike Mussina said. "I don't think anybody thought somebody was going to come into this series and win at least four games, and we have a chance to win all five, so we'll sleep fast and try to win one more game."

 

The Yankees enter Monday afternoon's contest with their biggest lead of the season over the Red Sox at 5 1/2 games and stand a season-high 26 games over .500 at 74-48.

 

Pitching matchup

NYY: RHP Cory Lidle (9-9, 4.64 ERA)

Lidle allowed a run in each of his first three innings on Wednesday against the Orioles, but settled in after that, retiring the last 11 batters he faced. Lidle said he felt like he was finding his groove. He is 2-2 with a 6.58 ERA against the Red Sox in his career.

 

BOS: LHP David Wells (2-2, 6.06 ERA)

In their stretch run to the playoffs, the Red Sox need more consistency in their starting rotation from more than just Curt Schilling. Wells, 43, seems to be taking on the duty of providing stability and eating up innings for the overworked Boston bullpen. He has won his last two starts and pitched at least six innings in his last three contests. He allowed four runs and 10 hits in 6 2/3 innings against the Tigers in his last start. Wells, who has not faced the Yankees this season, is 19-10 with a 3.11 ERA all-time against his former team.

 

Player to watch

Jason Giambi connected for his 35th and 36th homers of the season on Sunday night, giving him the most since he belted 41 in 2003. With 101 RBIs this year, Giambi has posted seven career seasons with at least 100 RBIs and his first since 2003 with the Yankees.

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

Anyone know what the magic number is?

[Optimist]

Joe can't sit back and be happy with 4, in my opinion. He needs to do whatever it takes to win today. Deal the Sox a blow they won't recover from.

 

http://nomaas.org/images/varitekisamoron1.jpg

[Optimist]

Anyone know what the magic number is?

 

35

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

It looks like Franwsorth is ready to go:

 

Kyle Farnsworth (leg) reportedly was available out of the bullpen Sunday, but manager Joe Torre gave him another night off.

 

"It's a big old charley horse, that's the best way to describe it," Farnsworth said.

[a700hitter]

They've given up you fool. They are going through the motions and paying lip service with that one game at a time crap, but everyone from maine to Connecticut and all of the Nation know it's over. You are tilting at windmills my friend. I hope Joe uses his whole bullpen to win this big game for the yankees. I'll get a good laugh if he continues to burn out his pen gainst a corpse of a team. This way he'll have a pen full of dead arms by the playoffs.

[26 Reasons to Hate Us]

They've given up you fool. They are going through the motions and paying lip service with that one game at a time crap, but everyone from maine to Connecticut and all of the Nation know it's over. You are tilting at windmills my friend. I hope Joe uses his whole bullpen to win this big game for the yankees. I'll get a good laugh if he continues to burn out his pen gainst a corpse of a team. This way he'll have a pen full of dead arms by the playoffs.

 

That is the difference between the Yankees and the Red Sox. The Yankees didn't give up this time last year, all they did was storm back and win the division. They didn't give up in '78 either.

[a700hitter]

That is the difference between the Yankees and the Red Sox. The Yankees didn't give up this time last year, and all they did was storm back and win the division. They didn't give up in '78 either.

The difference is that you had a talented underachieving team those years that got their s*** together at the end. The Red Sox have 2 maybe 2 1/2 starters and no bullpen. We're not stupid. We know when we have a bad team. Take pleasure in beating the corpse. It's pointless though, because a corpse feels no pain. Sorry to disappoint you.

[ORS]

That is the difference between the Yankees and the Red Sox. The Yankees didn't give up this time last year, all they did was storm back and win the division. They didn't give up in '78 either.

It certainly helps when the crap you fling against the wall actually sticks. Small and Chacon were some nice sticky s*** for the Yankees. Johnson, Snyder, and DiNardo just slid right down the wall.

[26 to 6]

Wow, is this the mood of Red Sox Nation 5 and 1/2 games out?

[ARod2212]

Gloat all you want. Read my signature and remember that pain and experience the humiliation of being the first team in the history of the game to accomplish this. It's a record that can't be broken.

Well it's good to see you are in full spin mode. Enjoy sitting in your pajamas, watching your 2004 World Series DVD until April.

[riverside sluggers]

Wow, is this the mood of Red Sox Nation 5 and 1/2 games out?

 

They have been falling since the 12 game win streak had ended, they are just tired dogs laying on the porch on a hot sunny day while the front office begins prepping for the offseason

 

This is no small slump in any means

 

repeat post

4 game losing streak... to the Yankees... at Fenway Park (outscored 47-25)

lost 11 out of last 15 games

16-20 since All-Star Break

6-13 in August

worst ERA for any team in the month of August

Schilling/Wells? only reliable starters

Papelbon is only reliable reliever

9 game west coast road trip starting tomorrow

2004 this is not

[riverside sluggers]

Joe can't sit back and be happy with 4, in my opinion. He needs to do whatever it takes to win today. Deal the Sox a blow they won't recover from.

 

http://nomaas.org/images/varitekisamoron1.jpg

 

They were already dead in the water when they got swept in the double-header

[schillingouttheks]

Anyone know what the magic number is?

0.

[a700hitter]

Well it's good to see you are in full spin mode. Enjoy sitting in your pajamas, watching your 2004 World Series DVD until April.

Thank you. I will. It is one of those timeless classics that can be watched over and over because it is so perfect. It warms my heart that in that ALCS and in the WS we did things that the NY Skanks never did in all of their post-season and WS play.

[ORS]

Anyone know what the magic number is?

$200M+

 

It's the only way to absorb several key injuries and still be successful in the AL East.

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

$200M+

 

It's the only way to absorb several key injuries and still be successful in the AL East.

Ok

 

BTW Thanks for anwsering my question Optimist.