...and whoever's playing the Yankees - 2008 Game Thread

[redsoxrules]

Hughes is having difficulty with the lights at night. He may be getting fitted with neon glasses for his next night game

 

WTF he's gona need way more than neon glasses to start pitching better

[ORS]

Neon glasses? What's the point there, to make him look like such a cockpumper the batter can't hit because he's laughing?

[redsoxrules]

f*** thats hilarious

[Youk Of The Nation]

Thames! Whoo!

[schillingouttheks]

Neon glasses? What's the point there' date=' to make him look like such a cockpumper the batter can't hit because he's laughing?[/quote']

 

LOL, YOU ******* ... I spit water all over my keyboard.

[TheKilo]

Hughes is having difficulty with the lights at night. He may be getting fitted with neon glasses for his next night game

 

Why didn't he have issues with this last year? Phag.

[Gom]

Hughes is having difficulty with the lights at night. He may be getting fitted with neon glasses for his next night game

This has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.

 

It couldn't possibly be because he sucks, could it? Nah, just go read the press clippings and the Yankees scouting reports. Silly me. My bad.

[Mr Crunchy]

cockpumpersplendid description of the man who couldnt miss.

 

i am now wondering if the yanks have hit a phase like the sox did for 86 years where they cant catch a break.

the more i think of it the more i like the fact that we didnt get santana but the performances of the youngsters make that much easier to swallow

but what of the yankees?

are they still happy about holding on to the untouchable phil hughes and ian kennedy?

somewhere fredo steinbrenner is furious over something he knows little about

[Paradisecity]

somewhere fredo steinbrenner is furious over something he knows little about

 

sex with a woman?

[Gom]

Phil Hughes on the DL. Has nothing to do with his 0-4 record and 9.00 ERA. Nope. Not at all.

 

Bring on Rasner and Igawa. The Yankees would probably be in first place if we had Igawa and Rasner in the rotation instead of Hughes and Kennedy.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Hughes is having difficulty with the lights at night. He may be getting fitted with neon glasses for his next night game

This has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.

 

It couldn't possibly be because he sucks, could it? Nah, just go read the press clippings and the Yankees scouting reports. Silly me. My bad.

 

In jacksonianmarch's defense, my parents always told me that if I was too much of a cockpumper that I'd start to go blind. I don't think that we have either the stats or the game films to rule out that possibility regarding Hughes's struggles in 2008. :dunno:

 

Bring on Rasner and Igawa. The Yankees would probably be in first place if we had Igawa and Rasner in the rotation instead of Hughes and Kennedy.

 

Wow, Gom. That's a sentence I never thought that I'd see you write.

 

Here's my take: Boston and New York are still the two best teams in a strong AL East. Nothing is guaranteed; nobody is yet close to elimination.

 

BP has several methods of assessing teams' performance. One of my favorites is their ELO ranking system, similar to that used in World Cup soccer to assess teams' quality. Here are the top five AL teams, ranked by ELO, using the chance of reaching the ALDS as the metric:

 

LA Angels 67%

Boston 62%

Athletics 43%

Guardians 42%

Yankees 42%

 

Other AL East teams:

 

Rays 16%

Blue Jays 12%

Orioles 12%

 

That looks just about right to my perspective. The Yankees are down three Hall of Famers, one All Star and two uber-prospects, but they're still putting four All Stars onto the field, they have three All Star pitchers still in their rotation, and they have Joba and Mo as their set-up/closer duo. The Red Sox, right now, are better than the Yankees right now. The Yankees of June probably won't be the Yankees of right now, though, because health issues will be resolved and Cashman will buy some more talent. The second-half Yankees will be very good, and it's going to be a great AL East race this year.

 

And when the Yankees make their comeback, unless Rasner and Igawa channel the spirits guiding Small and Chacon in 2005 those two guys will not be the heroes.

[a700hitter]

The Yankees have saved Hughes from further embarrasment by putting him on the DL. His psyche had obviously been damaged, because he was making ridiculous excuses for his lack of performance. He can't see at night games? They didn't just demote him as that might have been a blow to his self esteem. By putting him on the DL, they remove him from the rotation, and he can rehab himself in the minors. Kennedy will be the next DL casualty.

[ORS]

So what's Kennedy's excuse today? Yankee Stadium crabs getting to him and he needs his neon skivies?

[TheKilo]

Hopefully Abbledabblecadabra shits the bed.

[a700hitter]

Shelley Duncan is a doofus looking retard.

[Youk Of The Nation]

He reminds me of Chunk from the Goonies.

[jacksonianmarch]

Neon glasses? What's the point there' date=' to make him look like such a cockpumper the batter can't hit because he's laughing?[/quote']

 

I am not kidding, that was in the nj ledger

[YAZMAN]

The Yankees have saved Hughes from further embarrasment by putting him on the DL. His psyche had obviously been damaged' date=' because he was making ridiculous excuses for his lack of performance. He can't see at night games? They didn't just demote him as that might have been a blow to his self esteem. By putting him on the DL, they remove him from the rotation, and he can rehab himself in the minors. Kennedy will be the next DL casualty.[/quote']

 

My sentiment exactly, confirmed by an interview I saw last night where he tried to expain away the situation. The quotes don't do justice because the telling placements of his "ummm's" and "uhhh's" didn't make the print.

 

"I really don't think it was an issue in my performance," he said. "Subconsciously, I may have been doing something different or whatever. But it's still something that I want to work out as far as performing well when I get back."

 

"At least for me, I was in disbelief," Hughes said. "I was expecting to get the results of the MRI and have some small muscle strain or something like that. For it to be this, especially with the way things are going pitching-wise and everything else, it's just not a fun time right now."

 

"It could have been around for a while and it was just so minor that I didn't know it. Or it could have been something that happened overnight. There's no way of knowing," Hughes said. "There wasn't like one specific pitch, like I said, where I felt it. It was just one of those things. I woke up one morning and there was a little discomfort, but nothing major. And then after last night there was significantly more discomfort."

 

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of Yankee fans also experienced significantly more discomfort after your performance on Tuesday.

[ORS]

The M's seem to be having a good time kicking the ball around. Two errors have resulted in 2 unearned runs. 3-0 in the top of the 3rd. Wang has been leaving the ball up thus far and there have been a couple of loud outs.

[ORS]

They really need to start calling the "attempt to get out of the way" rule. Giambi just got awarded first base on one of the worst examples of doing nothing and letting it hit you. Hell, I think you can make a case he tried to get hit.

[das11209]

The M's seem to be having a good time kicking the ball around. Two errors have resulted in 2 unearned runs. 3-0 in the top of the 3rd. Wang has been leaving the ball up thus far and there have been a couple of loud outs.

 

CM Wang is the luckiest SOB in the ML. I have watched almost all his starts last 2 years - and I have no clue how he got 38 wins.

[CrespoBlows]

CM Wang is the luckiest SOB in the ML. I have watched almost all his starts last 2 years - and I have no clue how he got 38 wins.

 

It's because he pitches against the anemic Red Sox offense most of the time.

[das11209]

It's because he pitches against the anemic Red Sox offense most of the time.

 

Ignoring your sarcasm - we actually play Wang pretty well.

[CrespoBlows]

Ignoring your sarcasm - we actually play Wang pretty well.

 

I'm guessing your lobotomy surgery was botched.

[das11209]

I'm guessing your lobotomy surgery was botched.

 

Didn't you say the same thing about some one else here? I am just trying to understand your psychology - if you think someone is wrong - why you feel it necessary to attack and abuse him/her?

[CrespoBlows]

Didn't you say the same thing about some one else here? I am just trying to understand your psychology - if you think someone is wrong - why you feel it necessary to attack and abuse him/her?

 

Despite being showed stats that disprove your theory, you continue to rant about how terrible the Red Sox offense is, because, "STATS LYE LOL!" Dogmatic people should be called stupid. You are dogmatic, therefore, I'm calling you stupid.

[das11209]

Despite being showed stats that disprove your theory' date=' you continue to rant about how terrible the Red Sox offense is, because, "STATS LYE LOL!" Dogmatic people should be called stupid. You are dogmatic, therefore, I'm calling you stupid.[/quote']

 

The way I see it - you have total disregard/disrespect for others opinion. If some one does not want to go by statistics - so be it. I know a lot of posters here just like to watch the game and don't care for stats and the rest like to do statistical analysis. Does not give you the right to abuse the posters just because you think they are wrong.

[CrespoBlows]

The way I see it - you have total disregard/disrespect for others opinion. If some one does not want to go by statistics - so be it. I know a lot of posters here just like to watch the game and don't care for stats and the rest like to do statistical analysis. Does not give you the right to abuse the posters just because you think they are wrong.

 

I don't abuse people who don't care about stats. I abuse people who don't do any research, and then try to peddle their false claims off on everyone else. I especially hate it when they're confronted with concrete evidence, they say, "I DONT NEED STATS LOL I SEE IT ON THE FIELD!!! BEZIDEZ STATZ LYE!!!"

 

You are guilty of this. That's too bad.

[das11209]

I don't abuse people who don't care about stats. I abuse people who don't do any research, and then try to peddle their false claims off on everyone else. I especially hate it when they're confronted with concrete evidence, they say, "I DONT NEED STATS LOL I SEE IT ON THE FIELD!!! BEZIDEZ STATZ LYE!!!"

 

You are guilty of this. That's too bad.

 

You are right - that's too bad. It is not in my place to change your attitude - and I don't think it will ever change. And I never said I don't need stats. Stats are indicative of future performance 'indicative' being the operative word. Forget the baseball world - if stats could correctly predict future like stock market - we all will be rich. And again that is just my opinion - your opinion may very which I totally respect.

 

You missed my message. If you don't like someone's opinion - you have every right to exchange opinion and debate in a proper fashion but have no right to abuse them. Specially in a well-moderated forum.

[das11209]

4 Errors by Seattle made the difference in this game.