2013 Yankees in-game thread

[a700hitter]

Cashman has been a good GM for the Yanks but the guy is actually a nutjob. I'm surprised the Yankees have tolerated his antics this long. Can you imagine if Ben Cherington had a 'Fatal Attraction' stalker like Cash did?

First of all, Cashman's behavior has been pretty mild when compared to the departed Boss and the inhabitants of the old Bronx Zoo. He's like Casper Milktoast compared to what the Steinbrenner boys are used to.

[Standing Room]

This is all pretty simple to me, and not worthy of any further analysis. A-Rod should not be making public the steps in his recovery, as that should be left up to the Yankees to do. Many sports organizations operate in this manner ... I assume lots of you are Patriots fans, so you experience this first hand. At the same time, it was unwise of Cashman to take his displeasure with A-Rod to the media. These things are always best handled in house.

 

But Granderson and Teixeira did the same thing...

 

Curtis Granderson ‏@cgrand14 11 Apr

Brace is finally off for non baseball activities. Another step closer! pic.twitter.com/ovS4XAlYjo

 

Mark Teixeira ‏@teixeiramark25 17 Apr

So happy that my rehab is going well. Started my swinging progression yesterday, slowly building up but it’s hard to be patient!

[VA Sox Fan]

Brian Cashman literally told A-Rod to shut the f*** up today. Comedy gold

 

I love it! Way to go Cash! :thumbsup:

 

Dan Patrick was just talking about it. He thinks Cashman is in the wrong. I disagree. Obviously he couldn't have said that to any other current player. No one likes A-Rod. Dan's poll question today is "Who should STFU? A-Rod or Cashman?" So far 70% people responded "A-Rod" :lol:

[italstallianion]

I love it! Way to go Cash! :thumbsup:

 

Dan Patrick was just talking about it. He thinks Cashman is in the wrong. I disagree. Obviously he couldn't have said that to any other current player. No one likes A-Rod. Dan's poll question today is "Who should STFU? A-Rod or Cashman?" So far 70% people responded "A-Rod" :lol:

 

 

Too bad the poll was one OR the other.

[VA Sox Fan]

Too bad the poll was one OR the other.

 

[Standing Room]

This reminds me of the Bobby Valentine/Kevin Youkilis feud. Fortunately, there were teams willing to take Youkilis off our hands.

[VA Sox Fan]

This reminds me of the Bobby Valentine/Kevin Youkilis feud. Fortunately, there were teams willing to take Youkilis off our hands.

 

Kinda different but I see what you're saying. BV was wrong in that case IMO.

[Laser Show]

I've never seen a guy excited to get back to work, only to be told by his boss to "shut the f--- up" about it

[Standing Room]

Kinda different but I see what you're saying. BV was wrong in that case IMO.

 

And Cashman is wrong in this one. Granderson, Teixeira and all A-Rod tweeted about progress in coming back from injury. When A-Rod did it, Cashman called him out in the New York media. That's the worse possible way you could address an issue with a player.

[Standing Room]

For the battered and bruised Yankees, it seems to be bad news after bad news. According to the Yankees themselves, team doctors have recommended that Mark Teixeira have surgery on his injured right wrist, and Daniel Barbarisi seems to have confirmed that the Yankees will take that advice, leaving their first baseman done for the year.

 

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[User Name]

At first it looked like a Grimm outing for Justin, but he's settled down. If Andy keeps pitching like this, however, the Yanks' chance for victory are Petitte

[Youk Of The Nation]

Call me Heather Mills, because I admit I'm stumped at that last one.

[Bellhorn04]

Why haven't the Yanks released Joba yet?

[User Name]

Because when it's time for them to finally put a hit on A-Rod, Joba's an obvious candidate to get the diry deed done. Crime runs in the family.

[italstallianion]

And since his control sucks nobody would suspect a thing.

[jacksonianmarch]

Joba is a guy I expect to rebound on a horrible team. Cashman and Co should take 90% of the blame on this and 10% falls on him as being an ornery dumbass and a fat f***. We need to let him go and bring up more kids. I didn't get to see the game as I'm homeless for a couple days and bunking with family, but the game cast wasn't pretty.

[Standing Room]

Joba is a guy I expect to rebound on a horrible team. Cashman and Co should take 90% of the blame on this and 10% falls on him as being an ornery dumbass and a fat f***. We need to let him go and bring up more kids. I didn't get to see the game as I'm homeless for a couple days and bunking with family, but the game cast wasn't pretty.

 

I know Yankees fans like to blame the ownership for Joba not being a good pitcher but he had a history of arm troubles before he joined the Yankees and he's averaging 94.8 mph on his fastball. If he can't pitch effectively with that velocity, he was never going to be a very good pitcher.

[Standing Room]

According to George A. King III of the New York Post, Alex Rodriguez informed the Yankees on Wednesday that he isn't ready to begin a minor league rehab assignment because his surgically-repaired hip "isn’t up to the task."

There are a few different reports floating around at the moment, but they all center around this idea that A-Rod is going to use his hip injury to remain on the 60-day disabled list indefinitely (even into retirement), allowing the Yankees to collect around 80 percent of the $114 million that Rodriguez is still owed through an insurance claim. But that scheme reeks of insurance fraud, and it also benefits the Yankees way more than it does Rodriguez. Which is an indication that the Post's source on this story resides inside the front office at Yankee Stadium and has no direct relation to anyone in A-Rod's camp. This is becoming another one of those sagas. Jun 27 - 9:31 AM

 

That would certainly explain Cashman's irate reaction to A-Rod saying he was healthy. As I already pointed out, Granderson and Teixeira made almost identical tweets, and no one told them to STFU. A-Rod could essentially sit at home and collect his entire contract (although he would miss out on some lucrative bonuses). And the Yankees could be reimbursed for 80% of his contract (more than they'd get in a trade) they wouldn't have to worry about an impending suspension and they'd keep A-Rod away from the rest of the team.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I read that first line as "According to King George III" and I was confused for a moment.

[VA Sox Fan]

Hey Alex, STFU! You are universally hated.

 

 

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

 

Source: A-Rod wary of Yankees

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By Wallace Matthews

ESPNNewYork.com

 

 

NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez believes the New York Yankees do not want him to return this season, and perhaps ever again, a source told ESPNNewYork.com.

 

According to the source, Rodriguez thinks the Yankees are deliberately slowing his return to their active roster in the hope they can have him declared medically unfit to play this season, enabling them to recoup 80 percent of his $28 million salary through insurance.

 

 

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"Alex thinks there's something really off about this situation," the source said. "Here we have a doctor declaring him fit to play. You think they would be happy about that."

 

Instead, Rodriguez's tweet Tuesday night -- "Visit from Dr. [bryan] Kelly over the weekend, who gave me the best news -- the green light to play games again!" -- was met with an angry response from Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, who told ESPNNewYork.com's Andrew Marchand, "You know what, when the Yankees want to announce something, [we will]. Alex should just shut the f--- up."

 

According to the source, Rodriguez felt the GM's response was "over the top," and cemented his belief that the Yankees have been looking for ways to rid themselves of the 10-year, $275 million contract they gave him after the 2007 season.

 

"Alex thinks it's all about the insurance," the source said. "How could it not be?"

 

According to the source, Rodriguez believes the Yankees are delaying his return hoping time will run out for him to come back this season, or that Major League Baseball will hand down a lengthy suspension for his alleged involvement with Miami-area anti-aging clinic Biogenesis and its founder, Anthony Bosch, who is suspected of supplying numerous major leaguers with illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

 

Both Cashman and team president Randy Levine strongly denied that the Yankees would prefer A-Rod not return to play this season.

 

"False and false," Cashman said to both theories. "He's not being slowed down or anything. Make no mistake; if Alex Rodriguez is healthy, we want him, and I want him, playing third base for us yesterday. We're clearly a better team with him. We're taking every step in the process, but we can't have him unless he's ready. Period."

 

Added Levine: "Nobody wants to delay him. The sooner he comes back, the better. If he comes back healthy, he'll really help us to be a better team, and that's what this is all about."

 

Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo said in a statement that Rodriguez, Cashman and Levine spoke Wednesday evening.

 

"Alex called Cashman around 5:30 [p.m.], Cashman got Randy Levine on the phone, and they spoke for close to 30 minutes," the statement said. "It was a constructive, healthy conversation. Everybody is on the same page. And we're all going to communicate and work together to get Alex back as quickly as possible. Everyone fully understands the protocol and processes in place. We're all back on track."

 

As to the allegation that the team is delaying in hopes that MLB will sideline A-Rod before the Yankees determine he is ready to return, Cashman said, "We have no knowledge of where the Biogenesis stuff is except for what I read in the papers. Baseball's in charge of this stuff. We're not a part of that process. They're not keeping us in the loop or making us aware of anything. For us, it's business as usual until they tell us otherwise."

 

There is little doubt that Rodriguez's relationship with the team has deteriorated since he signed the new contract following his 2007 MVP season, beginning with his admission that he used steroids while a member of the Texas Rangers.

 

The rift between the Yankees and A-Rod clearly widened last October, when, while mired in a 2-for-25 slump during the playoffs, manager Joe Girardi pinch-hit for him three times and benched him for three games, including two potential elimination games.

 

 

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In addition, a story emerged that A-Rod had flirted with some women seated behind the Yankees' dugout while the team was in the process of losing Game 1 of the AL Championship Series to the Detroit Tigers. The Yankees never have officially refuted the story, and in fact, several team officials have privately confirmed it.

 

According to the source in A-Rod's camp, prior to Wednesday night, neither Cashman nor Levine had spoken to the player "in months," further fueling Rodriguez's suspicion that the Yankees are looking to rid themselves of him.

 

"Nobody ever talks to him," the source said. "Isn't it odd that the GM isn't keeping in touch with his highest-paid player?"

 

Before their phone conversation Wednesday night, Cashman acknowledged that he and A-Rod had not spoken in more than a month but said that was not unusual with a player rehabbing an injury.

 

"I don't, typically," he said. "Like Kevin Youkilis, if a guy is having surgery, I'll reach out before the surgery. But when guys go down to Tampa, I talk to the trainers. [Derek] Jeter was up here the other day, but I didn't talk to Jeter when he was down in Tampa. I saw [Mark] Teixeira in Trenton, but I didn't talk to him while he was in Tampa. When those guys are doing their rehab, they're in good hands and I'm communicating via the trainers, the doctors and the field staff. I don't reach out to those guys every week or so to ask how they're doing because I'm getting that already."

 

 

According to Cashman, Hal Steinbrenner and Rodriguez spoke Wednesday morning.

 

"Obviously, Hal is the boss," Cashman said. "He had a conversation with Hal, and so that's good enough for him, I suspect."

 

According to Cashman, Hal was working out in the team weight room when Rodriguez approached him and initiated a conversation.

 

"Hal reiterated -- he did it more professionally maybe than I did -- but he repeated [the importance of] managing from the top down rather than from the bottom up," Cashman said, adding that Steinbrenner had "reminded him about this social media stuff."

 

And while Cashman began his nearly 25-minute media session by saying, "I regret my choice of words to ESPN New York" on Tuesday night, he did not apologize for the emotion behind them.

 

"Hal delivered the same message and [Rodriguez] got the message, I know that," Cashman said. "He had obviously a nice conversation with Hal, according to Hal, and then obviously my message was a different version. But the same nonetheless."

 

Cashman said that what angered him about the tweet was the firestorm it set off in the media after the ESPNNewYork.com story appeared Tuesday night.

 

 

 

Rodriguez

 

"While the game's going on [Tuesday] night, the last thing I wanted as general manager of the Yankees watching [Yu] Darvish and [Hiroki] Kuroda hook up in a great battle was to be dealing with something that we didn't create," Cashman said.

 

He also said Rodriguez was aware of team protocols involving medical rehabs and the use of social media. Many Yankees have Twitter accounts and at least two others, Teixeira and Curtis Granderson, have tweeted accounts of their own rehabilitation from injuries.

 

"Whatever Mark was tweeting, it didn't come across my desk," Cashman said. "I know Alex created a Twitter account just two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and I know he has tweeted out he's lifting, feeling good, stuff like that. I never got calls on that. But Kelly is not clearing his rehab. It's just not accurate, that's all, and believe me, with the season that we have had so far, I've got a lot of extra work. Clearly yesterday, with the timing of this, I was like, 'I don't want to deal with this.' It was how I felt about having to deal with something I thought was not necessary."

 

Cashman also said he did not believe Rodriguez's tweet was intended to cause a firestorm.

 

"I think he was putting out information that he was excited about, and not recognizing that everything he says has a direct impact on something else. Do I think he thought that out before he said it? No. But by then, I was dealing with the media calls and then the runaway train started.

 

"Obviously, anything involving Alex becomes bigger news."

[Standing Room]

Cashman said that what angered him about the tweet was the firestorm it set off in the media after the ESPNNewYork.com story appeared Tuesday night.

 

What a moron. He told the New York media that A-Rod should "STFU" and he's angry it became a big story? Actions and consequences. How long has Cashman been in New York?

[Youk Of The Nation]

Yeah, that's ridiculous. How many people in the public spotlight have had big stories made out of stupid stuff they said on Twitter? How could he not know that it would happen?

[italstallianion]

Yankees 2 hit shutout by Derek Holland.

[Standing Room]

Yankees 2 hit shutout by Derek Holland.

 

In the immortal words of Led Zeppelin, "the song remains the same". They already had the worst run differential in the division heading in to the game, they're now officially four games out of first place and only 2.5 games out of last place. Boston and Toronto are playing each other tonight, so they're going to lose ground somewhere.

[Station 13]

Yankees 2 hit shutout by Derek Holland.

 

Wow f***ing turd finally beat the skanks. He's the biggest choke against that team in the last few season.

[Standing Room]

Wow f***ing turd finally beat the skanks. He's the biggest choke against that team in the last few season.

 

Entering today, he was 0-5 with an 8.85 ERA against the Yankees. But these aren't your daddy's Yankees.

[Standing Room]

Rooting for the Yankees tonight. If the Red Sox and Yankees both win, the Red Sox lead in the division increases a game.

[italstallianion]

Sabathia has a no hitter through 3 innings!!!

[Youk Of The Nation]

Goddamnit, I have like three Orioles players on my BTS list for today.

[italstallianion]

Sabathia hasn't allowed a walk or a hit through 5. Only baserunner appears to be on an error.