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  1. a700hitter
    You will never learn. LOL! I don't think you can take this loss on yourself. It will be one of our worst losses of the year. Horrendous. I hope people don't go on posting about what a good job Porcello is doing. He is well on his way to his level -- a 4 ERA. That being said,if we had 3 Porcello's at the bottom of the rotation we would be in better shape than having Kelly and Buch.
  2. a700hitter
    From someone who saw the game, a "he really hit them hard and they were caught at the wall" is much more meaningful and interesting to me than "90% of balls with that exit velocity and angle are hits". That makes me yawn, but that is just me.
  3. a700hitter
    Was that ball catchable by Hanley and would the runner have been out?
  4. a700hitter
    9 runs and 15 hits and a loss. Even the pitching deprived teams of the 60s and 70s didn't do that.
  5. a700hitter
    Not really. The elite players with elite bat speed sound different during batting practice. They stand out. They just do. I have experienced it many times. Everyone else is in one range and the elite guys have their own level. Is it an oversimplification? Yes. Is batting practice the best place to judge a player's performance? No, but I would prefer to evaluate a guy by watching him take batting practice than reviewing some exit velocity numbers on paper any day. I really don't think much can be learned from exit velocity numbers. I remember the story about about Ted Williams at an All Star game running out from the clubhouse to see who was hitting because of the sound of the guy's batting practice. That guy was Henry Aaron.
  6. a700hitter
    And his definitely a lot worse than Lackey.
  7. a700hitter
    A players Exit Velocity is the one statistic that a blind person could judge fairly accurately just from the sounds at batting practice.
  8. a700hitter
    That is a far cry from what we are used to getting from Koji.
  9. a700hitter
    Nice carom shot for the RBI.
  10. a700hitter
    Wow! The Blue Jays OFers screwed that up. Pillar has to get whatever he can get to.
  11. a700hitter
    i have no significant issue with the way Farell has run things.
  12. a700hitter
    It is a true statement.
  13. a700hitter
    It became illegal after 2003.
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  15. a700hitter
    The thread should have been locked from the initial post when Babe lit the match. If a Yankee fan wants t do that here, I will always turn the blow torch on them.
  16. a700hitter
    We didn't win anything in the PED era- pre-2004, so it doesn't matter if we were clean or not, but at least our guys weren't paraded in front of Congress to explain how they cheated and none got prosecuted for lying to Congress and had their teammates testifying against them. LOL!! What a circus!
  17. a700hitter
    He did such a great job in his other managing gigs. He is the most over-rated manager of all time. He always had the luxury of managing a push button team with a formula for the bullpen that was second to none. As easy as that team was to manage, he still needed the gerbil Zimmer next to him to explain the game to him. Once Zimmer left, Torre got real stupid again.
  18. a700hitter
    Luckily, the league anti doping PED program was not in effect in the Yankee heyday of the last century. That clubhouse must have been like a drug den with players shooting each other up. In 2000, they brought in Canseco as a PED consultant, because Clemens needed to take it to the next level. They had needles hanging from their haunches as they walked around that clubhouse.
  19. a700hitter
    It has never been done before by any other team. It must have been excruciating. BTW, Clueless Joe should have bunted on Schilling in game 6. That must have infuriated you.
  20. a700hitter
    The biggest Choke in baseball post season history -- going all the was back to the first Worl Series in 1903. And I remember that Choke very very vividly. I have every single minute of it on DVD.
  21. a700hitter
    You have to expect one or two of their big 4 hitters will take him deep. He will have to pitch off his fastball even if he can effectively mix in the off speed stuff. The key will keeping runners off the bases in front of the bombs.
  22. a700hitter
    No but our 3 World Championships this century are still vivid memories. I have lots of nice photos that I took at game 6 in 2013. Were you at any of those last millenial championship clinching games and if so, were your photos in B&W?
  23. a700hitter
    He needs t be on the corners and low in the zone. If he can do that, they might get him for a bomb or 2, but that is okay when you face Toronto. If he pitches up in the zone, the lesser hitters will be getting on in front of those big bombs.
  24. a700hitter
    I agree.
  25. a700hitter
    Everything else was in a prior millenium, but then again, Yankee fans have to live in the past, because the heyday of their dominance is a distant memory.
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