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  1. bkzwhitestrican
    He played for the Stros, not the Royals or Nebraska Corn Chuckers. Houston is the 6th biggest city in the US so I feel like that does not hold water. Are you saying dem Southern boys are nicer reporters and don't ask tough questions? Instead they're asking Cole what are his favorite fixins' to pair with some baby back ribs? We'll see how he handles the bigger spotlight in NY. But at this point I am not worried.
  2. bkzwhitestrican
    Those AL East games against the Rays might be kinda tough. But not the rest of those division games
  3. bkzwhitestrican
    Cole makes the rotation a lot better and provides a bonafide ace, but it is still going to be hard to replicate the win total from last season. Despite all the injuries in 2019 a lot of things went right for us, like multiple players having career years and exceeding expectations. Cole should be great, but he's essentially taking German's spot and German pitched like an ace for us for more than half the season, so I don't see our win total drastically shooting up unless we have more surprise players emerge in 2020. Where Cole should truly help is in the postseason, where we were basically relying on our guys to go four innings and turning the game over to the bullpen.
  4. bkzwhitestrican
    Cole is a Yankee @ 9 years and $324 million. Talk about an overpay. But he makes the current Yankees team a hell of a lot better
  5. bkzwhitestrican
    Sucks to see Didi leave. He was a great Yankee. I also didn't wanna have to change my avatar.
  6. bkzwhitestrican
    Watch the Yanks not sign any pitchers and end up with Rendon instead
  7. bkzwhitestrican
    Fizdale canned today by the Knicks. No shocker there. The Knicks were expected to be terrible, but not THIS terrible. What a POS franchise run by the POS Dolans.
  8. bkzwhitestrican
    I think the over/under for games he plays in this year is 0.5 I'd take the under, but it would be cool to see him out there again playing decent ball after everything that's happened.
  9. bkzwhitestrican
    Unless the MLB is going to come up with real rules against sign stealing then I dunno what to say. Everyone apparently does it in some form, so the Astros do it better than everyone else? If it's illegal then make it illegal, otherwise it'll just keep happening.
  10. bkzwhitestrican
    They could give him the A-Rod treatment and pay him his contract amount to essentially be a team "consultant".
  11. bkzwhitestrican
    Weird, is it just me or are you all seeing outside advertisements directly in other people's posts?
  12. bkzwhitestrican
    I saw a blog post advocating for the Yankees to sign Pomeranz in place of Chapman. I thought it was a joke, but as a reliever Pomeranz was actually really good last year. It could be SSS flukiness but his stuff played up out of the pen (avg FB velocity increased by over 2MPH to 94.3). 28.2 IP - 1.88 ERA, 1.67 FIP, 47.2K% Relying on Pomeranz to repeat this is kinda risky but they could probably sign Pomeranz AND bring back Betances for the same price as re-signing Chapman, maybe even less.
  13. bkzwhitestrican
    How about negative values for losing seasons too? Losing 82 games - (-1) point Losing 91 games - (-1) point Losing 101 games - (-1) point Otherwise a team who finishes one year with 82 wins and then another with 50 wins would have a higer score than a team that finishes with 80 wins two seasons in a row.
  14. bkzwhitestrican
    This will be Greg Bird's breakout year, I can feel it! He's already playing down in one of those Latin leagues and is sporting a robust .150 average.
  15. bkzwhitestrican
    I get what he's saying but there were several bad calls on both sides. It just happened that this one was more memorable because the pitches/plays after it led to runs. Had Soto struck out or Kendrick hit that ball foul would anybody even think about that one blown strike call? It's not like that call directly led to a run. Now having said all that, I am very much in favor of robot umps. Either that or take away the strike box for TV viewers.
  16. bkzwhitestrican
    So who is the MVP if this score holds? I'd say Rendon or Strasburg.. but maybe Kendrick if they have short term memory?
  17. bkzwhitestrican
    I hope it's as fun as last night's game (minus the s***** umpiring).
  18. bkzwhitestrican
    It's okay, we still have Ellsbury. And I bet he's plenty fresh after that 33 month hiatus!
  19. bkzwhitestrican
    I avoided this thread while I was still emotionally healing from that nut stomp of a walk-off HR. But now that I've regrouped, I think the biggest reason for our loss against the Astros was our hitting. Yes I realize the starters didn't pitch deep into games which forced the bullpen to be overworked, but overall the Yankees still held the Astros deep lineup to 22 runs in 6 games. Playing against a juggernaut of a team like them with 3 games in their own stadium as well as 3 in a hitter friendly YS, I don't know if you could have asked much more going into the series. On the hitting side though, the Yankees were atrocious when they had men on base. Their batting line with RISP? .171/.310/.286. Houston wasn't much better in those situations but they were able to come up with a few more big hits than the Yankees. So in summation, our pitching wasn't perfect but kept us in almost every game whereas our hitting is what I feel really cost us. I will now revert back to football mode. Go Packers.
  20. bkzwhitestrican
    Happ could be good again if they revert to the pre-juiced ball. He actually looked pretty good in the postseason.
  21. bkzwhitestrican
    I can at least live with them fighting back to tie the game and then losing. That LaMahieu at bat was one of the best I can remember, unfortunately it will just be a footnote for this game.
  22. bkzwhitestrican
    Just prolonged the pain. Go packers.
  23. bkzwhitestrican
    Oh baby I think I just had a mini stroke
  24. bkzwhitestrican
    Historically, teams that have fallen behind 3-1 in a seven game playoff series have come back to win the series 15% of the time. Not good odds at all, but not impossible either.
  25. bkzwhitestrican
    Yanks will win three straight one run games. Book it! OR they'll get blown out tonight. I'm teetering between the two scenarios.
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