tombirner

The Yankees didn't choke, they got smoked by a better team.

For someone who's known as king of a gamer (not to mention a fringe MLB player who should do everything in his power to emphasize his value), Holt goes out with some pretty soft injuries. Was it last year he missed half the season with dizzy spells? Now he's missing time because his son poked him in the eye??

Way too much being made of the schedule. Enough excuses. This team is playing like absolute dog$hit. It wouldn't matter where/who they were playing. Good teams win. This team just isn't good right now.

Well said. Has Cora gone on record as to why he babied his starters so much in Spring Training? Was it to make them last through the season? Did he actually say that? Looks like an awful idea right now. Just wondering if this really was his rationalization for it or if everyone is just speculating.

Howdy, folks. Long-time observer/rare poster here, may try to be a little more active about posting this season. Psyched for baseball although the closer situation worries me. I'm usually a cheapskate -- even on the ownership's behalf -- but not sure why they wouldn't give Kimbrel a one year deal and go all out in a run to repeat, since this is likely the last time we'll have this collection of players together. Still, we're pretty loaded and should be an entertaining, competitive season.

So you liked a move the Yankees made? Color me shocked!

Hopefully tonight is a blowout (in our favor) and someone can drill him. We owe him TWICE now. What an absolute turd.

Pitching match-up certainly doesn't favor us, but... let's play some goddamn baseball!

Let's do this!! Rare poster and generally very negative... thought we could get a win at the Stadium, though, and I felt even more confident in beating Sabathia. So think things are looking pretty damn good. Sabathia is one of the few Yankees I like... he's a gamer and a good teammate, sort of old school or whatever. That said, he is basically a junkballer at this point in his career, and the Sox need to figure this fat f*** out. Let's hope the last game against him meant that they have.

I would be surprised if the bullpen DOESN'T blow this.

Why lift Eovaldi? Wasn't he at like eighty pitches??

Yeah, maybe my post was sort of cynical. Hopefully he doesn't care at all about that. Well along with the money and the awards, I'll also say that maybe the competitor in him maybe would not accept missing a month of the season if he feels totally healthy and could pitch, you know?

I certainly hope you're right, but at this point they are jeopardizing his Cy Young award. I think he probably cares about that, especially because he's never won one and is a borderline hall of famer and a Cy Young award might push him through to Cooperstown, also good marketing/ratings/etc. for the franchise. Sale may even get a monetary bonus if he wins one.

I hope it isn't too horrible to say that I wish the best for Jerry's recovery and am also excited about the possibility of seeing more Eck in the booth.

Would Kimbrel not be available just from throwing a lot of pitches last night? I think he hadn't pitched in three or four days before that... I'd think he'd be available tonight. Hembree's quality/ability screams blowout reliever.