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2007 NY YANKEES run at the WORLD SERIES :)

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    LOL Paul, I wasnt referring to your Posada comment. Of course, I fully agree with you there image

    I was talking about all the responses you had a beer to on the previous page LOL
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OH I gotcha! ( image ) image Im an idiot!


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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725


    << <i>A "better shot at first" is a whole different statement from "put you guys back in first". I think most Yankee fans, and most fans in general thought he was going to improve the pitching staff, which I believe he has done. But I, nor anyone else, had illusions about him spearheading the Yanks into first place. He's NEVER been that kind of pitcher IMO. Not even in his best Red Sox days. Sure he had great stats, but he never performed well in the clutch. And he never has for the Yanks either. As for why the Yanks spent $28M, I didn't like it but I guess they felt like they want to improve the team with whatever was available even if that meant overpaying. >>



    I'm curious about this idea that Clemens has NEVER performed well in the clutch. Is this just your feeling based on years of watching or are you thinking of specific games? A quick look at his career stats shows that in postseason play (which I consider clutch situations) he has gone 14-9 with a 3.66 ERA and 172 K's in 169 IP. In my opinion that would qualify as "performing well in the clutch." He's been even better in the World Series where his record is 3-0, 2.37, and 49 K in 49.333 innings.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    another win , no fkn homer for a-rod!
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree, Roger has pitched well in the clutch. His dominating game on the road vs Seattle in the 2001 ALCS and his pitching vs the Mets in the 2000 World Series was clutch as well.

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Congrats to ARod! Now lets get back to concentrating on the WIN column! I am going to like to see how Hughes looks today.
    Go Yanks!
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Winning in style at home! I hope this kind of play continues against the tougher clubs this month.
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats A-Rod image

    10 games over .500 for the first time this year fellas!

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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    he did it!!!!!! 500 way to go, he got over the hump,the rest is ckae now till 600 , at least he got his before football head beats hanks record,arod will take barry out anyways
    randy
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's going to require ending the season at least 20, if not 22-5 games above .500 to land a playoff spot IMO. Therefore, there is still work to do. What I worry about is the brutal schedule they have in August and if they can play 2-3 games above .500 for the rest of the month, I really like their chances. >>



    I could not agree more. There is no doubt that there is PLENTY of work to do yet. The Yanks are playing well and I will be VERY disappointed if they are not 20 games over by Sept 10th or so and primed for a playoff run.

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tonight Joba Chamberlain struck out 5 batters in 2 innings of work in AAA. It was his 3rd appearance out of the pen since the last game he started. I am in NO WAY saying this guy will be a bullpen savior down the stretch for the Yanks but its about &%!@#&amp;! time he was called up to the Bronx. What else do the Yankees want to see from the flame thrower / great slider prospect? I bet he is with the Yanks within a few days image

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  • Good times at Yankee land again. My wife and daughter were at the big park in the Bronx today and saw A-Rod's historic 500th Home Run. Shelly Duncan signed a baseball for my daughter also. What a great day for them. I wish I was there!
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    "The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NOTE TO Cashman, Torre, Steinbrenner (hope you are doing ok), and the rest of the NY Yankee brass.

    BRING UP JOBA CHAMBERLAIN ........ NOW ...... N-O-W

    What the hell are you waiting for? The worse thing that can happen is for him to come down to earth a bit. BRING HIM UP NOW. Dammit. image

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  • Yeah, bring him up dab nabbit!
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    "The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes why not bring him up for your next softball game against that joke of a franchise the KC Royals!
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Paul,

    Let me get this straight. The KC Royals are a joke why? Because the Yankees hammer them? And the Red Sox lose to them? imageimage

    J - O - B - A C - H - A - M - B - E - R - L - A - I - N

    Bring him up NOW. My last word until they finally do image

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well Dan, yes. Im telling you they fear you guys and crap their pants when they face you. Its just a weird chemistry thing, like we ussually beat the D-Rays and O's but they give you guys trouble every now and then. I will say it again, the Royals just lay down for you guys. (Crossing my arms and saying thats how I feel godammit! Frown look as well)
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Well Dan, yes. Im telling you they fear you guys and crap their pants when they face you. Its just a weird chemistry thing, like we ussually beat the D-Rays and O's but they give you guys trouble every now and then. I will say it again, the Royals just lay down for you guys. (Crossing my arms and saying thats how I feel godammit! Frown look as well) >>



    And I think at the end of August and mid September that the Bosox should be ready to do the same thing! image
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry Barry no more beers for me, Im still hung over from the other day!
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Well, maybe not tonight but I'll be ready to slam a few down in those two series. No other way to keep my anxiety down during those games. Maybe a hydrocodone with the beers will help hehehehe
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Robinson Cano is on FIRE. With the glove and the bat. He is so smooth ...... I hope he keeps it up. He has been unconsious for a month and a half.

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Youre right Dan. All those fools who said that Cano didnt have the skills. You dont see them saying anything now! Have you ever seen anyone so calm at the plate regardless of the situation?
  • You're right...all those fools that said that Cano had the skills weren't saying anything when he was stinking up the joint. Have you ever seen anyone so quick to hop on a player's bandwagon?
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You mean FOOLS like you Axtell? FOOLS who droned on and on about his stone hands? Yep, that was you. Get lost Mr I hate New York. GET LOST.

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    stitzen ..... aka Axtell is an A$$HOLE. Understatement of the year perhaps? image

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  • heh wasn't it just Thursday that Cano had 2 errors in one game?



  • << <i>stitzen ..... aka Axtell is an A$$HOLE. Understatement of the year perhaps? image >>



    screenshot taken...don't worry about editing it.

  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Isnt that funny....a NY fan supports players on their team and they are "bandwagoners". That's Axhole's MO for half his arguements because he has not other way to discuss sports.

    You are lucky the mods have given you another chance, Axhole. Never should have happened because now we going back to CRAP on these boards.
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    LOL Axhole now taking screenshots to go crying to the mods. No surprise...this thread is going south. Please take your spew elsewhere Axhole!
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Oh he did Ax? WHat a bad bad player he is. Oh my gosh! He stinks! Did he really really really have two errors in one game? My gosh, are you kidding? image

    Get lost Mr whoever is doing good now I am a fan of image

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am sure he is crying to the mods about me. I AM SURE. Let him ...... what a loser. This board is his LIFE obviously. Why else would somebody cry and cry and cry some more after being banned fourteen hundred times.

    I DONT care if I get banned. DONT CARE. Not under these circumstances. image

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  • You guys sure can dish it out but really can't take it. Funny, isn't it?
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Of course, even with those two errors, he is too blind to take 5 minutes to look up to see that Cano is second in the league in fielding percentage in all the majors for second basemen. Spew? yes.
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SNIFF SNIFF ..... Mr Mod ..... I am a big time loser as you all know BUT .... BUt .... SNIFF .... SNIFFF .... why do people call me out on things I have been so wrong about? SNIFF SNIFFF

    Please ban this person who only gets like this when I post my mindless crap! SNIFF SNIFF

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
    Guess I'll go eat worms,
    Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones,
    Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms.

    Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,
    Oh how they wiggle and squirm.
    Up comes the first one, up comes the second one,
    Oh how they wiggle and squirm.

    Nobody loves me, everybody hates me
    Think I'll go and eat worms
    Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones
    See how they wriggle and squirm

    I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice
    And throw the skins away
    Nobody knows how fat I grow
    On worms three times a day
    Ohh...nobody loves me.

    Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
    Think I'll go eat worms.
    Big fat juicy ones, Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
    See how they wiggle and squirm.

    Chomp off their heads and squeeze out the juice
    And throw their tails away
    Nobody knows how I survive
    On worms three times a day.

    Nobody likes me, everybody hates me
    I'm goin' down the garden to eat worms
    Long thin slimy ones, short fat fuzzy ones
    Ooey gooey, ooey gooey worms

    Long thin slimy ones slip down easily
    Short fat fuzzy ones don't
    Short fat fuzzy ones stick to your teeth
    And the juice goes slurpin' (slurping noise) down your throat

    Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
    think I'll go eat worms...
    big fat juicy ones, little slimy skinny ones,
    hope they don't have germs!"
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    fantastic game arod 500 wwwwwoohhhhhoo,now hes past the hump-he can get back to smackin em out and taking bonds out


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    << <i>stitzen ..... aka Axtell is an A$$HOLE. Understatement of the year perhaps? image >>



    screenshot taken...don't worry about editing it. >>




    Wow. Can you do that on a cell phone?
  • kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
    I would like to file a complaint with the league office. I don't think it is fair that the Royals have to play two series' against the Yankees, who get to score in touchdowns and field goals now. Talk about miserable timing.
    Travis
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amazingly the Yanks are now just a 1/2 game off the wild card lead. One at a time, lets keep it going!

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Yanks are looking great! Just wish the Bosox would slip up more! They are a team of overachievers this year. Of course we would be happy to get the Wild Card...but I want it ALLLLLLL!!!!! image
  • thegemmintmanthegemmintman Posts: 3,101 ✭✭


    << <i>Amazingly the Yanks are now just a 1/2 game off the wild card lead. One at a time, lets keep it going! >>





    How far back were we in the Wild Card race? 10 games?
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that was a GREAT win fellas. Marino was humming the ol pea today! He struck out the side including Alex Rios, Vernon Wells, and Frank Thomasimage

    And FOR THE MOMENT anyway we are now tied for the Wild Card lead!!!

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't forget guys,

    Tonight on YES is the Bobby Murcer game. The first game after the death of Thurman Munson. Quite unfortunately this particular game is the most notorious game I have attended myself besides witnessing Mattingly's last homer at the stadium vs the M's in the playoffs. I wasjust barely 10 years old and sitting half way up in the upper deck right at 3rd base. I doubt I will see myself!

    Anyway, Miss you Thurman Munson

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,245 ✭✭✭
    Tied for the Wild Card lead and if the Tigers lose, its ours hopefully until the end of the season unless we take 1st spot from the Bosox!!! Great win today...unfortunately I didnt realize today was an afternoon game and I missed it image

    And RIP Thurman Munson! That Murcer game was one of the most memorable Yankees games ever!
  • its funny how no one busted on the sox for going after gagne when they already had such a formidable closer. It must be nice to be able and go out and get whatever pieces you feel you need to help you compete.

    Oh thats right, only the yankees take flack for doing everything you can to win, my bad
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    FINALLY the Yankees have called up Joba Chamberlain I hear. He will be in Toronto for tonights game. Again, and I have said this alot already. I am in no way hoping against hope that a 21 year old kid will be our bullpen savior BUT he can not do another thing in the minors. He has simply proven to be too good at every level of the minors.

    Joba Chamberlain has arrived image

    Lets see what he can do in the bigs ...

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry but the only "unhittable" bullpen resides in Boston. image
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sox fans may not like what they see from Chamberlain image

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Having cleared up a passport issue, stud pitching prospect Joba Chamberlain flew here yesterday and will be in the Yankees' bullpen tonight. The club planned to have the gas-throwing right-hander for yesterday's victory over the Blue Jays but the paperwork caused a delay.

    Brian Bruney is expected to be sent to Scranton Wilkes-Barre (Triple-A) to make room for Chamberlain, who went from Tampa (Single- A) to Trenton (Double-A) to SWB this year and has been converted from a starter to a reliever.

    "I think he is close," Joe Torre said of the 21-year-old right-hander who was the 41st pick in the 2006 draft out of Nebraska. He dominated the minor leagues to the point where he became untouchable in trade talks last month.

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