Dire straits.
No not the band, although I was listening to "Sultans of Swing" a few minutes ago. If getting swept by the Red Sox is bad, giving up 10+ runs to the Devil Rays must be off-the-charts bad. I know I've tried to remain positive and a lot of my readers/posters have said the same thing, but watching this rotation right now........it's hard to be positive. I mean, we're being forced to call up Phil Hughes because we're at the bottom of the barrel. It's infuriating when you have the best offense in the league and you can't win games because your pitchers give up every lead you get. Alex Rodriguez was the offense tonight, he had great defense......and it was all for naught. How much worse does it have to get? And it's not just the pitching that's the problem. The bottom of our lineup is just......ridiculous. We had the bases loaded and couldn't do jack squat. How are we going to get the runs back that our pitching keeps giving up? Alex can't hit 1-9. Maybe we should just make him pitch. He's doing everything else for us right now.
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Someone left a comment a couple of days ago that this team is not the New York A-Rods. Well, they sure as **** aren't playing like a team with more than one person capable of consistent production. Did you even see Alex in this game? Holy SH*T. 2 HRs, and they weren't dinky little things either. On top of that, he got other hits as well, had great base running and good defense. We are witnessing history right now....it's a one-man team. This is what it must have been like when Ruth was playing for the Yankees. At least we have that going for us. Watching the pitching may hurt, but watching him is a **** joy. It sucks that our rotation is squandering what is turning out to be a performance of historical proportions. He has 14 HRs. That ties Albert Pujols' record for most homers in April. He is 4 HRs away from having HALF his total from last season and we're only 18 games into this season. Alex still has more homers than 7 entire MLB teams, including twice as many homers as Colorado. He has twice as many HRs as the #2 guy right now. He's hitting .400. I want this rewarded in October.
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Welcome back, Wang. Please don't suck.
I'm concerned that if the Yankees don't get better starting pitching and soon, they'll be a more potent version of the 2000-2003 Rangers, who were in scoring contests every night due to giving up six runs a game. Four starts out of eighteen games in which pitchers went into the 7th inning; horrible. The Yankees certainly did blow chances tonight, leaving the bases loaded. But scoring so many runs, having six regulars hitting over .300 (seven with Phelps), and yet still losing is a catastrophic sign.
A-Rod's run right now is historic, nothing short. It's one of the great all-time hot streaks in baseball history. Great for him, and thank goodness. The Yankees would have won 4 or 5 games without him, no joke.
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//I'm concerned that if the Yankees don't get better starting pitching and soon, they'll be a more potent version of the 2000-2003 Rangers, who were in scoring contests every night due to giving up six runs a game.//
You mean the same Rangers A-Rod played for? Then he'll feel right at home. Except he's not the SS. Might as well start calling us the New York Rangers, and we don't mean the hockey team. See, they can win their games.
I made a comment but then erased it, that Alex must feel like he's playing for the Rangers again....good to see we were on the same wavelength with that.
//A-Rod's run right now is historic, nothing short. It's one of the great all-time hot streaks in baseball history. Great for him, and thank goodness. The Yankees would have won 4 or 5 games without him, no joke.//
Without him, we'd be in a bigger hole than we already are. That's not hyperbole, either. We'd literally be 7 or 8 games below .500 if he wasn't on this team, or at least not producing like he is.
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Alex is doing fantastic.
I just think that win we have won games it wasn't just A-Rod winning them.
Like the walk off home run that A-Rod hit to win the game against Cleveland last week.
All I heard about was how Alex won the game and it was all about Alex so on.
But that was a game where we had a four run deficit going into the 9th inning and Josh Phelps hit a solo home run, then Posada hit a single, then Damon walked, then Jeter and Abreu hit RBI singles, and then A-Rod hit the home run.
Was it great?
Yes it was.
Was it clutch?
You're **** right it was.
Did it deserve credit and celebration?
Sure.
But without Phelps, Posada, Damon, Jeter, and Abreu getting it set up there would have been no walk off home run.
I agree that, by far Alex has the biggest offensive numbers and is having a **** of a year.
I just hate that half of the commentaries I read say that it's all about A-Rod.
He is playing well.
The best I've ever seen him play.
Offensively and defensively.
He's fantastic.
But big numbers don't necessarily mean you are the only one contributing.
I'll agree that our pitching staff is letting everybody down but Abreu and Giambi have been getting some key hits too.
Though he doesn't have the total numbers A-Rod does - Giambi has been pulling his weight and so have some of the other players.
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I wouldn't necessarily call this a 1-man team. He's definitely carrying a lot of the load but 2/3 of the lineup is hitting .300 or better. What he's doing is amazing but it's being overmagnified b/c the staff is faltering and he's consitently saving their hides. If the staff does it's job, which they're capable of doing, we'll start rolling.
J
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