Yankees Chick

Yankees Chick tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2008-03-29:/745 2009-11-06T23:12:08Z sc_project=1497084; sc_invisible=0; sc_partition=13; sc_security="365694c7"; The New York Yankees: 2009 World Champions. Movable Type Pro 4.25 The Parade of Champions tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1316221 2009-11-06T17:11:23Z 2009-11-06T23:12:08Z

Beth

Everyone looks like they're having so much fun and I'm jealous as hell that I'm not there. So for those who can't be there either and want to be racked with jealous pangs too, here are some photos.....enjoy!

I threw that last picture in because it's the coolest f*cking picture I've ever seen.

]]> The Yankees are World Champions. Guess who doesn't like that? tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1314161 2009-11-05T15:46:34Z 2009-11-07T01:20:32Z

Beth Yankee Haters™ come out in full force. For those who don't want to slog through the comments section of my last post, here are all the STUPID comments from STUPID people. You can mock them, correct them, point and laugh....whatever. But these people should be named and shamed. Enjoy:

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Congrats to the Yankees on another "PURCHASED" title. It just goes to show what money can buy...and it doesn't hurt all that much when the umpires give you every break throughout the playoffs as well. By "purchasing" Tex, Burnett, Sabathia, they proved that they bought another ring like they have before. I love how players like A-Rod makes as much this season as the entire starting defensive lineup as a team like the Angels. Yes, I said that correctly. The Angels starters: 1b Morales 2b Kendrick ss Aybar 3b Figgins Lf Rivera Cf Hunter Rf Abreu P Saunders All COMBINED make less than A-Roid alone. How you New Yorkers can ignore these FACTS baffles me. but hey, it was expected. ;] - ryandepaul

And no, I didn't drink any HatorAde, New Yorkers tend to think the baseball world is out to "talk trash' because the Yankees win (or buy) wins... Really it comes down to the fact that any non-Yankee fan... is a fan who appreciates the game. The Yankees torment the integrity of baseball by accumulating the nations collection of individual sellouts. If every team resulted in the purchase of players like NY... we'd have a repeat of the 1994 season again... and again... ...and again... - ryandepaul

What can i said.....300 millon dollars latter......off course they will win....imagine if teams like the Davil Rays, Marlins, or Rockies....with such a budget.....i think MLB has to make a salary contract limit a year...or we are going to see ALL STAR YANKEES vs Average Players in other teams.... I don´t know who else they´ll going to hire....maybe this year it will be...Albert Pujols, Itchiro and off course...Roy Halladay.... MLB commisioner needs to make adjudsments quickly or the league will be a mess like the NBA allready.....no body wants to see it... - lamec@yahoo.com

BOO - ashbo

big yawn ....the yankees win the world series...again....big whoopee doo.... for what the thousandth time ...who cares ...ho hum ...the team with the mega highest payroll...the odds were obviously stacked in the yanks favor this year anyway...sabathia ? teixiera? lets see who they sign over the winter this year....maybe every free agent ?why not... heck they can afford to sign anybody they set their lil hearts on now.. cant they ? now lets see who are the biggest free agents this winter .... heck go ahead sign them all .....no fair ... congrats anyway to yous yankees ....just showing we still have some class out here in angelsville by congratulating the mighty yank -mees ....maybe someone else will get the jump on yous guys in the free agent market this off season .....yea right ............... - angelsfantotheend

It's another sad day in baseball when the team that buys the commissioners rule book and spends above the salary cap, that was put in there to make it fair for all teams, has claimed another untainted series win. Don't believe it for a second folks. The Yankees have the commissioner on their payroll too. Why can't the Yankees play within the rules? I guess it's ok for the Yankees to cheat as long as they win..isn't that correct Bud? The Yankees have such a gathering of great players that it is impossible for them to play fairly in MLB. They need to create a league of their own so they can play other teams with the same salary cap as them. The Yankees could NEVER win a championship by playing within the rules .. NEVER!!!! I hope you sleep well at night commissioner. You're the one people count on to make things fair in baseball. How does that pocket full of Yankee cash feel? - jfrie3@yahoo.com

Jason from the Heartland: F*CK YOU - blahh756

Jason from the Heartland: This is coming from the heart... I F*CKING HATE YOU - blahh756

When i think of people that piss me off, there are two people that come to mind. Alan Thick from growing pains, and you you worthless piece of yankee humping sh*t - blahh756

The Yankees did it again. The Yankees in the early years deserve all the praise in the world. Today, not so much. For those who call us Yankee Haters, Thank You!!! I do hate the Yankees and all they stand for. I don't hate the fact that they win or that they spend money like it's water. I hate the fact that you accept A-Rod and Pettitte for their drug use. I hate the fact that you don't acknowledge the fact that other teams are not on an equal playing field finacially. You think that the Yankees won because they happened to be a team of destiny rich in history. I wish that were true. This way other teams could do it to. All other teams can not keep up with the deep pockets of the Yankees. Yankee fans step up and call it like it is. We won because we know how to spend money and we don't care who we hire to do it. Hit the ball, run the bases and pitch like a fein. It doen't matter how you do it. We will reward you for it. Nobody challanges the fact that you have the best team. But it is almost entirely bought. I hate free agency. It has made baseball what it is today. Spend, spend, spend. This is why the hard working class can not afford to take their family to a game anymore. The Yankees and their fans are part of the reason why baseball is fading as America's pastime. We accept the higher ticket prices. If you noticed the stands at the new Mega-Yankee stadium, there were a lot of empty seats. Not even the great Yankees can fill seats at those prices. The beginning of the end. No matter what you say Yank-mees is funny. - trs007

How can you even celebrate this, the yankees are a revolving door for steroids, and i think they r the laughing stock of the league, ya A- Roid had a great post season, he must have had jeter inject him with hgh b4 the game, , YANKEEESSS SUCK, i do like teixera , cc, and burnett, but how can u cheer for cheater like A rod and pettite, AROD will break Bonds record and still never b elected to the HOF, im sorry i just have a pure hatred for the yankees - emoney12

YANKEES Number 1 in Steroid USERS!!!!! - emoney12

What can be said that hasn't been said already? The Yankees bought another championship, that's pretty obvious. Any Yankees fan that isn't willing to admit that money was a huge factor should revoke their rights as a baseball fan (as it goes with most baseball teams but the Yankees are clearly the worst in this case, as they havebeen for quite some time). I will congratulate Joe Girardi, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada (as I like them and knowing that they are receiving part of this championship makes me feel a little better), but most of the others I could care less about (especially Nick Swisher). However, the worst culprit is the fan base because the majority of Yankee fans are selfish and ignorant (as are Red Sox fans but this post is directed towards New York so I'll keep it that way). People who assume a DAY after the WS win that #28 is on its way need to shut the f*ck up. Just because they are the Yankees doesn't make them any more special than any other team. Last time I checked, your team hasn't won a championship in almost 10 years prior to yesterday so this trash talk is completely childish and unnecessary. Arrogant Yankee fans (only the arrogant ones because I know plenty who are not and for that, I respect them), cherish what you have now and keep your mouths shut. I'm sure you're as much of an embarrassment to the loyal Yankee fans as bandwagon Red Sox fans are to the real ones. For the real Yankee fans who don't find the need to post garbage and act like @ssholes, congratulations. The Yankees were clearly the best team this year. - crystlis49

feverspell: Suck it up, you know everything I said was true. Deal with it ... unless you're one of those a-hole baseball fans I talked about. In that case, go jump off a cliff. - crystlis49

Feverspell..does your mom know you are online? Why dont you log off and get your bottle and go to sleep..crybaby - kristenmorrison@rocketmail.com

being a yankee fan is like going to a casino and rooting for the dealer to take peoples money. their fans are not real fans. the thrill in being a baseball fan is to see the underdog win. if their team plane crashed, i don't think I'd feel bad, it would be better for baseball. - mccombs245

HOW CAN YANKEE FANS GET SO EXCITED? its a bought (stacked team of front runners) if you study the yankees its ben that way for 100 years. - johnrh@cox.net

[in response to someone else's comment]JEALOUS HATERS. after you finish first grade...come back on. - johnrh@cox.net

the yankees are the sports reason why other countries hate americans............ we buy annything we want and could care less who we step on. - johnrh@cox.net

the one thats STUPID is the one that wont admit the yankees are a bought bunch of frunt runners. - johnrh@cox.net

56% you moron. that says it all - johnrh@cox.net

it dosent take good english to know what the yankees are. - johnrh@cox.net

There was a time in pro sports when profits was not the only objective. Extremely wealthy men used sports teams as one of their toys. Cash is king now. Here's what sports fans across the country have to look forward to in the future.....Yankees in the WS almost every year, where they will always be the favorite, even if they don't always win. Same story with the Lakers in basketball. And now that Jerry has that new stadium in Dallas, he'll circumvent the spirit of the agreements and do the same with the Cowboys in football. Excuse me while I scratch my ash and yawn. Think I'll turn the tube off and help my wife wallpaper the bathroom. - jwasice@entergy.com

maybe next year when MLB makes a rule limiting how many times you can have a talk at the mound Yankees wont be able to cheat to get their bull pen ready. Visiting the mound 19 times in one inning, seriously? - mjfmurray90@gmail.com

I cant believe how either blind or stupid you Yankees fans are. No, other teams do not have the revenues to spend on players. The next closest team in payroll is over 60 million less than your beloved yankee scumbags. This World Series will always have an asterisk beside it due to the fact that you bought Sabathia and Teixeira last year to get to the World Series. Tell me, where would you be without those two? Now just go out and buy Lackey and Jason Bay this off season and tell yourselves again next year how awesome you are. (Im sure A ROID could help you with that) - fenwayfan

I just want to thank these lovely individuals for giving my blog the hits and attention and for taking the time to share with me their wonderful and unique brand of humor. I'm sure all the deliriously happy Yankees fans that read this will agree with me. I'll continue to add comments as they come in, so keep checking back. I have a feeling this post will stretch out to the length of the whole page before too long.
]]> World Series Game 6: "The Yankees are back on top, World Champions for the 27th time." tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1313281 2009-11-05T04:27:59Z 2009-11-07T03:30:24Z

Beth

That was Joe Buck's call of the final out. I will never grow tired of hearing it, either. For probably the only time in my baseball-watching life, I enjoyed hearing something come out of that man's mouth.

This write up will be really simple. Hideki Matsui won the WS MVP and while I think Mo was more deserving for his overall World Series performance, you can't argue with what Godzilla did in the three games he played. Especially tonight. 3-4, 6 RBI. He single-handedly beat the Phillies. Then you have Andy Pettitte, who at 37 years old took the mound on 3 days rest to close out our season in style. What a gamer. There's no doubt in my mind he went out there knowing they were going to win and that if the Phillies were going to stretch it to 7, they'd have to bloody him first. I wanted at least 5 innings of 2-3 run ball from him and that's what we got. That core group of players now has 5 rings....something I don't know we'll see for a while.

Also, allow me to say good showing to the Phillies. They made it tough and while some of the players ran their mouths off (gonna win in 5, eh Rollins?), they are a good team and they put up a good fight. When you can say you beat the defending champs to win the whole thing, that's great. So to all the Phillies fans that have posted here and read my blog over the last season, congrats to you. See you next year. :-)

For me though, the best part of all this was seeing Alex Rodriguez a World Series champion. I fought for him, I defended him, I dealt with a lot of crap from people because of him and I never turned my back on him. Never. I may have been angry at times, but I never walked away. And seeing him with that trophy.....I'm not afraid to admit I cried. I could not be prouder of him. He finally dumped the shackles of being called a "choker" and that the Yankees would never win a ring with him. He hit .365 this postseason, 6 HRs, 18 RBI....he carried the team to the World Series.....I'll never forget the image of him crying on the field when it was over. Thank you for being a Yankee, Alex. Thank you.

"Tell them, it wasn't easy. When they look back and see one-hundred fourteen wins, tell them we never took a single one for granted. Teach them about our passion and our patience. If they ask who was our star, give them twenty-five names. And if you forget our names, just tell them we were YANKEES. And in the season of our lives, we became a team. A team that made people believe that baseball could be magic, and men could be perfect."

Stars of the Game™

]]> World Series Game 5: That wasn't supposed to happen. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1310311 2009-11-03T06:07:45Z 2009-11-03T06:22:20Z

Beth

Well damn.

Just....

Damn.

I'm not going to argue the merits of whether AJ should have started or if Chad Gaudin should have started because honestly - Chad Gaudin wouldn't have been much better. That much I am sure of. He's thrown one inning of playoff baseball and it was garbage time in a 10-1 game. Hardly meaningful. I don't know if Girardi made a right choice or a wrong choice because the chances of us winning this game were 50/50 no matter who started it. There was a better than average chance we were going back to New York up 3-2 even if Cy Young came back from the dead to pitch. That's just how good Cliff Lee is and we should all be thankful we won't have to see him anymore this series. I hope.

Now, on to some positives. We got some great offense tonight, hopefully that momentum will carry into Wednesday. Alex is now the Yankees all-time playoff RBI leader. How the worm has turned for him. We showed a lot of fight in this game. Kept going right to the bitter end. If anything it shows that we play for all 27 outs and we're never out of a game until it's physically impossible for us to win. Phil Hughes showed some promise tonight. Hopefully that too can continue. We didn't use Mo, so he should be available for 2 innings on Wednesday. If Andy can pitch 6 solid innings, we give the 7th to Marte and the last two innings to Mo. I would be comfortable with that. Andy won't be on full rest, but he will be on 4 days rest which is better than 3. We've hit their bullpen, so it's not invincible. If we knock Pedro out early, we have a better than average chance of taking this thing. We're playing at home, where we're 6-1 this postseason.

So there's a lot to not be happy about, but a lot to hang our hats on at the same time. I think we can do this and in front of our fans, which we haven't done in 10 years. My confidence level is at a 7 right now. Remember The Power of Positive Thinking™. We can do this. We're the Yankees, damn it. :-D

]]> There's confidence and then there's failure to pay attention. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1309221 2009-11-02T20:01:00Z 2009-11-02T20:08:11Z

Beth

Another Macy's Miracle

*stares*

Wait. Did the series end already? I mean, I'm confident that my team can win this series but that's because we have 1 win to go and 3 games to do it. The odds are good. Not great, but good. However, giving the Philadelphia Inquirer the benefit of the doubt, how can they not have someone checking this stuff? Remember in 2003 when the grounds crew at Fenway put the World Series logo on the field behind home plate?

Oversight is a good thing. Consider this a humorous moment to lighten up your day.
]]> World Series Game 4: Brad Lidge, meet The Comeback Kids™. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1308371 2009-11-02T05:01:31Z 2009-11-02T05:52:59Z

Beth

That was a phenomenal, phenomenal game. LOL to Brad Lidge, BTW. LOL. Just LOL. I cannot stop LOLing, someone help me. Okay, okay, okay. First of all, I can't believe we won this game. I can't. We did everything possible to NOT win the game, pull victory from the jaws of defeat is just something out of this planet. Our Magic Number is now ONE. 1. Uno. All that stands between us and #27 is one more game. I don't know whether to throw up or cry. Maybe I'll do both.

CC Sabathia once again had to answer the call and pitch on 3 days rest, and while he wasn't as dominant this time as he was during the ALCS, he hardly pitched a bad game. I think our offense didn't really help him out much and made him pitch thinking he had to be perfect. He went 6.2 IP, gave up 3 ER on 7 H and struck out 6. A very gutsy performance considering what the conditions were. Marte came in to finish out the 7th and did well. Joba came in for the 8th and gave up a game-tying HR to Pedro Feliz, which necessitated our late-inning heroics. Then Mariano Rivera had to come in AGAIN to get the save and did so with 8 pitches. The man is a God, there's no two ways around it. It's great to see the contrast between Brad Lidge and Mariano Rivera. I'm so thankful we have him.

Our offense was dead until the 9th inning. It's frustrating when you know you can hit like that but don't until it's almost too late. We have a very talented offense, we have a very powerful offense and it is amazing how they string us all along for innings at a time and then BAM!, they kick you in the onions. Let's start with Johnny Damon. He's the MVP of this game for sure. Heads-up base running in the 9th changed the game. He stole two bases because the shift was on and there was no one to cover 3B. Mark was HBP and then Alex had an RBI double off Brad Lidge. None of that happens without Johnny Damon getting on base and running like hell. Then you have Jorge dumping a little more dirt on Lidge's head with a 2-RBI single to score Alex and Mark. There's our big 3-run 9th. We need more of this all night tomorrow because WE ARE ONE WIN AWAY FROM THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP. Let that soak in.

Stars of the Game™

]]> World Series News Brief - Our Game 5 starter announced. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1307951 2009-11-02T00:03:58Z 2009-11-02T00:13:30Z

Beth

Girardi says Burnett is starting Game 5

Can't say I disagree with this and anyone who does is missing the bigger picture. If we win tonight, that means we can win the World Series Monday night. Why would you punt that game and start Chad Gaudin? You don't give away games in the playoffs. This isn't like beating the Royals 12-1 and 15-0 in April and then starting the D-lineup for the 3rd game. Not that giving away games is ever a good idea, but in April against the Royals.....there may be extenuating circumstances. There are none in October. If you can clinch, you put the best team you can on the field to achieve that end. AJ, much like CC, has done well on short rest in the past, both with Florida and with Toronto. Yes that means we have to pitch Andy on short rest for Game 6 if we lose Game 5, but I don't see what Girardi is supposed to do. We have only 3 viable starters. Gaudin has thrown 1 inning of playoff baseball, and that was in the 9th inning of a 10-1 shellacking of the Angels.

Winning tonight has now become EXTREMELY important.

]]> World Series Game 3: Gotta watch what you say, son. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1307131 2009-11-01T05:00:29Z 2009-11-01T05:25:54Z

Beth

Allow me to quote for you a passage:

"Andy Pettitte, he's a lot like anybody else who ages -- his stuff is kind of starting to dwindle down," Manuel said.
"I've seen him pitch on TV a lot, and I've definitely seen him pitch against our Cleveland team," the former Indians manager added. "We used to have some pretty good success against him, and I think we are ready for him." - Charlie Manuel

Oh yeah, "dwindling" stuff. Providing the Yankees with bulletin board material hasn't done our opponents in the past any good, what makes the Phillies think it'll help them now? We'll take it though, take it time in and time out. Now our Magic Number drops one more spot, going from 3 games left to 2.

He of the "dwindling" stuff was on the mound facing Cole Hamels and the Phillies in their bandbox ballpark. Now, he didn't have a great start. He put the Yankees in an early 3-0 hole, but then battled back to not only get the win, really buckling down. His final line was 6 IP, 5 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 7 K. Not the world's greatest line ever, but when you realize how hard he battled to keep the Yankees in the lead once we took it, he pitched really damn good. Joba and Marte pitched the 7th and 8th and did a fantastic job, combining for no hits and no runs and 2 strikeouts in 2 innings. Phil Hughes came in for the 9th and did not do a good job, giving up a solo shot to Jayson Werth forcing Mariano Rivera to come into the game, after he pitched 2 innings last night. Thankfully Mo only threw 5 pitches to get the last 2 outs. I was impressed with our bullpen outside of Hughes and thought they did a great job shutting the Phils down.

And lo and behold, our offense returned. For only the 3rd time all playoff season, we scored more than 5 runs. Thankfully 2 of the 3 times came in games we sorely needed to win. 8 runs on 8 hits is more than we've mustered in a while and it was great to see. Alex went 1-2 with 2 RBI and 2 HBP, Andy Pettitte even got an RBI, going 1-3 on a single. Damon went 1-4 with 2 RBI, Swish went 2-4 with an RBI, and Godzilla got a PH homer. I really hope this continues tomorrow and Monday because we have to keep hammering their pitching staff.

Stars of the Game™

]]> World Series News Brief - Phillies announce next two starters. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1305461 2009-10-30T21:04:59Z 2009-10-30T21:06:30Z

Beth

So Charlie Manuel decided to take a page from I don't know whom and throw us all a big, fat loop.

Joe Blanton will be starting Game 4, with Cliff Lee pitching Game 5. I know what you're thinking......WTF?! I was thinking that too. See, we're pitching CC Sabathia in Game 4 on 3 days rest. So that means he's going up against Joe Blanton. Who is not, and never will be, Cliff Lee. Apparently Lee threw just a teeny, tiny bit too many pitches during Game 1 and won't be available on 3 days rest. This would be like Girardi starting Joba Chamberlain in Game 4 rather than CC Sabathia. Is there a Yankees fan alive who would defend that? Probably not.

So yeah, here's what the match-ups look like for the near future:

Game 3: Pettitte vs. Hamels
Game 4: Sabathia vs. Blanton
Game 5: TBA vs. Lee

I like our chances in the next two games.

]]> World Series Game 2: Not so fast, Pedro. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1304381 2009-10-30T03:28:08Z 2009-10-30T04:01:40Z

Beth

Thank God. So at least one positive we can take away from this is that we will not get swept. So Yankee Haters™ can check that off their Christmas wish lists. I'd be lying if I said that after last night's game, I wouldn't be watching this one with trepidation. It's not that I don't have faith in my boys, because I do. It's just that sometimes my nerves get the best of me and override my common sense. Thanks in part to this sorely needed victory, our Magic Number drops down one spot to 3.

AJ Burnett was our starter tonight and truth be told, he's been more than solid this postseason. Our offense though, never gave him much to speak of, so he hadn't recorded a win before tonight. With the whole of Yankees Nation with their collective stomachs in their throats.......AJ proceeded to crap all over Philadelphia and it was truly marvelous. 7 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 9 K. He was sick nasty filthy dirty. When we signed him, this is what we were expecting. Mo came in for the 2-inning save, did his job. Yankees win. Hallelujah.

Our offense is still dead or presumed dead anyhow, but fortunately we were able scrape up 3 runs from the bottom of some barrel somewhere and slap them up on the board. Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely overjoyed that we won this, it's just that I'm not exactly sitting at 100% on the confidence scale right now. Pedro Martinez, while dominating back in the late 90s......is not that Pedro anymore. He's a shell of the guy Boston shoved up our a$ses all the time. He was throwing 88 mph and we were swinging through it. If there's anything I DON'T like, it's making mediocre pitchers look like Cy Young and God knows we've done it enough. Mark Teixeira and Hideki Matsui got our offense off the ground with a couple of solo shots that tied the game and then gave us a lead, and Jorge Posada got a single in the 7th to give us a little extra insurance. I hope we come out strong on Saturday because frankly.....another game of this and I'll go bald from pulling my hair out.

Stars of the Game™

]]> World Series Game 1: That was fantastically embarrassing. tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1302731 2009-10-29T03:30:49Z 2009-10-29T05:35:54Z

Beth

WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD ALMIGHTY WAS THIS CRAP?! Sweet sassy molassy.

Did they know we had a game to play tonight or were they still in party mode from finishing off the Angels? Because the Yankees I saw on the field tonight looked woefully unprepared to play baseball. They looked lazy, bored and indifferent and what's worse......this isn't even on CC. 2 ER in 7 IP is what you should expect from your ace. No, this garbage performance is on the offense and our bullpen. I'm aware Cliff Lee is a great pitcher and yada, yada, yada but even against good to great pitching, we should be able to do SOMETHING. ANYTHING. We were swinging at bad pitches, making poor base-running decisions and basically embarrassing ourselves out there. That did not look like the team that won 103 regular season games and 7 playoff games so far. That looked like a bad AA team. Then to add to the fun, fun, fun of this game.....our bullpen spit the bit. Big time. 2-0 we could have come back from. 2-0 would have been manageable. But noooooo.

Edit: I felt I needed to edit this because after the initial anger wore off, I realized I was a little too critical and bitchy. I think we all remember 1996, when the Yankees lost the first two home games, went to Atlanta and won the next three games and then won Game 6 at home to take the title [Jeffrey Maier, where are you now?]. Oh by the way, the Braves were the defending champs at the time as well. They also had Smoltz, Glavine and Maddux all in their prime in their rotation too, a much more imposing force than anything Philly is going to throw at us. For God's sake, we had John Wetteland closing those games for us. Yeesh.

So with that in mind, I am not decrying the end of this series, as frustrated as I am. We have 6 chances now to win 4 games. It can be done. Worry not, Yankees fans. I'm confident we'll take this, if not in 6 games like 1996, then in 7. As Lisa so rightly put it, The Power of Positive Thinking™ is going to get us through this.

Also, I'd like to thank the lovely people at MLBlogs for featuring my site on their front page. If you click on the "Yankees", it'll take you here. Thanks so much!

]]> World Series News Brief - Yankees roster announced tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1301761 2009-10-28T18:15:09Z 2009-10-29T05:39:46Z

Beth

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2009/10/28/bruney-hinske-added-to-roster-guzman-cervelli-off/

So we're looking at basically the same roster as the previous two series, only Bruney and Hinske have been added in place of Guzman and Cervelli. I like this for a couple of reasons. One, we need an extra arm in the bullpen and Bruney scares me no more than Marte does. A couple times during the ALCS we almost ran out of pitchers because of extra-innings games, and if a game goes deep....I don't want to think about Nick Swisher having to start again. Two, if we need a PR for speed in later innings, Hairston and Gardner can fill that role just fine. Hinske adds some nice pop off the bench.

Also, the rotation appears to be the same as the ALCS, with CC, AJ and Andy pitching two games at most. Girardi has not said yet what he will do for Game 4 and beyond and I'd imagine a lot of that has to do with what the series looks like [whether we're tied or up or down] and what the weather looks like. I have a feeling though, CC is pitching Games 1, 4 and 7 and the other 4 games will get divvied up between our remaining starters + Gaudin. As for what my optimal rotation would be, here's how I'd do it:

CC
AJ
Andy
CC
AJ
Andy
CC

Yes that has all of them pitching on short rest at least once, with CC pitching on short rest twice, but I would slot Gaudin in for Game 5 if we're up in the series. If we're tied 2-2 or down 1-3 going into Game 5, AJ has to start.

]]> 2009 World Series -- Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Yankees tag:yankeeschick.mlblogs.com,2009://745.1300261 2009-10-27T19:11:57Z 2009-10-27T19:34:12Z

Beth

As promised, here is the series schedule and projected pitching match-ups:

As for probable pitchers, all that is concrete on the Yankees official website is CC Sabathia starting Game 1 against Cliff Lee. We do know however that Pedro Martinez is starting Game 2 and Cole Hamels is starting Game 3. Wow. Pedro back in the Bronx. Is it wrong that I want to win Game 1 by a couple runs and Game 2 by a couple dozen? I feel confident in saying that our rotation for the first three games will mirror that of the ALCS, with AJ pitching Game 2 and Andy pitching Game 3, but because of the scheduling, all 3 of them would have to pitch on 3-days rest at least twice in the series unless Girardi goes with Gaudin for Game 5. Rosters are due tomorrow by 10am, so we'll know more specifics at that time. Now for everyone's fun part:

Predictions! Predictions!!

I say Yankees in 7. It's be a hard-fought series, but we'll win all 3 of CC's start and one of Andy's. Yankees fans and Phillies fans are encouraged to post how they think the series will end, but for those that are not Yankees fans - let's keep it civil or else I'll delete the comment. Remember whose house you're in.

Good luck and LET'S GO YANKEES!!!!!!!

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Beth

Also, some programming notes. Today I'll be posting pics from the locker room celebrations after the game and tomorrow, I'll put up the Official 2009 World Series post, with the schedule, potential pitching match-ups and TV/radio information. Also, that post will for you, the faithful Yankees Chick readers, to give us your predictions for how the series turns out. Phillies fans are welcome of course, just remember whose house you're in.

Now on to the pictures!!!

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Beth

Time to sip some champagne, mothertruckers. We finally beat this pissy, podunk, no-good, gimmicky, Disney-esque excuse for a franchise in the postseason. And it is marvelous. Oh man oh man is it marvelous. They had to make it ulcer-inducing right up to the very end, but they wouldn't be the Yankees if they won it in a conventional way, now would they? Nope, we're all about the late-inning heroics around these parts. Our Magic Number is now sitting pretty at 4, with one series standing between us and #27. This was our 40th American League pennant, by the way.

Big Game Andy was given the task of dispatching the RallyMonkeys to hell and I'd say he did more than a serviceable job. 6.1 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K. Joba came in to finish out the 7th and Mo came in for the 2 inning save, something I don't think he's done in a while. He did give up a run, but who cares. His only K was the last out of the game. Quite fitting. Can't complain about the pitching tonight, because our problems all series long were never with the pitching.

No, our biggest problem was the offense. Or lack thereof, to be more precise. All series long we had problems scoring runs, especially executing with RISP and tonight was no different. We won by three runs, but we barely won by three runs. It wasn't a decisive, butt-kicking, send-you-home-to-your-mama-cryin' victory that we needed to silence some of the critics up, and those problems will still be there come Wednesday night. It seemed we could only score runs either on a HR or an Angels error and the Phillies aren't the Angels. The offense we DID get tonight came in a variety of methods; single, walk, error and sac fly. Numerous times we had opportunity to really put the game away and we failed. Jorge alone hit into 2 double plays with the bases loaded, which really......really sucks a$s. Damon, Tex and Alex were our biggest hitters tonight, all collecting at least 2 hits each and at least 1 RBI, along with that, Alex walked three times tonight. He's getting the Bonds treatment and with Jorge stinking up the joint behind him, he's going to get it even more from Philly pitching. I hope tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the game they all work on the fundamentals because I want to head into Philadelphia up 2-0.

And congratulations to CC Sabathia, the 2009 ALCS MVP! They should have done co-MVPs but I'll settle with Alex winning the WS MVP.

Now everyone here......raise a glass of your finest beverage in Nareah's direction, her lucky purple socks and all-around fantastic countenance has given us yet ANOTHER Yankee victory. Her butt better be at the game Wednesday night. YOU ROCK, GIRL.

Stars of the Game™

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