A-rod is defiantly a different ball player, what ever he went through this offseason made him stronger... I also think Kate Hudson is great for him! hope they stay together. I was worried about 3 things going into this post season, how Arod would do, how tex would do and how CC would do, and all three showed they can handle the pressure...
A-Rod is having a sick sick postseason so far. He's gotta keep it up but the Minny series is Reggieesque
This series is going to be very interesting. The matchups the intensity...this will be a huge task with the 3-man rotation (which I am in favor off because of the days off and the bullpen beasts we have). Its WS or bust!!!! Lets achieve #27 and chrisen the NEW Yankee Stadium with its 1st of many to come!
Angels are going to be very tough. I hope that the games aren't rained out and the series days reduced. That will hurt the Yankees rotation. Hopefully they can keep up the same level of play that they showed against the Twins.
Yeah I agree but I do think the World Series will be somewhat even and might even be competitive. Both the Dodgers and Phillies are pretty good teams, but I don't think they're better than the Angels or Yankees. (and JT I swear I'm not stalking you on ThePhins, it just happens that your last few posts have caught my eye haha)
i been hearing though that there is snow in ny, and the game might get pushed back, anyone in ny right now have any update on the weather situation?
Last I heard it's suppose to rain in the NY area until Tuesday, however there may be a window to play game 1 tomorrow but game 2 doesn't look good. But who knows the weathermen are always wrong. Hopefully the weather isn't a factor so we don't have to heard for the next 3 weeks about it like last year.
too cold to slide, Alex?? nice cheap shot by A-Rod after he ran thru the stop sign and got gunned out at the plate. the right hand shot to the head after the collision was a ***** move. geez. nice of McCarver and Buck to ignore it as well.
Arod did nothing wrong, im sorry but he slides he's out, 9/10 times the catcher drops the ball, he made a nice play holding on to it... also i am sorry but Tex was on the bag when the ball was in his glove... he got off of the bag after but it was clearly an out... Nice play by CC too
arod was safe - first off -- his foot hit the plate and he was never tagged. Plus, any player in that situation will try to truck the catcher... not a dirty play at all. and tex's foot never left the bag............
y'all are right about the the play at first. and i don't take issue with him not sliding and running into the catcher, i just question why he didn't slide. his run-into-the-catcher seemed half hearted. i am all for collisions at the plate when necessary. he may have been safe, though, had he slid, if all else, including the tag happened the same way. because the umps view of the phantom tag would not have been obscured by A-Rods body. but he absolutely threw a hand down to the side of the catchers head when he was on top of him as they rolled over home plate. either way it worked out for the Yankees, the Angels looked like a bad church league softball team at times tonite.
Nice game Yanks. That was easy. Bodes well to kill the curse. If it wasnt for the Angels good fortune against the yanks, I wouldnt even be concerned. Yanks are much better team
can you just give us the trophy now? I mean really, do we have to play this out. Noone and I mean noone is beating us. This team is amazing. And ARod is having a playoffs for the ages. Bask in his awesomeness
i would not count your eggs before they hatch, they might turn into scrambled eggs, when you wanted a baby chicken, i mean there is a lot of baseball to be played, and to say no one is beating us makes no sense, since we were 3 outs away in losing this game, and we left 12 men on base, 12... we keep doing that, then we will not win the series, we got 3 games left in LA, we win one, we are in great shape... lets take it game by game...We still got 6 games to win...Remember 2003? Everyone thought yankees would destroy Florida, i forget, who won that series? btw, Arod just plain out sucks... I mean bases loaded and he pops up...what are we paying him, if he can not get 1 stinkin run... i hope you sensed my sarcasm... what he has done so far has been INCREDIBLE... he won us this game, i mean he done this agianst the twins and now agianst the angles... i mean both game we should have lost, but he saved us, and he turned around the twins series, because we would of been tied 1-1, going to Minnesota, with them having the momentum, but with one swing of the bat, he takes that all away and we win the final game... Here, we lose this game, we go to LA, tied, with LA having the advantage, and possibly ending it there... but Arod, with one swing of the bat, changes that and now we are going to LA up 2 games, with the knowledge that, we are at least coming back to NY worst case scenario.
btw i was pissed that i had to work the UNLV football game today from 4-11 and well did not get to watch any of the game... but i decided to turn the game on in the 9th and my boss was nice enough to let me watch it until the game was over, she was rooting for the Angles though, so i was very thankful because the ending was amazing, with Arod and the way we won, i also want to point out the double play in the 10th where the umpire called melky safe, the ump made the RIGHT call, he clearly missed the bag, what pissed me off was Joe Buck and McCarver said they did not understand why they called him safe, yet they said he was clearly safe, did not make sense at all
you miss the sense of fate my friend. Every now and then with the Yankees, they have a season where everything breaks right. This is that kind of season. Remember, God is a Yankees fan
well you can not be overconfident, i mean in 2003, it was fate for the yankees to win the world series... I mean Aaron Boone hit a walk off Home Run to beat the red sox in a game we should have lost, that world series should have been ours but we lost... 2004, we go 6-0 in the playoffs, up 3-0 against Boston, just got to win 1 out of 4 and we are heading to the world series, we end up losing 4-3... So fate has nothing to do with it, because both those years, it was fate for us to win the world series, and look what happened... Angles are a good team, and they can beat us, and they will beat us atleast once in LA, this series is not over by a long shot... edit: it also amazes me how many games in this postseason already have become yankee classics...its been a good postseason so far for yankee fans!
I remember that year and the sense from my friends is we just werent ready for the Marlins after crushing the Red Sox with Aaron Boone. Its like we were spent after the Red Sox series. This year is more like 1998 IMO
I hope you are right! i really would like to buy the World Series hat, shirt, hoodie, ect... i need to represent some East coast out here on the West, i just hate to say its over when we still have 6 games to win! the most important 6 games of the season! As Yogi once said, it aint over till its over! I say lets celebrate this win today and get back to work monday! I mean we did not play great baseball today, granted the weather was bad, but 3 errors, and 12 men on base wont win you much games in baseball, so we got lucky...also dont expect A-rod to win us games like this every time...we got to rely on other players... Our hitting has not been as great as it look, but our pitching has been doing more than its job to keep us in these games...
the pitching is why we will win. when we get pitching we win. we always have the bats. our bats will heat up
No he didn't touch the base but when do you ever see an ump call a runner safe on a play like that? That's why Buck and McCarver (and I hate defending them) said they didn't understand why he was called safe because it never gets called by the umps. I honestly can't remember the last time an ump did that unless it was painfully obvious the infielder didn't touch the base. It's pretty much a give me play, rather that's right or wrong. Either way it didn't really matter and I'm glad that called didn't make the difference in the game but I'm still shocked it was called that way.
i am not. There is a video on MLB.com where they show the umpire look at both times Aybar turns the double play, he looks at his feet to see if he touches the bag both times, i mean with all the pressure against the umpires, for blowing calls they should have been made, the guy makes the correct call... It should have been called, even if it was reverse, i would have been pissed that Jeter did not touch the bag and cost us the game...
It was a terrible call. That ump has probably called that twice all year and let it go 700 times. I'm glad he picked a game like that to dust the call off and use it again. Like you said though, it didnt matter, so it's not a big deal.
My point is middle infielders don't always touch 2nd base, as long as they are close to 2nd the umps called the runner out, it's an old unwritten rule whether its right or wrong. If the umps want to crack down on it fine, but start it in spring training, not extra innings of a playoff game. The fact is if the ump called the runner out no one would have made an issue on it not the players, managers, media or announcers. If anything it only adds to the list of MLB umping problems, even if it was techinically the right call.
Exactly my point, only I'd be shocked if that ump called that at all this year. I really can't remember the last time I've seen an ump inforce that rule in a game. The problem now is the other umps are almost forced to keep calling that play for the rest of the series.
The call didnt matter, and in as it turns out the ump was correct, and its nice to see the Angles got out of the inning on merit and not lucky based on a bogus accepted neightborhood call. Its the most dumbest of all calls in baseball, come on, a neighborhood call? I want the letter of the law everytime. I want all calls accurately, especially balls & strikes called correctly. I hate sports with rules and then accept blanant human error with phantom vicinity rules, etc, and crap. Let a computer call balls and strikes if thats what it takes, by the letter of the rule book, and let umps call safe and out and be overturned by replay if it shows human error blows. I dispise human error....why accept it? The joke is that whenever the ump calls the neighborhood play correctly, the team in error cliams bias when in fact it should be called accurately everytime. Yanks up 2-0 and I am quite happy cause I didnt like the direction game 2 was heading with the free run AJ allowed. Thats all that matters!
That's fine you feel that way but I'm willing to bet anything that neither Jeter nor Cano touch the base everytime during DPs (along with the 29 other 2B/SS combos in baseball). I understand your feelings on the neighborhood call and while I don't disagree the timing of finally calling a play like that correctly was mind blowing and I don't understand why that ump would choose that particular time to actually enforce the rule. It just seemed way too odd and curious. Again let's say that the ump called the runner out, I seriously doubt you or any other Yankee fan (or even an unbias person watching the game) would complain about it, because the neighborhood call he's been accepted in the sport for years and years now, again the announcers wouldn't have even given the play a 2nd thought. If the umps want to enforce that rule, great I'm all for it but don't decide to play the 'by the book' ump like that in that particular spot. Start it in March and have EVERY ump make that call correctly, not just a hand full of them. If anything this post season has really exposed just how poor the umping is in the MLB. Whether they need to be held accountable more, hire/fire some of them, change the head of umping or whatever there's just been way too many missed/blown calls in a hand full of games, I doubt the umps are just having a few bad weeks.
I think in this series, the umps been pretty good, now i have not watched the home plate umpires as much, but the others i think are doing a good job, they made the right call last night, and in game 1 with the tex play, as he was clearly out
Fate my ***, if it was fate for us to win the world series, we win this game... Its going to be a hard fought series, Angles are not out, down 2-1, a win tomorrow its 2-2, and whos to say they dont sweep us in LA? could easily be down 2-3 going back to NY, it shows you how important home field advantage is...girardi managed that game terrible today, terrible... Why take Robertson out? btw, this series could have been easily 1-2 in the Angles favor... so before we talk about winning the world series, lets win the ALCS first
I do agree....the umps have been below average this post season. Its a shame (and thats without any major call going against Yanks...I dont like bad calls either way). Bummer on the loss tonight (congrats to LAAoA), but what concerns me is our lack of hitting in game 2 in the clutch for so many innnings, eventhough we were fortunate to win, and once again in Game 3 our lack of clutch hitting. 4 solo HRs are nice, but it doesnt replace good solid fundamental hitting that puts constant pressure on pitchers and defense. I will always, take a 2 out base hit to drive in a run, over a solo HR. The difference is significant even though both equal a run. Its a distrubing trend in many of the past Postseasons...I accept that we face better teams and better pitching, but its about working counts and working good pitchers into not swinging at garbage. But its as if, the Yanks tighten up in Post Season vs. play like they do in most regular season games. We turn all arms into lights out guys as pressure mounts. Hope we shake out of it. I just want 1 of the next 2 in Anaheim, then expect to win in 6.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that saw this after Posada's home run today (thanks to the Sports Guy Bill Simmons: http://twitpic.com/m74j7
I'm not worried about this series. We are keeping the Angels bats in check. That works to our favor. CC will bag the win for us. Just relax. We are up 2-1 with the pitching advantage going forward. Man, we lose one game and we need to be worried? We're not the Mets, relax.
Your offense has been just as bad. Not saying you guys arent in great shape, but the arrogance is a bit much even for a Yankee fan.