I'm glad we didn't get Santana (for the cost that is). We need our young guys!

12/6/2007 1:36:04 PM

Agree wit you

12/7/2007 11:05:20 AM

mark my words. Hughes will win 17 games next season.

12/7/2007 8:21:07 PM

^

honestly. if he can throw for 20 games 6+ innings i'll be happy.

of course happier if we get those 17 wins you're promising.

12/7/2007 9:56:19 PM

^^no way in hell hughes wins 17games... and Wang scares the hell out of me after his last few games

Hughes will be great a couple years down the road but he is going to be watch closely all season.

And thank god we didn't do the Santana deal... HOW THE FUCK COULD WE GIVE UP MELKY?!?

12/8/2007 10:24:10 AM

The deal wasn't worth it....I do believe Hughes will win 15 to 18 games this year.....Wang was arm tired and will be fine this coming year. I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad we didn't get Santana. I would rather see us make a trade for a big stick who can play 1st base.

12/8/2007 1:36:19 PM

Torre mastered the art of handling the media frenzy in NY and Steinbrenner's stubbornness and all that bullshit. How do you think Girardi will fare in this sense? We all know from his stint in Florida that Girardi doesn't take crap from anyone. His personality is nearly a mirror-opposite from Torre's...

P.S. GO YANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1/10/2008 9:04:26 PM

Well Joe G. will not have to deal with George. He will have to deal with Hank. I think Hank will be a little eaiser to handle than The Boss was....but time will tell...

1/11/2008 3:28:30 PM

February 15th Pitchers and Catchers report

Pettite - 16-10
Hughes - 18-9
Mussina - 12-12
Wang - 22 -5

[Edited on February 2, 2008 at 11:30 AM. Reason : .]

2/2/2008 11:25:22 AM

Quote :

"RHPs Humberto Sanchez and Andrew Brackman are making progress in their throwing programs after elbow ligament replacement surgery last year. Sanchez made 50 throws at 90 feet, and will increase his distance to 120 feet next week. He could be ready for minor league games in May. Brackman, the Yankees' first round pick in the 2007 amateur draft, will make 50 throws at 90 feet for the first time Monday. The 6-foot-10, 240-pound right-hander from North Carolina State will not pitch this season. ... A video on a phone of Brackman being dunked on when he played college basketball made the rounds in the clubhouse. "It isn't fair," Brackman said with a smile."

2/18/2008 12:27:24 AM

Brackman? Nice.

2/18/2008 12:58:22 AM

Bump? Go bombers.

2/26/2008 3:23:45 AM

Wang was slated to pitch the 2007 opener, but he was sidelined with a hamstring injury during spring training. He is lined up to get his start March 31 against Toronto....Wang will win 20 + this year !!!

3/2/2008 10:59:19 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3271124

Quote :

""Red Sox Nation?" What a bunch of [expletive] that is," he said in an interview with The New York Times' Play magazine. "That was a creation of the Red Sox and ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans."

I just might like this new Steinbrenner.

3/2/2008 11:03:20 AM

hilarious

3/2/2008 11:07:50 AM

As a Yankees fan this is great to hear....

TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Andy Pettitte has spent the past few months answering questions about performance-enhancing drugs. He hardly looked distracted during his first spring training start.

With owner George Steinbrenner and his son, senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner, watching from a suite, Pettitte allowed an infield hit over two scoreless innings as the Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies played to a 7-7 tie Sunday.

3/3/2008 11:54:54 AM

yankees suck

baseball sucks

3/3/2008 11:58:37 AM

It's all good with Wang improving !

Right-hander Chien-Ming Wang is lined up to start on Opening Day against the Blue Jays, and he's set to unveil a new part of his repertoire -- an improved changeup. Though Wang always had the pitch in his bag, he rarely used it during his back-to-back 19-win seasons in 2006 and 2007.

3/6/2008 2:05:33 PM

Hopefully more of this to come during the regular season....

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Andy Pettitte gave the New York Yankees exactly what they wanted: a pain-free start.
Pettitte allowed three runs and three hits over 3 1-3 innings in the Yankees' 8-4 win over the Boston Red Sox on Monday. The left-hander was scratched from his previous start Wednesday due to minor muscle irritation on the outside of his throwing elbow.
"My arm felt good," Pettitte said after his 65-pitch outing. "Felt real good in the first. Got a little tired in the last inning. All in all, it was a good day for me."
Kevin Youkilis hit a solo homer off Pettitte in the fourth.
"I was happy with his performance," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "I had no concerns. He threw the ball very well. A couple extra days probably helped."
Pettitte threw an inside fastball to David Ortiz in the third that prompted a brief stare from the designated Pussy.
Bartolo Colon, making his second spring start for Boston, didn't make it out of the first. The right-hander gave up three hits and four runs in two-thirds of an inning.

3/17/2008 8:12:35 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I5LodH9-N6w

3/17/2008 8:36:18 PM

Win, Lose or Draw, The Yankees organization is a class act (fans tarnish that sometimes) but this is a good story.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23681533/

3/19/2008 8:11:23 AM

why does there have to be a thread for every baseball team?

3/25/2008 12:58:09 AM

OPENING DAY!!!!













rain delay, hurray!

3/31/2008 12:52:45 PM

I was so excited to DVR the game to watch after work. And it's getting washed out. I didn't have DVR last season, so this was going to be doubly exciting. Oh well.

3/31/2008 12:55:25 PM

Moose looked sharp tonight and the offense came alive...I hope they can take that on the road to KC

and it's nice to look at the standings and see Boston in dead last in the AL East

4/7/2008 10:40:32 PM

why are we pitching by committee?

did we expect Clemens to play or something?

4/10/2008 12:19:43 AM

The Pope is going to hold mass in Yankees Stadium on Sunday, lets hope the season is blessed as well.

4/15/2008 1:38:07 PM

someone's going to the stadium next week for Yankees Redsox!

4/15/2008 1:39:24 PM

that is going to be awesome

I want to see Javier Lopez get shit on again

4/15/2008 1:42:17 PM

Wow, what a horrible call, Cabrera was obviously safe

4/16/2008 10:38:54 PM

Throwing the ceremonial first pitch from space is pretty much the gayest thing I've ever heard of

4/16/2008 11:26:34 PM

Mussina and Beckett squaring off tonight, should be sweet!

4/17/2008 1:54:39 PM

Quote :

"Wow, what a horrible call, Cabrera was obviously safe "

Guess that makes up for the interference on Lugo's throw to first by Moeller.

and I hate Tim McKellen

4/17/2008 2:12:14 PM

^if that was an earlier inning, I wasn't watching yet

Motherfucking Mussina BLOWS GOATS every FUCKING time I go to the Stadium.

Fucking Hell you washed up motherfucker

4/18/2008 12:15:51 AM

They need to move Moose to the Bull Pen, of course other than Pettite and Wang the whole starting rotation is sucking wind. Count this one as a re-building year

4/19/2008 11:00:36 PM

Another Gem from Andy !!!

Date Opponent Score Dec IP H R ER HR BB K W L
Apr 20 @ BAL W 7-1 W 7.0 4 0 0 0 0 5 3 1

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 10:06 AM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 10:03:24 AM

I'm so OVER Hank Steinbrenner. I'm a little young to remember the blustery version of George in the mid-80s. But Hank needs to just shut up.

Basically came out and called Girardi an idiot for putting Joba in the 'pen to start the year. As if FARNSWORTH would be a better choice setting up for Mo.

4/21/2008 10:18:57 AM

Hank is going to be a whiny bitch all year long unless Kennedy and Hughes can be lights out... he wanted Santana and he is a girl, so since he dind't get what he wanted, he'll bitch...

4/21/2008 10:49:58 AM

Haha, Yankee fan jumps a Red Sox fan, pummels him, and falls over the railing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPu8gpur10

4/21/2008 6:51:21 PM

time to shop for a new Catcher? even though we've signed Posada to another 4 years, I think its time to move him to DH, drop Giambi, and get a strong arm behind the plate.

4/27/2008 4:51:45 PM

The guy can still hit, there's no doubt about it. The four-year deal (to a 36-year-old catcher, no less) was questionable at best, unless they knew he wouldn't be catching much longer and there was a back-up plan.

I hope so.

4/27/2008 5:10:13 PM

Wang = AL Cy Young

4/27/2008 11:00:31 PM

Back-to-back above average starts by Mussina and a solid showing by the bullpen today!

4/28/2008 11:32:00 PM

pitching is looking a bit more solid, but the rest of the team's getting me worried

4/29/2008 2:49:13 PM

Hughes makes me

4/29/2008 11:09:56 PM

I'm so glad I was out there tonight freezing my ass off watching the Yanks flounder ONCE MORE. Two runs in the first inning and thats it for the whole fucking game?!??

As pissed as I am, at least I have the ability to go to games at Yankee Stadium...

4/30/2008 11:49:47 PM

Hughes hurt... again. Has he ever stayed healthy for an entire year in his pro career?

Told you guys it was risky to have your fortunes on young arms. Mets tried it last year with Pelfrey and it bit them...

V he was hurt in the minors too a lot from what I recall... that is why they had him on that absurd pitch count of 75 for most of his starts in A and AA...

[Edited on May 2, 2008 at 12:10 PM. Reason : x]

5/2/2008 11:51:50 AM

Well considering that's pretty much just last year and this year, and he's missed time in both, no.

I mean, it's not like I didn't know it was going to be rough with Hughes and Kennedy having to be such prominent contributors. But I think most people were at least expecting better than two wins in all of their appearances combined this season.

5/2/2008 11:59:45 AM

I am sick of this every fucking year the Yankees suck at the beginning of the season they get bit with the injury bug and then come June they are healthy.

The media writes them off in April and May and talks about their miraculous recovery in June. And losing Hughes isn't that big what was his record like 0-4 with a 9.00 ERA that was a mercy injury now you can bring Kei Igawa up.

This is the time the Sox should use to pull away instead of floundering themselves. The O's won't keep this up because their pen will start blowing games they are winning right now and the Rays don't have the talent to keep this up. Thus keeping the Yankees alive.

5/2/2008 1:56:03 PM

I'm so sick and tired of the Yankees sucking ass early season and having to come from behind (record-wise) the whole damn year.

swept by the fucking tigers, dear god.

5/2/2008 2:56:11 PM