A-Rod with his ninth home run of the season tonight.

4/18/2007 9:32:41 PM

more importantly, Igawa pitched fantastically.

4/18/2007 10:00:39 PM

Most definitey. Two runs over six innings. I'll take it.

4/18/2007 10:15:58 PM

incase anyone wondered....

Phil Hughes in AAA tonight:

6ip 2 hits (both infield hits) 0 runs, 0 bb 10 k 83 pitches, 53 strikes. topped out at 95, averaged 94. 6 groundballs 1 fly ball

4/18/2007 11:28:58 PM

Last night was a great game to be at.

ARod's shot FLEW off the bat, there was no doubt as soon as he made contact. I liked what I saw from Igawa.

Lets keep it going boys!

4/19/2007 1:14:09 PM

1-1 middle of the 4th

the Tribe just left the bags loaded

4/19/2007 2:25:17 PM

ANOTHER walk off for A-ROD

i saw this one coming

10 hr 26 rbi in 14 games

4/19/2007 4:49:51 PM

Stat padder.

[Edited on April 19, 2007 at 4:54 PM. Reason : i still hope he jumps town after the season... would be hilarious to me.]

4/19/2007 4:53:40 PM

A-GAIN!!!

4/19/2007 5:24:25 PM

im happy for him so far this year

i think it would be awesome if he kept this up all year then jumped ship. fuck the yankees

4/19/2007 6:44:17 PM

^ fuck you.

if he does this all season, NY wont let him leave. they will give him a blank check, and no team could out-bid them.

4/19/2007 6:50:03 PM

He's always been capable of this. If you go back through my post history here (I know you won't, but you could), you'll see I've always said the Yanks need to keep him.

Not only can he do this, but if the Yankees let him go, he'll do this against NY EVERY TIME HE PLAYS THEM.

A-Rod finally getting some credit. The man's a player. Plain and simple.

4/19/2007 6:58:46 PM

he hit >30 HRs and had >100 RBI last year and he got SHAT upon the entire year

the yankees don't deserve him. im glad he's kicking ass this year though

4/19/2007 7:05:48 PM

^get real man. If you talked to the real fans up here you'd see that the media blows it out of proportion a lot.

Quote :

"Stat padder."

Huh?

4/20/2007 12:14:02 AM

hell yeah a-rod....way to answer all those naysayers. God I love Yankee baseball.

4/20/2007 12:46:19 AM

^ AMEN!

Go Yankees!

4/20/2007 2:08:58 AM

Hes got the socks pulled up

thats the key

4/20/2007 8:30:05 AM

Pettitte vs. Schilling tonight at 7 on ESPN

4/20/2007 3:29:48 PM

Quote :

"he hit >30 HRs and had >100 RBI last year and he got SHAT upon the entire year"

no he didnt. he got shat upon in the offseason after going 1 for 16 in the playoffs. again.

the man is a player. straight up one of the best of our time. the only thing holding him back is his "little guy" demeanor. i strongly believe the only reason why he "failed" to Yankees fans is b/c its all in his head.

and if i'm right, him knocking 10 long balls and 26 ribbits in 14 games means bad news for the AL East.

add - obligatory FUCK BOSTON.

[Edited on April 20, 2007 at 4:26 PM. Reason : and curt "bleeding pink sox" shilling.]

4/20/2007 4:25:02 PM

Arod with # 11

4/20/2007 8:08:03 PM

A-Rod is just....wow

4/20/2007 8:10:28 PM

this is getting ridiculous

4/20/2007 8:11:59 PM

HOLY SHIT!!!

4/20/2007 8:44:39 PM

what the fuck a-rod

jesus christ

4/20/2007 8:44:39 PM

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

RIP COCO

4/20/2007 8:44:40 PM

hahaha, another HR and Coco Puffs took a flip over the wall

4/20/2007 8:45:19 PM

This

This is getting fucking insane

4/20/2007 8:47:22 PM

this is just insane

4/20/2007 8:47:23 PM

Quote :

"he hit >30 HRs and had >100 RBI last year and he got SHAT upon the entire year"

Quote :

"no he didnt. he got shat upon in the offseason after going 1 for 16 in the playoffs. again."

he did get shited on during the regular season. mostly b/c he couldn't get it done when games were close. i went to +20 yankee games last year and he got booed quite a bit towards the last half of the season.

thank jeebus that he is playing so well right now. hope he keeps it up.

4/20/2007 8:52:49 PM

arod goes bell-up by june

4/20/2007 9:16:52 PM

If he dies this year, he will be imortal

4/20/2007 9:35:23 PM

what happened to rivera?

4/20/2007 10:28:11 PM

Eh...it's still early. Can't really get worked up about the first game of an 18-game, season-long series. There's gonna be games like this, and there's gonna be games that go like this for us.

It's a looooong season!

4/20/2007 11:07:39 PM

rivera always seems to struggle in the beginning of the season...I dont know why? maybe he doesnt get enough work in spring training?


A-Rod is the bomb, but I have a feeling we will get swept in this series....which isnt a big deal, I dont think the red sox can hit enough to beat us when we have wang and moose back.

4/20/2007 11:20:57 PM

yeah, always at the beginning of the season...which is why the sox won the world series...the playoffs were at the beginning of the season when rivera blew those games

i love yankees fans - claim they're not worked up about blowing the best shot at a win in fenway for this series - like the sox series isn't the most important of the season no matter what the circumstances are...it's this kind of delusional behavior that make them think they didn't shit on a-rod except for the playoffs

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 1:09 AM. Reason : .]

4/21/2007 1:07:23 AM

^ haha...OK buddy.

4/21/2007 1:19:50 AM

^^WTF are you smoking. Keep stating your delusional facts buddy

4/21/2007 2:26:07 AM

^^^ for the last three years in a row, rivera has blown at least 2 saves in april. Yea he blew some saves against the sox in the playoffs, but hey, that's life. He's also been money in the playoffs more than any closer...pitcher....person...in history.

And I dont get how any series in april could be the most important of the year. Even if the yankees get swept, which they may very well do with the pitching matchups....there would still be 145 games for the yankees to make up 4 games in the standings.



You sound like an idiot, please stop talking out of your ass.

4/21/2007 9:35:58 AM

worst thread ever

4/21/2007 9:51:34 AM

Rivera is still one of baseballs best. Everybody screws up. He will rebound and opposing teams will once again curse his name and along with the rest of the evil empire of baseball.

I just cant beleive that the Yanks still cannot dominate like they should with that lineup and that payroll. I mean, yeah their pitching is questionable, but jesus its like an Allstar team out there playing every day and they still endup losing games and not winning the AL or WS. The Yankees are, IMO, the most underachieving team in all of sports. They bring a big gun to a knife fight and still cant end up on top (well the red sox spend close to that kind of $$, exclude them)....

1. New York Yankees $198,662,180
2. Boston Red Sox $120,100,524
3. Los Angeles Angels $103,625,333
4. Chicago White Sox $102,875,667
5. New York Mets $100,901,085
6. Los Angeles Dodgers $99,176,950
7. Chicago Cubs $94,841,167
8. Houston Astros $92,551,503
9. Atlanta Braves $92,461,852
10. San Francisco Giants $90,862,063
11. St. Louis Cardinals $88,441,218
12. Seattle Mariners $88,324,500
13. Philadelphia Phillies $88,273,333
14. Detroit Tigers $82,302,069
15. Baltimore Orioles $72,585,713
16. Toronto Blue Jays $71,915,000
17. San Diego Padres $69,725,179
18. Texas Rangers $65,468,130
19. Minnesota Twins $63,810,048
20. Washington Nationals $63,267,500
21. Oakland Athletics $62,322,054
22. Cincinnati Reds $59,489,015
23. Arizona Diamondbacks $59,221,226
24. Cleveland Indians $56,795,867
25. Milwaukee Brewers $56,790,000
26. Kansas City Royals $47,294,000
27. Pittsburgh Pirates $46,867,750
28. Colorado Rockies $41,133,000
29. Tampa Bay Devil Rays $35,417,967
30. Florida Marlins $14,998,500

The difference between the Yanks and BoSox payroll is 5 times the entire Marlins payroll

4/21/2007 12:07:06 PM

^its no mystery. its their pitching!

4/21/2007 1:06:34 PM

Quote :

"(well the red sox spend close to that kind of $$, exclude them)...."

No, they don't. 78 million is a big difference between the 1st and 2nd salary wise, assuming these numbers are correct.

That difference is 5 times more than the team with the lowest payroll.

Very good point (still assuming your #s are correct). That is definitely underachieving. With their resources they should win 120+ games every single year.

4/21/2007 2:44:18 PM

That is last years payrolls btw. The Yankees shaved a good deal off ($20M??) losing Sheffield and Big Unit. The Sox are a bit higher (and that doesn't count the $50M+ for Dice-K) and the Mets are at $116M...

Also, this is in the A-Rod thread but if you think he is a juicer you're an idiot. He cut 15 lbs off and has had the same body build since he broke in the league at 18.

4/21/2007 2:48:46 PM

A rod has the entire team on his back this month, I don't care for the Yanks but he is a fun mofo to watch. I saw both those homers on TV last night, the best was when Coco Crisp fell over the wall. And who says baseball isn't entertaining?

4/21/2007 2:58:13 PM

Rivera is washed up

ARod cannot carry this team the whole year.

The Yankees will be lucky to finish above .500

4/21/2007 3:55:44 PM

^ 1) Rivera had a 1.83 ERA last year....I doubt he is washed up.

2) A-rod doesnt have to carry the team the whole year.
- Giambi had 37 HR last season
- Abreu is a perrenial .300/100 rbi man.
- Cano (23 years old) hit .342 last season
- Jeter is still young and hit .344 last season, and is at .339 this season
- Hideki Matsui is a career .300 hitter and has avg'd about 110 RBI per season in the USA, due off the DL on monday
- Chien Ming Wang led the league in wins last season and is 26.
- Philip Hughes is the # 1 prospect in baseball and is tearing up AAA.
- The yankees bullpen still has the lowest ERA in baseball.
- Andy Pettitte has a 1.86 ERA.
- Roger Clemens is one blank check away
- Jorge Posada is having a good season and showing no signs of slowing.
- Johnny Damon is one of the best centerfielders in baseball defensively and sees more pitches per ab than anyone in baseball.


You honestly think a team that has won at least 92 games for 10 out of the last 11 seasons in a row, and at least 87 wins for 12 years in a row, wont win 81 games? You, sir, are an idiot.


Dont forget, 3/5ths of the rotation is on the DL

4/21/2007 5:10:07 PM

And you, sir, just got trolled.

I don't give a fuck about baseball. It's pretty funny that you typed out all that shit. It'll be even funnier when the Yankees underachieve as usual this year.

4/21/2007 5:23:07 PM

oh shit

will a-rod get it done right here. could be epic if he does

[Edited on April 21, 2007 at 6:28 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2007 6:28:30 PM

The pitching is just so fucking god awful I can't stand it.

4/23/2007 9:51:35 PM

^agreed

4/23/2007 10:52:10 PM