All-Season MFY IGT

[Guest metirish]

That would have been a great play if it worked, like you I tuned out when he was picked off and Pay-Rod gave the fist pump, I was kinda stunned when I saw they won, 9 and 4 against the MFY's is freaking amazing.

[Guest Elster88]

Elias (via espn.com)

With Wednesday's defeat at Tampa Bay, the Yankees have lost back-to-back games, despite leading by at least three runs in each -- both to the Devil Rays, a team that currently stands 25 games below .500.

It's the first time in 67 seasons that the Yankees have lost consecutive games to a team at least 25 games below .500 while having a lead of three or more runs in each of them. On Sept. 18, 1938, the Yankees were swept in a doubleheader by the St. Louis Browns in Sportsman's Park. New York led 3-0, but lost 4-3, in the opener and then squandered a 7-4 lead, and lost 8-7, in the nightcap. Those two victories improved the Browns' record to 49-86.

[Guest MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: - and, as always, fans want the 3 or 4 guys in the back of the pen never to enter a game w/o at least a 16 run lead and less than 4 outs to go. Embree, Proctor, Felix Rodriguez are the whipping boys at the moment and the bloom is def off the Tanyon Sturtze rose as well these days.

Do you blame them? Have you noticed what the Yankee bullpen has been doing lately?

Couldn't happen to a nicer team.

Later

[Guest silverdsl]

Frayed Knot wrote: What's funny (to me anyway) is the beating that Torre's been taking on talk radio the last 2 nights. Like Willie a week or so back, when the pen fails the mgr is accused from all sides of "misusing" it and would be no matter what his moves.

I'm not down on Torre as much as a lot of fans, especially since I don't think too many other managers would have more success with the shaky pitching staff that Torre's been stuck with this season. But I think some of the criticism of him is justified. Some moves he makes just leaves me shaking my head.

Fans don't want to see Embree because in his limited amount of time in pinstripes the majority of his appearances haven't gone well. F-Rod and Proctor haven't been too much better either.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Which is why it's unrealistic that Torre be expected to keep avoiding the unreliable pitchers. Those deemed satisfatorily reliable is down to a list of one, and, FAN callers, he can't go three innings every day.

George Will goes to Charleston.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

]Do you blame them? Have you noticed what the Yankee bullpen has been doing lately?

Do I blame them for thinking that Torre should glue 3 or 4 guys to the pen's bench and never see the light of day? ... Yes I do. They don't have to like Embree et al, but it's unrealistic to expect your manager to use only 6 or 7 of his 11 man staff, especially if you're then going to skewer him when he "overuses" them.
It's not that I don't think Torre is immune to critisism, it's just that I get a kick out of this notion that he suddenly "forgot" how to use the BP simply because (unlike past years) he's now reduced to 1-1/2 reliable relievers at the exact same time when his starters are requiring the pen to cover more innings than ever.

It's sort of like the opposite of the Warren Spahn on Casey line: the one where he claims to have played for Casey both before (Boston Braves) and after ('65 Mets) he was a genius. In this case Torre got real stupid (in the minds of some) once he no longer has the better pitching match-up the way he has some 80+% of the time during his NYY tenure.
And the line that he's been a bad mgr since 2001 (wonder why they come up w/that year?) is just so priceless that it's impossible not to chuckle.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Who's Torre's Warren Spahn? I'm thinking Todd Zeile.

[Guest Elster88]

PL.	East	W	L	PCT	GB	NGB	HOME	ROAD	EAST	CENT	WEST	INTER	L10	STRK
1	Boston	71	51	.582	-	-	38-18	33-33	22-26	19-9	18-10	12-6	6-4	W1
2	New York	67	55	.549	4.0	4.0	38-23	29-32	20-24	15-13	21-11	11-7	7-3	L1
3	Toronto	63	60	.512	8.5	13	34-25	29-35	26-19	12-16	17-15	8-10	5-5	L3
4	Baltimore	60	63	.488	11.5	22	32-29	28-34	27-20	13-22	12-11	8-10	5-5	L3
5	Tampa Bay	51	73	.411	21.0	60	33-29	18-44	22-28	12-18	14-12	3-15	8-2	W5

PL.	Wildcard	W	L	PCT	GB	NGB	HOME	ROAD	EAST	CENT	WEST	INTER	L10	STRK
1	Oakland	68	55	.553	-	-	39-26	29-29	14-23	20-11	24-13	10-8	3-7	L2
2	New York	67	55	.549	0.5	0.5	38-23	29-32	20-24	15-13	21-11	11-7	7-3	L1
3	Cleveland	68	56	.548	0.5	0.5	32-31	36-25	13-13	23-27	17-13	15-3	6-4	W4
4	Minnesota	66	58	.532	2.5	6.5	35-27	31-31	18-12	26-20	14-16	8-10	8-2	W1
5	Toronto	63	60	.512	5.0	16.5	34-25	29-35	26-19	12-16	17-15	8-10	5-5	L3

[Guest Willets Point]

Let's go Cleveland (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap)!
Let's go Oakland (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap)!
Let's go Twins!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm not pleased with all the losing that Oakland's been doing. Hopefully they'll turn it around and start another hot streak.

The good news is that the Twins are rapidly entering the wild card picture.

I will be so happy if the Yankees miss the playoffs.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

MFY's getting beaten stupid... NOW!!!

Toronto 5th, Blue Jays 0, Yankee 0

Hillenbrand struck out swinging.
Koskie walked.
Zaun singled to left, Koskie to second.
Johnson singled to right, Koskie to third, Zaun to second.
=green]Hinske hit by pitch, Koskie scored, Zaun to third, Johnson to second.
=green]Hudson walked, Zaun scored, Johnson to third, Hinske to second.
=green]Adams doubled to right, Johnson and Hinske scored, Hudson to third.
=green]Catalanotto singled to right, Hudson scored, Adams to third.
Wells homered to left, Adams and Catalanotto scored.
Felix Rodriguez relieved Mike Mussina.
Hillenbrand doubled to deep right.
=green]Koskie singled to right, Hillenbrand scored.
Zaun flied out to center.
Johnson fouled out to catcher.
9 runs, 7 hits Blue Jays 9, MFYs 0

[Guest Rotblatt]

In the battle of the Chac*n's, "o" has taken an early lead as "i" gives up 4 base hits in a row including back to back homers by Sheffield and A-Rod.

I hate it when the MFY's do well.

[Guest Elster88]

Checking in across town:

PL.	East	W	L	PCT	GB	NGB	HOME	ROAD	EAST	CENT	WEST	INTER	L10	STRK
1	Boston	72	53	.576	-	-	38-18	34-35	22-26	20-11	18-10	12-6	4-6	L2
2	New York	70	56	.556	2.5	2.5	41-24	29-32	23-25	15-13	21-11	11-7	6-4	W1
3	Toronto	64	63	.504	9.0	15.5	34-25	30-38	27-22	12-16	17-15	8-10	3-7	L1
4	Baltimore	61	65	.484	11.5	23	33-31	28-34	27-20	13-22	13-13	8-10	4-6	W1
5	Tampa Bay	52	76	.406	21.5	63	34-32	18-44	22-28	13-21	14-12	3-15	6-4	L1

PL.	Wildcard	W	L	PCT	GB	NGB	HOME	ROAD	EAST	CENT	WEST	INTER	L10	STRK
1	New York	70	56	.556	-	-	41-24	29-32	23-25	15-13	21-11	11-7	6-4	W1
2	Oakland	70	56	.556	-	-	39-26	31-30	14-23	22-12	24-13	10-8	3-7	W2
3	Cleveland	71	57	.555	-	-	32-31	39-26	16-14	23-27	17-13	15-3	8-2	W1
4	Minnesota	67	60	.528	3.5	10.5	36-29	31-31	18-12	27-22	14-16	8-10	7-3	L2
5	Toronto	64	63	.504	6.5	22.5	34-25	30-38	27-22	12-16	17-15	8-10	3-7	L1

[Guest Elster88]

Kansas City is in town this weekend.

*sigh*

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Elster88 wrote: Kansas City is in town this weekend. *sigh*

This'll actually be a big series for the MFYs. They've continuously shot themselves in the foot this season in series against really lousy teams. KC swept them in 3 games at the end of May/start of July. They've lost 9 of 13 against Tampa Bay. If they had actually won some of those games, they may be leading the AL East right now.


EDIT: Crappy english

[Guest Willets Point]

Also, KC just took 2 of 3 from the defending World Series Champions, so maybe they're hot right now.

[Guest Centerfield]

Chacon gets lit up, Ichiro hits a 3-run HR and the MFY's do their part in accomplishing Triple Happiness.

[Guest MFS62]

The person who can answer the old question "How do you put 50 pounds of shit in a five pound bag?" is probably the only person who can answer the question "How many players can be stuffed into the Yankees 40 man roster?"

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Mussina to miss a start with elbow soreness. Last time he took 1 start off from elbow discomfort he was out 6 weeks.

[Guest Elster88]

Maybe can pull the MF off of the MFYs for today:
[url]http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050831&content_id=1192249&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb[/url]

[Guest Valadius]

MFYs lost today, 5-1, to the Seattle Mariners. Jaret Wright got hit by a line drive in the collarbone and left the game.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

That play looked nasty ... xrays were negative.

[Guest PiazzaFan411]

We can take the MF out of MFY for a bit, I totally despise the Yankees but they did a really good thing in donating to the disastor effort. Nice job by the Yanks.

(Still a Mets Fan)

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Leiter's getting thumped in the first at Oakland, 3 in so far, 2 HBP, a HR, couple hits.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Ouch. Al faces 10 batters, gets 2 out*, lets 6 score and is reponsible for Kendall at 2nd base.


*-one of them Jay Payton who swung at an obvious ball 4.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Let's look at the PBP:

J. Kendall hit by pitch
- J. Kendall stole second
- M. Ellis tripled to deep left, J. Kendall scored
- E. Chavez grounded out to second, M. Ellis scored
- J. Payton flied out to center
- B. Kielty homered to deep left
- S. Hatteberg singled to right center
- N. Swisher hit by pitch, S. Hatteberg to second
- D. Johnson singled to right, S. Hatteberg scored, N. Swisher to second, N. Swisher to third advancing on throw
- M. Scutaro walked, D. Johnson to second
- J. Kendall doubled to left, D. Johnson and N. Swisher scored, M. Scutaro to third
J. de La Paula relieves A. Lieter
Ellis flies out.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

Also now sounds like Mussina is going to miss more than just one start.
Tendonitis in his pitching elbow.

[Guest Valadius]

Payton, Scutaro and company had better pull this one out.

Currently 2-0, MFYs.

[Guest SI Metman]

MFY's payin Oakland back for last night. 7-0 is about to become a final.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

Well, at least there's this:

- BoSox beat Anaheim on a 9th inn walk-off from David Ortiz

- And the Yanx blow an early 3-0 lead as Johnson allows the D-Dogs to
tie it. Then Rivera - with help from a Cano error - gives up a run in the
9th. Yanx could have tied it in the bottom but some un-named player
hit into a game-ending GiDP w/the tying run on.
It couldn't have been .... could it?