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  1. Frayed Knot
    TheOldMole wrote: He's on the block. Sez who?
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    Santana - 2.6 Wright - 1.0 Reyes - 2.5 Church - 1.4 Chavez - 1.2 Wagner - 0.8 Sosa - 0.5
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    It bounced in the corner somewhere so it's just a single - although I never did see exactly where it landed.
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    Elster88 wrote: I think HoJo has a man-crush on Young David. But at least HoJo, unlike Roger, didn't hook up with his young squeeze until after David was already 18.
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    YES!!!!
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    'bout time for young David to break out.
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    Tough to argue the balk call when you get two umps doing the synchronized call thing there.
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    AG/DC wrote: The Schneid isn't actually in uniform, though, is he? Nope. And now it's just Molina who won't be needed for at least two more innings.
  9. Frayed Knot
    So now we're down to Wagner, Smith and Sosa in the pen. For that reason - and because you may be forced to PH in the bottom half - it's a good move using Wags for a 2nd inning IMO. I wonder if Figgy would be available for pen work if this goes long?
  10. Frayed Knot
    "if this had been a playff game he would have coughed up a grand slam there" That's what all the Yanqui fans thought until ol' Kenny shut them down in a playoff game two years back.
  11. Frayed Knot
    We've been lucky on several plays (the GiDP that wasn't, plus the call at home) to be leading this game. Don't blow it now.
  12. Frayed Knot
    Monday's rainout plus Thursday's off day will cause Figeroa's start to get skipped this time around as they try to keep everyone else in turn. So Perez will finish off the short two-game set on Wednesday, leaving Pelfrey & Maine for Friday & Saturday in Arizona and then they'll bring back Santana for Sunday.
  13. Frayed Knot
    One thing I notice Pitt has been doing is using Meinteyechart at IF positions other than just 1st -- which really makes sense seeing as how he throws RH and is more mobile & athletic than your av-er-age 1st sacker. Plus he doesn't really hit well enough to anchor at 1B So far he's been used for 5 games at both 1st & 3rd and they've said they're not adverse to using him at 2nd also.
  14. Frayed Knot
    per Eddie C. on WFAN: Moises is at Shea and apparently they found nothing in his ankle MRI ... well I hope they found an ankle in there so it's more like an at least they didn't find anything in there that shouldn't be there kinda thing. So he'll work out with the team and maybe be ready to go by the weekend if all goes well, although the exact activation date still probably depends on what's up with Schneider. Can't really promote Moises until we can demote a catcher.
  15. Frayed Knot
    The problem with Zito's contract is that he was merely an above average pitcher already showing signs of decline 4 seasons removed from his CY year by the time of the signing, but still getting paid like the ace he had briefly been. And it was too long. Reportedly the curveball isn't what it was allowing batters to ignore it and instead tee off on the fastball and/or change, pitches which not only are average offerings at best but hardly differ from each other these days. Not sure what caused his bread-and-butter pitch to abandon him at such a young age.
  16. Frayed Knot
    Long title for a long movie. It's one of those 'historical dramas' where it's not easy to determine how much is history and how much is drama. In this case it deals with ... well, you can probably figure it out. Brad Pitt plays Jesse James with just the right hint of menace behind an otherwise calm, rational exterior. Casey Affleck is the other half of the title pair. Ford is first a worshipper of, and later a sort of cohort to, James and over time a resentment at not being taken seriously by James creeps in on his admiration that makes one think of what Mark Chapman would have been like had he gotten to know Lennon.
  17. Frayed Knot
    There's late bloomers and then there's late bloomers. But those NYY fans who think JM could be a starter on most other teams are mostly seeing the small sample and thinking it's going to continue. Except that he'll turn 34 before the season is out and has never been a full-time backstop yet (never had 250 ABs). Ramon has never been a full-timer either. Posada, meanwhile, was hauling down more than half the assignments by age 26 and was a multiple All-Star before turning 30.
  18. Frayed Knot
    ="*62"]Booing at Shea didn't seem to be a widespread problem until after the fall to earth of the highly competitive teams of the mid-to-late eighties and 1990 .... after that, the crowds got progressively more ignorant each season. Take the collapse of the post-'80s teams with "only" one WC to show, tack on the unlikeability of the squads that followed, add a pinch of the general reaction to the '94 strike, and then top all that with a decade-plus run of the cross-town team and those are ingrediants for the anger to be building for years. Met fans have sounded angry to me for going on 20 years now. They're merely angrier these days. ]The collective intelligence these days doesn't even move the needle. It's why I hate Met fans.
  19. Frayed Knot
    If Posada is out for any length of time Jose Molina's going to get exposed eventually. He's a decent (read: typical) backup catcher in that he's good defensively and not much with the bat. But since coming to the Yanx at mid-season last year he's hit a more than respectable .297/.310/.432 and some short-sighted MFY fans have themselves convinced they've found a diamond in the rough. Problem is, he's a lifetime .245/.278/.351 guy whose recent offense is more likely a quirk of numbers than a sudden increase in talent. He's even 0 for his last 12 before which he was hitting about .350 w/power. To me though, NYY backup catchers are like Keith Lockhart back when he was w/Atlanta. They can suck all year long but I swear whenever I'm looking they become All-Stars. John Flaherty couldn't hit for shit except every time I tuned in he was smacking one in the gap. Hell, even Chad Moeller (who the Yanx just DFA'd when they prematurely thought Posada's troubles were over) was hitting .400 during his brief stay in the Bronx.
  20. Frayed Knot
    I was against a Posada signing from the beginning. Yeah he had never been DL'd before, but that sort of thing isn't generally as good a predictive factor as is age and at 36 y/o you're treading on thin ice with a backstop from day 1. Plus you'd be paying him coming off his best year ever (read: total outlier) while almost certainly getting significantly less. That Posada could make himself useful down the road as a 1st base/DH if this thing becomes a worst-case scenario (might even end a catching career) means the Yanx aren't totally screwed long-term - but it still shoots a huge whole in their lineup and would have shot an even bigger one in ours.
  21. Frayed Knot
    Scandals, bar-rooms, sex with under-age southern trailer-trash, substance abuse, adultery, broken families, reality TV shows, bankruptcy, ... etc. That's just not a country singer, hell that's a country SONG!!
  22. Frayed Knot
    Now the only problem with tomorrow (Monday) is that the weather is likely going to suck.
  23. Frayed Knot
    Figeroa - 2.5 Delgado - 3.0 Casanova - 2.0 Wagner - 0.5 Castillo - 0.5 Church - 0.5 Schoeneweis - 0.5 Feliciano - 0.5
  24. Frayed Knot
    Box Score Maine - 3.0 Wright - 1.5 Beltran - 1.5 Church - 1.5 Wagner - 1.0 Schoeneweis - 0.5 Sanchez - 0.5 Easley - 0.5
  25. Frayed Knot
    Reportedly there was no cut and the source/timing of the infection remains a mystery.
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