Overall Series Thoughts
Winning two out of three for the Yankees was huge. The Yankees went into the series banged up with unfavorable pitching matchups. And after getting crushed in the opening game to come out with the last two games was stellar. And now they have a series with the Royals where they should be able to keep the momentum going.
Wily Mo Pena
Hey Wily Mo, on a passed ball with 2 outs down by 2 runs it is alright to score, apparently you didn't know this but consider yourself now informed. When you are given a free run you should take it.
Melky Cabrera
No Way Melky had 4 rbis yesterday this is amazing. Amazing. I still am petrified whenever a ball gets hit to him, he just looks so awkward in his approach, even though he did make one stellar catch yesterday.
Jaret Wright
Hey Jaret, nice going you have now fully jumped past Pavano in the my signing wasn't as bad as yours competition. And Randy is fastly approaching on your radar.
Randy Johnson
Speaking of Randy, did he seriously say that he just made one bad pitch to Youkilis, one ugly man. What are you smoking Randy, you gave up 9 hits and 5 runs in 5 innings. That's a lot more than 1 bad pitch.
Al Leiter
He's announcing games as a color commentator on YES. I can not stand him, yesterday he gave Randy a B+ as a final grade because he got the win and struck out a bunch of batters. Al you are an idiot.
Tim Wakefield
The Yankees hit Wakefield for a change thats nice. He also walked the park. It is amazing how being able to catch a knuckleball, even though he struggled with it on tuesday, give Mirabelli a weekly job even though he couldn't hit a beach ball if it was thrown in at 50 mph.
David Ortiz
Who knew this man could actually be shut down by the yankees? It didn't seem possible. But it happened, Ortiz looked out of sorts and took many awkward looking swings. His poor series was cemented with a clutch strikeout thrown by Farnsworth with the bases loaded in the 8th yesterday.
Alex "The Whipping Boy" Rodriguez
It is funny how people bash Arod because he hits homeruns. If you live around the New York area and get to listen to 1050 Espn Radio or the Fan, than on monday you were subject to a hell of a lot of callers yelping about how his home run was useless. Not to mention the back page headlines which read Thanks for Nothing. Talk about not being able to win. If he struck out no one would have said anything.
I also give myself the credit for Arod's homer on tuesday. Up 4-1 I told my sis that Arod was going to homer and that I would consider it clutch. Apparently he didn't know he was going to hit it, but I did. And it was clutch. And Dougy Mirabelli saying that it's ridiculous to think that he didn't know he hit a bomb. Doug lets think about that for a second, Arod is crushed in the press everyday, he just hit a big homerun and made himself look like a fool, why would he do this. In addition how does you looking up like you hit a pop up embarrass the pitcher. Shut Up Doug.
Manny Ramirez
Alright, usually I don't have an issue with Manny, and this really isn't an issue with Manny more with the Yankees. Manny is a clown, he works hard is one of the best hitters of all time but he's a clown. When he stared that ball down the other day he basically just emphasized the fact that he is a beast and there was nothing the Yankees could do. This was very very true, he crushed the ball all series.
My problem lies with the Yankees and especially Scott Proctor. The Yankees brushed Manny off the plate twice yesterday. In the first when Randy threw up and kind of tight which was followed by Manny hitting a bomb on the next pitch. And the Mariano brushing him off in the ninth. How can you Scott Proctor simply except the fact the Manny embarrassed you on tuesday night? Basically he hit a bomb stared at you, then at the ball and emphasized the fact that you suck. Does this not piss you off? Are you a man?
Yesterday up 3 runs with one out, Joe brought Scotty in to face Manny, and instead of brushing him back or preferably drilling him in the ear hole, he threw a fast ball belt high on the inner half that Manny hit to the moon. Unbelievable. Scott you got castrated this series. You bent over and took it.
Anyway I'm pleased with the final 2 out of 3 results.
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