Need these two
If Luis Vizcaino and Mke Myers did their job then Joe Torre would have been a genius. However, that is not the case and the Yankees fall to 8-11, dropping five straight. Only five days ago, the Bombers were about to play Boston for the first time, were 8-6, and had swept the Indians, the last game coming from behind down four runs with two outs in the ninth.
But here we are, 8-11, last place in the East, chasing not the Red Sox, but hte Blue Jays, Orioles, and Devil Rays as well, with a pitching staff that starts and ends with Andy Pettitte. The Bombers have a two-game set with Toronto and then Boston comes to the Bronx for a weekend rematch.
I know I have said befoe that the Yankees need to win this game, and need to sweep this team, and I have said it loosely, hoping they would, but not putting all my chips in the pot. However, it is April 25th, and most people will say don't worry or panic, however if you don't play with urgency in this division, in this league, you will find yourself on the outside looking in when October comes.
It is nice to know that today is Andy Pettitte's turn on the mound, the one arm that has been reliable both starting and relieving, and who Mo has stolen two wins from. Philip Hughes (#65) will be in the Stadium tomorrow night and face the Jays, getting his feet wet in the league, and we are all hoping that he is dominant enough to remain wearing pinstripes, and not hearing about the diaster that the staff is all the way from Pennsylvania.
It's Pettitte against A.J. (Mr. Inconsistent) Burnett and the Blue Jays who are coming off of a two-game sweep at Fenway, the same place where the Yankees faced a sweep, in reverse style. The Bombers need this one. They need need tomorrow's and they need two out of the three this weekend against Boston to start showing the league this past week has been just a fluke, and they are the scariest team to face in major league baseball.
I am tired of reading ESPN.com and hearing Bill Simmons tell the world the Yankees are losing invincibility, I am tired of him getting his facts wrong (saying that Torre used Pettitte in a panic move, rather than knowing it was Pettitte's bullpen day), and I am tired of Red Sox Nation being proud of mediocrity (three standing ovations to Sox starters who gave up five runs each), and I am tired of starting off the season playing catchup.
Winning needs to start today. I'm glad it starts with Andy.
well it looks like winning will have to wait until tomorrow...
LOL...
At least it gives the bullpen the day off.
And it moves Pettitte to Friday against the Red Sox and that could work out better for us anyway.
And I read that Bill Simmons article too and it was pretty lame.
If you would have asked him or Peter Gammons or Skip Bayless about how the Red Sox were going to finish the season last year back around the All Star Break when the Red Sox were in first place and the Yankees were in second and behind them by about 3 games I think they would have said they would win the division.
None of them would have believed you if you had said the Red Sox would not only lose the AL East to the Yankees but would finish more than 11 games behind them in third place behind the Blue Jays.
The Yankees were supposed to lose the divison to the Red Sox in 2005 and in 2006 and --- hey look --- suprise, suprise --- only 19 games into a 162 game season we've already lost again?
Somebody remind me of how the Yankees were projected to finish in 2000 and somebody else remind me of how many games the Cardinals won last year before going to the World Series?
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I don't know how the 2000 Yankees were projected, but they went 87-74, including a miserable stretch in September in which they lost 16 of their last 19 games. The Cardinals last year were 83-79.
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