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Yankee fans in their mid 20's have no idea how to handle this. The prospect of a poor Wankee team is completely foreign to them.

They'll all be Mets fan if this slide continues.
 
Headache in a Suitcase said:
perez pitched well last night... he gave up 3 runs in the 1st, then allowed just one run through the 7th inning, striking out 9 and i think he only walked one. he gave the mets a chance to win. it wasn't perez... the bats didn't come through.

Yea, he pitched very well. The Mets seem to strand quite a bit of runners. They still score a great deal so if they ever lean to get runners in from third with less than 2 outs they would be that much better.
 
if they can get more than 4 RBI's out of the 5 hole it would be a nice start.

the new york media has been very low key on how terrible david wright has been to start this season. delgado hasn't been great either, but carlos is hitting .429 with 8 RBI's with two outs and runners in scoring position. so while he's not hitting with consistancy, he has hit in clutch situations.

wright's just been terrible. he's batting .143 with runners in scoring position. he's hitting behind reyes and beltran, who are always on base, and has just 4 RBI's. shit, el duque has 2 RBI's. the fact that he's still hitting .266 and his on base is on par with what it was last year tells ya the guy's a good hitter, but he's not a homerun hitter, but he's trying to be. he tries to pull everything out of the ballpark, rather than going with the pitch and hitting it to the opposite field the way he did to start his career.

willie needs to do something... maybe drop him in the order, maybe move him up to 2nd for a few games and see if the steady flow of fastballs he'll get in that spot turns him around. he did have an opposite field double yesterday, so maybe he's getting it... but damn, he's gotta do something soon.
 
Headache in a Suitcase said:
while it certainly looks bad for the yankees, and i do feel that if the red sox sweep this series torre's canned... let's be real here for a sec. they've had bad starts before where they've been declared dead... maybe not quite like this, but still bad. it is only april.

even though they've had bad aprils before, it doesn't make it any less enjoyable :wink:
 
Headache in a Suitcase said:
if they can get more than 4 RBI's out of the 5 hole it would be a nice start.

the new york media has been very low key on how terrible david wright has been to start this season. delgado hasn't been great either, but carlos is hitting .429 with 8 RBI's with two outs and runners in scoring position. so while he's not hitting with consistancy, he has hit in clutch situations.

wright's just been terrible. he's batting .143 with runners in scoring position. he's hitting behind reyes and beltran, who are always on base, and has just 4 RBI's. shit, el duque has 2 RBI's. the fact that he's still hitting .266 and his on base is on par with what it was last year tells ya the guy's a good hitter, but he's not a homerun hitter, but he's trying to be. he tries to pull everything out of the ballpark, rather than going with the pitch and hitting it to the opposite field the way he did to start his career.

willie needs to do something... maybe drop him in the order, maybe move him up to 2nd for a few games and see if the steady flow of fastballs he'll get in that spot turns him around. he did have an opposite field double yesterday, so maybe he's getting it... but damn, he's gotta do something soon.

Do the Mets still have Radomski's number on speed dial?
 
Headache in a Suitcase said:
let's be real here for a sec. they've had bad starts before where they've been declared dead... maybe not quite like this, but still bad. it is only april.

Which is exactly why Torre won't be fired no matter what happens this weekend.
 
that i'm not so sure about... he barely survived the off-season, steinbrenner is chomping at the bit, and the one lone person of sanity, swindell, is no long with the franchise 'cause steinbrenner's daughter didn't love him anymore.

which also leads to the rumors that the dolan family will try to buy the yankees now that george doesn't really have anyone to give it to... which makes me chuckle.
 
frankly i think torre should be canned... or quit. he's obviously lost it... he manages april games as if they were in september or later. his management of the pitching staff has been brutal. i know they have injuries, but you can't use the bullpen like that in april... they'll be shot by july.

word is damon may go on the DL shortly with back issues.
 
The Yanks aren't doing well, but it's still too early to panic just yet. They can only get better from here. If they can only get one of their starters to last 7 innings, they might possibly get out of this funk. Regardless, Torre won't be fired. Torre's firing has been threatened several times by the fans and media alike for years, but nothing's happened yet. The Yanks had a 7 game losing streak back in 2000 and they still managed to win the World Series.
 
MrPryck2U said:
The Yanks aren't doing well, but it's still too early to panic just yet. They can only get better from here. If they can only get one of their starters to last 7 innings, they might possibly get out of this funk. Regardless, Torre won't be fired. Torre's firing has been threatened several times by the fans and media alike for years, but nothing's happened yet. The Yanks had a 7 game losing streak back in 2000 and they still managed to win the World Series.

well, one assumes they can only get better... but not neccesarily.

the major difference between the yankees in 2000 losing 7 games and still being able to win the world series and the yankees losing 7 games here in april is that the yankees of 2007 are old.
 
The Yanks have always been old. The thing is though, the 2000 team had better pitching to get them to and through October. These Yanks don't have that luxury. If the starters don't begin to last longer in games, then the Yanks are in for a tough season.
 
For the first time ever, a Yankees pitcher manages to work his way out of Torre's doghouse. Huh.
 
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