2012 MLB Season

Yesterday they had Coke pitch the 8th and 9th innings.  They are probably hoping that Verlander does that job on Tuesday.  Not sure what their backup plan will be.

Well, going into work today I heard the story about how after A Rod was benched game 1 he was caught flirting with girls in the stands with zero attention being paid to the game they were losing...

Sheesh. Well...if there's EVER a time A Rod can redeem himself it's tonight. He has pretty good numbers against Verlander this year and the Yanks have hit him.
Except A Rod has been benched.

For the coach who is hated for living by the numbers he seems to have thrown logic out the window!
He wasn't hitting anyway, nor was the time and their best one is now out so it'd be a miracle anyway. If by some crazy chance the Yanks pull it out I wonder if they'd start A Rod next or bench him again!

Edit: anywho here we go! Yankee fans everywhere have their wish of A Rod and Swisher being benched and seeing it in person suddenly makes them scared



Edited by JJLehto - October 16 2012 at 19:00

rushfan4 wrote: I thought for sure that Girardi would put in Swisher and/or A-Roid to pinch hit for Nunez and Gardner in the 9th inning.  Nunez hit the homer so I guess he made the smart move there.  Ibanez up with 2 on and 2 outs in the 9th was an "oh sh*t here we go again" moment, but thankfully he went A-Roid and struck out.

TheProgtologist wrote: Three players on the bench worth a total of 60 million yearly,replaced by three players worth about 4 million yearly. Yankees need to clean some house,and get rid of a ton of expensive dead weight. Not that I care,I think it's hilarious.

TheProgtologist wrote: Three players on the bench worth a total of 60 million yearly,replaced by three players worth about 4 million yearly. Yankees need to clean some house,and get rid of a ton of expensive dead weight. Not that I care,I think it's hilarious.

Whats really funny is this is exactly what we wanted.
Or should I say "wanted" because now that it's happened, everyone suddenly is going berserk. The last 2 days the NY media has been crazy, and the fan base is blowing a collective lid.


We're ok with Swisher since he's just a f**kin bum, and Granderson....well it hurts but he's been sh*t recently, I can at least get it kinda. This A Rod thing is insane though. The GM (before the coach) came out to say he's only going to face lefties. A guy with 647 home runs, almost 2000 RBI and an all time great is now a lefty hitter and that benches him for the rest of the Tigers. If we make a miracle 4 game run it'll be without him.

One has to wonder if he's done as a Yankee. It'd seem too much $ is involved but rumor is there's been talks with Florida, though the GM wasn't involved. tl;dr the Yanks are in chaos.

Anyway I agree though, I've been fed up with this sh*t for years, sans 2009, and it is time to clean house. They need to exorcise the demons, and I hope shift philosophy in the future.

Yay rain. It keeps the yanks in it for another day.

Man With Hat wrote: Yay rain. It keeps the yanks in it for another day.

First time I have ever gone to a game that got rained out without any rain.    Absolutely f**king ridiculous.  It finally started to sprinkle around 10:00 and I don't know that it ever rained hard enough that they would have delayed the game.  Maybe by 11:00.  They did it to "preserve the integrity of the 9 inning game" but this was complete and utter bullsh*t.  If they want to preserve the integrity of the game then I want to be reimbursed for my $20 parking and $20 in food that I purchased at price gauge induced prices.  Not to mention getting reimbursed for any time off of work that I might have to take on Friday if there is a game 5. 

Edited by rushfan4 - October 18 2012 at 05:32

I had a minor brush with celebrity last night.  The TBS booth is right above where my seats are.  When I ran up to get my hot dogs before the game I passed by Cal Ripken, David Wells, and Dennis Eckersley as they were walking to the booth.  David Wells was standing up there looking down at our section during the "rain" delay and acknowledged some fans yelling "Boomer".  Cal was standing up top autographing baseballs for fans who were standing up there. 

Oh yeah and the guys in the booth were very surprised that Holliday didn't get beaned last night. I think Holliday was legit about his apology and concern over Scutaro so good for the Giants. Now watch they'll nail him tonight.