New York Yankees @ Tampa Bay Rays, 4/13-4/15

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  1. Jake

    Jake Well-Known Member

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    Regardless of wherever whoever is posting, the NYY are getting shelled by the gayass Rays and I'm embarassed. CM Wang should be working the fuckin snackbar.

    ARod and Tex are needed BADLY.
     
  2. EcKo151

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    Send Wang to the DL. Those 2 starts are some of the worst shit I've seen. He maxed out at 91 tonight. Where is the 94-95?
     
  3. Jake

    Jake Well-Known Member

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    How about this Albaladejo piece of shit? He gave up the grand slam, and just got taken yard again by Bartlett.

    Epic fail.
     
  4. EcKo151

    EcKo151 Active Member

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    I think its good comedy though. His sarcastic style to pass as "baseball talk" to needle Yankee fans is hilarious.
     
  5. GQMartin

    GQMartin Go 'Cuse

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    someone troll up my quote saying Wang will win 25 games this year.
     
  6. Cappy

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    Actually, BP (or was it fangraphs?) did a breakdown of the best sinkers in the game, in terms of velocity, movement, and what hitters did with it (ground ball ratio)... Wang's was right behind Webb's, and I don't recall where he was in relation to Carmona. I think Carmona's was better. It was those three at the top, though.

    Here's an image with a breakdown of sinkers in the game, not counting results. It's not from the article I was referencing... I looked for it, but can't locate it.

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  7. The Dark Knight

    The Dark Knight Well-Known Member

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    You didn't say which team he would win the games for. So far he has 2 wins for the O's and Rays.
     
  8. Cappy

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    Nick Swisher is awesome.
     
  9. Jake

    Jake Well-Known Member

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    Nick Swisher was our best hitter and pitcher today.
     
  10. Learn To Swim

    Learn To Swim 2008 Nightowltom "Best Non-Jets Poster" Award Winn

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    I hate hate hate that Swish is a Yankee. God damn he is awesome.
     
  11. SixFeetDeep

    SixFeetDeep Red Hot Robbie Cano

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    did he really fuckin pitch
     
  12. The Dark Knight

    The Dark Knight Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, he is literally THE MAN. :up:
     
  13. Learn To Swim

    Learn To Swim 2008 Nightowltom "Best Non-Jets Poster" Award Winn

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    He is literally a man. According to census.gov, there are literally approximately currently 3,412,990,488 men.
     
  14. dwalsh

    dwalsh 2006 TGG.com Rookie of the Year Award Winner

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    well hopefully the yanks can pull off the next 2 so i can keep making threads... :/
     
  15. Scikotic

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    Im confident in tomorrows game. Today, I was a little worried about given Wang's last performance.

    I stopped watching the game at 9-0. I have it on tape so I have to see this last inning that swisher pitched.
     
  16. EcKo151

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    Burnett/Garza is a good matchup...

    Get the vCash on that! I'll bet the ranch.
     
  17. nyjunc

    nyjunc 2008 TGG Bryan Cox "Most Argumentative" Award Winn

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    Wang is awful right now, that was embarrassing.
     
  18. The Dark Knight

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    Not one of your best ones, but cool.
     
  19. macbk

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    CY Swisher.
     
  20. AlioTheFool

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    Swisher is now officially my favorite guy in pinstripes on this team. What a fun guy to watch!

    Wang is probably my least favorite right now. Well, if you don't count Ransom, Veras, Coke, Albaladejo, and Girardi.

    Holy shit. Wang is garbage so far. I'm a Wang fan, but for crying out loud, thrown the damn ball low! Sliders that are between the belt and the chest aren't sliders, they're home runs, in case you didn't get the memo.

    Honestly, after these first two starts, I think Wang needs a couple starts in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Yes, I know it's early, but there is something severely wrong with his stuff, and he needs to get it fixed before it's too late. Bring back up Hughes and give him his chance to show whether he deserves his shot or not. I think Wang can be fixed, I'm almost certain it's mechanics, but I'm not sure he can be fixed up here. He has a total lack of command over his stuff so far.

    Veras is so frigging streaky it's unreal. One day the guy can be lights-out. The next, he's pitching BP.

    And WTF happened to Coke? Damnit.

    Albaladejo was a mistake. You need a middle reliever in the first place, especially when your rotation consists of a guy who has pitched more innings than anyone else over the past few years, a guy coming back from an extremely long layoff, a guy with a history of DL stints, a guy old enough to be retired, and a kid who isn't even allowed to give you 200 innings this year.

    This is on Girardi. I was pissed off at him to end last year, and it hasn't taken long to get tired of his management skills again this year. He needs to get the act together quickly.

    So is Teixeira coming back or what? Is the tendonitis worse than originally thought? Was it worse than originally admitted? Unreal. We need him. Supposedly, according to the Yankees' web site, he'll be in the lineup tonight.

    And for all those who think the Yankees would be better off without Alex Rodriguez, the answer is Cody Ransom. I don't want to hear shit that the Yankees are better without ARod anymore.
     

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