Yankees vs. Twinkies: ALDS

didnt we decide amongst Yankees fans that the poster who had the best record would start the playoff threads?

 

Yikes. Deleting this thread so someone else can start it for the purposes of mojo seems like some pretty bad mojo.

 

at the top of the baseball forum, there is a thread that is stickied. Its the Yankees Standings thread. I'll finish this tonight and alert the winner who can start the playoff thread.

Unless of course, we get some objections. Devil doesnt count.

 

Haha, I don't care either way, I'm just saying is all.

 

Wanna know why I feel hyper-confident in the Yankees chances? In Tim Kurkjian's preview column, the top two reasons that he can come up with for why the Twins have a chance are "they are the Twins" and the always hilarious "they play the game the right way."

There is not a single indicator that would suggest trouble for the Bombers. They have a better rotation, a better lineup, and a better bullpen than Minnesota. They are well rested while the Twins will be lucky to get to the Bronx in time for batting practice. The last time Minnesota won a game in Yankee Stadium was 2 years ago.

That said, you never know what can happen in the playoffs. The 2006 Yankees were excellent and peaking at the right time, and then the bottom totally fell out from under them in Detroit. All of the media platitudes about this team being different mean nothing to me, a collapse can happen again. But I'm pretty damn confident that it won't.

Let's go Yanks.

 

Go Yanks!

They're predicting 40MPH winds tonight during the game. Should make it interesting.

 

Ya, this is some bad juju.

What happened the last time this happened? Didn't they lose the series?

 

Kay says A-Rod will be better because he won't feel the pressure to carry the team.

The Yankees have always had a stacked lineup with him here. I'm not buying this. The lineup is better than usual, but if he felt pressure before, he'll feel pressure now.

 

I'm actually kind of rooting for the Yankees here. I want a Sox/Yanks ALCS.

 

I agree with Kay's sentiment, but not the reasoning.

I think he might really just not feel pressure now, because he stopped caring so much about his image, seeing as how it was shot to all hell with the steroids thing.

Now, whether it was the pressure that prevented him from playing to his normal level in four out of the past five postseason series is another story.

In any case, the last truly great postseason series A-Rod had was his first with the Yanks. Against the Twins.

.421/.476/.737/1.213

 

It's already going now!!! Frigging Twister status outside.

 

meh, no one cares about the standings.

 

here are the updated standings. I will let everyone else decide if we should let our winner start re-start this thread, wait until the next series, or not start it at all...

 

I vote not to restart it just so PWSBJ doesn't get to make one of his retarded titles.

 

I vote PWSBJ gets to restart the thread. Best thread creator in the history of thread creation. :beer:

 

I concur with devil.

 

too bad neither of you are Yankees fans...

 

I don't really care. I didn't bother participating in the thread creations this year because I didn't like the whole "rules" thing in the first place.

I'll post wherever there's a Yankees thread. This one was here, so I posted. Whatever.
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As for ARod, he's already stated flatly that this year has been different for him because there was no pressure. He's had a completely different mindset, where he's felt he hasn't had to carry the team.