The guy who should be gone is Ron Guidry. They should make him buy a ticket to be a spectator. For the record, I have no problem if Torre is relieved. This team is too comfortable in it's mediocrity.
THE CURSE OF PAYROD lives on and on and on. No team can win with him. This Curse will live with Yanks for 100 years. Its a greater curse then The Curse of the Bambino. :roll: [/b]
The Crankees have no pitching. You can't win without pitching. Vinny had an interesting stat the other night. He mentioned that as of that game, no team in baseball had even one pitcher with as many as 14 appearances, while the Yanks had FIVE. In fact, they used five or more pitchers in 10 straight games! If their staff is worn out now, how will they look in September?
Hughes was spectacular last night, until he got hurt. He's gone for a month. Yankees are cursed on the mound.
Let me fill in the blanks for Dodger Dog. The season is exactly one month old. The Yankees have had four starting pitchers on the DL already. A fifth has missed a turn with bad back. They have starting pitching... It's just not available.
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Torre will be gone within hours is what I am hearing! OK Jiffer. Want to take at shot at the winning Mega Millions number today? :wink:
Somehow I just don't think that will help. The Yanks spent $200 million on salaries and have zero pitchers less than one month into the season. That's not coaching. That's front office incompetence on a scale so huge it could make the Italian Army blush...
The lead is now actually 13.5 games, and that's nothing to spit at. But again, it's only May, just as April was only April.
Yankees now fighting for last place. The three worst teams in baseball are the Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Whos-its and the New York Yankees. Payrod makes more money than either of those teams... At what point does King George pull the plug on Cashman? $200+ millions down the drain and the team is waiting for a middle-age Hall-of-Famer to return from the dead and save them? If this were any other team, the season would be written off and heads would roll... All of this could have been avoided by Cashman, if he would have traded A-Rod for pitching. That was the move that made sense and both the Dodgers and Angels had pitchers ready to trade...
as I have been writing on other boards for 3 years now...its called THE CURSE OF PAYROD. No team will ever get a ring with GAYBOY. It is a 100 year curse! jif
Perfect hindsight. Firing Cashman at this point does little. in September, no problem. Pavano was highly sought after. They got Abreu for nothing and he is playing now like he is worth nothing but his lifetime BA is .302 and his OBA is over .400. Who could have predicted the tank job Cano has pulled after two stellar seasons. Melky has completely evaporated. Matsui has not been the same since he broke his wrist last season. Giambi is constantly hurt and was a questionable acquisition to begin with. Damon is ALWAYS hurt. A-Rod will definitely be gone after this season. This team is mailing it in now and for that I would have no problem with Torre getting the boot. That plus the fact he abuses his bullpen.
My point is simply that I believe the problem is in the Yankee's front office. They have plenty of offense, Hall-of-Fame manager and expensive coaching staff. The problem is pitching: there isn't any. What was the plan there? The only plan seems to have been to sign free agents and use the minor leagues purely as trade bait. Can you imagine what a real GM could have done with a $200 million budget? A real GM could have left $50 million in salary cushion for emergencies, stocked the Triple-A team with reserve pitchers and trade bait and still have outspent every other team in baseball. Its just my honest opinion, but the problem with the Yankees is the way the organization has been operated.
Starting pitching in May has been fine. They aren't hitting. The flip side of your argument is that there are a lot of teams out there with better pitching than the Yankees over the years.... how many have won 9 straight division titles? I get your point though. :wink: