...and whoever's playing the Yankees - 2008 Game Thread

[redsoxrules]

Originally Posted by jacksonianmarch

Hughes is having difficulty with the lights at night. He may be getting fitted with neon glasses for his next night game

WTF he's gona need way more than neon glasses to start pitching better

[One Red Seat]

Neon glasses? What's the point there, to make him look like such a cockpumper the batter can't hit because he's laughing?

[redsoxrules]

fuck thats hilarious

[Youk Of The Nation]

Thames! Whoo!

[schillingouttheks]

Originally Posted by One Red Seat

Neon glasses? What's the point there, to make him look like such a cockpumper the batter can't hit because he's laughing?

LOL, YOU ASSHOLE ... I spit water all over my keyboard.

[TheKilo]

Originally Posted by jacksonianmarch

Hughes is having difficulty with the lights at night. He may be getting fitted with neon glasses for his next night game

Why didn't he have issues with this last year? Phag.

[Gom]

Originally Posted by jacksonianmarch

Hughes is having difficulty with the lights at night. He may be getting fitted with neon glasses for his next night game

This has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.

It couldn't possibly be because he sucks, could it? Nah, just go read the press clippings and the Yankees scouting reports. Silly me. My bad.

[Mr Crunchy]

cockpumpersplendid description of the man who couldnt miss.

i am now wondering if the yanks have hit a phase like the sox did for 86 years where they cant catch a break.
the more i think of it the more i like the fact that we didnt get santana but the performances of the youngsters make that much easier to swallow
but what of the yankees?
are they still happy about holding on to the untouchable phil hughes and ian kennedy?
somewhere fredo steinbrenner is furious over something he knows little about

[Paradisecity]

Originally Posted by Mr Crunchy

somewhere fredo steinbrenner is furious over something he knows little about

sex with a woman?

[Gom]

Phil Hughes on the DL. Has nothing to do with his 0-4 record and 9.00 ERA. Nope. Not at all.

Bring on Rasner and Igawa. The Yankees would probably be in first place if we had Igawa and Rasner in the rotation instead of Hughes and Kennedy.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Originally Posted by Gom

This has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.

It couldn't possibly be because he sucks, could it? Nah, just go read the press clippings and the Yankees scouting reports. Silly me. My bad.

In jacksonianmarch's defense, my parents always told me that if I was too much of a cockpumper that I'd start to go blind. I don't think that we have either the stats or the game films to rule out that possibility regarding Hughes's struggles in 2008.

Bring on Rasner and Igawa. The Yankees would probably be in first place if we had Igawa and Rasner in the rotation instead of Hughes and Kennedy.

Wow, Gom. That's a sentence I never thought that I'd see you write.

Here's my take: Boston and New York are still the two best teams in a strong AL East. Nothing is guaranteed; nobody is yet close to elimination.

BP has several methods of assessing teams' performance. One of my favorites is their ELO ranking system, similar to that used in World Cup soccer to assess teams' quality. Here are the top five AL teams, ranked by ELO, using the chance of reaching the ALDS as the metric:

LA Angels 67%
Boston 62%
Athletics 43%
Indians 42%
Yankees 42%

Other AL East teams:

Rays 16%
Blue Jays 12%
Orioles 12%

That looks just about right to my perspective. The Yankees are down three Hall of Famers, one All Star and two uber-prospects, but they're still putting four All Stars onto the field, they have three All Star pitchers still in their rotation, and they have Joba and Mo as their set-up/closer duo. The Red Sox, right now, are better than the Yankees right now. The Yankees of June probably won't be the Yankees of right now, though, because health issues will be resolved and Cashman will buy some more talent. The second-half Yankees will be very good, and it's going to be a great AL East race this year.

And when the Yankees make their comeback, unless Rasner and Igawa channel the spirits guiding Small and Chacon in 2005 those two guys will not be the heroes.

[a700hitter]

The Yankees have saved Hughes from further embarrasment by putting him on the DL. His psyche had obviously been damaged, because he was making ridiculous excuses for his lack of performance. He can't see at night games? They didn't just demote him as that might have been a blow to his self esteem. By putting him on the DL, they remove him from the rotation, and he can rehab himself in the minors. Kennedy will be the next DL casualty.

[One Red Seat]

So what's Kennedy's excuse today? Yankee Stadium crabs getting to him and he needs his neon skivies?

[TheKilo]

Hopefully Abbledabblecadabra shits the bed.

[a700hitter]

Shelley Duncan is a doofus looking retard.