Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

[Darkbandit]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Gut feeling tells me that I don't think Houston will be able to afford Beltran, so he'll probably be heading to NY.

[Darkbandit]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Gut feeling tells me that I don't think Houston will be able to afford Beltran, so he'll probably be heading to NY.

[Brandwin]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Im not really even a baseball fan anymore...but what a disapointment the Red Sox have been in this series. I cant imagine being a Redsox fan right now. They thought this was the year and the "evil empire" proves them wrong again.

[Brandwin]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Im not really even a baseball fan anymore...but what a disapointment the Red Sox have been in this series. I cant imagine being a Redsox fan right now. They thought this was the year and the "evil empire" proves them wrong again.

[seanmac]

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The Yankees win the World Series and Sheff is most likely done. That moves Bernie to right and lets Carlos roam in center. If Sheff gets the WS and MVP, he will be done. The funny thing is the Yanks and Cards have some eerie similarities since the last time these two teams met up. The Yanks were on the beginning of their decline and the same can be said for this team. The pitching is average and not getting any younger. Even signing Pedro does not eliminate that. Unless they get some young talent the Yanks will tail off. People forget that Jeter, Bernie, and Pettite came up through the farm system. Well now George is back to his old habits from the eary 80's. Trade all that young talent to get a star. It cost us big in the 80's and ealry 90's and will end up costing us again.


EDIT: Of course I am going to enjoy this as long as I can. Now hopefully the Cards can close out Houston and we finish off Boston since I have tix to game 3 here in STL.

This is true- I'd like to see the Yankees get their farm system back up and running. The good thing is that they have a leg up in recruiting players from Latin America and Japan, so there are some alternatives to making big trades that decimate the farm system. As for the rotation, Mussina will be good for another year, Lieber looks like he's primed for a big year next season, and Vasquez should rebound and be the guy who will carry the staff through its transition. I can see the team pursuing someone like Brad Radke to round out the rotation and trying to develop some home grown pitching talent.

Speaking of, I remember well the three game stretch when Pettite, Rivera and Sterling Hitchcock all came up and started their first games. The funny thing is that Hitchcock was the most highly thought of out of the three.

[seanmac]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

The Yankees win the World Series and Sheff is most likely done. That moves Bernie to right and lets Carlos roam in center. If Sheff gets the WS and MVP, he will be done. The funny thing is the Yanks and Cards have some eerie similarities since the last time these two teams met up. The Yanks were on the beginning of their decline and the same can be said for this team. The pitching is average and not getting any younger. Even signing Pedro does not eliminate that. Unless they get some young talent the Yanks will tail off. People forget that Jeter, Bernie, and Pettite came up through the farm system. Well now George is back to his old habits from the eary 80's. Trade all that young talent to get a star. It cost us big in the 80's and ealry 90's and will end up costing us again.


EDIT: Of course I am going to enjoy this as long as I can. Now hopefully the Cards can close out Houston and we finish off Boston since I have tix to game 3 here in STL.

This is true- I'd like to see the Yankees get their farm system back up and running. The good thing is that they have a leg up in recruiting players from Latin America and Japan, so there are some alternatives to making big trades that decimate the farm system. As for the rotation, Mussina will be good for another year, Lieber looks like he's primed for a big year next season, and Vasquez should rebound and be the guy who will carry the staff through its transition. I can see the team pursuing someone like Brad Radke to round out the rotation and trying to develop some home grown pitching talent.

Speaking of, I remember well the three game stretch when Pettite, Rivera and Sterling Hitchcock all came up and started their first games. The funny thing is that Hitchcock was the most highly thought of out of the three.

[Skyboxer]

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This actually made me laugh out loud. Of course I've had little sleep tonight, so that could, be it also but....
From ESPM.com about Arod's hr to tie game:

"You know how the great Babe Ruth has him calling his shot in the 1932 World Series by pointing to the center field bleachers? If A-Rod had wanted to accurately call his shot, he would have had to get out a map and point to New Hampshire."

[Skyboxer]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

This actually made me laugh out loud. Of course I've had little sleep tonight, so that could, be it also but....
From ESPM.com about Arod's hr to tie game:

"You know how the great Babe Ruth has him calling his shot in the 1932 World Series by pointing to the center field bleachers? If A-Rod had wanted to accurately call his shot, he would have had to get out a map and point to New Hampshire."

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

TIME TO GET-OUT THE BROOMS........

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

TIME TO GET-OUT THE BROOMS........

[BTB]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Was at the game yesterday....just horrible.



I came to a conclusion: the curse is over, but the yankees are just better than us.

[BTB]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Was at the game yesterday....just horrible.



I came to a conclusion: the curse is over, but the yankees are just better than us.

[deeman11747]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Yup..

Unlike back then now.. he's not.. well.. boned when the older players he has retire. The Yankees lack prospects... on their own team. They have plenty of prospects elsewhere. The Yankees became a lot more aggressive with cherry picking from other teams around the league after they won a couple of World Series.. the Yankees before then built teams like every other successful team did.. building from within and adding pieces here and there(O'Neill/Tino/Clemens). You can't honestly build a team just from the farm system, really... but the Yankees have just went crazy with getting everyone else from around baseball.

I'm a fan of the Mets, a free spending team(with as intelligent of a front office as the 80s Yankees, obviously.. (Victor Zambrano... WTF??).. but I'm calling for a salary cap, bigtime. It's getting pretty ridiculous with the spending most of the big market teams do nowadays. It's almost as nobody learned anything from the two strikes in the last decade. The luxury tax is a bad idea and doesn't affect a thing.

Since it all comes down to money nowadays.. greedy owners, players, and agents, etc.. if some of the smaller-market owners with big pockets really wanted to spend, they could beat Steinbrenner to the bigger named free agents. How they would do on the field is another story, of course. As it stands right now, building a team through the farm system for most teams is pointless. Why bother? The Yankees/Sox/Mets/etc.. of the world will end up grabbing 'em down the road anyway.

Sorry for the rants, but... well.. this series got as interesting as watching paint dry :P, you guys have heard it all before I'm sure

P.S. I think any sort of cap should give leeway to teams over the cap to retain their own players. Imagine a cap kind of like the NBA.. if you will. Just gotta hope unlike the NBA, the mid level players don't start asking for too huge of salaries . Things do look good on paper sometimes, though..

Obviously as a Yankee fan... everythign I say is going to be drenched with bias... but anyways...

The Yankees stardom and spendng benefits other teams as weel as our pwn. The Yankees luxury tax and revenue sharing is given to all of the other teams as salary money. I believe I read somewhere the luxury tax and revenue sharing of the Yankees totals 90 mil (May be wrong about that) Thats about 3 million dollars to each team in the league. Thats good enough for a decent pitcher or hitter,

The Orioles broke their attendence record at 3 home games this year. Who were they playing those 3 games? The Yankees? The Dodgers set a franchise attendence record for a single game this year. Who were they playing? The Yankees.

Although the Yankees spending

[deeman11747]

Re: Yankees-Red Sox ALCS Thread

Yup..

Unlike back then now.. he's not.. well.. boned when the older players he has retire. The Yankees lack prospects... on their own team. They have plenty of prospects elsewhere. The Yankees became a lot more aggressive with cherry picking from other teams around the league after they won a couple of World Series.. the Yankees before then built teams like every other successful team did.. building from within and adding pieces here and there(O'Neill/Tino/Clemens). You can't honestly build a team just from the farm system, really... but the Yankees have just went crazy with getting everyone else from around baseball.

I'm a fan of the Mets, a free spending team(with as intelligent of a front office as the 80s Yankees, obviously.. (Victor Zambrano... WTF??).. but I'm calling for a salary cap, bigtime. It's getting pretty ridiculous with the spending most of the big market teams do nowadays. It's almost as nobody learned anything from the two strikes in the last decade. The luxury tax is a bad idea and doesn't affect a thing.

Since it all comes down to money nowadays.. greedy owners, players, and agents, etc.. if some of the smaller-market owners with big pockets really wanted to spend, they could beat Steinbrenner to the bigger named free agents. How they would do on the field is another story, of course. As it stands right now, building a team through the farm system for most teams is pointless. Why bother? The Yankees/Sox/Mets/etc.. of the world will end up grabbing 'em down the road anyway.

Sorry for the rants, but... well.. this series got as interesting as watching paint dry :P, you guys have heard it all before I'm sure

P.S. I think any sort of cap should give leeway to teams over the cap to retain their own players. Imagine a cap kind of like the NBA.. if you will. Just gotta hope unlike the NBA, the mid level players don't start asking for too huge of salaries . Things do look good on paper sometimes, though..

Obviously as a Yankee fan... everythign I say is going to be drenched with bias... but anyways...

The Yankees stardom and spendng benefits other teams as weel as our pwn. The Yankees luxury tax and revenue sharing is given to all of the other teams as salary money. I believe I read somewhere the luxury tax and revenue sharing of the Yankees totals 90 mil (May be wrong about that) Thats about 3 million dollars to each team in the league. Thats good enough for a decent pitcher or hitter,

The Orioles broke their attendence record at 3 home games this year. Who were they playing those 3 games? The Yankees? The Dodgers set a franchise attendence record for a single game this year. Who were they playing? The Yankees.

Although the Yankees spending

[nkhera1]

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Obviously as a Yankee fan... everythign I say is going to be drenched with bias... but anyways...

The Yankees stardom and spendng benefits other teams as weel as our pwn. The Yankees luxury tax and revenue sharing is given to all of the other teams as salary money. I believe I read somewhere the luxury tax and revenue sharing of the Yankees totals 90 mil (May be wrong about that) Thats about 3 million dollars to each team in the league. Thats good enough for a decent pitcher or hitter,

The Orioles broke their attendence record at 3 home games this year. Who were they playing those 3 games? The Yankees? The Dodgers set a franchise attendence record for a single game this year. Who were they playing? The Yankees.

Although the Yankees spending

the only games my diamondbacks sold out besides our opening series, was our series with the yankees. It was amazing to see the stadium so full.

Also if sheffield decides to retire they will probably try to get a right fielder like j.d. drew, but i'm not sure exactly what his plans are.