Yet another reason the Yankees SUCK

ludedewd · Respected VIP club member Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 696

This thought is a couple of days old and has a couple of scenarios that never came to fruition; I guess I'm just not living a charmed life...

Sunday night was the final game at the "fabled" stadium and I was hoping for the sweetest finale I could imagine and here are a couple I thought of:

1. The Orioles throw a perfect game
2. Jeter gives them the lead with a 2 out, 2 strike, 3 run homer in the bottom of the 8th just to see Mariano blow the save and give up 6 in the top of the 9th with Jeter commiting the critical error on a taylor made double play ball which opened the flood gates (sorry for the extremely poor sentence structure).

Oh, and this Oriole win officially eliminate them from the playoffs for the 1st time since 1995

This is why they suck, they don't follow my script. Fucking bastards.

And it sucks that Boston cannot beat them head to head to eliminate them, that would have been similarly cool.

jitna · VIP club member Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 469

the yankees are out? And with the Mets looking to choke again, could it be a NY-less playoffs?

Deity · **07/11/08 - Deity wrote:**

billyellis · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:54 am Post subject:

2008 Wrap / 2009 Preview

Congratulations to Deity on the Rays making it to the World Series.

And a big Nelson Muntz "Hah hah!" for getting smoked by a crappy NL team. Laughing

Maybe next year...oh wait...we're talking about the Rays, aren't we? Which means that any decent players will soon leave Tampa for cities where the ownership will actually pay them competitive salaries. The Rays have 2 big REAL bats (Upton, Longoria) that they will not be able to keep for long, which will start to cause dissension in the clubhouse as their agents whisper in their ears about how they are better than the rest of the team and should be getting different treatment. Their 3rd bat (Pena) is a career m1n0r leaguer in his 30's who suddenly turned into Mickey Mantle overnight, meaning the likelihood that he made this overnight explosion clean is less than the likelihood that the Yankees will show fiscal restraint this offseason and not overpay for a big name in decline. So he will either test positive for something or come down to Earth hard next year. The Rays will not hit anywhere near as well as this year again - opposing pitchers will take them seriously from now on, and their lack of patience at the plate gives pitching coaches a way to attack them.

As for pitching, they caught lightning in a bottle this year as well, and will also face serious consequences next year for the ridiculous number of innings they put on their young staff's arms this year. Big Lame James is a decent pitcher, but does not have dominating velocity and is a #2 starter once hitters get a better book on him. Jackson is terrible. Sonnanstine is average. Price is completely unproven and is being rushed up way too fast for his health. Garza was mediocre in the NL, and was effective largely because AL hitters had not seen him before this season. Their best pitcher is Kazmir, and what the Hell is wrong with him?? My guess is the same sort of overuse injury that the rest of the staff is now at risk for.

The Rays will suffer two serious long-term injuries to the starting pitching staff next year, which will kill them because as a shoestring budget operation they have no depth. Their bullpen was exposed it the playoffs. Balfour and Howell can't handle pressure, and the only pitcher that can (Wheeler) was the 2008 version of Joe Borowski in 2007 - a closer with nothing in the 90's who mysteriously got by with smoke and mirrors for a full season, but who will be hit hard next season as the law of averages catches up to his lousy stuff.

Boston will regress next season and not make the playoffs. Toronto will, as always, end up hoping for next year. Baltimore will Suckoncemore. And the damn Yankees will win the AL East going away, with Boston finishing 7 games back and the the Rays in 3rd 12 games out.

Cleveland will win the AL Central by 5 games over a surprising Royals team that is in contention until mid-August, and LA will walk away with the AL West again.

Hmmm....I tried to find a team that would be better than a Boston team that will finish way behind the NYY...but since the Yanks will have the best record in the AL, I retract my previous statement - Boston will slip in as the best of the rest WC team and play at the #2 seed Angels (they can't play the Yanks in the first round as divisional rivals). And now that they are in that position...the Red Sox will win in 4 games because even though they will not be very good they will have at least 2 good pitchers and the Angels just plain suck in the postseason. The Yanks will sweep the Indians, and then sweep (ugh) Boston.

In the useless NL (don't get cocky after winning the WS twice since 03, NL fans - both times you played teams of rookies who were overwhelmed to be there), the seeds will be Mets, Cubs, D-Backs, with the Marlins as the WC. Florida will beat the Mets in 4, the D-Backs will break the Cubs' hearts in 5, and the D-Backs will beat the Marlins in 7.

The Yankees will make me vomit by winning another payroll dominated title in 5 games. Sigh. You heard it here first.

However, on principle, they will still SUCK. Laughing