Tuesday, October 16, 2007

NY Yankees

Enough time has passed since my 2007 disappointment from a team that I have been following since the early 1960's.
Too many things went wrong with this team, ever since the 8th inning of game 7 of the 2001 World Series.

The most important series New York ever needed to win, after all the dynamic comebacks at the stadium, and a bad loss in day 6, we needed to have that team come back to New York with the title. But, it was not to be. With most of his pitchers at his disposal, Torre elected to pitch Mario for 2, when he should have used everyone else to get those 3 outs in the 8th. With Mario in for just the 9th, he could have pumped, instead of paced himself. What would of happened? Who knows, but it was truly the way to go.

It's now another empty fall, a team with so much talent, and they are sitting around wondering about their jobs. Some changes have to made, some issues resolved and some winning to be done.

The A-Rod factor - First let me say, I love A-Rod. What I don't like is his cat and mouse game with his option this year. You want to be remembered as a Yankee, then this should have been settled and not an issue now. He wants to lock into the big bucks, fine, but that should have been worked out and this time of the year we would be more focused on Jorge, Mario, pitching and youth.

Let him go, Sign Tory Hunter, work out a package for Santana, (Rasner, Karstens and DeSalvo as an example ) sign them both for 5 years. Move Melky over to right, do not pick up Abreu's option and leave Damon in left. Outfield, done. With Matsui and Duncan as DH and outfield back ups.

Giambi, why he was ever brought her in favor of Tino, I'll never know, but since he has been here we have not had a team, of teammates. Trade to Toronto for Glaus and eat some of Giambi's contract. Use Phillips and Mientkiewicz at first. Infield done.

Rotation of Santana, Pettitte, Hughs, Wang and Kennedy should do very well.

Resign Mario, Jorge and Molina.

Leave Joba in pen to develop with Veras, Ohlendorf, Mussina and Farnsworth.

On the bench
Betemit and Sardinha
11 Pitchers and 14 everyday players that will fill out the 25 man roster.
If we go with 12 pitchers, then bring in Igawa.

We got younger, stronger and more exciting so we can close down the doors at the stadium at the end of 2008 and open up the doors to the new stadium in 2009.

As far as Torre goes, either with him or without, I am more concerned about what is put on the field.






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Welcome To The News Maze

I opened this blog...
so I could get off my chest shit that racks my nerves in the news. Between the media, the politicians, local sports, and public servant bullshit issues.

We have been handed nothing but lies about the war, September 11th 2001, Katrina, the oil take over, the cell phone radiation, and the heroin deals this government has made over the past administration's takeover.

The body count has been astronomical, and the attention it gets is always in bits and pieces. Some focus on the war, some 9-11, some on the victims of Katrina and some on the edges of the reality that we are getting screwed big time.

Here we will focus on it all! No free rides and no hidden agendas. We want answers, we'll ask for them, we'll share them and we'll plead for them as well.

September 11th 2001 I think is a good place for me to start. So many people had died, and so many questions had risen from the flesh infested dust, yet we let it pass without as much as a legal commitment. Justice was blinded by headlines of anthrax, Eron, the Church and it's sex scandals and anything else the people were willing to let blind them.

Normally, here in New York, we take pride in how we approach a crime scene. We look at details and we piece together what could be the cause of the crime. But this crime, had no crime scene, no investigation, no evidence turned over to the DA's office. What we got was full line of bullshit, that people wanted to believe, for people to keep the faith, while all along, being lied to. Sometimes, a lie, can be swallowed and digested just so it will pass through us.

First with all crimes, we have to look at who had the means, the motive and the opportunity. Within that frame work most crime investigations are conducted. We never had that chance, that chance was taken away from us before September 11, 2001. Now, in 2007, the crime scene still sits with human ash and more people paying the price because of this ash. A crime that has been killing for over seven years, and yet we still have no investigation? What we have is a war, deflecting our deepest desire to ask a simple question. What really happened on September 11th 2001?