2007 New York Yankees post-season recap [serious posts only please]

hmm

you mean the Red Sox Sr?

20-9
10-17

Especially considering that they're throwing away 7-10 wins by letting ARod walk, which will probably be the difference between 1st and 3rd place in the AL East next year. It's not like there are tons of quality free agents on the market this year.

― NoTimeBeforeTime

o_O

You think they would have done better without A-Rod?

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damn right

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=5752715

Former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose spoke with Mike Missanelli on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia and told a wild story about a trip he took to Vietnam in 1967 with baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.

Rose explained that when they were in the middle of the jungle, DiMaggio said he needed to take a shower.

"And the only way you can take a shower, Mike, is they have these big bamboo bags, like, and somebody's got to get on a chair and pour the water and pull a rawhide thing and the water comes through and the guy takes a shower," Rose said. "So I saw everything that Marilyn Monroe saw."

Rose went on to say that the best way to describe the former Yankee is that "he was a penis with a man hanging from it."

You should use that as your ILX name.

You should!

HI DERE

all-time TMI

I think you're missing a word, Jimmy.

TOO MANY LATTER

YOU LACK IMAGINATION.

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more appropriate for the BoSox this year imho!

The eyes were red and moist. The voices were whispers and words failed to exit Jorge Posada’s mouth. Heads hung so low chins were almost on the dark clubhouse carpet in a room so quiet you could hear the mice burp.

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/10/7/2474641/alex-rodriguez-new-york-yankees-game-5

The flowers were from an anonymous admirer. The card simply read, "To one of the best in the business."

WHO COULD THAT HAVE BEEN?

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I still can't believe that's not an Onion article.

I think it is totally a goof

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http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=18704

And Steve Pearce (83 percent), who is on the Baltimore Orioles and has been since September.

i really wonder how the yanks will look in 2-3 seasons. a-rod looks almost finished. jeter had a solid '12 but it wasn't exactly great or even very good, just "good". tex is less giambi and more adam laroche now. granderson has a lot of holes in his game. swish, who knows? are they keeping ichiro? beyond sabathia (who knows how he'll look in a couple years w/his mileage and body type), the staff is iffy. these are all questions pondered before the last several years too but they looked and played like the worst playoff team in a very long time.

all the talk of a-rod being moved seems like hysterical NY media. Like, find me .280/20/100 (healthy caveats) or .260/15/100 @ 3rd base on the open market. yes, he is overpaid but that ship has sailed and you're not going to be able to move him unless you take back 3 heath bells, nevermind one.

jeter: the broken ankle thing will probably push him into sub-sub-replacement territory. it wouldn't shock me to see him hang it up next year if he goes off a cliff.

tex was a bad idea at the time and it looks even worse now. not sure what you do about it except take problem children back and hope for the best. I would think that he would be a more attractive trade target for a team than A-rod. i have no prospective targets to back that up. maybe chicago cubs?

a lot of talk about letting grandy go, but I could also see him replacing swish in RF and gardiner (lolhealthy?) in center. this is price-is-right stuff. Find me 40 HR on the open market etc.

I could see ichiro coming back on a make-good/stopgap contract until someone shakes loose in the minors a la eric chavez.

swish wants werth money lol

i would take kuroda back on a 2 yr contract w/ modest raise if he wanted it. everyone else besides he and CC can burn.

yeah forgot kuroda. great pickup. he's 38 or something though right? i can see him going for a couple more years at the same level.

what FAs are coming up that they have a shot at signing? i don't see them investing in josh hamilton.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/?page_id=177

Forgot that NYY will have ro replace catcher too (lolmartin. good greif).

Swisher is the Guy Fieri of major league ballplayers.

swisher is much less harmful to mankind than guy fieri

trading A-Rod is NY media hysteria, but "benching A-Rod" kinda was too.

yea i saw the 3/25 stat I'm like that's a week's worth of at-bats.

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