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Yankees News for October 9
Topic Started: Oct 9 2005, 07:42 AM (16 Views)
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Unit is ready for pen
October 9
New York Daily News: Randy Johnson didn't make a good impression in his first playoff game as a Yankee, but he might get another chance soon enough. The Big Unit said he expects to be available for relief duty in Game 5 if Joe Torre needs him, and wouldn't even rule out being an option in tonight's Game 4.
"I think I could pitch today, if I had to," Johnson said yesterday. "I've done it before. In that situation, obviously everything else goes out the door. If there's anything I can do to help the team, I'll be there."
Johnson was booed off the mound after allowing five runs in three-plus innings Friday night and admitted afterward that he would have booed himself.
Jason Giambi, who has been alternately loved and hated by Yankee fans, said he could relate to what Johnson endured. "When you're the big boy coming into town, it's tough," Giambi said. "I've been there. ... (But) sometimes (the fans) can forget real fast around here. If he hadn't done what he had done (in the regular season), we wouldn't even be in the playoffs right now."
Johnson said he hadn't yet reviewed video of his outing but was planning to go over it with catcher John Flaherty. He also said he wouldn't lobby Torre or pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre to use him out of the bullpen but would be ready to go if asked. "I think I'll leave it up to them," he said.
"I think whenever Randy feels physically able to do it, he'll jump in there," Torre said.
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ALCS MAY GET BUMPED--Rays want to talk with Girardi
October 9
New York Post: MLB is weighing a concession to the team that advances from the Yankees-Angels Division Series. If the series goes to a fifth game tomorrow in Anaheim, the commissioner's office might flip-flop the starts of the two LCS with the AL opening Wednesday rather than Tuesday.
The NLCS is currently scheduled to start Wednesday. However, if both NLDS end by tomorrow, it is a strong likelihood that the NLCS would be moved to Tuesday.
Yesterday's rainout of Game 3 of the ALDS at Yankee Stadium put the Yankees and Angels in a tough spot. If the Yankees win tonight's Game 4, the teams would fly to Anaheim and play Game 5 tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. (5:30 in Anaheim). If the ALCS stays as currently slated, Game 1 would be in Chicago Tuesday and put the Yankees or Angels at a severe disadvantage.
"The Yankees have granted the Devil Rays permission to interview bench coach Joe Girardi for their managerial opening."
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Don't whine, win
October 9
New York Daily News: The last time the Yankees were good enough to win the World Series, five years ago, they lost Game 4 of their division series against the A's at Yankee Stadium on a Saturday night, flew across the country afterward, beat the A's in Oakland the next night, and advanced to the next round.
Nobody whined about having to do it, the way anonymous whiners in the Yankee front office are whining now. Media members didn't wring their hands about the power and greed of television and what it has done to their day-baseball notion of the integrity of the game.
The Yankees flew across the country and won Game 5 from the A's and finally won it all, because that was a team that would play you on the field at Macombs Dam Park in the middle of the night and beat you in a big game.
If this Yankee team is good enough, it will do the same.
And if it isn't good enough, it won't be because the Fox television network wouldn't give a match-point game that involves the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels to another network so it can be played in the afternoon, and baseball can go back to being a virgin where network television is concerned.
You know who thinks this is all some sort of outrage? Some Yankee executives. Some members of the media. It's not exactly the Crusades.
"It's not like (the Angels) are playing a day game and we're playing a night game," Derek Jeter said yesterday after Game 4 got pushed back to tonight. "This time of year we're playing on adrenaline anyway."
Jeter said, "Why complain about what you can't control?"
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