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Topic Started: Oct 23 2010, 08:43 PM (139 Views)
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If this isn't the team I see I will be irate.


Rotation
1 - Cliff Lee
2 - CC Sabathia
3 - Andy Pettitte
4 - Phil Hughes
5 - AJ Burnett


Lineup
LF - Bert Gartner
CF - Curtis Granderson
2B - Robinson Cano
3B - Alex Rodriguez
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Adam Dunn
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jesus Montero/Jorge Posada
SS - Derek Jeter


I'd love to keep Kerry Wood as a setup man. And if Lance Berkman would like to stick around as the backup 1B/bat off the bench at a reduced price, I'm all for it.

I would love nothing more than to replace SLUG with Crawford or Werth, but I don't think it's realistic. Get me Lee and Dunn and I will be happy.
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We need to get younger and peskier .....I'd love to get Placido Polanco off my bench for the peskiness...
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Oct 23 2010, 08:43 PM
If this isn't the team I see I will be irate.


Rotation
1 - Cliff Lee
2 - CC Sabathia
3 - Andy Pettitte
4 - Phil Hughes
5 - AJ Burnett


Lineup
LF - Bert Gartner
CF - Curtis Granderson
2B - Robinson Cano
3B - Alex Rodriguez
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Adam Dunn
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jesus Montero/Jorge Posada
SS - Derek Jeter


I'd love to keep Kerry Wood as a setup man. And if Lance Berkman would like to stick around as the backup 1B/bat off the bench at a reduced price, I'm all for it.

I would love nothing more than to replace SLUG with Crawford or Werth, but I don't think it's realistic. Get me Lee and Dunn and I will be happy.
I want Crawford. I like Slug, but he's proven to freeze in clutch moments. His "D" really is average. Crawford has speed and more speed and can hit for average and power, especially to right. DH /Dunn. And as for Gardner, this dude needs to learn how to put the ball in play and bunt. The rest of his game is ok. Basically I want a lineup that can start from the get go. Very rarely do you see a leadoff Jeter get on base, followed by the 2nd batter. How many first innings have you seen runners on 1st and 2nd or 3rd with no one out. I wish there was a stat on that. I believe the tired Yankees would be in last place on that one.
Edited by ONE-BUY-ONE, Oct 24 2010, 02:04 AM.
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Your rotation will most likely happen (except with Sabathia at #1). But that lineup? You buggin'. Girardi never had the balls to switch Teshera and Cano, but you think he'll do that and drop The God to 9th? Nice try, bro! :thumbup:
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Would be pretty dope. I have a feeling that if we get Dunn and Lee, both of them will suck with us. Just have a feeling. Would love to land Lee though.
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With that short porch, Dunn would hit 75hrs and Lee would win 25 with an era less the 2.5 :drool:
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Rotation
1 - Cliff Lee
2 - CC Sabathia
3 - Andy Pettitte
4 - Phil Hughes
5 - AJ Burnett


Lineup
LF - Bert Gartner
CF - Curtis Granderson
2B - Robinson Cano
3B - Alex Rodriguez
1B - Mark Teixeira
DH - Adam Dunn
RF - Nick Swisher
C - Jesus Montero/Jorge Posada
SS - Derek Jeter


I would love to see Jesus Montero up in 2011. I realized something this year: I hate to say this but Jorge Posada's last year behind the plate was this year. Who knows if his knees will even hold up in the 2011 season?

Bringing Jeter back and having Gardner bat either leadoff will help.

I would love to see Cliff Lee in pinstripes. It would be nice to have Adam Dunn be the everyday DH. I don't see Tex dropping to 5th in the order.
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Jeter absolutely should bat 9th but he won't be moved from the top of the lineup until the 3rd year of what will be at least a 4-year contract. And he is going to be dreadful to watch, especially in the field.
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Oct 24 2010, 08:43 AM
With that short porch, Dunn would hit 75hrs and Lee would win 25 with an era less the 2.5 :drool:
I gotta repeat what I'd told Rob days ago: Ya'll never learn. Stop! with the if-then projections. "That guy on this team? He would do ____!" And it never happens. How'd Granderson come through on the 35-40 homer predictions I was seeing? I told you niggas .260 and 23, but ya'll weren't hearing. All this short porch bullshit. Really, which veteran has come here and hit more home runs than ever expected (or even noticably more than usual) because of the short porch? Johnny Damon with 24. And it was four more than his previous career high. Adam Dunn would hit 40 homers here, because he hits 40 every year. He doesn't hit cheapies, either. If he hits it far enough to get over the fence, it's going 450 feet. He's not the kinda guy who'd take advantage by hitting 320-foot "Yankee Stadium homers." There's also the Yankee dropoff, which many of us seem to forget. A player comes here, unless he's in the dead f*cking middle of his prime and under 30, expect at least a 15% dropoff. That, and the AL East. If Cliff Lee comes here, you're looking at a 3.40 ERA.
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Oct 24 2010, 08:43 AM
With that short porch, Dunn would hit 75hrs and Lee would win 25 with an era less the 2.5 :drool:
I gotta repeat what I'd told Rob days ago: Ya'll never learn. Stop! with the if-then projections. "That guy on this team? He would do ____!" And it never happens. How'd Granderson come through on the 35-40 homer predictions I was seeing? I told you niggas .260 and 23, but ya'll weren't hearing. All this short porch bullshit. Really, which veteran has come here and hit more home runs than ever expected (or even noticably more than usual) because of the short porch? Johnny Damon with 24. And it was four more than his previous career high. Adam Dunn would hit 40 homers here, because he hits 40 every year. He doesn't hit cheapies, either. If he hits it far enough to get over the fence, it's going 450 feet. He's not the kinda guy who'd take advantage by hitting 320-foot "Yankee Stadium homers." There's also the Yankee dropoff, which many of us seem to forget. A player comes here, unless he's in the dead f*cking middle of his prime and under 30, expect at least a 15% dropoff. That, and the AL East. If Cliff Lee comes here, you're looking at a 3.40 ERA.
:please: Drink tha Kool-Aid my Nugga ! :rock:
Edited by YankeeBaseball, Oct 24 2010, 01:25 PM.
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Would love Dun but he might not fit if they need to keep DH open for Posada and probably more Jeter/ARod.
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Oct 24 2010, 07:09 PM
Would love Dun but he might not fit if they need to keep DH open for Posada and probably more Jeter/ARod.
Stop it with f*cking Posada already. If they want that overrated pile of sh*t as the everyday DH then you might as well flush 2011 down the drain. The offense is the biggest reason they lost. They need a big bopper in the middle of the order. A-Rod is not a 40 HR guy anymore and Tex shrinks in the playoffs.

Posada and his fans needs to accept the fact that he's not good enough to play everyday anymore. He should start at catcher two or three times a week, no more!

Get Dunn to DH.
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Crawford will be an Angel.
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Would love Dun but he might not fit if they need to keep DH open for Posada and probably more Jeter/ARod.
Stop it with f*cking Posada already. If they want that overrated pile of sh*t as the everyday DH then you might as well flush 2011 down the drain. The offense is the biggest reason they lost. They need a big bopper in the middle of the order. A-Rod is not a 40 HR guy anymore and Tex shrinks in the playoffs.

Posada and his fans needs to accept the fact that he's not good enough to play everyday anymore. He should start at catcher two or three times a week, no more!

Get Dunn to DH.
Totally agreed, but I don't trust them to do the right thing with Posada. We all know Jeter should be at the bottom of the lineup but they won't move him either.
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Would love Dun but he might not fit if they need to keep DH open for Posada and probably more Jeter/ARod.
Stop it with f*cking Posada already. If they want that overrated pile of sh*t as the everyday DH then you might as well flush 2011 down the drain. The offense is the biggest reason they lost. They need a big bopper in the middle of the order. A-Rod is not a 40 HR guy anymore and Tex shrinks in the playoffs.

Posada and his fans needs to accept the fact that he's not good enough to play everyday anymore. He should start at catcher two or three times a week, no more!

Get Dunn to DH.
Totally agreed, but I don't trust them to do the right thing with Posada. We all know Jeter should be at the bottom of the lineup but they won't move him either.
Somebody in this organization has to have guts and let Jeter and Posada know that they do not run the team. I don't give two shits if Jeter is Captain or not, his ass needs to bat 8th or 9th.

We are not geniuses here. We are normal everyday fans who watch at least 85% of games a year. If we can see these things need to be done, why can't the scouts and "experts" in the organization see it?
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Aside from finally letting Torre walk in 2007 (which was at least 3 seasons too late) nobody in this organization has shown the guts to do anything that would piss off the pink hat wearing crowd that lines their pockets with money. The fact is for what Jeter is going to demand he should be told to take a hike, just like Pisshands should've been told to take a two-year deal or go to the Mets before he got his idiotic four-year deal. But none of that stuff happens because nobody in the front office wants to face the wrath of the dumbass fanbase. Jeter, Rivera, Posada and Pettitte run this team.
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Would love Dun but he might not fit if they need to keep DH open for Posada and probably more Jeter/ARod.
Stop it with f*cking Posada already. If they want that overrated pile of sh*t as the everyday DH then you might as well flush 2011 down the drain. The offense is the biggest reason they lost. They need a big bopper in the middle of the order. A-Rod is not a 40 HR guy anymore and Tex shrinks in the playoffs.

Posada and his fans needs to accept the fact that he's not good enough to play everyday anymore. He should start at catcher two or three times a week, no more!

Get Dunn to DH.
Totally agreed, but I don't trust them to do the right thing with Posada. We all know Jeter should be at the bottom of the lineup but they won't move him either.
Somebody in this organization has to have guts and let Jeter and Posada know that they do not run the team. I don't give two shits if Jeter is Captain or not, his ass needs to bat 8th or 9th.

We are not geniuses here. We are normal everyday fans who watch at least 85% of games a year. If we can see these things need to be done, why can't the scouts and "experts" in the organization see it?
I am.

It doesn't matter what's best for the team. You should know that. There are exceptions to that, and the feelings of loyalty and sentimentality are among them. I'm sure the front office feels married to those guys. Sure, she's older and the coochie's gotten slack, and they could file for a divorce and chase a 19-year-old with 38-24-34, but there's love.

I don't know if it's so much the fanbase as it is that. Fans wouldn't stop coming to games and buying merchandise is Jeter and Posada weren't here. You'd get a rush of angry calls to WFAN and people spouting off and then a packed Stadium on opening day. People talk sh*t and get overly attached to players, but when it gets down to the get-down, they care more about the team and winning. Those pink cap-wearing chicks would find somebody else to dickride ("OMG! I never realized how cute Cliff Lee is!") and the ******s who love to praise the qualities of men they don't know would find someone else to put on a pedestal. "That Curtis Granderson, he's a classy guy. He speaks really well, especially for an African-American." The impact of losing Jeter or Posada on the fans wouldn't be nearly as great as I think you'd expect. I think it's the organization itself that wants to cling to them and doesn't want to disrespect them.
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Totally agreed, but I don't trust them to do the right thing with Posada. We all know Jeter should be at the bottom of the lineup but they won't move him either.
Somebody in this organization has to have guts and let Jeter and Posada know that they do not run the team. I don't give two shits if Jeter is Captain or not, his ass needs to bat 8th or 9th.

We are not geniuses here. We are normal everyday fans who watch at least 85% of games a year. If we can see these things need to be done, why can't the scouts and "experts" in the organization see it?
I am.

It doesn't matter what's best for the team. You should know that. There are exceptions to that, and the feelings of loyalty and sentimentality are among them. I'm sure the front office feels married to those guys. Sure, she's older and the coochie's gotten slack, and they could file for a divorce and chase a 19-year-old with 38-24-34, but there's love.

I don't know if it's so much the fanbase as it is that. Fans wouldn't stop coming to games and buying merchandise is Jeter and Posada weren't here. You'd get a rush of angry calls to WFAN and people spouting off and then a packed Stadium on opening day. People talk sh*t and get overly attached to players, but when it gets down to the get-down, they care more about the team and winning. Those pink cap-wearing chicks would find somebody else to dickride ("OMG! I never realized how cute Cliff Lee is!") and the ******s who love to praise the qualities of men they don't know would find someone else to put on a pedestal. "That Curtis Granderson, he's a classy guy. He speaks really well, especially for an African-American." The impact of losing Jeter or Posada on the fans wouldn't be nearly as great as I think you'd expect. I think it's the organization itself that wants to cling to them and doesn't want to disrespect them.
Yup that's me. I like Matsui and got over it until I watched these Yankees melt like Melky Way Bars during the AL Championship games.
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How'd Granderson come through on the 35-40 homer predictions I was seeing? I told you niggas .260 and 23
I know English was always more your thing than math, but you know he got hurt, right? Give him back those 200 ABs he lost and 35 would have happened. 14 HR at home this year in 230 ABs, 10 HR on the road last year in 300. The park helped.

And Rob, I don't know when you became so Optimistic, but Jeter won't be batting anything lower than 2nd and Dunn won't be on the team.

Also, what role would Lance Berkman have on a team that already has Teixeira, Dunn, and Swisher? And unless something drastically changes in Granderson's approach, he is an even dumber option in the two hole than Jeter.

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All I know is the pitching was BAD...and the hitting was worse save for game 1. I don't want to ever see AJ Burnett pitching in the postseason again...I wish I never saw him in Pinstripes to begin with...another thief..Darek Braunecker should be getting gifts from AJ for the rest of his life with that disgusting contract he negotiated for him. I'm praying he blows out his arm next spring, let's not even get into Hughes and his dripping mangina, or Tex and his incredible shrinking testicles....as for Girardi....I thought it would be impossible to suck more than Torre....congrats to him...he has done the impossible!
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