2011 MLB Season Discussion
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Kind of reminds me of when we got caught skipping out of school to go to a Twins game at the old Met Stadium. The attendance that day was 916, so our principal had no problem picking us out of the stands when they showed clips on the evening news.Oh, Marlins.
(Yes, this was at gametime.)
I know it's August and there are still 5 weeks of the season to go, but there is a part of me that fully believes the Giants don't deserve a spot in the playoffs. Watching them play offense truly is offensive and how the Astros won that game tonight was too damn easy. The Giants are the king of the Rally Killer that is the Double play and it showed up, again, tonight. Maybe this is what the giants need, and to get the bandwagoners to jump off. It's one thing to win a world championship and that was awesome, but that was last year. It's quite another to come back the year after (and yeah they made some moves at the trading deadline and were an unfortunate victim of the injury bug) and set baseball offense back 20 years in embarrassing fashion. They either better shape up, or they can kiss their playoff chances goodbye because Arizona is not going away.
Braves and Mets have rescheduled their meetings Saturday and Sunday...
While I hate to agree with such pessimistic sentiments, you're right, if a little harsh in how you put it.
I've lowered the bar on my expectations of this season to simply a winning record, all the better if they do reach.
If standings hold 'till post-season, with the Giants not making it, Go Brewers!
Vin Scully to return as Dodgers announcer. 
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6903514&categoryid=2378529
Also the BEST baseball stat of the year: Yankees run differential:+194!!!
RAMA
Also the BEST baseball stat of the year: Yankees run differential:+194!!!
RAMA
Even better (and more meaningful) stat:
1. Boston 82-51 (0 GB)
2. New York 79-52 (2 GB)
+1
^ Gah. I hope the Yankees can pull a finger out and actually BEAT the damn Redsox this week. And I'm not just sayin' that 'cuz I'll be in Boston watching the whole thing. 
Oh, and why in the seven circles of hell does A.J. Burnett still have a job?
Oh, and why in the seven circles of hell does A.J. Burnett still have a job?
I thought the Yankees were one of the seven circles of hell!
They paid their way out of Hell.
^ Just like every other team with a payroll.
While Colon, and Garcia have made it through the regular season posting respectable numbers, I just can't see that continuing throughout the playoffs, where every night they will be going against an above average offense. I see that as the weakness of the Yankees come that time, since they wont be able to throw out a Weaver/Haren, or a Beckett/Lester, or a Halladay/Lee/Hamels 1-2 or 1-2-3 in a playoff series.
Garcia will be fine through the postseason but Colon is more of a question mark. They're going to have to have Nova pitch, too. No way are they bringing in AJ and I'm expecting they'll leave Hughes out, too.
I wouldn't be too worried. The only team the Yankees have had a terrible time beating was the Red Sox. They've lost 10 games to the Red Sox and they're STILL only half a game behind them.
True, however no Yankee fan could tell me that they would go into a series against the Red Sox, Angels, Rangers or Phils and tell me that they think they would have any kind of pitching advantage at all. Even tonight's game, yes CC was good, and they won, but he wasn't dominant, it wasn't a shutdown performance, the the Red Sox should have scored more runs off of him. They haven't had a shutdown performance against the Sox once this year, even in the wins, and they are going to need that in the playoffs, because teams like the Rangers and Sox can slug it out with Yanks and go toe to toe.
As far as I know, the only team in that list that the Yankees have a losing record against this year is the Red Sox. The Yankees DO have the third best record in the league. Putting it another way, last year the Rays had the best record in the league. The Yankees had the second best in the league. Which of the two teams made it to the World Series? Neither. This is baseball, making any sort of prediction is completely pointless.
EDIT: Right now the Yankees have a 7-2 win record against the Rangers and a 4-2 win record against the Angels, with 3 more games to come. Neither of those two teams are exactly dominating the Yankees. Yankees haven't played against the Phillies this year.
Even better (and more meaningful) stat:
1. Boston 82-51 (0 GB)
2. New York 79-52 (2 GB)
Even better stat:
Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 5-2
1. Boston 82-52
2. New York 81-52(.5 GB)
Run differential now 198.
RAMA
