2 month illness? What does he have? Consumption?

Lepracy.

Regression to the mean where art thou?

The Dropsies.

No wait, that’s Nunez.

Eh, what’s latin for “weak shit” ?

Obviously he needs his appendix removed (maybe for the 2nd time), and a prescription for “eyedrops”.

stercus infirmus

2 month illness? What does he have? Consumption?

TB would come up on a chest CT, right? I know it’s a joke, but consumption isn’t too far out there…

[7] You don’t need a CT and all the radiation to detect tb. Simple skin test shows up in 48 hours.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Teix that can’t be explained by his taking batting practice with Satan for three years running.

Let the record show that prednisone is a steroid.  Teixeira should be suspended.

One more game like the last few and I’m requesting a Cleveland Spiders badge.

One more game like the last few and I’m unilaterally imposing Cleveland Spiders badges on everyone.

Steroids should be mandatory for all Yankees.

Also, thank god we got rid of Montero. Would have made no sense to convert him to a 1Bman, given the fact that he’d be blocked by an elite playe…..

First the Knicks. Then the Mets. Now the Yankees have the NY curse.

I hope Tex gets healthy, and I’m gonna lay off the Tex hate for now (not that this condition seems likely to account for his multi-season decline).  The dude can’t help being unwell.

This does not look like our year.

Maybe we’ll be glad to have the second wild card at season’s end.

Is it better to have made the playoffs and lost the play-in game or to not have made the playoffs at all?

...aside from the business side of things, of course.

Seems to me that losing the play-in game isn’t really any worse than losing in the DS.

The new wild card might officially be expanding the playoffs, but to me it feels harder than ever for a specific team to get in. Reaching a one game series doesn’t feel like reaching the playoffs.

Tex may LET Girardi rest him? His cough sounds like a job for House “healthy 30yo has had a cough that mysteriously lingered for 2 months.  Other symptoms include an inexplicable decline in WAR for the last 3 years.”

“refusal to bunt against the shift”

[20] Series finale Monday. Coincidence?

I have often suffered from multi- month colds, but I have a small child, and am old, and not an athlete.  But I have talen steroids for them.  Doesn’t do much good.  Also I used to smoke.

Would the prednisone mask other steroids in a drug test? Maybe that’s the ticket. If so, Teix should cough all over A-Rod so he can get a prescription too.

maybe Russell Martin also caught wathever disease Tex has? and maybe somthing in the Boston air clears it up since he had 2 Hrs in one game there?

Kuroda just another example that National leaguers pitchers by and large don’t fare well in AL. I’m disappointed in Cashman really believeing this guy would be useful to the team. If the team had the room in the budget for Cole Hammels, I’m still not sure he would fare well. Wonder what the Steinbrothers are thinking these days? Has Kevin Long turned into a poor hitting coach over night?

Russell Martin is showing us why the Dodgers let him go. He really is a good defensive catcher, but how can you carry an everyday guy who can’t hit .220? What has happened to Austin Romine? I know he’s had a back issue, but how long does it take to get better and if he has any history of back issues, why did they get rid of Montero?

[24]  I know you’re kidding, but no.  Different kind of steroid.

Is some enterprising guy with time on his hands is willing to look at every trade and signing Cashman has made in the last 6 years and grade them?

Would the Yankees be better off without them? On the whole I guess not just because of CC, but so many of them seem to be bad.

Off the top of my head the Nady trade was bad; Swisher? very good. Signings? CC - awesome; AJ, Tex? bad.  the entire 2004-05 offseason? bad. 2011-2012 offseason? looking bad.  Grandy? not sure. We could use a young guy who wion 20 games and then would still have Montero…

of course this is just my gut; if someone wants to really take the time to analyze this stuff, please do. there is at least one guy who would read it!

To be fair, shouldn’t we compare to moves made by other perennial contenders with big budgets—Angels, Rangers, Phillies, Red Sox, Dodgers?

As we all know, the Angels have made some horrible moves.

I love how everyone is pining for IPK (myself included at times) when there is plenty of evidence that guys that dominate the NL do not necessarily translate that into AL dominance. Yeah, sure, maybe they let IPK go too soon - but there is zero guarantee that he would be thriving in the AL East as much as he is in NL West. Imagine sticking Hughes in NL West: I bet he’d be amazing.

[26] No such thing has been shown.  He’s had some good games and some bad.  Like lots of other pitchers.  While pitchers will generally do *worse* coming to the AL, that is completely different than what you seem to be suggesting.  I imagine by the end of the year, Kuroda will be a roughly 3 WAR pitcher, well worth the money.

[27] The Dodgers let Martin go because they weren’t willing to pay him what an arbiter would award, when they weren’t sure of his health.  He’s not ever going to hit like he did in his early years with the Dodgers, but he has a .186 BABIP.  That’s unsustainably low.  ZIPS ROS has a .261 BABIP for him, which still seems low, but is reasonable.  Ending the year at 2.5 WAR.  I’ll take it.  Romine is still on DL for back.  I haven’t heard much of anything in the way of an update.  I think he had some minor issues with his back previously, but nothing like this.

I’d say judging Kuroda as a bust now is just plain impatient.  He’s been a bit worse than projected, but I don’t think he’ll keep giving up HRs at the rate he’s given them up this year.

He’s not ever going to hit like he did in his early years with the Dodgers, but he has a .186 BABIP.  That’s unsustainably low.

Yep.  I mean pitchers hit for a BABIP of .208 last year.  Is there some reason to think Martin has less BABIP skill than the average pitcher?

Is there some reason to think Martin has less BABIP skill than the average pitcher?

He plays for the latter-day Cleveland Spiders, so yes.

Martin is the least of this team’s problems.

I’m hesitant to say that ARod is cooked and won’t turn around, but he looks like he can barely hit balls to the OF anymore.  His OBP is still decent, but the power just evaporated.  I wish I could see something in Teixeira’s stats that would give me hope for a correction, but I don’t see it.  When Gardner comes back, it’ll be tough to take Iquana’s(!) bat out of the line-up since Arod is eating up a 1/3 of DH ABs this year.  Raul has played some 1B, but that’s stretching the definition of “some” (and “played”).

[31] But it’s the perception that still sucks (I guess its like trading for Javy Vasquez twice thinking that that he’ll be good in the AL).  Also, for me, some of it is giving up on Ajax for, essentially, his future self. Ajax has probably been as good as Granderson (without the huge power boost) and much cheaper.  That trade would look a lot worse if Granderson was still kicking around a ~.800 OPS. Though, thankfully, Granderson figured out how to hit lefties and added .100 to his ISO - so the trade looks a lot better.

Plus, it’s never just one thing with a trade that irritates people - it’s the context.  I think everyone is still generally disappointed in Pineda showing up and immediately hitting the DL for a year when visions of a younger CC were dancing in their heads.  That added to castaway IPK finishing 4th the NL CY the previous year, is like WTF?

“Curt Schilling is a hero to New England baseball fans, known for his performances in high pressure situations. But as a businessman, he’s in big trouble, and not the kind he can pitch his way out of.

The former MLB all-star’s start-up video game company, 38 Studios, missed a $1.1 million payment to the state of Rhode Island on May 1, and things have only gotten more complicated since.

Rhode Island lured 38 Studios away from Massachusetts in 2010, in exchange for $75 million in guaranteed loans”
Aw

Is an inflamed airway the kind of thing that would lead to excessive choking?

Seems to me that losing the play-in game isn’t really any worse than losing in the DS.

It’s even better. They get to “make the playoffs” while we get to get all the frustration of the inevitable first round loss out of the way in one night instead of a week. We will be saving tons of time. Maybe some of us can even clean our houses.

Is an inflamed airway the kind of thing that would lead to excessive choking?

That would mean almost every Yankee since 2001, sans 2009, has had inflamed airways at some point.

Can we please not pine for IPK?  I liked the kid, and I’m happy for him, but youse guyz, he’s in the NL now.  You can’t assume he’d be doing all that well on the Yanks.  And Granderson is really, really good.

I’m upset about Pineda too.  And Tex, but seriously can you really blame Cash for Tex?  How many people here thought it was a bad signing at the time?  I sure didn’t.  Burnett, yes, but he’s gone.  It’s a bit early to give up on Kuroda, but yeah he’s been very disappointing so far.

ARod is scaring me, for sure.  Damn that re-sign was awful.

Ok, I was typing up the “bad decisions in recent memory” and I got really depressed and deleted them.  Nevermind.

Warning track power.

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