Yawn.  Cant believe I stayed up to 1am watching the first few innings of that game.

The A-Rod / Tex heart of the line-up is really depressing.  Is there some sort of an insurance scam we can pull with either / both to get their contacts paid by someone else?

I was at the game

SO IT WAS YOUR FAULT!

Honestly, though, the Yankees had a tough schedule to start and they’re not really that far off of the pace. When they start getting the easier teams, they’ll kill ‘em. That’s what this team has been built around for some time now - beating the bad teams.

That’s what’s been going on here?  Overwhelmed by top talent?  Brian, I don’t think so.
Key players are creating long-term worry.  Jeter’s resurgence is amazing, but is it countering that with long-term hope?  No.
I’m not sure “they’ll kill ‘em” any more than they killed Baltimore… or the Twins.

WOE.

Here’s my consolation, folks:

“This was a game in which the Rangers and Caps both invested blood and sweat in Stanley Cup playoff competition at its finest, a match that was thrilling through 60 minutes, and then close to awe-inspiring with these professional athletes reaching within themselves and pushing themselves when there seemed nothing more to give, nowhere else to go.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/rangers/gaborik_the_hero_in_ot_thriller_XsOo6F83VBZdVlYkGDYJOJ

Even if I am the poorest m*therf*cker on Sesame Street:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdim8hWR44

WOEWNHOGBINF

[7]
Oh, just tell me.

Worst Offense Ever With No Hope Of Getting Better In Near Future

I thought it was obvious myself

Man, I gotta stop thinking of dirty words to put in the middle of those. I never get them that way.

I’m more worried about the future of the pitching than the future of the offense.

I agree, if by future you mean rest of this year.

Tex’s LD% has also been decreasing for the past 5 years or so.

Tex’s LD% has also been decreasing for the past 5 years or so. Tex’s LD% has also been decreasing for the past 5 years or so.

No no, just since he became a Yankee.

Which coincides with him taking batting lessons from BobbyV.

Nova’s a 5 masquerading as a 3 and that’s cause for concern.

[15] - What’s even worse is now that Pineda is shot, we need him to be a 2.

are there any teams with a worse 3-5 than the Yankees habe thru the first 24 games? what do they have 27 RBis with 6 HRs and a 250 avg? ugh.

Oh man, “Kansas City is hot” jokes will never stop being funny.

That’s what’s been going on here?  Overwhelmed by top talent?  Brian, I don’t think so.
Key players are creating long-term worry.  Jeter’s resurgence is amazing, but is it countering that with long-term hope?  No.
I’m not sure “they’ll kill ‘em” any more than they killed Baltimore… or the Twins.

SG had the Yankees predicted for, what, 94 wins or something like that, right?

And he also had them predicted to start the season 14-10 and get to that 94 win mark. They’re 13-11 now. The offense has still scored, what, the third most runs in the league or something like that? And they’re getting Pettitte back soon. I don’t think it is as bad as it looks.

Remember that 94 wins included 150 innings of Michael Pineda instead of 0, plus better pitching by Hughes and Garcia.  They might be more like a 90-91 win team right now.

Regarding Teixeira, and to a lesser extent A-Rod, I guess I keep thinking back to David Ortiz circa May 4, 2010.  He was 34 and was hitting .149/.240/.358 and pretty much everyone in Red Sox Nation wanted him gone.  I’m sure Red Sox fans were saying the same thing about the shift and hitting it the other way and whatever else. 

Since then, he’s hit .307/.397/.567.

Right, but with Pineda factored in, you still had them starting the season roughly close to their current record, right? So the fact that they are approaching that level without him is a sign that things might not be as bad as they appear, since they were supposed to struggle in April period.

And I can buy them as currently a 90/91 team without Pineda and with the missing players (some due to injuries some due to them being awful), but 90/91 is not bad, especially since they could easily get lucky and add X amount of wins to that (or obviously get unlucky and lose X amount of wins from that).

SG had the Yankees predicted for, what, 94 wins or something like that, right?

And he also had them predicted to start the season 14-10 and get to that 94 win mark. They’re 13-11 now. The offense has still scored, what, the third most runs in the league or something like that? And they’re getting Pettitte back soon. I don’t think it is as bad as it looks.

But that “bird’s-eye view” does what bird’s-eye views do - it ignores the details we see by following the games.  And the trends look worrying.  Major problems with players like Teix and possibly A-Rod and possibly even Martin; 2/5 of the rotation already requiring outright replacement.  Jeter’s resurgence isn’t going to make up for that.

Its 5:30 and NO ONE has commented on AJ Burnetts game last night? 12 runs!!!

But that “bird’s-eye view” does what bird’s-eye views do - it ignores the details we see by following the games.  And the trends look worrying.  Major problems with players like Teix and possibly A-Rod and possibly even Martin; 2/5 of the rotation already requiring outright replacement.  Jeter’s resurgence isn’t going to make up for that.

But I think it is too soon to call these “trends” as opposed to slumps.

The Yankees are currently third in the American League in runs per game (they’re barely ahead of #4 Toronto who has scored three more runs in one more game). Their offense is not pretty but I think it is too soon to call it a problem. Their starting pitching, on the other hand, has clearly been a problem. But it is a problem that is already losing one of the three problem areas (the three problem areas being Hughes, Garcia and Nova)with Garcia being replaced with Phelps and possibly could see a second be gone, as well, when Pettitte returns (as either Hughes pitches well and stays or pitches poorly and Phelps gets his spot).

The Yankees are not in a good position to play in a short series against a good team right now, but I think they remain built well for the next 138 games. And hopefully by the time the playoffs come around, they will be in a better position for a short series against a good team.

Tampa Bay eking out a four game sweep against the Mariners did piss me off, though, I will admit. Talk about an lucky series! Four game sweep where Tampa Bay outscored Seattle by five runs total? Argh!

Brian, I know where you’re coming from, but - does A-Rod look like a slump to you?  If he weren’t moving so gingerly, I’d happily agree with this.  This isn’t a sample size issue, it’s additional information.
Does Teix look like a slump to you?  How many years do you need for this to be called a trend?  The sample size here isn’t limited to the start of this year.
Martin could easily be as slump, sure.

But even if you think A-Rod and Teix are cooked, the Yankees are third in the AL in runs per game with them being cooked.

Mo looks like he seriously hurt his knee during BP today.  Looks very bad.

There isn’t enough eyedrops in the world to make Teixeira hit like Papi. Not in this lifetime. I could see things clicking for Alex, but Teix looks completely locked in to what he’s doing. Our “depth” consists of Jones, Nunez, and Iguana.

The two series with the O’s even out to taking each 2-1, which would feel a lot better than the all-too-expected sweep of them, then narrowly escaping getting swept at home (the difference being we prevailed in a 2-1 pitchers’ duel) while getting shutout twice. We got mauled at home by the Twins. The TWINS !!

I also don’t think we would have expected the success in Boston, and probably shouldn’t have. Any time you have to put back-to-back 7 run innings together to win a game, you are living on the edge.

We are a couple of breaks away from 17-7, but also a couple of breaks away from a 10-14 record.

Fan’s nerves are therefore frayed like…well, Pinata’s labrum. BOOM !