One question. How have these Yankees played at home lately? Keuchel is one tough hombre. Tanaka needs to be on. Little confidence in this offense.
Keuchel has a road ERA of 3.77 compared to 1.46 at home. He did pitch 7 shutout inn, 3 H in his last YS start this year. Will be pitching on 3 days rest. Who knows how he'll handle it? Houston has a poor road rec but took 2/3 in their only appearance at YS this year allowing 4 runs over the three games. By the way, Carlos Gomez is expected back for Houston. You may recall him doing a lot of whooping and hollering and hotdogging when the two teams played at YS in late August. Tanaka coming off his last start Sept 30 where he didn't have his usual crisp stuff especially on his fastball which was rarely touching 90. I can't realistically expect the Yanks to give Keuchel an early KO,so I'm hoping the Yanks will have good at bats and get Keuchel out of the game before the 7th or 6th with him going on three days rest. Maybe he'll hang a couple/few breaking balls and changeups.....I hope. Concerned about Tanaka....because I can't envision the Yanks winning this game without at least a good start from Tanaka.
59 is right, on the money on the NY Giants vs those fkng Bums.... Going way back to the Ban Johnson trying like hell to land His O's in NY. 59, mentioned the book "Yankees Century" last year, and that Classic Great book reveals shit about the New AL in NY, with no AL Team in it. As well, as the Crooked Corrupt Forefathers, who ran NY. The Giants and Bums owners, did not want another team in NY, at any cost, while money was no hurdle to the forefather's members. (best Historical account of the Yanx from Day 1 IMO, day 2 too-hehe) "Tammany Hall" in NYC, was a Colonial era anti-Brittish organization, or "Secret Society," - with damn near every Member being corrupt, from the Mayor, to the Chief of Police, as well as Mob Mixing with NY Politics. Tho' Tammany Hall, was as much a Mob, as Le Cosa Nostra. T-Hall members bought up every parcel of land in NYC's Highland, so Ban could not find a decent land plot to build his BB Field. Here's link to the book, and do yourself a favor, and read pages 4-8, or more. Better yet, if your Library is missing this book, BUY IT. This book usually runs 50-75$$ for a Hardcover. It's now availble in Paperback at a much lower price. I found my book, a HC, for 12$ and it IS like new.... http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=Yankees Century Click on the book, then Hit the "Look Inside" icon...... Bad blood from day one.........
...^^^Yankees Century...without a doubt, the finest book about the Yanx I've ever read...well worth the price. ...so many things in that book that I never new...and considering what all went on back the, it's a miracle that the Yanx ever became a franchise.
...^^^ and I thank YOU, for recommending this book to us all. I had never heard, seen or even known of its existence, without your great input over that Great Book......
I'd of recommended a book to you also Rob but I don't think Dr Seuss put out any books on baseball.I crack me up!
Yep......old news.......there are still families and generations in NYC who are basically still rooting for the BKLN Dodgers and NY Giants. ( the "NY Giants" who were around before the football Giants). Except those teams now wear SF and LA.........the fans who were "scarred" badly enough by the teams moving to the left coast jumped aboard the Mets' wagon with pleasure and brought their kids to Met games Relatively very few switched over to the Yankees. One team in Brooklyn, one team in uptown Manhattan....and "all" the fans rode the same buses and subways! And of course there was the Yankees who BOTH fan bases of Bkln and NY ultimately did not like...to say the least. Alot of SERIOUS old school crusty tough fans of three teams!
You crack me up as well, my Friend......and I own and only read Dr Seuss these days; I color in them also......
Great call and insight 59..... especially after my Diatribe, analysis of playing in Houston.... see PM.....
To say that its long overdue would be an understatement. They just need to make sure that Steve Bartman isn't anywhere near the stadium.
Rick, (and anyone else) - did you ever see that 1 hour ESPN documentary on this subject: "Catching Hell?" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1908471/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt On this WebSite, the '9 User Reviews' are helpful, but no one other than the Doc, reveals there were another dozen+ fans all trying to do the same thing. In fact, the ball was bouncing off these several other Fans hands as much to blame. "This film not only manages to shed tons of new details on the incident, but also manages to have the viewer walk away wanting to buy Steve Bartman a beer and pat him on the back, instead of crucifying him." "Who did the Cubs fans blame? The shortstop who booted an easy double-play ball in the inning? The pitchers who gave up all the runs? Nooooo. They blamed Bartman, a nerdy-looking young man who just there rooting for his beloved Cubs like everyone else." the Doc has other camera angles, not shown during the game, which are revealing and exposing the other dozen fans around Steve, who were just as much to blame as bartman.
