B-T-W A-Rod was dropped to 6th in the batting order, and did A-Rod throw a hissy fit? No. He accepted it in a humble fashion. Taking the "Whatever helps us win" mindset and recognizing that every player in the Yankees' lineup would bath 1-4 in any other lineup in the MLB, so 6th is not an insult. Hell, Cano is batting 9th tonight, and in 95% of lineups in the MLB Cano bats 1 or 2. And the instant response of baseball followers: "A-Rod isn't a true competitor if he doesn't care more about where he bats."A-Rod just can't win in the minds of the "fans." He's humble, he's good, everyone is jealous of him and hates him because they hate themselves for feeling jealous.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nebkreb @ Oct 3 2006, 06:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i dont care waght he said. ill throw my support behind him if he helps us win.</div>If I still played baseball, and I got dropped to 6th in the order I wouldn't care. As long as my team won.That actually happened to me. I was hitting 2nd or 3rd and I was dropped to 7th or 8th cause other guys were doing better then me and I didn't care.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TCOF @ Oct 3 2006, 04:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nebkreb @ Oct 3 2006, 06:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i dont care waght he said. ill throw my support behind him if he helps us win.</div>If I still played baseball, and I got dropped to 6th in the order I wouldn't care. As long as my team won.That actually happened to me. I was hitting 2nd or 3rd and I was dropped to 7th or 8th cause other guys were doing better then me and I didn't care.</div>From little league through high school I pretty much always batted 5th for some reason. I was a good power hitter, but always the protector and never the cleanup. When I didn't bat 5th I usually batted 3rd.
When I played in Little League, I hit 7th or 8th in the order, b/c I would always get on base, b/c my coach wanted a bottom-of-the order hitter on so the guys at the top could drive someone in.
update - game 1 went to Yankees, 8-4. Game 2 was rained out, moved to Thursday afternoon. Game is at 1 oclock, Mussina/Verlander
Im not sure personally, I think Verlander stands a pretty good chance because he has a strong enough arm to throw it past the Yankees offense who tends to struggle a bit against Hard-Throwers, or so it seems. Either way though, I expect the Yankees to win this series.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Oct 5 2006, 09:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Im not sure personally, I think Verlander stands a pretty good chance because he has a strong enough arm to throw it past the Yankees offense who tends to struggle a bit against Hard-Throwers, or so it seems. Either way though, I expect the Yankees to win this series.</div>Verlander's era is over 9 in his last 3 starts. I think the Yankees can hit him.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rex Grossman 8 @ Oct 4 2006, 09:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yankees win tomorrow. The series is over.</div>We know you hate the Tigers.
Anyone notice in that last few innings a bunch of called strikes against the Yankees weren't even close to the strike zone?
I was watching the game and I have no idea what your talking about. They even showed the K zone and they were all strikes.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GotSkillz92 @ Oct 5 2006, 04:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I was watching the game and I have no idea what your talking about. They even showed the K zone and they were all strikes.</div>No they weren't. There were a bunch that were off the plate. As in not even close.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TCOF @ Oct 5 2006, 12:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Anyone notice in that last few innings a bunch of called strikes against the Yankees weren't even close to the strike zone?</div>The Strike Zone looked pretty good to me, maybe a couple borderline calls didnt go your way but nothing blatantly out of the Strike Zone was called a Strike.
go tigers zumaya owned in the 7th and 8th they couldnt even hit his fastballseries is tied 1-1 and now tigers have homfield advantage they have a good chance to win the seriesand the strike zone was about the same for both teams
