How annoying. There really should be a law.
Still, the Twins were due, and with a healthy Morneau and Mauer in action they’re bound to win ballgames.
What’s disconcerting is the fact that Sweaty Freddy, like Hughes and even Nova, isn’t giving us innings. He was beaten up early, settled down, then lost it again – for good – and was gone before the end of the sixth. Justin Verlander threw a complete game for the Tigers tonight, so it’s not as if it’s impossible at this stage of the season to go the distance. It would be refreshing to see one of our guys do it. (I won’t even go into the failure of the bullpen in this one.)
I thought the offense was off to another 10-run-er when Jeter and Granderson went back to back in the first inning, but so much for that notion. At least we got to see a great catch by Granderson in what was an otherwise lackluster effort by the Yanks.
Boring.
Tags: Carl Pavano, Curtis Granderson, Derek Jeter, Freddy Garcia, Twins, Yankees
Ouch. But it’s not like NY was going to finish 158-4, there had to be some losses somewhere along the line. Oh well. Life’s a b!tch and then you marry one. Just have to win tomorrow and get back in the groove.
“No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose 1/3 of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win 1/3 of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.” — Tommy Lasorda
“Give me a shave but don’t cut my throat. I might want to do it myself later.” — Casey Stengel, before he started managing the Yankees and became a genius. [He was addressing his barber and managing the Boston Braves, then called the Bees.]
Chin up everyone and go NY! We’ll get the next one!
You’re quite the philosopher tonight, Sean K. Yes, it’s true that there will be losses. I just don’t happen to enjoy them, particularly when they come against Pavano.
I try to get philosophical when losses occur. It beats punching walls and chewing on my carpet.
Not always easy to do, but hopefully with this version of the Yankees I won’t have to do it often. I would think the wins will be more frequent than the losses.
And yes, I particularly hate losing to Pavano. But at least it wasn’t a loss to the Red Sux.
Well it seems we go through this every year, where our starters aren’t giving the team the length needed, and then the bullpen is overused, and the whole team suffers. If it wasn’t last year then it was the year before where our starters were actually somewhat dominant for the first few weeks of the season, but otherwise what we’re seeing now is pretty much what we’ve seen before.
CC will be back to usual self, so that’s not a concern. Nova is still young, still learning, and still looking like a great future star (if he isn’t already). Kuroda is a pro. The other two guys? Well, Hughes is the same inconsistent pitcher we’ve known more often than not. And Freddy is going to give you pretty much what you got last night, which is just enough to keep you in the game, nothing amazing. 2 runs shouldn’t be much of a deficit, but then Cory Wade of late 2011 showed up.
And here’s another shocker… Carl Pavano is sometimes a very decent pitcher. Those two early home runs didn’t rattle him, and he only gave up one more run. Can you imagine if he had less experience? Those two bombs after being gifted a 2-0 lead? Got to give him credit, as much as I don’t like him. We won’t see the Twins again after this series until late September, but hopefully we get the chance to pay Pavano back at his home park. If he doesn’t fracture his butt and land on the DL again that is.
These things happen. In the end we should come out of this with a series win, or at the very least a split. Our pitching will come around, Jane. It usually does. And if Hughes and Freddy can’t cut it, we have Pettitte and Pineda waiting in the wings. Don’t be so down, Jane. We’ll get ‘em!
I hate to lose to Pavano! Hate it, hate it hate it! We saw Pavano pitch in Baltimore right after he joined the Yankees and it was a disaster – the score ended up something like 10-1 for the Os. It was on my daughter’s birthday, too. Why couldn’t that Pavano have showed up last nigh, especially since my son was at the game? At least he saw his favorite player, Granderson, make some nice catches and hit one out.
I don’t hate the Twins – I actually like them and wish them well when they play anyone but us. But the ESPN announcers last night did nothing but gush about them and I was ready to scream. Come to think of it, I did scream. Well, at least I said a lot of sarcastic things. Then at the end of the game they threw a bone to Yankee fans. With two out and Gardner up one of them said “The Yankees aren’t done yet. If Gardner could get on base . . .” What? the entire game you’ve been yammering about how great it is that Mauer and Morneau are back in action and you think this little crumb is going to ingratiate you with Yankee fans? Think again, buddy. And Aaron Boone is definitely out of my good graces. His 2003 homer against the Sox was classic but apparently he was not with the team long enough to become a true Yankee.
Speaking of the Sox, I want to comment on the Valentine/Youkalis brouhaha. When Jane wrote of it Sunday, I read it and didn’t think all that much about it. It didn’t seem like a big enough story for anyone to get their panties in a wad over. But watching the video last night (after all, it was the first story on Sport Center after the game) I felt like the whole thing is much ado about nothing. Valentine is not known for being a diplomat but he wasn’t being nasty when he said what he said. It seems to me Youkalis and Pedroia are up to their old crybaby ways. It is amazing to me how all these tough athletes crumble when they think someone has hurt their precious feelings and our world is so PC noone can speak frankly anymore. I really hope we kill Boston this weekend. Can’t stand any of them.
Can you tell I’m in a bad mood?
I wish the Yankees could have won last night, but I’m not as upset about the loss as I am that it was to the hated Pavano. And Jane, how could you put that disgusting picture up on this blog?
I can’t comment on the game as I missed most of it and it seems like I didn’t miss much anyway. But I agree with Freya. That picture of Pavano makes him look like a washed up 70s porn star. That mustache needs to go.
Yuck! That photo was not a good start to my day. And that game was not a good end to my night.
There were some bright spots:
Jeter’s homer.
Granderson’s catch.
It was nice to see Justin Morneau able to play, though I wish he’d been less able with his bat last night! And nice to see Mauer looking good again.
We listened to the first few innings and Suzyn was saying how Ron Gardenhire just loves Jeter and says such great things about him. So it’s easy to hate Pavano, hard to hate the Twins.
I forgot to comment yesterday that John Sterling’s HR call for Ibanez is “Raul is so cool.” At least he’s not singing.
And Sean K! ” Life’s a bitch and then you marry one.” Really? You’re posting that to a blog that is mostly women fans?
I have to say that I am disappointed with our favorite app, Jane. The At Bat 2012 didn’t have John and Suzyn, for some reason it had the YES feed and kept cutting out, so I ended up watching it on ESPN. Didn’t really listen to the commentators, but gotta say Boone looks better in a shirt and tie than in his flannel whatever he wore on Sunday night. I was just so glad that espn finally stopped showing Tebow and D-Wade during Sunday night’s broadcast. I was ready to vomit! Along those same lines, seeing Francona in a full suit on Baseball Tonight after the game was just WIERD!
Anyway, as you know my hubby is a Twins fan and they are my #2 team, but the loss last night stung a little. I am very happy to see the M & M boys back in the swing of things, but I’m okay with the Yanks taking the next three. I’m just so happy to have baseball and our Yankees back. I’ve figured out that I don’t have Seasonal Affective Disorder (where some people become depressed in the winter b/c of lack of sunshine, fresh air, and all that), I seem to have Off-Seasonal Affective Disorder. I am such a happier gal now that our favorite sport is back!
And Sean K – my response whenever a man says that baloney line is: “Life’s a b*tch, so be one back!”
=)
Yes, YankeeCase, I know Pavano is a decent pitcher. The minute he left New York, he was a decent pitcher. Before he came to New York, he was a decent pitcher too, which is why Cashman signed him. That said, he sat on his bruised buttocks while a Yankee, so I’ll let others tip their cap to him when he beats us. And I know our pitching will come around. I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise. I write blog posts after the games and I rant sometimes. I’m not exactly slitting my wrists over a game against the Twins. LOL. But thanks for caring. :)
Normally, I’d agree with you on the subject of being PC and getting so outraged over everything everybody says, Audrey, but in the case of Valentine’s comment about Youkilis I’m on the players’ side and don’t think they’re being crybabies. In the same way that I resented Joe Torre’s comments in his book about A-Rod, Damon and other players, because I think managers should confine their remarks to the clubhouse and not air them in public, I didn’t like what Valentine said – whether it was taken out of context (the usual explanation) or not what he meant or whatever. Players should stick together and have each others’ backs, and Valentine has a knack for antagonizing as a way of motivating. He’s a pot-stirrer and that doesn’t always go over well. I’d be bent out of shape too, if I were Youkilis.
I put the disgusting picture of Pavano on the blog, Freya, because I wasn’t about to post a flattering picture of him.
He does look like a porn star, Leo.
People on Twitter have been commenting about how lame Sterling’s home run call for Ibanez is, Melissa, and I agree. He couldn’t come up with something more inventive than “Raul is so cool?” I love John, but he needs to step it up on that one.
I had the same issue with the At Bat app last night, DJ, but it was corrected after the first couple of innings. And then I started watching the YES feed on TV so it wasn’t a problem at all for me.
As to Sean K’s “Life’s a bitch” line, I’d never heard that one before and agree with Melissa. Seriously? On a blog written by a woman?
To answer Audrey…
Because it’s Carl “F” Pavano. In Bahston, they have (at least) two Yanks with that illustrious middle name — Aaron “F” Boone and Bucky “F” Dent. It’s tempting to give Curt Schilling an “F” too, but I don’t wanna give him anything more (except maybe a bloody sock and a smelly jock…) So there.
Knew the lousy outcome, so I didn’t want to relive the misery on ESPN’s replay this morning. But the most disgusting part was seeing that the PSM (porn star mustache) is now a PSG (goatee), with shades of gray. PSG is just another in the Legion of Hurlers (emphasis on “hurl”) who can pitch in MLB, but who CANNOT pitch for the home folks in NYC. Javier Vasquez, Hideki I-Rob-U, Kevin “F” Brown (ok, he deserves an “F”) –and the list goes on and on…
Hopefully, better times ahead. Fun (but also painful by contrast) to watch this exciting young staff that is now the Washington Nationals…suddenly, an entire corps of strong young arms. Watch out, NL!
It must be really fun to see the Nationals doing well with their young pitchers, Dave. They could turn out to be the NL’s Cinderella team the way the Rays were in the AL.
Dave, you crack me up and that’s a good thing!
Lol, well we definitely don’t want you slitting your wrists, Jane! I think I speak for all when I say we all care about you and your blog very much!!
Thanks for caring about my well-being, YankeeCase! I promise I won’t do anything crazy over the Yankees. LOL
Apparently my sometimes puckish sense of humor didn’t go over very well. None of us have our senses of humor in good shape anyway after not just a loss but a loss to Pavano.
I have no problem saying I’m sorry, that line was in poor taste. Sometimes my attempts to be funny flop and I laid an egg. I apologize to all who were offended, no offense meant.
Pax?
BTW, I’ve been married twice, both my former wives are now away from this troubled world and in a better place. And in my current relationship I do all the housework. Please don’t think of me as a male chauvinist because of one lame att5empt at a joke, that isn’t me.
Poor, Sean K! I was just busting your chops. The cool thing about this blog is that we can all say what we want and not have to worry about being P.C. (well, for the most part). I’ve written plenty of things over my career that I’d like to take back, believe me.
Reading how much everyone just “loves” Pavano, I got to thinking about Old Timers’ Day. How sometimes they invite guys who I can barely remember, or who did nothing for the team. Two questions: 1) Do you think the “American Idle” will ever be invited to Old Timers’ Day? 2)What do you think the fan reaction would be if he were invited? Can’t stand that smug face of his. Anyone remember all the fuss when both he and Jared Wright were signed? What a bust that was!
Haha, Corinne. That’ll be the day when Pavano gets an invite! And yes, that signing with Wright was not the Yankees’ finest hour. Is Wright even in the game these days?
Well, just did a wiki search on Jared Wright. He’s still young, 36 years old, but hasn’t pitched in about four years. Which sounds a bit sad until you think about the millions of dollars he’s earned and the fact that he played about ten years of major league baseball. Can’t say baseball just chewed him up and spit him out like so many countless others. He had a good run, but it’s a hard game…
Thanks for doing the research, YankeeCase. I suspected he was out of baseball but didn’t realize it was for so long. I think he had arm problems and never bounced back. Oh well.