Game Thread Yankees @ Astros 6/28/15 2:10PM

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A split, with the Team who could win the AL West Pennant; and could possibly tangle with the Yanx, in P.S. IF the Yanx can hang on......a good barometer of the AL East and Yanx....?

I've long said the Stro's will be a Post Season Team by 016, a ALCS or W.S. Champ, in 017-018. All those years of First Picks in the First and most other rounds; are finally paying off.

I love seeing any Team, build themselves to Post Season Caliber squad, built from the ground up. Rookie Ball to the BIGS in a year, for some....Houston's problem last year, was fast tracking rookies, too often too soon....but will the Astro's pay these kids, Altuve, Correa, Keuchel, the big $$$$ once the hit Free Agency. That IS the question......
 
Rick2583 said:
Yeah California where games end at 1-1:30AM here on the east coast.
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and begin at 10, 10:30 bed time for most people. Even Central Time sux, games start at 9:30, end at 12-12:30, still to late into the night, especially for those who got to get up and go to work. Being Retired, offers some advantages, to altar ones time frame, but is still got its disavantages...

It blew my mind, and pissed me off, in 96-97, when in JoeJah, the West Coast games I'd have to VHS record, watch after work, when I already knew the score, read the paper too.......just wasn't the same on the East coast, and I could not adapt from Pacific Coast Time, the entire 2 years I lived in GA. Luzianna, 2 hour difference wasn't bad, but wasn't good either......I've lived out here in the southwest deserts too effing long, to re-adapt......

It's a treat too, to get East Coast games, out here in West Coast time, when day games begin at 10:oo am, nothing like Breakfast over a Yankees game(s)......
 
If I had to build an infield around a second baseman give me Altuve, that man flat out hustles each game out.
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
If I had to build an infield around a second baseman give me Altuve, that man flat out hustles each game out.
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small squirt, but a BIG Bang of Dynamite......

Altuve as little as he is, brings a big punch to the game, day after day......the spark plug, too often on base, or driving in a run or 2, witht the bat or with a GG caliber defense....
 
...Yanx were lucky to get a split...they could have easily been swept...then again, with a couple of timely hits they could have swept the Astros.
 
He's an annoying little fuck like Pedroia and you would hate him if he was on the Red Sox.
 
Yankeefan5545 said:
If I had to build an infield around a second baseman give me Altuve, that man flat out hustles each game out.
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I remember when the Astros, well actually it was the Colt 45s back then, had another little player who was dynamite. And no I'm not talking about the Toy Cannon Jimmy Wynn, I'm talking about Joe Morgan.
 
yankeesince59 said:
...Yanx were lucky to get a split...they could have easily been swept...then again, with a couple of timely hits they could have swept the Astros.
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Yep, that's what made this Series a enjoyable nail biter, either way the dominos could of fell either way, for either Team to Sweep.......those Astro's are up and coming, no doubt there.....

Like so many decades past, when Texas would lead the AL West; at the half, or a bit after the A.S. game, then lose up to double digit leads, and fall behind usually to Anaheim or Oakland......especially when Bobby Valentine Managed Texas from 85 to 92..........Texas always faded out of the picture.....each year, it became routine

I don't foresee the Stro's losing their lead, even tho' the AL West is split b/t 4-9 games from 2nd to worst.....I don't think they'll do a Bobby Valentine sequel.....
 
Rick2583 said:
I remember when the Astros, well actually it was the Colt 45s back then, had another little player who was dynamite. And no I'm not talking about the Toy Cannon Jimmy Wynn, I'm talking about Joe Morgan.
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I listened to those Colt 45s, when I was a kid living in Shreveport/Bossier City, Luzianna, on the old transistor radio, with the 1 ear plug, after "lights out" for us kids...

Those were some fun times, Jimmy Wynn and Joe Morgan were the 45s, pretty much, plus they brought in some good old timers, like:
Don Larsen in 65;
in 63 Rusty Staub was a 19 yr old kid,
Grote was 20 yrs old, in 64
the 45s picked up: Turk Farrell, Nellie Fox at 36 yrs of age,
Larry Dierker was only 17 yrs old when he pitched in 3 games in 64,
Mike Cuellar came from Houston; before he was traded to the O's, when he was 1 of 4 to win 20 games a yr....

Same pocket radio, I listened to Houton's Command Control, for Mercury, Gemini, then Apollo Launches,

Same radio, that brought me, KC A's games in b/t moving back n forth b/t Wichita and Shreveport.......

The A's in KC, had some great players as we all know, when they finally put all the pieces together......even then, KC was more a Yankees under the table affiliate moreso in earlier years, ie: obtaining player after player, ala Roger Maris et al.
 
yankeesince59 said:
...and you would love both if they were on the Yanx.
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Honestly, as much as I despise Boston, I'd enjoy like hell watching either or Dustin or Jose playing in pinstripes. Only Q is, who plays 2nd, and can the other play SS....?

Now if it were Shrek, I'd hire an assassin/sniper, at Trashman 1st, Hank next, then Shrek........(for allowing such to happen), and Shrek for Blasphemy in even stepping into the Clubhouse, let alone wearing the Pinstripes.......an act of National Treason; by all 3 persons.... :grim: .... :ohmy:....? :bgrin:
 
Rick2583 said:
That screw up in the outfield that just tied up the game is just one of the reasons why Girardi's dumb ass decisions drives me up the wall. Jones is a RIGHT fielder where he's played over 300 games in his career. And yet Girardi puts him in left where he's played only about 25 games in his career. That ball was Gardners all the way.
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Now let's see what the responses would have been had pasta posted this,

' what the hell is the difference where he played , he s an outfielder , it was a routine fly ball moron!

' hey idiot did you even see the play?

' u r an imbecile pasta, what did girardi have to do with it, the sun was in his eyes,
 
...awww, hope you didn't have to scour the board too long for that.
 
Pastafazul said:
Now let's see what the responses would have been had pasta posted this,

' what the hell is the difference where he played , he s an outfielder , it was a routine fly ball moron!

' hey idiot did you even see the play?

' u r an imbecile pasta, what did girardi have to do with it, the sun was in his eyes,
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Well here's my take on it, mine was a legitimate question & complaint regarding Girardi'd decision to put Jones in LF. Hell I'd even feel safe to say that several others had wondered the same thing which is why (I'm guessing here) no one argued my point. You on the other hand rip Girardi for things that he has absolutely nothing to do with. Like last week with Teixeira's 3rd base running blunder.

My questioning of several of Girardi's moves are based on his direct involvement of a play. Where your complaints are based on just deep seated blind hatred. JMO. I could be wrong.........
 
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Rick2583 said:
Well here's my take on it, mine was a legitimate question & complaint regarding Girardi'd decision to put Jones in RF. Hell I'd even feel safe to say that several others had wondered the same thing which is why (I'm guessing here) no one argued my point. You on the other hand rip Girardi for things that he has absolutely nothing to do with. Like last week with Teixeira's 3rd base running blunder.

My questioning of several of Girardi's moves are based on his direct involvement of a play. Where your complaints are based on just deep seated blind hatred. JMO. I could be wrong.........
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...that's about the size of it...but sadly he doesn't think there's a difference.
 
He could've just as easily fucked it up in right field so to that point I really don't see the difference. It was a horrible error that lead to a run. That being said I can see the questioning of the positioning in that why swap Young and Jones? I don't recall anyone asking Girardi.
 
^^^this is true...and it's always easy to second guess...but the play between Gardner and Jones had nothing to do with the outcome...I mean, 2 hits?
 
yankeesince59 said:
^^^this is true...and it's always easy to second guess...but the play between Gardner and Jones had nothing to do with the outcome...I mean, 2 hits?
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Yup, things are emotional at the time they happen but at the end of the day the offense mailed it in and they didn't deserve to win.
 
Well that miscue in the outfield led to one run & Didi's poor decision making led to another. But yeah the offense went on vacation.
 
...Jones simply isn't very good at anything, defense or offense, but it's not not like he is a complete stranger to LF...he and Gardner simply miscommunicated...plus, that weird ass field in Houston probably didn't help either.
 
Yeah what the hell is with the stupid incline in CF?
 
...lol...that field is quirkier than Fenway. I've seen some very good OFers look silly trying to negotiate that bump.
 
they should of put the CF wall in front of that stupid uphill incline......

It stands no purpose other than to fk with fielders; and/or a easy way to pull a hammie. The Wall in front of the shitpile, its 435 Feet to the wall as it stands, so why not bring the Wall in to 400 ft....??? Build their own Monument back behind CF, and remove the shitpile period.....

The screwy field in LF is just as worse, for LF'rs, with the wall that goes from a very shallow 315 ft, with a 25 ft wall, then the sudden wall goes back back to 362 feet. How's anyone supposed to cover a short porch, having to play shallow, but must be able to run like hell to cover the sudden pinball wall in/of the LF-CF gap.....

Both the Owner and Building Contractor CEO agreed to a flawed fk up design, over an afternoon of drinks, then signed a Contract, to drunk to know how they screwed up with the design, and its Financial "Enron" Backers.......
 
Rick2583 said:
Well here's my take on it, mine was a legitimate question & complaint regarding Girardi'd decision to put Jones in LF. Hell I'd even feel safe to say that several others had wondered the same thing which is why (I'm guessing here) no one argued my point. You on the other hand rip Girardi for things that he has absolutely nothing to do with. Like last week with Teixeira's 3rd base running blunder.

My questioning of several of Girardi's moves are based on his direct involvement of a play. Where your complaints are based on just deep seated blind hatred. JMO. I could be wrong.........
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His direct involvement? You mean decisions right? Well I question the Same , his. Decisions!!
 
Websters definition of COACH: To instruct or train athletes.

INSTRUCT! as in what the 3rd base coach should have done with Teixeira regarding his 3rd base blunder. AGAIN! this was not on Girardi. WOW!!!!
 
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