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Originally Posted by SteveR
Yanks played like a bunch of amateurs last night and we deserved to lose. Between Sheff and Bubba kissing in the outfield, Sheff not catching that ball, Giambi making a dumbass play to home, and Torre leaving Moose in way too long, there was no way we were going to win. Maybe next year we can actually get some starting pitchers.
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[story][analysis] yes they deserved to lose, the missplay in the outfield was because the place was so ****in loud that they couldnt hear each other and communicate, **** happens even though thats the play that broke the game open. giambi didnt make a dumb decision on that fielding play, did you really expect him to come full speed to a stop turn around and hit cano at first for an out? the run would have still scored and he was just trying to cut the run off at home, which was the RIGHT decision.
there is no way that you can say that mussina was left in too long... name one solid hit that they had off him, in addition randy johnson was lights out and held the angels for the rest of the game along w/ gordon in the 8th... end of story w/ pitching
hitting is a different story, the middle of the yankees lineup 2,4,5 (arod,sheff,matsu) were a combined 13-56 in the series w/ 3RBI hardly an effort worth commending, especially when they have to produce to win
and the defense in the series let up way too many runs on errors. even though the errors hurt the yankees, it wad the angels' ability to convert the yankee errors into runs that put the yankees down and out, initially, what i have to say about the series is that the angles out played the yankees and the team that should have won prevailed
the yankees for next season i see are in need of a revamped starting rotation where they have to let their youth develop into good starting pitchers (small, chacon, wang) and they have to go after good young pitchers (if i were cashman id get the rookie from the seattle mariners, rodriguez i think... dude is ****ing filthy and hes 20) They need another outfielder, obviously the yankees were hurt by the hole in the lineup that bubba or bernie created, they need to pick up an outfielder with experience who can cover ground and put some numbers up (manny and damon are both possibilities, even though rumor has it manny is going to the mets)
finally, its a shame that the yanks are done, but the ex-yanks are still playing (contreras, el duque, pettite, clemens) hopefully we get to see them face off in the seiries.
6 months until opening day... whos commin with me?[/ story][/ analysis]