We are so bored of excellence we are now only concerned with the marital travails of our GM - The 2012 Yankees thred

yeah he's played pretty awful, his batting average alone has dropped 100 points and i'd be surprised if he had 4 XBH in his last 30 games

april .389/.433/.579
may .293/.339/.353
june .244/.311/.341

rip andy pettitte

down to a core one already?

Casey Kotchman's low line drive hit Pettitte near his left ankle, the one the left-hander pushes off with. Pettitte took a step toward the ball near the third base line before gently dropping to the infield grass.

adam warren: not the answer

AJ goin deep on me

weekend of dewayne wise

one of these old-timers is gonna have a heat stroke

Yankees should try just not having a third baseman

Who the fuck is playing 3rd. That was a perfect throw from Martin.

LET'S ALL SHOW SOME SOMBER REVERENCE HERE IN THE BOOTH REGARDING THE BEYOND RARE JETER ERROR ON A ROUTINE POP-UP

‏@Buster_ESPN
Stunner. I'd bet that if you took a vote of all managers the last 16 years, he'd be the guy they'd want a pop-up hit to.

lmao

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@joe_sheehan
Derek Jeter is focusing so hard on how to help Alex Rodriguez out of his slump that it's affecting his fielding. What a teammate!

lol

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/7/9/3147535/yankees-tell-reggie-jackson-stay-away

he's a drink-stirrer; that's what he does

LET'S ALL SHOW SOME SOMBER REVERENCE HERE IN THE BOOTH REGARDING THE BEYOND RARE JETER ERROR ON A ROUTINE POP-UP

― Andy K, Sunday, July 8, 2012 5:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

‏@Buster_ESPN
Stunner. I'd bet that if you took a vote of all managers the last 16 years, he'd be the guy they'd want a pop-up hit to.

― Andy K, Sunday, July 8, 2012 5:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

heh, jeter really is one of the best infielders i've ever seen at catching pop-ups tho

I'm missing the forest for the trees--how does this team have the best record in baseball? I sincerely don't get it. They're fourth in runs scored in the AL, fourth in runs given up. Cano's one of the best players in the game; Jeter, after a strong start, is back to a fairly punchless .300. Most everyone else is at or below career norms offensively. They've hit a lot of home runs, but again, three other AL teams have scored more runs. Their starters give up a hit per inning (good K/BB ratio, though). Soriano's been good, but not as good as his E.R.A. I see a .550 team, maybe. I can't see .600+ in a very tough division

featsing on the BRS; going 13-5 in interleague

grandyman just made a pretty great catch to rob trout

thank you michael kay for the obligatory "how often do you see it -- guy makes a great play in the field and he's leading off next inning"

Darnell McDonald, DFA'd, cleaned up for a handful of at-bats.

Tonight Kuroda is pitching and Ichiro is playing right - gambate!

#6 org

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0723/mlb_a_ichiro99_cr_576.jpg

Fans at Safeco Field gave Ichiro a 45-second standing ovation when he came to bat with one out in the third inning. He doffed his helmet and bowed twice to the crowd before hitting a single and stealing second base.

According to High Heat Stats, the Yankees are the first team since the A's of the late '20s to have three players on their roster with 2500+ hits. Between the '39 Pirates (Waner, Manush) and '73 Angels (Robinson, Pinson), no team ever had more than one; since then, a number of teams have had two.

http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/07/ichiro-and-2500-hit-teammates/#more-5154

It'd be neat if they had a shot at three 3,000-hit guys, but Ichiro's chances must be edging toward 0%.

and one of em now a Broken Hand-Rod

way to go, Felix

It'd be neat if they had a shot at three 3,000-hit guys

fuuuuck that, all we need

You'd have been so much fun in 1941, Morbius, making fun of us saps getting caught up in DiMaggio and Williams.

Wait a minute, how come I didn't know about any of this:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/32999/video-ichiro-comes-to-america-in-1995z

joba is rehabbing in double-a! i thought he was dead

Trampoline inspections every 3 weeks.

I didn't know about this:

When he broke George Sisler’s single-season record for hits, in 2004, the Hall of Fame presented Suzuki with a replica model of Sisler’s bat: all 36 inches and 46 ounces of it. Suzuki felt a kinship with Sisler, who set his record in 1920, and visited his grave site in St. Louis before the All-Star Game in 2009.

The next year, before a series at Yankee Stadium, Suzuki visited Calvary Cemetery in Queens to see the grave of another Hall of Famer, Wee Willie Keeler. Suzuki had broken Keeler’s record of seven consecutive 200-hit seasons, which had stood for more than century.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/sports/baseball/ichiro-suzuki-takes-his-all-star-act-to-new-york.html

Derek Lowe with the save

cant freaking believe eric chavez has a .900 ops.

Derek Jeter passes Nap Lajoie for sole possession of 12th place on all-time hits list at 3,253 with a single in 4th.

joe girardi used four pitchers in the fifth inning tonight

Nick Swisher Expected To Seek $100MM-Plus

haha

DO THE COLLAPSE

so...this jeter contract is actually kinda working out, wow

Jeter is so underrated among stat dudes. His fielding sucks, so what.

Girardi erupts against a ChiSox fan ... wow. and I really love Joe too. But he's just wrong tonight

Wow first Melky and now Colon start doing testosterone after leaving the Yankees. It must be such a downer to not be able to play for them that this is some sort of coping mechanism.

High Heat Stats has a Jeter chart today triggered by "allegations" that were made yesterday. So I looked into the allegations, and it's just a couple of guys yelling at each other.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8294309/derek-jeter-laughs-skip-bayless-ped-use-insinuation

really clem, linking to sumthin that has both s a smith & wally matthews involved

Nova on DL w/ inflamed rotator cuff

6 1/3 innings, seven yankee pitchers

eight

five this inning, with one out