This season we appear to have improved the roster in all areas. Adding Stanton, Walker, Drury, etc. will surely make this team better. Having Robertson, Kahnle, and Gray for the entire season should also improve the team. The only injury of consequence is Greg Birds bone spur, the surgery he just underwent, and him being out for about two months. As usual we will play the hand we are dealt and overcome all roadblocks and obstacles.
We have several players at AAA Scranton chomping at the bit while blooming and growing that will be heard from and make their presence felt this season. You know their names, Torres, Andujar, German, and others. This 2018 Yankee team is deep, has gained confidence and experience, and has backups close at hand.
As I started to write this post I noticed a post by Cory. I thought his post was very insightful and positive and I didn't want it to get bypassed because of being posted in a past blog, so I am reposting it right here now. Thank you for your post Cory.
----- I will be doing the ten game sets and posting them here as I did last season.
Here is the sets from last season.
10. 6-4
20. 7-3 = 13-7
30. 8-2 = 21-9
40. 3-7 = 24-16
50. 6-4 = 30-20
60. 7-3 = 37-23
70. 2-8 = 39-31
80. 4-6 = 43-37
90. 4-6 = 47-43
100. 7-3 = 54-46
110. 5-5 = 59-51
120. 6-4 = 65-55
130. 5-5 = 70-60
140. 5-5 = 75-65
150. 8-2 = 83-67
160. 7-3 = 90-70
Note the sets from games 61-90. We were 10-20. That is awful baseball. Still finished 91-71. With everything else staying the same if that 30 game skid could be bettered this season to just 15-15 that would mean this season could wind up 96-66. If we improve the three 5-5 sets from last season by one game that would take this season to 99-63. And if we raise the 3-7 set to 4-6 that could take this season to 100 wins.
It will be up to the players on the field producing when it matters most, but it is surely possible.-----
It is not only Cory with great posts, it is all of your posts, every single one of you from all over the world who post your comments and views here. And all of the readers of the WIN METHOD blog from all over the world, even if you do not post. We have surpassed 320 million views and are getting bigger and bigger every day. Yes, we still get some stat frauds, but they are good for us and also and serve a purpose. The stat frauds give us a guidepost and remind us of just how meaningless and useless their individual stats are. There is no doubt to anyone here who is a WIN METHOD fan that only wins can take a team to the playoffs. Only wins and winning as always, do now, and always will in the future, determine the best players and teams. THANK YOU ALL WIN METHOD FANS.
Now it is just about that time where we all stand up and cheer our team for the 2018 season!
LETS GO YANKEES
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Lets go Yankees.
Didi 3 run HR has Yankees up 3-1 after one, but each game so far the Yankees starters have given up runs in the first inning.
No question a Saturday night game at 7 is a million times better than a Sunday night game at 8.
Yanks up 3-1 after 2.
Yanks up 3-2 after 4.
CC not real sharp, getting a lot of ground outs. Has given up 2 runs over 4 innings and is leading 3-2.
We need some tack on runs. A 1 run lead doesn't cut it.
Yankees with the best bullpen in baseball keep trying to get an extra out or two from their starters and keep getting burned time after time.
4-4 after 6.
Yanks up 5-4 after 8.
Yanks clinging to 5-4 lead after 8. Robertson scoreless 7th and Betances scoreless 8th. Chapmans turn in the 9th.
Final, Yankees win 5-4.
Yankees win 5-4. DRob, Betances, and Chapman do their jobs in the 7th, 8th, and 9th. The win guarantees a winning road trip and at least a split of this series with a division leading team. Chance to take the series tomorrow in last game before all star game.
We don't make things easy on ourselves. We tend to keep the opposition in games.
A win is a win is a win. I'll take them anyway we can get them.
Tanaka starts tomorrow. Hope he builds off his start earlier this week. All hands on deck tomorrow.
By darn, we are lucky to have Romine as our backup catcher. He would be a starter for so many other teams. A real classy guy.
Sunday 7/15 1:10pm
Masahiro Tanaka (R)
@ Indians - Trevor Bauer (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) DH
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Greg Bird (L) 1B
7. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
8. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
9. Neil Walker (S) 2B
Higashioka catches, Walker second base. Hope Bird keeps doing what he's been doing lately.
I think I might have given Andujar off and gone with another lefty bat. Walker at 3rd instead of 2nd and then Wade at 2nd. If I made out the lineup then people could second guess me.
Lets do it guys. A win and the series.
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2-2 after 4.
Six innings complete still 2-2.
Yanks and Green give up 3 in the 8th and trail 5-2 going to the 9th.
Yankees go down without a whimper. Lose 5-2.
Final Yankees lose 5-2. Split the series. Go 6-5 for 11 game road trip. Better come back after the All Star game with a go get'em attitude.
What a listless effort today and I am getting very very frustrated with the strikeouts. Especially strikeouts on pitches that are well out of the strike zone. I would love to see a team go to one year contracts on every player.
Gus Papa...listless effort, desire, playing hard, etc., starts with the manager.
We will move forward, it ain't over.
Time for Yankee management and players to clear their head.
A few days off won't us fans either.
All I want from the two Yankees participating in the All Star game is one inning from Louie Louie and one at bat from Judge. Then get out of the swamp and take two days off.
muchomachoman, LOL. And don't get hurt. Glad Judge and Stanton are no participating in the HR derby rouse.
Only one superior league AL player is in HR contest, seven inferior nl players.
The meaningless watered down inter-league exhibition game tonight.
Typical of a dirtbag like Harper, he cheated. The next pitch is not allowed to be thrown until the ball you hit on the previous pitch has landed, but that was not the case last night.
No big deal, the HR derby is a joke anyway.
Per Derby rules, the pitcher is supposed to wait until each batted ball lands before delivering the next pitch. In Harper's case, he was off Schwarber's final-round pace of 18 home runs by five with less than one minute on the clock. Harper began closing the gap, and as the clock wound down, Harper's pitcher -- his dad, Ron, it should be noted -- appeared to break that "wait until the ball lands" rule on multiple occasions.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/there-are-home-run-derby-truthers-accusing-bryce-harpers-dad-of-cheating/
What garbage this lowlife is. I guess like father like son.
MLB won't do anything, they condone cheating.
Off day fun.
If you compare the 2018 stats of our 4th outfielder Aaron Hicks to Bryce Harper, Hicks is a better player with more value this season. And Hicks is our 4th outfielder while Harper is a much overhyped, overrated star of the inferior nl.
jimbo, the stats are meaningless for WIN METHOD fans, you know that. There is even a bigger difference and you state it in your post. Hicks is the fourth outfielder on the Yankees, Harper is the star of his team according to the stat frauds. Hicks is helping his team to one of the top five records in all of baseball, Harper is helping keep his team from making the playoffs. Then compare their salaries. Harper is a textbook case of how meaningless stats are and when stats are used to pay players the team that paid loses every which way.
Harper is just another player talent wise. He is a bad teammate whos plays for himself. I don't think he will ever be a Yankees. WIN METHOD is brilliant and knows, plus Harpers personality is obvious.
Rotation named as of now. Next ten games. Of course, subject to change, rainout, trade, etc.
Fri. Mets German
Sat. Mets Gray
Sun. Mets Tanaka
Mon. Rays Severino
Tue. Rays Sabathia
Wed. Rays German
Thue. KC Gray
Fri. KC Tanaka
Sat. KC Severino
Sun. KC Sabathia
We throw our 3,4,5 against the Mets who throw their 1,2,3 against us.
The latest has the deal between the Dodgers and Orioles with the Dodgers obtaining Manny Machado and the Orioles receiving five Dodger players likely to be announced in a very short time from now. Machado thus will drop to the AAAA inferior nl.
As the Dodgers likely have shot themselves in the foot, that is yet another bullet has kept the Yankees away from.
Last day of break from baseball, back in action for real again, tomorrow.
Lets go Yankees.
I hope Cashman keeps his wits about him and doesn't bite on any of the half baked pitcher who are being made available as of now. German is as good as any of them, is learning and developing on the fly. Stick with what we've got and continue to bloom and grow. We don't need to look for weeds and contaminate our flowers.
Sharon/NC, loved your post and agree wholeheartedly.
Glad we didn't get Manny the mooch, and hope we don't get somebody's pitcher dump.
As the season grows shorter the games become more important. All those games we gave away may come back to haunt us.
Here we go. Baseball is back. Lets go Yankees. Take this series against the Mets.
German on the hot seat tonight. Just keep blooming and growing.
We need wins.
Friday 7/20 7:05pm
Domingo German (R)
vs. Mets - Noah Syndergaard (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) DH
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Gary Sanchez (R) C
7. Greg Bird (L) 1B
8. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
9. Neil Walker (S) 2B
Baseball is back. Sanchez is back and catching. Lets go Yankees.
Lets hope wins are back also, many wins. Throw in producing when it counts to win games.
Lets go Yankees. I gave up on a 10 game win streak, it is now a 12 game win streak.
Time for Yankee baseball.
German comes out and starts the second half with a big shovel digging a 3-0 hole for the Yankees coming to bat.
Yankees trail 4-1 after 3.
Yankees down 6-1 after 5.
Yankees still down 6-3 after 7 and have picked up where they left off before the all star game. 1-10 with runners in scoring position and have left 11 men on base.
Yanks get 2 in 8th to cut Mets lead to 6-5 going to the 9th. The bad, Mets intentionally walk Hicks to pitch to Gary'black hole'Sanchez and he strikes out never touching the ball leaving men on 1st and 3rd.
Sanchez gives away a run in 9th unable to block and or catch a pitch allowing a runner to advance and thus score on a sac fly. Yanks down 7-5 and coming to bat.
If Romine caught tonight's game we probably wouldn't be in this position right now.
Final, Yanks lose 7-5.
Nickname alert. Use it if you agree. Gary Sanchez is now meatball.
Izy Hernandez, Hear hear. Meatball he is.
I'm on board with meatball. Very apropos for many reasons.
A sad start to the second half of the season. And meatball has picked up exactly where he left off.
Grayskies today to even the series. I think he will come up big today.
Saturday 7/21 1:05pm
Sonny Gray (R)
vs. Mets - Steven Matz (L)
1. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF
4. Gary Sanchez (R) DH
5. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
6. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
7. Greg Bird (L) 1B
8. Brandon Drury (R) 2B
9. Austin Romine (R) C
We need the win. What scares me is Boone having meatball at cleanup.
Rain headed into the NYC area about game time.
Yanks down 1-0 after 2. I have been using the word down too many times lately.
Yanks up 4-1 after 4. Yes!
Yankees finally string a bunch of hits together and score four times in the fourth for a 4-1 lead.
Yankees lead 4-1 thru five, but the bottom of the fifth illustrates the Yankees problems. Judge leads off with a double and then the 3, 4, 5, batters go down 1,2,3, without even advancing the runner a base. Stanton, meatball, and Didi. meatball didn't even make contact again.
Not scoring those tack on runs allows the opposing team to stay close where just a run or two by them makes it a one run nail biter game. And that is what just happened in the 6th as Grayskies gives up two runs and only goes 5 1/3 innings. Yanks up 4-3 coming to bat.
Domenic, the Mets scored the 2 runs on just 1 hit, a single. That makes it even worse.
Yanks up 7-3 after 8. Nice word, up.
Chapman implodes in 9th giving up 3 runs and Shreve has to come in to save game for a 7-6 win.
Final 7-3 Yankee win as Shreve comes in with the bases loaded and no outs and pitches the out of a major hole to save the game after an epic blow-up from Chapman.
I don't believe how bad this Yankee team plays against poor teams.
I know wins and winning are all that matters, but for the life of me I cannot recall a Yankee team that was so good but played such bad baseball as this team.
Sorry guys. The rain came up the coast a little slowly and moved inland a bit more, but it is just about here and I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow nights game gets rained out. It is still over 24 hours off however.
When your closer comes in to get some work and almost blows a four run lead things are not good.
If game is played tomorrow in NY, Tanaka is Yankee starter.
Rain has moved out but more may be on the way. It is a shame that MLB allows a Sunday night 8pm game to be played and caters to a garbage sports network.
I never watch espn. Their taking head shows are a joke.
This is a big game tonight. Need to win series after series.
Weather still holding. Able to play likely.
Sunday 7/22 8:05pm
Masahiro Tanaka (R)
vs. Mets - Jacob deGrom (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Gary Sanchez (R) C
7. Greg Bird (L) 1B
8. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
9. Neil Walker (S) 2B
Lets get another win.
Rubber game tonight.
Lets see if meatball gives us any help tonight.
Lets go Yankees.
RAIN DELAY RAIN DELAY RAIN DELAY
Game canceled. Everybody to get to work on time tomorrow.
Onto Tampa for three games where there will be no rainouts. Last time in Tampa a month ago the Rays rained on the Yankee parade with a three game sweep.
Louie Louie, Tanaka, and Cessa listed for the Tampa series.
Would be great to return and completely avenge the sweep by the Rays.
hope the Yankees come to play this series in Tampa. Last time they embarrassed themselves.
Monday 7/23 7:10pm
Luis Severino (R)
@ Rays - Hunter Wood (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Gary Sanchez (R) C
7. Greg Bird (L) 1B
8. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
9. Neil Walker (S) 2B
Same lineup as last nights rained out game. Play for a sweep.
Go Yankees. Pound the Rays into minced fish.
Tampa Bay put their 'ace' starter Snell on the DL and he will miss his scheduled start against the Yankees this series. MRI'd his shoulder and found no damage which is good news for Snell and the Rays. He is being rested do to a 'dead arm'.
"Meatball" lowers his game another notch. Allows a runner to score from second base on a passed ball because he didn't hustle after the loss ball. Louie Louie rips into meatball in the dugout. Yanks down 1-0 on a meatball give away run.
1-1 after 2.
1-1 after 4.
Louie Louie gets hammered tonight. Leaves with 2 men on and no outs in the 6th inning giving up at least 5 runs and 11 hits, and down 6-3.
Yankees trail 7-6 after seven.
Final, another horrid, horrific one run loss again 7-6.
Bases loaded one out in 9th and Hicks and meatball ground out for the 7-6 loss. The worst part the Rays get meatball out at 1st after failing to get the force out at second and still getting the meatball (who may be the slowest runner in baseball) at 1st by 2 yes two steps.
Can things get any worse. To easy to blame the manager, because the players are the ones who play the game and their efforts determine wins and losses, not the manager.
This team right now playing very poor baseball and is still a well over .600 team. What a great feather in the cap of WIN METHOD with it seemingly being all the number analysts doing their best to upset the applecart.
Hate to be a negative nellie but if we have enough bullets in the gun we may shot ourselves out of the playoffs. It could happen if we do what we are doing this past month.
It's sad to say but the team is better off with Romine as the starting catcher. Meatball is starting to remind me of a player who just doesn't care.
Baseball players make a lot of money, get pampered on the road, and basically have a dream job. They are asked for one thing by the fans who pay their salaries. Hustle. Show a sense of urgency, a sense that you care for the team whose uniform you are wearing and for the fans that root for the team.
I would send him to Tampa. Ten days of riding the bus down there may wake him up.
That play in the first was inexcusable, and the lack of hustle in the 9th was just as bad.
Don't let the door hit you in the you know where on your way out.
Romine needs to play everyday.
Eddie OConnor, Well said. How long a leash does a player need before something is done to right the ship. The tenet states, no player or team is as good as when they are playing their best and no player or team is as bad as when they are playing their worst.
Meatball needs to get read the riot act. NOW!
Tanaka tonight to try to even series.
meatball should not be in the lineup tonight. But that is Boones decision and his decision may tell much about him as a manager.
We ain't going anywhere unless we start winning and playing .700 baseball.
Tuesday 7/24 7:10pm
Masahiro Tanaka (R)
@ Rays - Yonny Chirinos (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF
4. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
5. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
6. Greg Bird (L) DH
7. Brandon Drury (R) 2B
8. Neil Walker (S) 1B
9. Austin Romine (R) C
meatball not in lineup. Drury at 2B, Walker at 1B, Bird DH.
Meatball benched. Good for Boone. But I bet Boone makes up an excuse to cover meatballs back, which is not good. Boone should just tell the truth.
Meatball will return with avengence.
To make excuses, it seems like everything that can go wrong is going wrong for the Yankees. Be it starting pitching, relief pitching, hitting or is it non-hitting, running, decisions, etc.
Meatball has been placed on the 10 day DL again. Higashioka back up.
Yanks up 1-0 after 2.
Yanks up 1-0 after 4.
Yanks up 2-0 after 6.
Yankees hold 2-0 lead thru six but are not pounding the ball.
It looks like the Yankees have traded several minor leaguers for the Orioles Zack Britton.
Romine has 2 rbi's of the 3 Yankee runs tonight. No passed ball and has hustled every at bat all of which were good at bats. Just say no more meatballs.
Tanaka and Romine lead Yankees to a 3-0 lead after eight innings.
Final. Yankees win 4-0 on a complete game by Tanaka.
Rubber game tomorrow and game time is noon. Cessa Yankee starter.
Tanaka gave the Yankees just what they needed after the meatball debacle.
The trade for Britton the Yankees sent Rogers, Carroll, and Tate to O's.
Great game by Tanaka.
Rubber game tomorrow with Cessa going for the Yanks.
Tanak looked great tonight. A 3 hit complete game gem.
Lets go Yankees. Yes you can.
Yes there is a Yankee game in 3 hours. Lets go Yankees.
Obtaining Britton extends the Yankee bullpen another inning. Also scoring 3 runs on outs last night is wonderful. Scoring runs when presented with opportunities to do so even by making an out is a big factor in close tight games and a recipe for wins and winning. Particularly in the second season. Home runs don't hurt either and neither do hits with men on base when it counts most.
Will we see Torres in the lineup today. I sure hope so.
Wednesday 7/25 12:10pm
Luis Cessa (R)
@ Rays - Nathan Eovaldi (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF
5. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
6. Greg Bird (L) 1B
7. Miguel Andujar (R) 3B
8. Neil Walker (S) DH
9. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
Torres is back at 2B. Higashioka at C in day game after a night game. Yes we can.
Time to go on a substantial win streak.
How to win games when the players play as a team.
Today's Yankee second inning. Torres walks, Bird bunt single down third base lin against the shift. Men on first and second no outs. Andujar deep fly out to center moves Torres to third with one out. Walker deep fly ball to center scores Torres. 1-0 Yankees playing solid WIN METHOD baseball.
Cessa with four strong innings so far as Yankees lead 1-0. Time for a few runs, need to stop letting the opponents stay in games.
Yankees go down 3-1 after six.
Yanks down 3-2 going to the ninth. Last chance.
Final, yet once again another one run loss. 3-2. Yanks lose series to Rays again and have lost 5 of the last 6 games with the Rays.
I don't believe this team. Even Gardner swings and misses at a pitch at least a foot off the plate for the last out with two men on base.
1- 10 5-5
11- 20 6-4 = 11-9
21- 30 9-1 = 20-10
31- 40 8-2 = 28-12
41- 50 5-5 = 33-17
51- 60 9-1 = 42-18
61- 70 6-4 = 48-22
71- 80 5-5 = 53-27
81- 90 6-4 = 59-31
91-100 5-5 = 64-36
Another ten game set where we stood in place. These past forty games the team has looked very apathetic going 22-18 after going 31-9 in the previous forty games. 5-5 sets are not acceptable and the Yankees have had three of them so far this season.
My opinion, I believe that this team, playing over .600 baseball after 100 games would have an even better record if Joe Girardi was still manager. I believe Boone is missing something.
For an optimistic view, the Yankee recent 40 games is still winning baseball. But we do expect so much more.
With 62 games to play will 41-21 make the playoffs. I say for sure. 35-27, I say likely.
Ted Lilly, I agree.
Ted Lilly, 35-27 is just 6-4 ball every ten game set. If we can't do that we don't deserve the playoffs.
Back to the Stadium where we host the KC Royals for four games H,F,S, & N.
Gray, CC, Louie Louie, and Tanaka the starters for the KC series.
If the Yankees do not win at least 3 of the 4 games against the Royals I think it would be a failure.
It can all start tonight. Boone needs to wake up. The team as a unit needs to wake up. Each individual player needs to wake up. Get all your collective heads into each and every game. Take you individual stat and stick them where the sun does not shine. Stop swinging at pitches six inches out of the strike zone, inside, outside, in the dirt, and at your shoulders. Everybody needs to step up their game and support each other and cover each others back. WINS, gosh darn it are all that counts and all that matters. If any of you don't think so, demand a trade or just get off the team and get out of here. WINS, WINS, WINS. Learn it.
Wow WIN METHOD, I can only hope your words reach the powers that be.
Hope WIN METHODS wise words do not fall on deaf and or dumb ears.
Love ya WIN METHOD,
WIN METHOD should be managing the Yankees. He knows more about baseball than anyone.
Lets go Yankees.
Expanding on WIN METHOD post. Many of you Yankee players are very young and have to a great degree proven your ability to by MLB players. However, until you do it, you haven't proven you can WIN. Last season you did by getting to within one win of playing in the World Series. That was in the past and the games each season are not played in the past. It is what can you do now, this season, this series, this game. The only measurement of true success is winning.
Stats are for show, wins and winning is for the dough. You have to prove yourselves each and every season. As WIN METHOD said, the time is now.
Thursday 7/26 7:05pm
Sonny Gray (R)
vs. Royals - Jakob Junis (R)
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) DH
3. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
7. Greg Bird (L) 1B
8. Neil Walker (S) 3B
9. Austin Romine (R) C
If you are a Yankee fan, WIN METHOD make a must read post several back above this post. I hope manager Boone and all the Yankee players read it. LETS GO YANKEES !!!!!!!
You guys, uh, actually think yankees players are coming on here reading this stuff?
I see Andujar is getting the night off.
Yankeefan, With over 400 million views and growing, if a Yankee ballplayer is going to read about the Yankees, winning, and what intelligent baseball fans are saying, this is where they come.
Maybe they’re reading too much of this in depth stuff and not focusing on the game huh!
Some really insightful stuff here, namely wins are all that matter! Actually I guess that’s the only insight here but still.
Yankeefan, Let me ask you a factual question. I preface my question with this fact, the only way a team can reach the playoffs is by winning more games than any other team in their division and the next two teams in each league with the most wins go to the playoffs. To advance through the playoffs and win the World Series can only be achieved by wins. My preface is all fact.
Now my question: What is more important than wins in baseball?
Jill
That would be a matter of perspective no?
To the owners - revenues generated.
To a new fan of the game - the likability and excitement of the team
To a child brand new to baseball - the thrill of being at the ballpark and seeing your favorite player hit a home run.
I would say you ask an impossible question as different individuals have different values.
I find it very telling that with over 400 million views here there are an overwhelming amount of post supporting wins and the WIN METHOD and so few that don't and challenge wins. I have to believe that the posters that live and die with meaningless convoluted formulized stats post in other blogs or forums. Their they can argue and debate back and forth with their own ilk and try to prove to each other that their convoluted stat is more important than someone else's.
Yankeefan, nice response and all you state is likely. However, since the object of the game is for the players to perform to help their team win enough to win the World Series title, and keeping only that fact in question, what is more important than wins?
Even the owners would have to say that if their team would win enough games to make the playoffs and more, they would make more money.
All your fan options are real, but I bet 95% or more of the fans at any game are rooting for a certain team to win. The rest is just a personal choice, just like a person going to the movies. They go for different reasons, laugh, cry, be thrilled, electrified, etcetera. The best movies attract the most paying customers for any one or any combination of the reasons mentioned. They are the best.
As is stated almost every time Gray starts, I hope we get Sonny Gray tonight and not Grayskies.
Jill Byrnes, Yankeefans evading a direct answer to your questions says it all. He talked about fans and why they may go to games and evaded the basis of your question. Winning and wins are why the games are played, what happens during the game is the entertainment, but wins are the only thing that counts and matters.
Yankees traded for and obtained Happ from Toronto and only had to give up Drury and McKinney. Lets see what Happ does for us.
We really gave up nothing to obtain a rental. Drury and McKinney combined only played a handful games for the Yankees and neither really had a future with the team in any starting capacity.
An old adage you never have enough pitching. Happ's ability in these two months will determine his value to the Yankees. In essence he cost the team nothing but two bodies.
Yanks take 2-0 lead in first. Sac fly scoring runner from 3rd with less than 2 outs from Stanton and a ground ball from Torres that is mis-played. No strikeouts. You hit the ball and you can score, you strikeout and you get nothing.
Getting back to Happ. It doesn't like any team thought that much of Happ if all Toronto could get is what they got from us.
Yanks up 2-0 after 2.
Great to see the emotion from Gray when he struck out Moustakis with the bases loaded to end the 3rd.
Andujar pinch hit for Judge in 4th inning. Judge had been hit by pitch on the right wrist forearm area in the 1st inning. MRI.
Yanks up 7-2 after 6.
Judge at Presbyterian Hospital getting MRI.
Zach Britton making his Yankee debut as he comes in pitch the 8th.
And Britton throws a 1,2,3 inning.
Final, Yanks win 7-2. WIN METHOD wakes up Yankees with his post!
Good win. Four relievers with an inning each to close out the game. Four relievers left for tomorrow, Holder, Green, Betances, and Chapman. Nice.
First word on Judge is he has a contusion on wrist and is day to day. This is not official.
Yankeemike
I gave a very direct answer. Different things matter to different people.
I’m a bigger fan of the game than any team and enjoy an exciting display of skill more than the outcome of any game. Many other people, as I noted, value thing differently.
Perhaps you just didn’t understand or are slow in understanding, which is fine.
CC starts tomorrow nights game.
Yankeefan, You want people to think you answered the question and the question was reposted by Jill Byrnes when you didn't and she called you on it. You are the poster that is having trouble understanding. It appears you are a stat fraud and stat frauds post garbage almost all the time. I think there is such a minimal amount of people who go to games and not root for a team. I bet you could walk thru any ballpark and lucky if you could find a person or two who weren't rooting for a team. Disregard the kids who are learning baseball and were brought to the park by their parents who are rooting for a team. I can't believe the nonsense you frauds post. No wonder this blog has over 400 million viewers, they want intelligence.
Still no definitive word on Judge and that is starting to scare me. Praying for the best.
This is from Yankee Public Relations Dept. ""Update on Aaron Judge: Tonight OF Aaron Judge sustained a chip fracture of the right wrist (ulnar styloid bone). No surgery has been recommended. The Yankees approximate a three-week time period before Judge can swing a bat in a game situation."""
That keeps him out to almost all of August. We shall overcome.
Yankeemike
Yikes. I hope judges wrist isn’t as badly hurt as your feelings appear to be.
I don’t look at stats so I would suppose it would be difficult for me to be a star fraud. I just love this game, the players, and the spirit of the game.
I enjoy most of all how it brings people together.
Hope that doesn’t upset/offend you.
Yankeefan must be thrilled. He goes to games for the enjoyment of skills displayed. He has to love a pitcher taking a player out of action for a month. Jerk.
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