just got back from the stadium guys. GREAT win. crowd was amped. jorge is just locked in. jim beam lounge serves after the 7th inning

GREAT WIN tonight! Unbelievable comeback against a team that's really had our number the past few seasons.

Robbie's just an awesome hitter. Huge power numbers may or may not ever come, but he just hits line drives all over the yard and had soft hands and tremendous range at 2nd. Great player.

I'm really enjoying watching Ramiro Pena play. He had the mincue tonight at 3rd that cost Pettitte a little in the 6th (no way that was a hit, I'm sorry) but overall he plays very good defense (remember this kid never even played 3rd before -- you can just tell he has a great feel for playing defense), has a surprisingly quick bat and he's looks pretty fast on the bases - I betcha he's the 2nd fastest player on the team behind Gardner, slightly ahead of Jeter and Damon at this point in their careers. When A-Rod comes back, I want this kid to remain on the roster. You can tell he's becoming a Girardi favorite. You need guys like this. Can't have an all-star at every position. I'm happy for the kid man...

I'm not ready to give up on Jose Veras just yet. I love his stuff. Let's not forget, w/o Veras we don't win that extra inning game against the A's a few games back on the last homestand (what did he give us, 3+ innings of scoreless ball that afternoon?? And he dominated the As lineup in the process.). I think he might benefit from a little extra work myself. He might not be pitching enough and it's tough to stay sharp w/o enough work. Tonight wasn't pretty but I believe in this kid's ability. He's clearly got the stuff to get guys out. He might just need to be pitching more. If Sabathia gives us a decent start and we need to go to the bullpen in a tight game this afternoon, I'd send Veras right back out there today if I'm Girardi w/o hesitation. Then again, I'd love to see CC wake up and just dominate the Angels.

The team's ERA is 7.75 in the 122 innings that Posada has caught and 2.96 in the 75 innings Molina has caught. That difference is just unbelievable. (With larger samples last year, there was still about a 1 run ERA difference favoring Molina.)

Pena's fuggin money... love this kid... GO YANKEEEESSS!

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Posted by Marv:

just got back from the stadium guys. GREAT win. crowd was amped. jorge is just locked in. jim beam lounge serves after the 7th inning

oh man, Beam always does a send closk on me.

Did I use it right?

perfect!

Matsui's locked in at the plate... Yanks 1-0

Veras is awful!

Joe G seriously needs to move Mark Tex down in the batting order... he's killing us right now w/men on base... Cano should be hitting 3rd w/Matsui batting cleanup (he's already got them hitting back to back anyway)... i'd move Tex to 5th or even 6th when Swisher gets back... he's scuffling & until he gets his stroke back there's no way we can afford to have a sub .200 hitter hitting 3rd in the lineup.

& we really need to figure out a way to keep Damon out of the OF but still put him in the lineup... he's a liability in the OF... cost us at least a couple runs today w/his complete misreads of flyballs & bad routes he takes to balls in the gaps.

[Edited by - TMS on 05-02-2009 1:01 PM]

i have my own concerns about ARod once he gets back too... i don't think he's gonna come outta the gate mashing either... he still hasn't ran full speed or slid on the bases to test that hip yet so i think next weekend might be a little optimistic for his return like the Yankees were originally hoping for.

i know Tex's bat will come around but right now we got 3 guys that are really hot at the plate in Cano, Matsui & Swisher... those are the guys that should be the meat of our batting order for now.