I will say this right now in response to Eny's actualy thread title.

I have a feeling things are going to heat up real soon for one reason and one reason alone (atleast for Yanks fans) because there is absolutely nothing better than having a bigtime pitching prospect come up and make starts in his first season. I know for one that I was counting down the days inbetween Hughes first few starts. Now with Hughes coming back that same excitement will be back. Awesome.

Nice to see Joba bounce back from a bad start. The guy looks to be an absolute monster.

And Texeira looks like he's going to Atlanta. Let the Mets worry about him.

Yankees blow open their game, Red Sox lose to the Indians.

Good night all around.

What do you all think of Giambi coming back? Why do I have a nasty and terrible feeling about that. Our chemisty is at an all time high, the way it was last season, with Philips at first and Cabrera/Abreu/Matsui in the OF and Damon on the bench. If this happens, the outfield defense downgrades severely, the risk of Damon getting hurting himself again or more increases, and his production goes down again, and it's not like Cabrera was doing poorly at the plate either, not to mention he's a good baserunner.

I really don't see much good with the comeback of Giambi, besides a homerun or 2 now and then.

Posted by Allanfan20:

What do you all think of Giambi coming back? Why do I have a nasty and terrible feeling about that. Our chemisty is at an all time high, the way it was last season, with Philips at first and Cabrera/Abreu/Matsui in the OF and Damon on the bench. If this happens, the outfield defense downgrades severely, the risk of Damon getting hurting himself again or more increases, and his production goes down again, and it's not like Cabrera was doing poorly at the plate either, not to mention he's a good baserunner.

I really don't see much good with the comeback of Giambi, besides a homerun or 2 now and then.

i have a feeling it's going to be a negative overall, just like Sheff's return kinda screwed up the chemistry last season when he came back.

I don't see Giambi sitting.. he's just too good of a hitter.

eny, not only do the Yanks not need Texiera, but they don't need Giambi. 1 to 9, everyone is at least a good hitter, and then you have Shelly coming off the bench and Cairo for emergency defensive situations. Adding in Giambi, only to seat Cabrera, maybe adds in a run or 2 every few games, when we already score a lot, but it F's up the defense, not to mention Damon's health, not to mention Cabrera's confidence. There is really no good about Giambi coming back. He has little to no place on this team.

Giambi as the dh. That's it. Other than that he screws up everything.

Why? that's all you can sat about the yanks.

Why did they sign Damon? Cabera was on the come up at the time. He was struggling a little but with matsui as an option and Bernie still an option at the time, why the **** did they feel they needed to sign Damon?

Doug M.? Why? To platoon? That was the dumbest thing I ever heard. The guy has been hurt, buy even if he is healthy the guy isn't a theat and his defense is not all that. Andy philips has bee around forever. He could have just taken the everyday duties and call up shelly Duncan like I said earlier.

Why the **** did the yanks go after that new Asian guy? You can always use pitching if the same thing as saying defense wins championships in basketball. Its all bull****. The yanks have 4! At least 4 starters in their farm system. That's incredible. Pettite whould walk too. No more rocket! Mussina needs to go. What is his contract status?

Ching ming Wang is the ace of this staff. Yanks have to go after Santana cuz he is a bad ass. After that the rest should be all farm kids.

Again this is just yank debate. Right now the yanks are in trouble. There is no greg oden to look forward to if they miss the playoffs. Yanks have to make their move. It will only get intersting till the end of august. The teams they are beating now? They are supposed to best them!!! Come on man, the Uk bastards can beat some of these teams the yanks are playing. Boring!!!

So what to do? These are truly the dog days of summer.

Posted by TMS:

Moose's contract status = $11 million this year guaranteed / $11 million next year guaranteed / 10-5 player no trade rights

what a brilliant signing by Cash.

The problem is that Cash slipped a few decimals. He meant to pay Moose 11 cents and made it $11 million. I think most of us hated resigning Moose, though, if I remember, Bonn thought it was a good move. Tsk tsk, Bonn.

[Edited by - Solace on Jul 26 2007 2:02 PM]

Posted by TMS:

at least he managed to sign Igawa, so it wasn't a total loss.

Igawa has been great. He's a lefty; that's the important part. There's no other pitcher I'd rather have in there to give up 7 runs in 5 innings.