In a season which began so promisingly with the signing of the top three free agents on the market, it was particularly sad to have the once mighty New York Yankees’ season hopes ended Monday by the lowly Baltimore Orioles.
Despite record breaking seasons by Johnny Damon and Derek Jeter, who both hit for incredible averages of .677 and .600 respectively, the Yanks were ultimately undone by their two big signings of Mark Teixeira, who failed to get a single hit all season, and CC Sabathia (who could have possibly predicted a horrific 12.46 2009 ERA from the big lefty?
The Yankees’ 2009 hopes were also damaged by A-Rod never returning from his surgery as well as A.J. Burnett failing to make a single start in Pinstripes. It looks like those Pavano comparisons were dead on.
Many fans are sure to question manager Joe Girardi’s inexplicable decision to not start Nick Swisher in right field, when all the man did was bat 1.000 for the season with stunning OPS of 3.000!!
On the bright side, Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui made triumphant returns from injury, playing in every game.
It looks like the Yanks will use the remainder of the season to get long looks at prospects like Austin Jackson and others to fortify the squad for a push in 2010 while playing out the string in ’09.
What’s that? It’s only one game? There are 161 left to play?
….Never mind.
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5 Responses to Wait 'til Next Year
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Haha nice post, Tom. Whats sad is that some people seem to be taking game 1 exactly that way…we won on opening day last year, and where did we end up? Relax, people!
I enjoyed that, nice work Tom. But just to be safe I’ve stocked up my bomb shelter in case the Yankees have another stinker tonight.
Ha Haaaaaaaaaa!
Nicely done, Tommy. . .
Thanks guys. I originally thought this up to mock myself b/c I got a little overtorqued about the loss before calming down after a couple minutes and sheepishly remembering how crazy it is to get like that after a single game or even a couple weeks. Looking at the papers the last couple days, though, I see that there are professional writers who are actually writing stuff like this but they’re being serious! Sometimes I feel like 90% of the commenters on our site could do a better job than these writers.
Good post any mororn who is drawing any conclusions after one game is at best a moron and at worst should not be operating heavy machinery. I mean CC had a bad day he obviosuly could not get loose. I doubt someone who throws 93-96 all of a sudden lost it in ne day. I wish there were no dumbass reporters but if that were the case there would not be many newspapers.