If I'm Billy Martin I'm rolling over in my grave right now with the SPOT ON imitation of Grady Little as performed by Joe Girardi. His ineptitude at the helm of one of the most storied franchises in sports (although I'm splitting my ass with laughter) is so damning that it makes me want to puke as a baseball savant. The over-managing in yesterday's game could cost them (although I don't think so) and if it does, this series lies SOLELY on his shoulders.
The first thing that he is a jackass for is because he always looks like Brad Sullivan from the 1995 Daniel Stern Classic "Bushwhacked." The second thing is his awkward abuse/underuse of his bullpen. This is evidenced by his pitching change to bring in Alfredo Aceves when the relief pitcher (Robertson) with the highest K/BB ratio in the American League has only thrown 11 pitches and has set down the Angels with relative ease through his first two batters. This man is not qualified to run a Zamboni and you're going to let him take hold of the most expensive team in professional sports? Be it a lack of good candidates, or just horrible planning by the Cashman/Steinbrenner regime this man is single-handedly going to run your team's "dick in the dirt," as my illiterate father would say.
If Johnny Damon's arm is so bad that you have to take him out in the middle of an inning, then he shouldn't be out there to start that inning, or that game for that matter. But the fact of the matter is that at this stage in his career, he is out there because of his offense. He then ends up losing his DH, and ended up with their 3rd string catcher in Left Field. His over/mismanagement could very well be the demise of the 2009 Yankees and I'm laughing hysterically, because this team should win Championship after Championship. Don't give me the Money doesn't buy Titles. The F*ck it doesn't! When you have Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter on the same team complimented with Robinson Cano, Jorge Posada and Johnny Damon, if you don't win it's on the manager.
Now onto one of the more suspect things I've seen out of the Yankees in a while. This video shows the Great Mariano Rivera not just spitting on the baseball but full blown dowsing it with saliva. Yes, it's illegal but to me this isn't something to freak out about, even as a Red Sox fan this doesn't change anything that Rivera has done. If he did this all the time, with the camera angles and technology today we would have seen it by now so calm down Red Sox "Fanboys" he's still the best closer in the history of Major League Baseball. I once played with a kid that would sharpen the prong of his belt so that it came to a point reminiscent of this slasher, and everytime we would throw the ball around the horn, he would slide the ball out of his glove near his waist, in one fluid motion, and gauge the ball for our cutter-wielding pitchers.
As far as the NLCS goes, Cliff Lee is throwing out of his mind right now and I don't care who he faces in the World Series (because Yes, they are winning the NLCS probably in 5 games) he is going to shut them down and enter into the winter looking for an ass load of money. For me, he's throwing better and more economically than Josh Beckett did in the 2007 playoff run by the Sox. Ryan Howard is in another dimension with how locked in he is, even going as far as to tie Gherig's record of consecutive games with an RBI in the post season. I'm going with a Phillies vs. Yankees Series, with the advantage Phillies solely because Joe Girardi isn't their manager.
Stay Tuned
Ryan
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