Thread: The Unofficial 2011 New York Yankees Thread

The Yankee bats keep shredding opposing pitchers!

Originally Posted by The Benjamin

Answers.com is also highly based on peoples opinions. The internet searches is pure fact. Fact>opinions.

I would base my study on people's opinions and perspectives. The fact is that the Yankees are the most profitable franchise, the franchise with the largest merchandise sells, in the world. Some way, somehow, somewhere, the money has to come in, and there is not a sports symbol/insignia that is anywhere near as recognized as the patented Yankees "NY" logo. People in other countries, like in Latin America, don't pay attention to the NFL, nor do they in the Pacific Rim in countries like China, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia. In Europe, the NFL tried to gain a foothold over there and failed miserably. Other than a game every year in the United Kingdom, the NFL has a rather weak following. Soccer rules Europe. In the Pacific Rim and through much of Latin America, baseball is very prominent, and the Yankees have made their mark among potential players who want to leave their countries for a shot at greater things in the Major Leagues. Where are the Dallas Cowboy fans there?

The fact that the people in that Answers.com survey largely claimed that the Yankees' are at the very least the most well known and are the franchise which sells the most merchandise is very telling. The Internet's statistics are very deceiving; just ask professors at colleges and universities who think that Wikipedia is the end all of poor research method by both the people who write the articles/entries and give slanted opinions/erroneous information, and by their students for relying upon those largely falsified facts.

The opinions from Answers.com are not slanted, by the way, because those people are from all over the world.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Twins 5, Yankees 4
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4 6 0 W:Capps (1-0)L:Logan (0-1)SV:Nathan (2)


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Yanks' late lead morphs into stunning loss

Sabathia's masterpiece wasted as bullpen caves in eighth inning

By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com | 4/5/2011 10:30 PM ET

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MIN@NYY: Teixeira's three-run blast puts the Yanks up

NEW YORK -- Joe Mauer laced a run-scoring single off left-hander Boone Logan in the top of the 10th inning on Tuesday, lifting the Twins to a 5-4 victory over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
With his team holding a four-run lead going to the eighth inning, Rafael Soriano walked three batters -- including a free pass to Mauer that forced in the first Twins run -- before leaving with the bases loaded.
Delmon Young reset the game with a three-run blooped double off Dave Robertson that landed in shallow right field while Nick Swisher tumbled in pursuit, allowing Minnesota to clear the bases as Mauer slid home safely to tie it up.
Mariano Rivera held the Twins scoreless in the ninth, but Logan issued a leadoff walk to Denard Span and gave up a single to Tsuyoshi Nishioka before Mauer pushed a hit past a drawn-in Robinson Cano at second base, giving the Twins their first lead of the night.
The Yankees' bullpen implosion flushed a dominant start by CC Sabathia, who was in total command of the Twins for seven innings, receiving support in the form of big homers from Mark Teixeira and Andruw Jones.
Making his second start of the young season, Sabathia deftly handled Minnesota's lineup on a raw evening, retiring the final 17 batters he faced and limiting the Twins to a pair of second-inning singles.
The left-hander had some loud early backing, as Teixeira continued his scorching start by blasting a three-run homer in the first off Minnesota's Brian Duensing, Teixeira's fourth homer in five games.
Turning on a 2-0 changeup and pummeling it into the left-field seats with Derek Jeter and Swisher aboard, Teixeira collected his eighth, ninth and 10th RBIs of the year, evidence that his new approach is paying dividends.
Having scrapped time in the weight room in favor of repeated swings in the batting cage, Teixeira has now surpassed his April homer and RBI output from last season, when he slugged two homers and drove in nine runs.
Jones extended the Yankees' lead to four runs in the second inning, becoming the 13th Yankee in the post-expansion era (since 1961) -- and the first since Curtis Granderson on April 4, 2010 -- to homer in his first at-bat with the franchise.
The 33-year-old Jones, who has been told to be ready to play against lefties, whacked a laser into the first row in left field.
Duensing settled in afterward, pitching through the seventh and limiting New York to six hits while striking out seven and walking two.

But after allowing back-to-back one-out hits to Jason Kubel and Danny Valencia in the second inning, Sabathia started a string that would take him through the seventh without a baserunner, finishing his performance with a walk and six strikeouts.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

I was at Hooters playing trivia for most of this game, but what the f*ck happened to Rafeal Soriano and David Robertson in the 8th Inning? Once again, another boneheaded decision by Girardi, this time taking out C.C. Sabathia after the 7th Inning when he was pitching a shut out. Already this season, the bullpen, which is supposed to be one of the strengths of the team, has made one game close (Detroit, game #2) in which the Yankees lead was 10-3 and the Tigers scored three runs to make it close, and then the next game, when the 'pen couldn't keep the Tigers from running away with the game when our offense was alive. I hope that this isn't going to be a pattern this season, otherwise we are going to have a hard time closing out games before getting to Mariano Rivera in the 9th.

Originally Posted by The Benjamin

Again, basing it on people's opinions. But whichever.

My main argument was with your saying it was more popular than every other major sports team combined. Which is probably the most asinine statement I have ever heard.

Not as much as saying that you would make sweet monkey love with Margaret Thatcher ;)