The Unofficial 2011 New York Yankees Thread

[Dagan81]

Monday, April 4, 2011
Yankees 4, Twins 3
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4 7 1 W:Nova (1-0)L:Baker (0-1)SV:Rivera (3)


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Yankees' bullpen finishes job for Nova

Two-run homers by A-Rod, Posada enough against Twins

By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com | 4/4/2011 9:46 PM ET

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MIN@NYY: A-Rod rips a two-run shot down the line

NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada hit two-run homers to support Ivan Nova's first start of the year as the Yankees defeated the Twins, 4-3, on Monday at Yankee Stadium.
The Bombers' bats remained hot while New York enjoys its season-opening homestand, as Rodriguez and Posada increased the Yankees' homer total to 11 through the club's first four contests.
A lock for the Yankees' rotation after impressing late last year and in a strong spring, the 24-year-old Nova held the Twins hitless into the fourth inning before running into trouble the second time through the lineup.
Jim Thome stroked a two-run double to put Minnesota on the board in the fourth, scoring Justin Morneau and Delmon Young, both of whom reached base with two outs already on the board.
Alexi Casilla and Tsuyoshi Nishioka doubled off Nova in the fifth to cut the Twins' deficit to one run, but Nova navigated the sixth to leave his outing at three runs on six hits, with one walk and three strikeouts over 83 pitches (50 strikes).
Nova had early support to his credit, as Rodriguez and Posada went deep off Twins starter Scott Baker to stake the right-hander to a four-run lead after two innings.
After Mark Teixeira was hit in the right foot by a pitch, Rodriguez connected in the first inning for his second blast of the year, turning on a Baker fastball for a line-drive rocket to left field.
Posada extended the lead in the second inning, smacking his third two-run homer in the past two games when he connected with a heater and delivered it to the right-field seats with Nick Swisher aboard.
With his two RBIs on Monday, Rodriguez surpassed Hall of Famer Dave Winfield (1,834) on the all-time RBI list, while equaling Rafael Palmeiro's career RBI total.
The Yankees threatened for more in the fourth off Baker, but Young saved at least one run with a diving catch on a Brett Gardner liner toward the left-field line.
Baker completed six innings, allowing four runs on five hits while walking four and striking out four in a 96-pitch outing that included 58 strikes.
Joba Chamberlain pitched a clean seventh inning for the Yankees, handing off to Rafael Soriano and Mariano Rivera in the eighth and ninth, respectively.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

[Dagan81]

The Yankee bats keep shredding opposing pitchers!

[The Benjamin]

Try reading what those people said in the Answers.com column. No team sells more merchandise world-wide than the Yankees, and no team is recognized worldwide than the Yankees.

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

[little bear]

[Dagan81]

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.

[Dagan81]

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Twins 5, Yankees 4
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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.

[Dagan81]

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.

[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.

[Dagan81]

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 ;)

[The Benjamin]

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

Considering I've never said that........ okay