Comments on: The Yankee Agony and the Yankee Ecstacy http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/ Doing my job so the MSM won't have to. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:21:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Manhattan Infidel http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263497 Manhattan Infidel Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:49:53 +0000 http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263497 Shamus: That Granderson for Jackson deal is really starting to look bad now. But that’s the Yankees. They don’t develop talent. They trade it and get over-the-hill superstars.

AROD I think would secretly love to get the hell out of NY and away from the fans (most knowledgeable fans in baseball? Please. Try most entitled, spoiled and pompous). But the Yankees are going to have to eat his contract and pay it because no other team can afford him.

Cano can be the greatest. He just doesn’t have the emotional makeup – the toughness to do it. He’ll always glide in his great natural ability but like you said when the going gets tough he looks like a dear in the headlights.

As for Jeter, do Yankee fans want to win or finance a old-timers team? Brian Cashman has to be ruthless like he was with Bernie WIlliams. Did Bernie still have some baseball in him? Yes but at .250 and hitting 15 homers why bother signing him.

If Jeter has a great year next year, give him a two-year contract. IF he has an off year give him one year contract. And if this ankle injury makes him stink up the joint Cashman should say, “Love ya. But bye.”

]]> By: Constitutional Republic Shamus http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263488 Constitutional Republic Shamus Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:20:06 +0000 http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263488 Granderson has officially morphed into Adam Dunn: Homer-happy, strikeout prone. I like Swisher, but he’s sorta hopeless these days. Yes, A-Rod looks shot, but then again he’s been lost for long stretches of the year. He’s had one good playoff run in his Yankee career and that was three long years ago. Rodriguez is simply not the same player he once was, so for people to expect much out of him at this point is absurd.

No, the guy who has really let the club down is Cano. I keep hearing how homeboy is a top ten player. Batting 0 for 30 or some shit? Please.

Cano seems like he’ll do great when the going’s easy. When rough times happen, he appears to be the sort of guy who will happily disappear into the woodwork. Now, I dunno if that’s accurate or fair, but that’s what it LOOKS like. He just doesn’t give off the vibe of a dude who will battle it out and fight through other teams’ game plans or his own slumps.

If Cano hits like he can, he can match Cabrera. He can also serve as a catalyst for the rest of the Yankee line-up, which is better than Detroit’s. If Cano continues like this, New York doesn’t have a prayer.

Granderson is feast-or-famine. Swisher is a 20 car pile-up. A-Rod is a singles hitter. The ceiling on these guys is, comparatively speaking, rather low. Only Cano has the potential to really turn it around and carry this team.

]]> By: Manhattan Infidel http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263290 Manhattan Infidel Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:49:05 +0000 http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263290 Jim: It does seem at times that everyone in the Majors is either from the Dominican Republic or Venezuela. (The neighborhood I live in in Manhattan is predominantly Dominican and baseball is very big with them.)

]]> By: Jim at Conservatives on Fire http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263175 Jim at Conservatives on Fire Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:46:29 +0000 http://manhattaninfidel.com/2012/10/15/the-yankee-agony-and-the-yankee-ecstacy/#comment-263175 “…Ichiru Suzuki double. Did the Yankees score any other runs that inning? Don’t be ridiculous. Eric Chavez (playing for the benched Alex Rodriguez), Robinson Cano and Raul Ibanez struck out. 2-0 Yankees after six.”

Out of curiosity, are there any yankees playing for the Yankees? Is Spanish the official language in the club house?

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