Are the New York Yankees a real threat? Do they have the firepower to derail a sailing Tampa Bay Rays squad and a streaky Boston Red Sox club? Do they have the will and inner determination to focus on baseball? The answers to these questions are no, no and are you kidding me?
The 2008 New York Yankees are currently 55-45 and 3 ½ games out of first place. They are ranked seventh amongst big league squads in team batting average (.269) and 13th in runs scored (469). They sport a team ERA of 4.00, which ranks 12th amongst big league teams and boast a total of 704 strikeouts, which positions them 10th in all of baseball.
What I want to focus on though is if the Yankees are a real threat to either the Sox winning the American League East pennant or the Wild Card spot. Personally, I feel that the main flaw in New York’s game is the constant intoxicating focus on third baseman Alex Rodriguez, catcher Jorge Posada’s demise and their evident inability to keep their arms healthy.
Out of all these things, I feel that the team’s pitching staff is their biggest weakness, although the chemistry amongst the men held captive by the pinstripes on their shirts is also a problem. However, the fact that starting pitcher and ace Chien-Ming Wang (foot), starting pitcher Phil Hughes (rib), starting pitcher Humberto Sanchez (elbow) and starting pitcher Carl Pavano (elbow) are all seriously injured is a testament to the durability of a team built on pure greed and lust. That’s why they won’t catch us.
They do have firepower, but how good is a fireworks display when everything isn’t cohesive? The show is horrible, poorly pieced together and if the same people keep putting it on, it’s likely to remain that way for years. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you this year’s version of the New York Yankees.
Will and determination are attributes that maybe one Yankee encompasses, and that of course is shortstop Derek Jeter. He’s a career .315 hitter that has averaged 14 dingers with 70 RBIs, 103 runs scored and 19 stolen bases over his 14-year career. So please, don’t try to make an argument against him.
As much as I don’t think the Yankees are a threat to our beloved Red Sox, the upcoming three-game set against “The Bronx Bombers” will be a true testament to the state of Red Sox Nation. If the Sox somehow blow this thing and drop two out of three, there will be some serious hell to pay as the season wanes through the summer months.
The Sox hold the key to their own destiny, and if their destiny looks anything like it did under the watchful wrath of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last weekend, they are going to be staring down the barrels of their own bats for the foreseeable and potentially miserable future.
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So Chein Ming Wang’s foot injury running the base-paths and Hughes’ freak rib injury is a testament to the yankees’ greed and lust???!!! You gotta be fucking kidding me. All of those injuries have nothing to do with the “greed and lust” of the yankees organization, just bad luck. I’d love to see if the red sox could survive the injuries that the yankees have weathered.
Yeah, this is just a really moronic piece of writing. The guy’s covering the Red Sox all the time, he has no right to make these kind of ridiculous comments about how the Yankees play. And by the way, their just a game back of the Red Sox, tied in the loss column, and could, but probably won’t, sweep the Red Sox tommorow. Typical Boston propoganda, And don’t think the Red Sox don’t have problems with Manny and the whole bit. The Yankees might have suffered major injuries and setbacks to their season resulting in a spotty rotation, but at least they don’t fight “WITH EACH OTHER!!”