Melky shoots ‘em down (and rightfully feels like a bamf right after)
Clearly Melky’s looking after you, Buster boy.
My never ending cries.
Joe Torre and Paul O’Neill after winning the 1999 World Series. Paulie’s dad died the morning of Game 4.
This picture will never not make me cry.
It’s a beautifully designed game. Timeless, but always changing. It’s a game in which the defense always has the ball; and a game in which every player is measured by the ghosts of all who have gone before.
For more than 150 years, baseball has been a mirror of the complicated country that gave it birth.
From California to the New York islands, through good times and bad, through wars, depressions, and civil strife, it has entertained us, it has inspired us, and sometimes, it has even transformed us.
We pass it down from mothers to sons, fathers to daughters, as every generation invests itself in the sweet hope of springtime and endures the painful realities of fall.
Its essential dimensions never change, yet nothing ever happens the same way twice. It is a game in which the person scores, not the ball; where the objective, always, is to come home.
Home, where no asks where you come from or who you voted for. Home, where all season long, we congregate to cheer and plead, laugh and cry in the magnificent cathedrals of our game – the places, the poet Donald Hall says, “where memory gathers.”
Home, where every October, baseball’s greatest stars do battle.
Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the powerful sense of belonging, and the freedom from time’s constraints than does our National Pastime.
It is the place we always come back to – home.“Home” by Ken Burns
gardy during his rehab stint with the triple-a yankees yesterday. he went 2-3 and made three plays in the field
Miss you.
I love David Robertson and he is having another great year but i really think he should stay in the 8th inning, not because he blew a save, it’s because he throws a lot of pitches. He will not be…
Omg i just said i didn’t judge robertson off that one blown save
i was talking about his pitch count and how high it gets at times, i was concern for him pitching may 2 to 3 games at times, i never said anything on how david blew that save, it’s how i feel about it, i’m not cashman, i’m not girardi, i just stated my opinion on it. Robertson is the yankees best reliever, one of the best in the AL, i just worry about he pitch count, that is aLL
I totally get that. But for every 25 pitch inning he has, he has 4 or 5 10-15 pitch innings.
I love David Robertson and he is having another great year but i really think he should stay in the 8th inning, not because he blew a save, it’s because he throws a lot of pitches. He will not be able to pitch back to back games, his pitch count cannot run up to 25 pitches, it just can’t. I feel Soriano should be in the 9th just because he had the experience closing games in the AL East.
but whO LISTENS TO ME ANYWAY
normally his pitch count doesn’t go that high though
I feel like Robertson should be the “relief ace~” guy. Like he’s a better pitcher than Soriano is right now, ignoring innings. If there’s a jam in the sixth or seventh, he should come in then. He’s done stuff like that in the past. I don’t think pitchers should really be married to certain innings.
i totally get what your saying but robertson is a strike out pitcher and normally gets into trouble but of course him being a magician, he gets out of it
Robertson is the best reliever for the yankees hands down but idk i don’t think he can pitch back to back days, even though he did do that in the past
I think he can pitch back to back days just fine. Would it be good to see him get a few more ground balls maybe and get a little more efficient? Absolutely. But you’ve got to put your best pitcher in your highest leverage situation whenever possible*, and I frankly don’t trust Soriano and having closer experience two years ago doesn’t really mean shit when it comes down to it.
*Note that I said highest leverage and not necessarily always the ninth. If the game’s on the line in the eighth or something, bring him in!
For Soriano is all about comfort for him, he was a closer 2 years ago yes, then he was put into a situation that he wasn’t a closer anymore, was he suppose to suck it up and just play? yes, but he didn’t, so i feel he was a closer again, he probably will feel comfortable again, maybe not, maybe it’s just the fact he doesn’t play well for yanks, wie will have to just see
I have one thing to say: Soriano would have blown the save that David blew, too. The “closer mentality” David needs is the ability to move on, it’s not some magic spell that turns you into Mariano. David blew ONE SAVE, and you’re judging based on that ONE SAVE? When over the past two seasons he’s been FAR better than Soriano? Soriano is not a closer anymore.
