I thought they wanted to use Joba as a starter. He was used a relief pitcher a couple of games ago. Hughes had a good start but Mussina and Pettite were a bit shaky. The Yankees need to tighten up their defence a bit as 2 of the runs in last nights game were unearned.

I'm pretty surprised to see that Detroit haven't won yet and they are the team on Five tonight I think. It's all very early and a lot of games to go.

Not too sure, while other teams have acquired and gotten better i don't really see that with the Yankees. Really the only thing of the pre-season was actually keeping the likes of Hughes, Melky and Joba as i thought Steinbrenner would have traded them which i'm glad he didn't. Hopefully the pitching staff can stay fit and actually perform for once as that's our major weakness.

Saying that we gave Boston a half season head start and we still pushed them to the wire and we only lost in the playoffs thanks to some awful umpiring so hopefully with some luck we can finally win the big one again

The Yankees underway against the Blue Jays (Live on NASN) today. Do you think the Yankees can win it all this year? I think there are a few teams that look like they could win it all.

:-(

I don't have much so I have to take what I can get. :)

I had a look at the NASN website and it says the first game they are showing on Monday 5th March is Minnesota V the Yankees in a Spring Training game. :)

stop rubbing it in you

I wonder what NASN are doing. They've been showing a few ads for spring training, starting on the 5th March. I hope they are showing some games. Baseball season starts early!

Certainly

So, Pettitte admits to more than he originally admitted and despite a vehement defence, Clemens looks a bit guilty.

Is Pettitte still welcome at the Yankees in your eyes Kawada?

Santana joined the Mets for 6 years. I guess the Mets were more willing to give up prospects than the Red Sox or the Yankees.

Shall wait to see what the starting line ups are in April to make a decision. Keeping Posada, Mo, A-Rod and Pettitte are key moves though as well as not trading Melky, Hughes and Joba.

As long as our rotation doesn't go down for the first half of the season like last year we should stand a good chance, unless we meet the Angels in the Playoffs or Cleveland still is unable to keep the bugs infesting their crappy little city

Just had a look at the Yankee schedule for the new season. Toronto at Yankee Stadium to kick things off, 5 games against Boston in April, 7 against Boston in July which includes a 4 game series at Yankee Stadium, 3 at the end of August and 3 to finish the regular season in September at Fenway.

Fancy the Yankees this season (with your unbiased head on please)? :)

Indeed like you say it didn't provide a sudden surge in his stats, he was a great pitcher before it and his reasoning for using them seems legit enough.

What do you think about the Pettitte admission? It sounds genuine enough and I doubt you'll get much improvement from only using it twice. It also wasn't technically illegal when he did it. It's not as if his stats have significantly jumped since then.

Rivera agrees a new deal too. Looks like the mass exodus is averted.

Grandprix wrote:
> So, the Mitchell report produced some names of supposed steroid
> users in the MLB. Any thoughts on some of the names?

Quite a shock that a report led by the Boston director ends up turfing a bunch of Yankees players while Boston goes virtually untouched. I'm sure Ortiz is all natural.

Most of it is all hearsay nonsense anyway and people we already know took steroids. Try again Selig.


Yea gonna be buying SWOS tomorrow, can't wait, i hope Codemasters haven't screwed it up

So, the Mitchell report produced some names of supposed steroid users in the MLB. Any thoughts on some of the names?

A side note, SWOS is out Wednesday and I have an Xbox Live Gold Card sitting in front of me. I'm not sure if I can get on Live over the next couple of weeks as my room is getting redone a bit but I'll be on in January (to lose horribly). :)

It looks like the mass exodus is going to be averted with A-Rod and Rivera likely to sign and Posada staying put. From what I remember, Pettitte isn't likely to stick around unless things have changed.

It's been a bit of a nightmare for Yankee fans with Boston winning the World Series again and the news that A-Rod has opted out of his contract. Are we going to see a mass exodus out of the Yankees?

Urgh, just when you thought the Rockies were showing some fight, they go and give it away in the very next inning.

It's such a shame as I really want to see a really competitive World Series with nerves jangling in game 7.

A much better performance from the Rockies but they still couldn't get the win. Rockies will probably have to sweep at Coors Field to stand any chance of winning the World Series.

gone cold? Seems like they've gone arctic

Game 1 was a bit of a blowout. Disappointing but as long as the Rockies can take Game 2, we might see a close series.

Red Sox V Rockies then. All we can really hope for is that the Rockies haven't gone cold after their long wait for a game.

Nope, it was definitely not rained off. There was definitely a break in the middle of the series despite the fact they were still in Cleveland for a 3 game set, it was just over 4 days.

Cleveland couldn't get much off Beckett again so it's back to Boston.

Think it was rained off, i haven't really been following it, i just check the scores of each game and hope Cleveland get through

That was the weird thing though. There was no live game on Wednesday. Why would they take a break in the middle of a series? Oh well, Cleveland have to beat Beckett to get into the World Series.

Works out best for the Yankees, they can get rid of Torre while still showing the players that are faithful to him that they tried their best.

How convenient of Channel 5 to not show the Indians vs Red Sox game and instead showed Game 4 of the Rockies series. Bah

The Yankees offered Torre a new contract, which he rejected. I must admit, I'm a bit surprised that first they offered him a contract and second that he rejected the contract, which was something like $5m with an extra $3m possible for reaching the World Series.

I can't remember seeing a run of 21 wins from 22 games since I started watching baseball. It's an incredible run.

Boston are praying for rain, which is forecast in Cleveland, because they want Beckett to pitch on full rest, rather than on short rest. It'll either be Wakefield tonight or Beckett on Wednesday if it's rained out I guess.

Yea i saw it on the Sunday programme quite a naughty little take out there.

Is anyone going to be able to stop the Rockies? That's an immense run.

Go go Indians with your crappy bug infested city

There was a video of the interference call on MLB.com. The Arizona fans didn't take it very well.

Still there last i heard unfortunately.

Didn't see the interference thing so can't comment

Rockies win game 1 against Arizona. I don't fully understand the interference rule but I'd say there was interference in that play. The fielder moved well off the bag to make the double play.

Has Torre gone or is he still there? There seems to be a lot of talk about a replacement but not that he has gone.

Pitching has been an issue for a while and throwing money at Clemens isn't going to make the problem go away.

I heard last night that Rivera was going to test the free agent market. I doubt he'll leave the Yankees but still a concern.

They'd be idiots to let A-Rod go as although the man's a playoff choke artist if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have even been in it to begin with.

Torre on the other hand is a fricking moron and needs to be booted out as quickly as possible. Picking a pitcher on 3 day's rest is stupid enough but especially when we have 2 pitchers who are perfectly good able to play. Wang already had a knock on his confidence from Game 1, why rush him back. The guy is clueless about pitching, sack him and bring someone who actually has a clue in. Also i know Steinbrenner and Cashman are looking to cut the payroll but they should throw silly money at Santana

Well, they managed to drag it out for another day at least. I guess the problem was the starters. Wang didn't pitch great in game 1 or game 4, Pettitte was exceptional but Clemens was too banged up.

Will it be the last game for Torre and A-Rod at the Yankees?

Yea i would have thought the Phillies would have coasted through given their momentum. Ah well, time for the Yankees offence TO WAKE UP tonight

Arizona V Colorado for a place in the World Series. I never would have guessed that. Out of the 4 teams, I would have thought the Phillies but there you go.

Game 2 was a ton of crap, how much have the Indians been paying those Ump's, Steinbrenner can at least quadruple it. Anything low and in was an automatic strike for Cleveland, the Yanks couldn't buy a bloody strike. Not to mention those fricking insects, they stop for rain and any other hazard yet Joba's getting swarmed by a plague of biblical proportions and he's expected to carry on? I call bull doo doo on that

I assume we are potentially only 1 game away from your baseball season being over then Kawada... :)

Wang didn't have his A-game in game 1 and Pettitte was getting no run support in game 2. The insects in game 2 were a bit weird.