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A switch hitter even better.

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NEW YORK YANKEES HAVE INTEREST IN PITCHER BRAD PENNY - New York Post


YANKEES HAVE INTEREST IN PENNY By GEORGE A. KING III

August 28, 2009 -- The Yankees have an interest in veteran right-hander Brad Penny, who was released by the Red Sox late Wednesday night.
According to a person with knowledge of the Yankees' plans, the club doesn't know if there is an agreement between Penny and the Red Sox that he wouldn't sign with an AL team if they released him.
Penny, who is expected to clear waivers Monday because he has about $1.5 million left in salary and attainable bonuses, might be considered an upgrade over Sergio Mitre in the fifth rotation spot. After he clears waivers, Penny would cost the club signing him only $100,000.
Several Yankees spoke glowingly of the 31-year-old, who faced them last Friday night in Boston when he gave up eight runs and 10 hits in four-plus innings.
"He's got good stuff," Johnny Damon said of Penny, whose fastball touched 97 mph and averaged 91 to 93 at Fenway Park. "His secondary stuff might need a little tweak, but his fastball was electric. It cut and he hit his spots with it. Bring him here, why not? I love the way the guy competes."
Derek Jeter didn't go that far, but said: "He throws hard and he challenges you. He comes right at you, it's not like he is trying to trick you."

Triple Threat

Jerry Hairston experienced every fielder's nightmare - making a late inning error, thus spoiling a perfect game. I think it rattled Pettitte too, since the next hitter broke up the no-hitter.

I also don't believe Pettitte when he tried to console Hairston by saying he didn't want to pitch 9 innings anyway. Bullshit! A major league pitcher not wanting a change at a perfecto? No way.

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He was pitching really good last night.
Poor guy, I hope this doesn't screw him up.

There was a weak ground ball hit to him that I doubt Arod would have made a play due his injury...I think.

Triple Threat

Are you referring to the error or an earlier play?

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The bare handed play he made innings before.
That error he made was an easy out, he look like he just choked.

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Bad blood bubbling in Baltimore

September2 When A.J. Burnett allowed a home run by light-hitting Felix Pie in the first inning yesterday, he turned around and shouted some unkind words in the direction of the Baltimore outfielder.
The words weren’t necessarily at Pie, they were more an expression of frustration. My desire to remain gainfully employed prohibits repeating them here.
The Orioles, as you might imagine, weren’t thrilled.
“A lot of our guys thought Burnett made some gestures to Pie when he hit the home run. I don’t know why. Pie didn’t do anything,” manager Dave Trembley said.
Bench coach Dave Jauss yelled at Burnett from the dugout. Burnett later claimed he did not yell anything at Pie, which isn’t exactly true.
“I didn’t know they were yelling at me,” he said. “I might have done something different. That’s bush league.”
Then in the eighth inning, Nick Swisher struck out looking at a pitch that appeared outside. He stood at the plate with an incredulous look that prompted Orioles pitcher Matt Albers to suggest out loud that Swisher should have swung the bat.
Swisher responded with a few words you won’t hear in church. Orioles pitching coach Rick Kranitz then screamed at Swisher. Now Swisher is looking forward to his next at-bat against Albers and/or charging the mound.
This has nothing to do with CC Sabathia and Jason Berken, who start tonight. But baseball being baseball, don’t be surprised if somebody gets hit. If you’re the Orioles, what else do you have to get excited about?
Back later with the game post.

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Magic number for NY is 23.

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161st and River

IainDaniel

A-rod cops a feel then goes for the gun, with one of Toronto's finest

Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | NYY@TOR: A-Rod collides with a cop fielding a ball - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

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She was not happy at all, she really looked angry.

IainDaniel

Not sure why... she is pulling in $80 an hour, and has the best seats in the house.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

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What!!!

IainDaniel

Those are nice cozy cash pay off duty hours.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

IainDaniel

Doc was on fire last night. Making the best hitting team in the league look like well, the Jays on most nights lol.

1 hitter, and the 1 hit was hardly anything to brag about.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

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Of all players to get that hit it was the light hitting Pena.

This is the Doc I said was better than Santana.
I think the trade talks screwed up his mind.

Triple Threat

After a split vs the Blue Jays and a doubleheader sweep of the Rays, the Yankees magic number is now 16, with a big thanks to the White Sox.

It's time to get rid of Mitre and try someone else.

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I really can't blame Mitre for that loss, the defense was really awful that day.

I Are Baboon

I saw a guy yesterday with a t-shirt that read, "The Red Sox can thank God for inventing the Wild Card." Asshole.

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Do you know where they sell them?

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In chasing Lou Gehrig's record, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter's burden is Monumental

Bill Madden
Tuesday, September 8th 2009, 2:34 AM


Pilling/MLB via Getty
Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and the other Yankee legends enshrined in Monument Park are in a class that few ever have a chance to enter.

Sipkin/News
Derek Jeter remains on the doorstep after Monday's 0-for-9 day at the plate in a doubleheader sweep of the Rays.





Suddenly, the normally unflappable Derek Jeter is finding the rarified air where the Yankee deities reside can be suffocating.
With two games and nine plate appearances to attain the four hits that would enable him to eclipse Lou Gehrig as the Yankees' all-time hits leader Monday, Jeter came up empty. In the day game, the Tampa Bay Rays' Matt Garza hung an 0-for-4 collar on him, while in going 0-for-4 with a walk against three different pitchers in the rainout-makeup nightcap, the closest he came to a base hit was when Rays second baseman Akinori Iwamura speared his bases-loaded grounder up the middle in the fourth inning and converted it into a fielder's choice RBI.
"It's not like I'm trying to do anything different," Jeter said. "You're always trying to get a hit."
Until lately, until he passed the likes of Babe Ruth for fourth place on the all-time Yankee doubles list, and until he began rubbing elbows with Gehrig atop the all-time Yankee hits list, Jeter was much like all the other nearly 1,500 players who have passed through the Yankee annals. He was enveloped in the tradition and lore of baseball's most storied franchise but always with a kind of detached awe when it came to the deities. After all, those are the unassailable Yankees, Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, all enshrined in free-standing bronze, the Mount Rushmore of center field's Monument Cave.
There are the four of them, 1-2-3-4 all-time in homers and RBI with Ruth atop of the all-time homers (659) list and Gehrig atop in RBI (1,996). And there are Ruth and Gehrig again, 1-2 in runs with 1,959 and 1,888, respectively. And Gehrig all alone at the top of the all-time doubles (534) and triples (163) lists. Seemingly eternal Yankee records, all of them.
It was thought Gehrig's 2,721 hits was one of them too until, very quietly, very consistently as he prefers to look at it, Jeter was upon it before anyone realized it. It is among the most prestigious of Yankee records and it says something, too, for Jeter that he will have surpassed both Ruth's doubles and Gehrig's hits total this season and is getting to within striking distance of Mantle (currently 1,677-1,564) for third place behind Gehrig and Ruth on the Yankee runs list.
"I just try to focus on what I do that day," Jeter said, "and not look back. When you start focusing on what you've done, I don't think you'll ever improve."
But while he may be starting to make a dent on the Yankee deities, they are still all what they are - in a separate class insofar as the greatest Yankees of all time. On that list, the best Jeter can be viewed right now is sixth - behind Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and Yogi Berra. DiMaggio, Mantle and Berra all won three Most Valuable Player awards apiece to Jeter's none, while Ruth and Gehrig undoubtedly would have won their share of MVPs had most of their careers not occurred before 1931 when the award was incepted. Jeter probably should have won in 2006 when he hit .343 with 118 runs and 97 RBI, but finished second to the Minnesota Twins' Justin Morneau. And in 1999, by far his best overall season in which he hit .349 with career highs in homers (24) homers and RBI (102) for a championship team, he somehow finished sixth.
Still, the MVP disses aside, Jeter can certainly take pride at having already taken his career to the doorstep of the Yankee deities. He may not ever quite belong in their exalted class, but at least he's injected himself into the discussion. I remember Don Mattingly telling me a few years ago when he realized he could be in the discussion. It was 1986, the year after Mattingly had come within four doubles of Gehrig's seemingly unassailable Yankee record of 52.
"It was late one night and my brother Randy and I had been drinking a few beers at Elaine's and Randy said to me, 'You made a run at Gehrig last year, now it's time for him to go down,'" Mattingly recalled. "For the first time, I thought it was okay for me to go after his record."
A few weeks later, Mattingly brought Gehrig down, hitting his 53rd double on the last day of the season at Fenway Park, prompting Yankee pitcher Bob Tewksbury to tell Sports Illustrated: "I guess now everyone looks at him the way his teammates have for a long time - with admiration and awe and almost romance."
When it's all over, Jeter will own the Yankees' all-time hits and stolen base marks (he trails Rickey Henderson by 27) and he needs 99 doubles to eclipse Gehrig's record 534. And Mattingly would tell him, it's okay to go after Yogi (1,430 to his 1,063) for No. 5 on the all-time RBI list. And if all of that isn't enough to earn him a place among the top five all-time Yankees, he will at least have had the satisfaction of knowing his teammates looked at him with the same kind of admiration and awe.
bmadden@nydailynews.com

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One away! Derek Jeter ties Lou Gehrig for Yankees hit record at 2,721

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 10:17 PM

Sabo/News
The fans go wild as Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter ties Lou Gehrig's record in the seventh inning.



Derek Jeter and Lou Gehrig are tied at the top.
Jeter matched the Yankees record for hits with a seventh-inning single Wednesday night against Tampa Bay. Jeter's third hit of the game gave him 2,721 in a Yankees uniform, tying a mark held by Gehrig for more than 70 years.
Jeter had a chance to break the record in the eighth inning, but he walked against reliever Grant Balfour.
Already on their feet in anticipation, fans at Yankee Stadium let loose with a roar when Jeter's sharp grounder inside the first-base line got by a diving Chris Richard in the seventh.
Jeter's parents, watching from an upstairs box between home plate and first base, raised their arms and exclaimed in excitement.
Jeter took off his helmet and twice waved it to the crowd of 45,848 during an ovation that lasted about 2 minutes. Rays players and coaches clapped as Jeter stood at first base.


After entering the game in an 0-for-12 slump, his longest hitless stretch this season, Jeter broke out of the rut with a bunt single toward third base leading off the bottom of the first inning. He beat the play without a throw, bringing a standing ovation from the crowd.


With cameras flashing all around the ballpark on every pitch to Jeter, he grounded out in the third inning against Rays starter Jeff Niemann and drove a ground-rule double to straightaway center in the fifth.
On his first chance to tie Gehrig, Jeter came through in fitting fashion — with an opposite-field hit.


In the middle of the eighth inning, the large video board in center field showed a replay and flashed “Congratulations Derek!”


Jeter also swiped second base in the first inning for his 300th career steal, which ranks second on the franchise list behind Rickey Henderson (326).
Gehrig's final hit came on April 29, 1939, a single against the Washington Senators. The Iron Horse had held the club record for hits since Sept. 6, 1937, when he passed Babe Ruth.

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OK....I now agree with you.

Triple Threat

What's Girardi waiting for? Until his ERA hits double digits?

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And before Iain gets in here:

After watching the replays of last night's game, I give Posada 99% of the blame for the altercation.

Carlson gets the other 1% for being a Blue Jay.

IainDaniel

I like posada and his bravado. But that was just a pussy move.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

soxmuscle

Posada should have expected to be thrown at. Stop being a pussy.

Age: 20 | Height: 5'7" | Weight: 150 lbs | Penis: 12 inches

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The guy looked like he was throwing batting practice.



Agreed....notice how he doesn't know how to fight, he dove head first.