So it's official, the NY Yankees have finally made it to the party, it took a while but it was bound to happen, it just took a while to get it done cause their team play of late has been lousy.
The Yankees have not been playing their best ball as they got late into the season and for some it may have seemed like they were headed for a monumental collapse but from where they were at in the standings they had a nice cushion. They were good and so here we are today with their playoff ticket in hand.
And because the Yankees had struggled the champagne party did not feel as well deserved as it should had been because of all the inconsistency. It didn't feel climatic. When you look at what we expected from the NY Yankees in the beginning of the season, you still have to look at this as an accomplishment since the experts had them winning about 80 games including myself.
But in July they had a 7 game lead in the division and things were looking good and no team was in their range, then all the surprises went bad and the Yankees started to play more to their expectations. Teixiera got hurt and never came back, AROD lost his mojo, the table setters were not setting things up and the rotation started to ravel. The offense which had been the biggest surprise went bad and the Yankees began to lose their grip on the division. Then came the trading deadline and that's when the Toronto Blue Jays made all the right moves and took off, in a matter of time they took care of the Yankees and made it clear who the division winner was going to be but the Yankees still had the wild card in their favor.
Now with the season winding down their only asset, the bullpen, which has been heavily used Joe Girardi, seems to be tiring out.
The Yankees have barely made it in but that's ok cause all you have to do is be in it to win it. In a few days everyone starts at 0 again and that means a clean slate and a new beginning. Still this is the WC and that means a 1 game elimination. The good news is that most likely the Yankees get to host it.
Their opponent is yet to be determine, the 3 possible challengers are the Angels, Astros or Twins. But who will get the ball for the big game? The Yankees have 2 choices they can go to in Masahiro Tanaka or Luis Severino, if you ask most Yankees fans they'll probably want to go with Luis Severino but this is the majors and the manager is Joe Girardi who goes more by the books then his gut so everything is pointing to Masahiro Tanaka to get the ball and the chance to extend the playoffs.
On Tuesday we will see....
As for the Mets, they still have some business to take care of, at the moment they are tied with the LA Dodgers as they fight for home field advantage, but do hold the tie breaker so they have the slight edge here. With 3 more games to play both LA and NY will have something to play for. Some fans are not putting much stock into this but I think it's big.
I want to face 2 of the best in Kershaw and Grenkie with the home fans behind my team.
I want that possible 5th game at home. I want that. I understand that all the pressure will be on the Dodgers with their payroll and their recent postseason failures but sooner or later they may get it right. I just don't think it will be against this current Mets team. Still as I like to say, this is baseball and in baseball anything can happen.
As you already know there is plenty of rain in the east coast and both the Yankees and Mets have been rained out for a couple of day night double headers schedule for tomorrow. For the Yankees they will probably lay low and play some of their B guys but not for the Mets. The Washington Nationals come into town looking for some revenge and I look for them to come in and spoil it for the Mets. Remember they have lost 7 in a row to the Mets.
For the 1st time since 2006 both NY teams will be in the playoffs.
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Well, yeah they finally clinched but really who cares how long it took as long as they're in the dance? I sure as hell don't. If my memory serves me correctly the Giants and Royals were both the last 2 teams to get into the playoffs last year and we all know how that played out. Not saying that the Yankees are World Series bound but MLB playoffs are becoming more like the NHL and NFL playoffs where anything can happen.
Ok, let's take your post apart shall we: "Because of their lousy play the champagne party did not feel as well deserved as it should had been, they have been so inconsistent that it didn't feel climatic. When you look at their season and what we expected from them in the beginning of the season this is still an accomplishment since the experts had them winning about 80 games including myself." Ok, so which one is it? Was it not deserved or was it an accomplishment? Some contradictions going on here. Getting to your latter point NO ONE had the Yankees in the playoffs in April, this is a team that has really battled. I know fans like to give Girardi and Cashman a lot of grief, some of warranted, but overall how could any rational fan have a problem with the way things have gone? I'll tell you what I'm most impressed about this team this year, the Yankees have an older team and they somehow managed to make the playoffs while bringing in some of the young talent and keeping that young talent at the deadline. I don't think people realize how difficult that is, to say we're going with what we have when making a trade could have put them over the top. I'm being realistic with this whole thing, am I expecting a World Series run? No, I'm not but I'm going to enjoy this run this team has made and hope they get into the Division Series and if they don't it was a fun season and I'm very optimistic about the future of this team. Seeing Severino, Bird, Betances this year and knowing that they have more players coming up is exciting.
Onto the Mets...the Dodgers just won so they're up on the Mets. Right now, I would think that both teams wouldn't want to play in LA because chances are those games would be at 5:00 PM Pacific time and the shadows would be horrible so facing Greinke, Kershaw, Harvey and De Gromm in those conditions won't be fun for anyone.
Well, like I said I'm just excited for some postseason baseball, the Yankees, Dodgers and Mets are in so thats fun for me and the fact the Red Sox and giants are out makes it that much better.
Ok I failed to word out what I wanted to say properly and in return I contradicted myself a bit, what I meant to say is that because of how bad the Yankees had been playing of late, and because we all knew that in the end they were still going to make the playoffs, that when it did finally happened it didn't feel as climatic.
I didn't think this Yankees team had enough when it came to the offense but in the 1st half they surprised us and were able to build themselves a nice cushion along the way, but in the 2nd half they didn't hit and then they starting playing more to what I had expected them too.
The cushion had saved them, it was enough, but overall this is not a good team, could they make a run a win a WS? from what we have seen in the past it is possible but this is not that kind of team, those WC teams that go far don't struggle into the playoffs, those are usually teams that are playing much better ball late in the season.
You're right, if your a Yankee fan you have to be happy that this older team was able to make the playoffs and along the way brought up and kept their younger players who also were key in helping them win games. The Yankees finally did the right thing by not making any trades cause they knew this is not a championship caliber team.
I don't think the Dodgers would rather open up this series in NY because of the shadows.
Well, 2 things that have really hurt the Yankees the last month or so was losing Tex and Eovoldi. Luckily, Bird has played well but at this point of his young career he's not Tex and Eovaldi was pitching great before getting hurt.
Ok, once again the facts don't help you out...last year the Royals were 9-8 in the final 17 games of the season and the giants were 8-9, not exactly turning the world on fire. Just goes to show that all it takes is getting hot at the right time, I'm telling you the days of a dominant team are over.
I'm perfectly content with where the Yankees are, they're on the inside of the playoff bubble, there are 20 other teams that wish they were in that position.
Of course the Dodgers would want to have home field, I was just saying that the hitters on both teams wouldn't be too thrilled with having to face those pitchers with the shadows if MLB starts those games at 5:00PM pacific time.
Yea losing Tex really hurt the Yankees cause he was that 2nd real power bat to AROD in the lineup that was coming up with all the big hits but who's to say that an older TEX was going to continue at this pace and not tail off like AROD has? Plus if TEX had not gotten hurt how would you had found out about Greg Bird? I mean all we heard was about Severino, Refsynder, Aaron Judge but not much about Bird. I have to admit Eovaldi has played well and has earned a spot for next year. I was wrong about him.
If you go by the Royals and Giants of last year you will have a case, but it is usually the team that gets hot who goes for that sort of run. Plus the Giants were past winners who knew how to turn it on, plus Bumgardner. The Royals was one of those young hungry teams that had crazy defense and speed that had not made it in decades who got in and were playing with house money.
Now I could be wrong and I hope I'm not but I just don't see this with the Yankees.
Well, what a shitty day for NY Baseball. 0-4, no way that has ever happened before and what's worse is that both teams needed a win to secure home field, fortunately for the Yankees they still have 1 more crack at it tomorrow while the Mets will now have to board a plane and go cross country to play in LA.
Well, if we're going by your standard of the hot team we both might as well pack it in now. The Mets in their last 18 games are 7-11, the lone bright spot being a sweep of the hapless of Reds but other than that, series losses to the Marlins, Yankees, Braves, Phillies and Nationals and this last loss being a no hitter at the hands of Scherzer, the 2nd time the Mets have been no-hit at home this season. The Yankees aren't fairing much better, with an 8-10 record over the last 18. It is the playoffs and anything can happen but these last few weeks has to raise some concerns.
Yea that has to be a 1st ever, both NY teams are limping in and that's not good.
As far as getting no-hit again, it happens, I don't know if you saw parts of the game but Scherzer was on a mission, that guy was possess, he wanted revenge, the way he struck everyone in the last 3 innings was pretty amazing. Yea it was the 2nd time the Mets get no-hit this year but I don't put much stock on that cause those thing happen to the best of us.
I think the Mets and Yankees slacked off once they clinch, they both treated these last few games like a pre-season game, especially the Mets. I know some guys are hurt but come on. Look at the lineup Scherzer face today, Wright, Cespedes, Murphy, Duda and d'Arnaud did not start in this game.
Oh well, that's how I feel, I'm ok cause I see where the Mets went wrong in these last few games. Everyone got some rest so I just hope they all rested and ready to swing the bats once this series gets started cause the pitching was still good in these loses. So when exactly does this Mets Dodgers series supposed to get started?
I here the Yanks played their game on Tuesday.
I dont know about the slacking off, the Mets before they clinched dropped 2 of 3 to Marlins then 2 of 3 to the Yankees then 2 of 3 to the Braves before sweeping the Reds and clinching and then have lost 5 in a row since. I'll give you the 5 in a row but 3-6 before that? The Mets were fortunate that the Nationals fell apart because they could have really made this interesting.
Yeah, Yankees play on Tuesday. Game 1 will be in Los Angeles on Friday for the Mets.
Yea I understand the Mets were not playing well before the clinch, still, after the clinch Terry Collins and management decided to treat the remaining games as if they were spring training games. They have not gone with the full everyday lineup ever since they clinch, that's slacking off.
Like I said b4, when the Mets beat the Nats 7 in a row there was no way the Nationals were coming back from that. After that you and me and everybody else knew it was pretty much over. That was like the Yankees when they knew that even through they were not going to beat out the Jays for the division, they knew they pretty much had the WC.
Oh OK, Jacob deGrom pitches today and I was wondering how he was supposed to pitch game 1.
I think it's very important that both the Yankees and Mets win today, especially the Yankees, they need some momentum.
Saw this on MLB.com today:
http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/152528108/mlb-playoffs-momentum-best-septembers
Goes to what I was saying, it really doesn't matter who's hot or not going into the playoffs.
Read the article but a lot of those team did go pretty deep in the playoffs, now does it really matter to have momentum? All I know it's better then staggering in. Lets see how that works out for the Yankees. They may win the WC cause in 1 game anything can happen but that's about it.
I'm not loving the Yankees chances, even if they get out of Wild Card.
I here ya bro, even if they win the WC that would be a surprise.
You heard about C.C? what timing.
As for the Yankees it is what it is. I wasn't expecting them to be at this point so I'll take whatever I can get.
Yes, heard about CC...that whole thing is kind of crazy that its happening now. Wonder if there is more than meets the eye with this whole story, I hope not...I hope he's really trying to get help.
You hear about the Nationals? Fired the whole coaching staff. When is your playoff preview coming up? I want to run my picks by you.
YO!
I'll have a preview by the game tomorrow,
Thats crazy how Sabathia decides to pull a Dwight Gooden on the Yanks just b4 the playoffs? What else do you suspect?
I saw a clip with Ian Desmond crying and stuff but I was not aware they had fired the whole staff, so I'm guessing thats why he was GEEZ.
Let me give you my picks.....
AL
atros/yankees= Astros
Royals
royals/astros =Royals4 vs BLUE JAYS
Blue Jays6
Jays/Rangers=Jays4
-------------------------------------------------------------------------METS in 7....I can't go no any other way.
NL
pirates/cubs= CUBS
Cubs
cubs/cardinals=Cubs5 vs METS
Mets7
mets/dodgers=Mets4
After 30 YEARS it's LETS GO METS!!!
Ok, I'm going to keep your picks and see how you would have done in the pool. You got Cubs and Astros. I have Cubs-Yankees.
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