On Sunday afternoon the Yankees lost to the lowly Seattle Mariners, and it dropped them to fourth place in the AL East with only a few weeks left to go in the season. This basically assures the Yankees that they will not be playing any baseball come October.Of course, the real reason the Yankees have fallen to fourth place is the surging Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays have won their last 8 games, but are still nine and a half games behind the Rays for first, and eight games behind the Red Sox for the wild card. In other words, it's too little, too late. Still, that didn't stop Alex Rodriguez from heaping praise upon them after the Yankees loss yesterday, and he accidentally proclaimed the Bombers dead in the process.
"Toronto's playing really well," he said. "I'll tell you what, a lot of people should be happy they're not in the playoff race, because they'd be the scariest team, with the 1-2 punch they've got over there with [Roy] Halladay and [A.J.] Burnett."Is that so? Well, Alex, if the Jays are out of the race, and they're ahead of the Yankees in the standings, what does that say about you guys?
When the question was repeated, pointing out that the Yankees can't be in the playoff race if the Blue Jays -- ahead of them in the standings -- are not, A-Rod tried to backtrack. "What I'm saying is if Toronto was to get in the playoffs, they would be the scariest team to face, by far, with those two," he said. "I'm not saying anything else."No, Alex, you're just saying what everybody's already thinking.
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9-08-2008 @ 4:17PM
yellow said...
1-2 punch, more like 1-2-3-4 punch with marcum and jesse litsch, if dustin mcgowan didn't get hurt, there would've been a 5th punch
I think the saddest part about all this is Roy Halladay, if he played for the yankees, red sox, mets, he would be a household name as big as Arod or Derek Jeter....
As a jays fan, sometimes I wish they would just trade him and get him out of this miserable Riccardi led franchise.... but definitely appreciate him for what he is
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9-14-2008 @ 8:25PM
DICE126 said...
a-rod should request a trade or we should get rid of him. we lose with him at the 4th spot. I think that he cannot take any type of pressure. He folds like a cheap tent. He gives the yankees the worst records - only sports team to lose 7 game series up 3-0 or his latest one- hit in most double plays for one month(
august) 11 and when we needed him the most.
But lets not forget that Hank S. said its ok to lose. As long as he says that who cares if A-rod is such a BUM
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2-16-2009 @ 5:44PM
hector mejia said...
if extraordinary players like A-Rod, Jeter, Abreo, Cano,etc, do not start unloading their mouth before they get into the playing field, the Yankees would never go to the World Series again. It is just a fact that when playing they are primarily concentrated in what they have inside their mouth. That can be scientifically proved.
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