Although it is not impossible, it is looking very bleak. This year - it will probably take at least 93 wins to have a shot at the wildcard. For the Yankees to have this shot , they will need to go 27 and 11 the rest of the way.
The bad news is that the Yankees have not gone 27-11 in the last 38 games during the recent 13 year playoff appearance streak.
The good news is that they have gone 26-12 twice - so there is a liitle bit of hope.
Solution - "just win baby!"
If they take 5 out of 6 from the Sox, they make it.
I like the playoffs as much as I like pancakes. I haven't had pancakes in a long time, and it's going to be even longer before I get to see the Yankees in the playoffs again.
It all depends on what the Sox/Yanks do against the Rays
Yankees go 5-1 vs Rays
Sox go 5-1 vs Rays
That's an 8 game loss column swing with plenty of games outside of those. Or they could hope the Rays beat the Sox, and then take care of the Sox
The coming of The Carpenter.
“I love to hit. I want to hit .300, .400, .500. I just love to hit.”
it depends how healthy we get. Matsui is supposed to be back soon, and not that i would ever cound on carl pavano but either he or hughes will be as well. If we can hold it together now and then down the home stretch get joba and wang back... if we make the playoffs we could be trouble. Ponson has been solid. Wang Moose Joba Petite Ponson/Hughes/Pavano, and then add matsui back into the lineup. Just gota start winning on the road!
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Billy Madison: Kid can't even read
Ernie: Cut it out dude your gonna get us in trouble.
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Cue the Jim Mora video......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rmtO...eature=related
(or my favorite version thereof)
"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains."
That's only an 8 game swing if the Yankees also go 5-1 during the games they play while the Sox are going 5-1 against the Rays.Originally Posted by themgmt
5-1 is a pretty tall order given how this team has looked against Tampa this year.
All they can do is play their own games, look alive, start looking like a major league offense, and hopefully 25-28 wins will be enough.
I hate walks.
Just win.
It ain't over 'til it's over...go yanks!
Wang aint coming back this year. We need Joba Hughes Pavano whoever to come
back and pitch SOLID baseball for 6 weeks. if they can do that and this lineup starts
to hit consistently, we're goin all in. Joba Vs. Beckett game 1 ALCS ...
I could only dream about that right now. The fact that the Yankees might not be playing October baseball haunts me.Joba Vs. Beckett game 1 ALCS ...
Its my dream as well, and only cause i know Chamberlain can hand Beckett his arseI could only dream about that right now. The fact that the Yankees might not be playing October baseball haunts me.
again, and i love him for that. I'd seriously go apes**t if this team, after all its been
through in 2008 can get to this afformentioned game.
if our offense can start producing like they did last season, we can make it. however i am not very confident in that happening. it will be interesting to see how our lineup does against Burnett and Halladay- are they just going to roll over like they usually do against Toronto's two best, or are they going to bring it? let's see.
No, Yanks are officially dead.
or so says this Jeff guy...
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns
Go Yankees!
There are no shortage of "ifs" involved, but it's doable. They play the teams they are chasing. At this point though WC is our best bet, so I'm hoping for a rout of the Sox by the Yanks and the Rays. I think we can catch the other teams in the WC hunt.
If "ifs and buts" were candy and nuts, what a Christmas this would be.
I'm not putting my name on the line for something that doesn't work.
5-1 against the Rays
How's that going to happen ?
Take 5 out of 6 against the Sox
This team just showed its true colors against Kansas City.
There is no life in this team. There is no urgency. Look at all those
opportunities we wasted against the Royals in the first two games.
That's been the story of this season. Along with injuries, we've had wasted
opportunities all year long.
We just don't have the players to get it done this year. Maybe next year.
Originally Posted by CanoForPresident
Yeah dude, all bowl games are championship games. .
We have the players to get it done but they just haven't been getting it done. The playoffs are still a possibility but an unlikelyhood. We have underperformed all year with no signs of our coming out of it.5-1 against the Rays
How's that going to happen ?
Take 5 out of 6 against the Sox
This team just showed its true colors against Kansas City.
There is no life in this team. There is no urgency. Look at all those
opportunities we wasted against the Royals in the first two games.
That's been the story of this season. Along with injuries, we've had wasted
opportunities all year long.
Andy
Yogi is a National Treasure. Let's put him in a National Hall of Fame. The man has no peers.
If I had to predict now if we'll make it or not, I'd say not, but it's not over yet, not by a long shot.
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5-1 against the Rays
How's that going to happen ?
Take 5 out of 6 against the Sox
This team just showed its true colors against Kansas City.
There is no life in this team. There is no urgency. Look at all those
opportunities we wasted against the Royals in the first two games.
That's been the story of this season. Along with injuries, we've had wasted
opportunities all year long.
It's a long shot for sure but it's still a shot. They are going to have to play out of their heads and start taking advantage of every opportunity they get in each game they play. It's possible.
I'll hold off on waving the white flag until it's mathematically impossible to believe any longer.
Twins and Chi-Sox say "Hi"
Well - in fairness...
One of those teams will win the division, which will likely be the pale hose.
The Twins, in my opinion, will fade because i don't believe they can keep up their unGodly BA with RISP....
If the Yankees can catch the Red Sox, I think they can make it.
To seek the sacred river Alph, To walk the caves of ice
To break my fast on honey dew, And drink the milk of paradise
Yanks make playoffs
Carl Pavano goes 5 and 1
Melancon becomes our 7th inning guy
When asked if the Red Sox would've beaten Tampa Bay in the ALCS had Manny not gotten his wish and been traded, Ortiz replied: "Probably. I'm not gonna lie to you."
The Yanks do play the ChiSox in a 4 game set. So they will have a chance to make up some ground there.
The pitching, considering the injuries, has been passable. 7th in ERA and WHIP for the AL isn't terrible (ain't great either). I feel like this squad would be 4th or 5th with Wang and Joba back.
The offense needs to be more consistent. We have too many overpriced veterans who are underperforming. Our lineup is thin right now and badly needs improvement. All you need to do is get past 3, 4, and 5 and you're good as an opposing pitcher. With the #3 OBP in the AL we should be scoring more runs...of course, the problem is their hitting with RISP.
Negative. His cutter is not a human pitch, even he says he does not know why it moves like it does, says "God does it." I believe him.
Yanks resign him to another 4/40 deal. Goes on DL opening day never to return. (kidding!)
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We play today, we lose today, dassit.
This is simplistic. If the Yanks took 5/6 from the Sox, they would still be 1.5 behind. The Sox have 21 home games left to our 16.
We have a West Coast trip, they don't. We have 3 more against LAA, they don't.
We need to go on an absolute tear just to tie them.
gotta keep winning and hope for the best that rays/sox drop games
We haven't missed the playoffs since 93, so until it happens, I still believe we'll make it in.
No thank you.
I don't do shots during the playoffs.
Monument Park Additions
as much as I'd like to wish it into being, I just don't see this team putting it together long enough to make the playoffs. and if by some miracle they do, will they have enough in the tank to even make it out of the ALDS?
if the yanks don't make it, i want to see min get the WC and tampa the division.
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
There's no crying in baseball...
That they can keep up. They'll fade because they are awful on the road and they have 15-game road trip coming up...
Look, this team has sent me on an emotional rollercoaster this season. The post-ASB madness was the final straw, and I refuse to get my hopes up after yet another isolated offensive explosion. Given how they've played for most of the season and looking at their standings in either playoff race, it looks incredibly dire if not over. So mathematically, yes--they have a playoff shot. But it would require executing a run that they have yet to experience in 2008.
I don't believe they can do it, but I would love to eat lots of crow...and vulture and ostrich and any bird available.
Stella said, "Daddy when you gonna put me in a song?"
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I just don't think we've played well enough this season to miraculously turn it around now. If the hitters weren't relaxed after the all star break and their one long winning streak, they will be in a worse position now, and Girardi is as tense as any of them - in the last Joe Girardi show, Ii thought he was going to start yelling at Michael Kay! It is unbearably sad to think of no postseason baseball in Yankee Stadium in the last year of the stadium.
the yankees would need a 30 game stretch that they haven't played at all season.
in other words, there's no chance in hell this team makes the post.
none.
If the Yankees don't make the playoffs, and it's 80-20 that they won't at this point, I'd love for the Red Sox to not have clinched a spot until the final weekend and give the Yankees the opportunity to play spoiler.
"There's nothing sadder than wasted talent"
-Lorenzo Anello to his son Calogero
I truly believe they can win a wild card spot.Assuming they can and do......
Their reward = a first round matchup against the Anaheim Angels, who'll have home field advantage in a best-of-five series.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
lol, yea, that would be bad....I truly believe they can win a wild card spot.Assuming they can and do......
Their reward = a first round matchup against the Anaheim Angels, who'll have home field advantage in a best-of-five series.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
At this point, we should be shooting for third place in the East, as Toronto may just blow right by us....
Any shot went out the window last night.. that was worst game I have ever seen and lost complete confidence this season
NYY
Cowboys
Michigan
Rutgers
I just give up...
It is truly saddening how this season might turn out. We are the Sawx - circa 2006.
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