Thank God for the Bruins, because the Red Sox are...

[DirtDirtDirt]

Ichiro:
12 runs
2 homers
8 RBI
.246/.289/.341/.630

Swisher:
22 runs
6 homers
16 RBI
.277/.379/.492/.871

"Ichiro > Swisher" ~ Numerous dumbass Fraudkee* fans participating in the daily thread

Still ignoring the truth

Swisher will be better than Ichiro as a regular season player. As consistent a solid player as they come

Addition by subtraction in the postseason

Worse postseason hitter I've ever witnessed in a large sample

 

[PeteNYC]

Ichiro:
12 runs
2 homers
8 RBI
.246/.289/.341/.630

Swisher:
22 runs
6 homers
16 RBI
.277/.379/.492/.871

"Ichiro > Swisher" ~ Numerous dumbass Fraudkee* fans participating in the daily thread

Actually, it was ONLY me. And, as a Yankees fan for 30 plus years, I would rather have Ichiro out there every day than Swisher.

 

[PeteNYC]

Still ignoring the truth

Swisher will be better than Ichiro as a regular season player. As consistent a solid player as they come

Addition by subtraction in the postseason

Worse postseason hitter I've ever witnessed in a large sample

Dave Winfield says Hi!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Ellsbury will get it going... His slump is coinciding with the Red Sox recent skid...

 

[black francis]

The team is out in Kansas City, where just about a year ago, Mariano Rivera nearly died on the poorly maintained warning track. Yeah, Mo is fine now, and he might have come back even better than ever because he's a physical marvel, but he lost an entire season because a low-revenue franchise couldn't afford to take proper care of its grounds. The Royals had since last May to clean up the chalk outline from the accident and they haven't even bothered to do that yet.

The Yankees send however many millions of dollars to the Royals each year in luxury taxes and rev-sharing, and they repay us by trying to prematurely end the careers of first-ballot Hall of Famers. The only fair thing would be for the team to use some of that New York money to have Mo carried from the bullpen to the mound on one of those Cleopatra thrones made of gold, hoisted up on the shoulders of their four best Triple-A prospects, whenever he's called in to save a game at Kauffman Stadium. No, it wouldn't make up for the lost year they caused, but at least they'd be showing a living legend the respect he deserves. And it's not like the bullpen throne has to be covered in diamonds or anything.
Oh yeah, Girardi won his 500th game as our manager. I had Boone Logan hide a piece of cake inside Joe's binder. I hope Boonie didn't just eat it himself. Or otherwise tamper with it. Maybe I should have had someone else handle it. It's hard to deal with the details of a 500th-win cake from Tampa, I'm not going to lie to you. All you can do is ask a middle reliever to put a piece of cake in your manager's binder and hope that the results are there for you at the end of the game.

 

[cerealboi]

Ask Snoogins. He represents all of you.

I'd like a revote.

 

[PeteNYC]

The first step is admitting you have a problem.

"Hi, my name is Snoogins and I'm an Alcoholic"

Cant wait til step 8 when he has to apologize to UNO for all that he has done to him

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Ask Snoogins. He represents all of you.

Of course, RBI were irrelevant last year when the topic was Nick Swisher.

I still think RBI are irrelevant...


But any chance to remind you that Joey Votto has 3 more RBI than Ellsbury, (while you're bashing Ellsbury) is a chance that I'll greet with open arms.

 

[black francis]

Sunday, May 12: at Kansas City Royals

When you're the Captain, it's never easy to be away from your teammates. You know that if they need to look to someone for guidance, you're not going to be there for them, and they're just going to have to figure things out on their own. Yes, there are plenty of veterans in the locker room who are proven winners, but it's just not the same thing. None of them are the unquestioned voice of authority in the clubhouse. None of them wear the invisible C on their chest, and none of them have been anointed with special leadership powers by a secret advisory council comprised of the ghosts of True Yankees Past. They do their best without their Captain to be a steadying influence, but inevitably there are going to be hiccups.
Like when Joba suddenly loses his mind and sasses the greatest relief pitcher of all time. In the dugout, in front of the press, in front of some families who've suffered great hardships, and who were visiting Mo during his final season. So now instead of having nothing to concentrate on but trying to keep winning until the reinforcements arrive from Tampa, everyone's dealing with Shushgate. You hate to think that things would have been different if you were there to lead by the example of freezing Joba out with such Arctic coolness that he'd need to dig out his locker with a snow shovel after the game, but there's not much you can do from Tampa.
Except deliver a long-distance order for the rookie relievers to freeze Joba's locker solid with liquid nitrogen. As Captain, it's not your job to worry about where they might actually find the liquid nitrogen. That's someone else's problem. The important thing was that a highly targeted locker-freezing occurred 1,200 miles away. That invisible C makes things happen.
We also swept the Royals. All sorts of messages were being delivered today.

 

[chappee11]

Unless Ellsbury improves dramatically, another CFer, leadoff hitter, and Boras client will get a far superior deal

Maybe so. But Ellsbury will make out just fine. He's better than BJ Upton and look at how much $$ he conned the Braves out of!

 

[PeteNYC]

Ellsbury will get it going... His slump is coinciding with the Red Sox recent skid...

Heat?!

 

[Kate Upton]

Still ignoring the truth

Swisher will be better than Ichiro as a regular season player. As consistent a solid player as they come

Addition by subtraction in the postseason

Worse postseason hitter I've ever witnessed in a large sample

Cano sucks too

 

[black francis]

Tuesday, May 14: vs. Seattle Mariners

Grandy's back with the team. And I'm still here in Tampa.
You never want to feel like recovering from a serious injury is a competition, and you can't really compare a forearm fractured in spring training to an ankle shattered during the playoffs, but it's still disappointing that one guy's back in the outfield in May and the other guy won't be there until after the All-Star break.
Some things you can't fix even with the invisible C.

 

[bgko11]

Dave Winfield says Hi!

he was awesome in Toronto

 

[gener8tr]

I'd like a revote.

SCPBS?

 

[Kate Upton]

I still think RBI are irrelevant...


But any chance to remind you that Joey Votto has 3 more RBI than Ellsbury, (while you're bashing Ellsbury) is a chance that I'll greet with open arms.

If they're irrelevant, then why bring them up?

 

[cerealboi]

Still ignoring the truth

Swisher will be better than Ichiro as a regular season player. As consistent a solid player as they come

Addition by subtraction in the postseason

Worse postseason hitter I've ever witnessed in a large sample

Hard to point the finger at any one guy this past postseason. Whole Yankee team got a Brady motivational speech apparently.

 

[chappee11]

Still ignoring the truth

Swisher will be better than Ichiro as a regular season player. As consistent a solid player as they come

Addition by subtraction in the postseason

Worse postseason hitter I've ever witnessed in a large sample

Worse than Arod? Worse than Cano? That whole team stops hitting in the postseason. Somehow poor Swisher just became the poster child for the whole group sucking.

 

[PeteNYC]

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not obsessed with the Yankees!
I just have a lot of time to make up imaginary diaries.
-mentally stable person

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

You can pick out your own clothes to wear? And you picked that outfit?

Oh yeah that was awesome