And Tonight’s Yankee Lineup Is…?
So what do you Yankees fans want now? The easy solution was after Game 2 was for all you idiots to start hootin and hollerin about dropping Arod or benching him altogether. Well what now you mutts? Why don’t you guys and Girardi open up your binder to the chapter that says “Its Not Just Arod, The Entire Lineup Stinks?” Does it even matter what the batting order is when Arod, Cano, Swisher and Granderson are all batting below the Mendoza Line? Maybe you should just bench all of them. Have the batting order be Jeter, Tex, Jeter, Tex, Jeter, Tex, Jeter, Tex, Jeter. Play with ghost runners like you used to do in the backyard when you were a kid. Hey its Game 5! Do or die! Gotta do what you gotta do!
Newsflash you dopes – every single game has essentially been 2-1, 3-2 with the exception of a big 9th inning in game 1. Nobody is hitting well. You think Buck is on the other side of things debating benching Chris Davis and Adam Jones? For sure not. This has been a well pitched series with a lot of slumping hitters. There’s no easy fix. There’s no magic button. The Ibanez pinch hit was an amazing stroke of luck and thats about it. Now I’m not saying you shouldn’t do anything – Nick Swisher should absolutely, 400% be benched for Raul tonight. He’s atrocious and watching him smile and laugh every single time he flies out should be punishable by death. If Girardi wanted to bench Arod and go Chavez, that wouldn’t be crazy at this point either. Arod is an automatic strike out at this point. But my point is that all these spoiled Yankees fans think that you should be able to press some button and automatically swap out bad players for good ones. They do it every off season and they do it on a nightly basis during the playoffs. There’s no quick fix when over half your lineup is playing like shit. You can’t open a binder or a wallet half way through the ALDS and fix all your problems.
As much as I like the Grandyman he absolutely needs to be benched tonight. Leave Swish in, Move Ichiro to Center, put Raul in LF.
Maybe bench raul and not even let him pinch hit, that seems like a good idea
Raul fielding left is a dream for Orioles fans.
Jeter – DH, Ichiro, Cano, Ibanez, Tex, Martin, Chavez, Granderson, Nix – book it
kfc, how about we give the mets arod? figure we can write it off as a charitable donation
How is the option of putting Brett Gardner back in the line-up not even being discussed? He can’t possibly do any worse or look anymore lost than Granderson or Swisher at this point, and taking Swisher out, moving Ichiro to to Right, Gardy to Left, and Granderson in Center is about as good of a defensive outfield as you can get. Keep A-Rod at 3rd and DH Raul. Jeter looked good enough running last night to go back to SS. This gives you Chavez and Swisher off the bench if necessary, but what do I know, I’m just an idiot, bangwagon Yankees fan.
right, bench Granderson. Because you know, why focus on what he did over 162 games when you can overreact to 4 games.
Granderson tried to bunt yesterday for the first time all year… clearly a sign that he has zero confidence in his own swing. He is striking out on pitches 3 feet out of the zone. You almost have to sit him.
New York Yankees Starting Lineup 10/12/2012
Jeter, 6
Suzuki, 7
Cano, 4
Teixera, 3
Ibanez, DH
Martin, 2
Chavez, 5
Nix, 9
Granderson, 8 (For purpose of bunting)
you’re all idiots if you think Jeter isn’t playing shortstop tonight
KFC STFU you loser met lover. No one wants to here a mets fan opinion on the yankees. Get dickies dick out of your mouth and go lick wrights ballsack.
Jeter is playing short tonight. Not a doubt in my mind
@dillfunk Granderson hasn’t been a + in center field for 3 years, but nice try. Although with Ichiro in right and a healthy Gardner in left you could probably put KFC in centerfield and be ok.
As for everything else, it is hilarious that Yankee fans are freaking out and want to bench half the team because they had four bad games. Swisher had an .837 OPS this season. Granderson hit 40 homers (he did jackshit else, but still). A-Rod looks like an abused animal at the plate, but you aren’t gonna start Chavez against a lefty, and if you are seriously calling for Jayson Nix to start then you absolutely deserve to root for a team that starts Jayson Nix. If the Yankees want to bench A-Rod tonight against Hammel and start Chavez at third and Ibanez at DH, that I’m fine with. But anybody bitching that A-Rod started last night should be shot.
almost is never good enough, but swish almost hit two out last night. he will redeem himself tonight.
Grandy may not be the CF he used to be, but I’d say he’s better defensively than Swisher (my own thought, not based on any defensive metrics). If they do bench someone, which they don’t have to, I would go with Swisher and not Granderson….either way, I’d really like to see Gardner involved. A-Rod shouldn’t be benched, not for Chavez, not for anyone…pinch hit? sure, benched, no. Jeter will be back at short if only to free up the DH spot for someone else. Will be interesting to see if any moves are made other than a different order of the same players.
As a Yankee fan, I’ll admit they suck right now. But Mets fandom must be a miserable existence. I stopped reading once he started getting at that it is entirely luck. Mets fans think the Mets suck because of bad luck. That’s not the case. You just suck.
A+ kfc