 Three (More) Huge Games To the faithful devoted Yankee fans, the games which will take place in the Bronx tonight, tomorrow night and Thursday afternoon are the most important of the season, thus far. There is no rivalry in sports today of greater import, and deep down in our bones, we In the grand scheme of things, these games are no more nor no less important than the D-Rays series this weekend. Every single game counts, especially when there's a three-team race for the Wild Card, but let's be honest, this series will probably define the season for the Yanks. A sweep, and the division looks like a possibility again. A series win, and they probably gain a little ground on the Mariners. A 2-1 loss and things look bleak. Getting swept, not an option. Andy Pettitte is the guy we want on the mound for this game. He's 5-0 in August with a 2.06 ERA. Dice-K has looked Kei Igawa-esque against the Bombers but somehow escaped with 2 wins. Joe has decided to go away from what he considers his best lineup (Giambi at first) in favor of defense, I guess. Phillips will play first, Damon in left, Matsui at DH. This seems logical to me, if Pettitte is on, there should be plenty of throws headed to first. Having a better glove there is a bonus. I also tend to like the Yankee lineup without Giambi a little better because I think Joe uses the bottom third to manufacture runs, instead of playing station-to-station ball. This is big in a playoff atmosphere, when runs can be scarce. It's time for the competitive juices to start flowing. Boston fans, we know who your favorite son is going to be rooting for:  Let's go Yanks! 
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Brian, when u have time, please break this down for me. You perhaps know I don't follow baseball (I barely know the main rules), but actually since reading your and other blogs I started to check the scores and the standings on mlb.com sometimes
my question is WHY IN THE HELL THEY PLAY SO MANY GAMES ?? it's freakking unbelievable to me that a team has like 3-4 days off in a month
I guess the reason is TV ratings/offer, tickets, marketing etc, but I know some marketing and if your offer of a product is too wide, the product loses value (we say "inflated").
As far as I know many baseball stadiums have a lot of empty seats (here you could enlighten me with some figures, if available) and that's no big news to me considering you have your team playing like 5 games in a week...
Maybe you can answer me here or write a specific post about this one of these days. What's your opinion?
FYI I think that also 2 NBA games are too many and I would cut them to around 60-66
thanks
rickey has no buisness reading this site he knows nothing about baseball... thank god for andy pettite so far so good 3-2 yanks jeter comes through again... i hope manny gets one between the eyes
am i dreamin or did i read a comment that jeter might move to 1b or the outfield??? what kind of people write on this site??? the only way jeter wont be playing short is if his small plane crashes into a manhattan building.. what is wrong with these people?? that must not know much about the yankee captian.
there are only 2 people who should be playin 1b for the yankees (3 if i count myself) the giambino or bettemit...phillips is becoming an automatic out he needs to ride pine with duncan and forarm bash between innings. The gimbino isnt as bad as everyone thinks.. we need him and damon in the lineup every day.. even when gimbi hits .240 he has a .400 obp he must play every day!!!
Ricky,
Baseball is a marathon, they play 162 because they can. If I was the commish I'd have them playing more. There's nothing better than coming home from work to a baseball game.
Tom,
Giambi clogs up the bases and makes Joe forget about manufacturing runs. On certain nights, he should be in there, but not on nights when it's going to take a bunt, stolen base or hit and run to get that big run across (like tonight).
Leave Ricky alone, his from your homeland, Italy.