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Season Over: Tigers knock Yanks out of ALDSBy
All good things must come to end, and the 2011 season came to an end for the Yankees on Thursday night. Johnny Wholestaff did his best to keep the Yankees in the game after Ivan Nova left with forearm tightness, but at the end of the day, the team couldn't overcome numerous squandered opportunities on offense. The Tigers won 3-2, advancing to the ALCS.
Pitching, Pitching, And More Pitching
The interweb was up in arms over Joe Girardi's micromanaging following Nova's quick exit, which involved the use of six different relievers to cover the final seven innings. The thing that no one seems to want to acknowledge is that it worked. Was it annoying? Hell yes. But it worked. After Nova allowed three hits – all for extra bases, including back-to-back homers by Don Kelly and Delmon Young – and two runs in his two innings of work, the sextet of Phil Hughes, Boone Logan, CC Sabathia, Rafael Soriano, David Robertson, and Mariano Rivera combined to allow just one run on five hits and two walks in seven innings. They struck out ten.
I saw plenty of fans and media members saying that Girardi was managing out of desperation, well guess what? It was a desperate situation. Starter went two innings (and put the team in a two-run hole before they even came to bat) before getting hurt in a win or go home game. How dare the manager express some urgency! It wasn't a fun process to sit through, but given the circumstances, I thought Girardi (and the pitchers themselves, don't forget those guys) did about as good a job as possible.
Story of the ALDS: Blown Chances
The story of the Yankees ALDS defeat will focus squarely on their 4-5-6 hitters, and rightfully so. Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, and Nick Swisher went a combined 9-for-55 (.164) with seven walks and one hit-by-pitch (.266 OBP) in the five-game series, and their inability to put the ball in play in a bases loaded, one out situation in the bottom of the seven essentially sealed the Yankees fate (in fairness, Tex did walk to force in a run). A-Rod and Swisher both struck out feebly against a struggling Joaquin Benoit to kill the rally.
Earlier in the game, the Yankees had the bases loaded with one out against Doug Fister in the fourth, but Russell Martin and Brett Gardner couldn't hit the ball out of the infield. Martin popped up to first, Gardner to third. Fister retired seven of the first eight men he faced, but once the lineup turned over, he allowed five of eight hitters to reach base and I thought the at-bats were noticeably better and the contact noticeably harder. The Yankees scored zero runs until Robinson Cano's fifth inning solo homer, though.
New York outscored Detroit 28-17 in the five games, but the distribution of runs was the issue in the five-game series. The Yankees won both of their games by six runs or more, and lost the three games by four runs combined. They went 2-for-9 with men in scoring position and left eleven men on base Thursday, and the two hits didn't even score runs. The Tigers went 1-for-9 with men in scoring position and stranded just six thanks to the stellar bullpen work, but the two first inning solo homers gave them a lead they'd never surrender.
The bases loaded situation in the seventh was the Yankees last real gasp at a comeback, but Derek Jeter just narrowly missed a go-ahead two run homer in the bottom of the eighth. It looked like Don Kelly caught it right at the top of the wall in right from where I was sitting, but I haven't seen the replay so don't take my word for it. Another foot or three, and this is a very different recap.
In what was almost certainly his final game as a Yankee, Jorge Posada with 2-for-4 to raise his ALDS batting line to .329/.579/.571 in the five games. After a brutally ineffective regular season, Posada was far and away the team's best hitter against the Tigers. Gardner went 2-for-4 on Thursday to raise his ALDS batting line to .412/.444/.471. Safe to say he was their second best hitter. Curtis Granderson went 1-for-4 with a walk, bringing his ALDS batting line to .260/.375/.550. That's pretty damn close to his .262/.364/.552 regular season performance. Cano's solo homer and a single later in the game raised his ALDS batting line to .318/.375/.682.
Very nice job by Soriano out of the bullpen this series. He retired 13 of the 14 batters he faced, but unfortunately the one was Young's game-winning homer in Game Three. Boone faced eight batters in the series, allowed one ground ball single, and struck out six. David Robertson and Mariano Rivera retired all eleven men they faced in the series, and didn't allow a single ball out of the infield. The pitching staff wasn't the problem here, the guys combined for a 3.27 ERA with 47 strikeouts and just 36 hits allowed in 44 innings during the five-game set.
WPA Graph & Box Score
MLB.com has the box score and video, FanGraphs some other stuff.
Up Next
Unfortunately, a lot of Yankees-less nights are next. The four-and-a-half month offseason officially begins today, and the Yankees have to deal with Brian Cashman's expiring contract before anything else takes place.
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I dont know what happened to ARod between Tuesday and Thursday night. It looked like two different people.
MIke what do you think the Yankees should do in the offseason?
I hope cc opts out, the Yanks dont sign him and he ends up making less elsewhere. After the game he's saying he needs to think about whether he wants to come back. Someone should remind him of when he said he wasn't opting out. A fat liar, not what the yankees need.
To be fair to CC, nobody believed him
A few ppl did because they see him as a stand up guy.
There are a number of fans that don't like what he said but at the same time he has his future to worry about.
Future? He makes 20 million dollars a year. He's already the highest paid pitcher in baseball history. What more can he want?
20 million and 1 dollars a year?
He'd be foolish not to. If you had such an option and pitching was so scarce, wouldn't you use it to your advantage?
I definitely would, but I also wouldn't lie about it beforehand.
Girardi did all he could to keep the game close. Mike, you couldn't be more right. The blame for this seires loss goes to the middle of the lineup. Arod, Tex, and Swish all came up small in many big moments.
I agree 100 percent. Giradi did a good job !. Arod Tex and Swish were helpless.
I hope the Yanks don't pick up Swish's option.
My issue with Girardi is that if he'd managed the earlier games with even a touch of the urgency he showed in this game, things might've turned out very different in the end. Maybe not, and of course we'll never know, but that throw-in-the-towel management he showed in one game sent all the wrong kinds of messages, and produced the worst result possible.
Now this is just dumb. You can say you don't think they should bring Swisher back, but not picking up the option? Swisher is worth about 15 mil a season and has an option for 10 million. You might as well say "I hope the Yanks put 5 million dollars in a trash can and burn it".
Picking up the option is a no-brainer. I might consider exploring the trade market for him, but I'm not sure of any really big name outfielders that might be available as a replacement.
What other team is going to pay 10 mill for Swisher?
All of them
I doubt it. For some teams that would be almost a quarter of their payroll.
Leaving Montero on the bench in '11 is going to be like when the Yankees didn't know they had Mariano on the bench in '95….
Girardi managed the pitchers well imho..
it was the managing w/ the lineup that was the problem.. So.. we score a billion runs this year.. second most in the league.. and then we change it a week before the end of the season.. and they dont produce??
what was girardi's reasoning to start Arod in the 4 hole??.. I mean even if he did the first 2 games.. why did he insist on doing it for all 5 games?? it was clear he couldnt drive the ball.. or make contact for that matter..
a guy going through spring training in the ALDS in the 4 slot is not good.. especially when we have a 42HR hitter in Tex and a hot hitter in Posada… He needed to adapt and try something different… Same lineups all 5 games.. leyland tried small changes for different pitchers..
WHo is he going to bat cleanup?
someone who isnt arod? go w/ Tex, or swisher, or even posada.. I'm fine w/ the lineup as it is in the first 2 games or so.. but you have to adapt.. see that someone's struggling.. not having good at bats… its win or go home time.
we score a billion runs this year.. second most in the league.. and then we change it a week before the end of the season.. and they dont produce??
Yankees Regular Season: 5.35 runs per game
Yankees in the ALDS: 5.6 runs per game
if you watched the games instead of going by the numbers only.. you would see that the middle of the Yankees lineup was not producing.. ooo we outscored them 28 to 17? did we win the series?
I really wish they would bump the first round up to 7 games. It is such a crapshoot right now who will win. Even 7 games is still not enough for the best teams to shine through, let alone 5…
The Yankees worst pitchers in the series:
CC Sabathia: 41 batters faced
Luis Ayala: 8 batters faced
The Yankees best pitchers in the series (and all season):
David Robertson: 7 batters faced
Mariano Rivera: 4 batters faced
Joe Girardi sure did a terrific job of marginalizing his best pitchers and over-using his worst ones. Whatever you think of CC, there's no way he should've been in tonight's game over giving Robertson and Mo more than 1 inning each.
Terrible job of bullpen management. I typically dealt with Girardi's issue's because he isn't as terrible as some manager's can be over the course of a season. But, his terrible decisions and moves throughout this series were just too much for me and I couldn't care less if they moved on and found someone else (though there's zero chance of it happening). You can't manage to a binder or constant pattern in the postseason, there's not enough time.
All that rest so they could face 11 batters for 10 outs combined???
Bottom line is. our OFFENSE didn't show up AGAIN!. its so easey and such a cop-out to blame this on Girardi.
Maybe he could have utilized the bench better. But to me . Arod Tex and Swish are fully to blame.
Yes. But that doesn't excuse the throw-in-the-towel approach Girardi used in the game he sent Ayala in to pitch. It sent all the wrong kinds of messages, and produced the worst result possible.
The 4-5-6 hitters did terribly, but Girardi sent them up in order all 5 games, with terrible results in all 5 games.
There is plenty of blame to go around. Just because the pitching staff did well on the whole doesn't mean that it couldn't have done better, particularly if better managed. And this is not hindsight being 20-20. The Ayala appearance was inexcusable. Completely
Yes, the offense is the main culprit, but that doesn't mean Girardi is free from blame. Leyland managed circles around him this series, be it getting hot hitters together in the top of the lineup, using his best relievers often, avoiding his lefties to keep Girardi's hottest hitter over the past month absurdly glued to the bench, using defensive replacements to convince Girardi to keep an very struggling pitcher in the game, etc…
Sorry. Leyland didn't out manage Girardi. he won the series because our 4567 hitters didn't hit.
Anyone who thinks Leyland managed circles around Girardi in this series either:
a: knows nothing about baseball
b: is allowing their ridiculous, unfounded bias to cloud their judgement, or
c: is developmentally delayed
Leyland's managerial decisions in this series ranged from questionable to downroght laughable at times. Really – putting in Don Kelly in the 6th with Sabathia still pitching in lieu of Ordonez? Completely eliminating your best pitcher from the do-or-die game 5 before the start of the game, without a single reliable relief arm in your bullpen? Bunting with Santiago in the 1st inning against Burnett after the lead-off walk? One more ridiculous after the next. But he won the series, so that shows that he "clearly" was the better manager, right?
To use a blackjack analogy, Leyland hit on 17 continuously throughout this series. Unfortunately for the Yankees, he kept drawing 4′s.
It always helps people's arguments when they try to insult other people, but:
He put Kelly in because he knew Sabathia was sucking that game and he knew Girardi would keep him in longer giving him a better chance than against the top relievers, which of course they then took the lead and won. He eliminated Verlander because he knew he wouldn't be reliable on two days rest while he had many other available arms, including starters (one of which was nearly up to a 16 inning scoreless streak against the Yanks), while Girardi stupidly used CC, against allowing the winning run. He bunted Santiago because, though it may not be great at that point, if you get Burnett on the ropes he may break a bit and if you get a couple runs across (as his middle of the order guys weren't invisible), you can knock AJ out early and plenty of chances against Girardi's mixing and matching.
Winning the series has nothing to do with it, he made the better decisions time and again while Girardi made a ton of mistakes and poor decisions.
But, I must just be developmentally delayed, so it doesn't matter…
It was the sixth inning, the Yankees were already behind, and regardless of how much Sabathia was "sucking", he's still a better pitcher than whoever would have come out of the bullpen for the Yankees. I love how the MSM calls Leyland a genius for making a move that led Girardi to keep Sabathia in the game rather than removing him for Cory Wade. Assuming that his "move" actually made a difference – I'm sure Sabathia was in the game for Avila (due up third in the inning), not Kelly, anyway.
That night, and through the series, he was not a better pitcher than whoever would've come out of the bullpen. It wasn't Wade, it was Soriano who was warming and Girardi has Robertson and Mo available for multiple innings.
And yes, the move did make a difference. It changed it from one lefty as the third batter to two lefties as the first and third batters and Girardi himself said that's why he left him in.
What terrible moves did Girardi make? Is it his fault the big guns in his lineup didn't hit at all in this series? Cmon, you make no sense
PH'ing Chavez, pitching CC today, leaving CC in the 6th inning game 3, letting Garcia pitch to Cabrera, using Ayala in game 2, sticking with a struggling lineup, leaving Montero glued to the bench, marginalizing Robertson and Mo…
Hey, Girardi can't pitch Mo and Robertson for 9 innings a game. What is he supposed to do when nearly the entire middle of his lineup posts a bunch of ofers? You're not going to bench Teixeira or Swisher for Nunez or Pena because they're having a bad series. You can mix and match for the hot bat if you have marginal players, but you're not going to sit and all-star, gold glove first baseman because he didn't hit in the last 4 games.
The series loss really sits on CC. What a putrid performence. Since there's no one else availible who can eat innings at an above average rate like he can, the Yankees have to bring him back, but the idea of him asking for more money and more years after he torpedo'd the Yankees season with his suckiness would make me want to vomit. Maybe he should consider adding the treadmill to his offseason workout regime. Just cutting out Captain Crunch didn't exactly work.
It did work for a while, but then he gained it all back over the course of the season, he does have to take better care of himself though
You can't blame this one all on CC. There was ZERO timely hitting, which used to be a hallmark of Yankee playoff baseball in the 90′s. How many times did we see O'Neill drive a double into left-center with men on base in the clutch. They just don't have that anymore.
One game out of 5…
How many people were really expecting this team to win the World Series back in April? They exceeded expectations in the regular season and ran out of gas in the playoffs, but I liked what I saw out of Nova, Montero looks legit…I just wished they would've have given Noesi a chance to start earlier (or kept him in the AAA rotation), to see what they had there. They need starting pitching, but they have the money and prospects to make a move. Cash showed again this year that he won't bow to pressure and make a rash move (see: Jimenez, Ubaldo). It'll be an interesting offseason.
Re-up Cashman. Offer Garcia arbitration and sign Darvish. Guarantee the options on Cano and give him three years on top of that.
And pick up Swisher's option.
And resign CC.
I'm pretty lukewarm on Darvish. I wouldn't be against signing him for the right price but I'm not losing any sleep if we don't get him.
Personally I don't understand the whole "The offense didn't show up" narrative. They scored 28 runs in 5 games. Thats right at their season average, and they did it against a good pitching staff. Of course it would be better to distribute the runs differently, and of course some guys didn't produce individually, but that's the nature of baseball. Not every guy is hot every week, and you don't score exactly your average number of runs in each game.
Some guys contributed over their heads, some guys didn't have a good week. Maybe they'd be hot next week, if there was a next week. Somehow before the playoffs everyone agrees that the small size isn't indicative of anything, and then it actually happens and everyone loses their minds.
One week, five games, two big wins, three tight losses. It hurts, but this team had a good year and I'm happy to have rooted for every one of these guys. We're well set up for the future. A bit of tinkering with the pitching staff and we'll be right back in the crapshoot with a chance to win it all next year. I won't ask for any more than that.
I think the narrative is more something like "the offense didn't show up when it had to". Big difference.
What are games 1 and 4. Optional?
The series is a microcosm of the season for the offense. A few huge games skewing the overall run production greatly, thereby seemingly making the common low scoring games less noteworthy.
That can work over the long haul, but not in a playoff series.
Exactly. The Yankees also were one of the worst contending teams with RISP this year, yet they still were second in runs and led in run differential by a wide margin. They would blow teams like the Orioles out 18-5 but lose one run games all season.
Precisely. It wasn't that they didn't hit, they just didn't hit in the clutch.
The ALDS was the whole season in microcosm — yes, they hit and yes, they scored more runs than anyone, but they were often stymied by repeated and frustrating RISP fail.
The only way the Yankees can win next year is if they replace the entire team with clutch hitting robots.
Real Steel 2: This Time It's Baseball
Girardi's bullpen management was absolutely fine. In fact, we should be praising it because it worked. One run in 7 innings against this Tigers lineup? Please. The only quibble I have is with leaving Jesus on the bench for Martin in the 7th. Kid already had his first taste of a big playoff situation in the previous game, so I doubt he would have been overwhelmed.
bah! 8th inning
Why is Martin getting a free pass? He was just as bad as the other three stooges -Arod, Tex & Swish. I really was hoping that Girardi was going to have the stones to pinch hit Montero for him in the eighth. I also was not happy to see Jeter swinging at the first pitch when he led off the 7th only to watch Cano hit a HR with no one on base.
Sad to see the season go – I love following the Yankees and how they do on a nightly basis.
Well, it's time to move on (unfortunately). I think Larry Rothschild did a tremendous job this year with this team but the Tigers might have taught us a lesson this Division Series with their pitching staff – throw Changeups. That one pitch neutralized our lefties in big situations with men on base because the pitchers weren't afraid to throw it in 2-0 hitter's counts. Heck, even Benoit's changeups had nasty movement down and in to the righties in the 7th inning, completely locking up ARod. I think it was a very effective pitch for them to use and something that our staff could add as well.
Hitting wise – our 4-6 hitters had a well documented, ill-timed slump. Tex was very all or nothing this year and if he has the sense to work on it (which I do), I think we'll see him back to hitting 30 HRs with some opposite field hits as well. He just needs some work with it. ARod will be ok – remember he was absolutely dominant in that first month of the season and pre-season before his oblique injury. He was driving the ball with power to all fields and was just so locked in with pitches. Remember when we were all thinking MVP 2011 for ARod? I know he's got the work ethic to come back strong next year. He just didn't have an rhythm at the end of the season. Swisher was just as streaky all season as Gardner, it's just that Brett got hot during the playoffs and Swish did not. There really aren't any viable alternatives to Swish, but he still adds tremendous value to this team.
I am angry at a lot of things right now, but I keep coming back to two things, one directly related to the yankees, one generally.
First, given our problems preseason, and during the season really, we certainly overachieved this season. That doesn't mean this is not disappointing, we could have very well won the WS this year, but it does mean that this still was a positive season.
Second, I really can't stand the 5 game series for for the division series. I mean 162 game season should not be potentially decided in 3 games. I really wish we could expand the opening round to 7 games (ala the NBA a couple years ago). I think that a short series generally benefits the lesser teams, which makes little sense. It is just too easy in baseball to go cold for 3-5 games and have a season be blown. Shorten the regular season to 160 and add 3 playoff games or leave 162 and still make it a 7 game division season. Either way that would be a better scenario.
And just FYI I have been saying the same thing regarding point two for the past 10 years, not just because the Yankees got knocked out in the division series this year. Moving all series to 7 games would not be that much more of an inconvenience, but would add a much greater potential for fairness.
I think the favoring lesser teams part is by design. They've been doing that for awhile. Look at the luxury taxing and now they want to add another wildcard. It wouldn't surprise me if they also add a salary cap. Unbelievable.
I was in section 305 right above jeter's fly ball, and it didn't seem quite as close (1-3 feet) as that picture makes it out to be. that was about as pathetic as a game can get. considering the yanks out hit and out pitched the tigers in that series handily and still lost. it was basically a perfect microcosm of the season, awesome run differential but they suck when it comes to winning 1-2 run games and risp fail in big spots. i hope arod's lack of production was more due to his injuries than anything else, weak of most of the stadium to blame it all on him (the a-rod sucks chants while waiting for the train were really classy, sometimes nyy fans really blow). swish striking out to end the inning with the bases loaded was as predictable as the sun rising. I know he's been productive, and i know they have to bring him back in 2012, but damn, i will just never have faith in him in a big spot
My issue with the CC opt out can be summed up in 2 words: Barry Zito. I hate the idea of losing CC, but I don't want to see huge sums of money into what will eventually be a declining player. See also: ARod. Even if CC is lights out for 2 or 3 more years, if there is then 3 or 4 years of subpar-ness… You get the idea.
Great season by the team, crummy way to lose the last game. Should be interesting to see what happens in the off season.
Strangely enough I used to be against letting CC walk but in sports it seesm teams manage to out-perform sometimes when you least expect it (like Mariners getting wins record after ARod left.) I am starting to accept him walking:
The reasons are
1) AROD contract looks even worse than we might have thought – with $154 million or so left (I believe) right now at best he might get a contract for $54 million – 3 years at $18 million or so. His body is breaking down and his steroid use may be a major factor. Even ignoring impact of steroids, he has that chronic bad hip.
2) CC really disappointed me with gaining all the weight back and more – he had knee surgery at end of last year and I thought it was decided that losing weight would help him. Everone points to the rain delay game in Seattle and also six man rotation but did weight gain also hurt? I do not know why teams don't bunt more (like Don Kelly did) against him.
CC probably deserves like 5 years at $24 mm or something but can Yanks afford $50 million or so of dead weight in 2 or 3 years (no pun intended.) between CC and AROd contract. Also worried about miles on his arm.
3) If we let CC go, maybe we could be more aggressive in letting Swish go and getting a high average right fielder.
4) I might go for replacing CC with some combination of Yu Darvish or CJ Wilson and maybe a stop gap (like Roy Oswalt) – clearly not replacing CC but trying to hold the fort down until our young pitrchers can start (hopefully in 2013).
The Mariners were better not because Alex left, but because they signed Ichiro and Bret Boone (who both had MVP type seasons) and various other guys improved.
1) Decent chance that Alex isn't healthy. He was having a great season before the injuries.
2) CC turned in his best year this year. He was fine after the rain delay game. He just allowed a crazy high homer rate in August (over half his homers allowed came in August). His K/BB in August was 9. His FIP in Sept. was 3.18.
3) Not sure who you would want in RF. Slim picking in the FA class. Swisher's OBP was high, which matters more than average
4) Replacing CC with Darvish/Wilson makes us worse. Darvish is good, but he would be a guy to bring in next to CC. Same with Wilson, who just isn't as good. Rather give the money to CC than Wilson (if I have to choose one). Oswalt is a huge risk.
Barry Zito was much worse when he got his contract than CC is now. Zito had a FIP over 2 runs higher in 2006 (his last year with the A's) than CC did in 2011. He also struck out 2.5 fewer batters per 9 while walking almost 2 more batters per 9. Zito was also getting worse as his tenure with the A's was finished while CC just finished off his best season with the Yankees.
CC is a much safer bet.
All of which is meaningless if the Yankees throw 7 more years and he stinks for the last 5. A bad contract is a bad contract, whether or not it's a safe bet at the time.
More money for the same number of years could be ok. Maybe add a year or two, but adding 4 years seems like a bad plan.
But we can't say "Don't throw a big contract of 6 or 7 years at a FA starter over 30," and then turn around and say "But for CC, we'll do it." Put it this way: if his name isn't CC and he has the same numbers for the past three years, do you want to throw $150MM at a 31 year old for 7 years? Maybe you do. I don't know.
What makes you think CC will just all of a sudden start sucking. You brought up Zito as an example of the horrors of giving pitchers big contracts. Zito didn't deserve that contract. He had a decent year the year before he got it. His last year with the A's was worse than Freddy Garcia this year. CC is totally different.
The only thing we have to go off is prior knowledge. He might suck in two years, but what makes you think that?
Also, the next best option on the FA market (and the only one who you could safely call an ace) is also over 30. I would rather give CC the money than CJ Wilson (if I had to choose one).
I wouldn't want to give him 7 years (doubt that the NYY will have to), but I can't see letting him walk like you are suggesting.
I'm not sure, is what I'm saying. Maybe he's fine, and he's great for 5 more years. Is it unreasonable to think that someone can/will decline? I'm not thinking that one day he's great and the next he's terrible, more that there's some inevitable decline with age, perhaps exacerbated by weight and injury.
That's all. The Zito contract is an example of a huge contract (and he was under 30 when it was signed). Replace it with whichever ridiculous contract you prefer for someone over 30, ARod or Ryan Howard or whoever.
I don't want to sign CJ Wilson for that length of time either. So i guess that's what I'm saying: I don't want to sign 30+ year old pitchers to 7 year deals for stupid sums of money.
Fortunately for CC, I don't make these decisions.
Not sure how you can say CC's performance was putrid. He certainly didn't perform like a guy primed to ask for $160 million or whatever the price is going to be, but "putrid" is a bit harsh, right? In Game 3, he did go into the 6th inning having allowed the same number of runs as the best pitcher in baseball.
I'm on the 4-5-6 bandwagon. I don't even want to think about A-Rod right now. Tex needs to get his sh*t together, but I think he's going to come back in 2012 much improved. As for Swisher…I don't know. I'm definitely a fan, but the dude just doesn't come through in the postseason.
I think it was the right call to hold Arod up at 3rd on Posada's base hit. I think he would have been out if they sent him. Ball was hit too hard. Austin Jackson has a very good arm and he had the ball when Arod reached 3rd. If there was 2 out, I would have taken a chance, but not with one out. Shame on Martin not being able to get him in with less than 2 outs
Agreed. A good throw and he's out by five feet.
So Scoscia benches/dumps Mike Napoli for Jeff Mathis and is an idiot, but Girardi slow-walks Montero to the Bronx and then gets him 3 ABs in the ALDS and he "did a good job". Thanks for that info.
Their 5th game flop was predictable. Considering all their talent (which could prevail over 162 games) they could not hit under pressure enough in close or extra inning games. Their talents are freed up mostly in blow-outs such as games 1 and 4 with stat-padding tack-on runs.
When you're the NYY manager, and you have a veteran team, you are often times stuck with an inflexible lineup, because ANY move you make becomes a major headline and a blow to egos. Remember all of the crap about moving Jeter in the first half?
The Don Kellys / Ramon Santiagos of the world can be shifted without a peep.
Moving ARod or Tex down can't be done without a firestorm.
Not saying it's right; it's just true.
You are correct, sir!
I want to know why no one is furious about the Delmon Young approach at the plate. Dude is a dead red first ball fastball hitter and yet Soriano and Nova threw his first pitch fastballs and they were gone. It isn't a secret how to pitch to Young. Throw offspeed pitches no problem (He was 0-5 against the Yanks in game two). Where was the adjustment?
Also, when did Tex turn into Jason Giambi? Selling out for home runs with an uppercut swing? Just hope he doesn't start wearing thongs and losing his ability to make basic first base plays.
Finally, was it just me or did Martin look completely over-matched and lost at the plate? He essentially conceded the first pitch every at bat, which the Tigers caught onto and proceeded to throw balls down the middle knowing he wouldn't swing. Where was the recognition this was being done?
HR off Nova WAS an off-speed pitch. It's the reason it was pulled and not hit the other way.
OK it was still a high strike to a dead fastball hitter. And since when does the fact that a ball is pulled mean it can't be a fastball?
He said in his post game interview he was sitting curve and got a nice fat one.
I will never understand why people think calling Tex the new Giambi is an insult. Giambi was always a very productive player here, far more so than Tex. Even if their BA was close, Giambi was far and away on base more. And playoff's wise, Giambi was far more productive than Tex.
Giambi hit .253 or below in 5 of his 7 seasons with the Yankees, and he couldn't field 1b to save his life. Teixeira has driven in no fewer than 108 runs in a season for the Yankees, and he makes the infield look good with his awesome fielding. Check the numbers.
Giambi was very good at scooping balls in the dirt.
I know that's kind of like saying the fat, ugly girl has really nice hair, but still…
And Tex is now at .256 or below in 2 of his 3 years. In those years he's averaged about a .355 OBP. Giambi averaged about .395 in his 5 years. Giambi had a nearly .900 OPS vs. Tex's .840ish OPS. RBI's? Really? That's your only offensive support for Tex? There's no debate about the defense, but it's sad when that's what you have to lean on for a $20 million per year 1st Basemen.
You are correct that Giambi had a better OPS than Teixeira, driven largely by his OBP, but I didn't want to get into too much of a statistical comparison, seeing as how Giambi played for NY in the steroid era (and used them by his own admission). I just see how many hard liners and grounders Teixeira snags that Giambi never would have gotten to, and Teixeira vastly improves the overall infield defense. Certainly not worth the $20 million just for that though.
Yeah I probably shouldn't have brought numbers into it at all then.
Nova's pitch was a hanging slider to Young.
Goodness, if Texeria was Jason Giambi at the plate the Yankees probably win the series. People forget the Giambi put up huge numbers whenver he was healthy. Plus Giambi actually could hit good playoff pitching.
If I had told you four years ago that the best pitching strategy against the 2011 Yanks would be to use all RHPs, would you have believed me?
They got unlucky — it happens. There were at least three moments in that game where a few feet one way or the other would have put the Yanks on top.
The one thing I took away from it though is that the Yanks are slightly RHP vulnerable right now. Their two best LHH going into 2012 hit LHP almost as well as RHP, but the SHs (Tex and Swish) are much worse against RHP, and the RHHs aren't as effective against RHP either. With Posada gone and Montero potentially replacing him as the DH, they need a LHH bat.
It was a very good season, and while this series sucked, I got over it quick.
What I am concern is A-Rod. For the first time, he looked old & broken down. Yes no question health played a major role but A-Rod looked just plain old. I dont know if you rely on A-Rod to be your number 4 hitter. However, with Cano, Granderson & up and coming Jesus, they Yanks have bats for the future.
And I think Phil Hughes is going to have a big year next season.
Older players look broken down when they lose and experienced when they win.
Younger players look inexperienced when they lose and athletic when they win.
It's just the way it goes.
You think Cashman will approach CC before he opts out and maybe offer him a 2 year extension? He makes 23 mill as it is. How much more can he expect to get on the open market? He's already 31 with serious weight issues
Mike ,
I'm done with Swisher. who do you see the Yanks maybe going after to replace him.
Kemp. Clean the farm for him.
You can be done with him, but the Yankees aren't.
This incarnation of the New York Yankees is over. It won't win another WS, ever. CC opts out and goes to the NL. Yanks shouldn't offer him another penny more than he's already been offered. Guy lost Games 3 and 5 and there's just no excuse for that. Swisher's gotta go. Posada's gone. We're stuck with Jeter and Arod. We should pursue trades for another big bopper in the lineup, someone that will show up in October and protect Robbie Cano.
I was against Darvish but now I say take a chance it only money. We are already eating large unmovable contracts whats 1 more, at least there is a chance he can be good.
I realize this is somewhat immaterial, but…the fact that the wild card can't play a team from its own division in the ALDS is really silly and kind of punishes the best team in the regular season for no real reason.
Otherwise, thank you for some refreshing perspective regarding Girardi. People are killing him yet the bullpen gave up one measly run. Seems like he actually pushed the right buttons yesterday with his staff in a really bad situation.
Yeah, knowing what we now know about Nova, it looks like he made the right moves. I did think he pulled Hughes a little early – leave him in and Boone can handle the next inning, but overall, the moves worked and the offense just couldn't get it together.
Sad that in the biggest game of the year, they had a win probability below 50% for virtually the entire game (with the exception of the first out I guess).
On a positive note, mo is still a ridiculous beast. it sucks that he only threw 8 pitches (4 outs) in the series. it is times like last night when you wonder how the hell he can't pitch another 5 years. plus he had an above career average season at age 41! hopefully his stupid family doesn't get in the way of him pitching past 2012
Sign and trade Swisher. its not his fault, and we know he is literally worthless in the playoffs (and the numbers in this case paint a rosier picture than reality, if that was even possible).
Changes need to be made to the "core" of this team's offense – does anyone believe the resulty will be different next year in the playoffs with the same cast of players on offense?
Montero is the answer??…I doubt he would have exceeded Posada's production in this series.
If the Yanks are stuck with (for good and bad) Jeter, Arod and Tex, then there are only a few places they can make improvements, or trade from a strength to get stronger elsewhere.
Gardner or Swish….
girardi did right to get nova out of the game – he was stupid to pitch CC on short rest — CC since the double rain delay and 127 pitch game has not been the same – the right guy and for multiple innings was Robertson – control the game don't hope
as to missed opportunities look no further than GIRARDI AND THE BATTING ORDER – ARod should not have been in the lineup — his Aug Sept demonstrated he had not recovered the grove — he was a hole in the lineup — not second guessing I posted that error before the series- the Yankees mised winning in 3 by 1 timely hit a game – they lost in 5 by one timely hit — how many pop-ups – HOW many times have we watched JORGE take strike 2 and 3 with 2 out ans RISP — Swisher knows how to work a count and go OPO – so where did the brain crap come from against BENOIT living outside the right black – pitches made to punch — JETER dismal by standards swinging over pitches he normally punches to right — but for all that plus Martin and TEX — NUNYEZ IN THE LINEUP PROBABLY GETS 1 OF THE TIMELY HITS THAT HELP 1 WIN — GET RID OF CASHMAN – if GARCIA AND Colon were stop gaps and HUGHES was hurt — how come there was no alternative — those guys ate a few starts that might have provided an exciting answer
Get rid og GIRARDI – HOPE is not a plan – you have to MANAGE the 25 guys and the game
mike: we need a "sky is falling" t-shirt in the RAB shop pronto
What makes it all the more annoying is that with all the flaws we expected at the start of the season on this team, to have finished with as many wins as they did and win the AL East probably exceeded most of our expectations. Playoffs…things happen. A hit here or there, kind of hard to freak out about when most teams don't even sniff success or a playoff birth most seasons.
also- while i am a big fan of advanced metrics and data….who among us wouldn't have rather seen Damon or Matsui -even in their decrepit state – on the bench to PH for Swisher / Tex during this series?
i was hoping to god he would have ph montero for swish in the bases loaded situation. it would have been a win win, better chance of getting a hit, and some c-dick in rf after that. better chance of the stadium collapsing at that moment, but if i was joe g, i would have done it
I had the same thought at the time, but it's nothing more than an instinct. All the numbers were against it — LHB vs. RHP, Swisher's recent success vs. Benoit, rookie forced to come in cold in a very high pressure situation.
Logically speaking, it made no sense to bring in Montero. But I agree that my heart was saying the same thing because I knew Swish was going to fail and Montero is…well…he's TEH JESUS!
Alex after the DL stint: 5 XBH's (2 doubles, 3 homers) in 107 plate appearances.
Girardi already has his lineup sent for next Opening Day.
Swisher's batting sixth.
Girardi already has his lineup sent for next Opening Day.
Swisher's batting sixth for the Rays.
The Rays aren't capable of paying Nick Swisher $10 million, and he's not going anywhere anyway. A better replacement isn't available.
I can't wait to see if Betances and Banuelos come to camp more refined and ready to go.
I believe CC is still a great pitcher. What concerns me is the weight gain. His belly was hanging over his belt. Either he has an injury which curtails him from staying in shape or he's hitting the buffet table a bit hard with a dose of laziness. IMHO I would not go crazy stupid about renegotiating his contract. The next 4 years at the original contract price and 2 more at the same yearly figures. If its not good enough than adios. We have to learn from Arod's contract about over paying. It will come back to hurt us in the future to continue to make the Soriano contracts.. There are many good athletes to be found with 23 million.
Just look at the team that beat us in the ALDS. If you went position by position its not a contest except their starting pitching is younger and better as a group.
Montero can bring us a good young pitcher. Unless the Yankess can define a position for him other than DH. He's a one tool player.
Hot Stove will be here soon, can't wait.
The plain fact is the Yankees are built to dominate in the regular season and crash and burn in the playoffs. Until they get a better starting rotation, they're going to continue to have years like this one. Unfortunately, you can't build a rotation through free agency anymore, you have to develop pitching through your farm system. Problem is, the fan base wants to see the team win EVERY year, and doesn't have the patience to wait for young pitchers to succeed. So the Yankees will just keep on getting to the playoffs, and losing in the ALDS or the ALCS. Sucks, bit it's true.
You really think they lost this series because of the starting pitching? Did you watch ANY of the games?
SHHHH…you're messing with the narrative here. Everyone knows our 2011 failure was due to Cashman's inability to get King Felix for some prospects, and no amount of facts will change that.
Nice to see such friendly people around here.
I never said they lost the series because of the starting pitching. Check my post again.
I agree with you but last year's flame-out (Hughes performances + Burnett flame-out in game 4 and a retiring pettite as #2 starter) was much more of an indicator about our pitching.
This year we basically lost a five game series to a team which we outscoired by eleven runs (28-17)? Is that luck? Pitching? hITTING? Hitting with RISP? Pitching and hitting, but only in close games.
The thing that I say is – yes, there are pitching concerns (mitigated by fact we have some young pitchers on horizon) but the real frustrating thing to me is that elite offensive players completely disappearing in playoffs (AROD, Tex, Swish), especailly when games were close.
(We were bad in one run games all year so probably fitting that two of our losses were one run and the other was 2 run).
I don't know how to describe that – "clutchness" (start the critical blow-back). Something is wrong with the offense even though we are one of the top two ofensive teams in AL. And we normally do not get completely shut down – even in Scherzer game, where we were no-hit for so long, we did get tying run to plate.
Is it just RISPFAIL? Something always happens in these playoffs games yet I cannot exactly describe it.
On the other hand, it was good to see Cano and Granderson ( a little less so but still good) come through offensively in this series. We do need to build around them (whatever that means.
That is why i am also hesitant to trade Montero – chance – no guarantee – at an elite offensive performer.
Maybe we do better than average for RISP in regular season (even though we all copmplain about it) Would love to see the same average for playoffs versus average playoff team.
Why did Giradi manage in desperation mode when it came to pitching changes but not on the offense?
Posada should have been the backup catcher/DH all season. Total stupidity by Cashman and Girardi. Farewell Jorge and thanks for everything. I hope you come back to the Stadium on another team and KICK OUR ASSES!. I will be on my feet cheering for you with 54,000 other old friends.


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Critical review
A look at the good, the bad and the complicated from our film writers
Published: January 2, 2013
Promised Land | B
The Best
1) Silver Linings Playbook
A perfect romantic comedy cleverly embedded in a dysfunctional family drama, somehow managing to subvert both genres while delivering sheer moviegoing bliss.
2) The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson's incredibly vivid exploration of the hidden desires, depravity, faith, trauma and ambition of the "Greatest Generation," manifested in the twisted grimace of Joaquin Phoenix's shell-shocked, self-medicating survivor.
3) Turn Me On, Dammit!
A hilarious, squirmy, moving and bluntly honest comedy about teen female sexual awakening that comes from Norway, of all places, yet manages to be more immediately relatable than just about any domestic product.
4) Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's morally dubious, shrewdly calculated procedural about the long hunt for Osama bin Laden pulls off the magic trick of simultaneously engaging and indicting the viewers for rooting on the devious tactics of their CIA anti-heroes. The eventual Seal Team Six raid on the terrorist's compound is no less mesmerizing for being ripped from recent headlines.
5) Argo
Ben Affleck's express pass to the directing A-list is a deftly crafted espionage thriller cannily spot-welded to a savvy showbiz satire that never relents or winks, and miraculously maintains nail-biting tension with real world events that happened three decades ago. Most amazingly, it makes polyester Jimmy Carter, me-generation malaise and inside-the-beltway cynicism seem somehow appealing.
6) Django Unchained
Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz exterminate vicious slave traders with extreme prejudice in Tarantino's giddily offensive, obscenely excessive "spaghetti Southern" — part action homage, part pointed civics lesson, it drops more N-bombs than Katt Williams in a full-on meltdown.
7) The Avengers
It only took 49 years and a half-dozen "prequel" movies to assemble a team of Marvel Comics' super-duper heavyweights into one flick, but the wait was nearly worth it, as fanboy savior Joss Whedon delivered the year's most purely enjoyable popcorn picture, one that was actually worthy of the hype, the budget and the extra bucks for a 3-D ticket. Hulk, smash!
8) Looper
A trippy time-travel caper that turns its own pretzel loop structure into a snarky commentary on genre tropes, all while providing edgy thrills, humor and a genuine emotional wallop.
9) Starlet
Out of the dingy, smut-soaked soil of the San Fernando Valley emerges a beautifully sweet inter-generational friendship between a budding porn actress (Dree Hemingway) and lonely, yet feisty widow (Besedka Johnson ). A startlingly fresh and achingly real indie from under-the-radar but quickly rising director Sean Baker.
10) The Queen of Versailles
An utterly captivating and oddly sad documentary about a repellent train wreck of a family of real estate hucksters caught up in their own avarice and the collapsing paper castle of a fragile economy as they attempt to build the nation's most extravagant private home, all while their professional and personal worlds crumble into the Florida sand.
The Worst
1) Rock of Ages
Watching Tom Cruise parade around in a fur coat and leather cowboy hat is an embarrassment to hair metal, which was already the most shameful cultural chapter of the last half of the 20th century.
2) John Carter
A nearly forgotten pulp novel icon is made even less relevant by sheer Hollywood incompetence, as shirtless himbo Taylor Kitsch bounces around the surface of Mars like a Super Ball, and gives an even more lifeless performance than the wonky CGI critters he grapples with.
3) Alex Cross
Tyler Perry tries really, really hard to look macho as the ass-kicking criminologist formerly played by Morgan Freeman, but the schlock mogul was more threatening in a muumuu.
4) The Dark Knight Rises
After reinvigorating the Caped Crusader's franchise with two brilliant entries, director Christopher Nolan huffs his own exhaust and turns in a plodding, poorly motivated, inexplicably plotted, grandiose and faux deep rumination on modern living in superhero drag. With a mopey Bruce Wayne, a drippy supporting cast, excess gloom, plot holes you could drive a bat tank through, and a goofy villain that sounds like Sean Connery on a cough syrup bender.
5) Hit and Run
Dax Shepard cast his real-life fiancee and yet displays no discernible chemistry.
6) A Thousand Words
A wasted ghoul faintly resembling Eddie Murphy shambled his way through this painfully unfunny comedy about a soulless yuppie forced to shut his flapping gums until he learns his lesson.
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France's tradition of filmmaking is as long and as rich as any country's. Although it's more renowned for its high dramas, its edgy experimentalism and its art house sensibilities, French cinema also has an eclectic history within the horror genre.
Even before its had a viable movie industry, France displayed an obsession with macabre visual arts through the popularity of the Grand Guignol Theater in Paris, a forum dedicated to horrific plays that climaxed in gruesome violence. It didn't take long, then, for the country to adapt its dark curiosity to the fledgling cinema.
Georges Méliès, famed for creating the first science fiction film with 1902's A Trip to the Moon, had, some six years earlier, directed what is believed to be the first horror movie, a three-minute short entitled The House of the Devil. A simple film with little plot, its imagery of bats, witches, ghosts, skeletons, cauldrons and Satan himself established an early template for supernatural cinema. Méliès followed that up with a dozen horror-themed shorts over the next decade (amidst the 500-plus films he shot), with titles such as The Devil's Laboratory, The Infernal Boiling Pot, The Cave of the Demons and Summoning the Spirits. Méliès' films were extravaganzas of magic tricks and special effects, creating the sort of visual awe and grotesque displays that would characterize later horror cinema.
Pioneering filmmaker Abel Gance likewise directed early supernatural shorts, such as The Mask of Horror (1912) and Help! (1924), but made a more indelible mark with his feature films. In 1919, he directed I Accuse, a frank anti-war response to France's involvement in World War I that culminated in the corpses of dead soldiers rising from their graves to declare their opposition to war. Gance would later remake the film in 1938 on the verge of World War II.
In 1929, surrealist Luis Buñuel directed one of the most famous examples of French avant-garde cinema, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), which featured horrific imagery aimed at shocking the viewer -- including the famed shot of a woman's eye being slit with a razor.
Old Standards
Despite the groundbreaking early work of French filmmakers, many French horror movies made between the late '20s and the early '60s recycled old classic works. For instance:
- In 1928, Jean Epstein brought Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Fall of the House of Usher" to the screen.
- Maurice Tourneur's La Main du Diable (Carnival of Sinners) (1943) is a retelling of the age-old Faust legend, with a man selling his soul to the Devil in exchange for wealth and success.
- Beauty and the Beast (1946) was one of the most important films of this era, horror or otherwise, for its breathtaking visuals, set design and cinematography.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956), starring Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo, was a natural choice to film in the actual Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
- Acclaimed director Jean Renoir made his only venture into horror in 1959 with a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, entitled The Doctor's Horrible Experiment.
- The Hands of Orloc (1960) revisited a lesser-known tale of a hand transplant gone awry, which had been filmed twice previously, first in Germany and then in the US.
With 1955's Diabolique, however, French suspense-horror began to show the sort of cutting-edge artistry that characterized the country's other film genres. On par with Hitchcock's best, the tale of murder and revenge was a sensation around the world, eventually spawning an American remake four decades later.
Later, in 1960, director Georges Franju delivered Eyes Without a Face, often considered the best French horror film of all time. Both horrific and eerily beautiful, Franju's work is a modern Frankenstein tale of sorts, with a mad doctor frantically trying to find a suitable donor for his disfigured daughter's face transplant.
Less artistic but equally innovative was Jean Rollin, who's often credited with directing the first French vampire movie, 1967's The Rape of the Vampire. The film established a formula that would become Rollin's trademark: gothic, artsy, erotic horror that often revolves around female vampires. Substance plays second fiddle to style in his work, which stirred up controversy due to its extreme sexuality commingled with graphic violence. Rollin would later establish levels of gore previously unknown in French horror with the zombie flick The Grapes of Death (1978).
More restrained is Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976), a psychological mystery about a man (played by Polanski himself) descending into madness after moving into an eerie apartment building. It mines horror within the realities of urban life and interpersonal relations and is uncompromising in its dark, ambiguous conclusion.
Modern Horror
This new wave of progressive horror bore little fruit in the '80s, however, when horror cinema around the world came to be dominated by low-brow slashers and zombie flicks. It wasn't until the turn of the 21st century that French horror began to generate enough quality content on a consistent level to make a name for itself.
Modern French horror and suspense is among the most edgy of any nation's cinematic efforts. The films thrive on unsettling the audience, whether on a psychological level -- as in With a Friend Like Harry... (2000) or Caché (2005) -- or on a visceral, violent level, as with High Tension (2003), Sheitan (2006) or Inside (2007). Like all envelope-pushing art, they sometimes spur controversy -- see Trouble Every Day's notorious blend of sex and cannibalism or the Frontier(s) violence so extreme that it was threatened with an NC-17 rating -- but at the same time, French horror continues to prove its innovation.
The haunted orphanage tale Saint Ange (2004), for instance, predated the similarly-themed Spanish hit The Orphanage by three years, and They Came Back (2004) put a dramatic, realistic spin on zombie lore. Meanwhile, movies like Brotherhood of the Wolf, Requiem and Blood Mallory mix horror with action, comedy and other genres to craft an undefinable style.


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Smuin Ballet to Present Adam Hougland's COLD VIRTUES, 2/1-3/9
Smuin Ballet lights up the Bay Area this winter as it continues its presentation of Cold Virtues, a striking interplay of romance and power from rising choreographer Adam Hougland, set to Philip Glass' haunting Violin Concerto. The program also includes a revival of Oh, Inverted World, Trey McIntyre's spunky smash hit set to music from the popular indie-rock band The Shins, which received its world premiere with Smuin Ballet in 2010. Three works by Michael Smuin will also grace the stage - Starshadows, a sensual and evocative adagio for three couples set to Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major; Homeless, a joyous and exhilarating solo work; and No Viviré, an en pointe solo peppered with the delicious flavoring of Latin American rhythms.
Smuin Ballet's Winter Program tours the Bay Area, beginning with shows in Walnut Creek (Feb 1-2), followed by performances in Mountain View (Feb 20-24) and Carmel (Mar 8-9). Tickets are now available at www.smuinballet.org or at each venue's box office (see info at end of release).
Adam Hougland's Cold Virtues is a mysterious and intriguing dance of manipulation and deception, called "engrossing to the end" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "unforgettable" by SF Classical Voice. Set to Philip Glass's haunting Violin Concerto, the piece features 14 dancers, who whirl and leap against a hypnotic backdrop of spinning fans in the smoky depths of a depression-era speakeasy. As the Principal Choreographer for Louisville Ballet and Resident Choreographer for Cincinnati Ballet, Hougland has added to his list of accomplishments by choreographing original works for the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Introdans in the Netherlands, the Limón Dance Company, The Washington Ballet, and the New York Choreographic Institute at New York City Ballet. In 2006, he created a world premiere for Juilliard's Centennial Celebration that was broadcast on the PBS 'Live from Lincoln Center' series. He has won the Princess Grace Award for Choreography, the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, and a New York State Council for the Arts Commissioning Grant, and was included in Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch for 2011 and Pointe Magazine's 10 VIPs of 2006.
Oh, Inverted World by Trey McIntyre is set to music by the influential indie-rock band The Shins. An innovative fusion of McIntyre's fresh, impulsive choreography and The Shins' distinctive style, Oh, Inverted World is a mesmeric and lingering work marked by intricate patterns and athletic partnering. This dynamic ballet, commissioned by Smuin Ballet, received its world premiere in Fall 2010 in San Francisco, and recently enjoyed its New York premiere at The Joyce Theatre in Manhattan.
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Looking backs: Martin Chavez (Class of '82, B.S., Public Administration; '83, M.P.A.); caption below
Alex Bengard has more than the usual camaraderie to look back on from his days as a
Toros midfielder. Having been on the team that won the NCAA Division II National Championship in 2000,
being drafted after graduation by the L.A. Galaxy Major League Soccer team where he played for two years,
and moving on to the Northwest where he played
for United Soccer League's Seattle Sounders in 2003 and the Portland Timbers in 2004 has inspired the
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lessons that can be learned through soccer, on and off the pitch.
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By CAROL FERGUSON
Herald-Banner Staff
Greenville Council No. 7438 of the Knights of Columbus is busy preparing for its annual Oktoberfest for charity on Oct. 5 from 4 to 8 p.m., in the council hall.
Between 800 and 1,000 people are expected at the event which is the council's principle fundraiser supporting charity projects such as Christmas food baskets for the needy, scholarships for area high school graduating seniors, sponsorships of youth league sports teams, stipends for seminarians studying toward their ordination into the priesthood, and emergency disaster relief.
The fun begins with an authentic German meal which includes bratwurst and sausage from Muenster, Texas; grilled lemon chicken, German potato salad, sauerkraut, red cabbage, European breads, desserts and iced tea . Soft drinks and imported German beers will also be available.
German "oompah" music will add to the atmosphere for listening enjoyment as well as dancing under the council's outdoor pavilion located adjacent to the council hall, and an outdoor bounce house will be provided for children. Several Knights will also be dressed in the traditional lederhosen for this family-oriented celebration.
Advance tickets are priced at $10 for adults, $5 for children, and are available from any council member of the Knights of Columbus, or from Ray Murphy, ticket chairman, at 903-454-9629. At-the-door prices are $15 for adults and $5 for children (through the age of 12). A special separate line will be set up for those wishing to purchase take-outs.
The Knights of Columbus council hall is located at 2705 Sunset Strip at Highway 34, about a half-mile south of Walmart.
This local event began 15 years ago as part of the communitywide Cotton Jubilee celebration which was sponsored by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce. Although the Chamber has since discontinued the Jubilee, the council has continued to host the celebration.
The tradition of Oktoberfest originated in Munich on Oct. 18, 1810, when Crown Prince Ludwig (later Kind Ludwig I) of Bavaria decided to celebrate his marriage to Princess Marie Theresa of Saxony in royal style. At first it was meant to be just a simple horse race on a site now dubbed Theresienwiese (Theresa's fields), but the Bavarian character quickly took over and it became the party of the century. With an open invitation to Ludwig's countrymen, the party drew about 40,000 guests.
In the following year, the farmers of Bavaria staged a second Oktoberfest as an occasion to market the produce they had just harvested. The horse races were eventually abandoned, but the event continued each year thereafter as a celebration of the harvest, with ever increasing crowds.
It has continued annually throughout all Germanic lands and eventually spread to the United States where many Americans enjoy the authentic German food, costumes and music.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A unique competition has landed in Nashville this weekend.
Contestants from across the southeast flocked to Music City Saturday night for this year's U.S. Air Guitar Qualifier. The winner from the competition gets free airfare to the semi-finals in Washington, DC.
Second and third place also qualify for the chance to go to the nationals and eventually the international competition.
"I just find air guitar awesome," said organizer Michael Vucovich. "I know it's wierd, I don't care. I'm gonna find a way to make the world a little bit better through it, and we have all of these awesome people who share that vision."
Proceeds from the ticket sales of the show went to Notes for Notes. The local non-profit enhances musical education for children by building music studios at Boys and Girls Clubs in Nashville.


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Presidential candidate septuagenarian Republican Ron Paul flew into Las Vega to kick off his rally at a casino in Henderson on 31st January.
Over a thousand attended whereas Newt Gingrich could draw only 200 listeners at Orlando on that same day. At Florida, Paul finished fourth in the primary, drawing 7%.
During the January 3rd caucuses, he ranked third with 21% of vote. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum drew respectively 24.5% and 24.6%; Gingrich drew 13%.
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A female student at Terre Haute South Vigo High School was arrested Tuesday after police said she wrote a bomb threat in a bathroom.
Terre Haute Police Chief John Plasse said the student was arrested within five minutes of discovery of the writing. She was arrested on suspicion of intimidation, a class-D felony, for making a bomb threat. "She made a poor timing choice, as we were already there working on another case and there were a lot of detectives there," Plasse said.
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Jesse Ventura: [Starts laughing] You better ask him that. Any chance of it, well you never say never but they'd certainly have to put the decimal point in the right place. You get what I'm saying there.
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2011 Record: 97-65 (855 RS, 657 RA, 102-60 pythag. record), won AL East, lost to Tigers in ALDS
Top stories from last week:
- Andruw Jones will be back in 2012, agreeing to a one-year contract worth $2M with another $1.4M available in incentives. The Yankees also signed Hideki Okajima to a minor league deal, but they're still far apart in contract talks with Hiroyuki Nakajima.
- Alex Rodriguez underwent an experimental procedure on his right knee and left shoulder in Germany with blessings from the team and the commissioner's office. Brian Cashman said it was more about "maintaining health going forward" than rehabbing past injuries.
- Carlos Beltran came to the Yankees and was willing to sign for two years and $26M at the last minute, but they declined and he took the same contract from the Cardinals. The Cubs are prioritizing young pitching in a Matt Garza trade. Despite reports to the contrary, the Yankees do have money to make moves according to Randy Levine.
- The Yankees will apparently wear 1912 throwback jerseys on April 20th to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park's opening.
Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the team. You can view the interactive Fan Confidence Graph anytime via the nav bar above, or by clicking here. Thanks in advance for voting.
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I find the discipline they're showing to be refreshing and I remain confident that if the right move is out there, Cashman will make it.
I feel the same way. So I am at 9 again.
I agree that the discipline is a very good sign. I'm at an 8. On the flip side, it is a negative that there hasn't been a good move out there to make to get another stud starting pitcher. Maybe Hamels will be the guy next off season. Hopefully.
Best move may prove to be holing onto the prospects.
Best move may also be trading some of them for a front end starter too.
Cepedes will bump my pick from an 8 to a 9! It's not even so much that I think he'll be great, but because it'd be exciting to have a new young outfielder.
Please don't stop at Cespedes, add Jorge Soler and Armando Rivero to your wishlist.
I would love signing Soler as well. Everything I've heard about Rivero seems like a BP arm. I wouldn't mind that at all, but not as exciting as the other two in my mind.
Shortening the game to 4 innings!!!
I read the A's are interested in soler, he can't be that expensive.
I am at 8 because we are still not where we should be. I will explain. It seems to me that we are unlikely to find the pitcher we are looking for and at the right price. Thus, I repeat my sentiment that Boone Logan be stretched out during ST and turned into a starter. We coul replace him with one of the LOOGYs that we signed in the offseason. If that does not work, we have Noesi to step in at any moment. Or the latter can replace any one in the rotation that fails or is injured.
not sure if you're serious about this but why do you want to make Logan a starter when we have a bunch of talented starters in AAA? Last time Logan started a game was in 2004 in the rookie league and Logan simply hasn't the secondary pitches to be a decent starter.
barely has the primary pitches to be a passable LOOGY.
There are plenty of guys in our farm I'd put in the rotation over a Boone Logan experiment.
Not being confrontational at all, curious why you think he would make a good starter?
It's that he is a lefty,simply as that. We need another lefty in the rotation. He throws hard enough and has fir control. Furthermore, lefties have been successful for the most part in YS. Of course, I'd prefer ManBan but he is not ready just yet.
I don't even want to compare Logan with lefties of the past, it's that when we won it all we had a pair of good lefties in the rotation: Lopat,Ford, Byrne in the 50s, Guidry, Gullet in the 70s, Pettitte and Key and later Pettitte an Wells in the 90s. The only time in recent memory we won it all without two lefties in the rotation was 2009. We had only CC as you know.
Andy P. was still around in 2009
Sorry, I forgot he came back. I also did not mention the 60s because I was out of the country for mos of the decade and have no memories of it.
I have my own….personal reasons for not remembering the 60′s!
I thought you never inhaled.
I think you are correct that the Yanks could use another lefty SP but I don't think Boone is the answer. Plenty aren't even sure he is the answer as LOOGY. I'm ok with him as LOOGY.
I'm a lefty that will get shellacked in the rotation too, sign me!
7, we need more pitching
I'm at 7. I was reading on another Yankees blog that Banuelos and Betances project to be #3 starters. So why hold on to them and pass up a possible ace?
They are available for a "possible ace" the debate is over whether they should be available for a #2-3 type.
I'd consider Latos an ace. Maybe not Gonzalez or Danks but Latos definitely has the makings of an ace.
Im not high on Latos "makings of an ace" type pitcher. Too Kevin brown Jeff weaver like.
instead of believing the hype, go take a look at what other people projected other starters on our team… namely Cano, Gardner & Nova. and then while you're on that page go see where the 'world' projected Tabata and Austin Jackson.
so nerds with MacBooks are fun and all, but take a step back and lets get some perspective.
I hardly think you can evaluate Nova or Jackson yet. One good, or bad season at the start of a career really doesn't mean a whole lot. I do not expect Nova to have a repeat of last year, just as I didn't think Hughes would have a season like 2010 last year.
Cano was an international free agent signing and while Gardner has been good, I wouldn't consider him to be an elite left or center fielder.
At 5.1 Gardner was worth as much fWAR as Pujols last year, and was worth 6.1 in 2010.
I'm going to go with calling him elite.
What the hell is Cashman doing? He has a chance to get Beltran and he chooses Andruw Jones intead? With Beltran we could have shipped Swisher out of town so he can't hurt us in the playoffs anymore. Garza would be a tremendous addition but I have no confidence in the front office to get the trade done. Nolan Ryan will probably just swoop in and best Cashman yet again.
And then when Beltran's knee goes out we can replace him in left with Justin Maxwell! That'd be awesome!
Really? What crack did you smoke on New Years?
There was never a choice of Jones over Beltran. Jones is a 4th OF and Beltran would have wanted to start. Signing Beltran made no sense unless you can flip Swisher for something useful in return. Since there was little to no evidence this was occurring, why would they take that risk. Also, Beltran is 34 (turning 35 this season) and missed more than 50% of the 2009 and 2010 seasons with injuries. He does well for 140 games in 2011 and suddenly he is your Jesus. Say what you want about Swisher in the postseason (that argument is old and washed up), but Swisher has been consistent from year to year now and doesn't get hurt. That's a lot to say these days.
For Garza, if the trade request isn't ridiculous, I think it can get done. Sure, any team and "swoop in" and overpay, but Garza isn't an improvement enough to dump half the farm on. IMO, they'll trade anything outside of Montero and Banuelos for him.
Please, just stop whining. It sounds so pathetic and isn't reflective of a Yankee fan.
The linked report said that Beltran was willing to sign with the Yankees, without mentioning that that was conditional on starting (in which case the Yankees would have had to trade a starting OF). So it seems that the Yankees indeed chose Jones over Beltran.
2/26 for a 4OF is awful steep when considering the need to put that money towards a pitcher if one comes along… and $13M per season is without a doubt 'starter money'
same ppl will bitch if someone comes availible for the rotation and the Yankees do not pull the trigger because Cashman was stupid enough to spend $13M on a 4OF.
7. It seems that priority #1 is shifting from winning on the field to making money. That does not bode well for the future.
George is dead. I would say his sons have been pretty good and could have been a lot worse. They will never be George Steinbrenner, but they seem to be pretty smart about running the team, although slightly more thrifty.
A true disaster would have been if they cleaned out our farm system for Ubaldo and/or another overpriced starter, leaving our future in doubt, especially with the cba curtailing our ability to get young talent. All in all, the Steinbrenner kids played things pretty well the past couple of years.
god rest his soul, but a true disaster for any son is to not learn from his fathers mistakes.
Hal & Hank are relying heavily on their 'Baseball People' to guide them. George wasn't the type.
I doubt that their 'Baseball People' said "Freddy Garcia is the best pitcher available for the rotation!"
But George wasn't smart.
If this is what's happening, it's every bit as serious as you imply. It would be a throwback to the CBS era. It would be reminiscent of what the Giants used to do when Col. Jake upstaged them by plowing dough back into the team. Etc.
However, it's still too soon to know whether this is what is happening. We need to watch for a year, see what moves, of a serious nature, the Yanks might make–or choose not to make–during the 2011 season. And watch to see what moves they've made–or not made–during the off-season, this time next year.
If the pitching crumbles and the yanks fail to make the playoffs because of Boston Tampa Texas angels, it will NOT be Girardi's fault!
I dropped from 8 to 7 last poll over Yu. Wanted Yu. Needed Yu. Deep down I knew, there ain't know way we were ever going to get Yu, but I guess I was holding out hope and like they say…2 outta 3 ain't bad. Anyway, Alex getting this procedure will bump me up fractionally to a 7.25. I believe he will indeed maintain strong offensive production, and stay on the field, longer than most (but not to justify the ridiculous contract). Plus I'm in the same camp as those who believe 2012 may offer some near-in challenges but the patience being displayed and the continued stocking and development happening on the farm bodes well for the team in 2013 and beyond – unless the Mayans were right and 2012 is the last Baseball season.
Is Alex's procedure similar to what Bartolo had done ?
similar theory (i have read), but Bartolo used stem cells and A Rod is getting platelets. and Platelets are OKd by the league, stem cells are still in question.
The Mayan's did not now about baseball or else they would have finsihed their calender..
Anyway, Alex getting this procedure will bump me up fractionally to a 7.25.
At first I was encouraged by this news, but then my temperamental pessimism ("The worst is always possible") took over and made me wonder whether, in the course of his off-season workouts, Alex was feeling some pain in shoulder or knee.
I hear you. At his age, pain is the new normal when you're a professional athlete.
I'm right at the good ole number 8 spot on the Confidence scale like I've been for really a long time now.
Confidence in the yanks is relative to the confidence of Boston Tampa Texas and angels.
I am at 8 for this year.
Five playoff spots. Six contenders: Yankees, Red Sox, Rays, Rangers, Angels, Tigers.
Given the above, why would the Yankees give up prospects in any deal that is not favorable?
Because there are only four playoff spots.
Not if they implement the 2nd Wild Card this year, as they're still mulling over.
But then each wild card will represent only half a playoff spot unless you consider the loser of the wild card game a real playoff participant.


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