Yeah, let’s dump Jeter and trade for Renteria.

Of course, Jeter homered in the 8th. Anyway, I’m not down on Jeter. I’m up on Jeter. The 0 for 8 thing, while I have noticed, is just a freak thing. I mean, 8 at bats vs. everything he’s done? He’s having a really good year. Does anyone think pitchers are actually relaxed when Jeter comes up and the game is on the line? Of course they’re not.

Agree with rbj.

I won’t be down. All of our season starting pitchers have been injured, and while that’s to be expected for the likes of Kevin Brown, it’s probably just evening out from the great years, like 1998. The team has fought pretty hard, and there are some good signs for next year, like Wang and Cano and a healthy Giambi.
Every team has games they “should have won, if only X had happened.”

I’m not as down – in fact, I’m hoping that the 0 for 8 thing is some kind of freaky thing that he turns around in the post-season – where he gets something like five for five in chances to win a game in his last AB.

Jeter blew a DP and that was the game in reality.

And Jeter yet again made the final out in the game with the tieing run in scoring position, eighth time this season in fact. I’m very down on Jeter, very.

FWIW, at this point, I would platoon Crosby and Vento in RF and bat them 9th until Sheff could play the field again.

I do have a fear here: That Sheff is so bad that he will have to DH in the post-season and this is Torre’s way to get Sierra some reps in the OF.

Considering how lefty-heavy the team is, in retrospect, they should have gotten a RH batting 4th OF instead of Lawton when they picked up some insurance. There must have been someone out there who could at least catch the ball and bat .250 against lefties.

Steve, good thing you missed it. You would’ve had a conniption seeing Sierra penciled in as the RFer…again. And, as expected, he was horsehit in the OF, his lack of range in any direction and inability to uncoil his probably juiced body quick enough to release a decent throw giving away at least 3 runs…not to mention his usual oh fer the game. We won’t even discuss Alan Embree’s lovely day at the park. As I’ve said before, Torre really needs to get a new bag of hunches.