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		<title>By: Rich</title>
		<link>http://waswatching.com/2008/05/13/may-13th-the-rays/comment-page-1/#comment-30537</link>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you’re trying to do something about it, you don’t bench your productive offensive players…
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Damon&#039;s OPS in May is .690

You cannot be calling that productive, right?</description>
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<p>Damon&#8217;s OPS in May is .690</p>
<p>You cannot be calling that productive, right?</p>
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		<title>By: Raf</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good. Stick with the craptacular offense and don’t even try to do anything about it.
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If you&#039;re trying to do something about it, you don&#039;t bench your productive offensive players...</description>
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If you&#8217;re trying to do something about it, you don&#8217;t bench your productive offensive players&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 23:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You’re kidding right? Damon has been solid this year suprisingly and I don’t think you can sit Abreu.
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Good. Stick with the craptacular offense and don&#039;t even try to do anything about  it.

And you want to know if I&#039;m kidding. Sheesh.</description>
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<p>Good. Stick with the craptacular offense and don&#8217;t even try to do anything about  it.</p>
<p>And you want to know if I&#8217;m kidding. Sheesh.</p>
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		<title>By: MJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>MJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As much as Gomes has made Molina look bad this week we can&#039;t look past the fact that Rivera wasn&#039;t sharp last night.  That&#039;s just how it goes.  Now, the pain is compounded by the fact that Andy Pettitte pitched like crap on Monday night and the team scored only one run off a busted prospect and the bullpen.

So, in short, if the offense had managed three runs last night (not much to ask for, I&#039;d say) then Rivera wouldn&#039;t be the goat of the 11th inning.

Also -- side note -- Melky&#039;s throws this year have been absolutely terrible.  I can&#039;t think of a single throw he&#039;s made this year that has been accurate or even close.  Who is the OF instructor on the team?  Rob Thompson?  He might want to work on Melky&#039;s throws because it&#039;s night and day from 2007 to present.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="comment-toolbar" style="text-align: right"><input type="button" value="Reply" onclick="CF_Reply('MJ');" /><input type="button" value="Quote" onclick="CF_Quote('co_30476','MJ');" /></div><span id="co_30476"><p>As much as Gomes has made Molina look bad this week we can&#8217;t look past the fact that Rivera wasn&#8217;t sharp last night.  That&#8217;s just how it goes.  Now, the pain is compounded by the fact that Andy Pettitte pitched like crap on Monday night and the team scored only one run off a busted prospect and the bullpen.</p>
<p>So, in short, if the offense had managed three runs last night (not much to ask for, I&#8217;d say) then Rivera wouldn&#8217;t be the goat of the 11th inning.</p>
<p>Also &#8212; side note &#8212; Melky&#8217;s throws this year have been absolutely terrible.  I can&#8217;t think of a single throw he&#8217;s made this year that has been accurate or even close.  Who is the OF instructor on the team?  Rob Thompson?  He might want to work on Melky&#8217;s throws because it&#8217;s night and day from 2007 to present.</p>
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		<title>By: Don</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fire? With a veteran team? And this is baseball, not football. At least Joe G has them well conditioned......

Hankenstein, starting to make following the Yankees a chore. At least the old man bought the franchise [majority] and built it up. That was bad enough, listening to him at times, now this acorn won&#039;t shut up.</description>
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<p>Hankenstein, starting to make following the Yankees a chore. At least the old man bought the franchise [majority] and built it up. That was bad enough, listening to him at times, now this acorn won&#8217;t shut up.</p>
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		<title>By: baileywalk</title>
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		<dc:creator>baileywalk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If Molina is going to hit like a pitcher, he should at least be able to throw out Johnny Gomes with the game on the line.  So much for being &quot;the best backup catcher in baseball.&quot;</description>
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		<title>By: unfrozencavemanyankee</title>
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		<dc:creator>unfrozencavemanyankee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is what is has come to: We are getting dominates by the likes of Garza and E. Jackson, talented young pitchers but no superstars and watching J.P. Howell out-pitch Mo. Leadoff hits will kill you whether you&#039;re Mariano Rivera or Kei Igawa.

And agree with the earlier posts: Molina gives us nothing on O so the least we can expect is a decent throw to 2nd.

And, as King Hank has alluded to: What happened to the fire that was supposed to come in with Joe G?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="comment-toolbar" style="text-align: right"><input type="button" value="Reply" onclick="CF_Reply('unfrozencavemanyankee');" /><input type="button" value="Quote" onclick="CF_Quote('co_30471','unfrozencavemanyankee');" /></div><span id="co_30471"><p>This is what is has come to: We are getting dominates by the likes of Garza and E. Jackson, talented young pitchers but no superstars and watching J.P. Howell out-pitch Mo. Leadoff hits will kill you whether you&#8217;re Mariano Rivera or Kei Igawa.</p>
<p>And agree with the earlier posts: Molina gives us nothing on O so the least we can expect is a decent throw to 2nd.</p>
<p>And, as King Hank has alluded to: What happened to the fire that was supposed to come in with Joe G?</p>
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		<title>By: antone</title>
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		<dc:creator>antone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, maybe alternate sitting Damon and Abreu.
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You&#039;re kidding right? Damon has been solid this year suprisingly and I don&#039;t think you can sit Abreu.  

The problem is Giambi and Cano aren&#039;t hitting and ARod and Posada are hurt.  So you have 4 guys at the bottom of the lineup who aren&#039;t all that great right now. They pretty much just have to wait it out because they don&#039;t really have any other great options for 3B, C, 1B, &amp; 2B.

I&#039;m not really sure there is much they can do but bringing up Gardner, who started off hot but has since cooled, is not going to change much.</description>
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<p>You&#8217;re kidding right? Damon has been solid this year suprisingly and I don&#8217;t think you can sit Abreu.  </p>
<p>The problem is Giambi and Cano aren&#8217;t hitting and ARod and Posada are hurt.  So you have 4 guys at the bottom of the lineup who aren&#8217;t all that great right now. They pretty much just have to wait it out because they don&#8217;t really have any other great options for 3B, C, 1B, &amp; 2B.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not really sure there is much they can do but bringing up Gardner, who started off hot but has since cooled, is not going to change much.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, maybe alternate sitting Damon and Abreu.</description>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rich - where would you play that added bat?
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LF. I know Damon his hit, but I want Gardner called up to see if he can spark the offense.</description>
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<p>LF. I know Damon his hit, but I want Gardner called up to see if he can spark the offense.</p>
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