@ MJ:
i’m not really sure, I have the game DVR’ed though. When I go home tonight i’ll have a look and see if I can read his lips. All i know is, after he said his 2 cents Joba seemed like a different pitcher.

Does anyone know what Jeter said to #62?

If it took Jeter’s saying something, I wonder where the hell Girardi, Eiland and Posada were and if they were taking notes. As much as I rag on #62, I lay some of his failures at the coaching staff/catcher’s feet. If you can’t communicate what you need from him in simple enough terms then you’re not doing your job.

Corey wrote:

It may be premature but, this might be a turning point.

I certainly hope so. I hope this was Joba’s turning point, and I hope Burnett’s last start was a turning point. We’ll need these guys if we wanna get out of the first round.

YankCrank wrote:

Good for Derek, i’m sure we’ll have all the chances in the world to acknowledge his accomplishment when he breaks it against Baltimore.
However, the real story of the game is still around Joba. How does he sit there in the first inning and do his same, tired scene of straight, slow fastballs and weak sliders then change it all after Derek comes in and says some words to him. Is that what it takes to make the kid work faster, throw out a better pitch selection and throw harder? I don’t get it, it all confuses me.
His second and third innings were very impressive, how do we get him to do that more often?

there’s more to it than that, IMO. Joba is pretty good at getting 2 strikes, and he did that throughout his outing. There was, however, a difference after Jeter left the mound. It looked, to me anyway, that Jeter yelled at him and told him to stop pussy footing around with 2 strikes. Before Jeter went to the mound, Joba did his usual routine. He shook off molina, he threw the 2 strike slider every time. He got 1 K on the slider, but then they started to take it. Then when he couldn’t get on the same page as Molina and Molina had to visit the mound, so did Jeter. Once Molina left, then Jeter got his word in. Once that happened, Joba stopped throwing the 2 strike slider. The very next batter he got ahead 0-2 (like he seemingly does all the time) and instead of throwing the 0-2 slider, he froze the batter with a fastball perfectly place on the outside corner. Clearly the hitter was taking all the way, expecting a slider. From there, Joba had 0 issues throughout the rest of his outing, as he attacked every hitter and didn’t throw another 2 strike slider. It may be premature but, this might be a turning point.

G.I. Joey wrote:

Then the night turned into one of those nights reminiscent of the old stadium because there was that special vibe. The collective excitement of watching a milestone unfold along with that feeling that this team cannot be stopped at home.

I really felt the same way. I wasn’t home for the first six innings but I got home right as they were singing “God Bless America” and got to see Jeter’s record-tying hit a few moments later. The whole time Jeter was on base I kept thinking “there’s no way they can lose this game after Jeter tied Gehrig, right?” Sure enough, Posada took care of business.

Just a few questions to everyone who watched from the beginning:

1) How did #62 look? More of the same nonsense of shaking off his catcher? Did he locate his fastball? Was be varying his pitches or still throwing the same slider in the dirt low and outside?

2) I saw that Molina started the game. Why was Frankie catching in the 7th? Did Molina get hurt?

Good for Derek, i’m sure we’ll have all the chances in the world to acknowledge his accomplishment when he breaks it against Baltimore.

However, the real story of the game is still around Joba. How does he sit there in the first inning and do his same, tired scene of straight, slow fastballs and weak sliders then change it all after Derek comes in and says some words to him. Is that what it takes to make the kid work faster, throw out a better pitch selection and throw harder? I don’t get it, it all confuses me.

His second and third innings were very impressive, how do we get him to do that more often?

This game started out all types wrong and ended all right. I’ve become pretty much numb to the experience of watching #62 and he’s usually out of the game now before I become nauseated. I honestly didn’t think that Jeter was going to get more than two hits and I figured the Yanks would have difficulty hitting a guy who I don’t think they have seen yet. Then the night turned into one of those nights reminiscent of the old stadium because there was that special vibe. The collective excitement of watching a milestone unfold along with that feeling that this team cannot be stopped at home.

Chas? Wrong board. Sorry, Steve.

Jeez. Major brainflatulence by me.

I wish I had known that Chas, BEFORE I bought a ticket to Friday’s game.

Oh, by the way, a prediction: Jeter will not get a hit on 9/11 and will break the record on 9/12? Why?

I had tickets for 9/12 and had to sell them – as my kids will be attending a birthday party that day, and I want to be there. So, you just know the Yankees Gods will make me pay for that…