PLEASE LOCK: NYY OFFSEASON THREAD NOW UP.

[nick.]

if we win tomorrow & make it past the Royals i'll be beyond shocked

 

[nick.]

does Chris Young start tomorrow vs Keuchel?

 

[macbk]

No I'm not.

But this team doesn't deserve to be here

Nah we definitely do deserve it. We exceeded all expectations. However, IDK how far this team is capable of going.

 

[essential1]

No I'm not.

But this team doesn't deserve to be here

Nah we definitely do deserve it. We exceeded all expectations. However, IDK how far this team is capable of going.

My opinion on us not deserving it is the big old goose egg we put up for the last 2 months.. Had the easiest schedule in AL if not all of MLB and went 29-31.

 

[harlemtothebronx]

Whole thing seems like some very odd timing. Smells fishy.

I agree. Does seem shady, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt unless something else comes out about this situation.

 

[nick.]

Shreve was left off the playoff roster

 

[nydunkhead]

You are what your record says you are.

Can't say we don't deserve to be there, weren't the Astros one of the hottest teams in the first half and now they are the 2nd wild card spot?

Also, as mentioned playoffs wipes your slate clean and ANYTHING can happen.

Hopefully we are in store for some deep Oct baseball!!!

 

[macbk]

Shreve was left off the playoff roster

Thank God.

Still shocked at this CC news. Hoping he gets the help he needs, but it is weird/alarming this is just coming out now and not dealt with at any point in the season prior.

ARod: "We play for CC now."

Chris Young on CC: "At the end of all this, I think he'll be looked at as a hero."

Brian Cashman said he was unaware of the situation CC Sabathia is dealing with. "It wasn't a phone call I was expecting."

Girardi says reactions from the players have been "extremely supportive." No one had problem with timing, etc.

Girardi: When CC came in yesterday, I was no longer a manager. I was somebody who wanted to make sure the right course of action was taken.

#28forCC

 

[gregzzy23]

Thank God.

Still shocked at this CC news. Hoping he gets the help he needs, but it is weird/alarming this is just coming out now and not dealt with at any point in the season prior.
#28forCC

if it was dealt with early, it wouldnt be a problem

 

[essential1]

Part of me feels like something really bad has happened in the last week or two that made it imperative that he does it now.

 

[nick.]

was listening to the Michael Kay Show on the radio on my way home from class & a caller thought CC had a deal with his wife that he had to get help after game 162, no matter what.

don't really wanna specualte what brought him to this point but i hope he gets the help he needs.

 

[ap27]

Shreve was left off the playoff roster

We've been awful the last few weeks, but once you're in, you never know what can happen. I really hate this play-in game format tho.

 

[macbk]

Buster Onley thinks Gardner, Ellsbury and McCann may sit tonight.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Buster Onley thinks Gardner, Ellsbury and McCann may sit tonight.

The hell

 

[Cashflow]

That's some deflating news.

 

[essential1]

I mean if we lose...... We'll get them in Game 2

 

[kingfoamnyc]

I mean if we lose...... We'll get them in Game 2

Should be a 3 game series

 

[nick.]

 

[macbk]

Subtle warning signs seen in Baltimore for Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia

NEW YORK -- The news that CC Sabathia had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for alcohol abuse came as a shock to many, but there were subtle warning signs that the New York Yankees pitcher's drinking may have been reaching a crisis point last weekend in Baltimore.

After the Yankees' game with the Baltimore Orioles was rained out on Friday afternoon, Sabathia was seen by reporters walking unsteadily as he left the Yankees' clubhouse. The normally affable pitcher also failed to respond to the greetings of reporters who have known him for a long time.

A short time later, an onlooker noticed Sabathia offering a paper cup containing a brown liquid to a teammate who was finishing up a workout, urging the teammate to "take a sip." The teammate refused, saying he still had some running to do. Sabathia was then ushered out of the building and into a waiting cab by a third teammate.

The scene came the day after a raucous clubhouse celebration at Yankee Stadium, where the Yankees toasted their clinching of a playoff spot with a win over the Boston Red Sox. A clip of a postgame TV interview with backup catcher John Ryan Murphy exclaiming, "I think everybody is on the same page, and the page is drinking" quickly went viral.

Earlier this season, Sabathia was involved in an incident outside a nightclub in Toronto in which he nearly got into a brawl with some heckling fans, and paparazzi took a photograph of Sabathia on a hotel balcony in Atlanta smoking what a tabloid speculated could have been a joint. Sabathia said it was a cigar.

The New York Post reported on Monday that Sabathia was on "a week-long bender" leading up to the weekend in Baltimore, and drank heavily throughout the weekend. Yankees GM Brian Cashman denied a report by the Post that Sabathia "arranged for the magnums of champagne" that were guzzled in the clubhouse celebration and that he had provided the commemorative wine bottles that were given to each Yankee before the September ceremony honoring Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th hit.

The Yankees normally do not allow alcohol in the clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, nor on flights back to New York due to the danger of players driving home intoxicated. They do, however, permit beer and wine in the visiting clubhouse and on flights to away games since players will be transported to the team hotel on a bus.

Both Cashman and manager Joe Girardi described themselves as "shocked" when Sabathia came forward before Sunday's season finale at Camden Yards and asked for help with his alcohol problem.

Asked whether there was any one incident that triggered Sabathia's decision, Cashman said: "I would say no. I'm not going to get into detail other than to say yesterday I got a phone call."

"CC has demonstrated a great deal of courage in trying to tackle this problem," Cashman said. "Time and place have no bearing. There is something here that needs to be taken care of, and I applaud him."

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Yankees 4
Astros 2

 

[nick.]

@JackCurryYES: Hearing Ellsbury won't start. Gardner, Young, Beltran in OF. McCann at C. Refsnyder at 2nd, Bird at 1st, Headley at 3d. Didi SS, ARod DH.

 

[onewearz]

I been having a day

Started with me waving back at someone at work who was waving at the person behind me

Felt like a total *** ....

Then I fell asleep on the train home to the last stop


I need a win today .... Ellsbury good for nothing *** aint helping

Lotta these

 

[macbk]

I been having a day

Started with me waving back at someone at work who was waving at the person behind me

Felt like a total *** ....

Then I fell asleep on the train home to the last stop


I need a win today .... Ellsbury good for nothing *** aint helping

Lotta these

Did that at the gym last night. Thought I was waving to my neighbor and the guy hit me with the

View media item 1738218
.

Hold faith homie, we are going to win tonight.

Off to the gym now, got my Boone tee on from 2003. We ready.

 

[nick.]

if the Boone shirt doesn't bring us luck nothing will

we need playoff mustaches if we win tonight

 

[onewearz]

I thumbin the closet now, might go with old faithful and rock the captain

Kykull gets it tonight !!!

Spelling it the way it sounds, he dont deserve my spell check