~~~ OFFICIAL YANKEES 2007 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS OR BUST THREAD ~~~

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been away for the weekend at my friends ski house... no cable.... how'd clemens pitch? obviously i'm looking for non results oriented insight

did he look like he can be a good 3-4 starter over the next four and hopefully five months

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did the series they won at fenway + this hot streak make you reconsider this?

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lol, wow they have won 6 in a row against two of the worst teams in MLB. egg on your face andy!

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they've also won 2 rubber games in a row against boston... and that arod blast sent the sox slumpin and the yankees on their streak...that's not ONLY coincidence

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they've also won 2 rubber games in a row against boston... and that arod blast sent the sox slumpin and the yankees on their streak...that's not ONLY coincidence

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right.

since then the red sox have played seven games on the ROAD against two very capable teams (oakland being better than their record suggests, zona not so much)....during that 7 game period (again all on the road) the red sox have scored 22 runs and allowed 21......

how will they ever recover? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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oh in case you missed it i dont think the arod blast has anything at all to do with anything other than winning that game (which was huge). however i choose to deal in logic rather than baseball witchcraft, so please factor that in.

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by a huge performance from a guy like schilling

did i say they wouldn't recover, or even imply that they aven't already?

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oh in case you missed it i dont think the arod blast has anything at all to do with anything other than winning that game (which was huge). however i choose to deal in logic rather than baseball witchcraft, so please factor that in.

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why was that game huge then... because it was about more than that one game maybe????

contradict yourself much?

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by a huge performance from a guy like schilling

did i say they wouldn't recover, or even imply that they aven't already?

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no you send it sent them 'slumping'....i showed it really didn't. seriously, the red sox winning % against those two teams on the road isn't that much higher than 50% to begin with...if i had to make a rough guess i would say its around 54% when you factor in the 4-3 weighting in Oakland's favor...22 runs for and 21 against isn't that far off from what was mathematically expected.

if they had scored 18 and allowed 30 or something, then well yeah the team isnt playing that well....even that wouldnt mean a whole lot over 7 games.

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oh in case you missed it i dont think the arod blast has anything at all to do with anything other than winning that game (which was huge). however i choose to deal in logic rather than baseball witchcraft, so please factor that in.

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why was that game huge then... because it was about more than that one game maybe????

contradict yourself much?

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um, no.

the home run was enormouse for a few reasons:

1) it occured in the 9th inning
2) it put his team ahead
3) it occured against the other teams relief ace
4) it occured against the team that most influences the NYY playoff hopes

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did the series they won at fenway + this hot streak make you reconsider this?

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lol, wow they have won 6 in a row against two of the worst teams in MLB. egg on your face andy!

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I am being sort of sarcastic and you also are missing the point. The point is, if you are looking from andyfox's short term view, then winning 9/11 and beating the red sox at fenway would qualify as proof that they are a good team and not a "pathetic" one. its not correct reasoning, but the point is by the standards that andy had during the first 50 games, then right now the yankees are a really good team and arod is the clutchest dude ever.

thats not what i think, what i think is the yankees were a very good team that got insanely unlucky, and for the past short while they've gotten lucky instead and are just showing how good they can be. its also a really fun to watch the team youve been watching screw up week after week kick some ass for a change.

everyone who though the opening of the season was proof they were a bad team or done for the season is finally going to shut up, thank god. in reality its not that simple and they are in a big gap, but theres a lot of hope and its just nice to watch arod hit a [censored] of late game home runs. it has always pissed me off how everyone booed arod, and now hes having a monster monster season.