tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977384970015233286.post8362591082815786127..comments2023-11-03T06:13:31.161-04:00Comments on Prince of New York Baseball Blog: Sunday Lightning 8.1.2010PAUL LEBOWITZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03726846731779145384noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977384970015233286.post-12537888794048053582010-08-01T21:05:09.946-04:002010-08-01T21:05:09.946-04:00Adrian Gonzalez..(side-bar) ~ San Diego was the fi...Adrian Gonzalez..(side-bar) ~ San Diego was the first NL team to get 60 wins this year. This is the team Kevin Towers got fired for building. Are we really sure S.D. won't come up with some cheddar and retain him? Gonzo just might give em a little home town break if they keep up their pace of play. I don't think the Dodgers' moves are going to make up that ground for them. Zito is clearly a lot better now than in his first year in S.F. and them Jints can all pitch. That's clearly a two team race. But I just wanted to throw Kevin Towers out there.<br /><br />My honest opinion bout the Yankee moves ~ these were the type of clutter-some, one move too many, moves that make players on the bench get lost in space; the kind that caused the Yank's early eliminations from '02 thru '08. Lack of dedicated role players and scrappiness off the bench caused (in part) Torre to get blamed for those early playoff departures. There's something to be said for the Lemke, Biancalana, Vizciano, Chicken Stanley, Brian Doyle and Al Weiss' in the game and the roles they play. (yea Jane, they can afford to dispense of players like Dixie Cups ~ Most can't! Luv Ya!)<br /><br />And you know I want a full blown rebuild in Flushing so I'm glad they didn't do anything feeble. I just hope they get the next year and half right. But did you catch how at the winter meetings past, Omar said how much other teams liked our prospects. Those were his exact words he used this time around at the deadline almost verbatim. Is that being frank or believing your own lies? LOLBrooklynTrolleyBloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09704760727364587466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1977384970015233286.post-11860689230856767082010-08-01T13:25:05.698-04:002010-08-01T13:25:05.698-04:00The good news on the Wood trade (at least for me) ...The good news on the Wood trade (at least for me) is that when a guy comes to NY and doesn't work out (Winn, LaTroy Hawkins, etc), the Yankees don't wait around for results. They just move on to somebody else. So if Wood can't get it done, dump him.She-Fanhttp://janeheller.mlblogs.comnoreply@blogger.com