Selfish squad of pretenders (goarticlenews.blogspot.com) - Here you will get baseball news and read in this article I hope you enjoy from my site there has been a sense of selfishness around the Yankees for quite some, and it's not just Jorge Posada's frustration about his .165 average and the fact that director Joe Girardi drop him to ninth in the lineup last night.
The bottom line is that the Yankees are nothing particular right now and haven't been for quite some time. These Yankees need to get it in gear in so many ways, not just since Posada has had a problem with being "disrespected." And not just because he removed himself from the lineup an hour before the 6-0 loss to the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium, saying he "couldn't play" and wanted time to "clear my head."
For too long the Yankees have been a advantaged team. After the humiliating defeat to the Royals on Thursday, I wrote that Yankees pride had left the building, along with Mystique and Aura. The Yankees lost their season-high fourth as the crow flies last night with their ace CC Sabathia on the mound.
Girardi, general manager Brian Cashman and the Yankees have not made it all that easy for the fulsome Posada either. It has been an ugly state of affairs for quite some time.
From the primary pitch from Josh Beckett last night that knocked back Derek Jeter, the Red Sox wanted to take control of the Yankees and they did.
It's interesting to note that Boston's aging, declining catcher Jason Varitek (.164) was in the lineup and batting ninth. He singled in a run in the seventh and walked in the fifth when the Red Sox put up their first two runs on Jacoby Ellsbury's twice.
The Yankees need to find a way to get on the team sheet. Perhaps they need to do what they did in 2005, when they brought up Robinson Cano. They can bring up Jesus Montero. Perhaps that day is coming because of the way it went down with Posada last night.
Hitters are trying to do too much across the board, and once again the Yankees were dreadful with runners in scoring position (0-for-10). No one was worse than Mark Teixeira, who struck out his first two times up with runners in scoring place.
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