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Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 24 2009 07:36 AM

I saw this douche in the paper this morning and was inspired. Meet DJ Chunky, the new nighttime host at 92.3. It occurred to me I must see hundreds of people like this a day.

metirish Mar 24 2009 07:38 AM

That's Joba in a few years.....I'm guessing he'll be playing rap music?

Fman99 Mar 24 2009 08:21 AM

I love DJ Obesity. Go Yankees! :sigh:

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 24 2009 12:50 PM

Meh. I prefer the overnight guy, DJ Type 2. Add a LITTLE more melanin, and plenty of faux-platinum spinner medalions hanging from the rearview, and this is my neighborhood.

Fman99 Mar 24 2009 01:29 PM

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":3qnd6cjs]Meh. I prefer the overnight guy, DJ Type 2. Add a LITTLE more melanin, and plenty of faux-platinum spinner medalions hanging from the rearview, and this is my neighborhood.[/quote:3qnd6cjs] You should move.

Edgy DC Mar 29 2009 05:11 PM

Going too far to include murder suspects? http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?secti ... id=6733992

metirish Apr 17 2009 07:49 AM

First successful pitch at new Yankee Stadium: Dave Pero proposes to Heather DeCarolos Dave douchebag Pero, 31, proposed fiance Heather DeCarolis, 23, setting another first at the new Yankee Stadium The setting was perfect. The band was playing their favorite song. And she said yes. What an opening day for Dave Pero and his future wife. The 31-year-old Syracuse high school teacher went down on one knee yesterday to pop the question to his beloved, Heather DeCarolos, near Gate 6 on the East 161st Street side of the new Yankee Stadium. "There's nothing better than to kick off this opening day and this stadium by making a commitment to my future wife," said Pero, who had been planning his big move for weeks. First, Pero surprised his 23-year-old girlfriend by scoring tickets to the historic Yankee home opener. Then, with the help of his brother, Pero arranged to have Rochester-based cover band The Skycoasters nearby playing the Earth, Wind and Fire hit "September" just before he asked he asked his honey for her hand. "I'm stunned," said DeCarolos, just before they went inside to watch the Yanks take on the Inidians. "I'm on top of the world. I can't think of a better place for this to happen."

Edgy DC Apr 17 2009 07:56 AM

Way to waste your life, Heather.

metsmarathon Apr 17 2009 11:33 AM

how romantic! he proposed near the gate to the stadium! is it really a first if its just on the property, and not inside the actual stadium? if he was really good, he'd've arranged to have it on the scoreboard when he asked.

Edgy DC Apr 17 2009 11:38 AM

Did he give her 27 rings?

metirish Apr 17 2009 11:43 AM

BTW I love this thread title , it has great promise.

seawolf17 Apr 17 2009 11:44 AM

Fitting that he chose "September," figuring the Yanks won't see October this year.

metsguyinmichigan Apr 17 2009 11:48 AM

She knew he was a Yankee fan and still said "Yes?"

G-Fafif Apr 17 2009 01:29 PM

Whole lot of 'em here.

G-Fafif Apr 17 2009 01:31 PM

And here. Pepsi made a mistake. A mistake in trying to deal with these people.

HahnSolo Apr 17 2009 01:55 PM

And of course the idiot media is there to egg them on. Between these people and DJ Chunky, maybe Heather didn't do so bad.

Frayed Knot Apr 17 2009 02:06 PM

Meet DJ Chunky Hate to tell you dude, but the new wider seats aren't THAT wide.

apmorris Apr 18 2009 08:21 PM

I like KO and Jason Bateman but they are now and forever, YLDBs

Fman99 Apr 18 2009 08:46 PM

[quote="metirish"]First successful pitch at new Yankee Stadium: Dave Pero proposes to Heather DeCarolos Dave douchebag Pero, 31, proposed fiance Heather DeCarolis, 23, setting another first at the new Yankee Stadium The setting was perfect. The band was playing their favorite song. And she said yes. What an opening day for Dave Pero and his future wife. The 31-year-old Syracuse high school teacher went down on one knee yesterday to pop the question to his beloved, Heather DeCarolos, near Gate 6 on the East 161st Street side of the new Yankee Stadium. "There's nothing better than to kick off this opening day and this stadium by making a commitment to my future wife," said Pero, who had been planning his big move for weeks. First, Pero surprised his 23-year-old girlfriend by scoring tickets to the historic Yankee home opener. Then, with the help of his brother, Pero arranged to have Rochester-based cover band The Skycoasters nearby playing the Earth, Wind and Fire hit "September" just before he asked he asked his honey for her hand. "I'm stunned," said DeCarolos, just before they went inside to watch the Yanks take on the Inidians. "I'm on top of the world. I can't think of a better place for this to happen."

Wow. I bet they live in my neighborhood.

The consolation is that the day this guy got engaged his team got bitchslapped 10-2 in the home opener. Memories...

G-Fafif Apr 19 2009 09:24 AM

[quote="apmorris":3tqc5tu2]I like KO and Jason Bateman but they are now and forever, YLDBs[/quote:3tqc5tu2] I think Bateman's actually a Dodgers fan. YLDB for a day, however.

G-Fafif Apr 19 2009 09:27 AM

Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Times brings you the Ultimate Yankee-Loving Douchebag...Billy Crystal! April 19, 2009 Feeling Lonely Behind the Facade By BILLY CRYSTAL Hello? Is anybody there? What’s going on? They had opening day, but my grass is overgrown, the monuments are gone and nobody’s here. My pal the Polo Grounds warned me. Watch, they neglect you, no one comes to visit for a while, they start taking stuff and then, boom! Ebbets said the same thing. But they asked for it. I’m Yankee Stadium, and even after my surgery in 1974-75, I came back and had a new lease on life. People from all over came to see me, more than four million last year alone. So what’s the deal? They don’t need me anymore? Even the birds have stopped flying around here. Once the birds stop coming around, you know something’s up. I guess you can’t take anything for granted anymore, not even the spring. I always looked forward to opening day. I was like this big house where my baseball family spent its summers. They’d cut the grass — it’d smell so sweet — and touch up the blue paint, though I always thought I looked better in green. I’d get dressed up in my red, white and blues, and Bob Sheppard would welcome everyone to me on opening day. Wow, talk about an opening act. I loved when the boys were shagging flies during practice when there was no one here but me and them, and having them look from center to home, shaking their heads at my mighty triple decks, as if I were the Grand Canyon or something. They’d point to a spot and think, How did Mickey hit it that far? People used to pay to walk through me, just to see what it felt like. They wanted to see where the Babe played, where Lou cried, where Thurman dressed, where we won, where we lost, the black. They stood in the middle of me, just like the Coliseum in Rome, and silently imagined what it was like. I had a good life, not just in baseball. How about my Giants and the greatest football game ever played? Joe Louis beat up Schmeling here; we packed it for the popes, and it wasn’t even bobblehead day. Nelson Mandela became a Yankee here. When the Towers fell, the city came to me to mourn. So what did I do to deserve this? It’s no fun getting old. You start losing your friends. No Eddie at the organ, no Phil, no Mel, the Red Head, no Bobby. I hear Shea is gone. Too bad. I mean, it’s not a real loss, but too bad. Long history, short memory. Aw, maybe it’s time. New, bigger, better. That’s what people want, they say. Sometimes, that ain’t the answer. I always thought it’d be Wrigley, Fenway and me forever. The thought that kids will grow up and not know me is sad. The light will be different at the new place. The courthouse won’t be in the same spot. The shadows won’t creep the same way. It’s gonna sound different. Nothing sounded like me when something great happened. Remember how people came spilling over the walls, like water over a levee, when Chambliss hit the pennant clincher? Remember how I shook when Reggie hit the three in the Series? Remember how I swayed when Tino and Brosius and Jeter did their magic in ’01? Remember how Mariano wouldn’t let the Red Sox score before Boone belted one into my left-field stands? Remember the love in here when the Babe and Mickey said goodbye or when Murcer won one for Munson? How about when they chanted for O’Neill, when Yogi jumped into Larsen’s arms or when Lou said he was lucky just to play here? Grandfathers and fathers won’t be able sit down and look out and remember where things happened. Where are the ghosts gonna go? From what I hear, they built something that looked like I used to, but not really. So what’s different? More places to eat? More bathrooms? Did anyone really mind that much? I thought it was part of my charm. So maybe the ghosts will go there. Maybe they won’t. That’s up to them. I heard that when they take me down, I’m becoming a park. Trees will mark the outline of where my towering limestone walls used to be. Ballfields will fill the space that will be level for the first time since 1922, before I was built. One of the home plates will be where mine was. The last thing I wanted to be was a parking lot, where oil slicks and yellow lines would mark where all that history was. A park? That could be hallowed ground for sure! Parents and grandparents could come and sit and watch their kids play, and remember where all those great things happened. Heck, some little one could be catching a ball where Joe D. did! I bet the ghosts would love that. “Is this heaven?” No, it’s the Bronx. So, I hope they had a great opening day at the new joint, but just remember it takes time to break in your glove just the way you like it. One thing before I go, when I start disappearing, don’t look. It won’t be pretty. Don’t let them tear your memories down with me. O.K., enough. I promised myself I wouldn’t feel bad, but, well, it’s opening weekend and I’m lonely! Come on, cut the grass, rake the clay, put the chalk down, fly the flags, grill the dogs, tear the tickets, let’s go! Where are the birds? What’s gonna become of the birds? Billy Crystal, a native New Yorker, is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor, writer and director. He couldn't be a bigger Yankee-Loving Douchebag

metirish Apr 19 2009 10:01 AM

Oh please , and for some reason I read that in his very annoying voice...what a bollix he is and his sly dig at Shea....hey asshole Julia Styles would kick your ass.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 19 2009 10:52 AM

Billy Crystal has become completely intolerable. The only thing I'd consider watching him in is a rerun of Soap.

Swan Swan H Apr 19 2009 11:06 AM

Curly, knock the hat off of this douchebag. He doesn't deserve to wear it.

dgwphotography Apr 19 2009 11:20 AM

When the Towers fell, the city came to me to mourn. &#@! you, you &#@!ing midget... In the words of Curly, I crap bigger than you...

Benjamin Grimm Apr 19 2009 11:23 AM

Well, there was a ceremony there, wasn't there?

Ashie62 Apr 19 2009 12:09 PM

[quote="metirish":1i38fl1x]Oh please , and for some reason I read that in his very annoying voice...what a bollix he is and his sly dig at Shea....hey asshole Julia Styles would kick your ass.[/quote:1i38fl1x] Matthew Broderick & Dennis James should kick his ass

Swan Swan H Apr 19 2009 12:19 PM

Maybe Dennis James could bring along Jack Narz and Bill Cullen.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 19 2009 12:51 PM

[quote="G-Fafif"] Billy Crystal, a native New Yorker, is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor, writer and director. He couldn't be a bigger Yankee-Loving Douchebag

Highlight of the piece right there.

PS - FAFIF giving Shea a voice kicks the hell out of Billy Crystal trying to do the same for YS.

metirish Apr 20 2009 10:19 AM

They just keep on giving. Meet the latest douchebag Jorge Posada's homer helper, Brian Doyle, joins Yankee Stadium lore BY ROGER RUBIN DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Monday, April 20th 2009, 2:25 AM The Yankees have a new angel in the outfield. Brian Doyle isn't about to supplant Jeffrey Maier in Yankee annals, but his role in the decisive home run of Sunday's 7-3 win over the Indians is undeniable. Cleveland right fielder Trevor Crowe tracked Jorge Posada's high drive to the wall in right field. As the ball came down, it hit Doyle before it got to Crowe's outstretched glove. "I've still got the mark," said the 33-year-old from Scotch Plains, N.J., pointing to a red mark on the inside of his left wrist. Crowe said he could have made a play if not for Doyle's outstretched hands. "I would have caught it," he said. Doyle's take? "I think he might have." The ball hit off Doyle, the top of the wall and Crowe's glove before coming down on the field. First base umpire Tom Halloran signaled home run. Cleveland manager Eric Wedge argued interference. Crew chief Jerry Crawford reviewed a replay, something MLB allows on home run calls. The review confirmed Halloran's judgment and Posada's two-run shot had the Yankees up 4-3. If the ruling went the other way, it would have been a ground-rule double and the Yankees still would have trailed 3-2 with runners at second and third. All parties agree that Posada's ball would have come down a home run if untouched, the reason Crawford upheld the initial call. In that way it's different from the Maier play, where the dispute was whether the kid from Old Tappan, N.J., reached into fair territory and deflected a ball that was coming down in outfielder Tony Tarasco's glove. Crowe was miffed because he believed he could have caught the ball before it hit the top of the wall. "My glove was over the wall and above it. But (Doyle) was above (my glove)," Crowe said. "I didn't even take into account having to get above the fans to catch it." Did the play remind Jeter of his feted longball that tied Game 1 of the ALCS that the Yankees eventually won in extra innings? "Nope, because it went over the fence," he said. Jeter and the Yankees don't see Doyle as an angel at all. Their contention is the ball clearly would have been a home run and the result only came into question because Doyle deflected the ball. Doyle, who works in the technology department at an investment bank, has been coming to Yankee games since he was a kid. His brother Bo has been a season-ticket holder and this year Brian bought a share. They always have been on the outfield wall, but in the original Stadium the seats weren't in fair territory as they are now. He said the fan next to him was wearing a baseball glove and that in reaching for the ball he came into contact with it and possibly Crowe's glove. Crowe said, "There was definitely contact between me and (the) glove." Doyle, not to be confused with the Yankees' 1978 World Series hero of the same name, and his brother have actually discussed what to do in situations where they have a shot at a ball that might be in a player's reach. "It's funny because my brother always yells at me to make sure I knock the ball or do what I need to do to help the Yankees win," he said.

seawolf17 Apr 20 2009 10:24 AM

If you're such a big fan, dickhead, wear the right-colored hat.

metirish Apr 20 2009 10:27 AM

Can a stadium open a week have lore?

Edgy DC Apr 20 2009 10:42 AM

[quote="metirish"]They just keep on giving. Meet the latest douchebag "It's funny because my brother always yells at me to make sure I knock the ball or do what I need to do to help the Yankees win," he said.

Cheating. It's fucking hilarious.

Edgy DC Apr 20 2009 10:48 AM

Did the play remind Jeter of his feted longball that tied Game 1 of the ALCS that the Yankees eventually won in extra innings? "Nope, because it went over the fence," he said. If Jeter openly acknowledges his "homer" was not a homer at all, why do the rest of us have to live under the fiction?

G-Fafif Apr 20 2009 10:55 AM

[quote="metirish":34p2wyqy]Can a stadium open a week have lore?[/quote:34p2wyqy] New York's baseball fans have been attending big league games longer at Citi Field than at any wannabe, Yankee-come-lately venue. We have the tradition. They have the steakhouse. And quite a lot of douchebags.

Fman99 Apr 20 2009 11:10 AM

Gotta keep my douche hand strong!

Edgy DC Apr 20 2009 11:14 AM

The original Brian Doyle, of course was a genuinely awful professional baseball player who somehow managed to have the only good week of his life during the 1978 World Series when Willie Randolph was hurt. This one looks like Lee Mazzilli's witless cousin. I wonder how his head would look on rolls.

G-Fafif Apr 20 2009 11:16 AM

Chief YLDB Mike Francesa is practically weeping that MFYS III is a bandbox, overlooking 33 seasons of cheap RF porch home runs in MFYS II. "Yankee Stadium was always an honest ballpark." Salute when you say that, mister.

apmorris Apr 22 2009 01:22 PM

Belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags ESPECIALLY because he grew up a Mets fan. Jumped ship during the Torre era .... because (and he admitted this, so) the Yankees were more popular. [that's Tiant on the right]

Met Hunter Apr 22 2009 07:21 PM

I turned off City Slickers after Billy Crystal tells his YS story and ends it with that douchebag voice of his saying "And I still have the program" Let me have that program. I'll have a book bbq and dance around the fire like a wild injun. Me and the the warden at Shawshank.

metirish Apr 24 2009 08:20 AM

Notorious MFY dump where MFY loving douchebags go to have a wank Owner of popular Yankee Stadium bar charged with tax evasion THE ASSOCIATED PRESS April 24, 2009 The owner of a popular sports bar near Yankee Stadium has been arrested and charged with evading more than $1 million in personal and business taxes owed the city and state. Prosecutors on Thursday said Joe Bastone, owner of Yankee Tavern, was charged with grand larceny, offering a false instrument for filing, and false returns. Court papers indicate the charges stemmed from a two year investigation by the New York City Department of Finance of Yankee Tavern's business records, customer receipts and financial ledgers from January 1, 2002 through May 1, 2007. The 55-year-old from Bronxville faces up to 15 years in prison on the most serious charge of grand larceny if convicted.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 24 2009 08:26 AM

I'm pretty sure the Craigslist Killer is a YLD.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 24 2009 08:29 AM

Craigslist must be loving the free publicity.

metirish May 05 2009 07:57 AM

It's double your pleasure today Roberts book is selling like hot cakes. Ishmail Jones, a student living in Manhattan, said he's a "big fan" of A-Rod and plans to read the book. "I've heard so much about it, I want to read about the steroids and about his personality, I look up to him a lot, and when the controversy came out I was like, 'Wow.'" Douchebags try to re-enter MFYSIII after leaving before 9PM. Blackwater Security say no to vagrants

G-Fafif May 06 2009 01:43 PM

Francesa, interviewing Joe Girardi yesterday on Teixeira's poor start and the MFY fans' booing of him: "They're testing him." Ergo, MFY fans boo, and it's an honorable gauntlet to be negotiated. Mets fans boo, and they're run-of-the-mill malcontents.

HahnSolo May 06 2009 02:00 PM

[quote="metirish"] Douchebags try to re-enter MFYSIII after leaving before 9PM. Blackwater Security say no to vagrants

59 hat looking quite hapless. And that wee bit of hair growth under his bottom lip? A lil too old for that, no?

Fman99 May 07 2009 11:34 AM

[quote="Benjamin Grimm":1sk7dkc1]Billy Crystal has become completely intolerable. The only thing I'd consider watching him in is a rerun of Soap.[/quote:1sk7dkc1] You could rename the YLDBs as the "Crystal Club."

Edgy DC May 07 2009 11:46 AM

[quote="G-Fafif":1u1e2czd]Francesa, interviewing Joe Girardi yesterday on Teixeira's poor start and the MFY fans' booing of him: "They're testing him." Ergo, MFY fans boo, and it's an honorable gauntlet to be negotiated. Mets fans boo, and they're run-of-the-mill malcontents.[/quote:1u1e2czd] Booing? They're testing him. Openly chanting for the return of the man who preceeded him in the job (despite his current employment with a first-place club in another division)? A test, you see. Throwing nails in his driveway? An important test. Kidnapping his children...

metirish May 08 2009 07:29 AM

Yankee loving douchebag sneaks down to $2,250 seats and then boos The Great Rivera

G-Fafif May 08 2009 01:00 PM

Francesa's still objectively unlistenable, but I can't stay away when the MFYs are floundering. Somebody called to mention Willie Mays' birthday was yesterday, and MF got intensely touchy. "This isn't a Willie Mays show," he huffed. "This is a Mickey Mantle show." Maybe the Mick can fill in behind the plate tonight, Mikey.

Farmer Ted May 08 2009 02:04 PM

Shocked to see someone in the $2500 seats actually showing some emotion. Then again, late in the game and the rabble rousers bullrush the hired help to get close to the field.

metirish May 26 2009 07:19 AM

They just keep on giving . At the game last night two sections over a Yankee loving , Jeter jersey wearing douchebag got heckled very loudly and had ice and such thrown over him. He can be seen here in a picture I took giving the section above him the finger(s). If you look closely that's him on the stairwell steps with his white MFY cap and Jeter top.

Edgy DC May 26 2009 07:27 AM

I don't see anything and I think you're all screaming at a ghost.

metsguyinmichigan May 26 2009 08:01 AM

He's behid the guy in the maroon shirt. What's with the green Santana jersey?

themetfairy May 26 2009 08:02 AM

[quote="metsguyinmichigan":27ml2qql] What's with the green Santana jersey?[/quote:27ml2qql] Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Even Johan....

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 09 2009 10:17 AM

Hey! Look at me! I'm an asshole who believes in dark forces... and voodoo! The Yankees will have "home-field" advantage at Fenway Park tonight, thanks to one fan's grassroots effort to sabotage the Red Sox. Ian Ferris, 30, a Bombers fan in the heart of Red Sox Nation, green-thumbed his nose at Boston by planting Yankee Stadium grass in the Fenway infield during a May 31 Phish concert. Yankee Stadium grass seeds went on sale this year. Ferris hid the seeds in his pants as he entered Fenway, filled the bag with water and tossed it onto the infield. "This is payback," said Ferris, who manages a Hooters in Vermont. "If even one blade of grass sprouts on the field, I feel it was a success." He said he hoped the stunt would undo the jinx put on the new Yankee Stadium by a jersey-burying construction worker, Gino Castignoli of The Bronx. But Castignoli is not concerned. "My curse is working," he said. "It's typical of a Yankee fan to think you can buy a jinx in a bag. When will they learn, you don't win with your wallet but with your heart?" http://www.nypost.com/seven/06092009/ne ... 173278.htm

Benjamin Grimm Jun 09 2009 10:19 AM

They're both idiots. The Yankees have won plenty of times with their wallets.

metirish Jun 09 2009 10:25 AM

Ferris taking douchebaggery to the max.

Fman99 Jun 09 2009 10:33 AM

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]Hey! Look at me! I'm an asshole who believes in dark forces... and voodoo! The Yankees will have "home-field" advantage at Fenway Park tonight, thanks to one fan's grassroots effort to sabotage the Red Sox. Ian Ferris, 30, a Bombers fan in the heart of Red Sox Nation, green-thumbed his nose at Boston by planting Yankee Stadium grass in the Fenway infield during a May 31 Phish concert. Yankee Stadium grass seeds went on sale this year. Ferris hid the seeds in his pants as he entered Fenway, filled the bag with water and tossed it onto the infield. "This is payback," said Ferris, who manages a Hooters in Vermont. "If even one blade of grass sprouts on the field, I feel it was a success." He said he hoped the stunt would undo the jinx put on the new Yankee Stadium by a jersey-burying construction worker, Gino Castignoli of The Bronx. But Castignoli is not concerned. "My curse is working," he said. "It's typical of a Yankee fan to think you can buy a jinx in a bag. When will they learn, you don't win with your wallet but with your heart?" http://www.nypost.com/seven/06092009/ne ... 173278.htm

Reading this made me stupider.

DocTee Jun 09 2009 10:34 AM

What a surprise...he manages a Hooters.

OlerudOwned Jun 09 2009 12:45 PM

What kind of world are we living in where someone can smuggle grass into a Phish concert?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 10:18 AM

So... there's this. (Sorry about the lack of pictures-- my Google Image Search for "2/3 of supposed New Yorkers under the age of 45" didn't turn out as I thought it would.) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/sport ... ref=sports Perhaps most disturbing... Over all, the Yankees have more fans than the Mets citywide by a 9-point margin, with 34 percent of New Yorkers in the city supporting the Yankees, 25 percent favoring the Mets, 34 percent saying they do not have an allegiance to either team, and 6 percent considering themselves fans of both teams. Seriously... who are these people?

SteveJRogers Jun 12 2009 10:20 AM

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]So... there's this. (Sorry about the lack of pictures-- my Google Image Search for "2/3 of supposed New Yorkers under the age of 45" didn't turn out as I thought it would.) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/sport ... ref=sports Perhaps most disturbing... Over all, the Yankees have more fans than the Mets citywide by a 9-point margin, with 34 percent of New Yorkers in the city supporting the Yankees, 25 percent favoring the Mets, 34 percent saying they do not have an allegiance to either team, and 6 percent considering themselves fans of both teams. Seriously... who are these people?

My Dad and his business partner (Title company, real estate law firm) apparantly. Rooting for the "underdog" in a World Series or interleague matchup.

SteveJRogers Jun 12 2009 10:24 AM

BTW, all you need to know about my Dad's business partner in terms of his "I like both NY Teams" douche-ness, his thoughts on the Yogi Berra muesuem was that it was "better than Cooperstown."

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 12 2009 11:34 AM

[quote="SteveJRogers":10jjowjm] My Dad and his business partner (Title company, real estate law firm) apparantly. Rooting for the "underdog" in a World Series or interleague matchup.[/quote:10jjowjm] Yeek. Japanese don't set aside age-old hurts to root for the Chinese in a World Cup match because "they're the underdog." The Irish don't pull for England in Euro because "well, we're out of it." Michiganders don't pull for Ohio State in the Rose Bowl because "we're all Big Ten." And yes, the Yankees have never gone Cromwell or rape-of-Nanking on Main Street... but, well, ick. To paraphrase Nietzsche... fuck that motherfucking noise in the earhole. Two times.

Fman99 Jun 12 2009 11:48 AM

I can't even discuss this rationally. My head's about to pop, like an engorged tick.

Farmer Ted Jun 12 2009 11:48 AM

From the old local paper. They used this for an engagement photo. She's marrying a complete douchebag. http://sungazette.com/photos/news/md/527579_1.jpg

holychicken Jun 12 2009 01:02 PM

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr"]So... there's this. (Sorry about the lack of pictures-- my Google Image Search for "2/3 of supposed New Yorkers under the age of 45" didn't turn out as I thought it would.) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/sport ... ref=sports Perhaps most disturbing... Over all, the Yankees have more fans than the Mets citywide by a 9-point margin, with 34 percent of New Yorkers in the city supporting the Yankees, 25 percent favoring the Mets, 34 percent saying they do not have an allegiance to either team, and 6 percent considering themselves fans of both teams. Seriously... who are these people?

I was wearing my Mets hat into the bagel shop I always go into and the owner comes up to me, wearing a Yankees shirt, talking like a typical "woe is me" Mets fan. He seemed to know the team very well so he just confused me more the more he talked.

Eventually I was say, "uh, you are wearing a yankee shirt" and he says, "I used to be a hard-core yankee hater but it seemed that everywhere I have gone people have hated NY" I think he meant baseball wise "and in the past few years I have become a fan of both."

I told him he was insane and that I would no longer be giving him my business. Although, he just laughed and said "you'll be back." He was right. Bastard.

Gwreck Jun 21 2009 09:27 PM

On the most recent new episode of "Kids Clubhouse" on SNY, Tim Redding was interviewed. He admitted to liking the Yankees more than the Mets while growing up in Rochester, NY. He did claim that his wearing #44 was as tribute to David Cone, though (one of his two favorite players growing up).

metirish Aug 17 2009 07:43 AM

They just can't help themselves. Have you heard about the campaign to "save" Gate 2 at MFYs II? They want to save it and make it the entrance to something horribly called Heritage Park . Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan really showed that he is in fact a historian of all things douchebag-y "If you go to Rome, you can get some idea of what the Forum was like from the ruins," said Ultan. "If it's feasible, it's worthy to save that part." FY Loving Douchebags Here

Fman99 Aug 17 2009 09:17 AM

[quote="metirish"]They just can't help themselves. Have you heard about the campaign to "save" Gate 2 at MFYs II? They want to save it and make it the entrance to something horribly called Heritage Park . Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan really showed that he is in fact a historian of all things douchebag-y "If you go to Rome, you can get some idea of what the Forum was like from the ruins," said Ultan. "If it's feasible, it's worthy to save that part." FY Loving Douchebags Here

Lloyd Ultan is a cunt.

metirish Aug 17 2009 06:57 PM

I think you are correct , a douchebag and a cunt.....

DocTee Aug 18 2009 09:14 AM

That guy gives historians a bad name. I'll see to it that his credentials are revoked.

Edgy DC Aug 18 2009 09:23 AM

I have no problem with Yankee fans who live in the Bronx and care about it. One type of Yankee fansI don't like: Connecticut*-livin', patent-lawyerin', client-entertainin', safe-investin', stock-splittin' roly guys who pick a team that's just another safe investment, because who wants to take the client to a game that the home team loses, and who wants his kid to be wearing the wrong cap on his first day at Choate? *For the purposes of this jerky comment, please consider Larchmont and Mamaroneck to be part of Connecticut.

Farmer Ted Aug 18 2009 11:04 AM

What about Pelham Bay which is the Bronx but really more like CT?

Edgy DC Aug 18 2009 11:06 AM

Never been, but if you're in the Bronx, what the hey, you're entitled to be a Yankee fan.

G-Fafif Aug 18 2009 11:14 AM

YLDBdom requires no geographic boundaries.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 18 2009 11:16 AM

Pelham Bay really IS like CT with the subway in the distance, and fake-Jersey (City Island) just down the Sound coast. And speaking of Jersey... those fans have got to get in your craw, too, no?

Edgy DC Aug 18 2009 11:21 AM

Feel free to describe Yankee fans you don't like.

metirish Aug 18 2009 11:32 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 18 2009 11:41 AM

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":2ngmycrc]Pelham Bay really IS like CT with the subway in the distance, and fake-Jersey (City Island) just down the Sound coast. And speaking of Jersey... those fans have got to get in your craw, too, no?[/quote:2ngmycrc] I live in Pelham Bay and the place is full of yankee douchebags....

Fman99 Aug 18 2009 11:37 AM

[quote="Edgy DC":paoxkqo7]Feel free to describe Yankee fans you don't like.[/quote:paoxkqo7] CONSTANTLY updating their Facebook status with love notes to Yankee hitters and victories. Barf, and fuck off. Wearing Yankee jerseys with names on the back. DUH. Also the ones that walk, talk and exist.

Farmer Ted Aug 20 2009 11:14 AM

Greys Anatomy Doucher. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/medi ... nf_exc.jpg

Edgy DC Aug 20 2009 11:31 AM

Not shocking.

soupcan Aug 20 2009 12:23 PM

That guy is the latest celebrity sex-tape scandal dude... Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart Threesome Sex Tape Hits the Internet

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 20 2009 01:54 PM

You see her pixels? They's HUGE! Also, according to online sources, he's San Franciscan by birth and Californian by upbringing. Which marks him as probably my least favorite brand of YLDB: the out-of-towner/new transplant attached to the MFYs for their "winningness" (and/or natty hats-- they go with everything!).

Benjamin Grimm Aug 20 2009 02:00 PM

I haven't seen the "sex video" but I heard that it features him, his wife, and a prostitute in a bathtub, or hot tub. I can't even imagine how my wife would react if I asked her if she and I would like to videotape ourselves in a bathtub with a hooker.

Edgy DC Aug 20 2009 02:04 PM

At least as poorly as she'd react if she caught you in a Yankee cap, I'd hope.

Frayed Knot Aug 20 2009 02:07 PM

[quote="Benjamin Grimm":i8mbtx28]I can't even imagine how my wife would react if I asked her if she and I would like to videotape ourselves in a bathtub with a hooker.[/quote:i8mbtx28] [easy]Well, when I asked her about it she was fine with the idea[/set-up]

Benjamin Grimm Aug 20 2009 02:32 PM

Oh, snap!

Farmer Ted Aug 25 2009 02:35 PM

No shocker here. From ManU to the Yankees...a front-running SOB, Beckham. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/medi ... 17_exc.jpg

metirish Aug 27 2009 07:49 AM

Front running douchebags....is there anything worse? Sir Paul McCartney of Douchebag and girlfriend Nancy Shevell watch the Yankees play the Texas Rangers in the Bronx four douchebags with small boobs take stand for God Bless America

MFS62 Aug 27 2009 08:12 AM

How fucking could he? Doesn't he remember that his American roots were at Shea Staduim? This one really pisses me off. Turncoat! Later

Benjamin Grimm Aug 27 2009 08:15 AM

Oh, please. He's a British guy who was invited to a ballgame. That doesn't mean he's a fan. I went to a Philadelphia 76ers game a few months ago because my daughter won free tickets. Doesn't make me a Sixers fan.

sharpie Aug 27 2009 08:21 AM

Sir Paul has been to several MFY games.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 27 2009 08:24 AM

Okay, in that case, I'm going to burn my Beatle wig!

HahnSolo Aug 27 2009 09:36 AM

Who's that between Jack and Paul?

Edgy DC Aug 27 2009 09:40 AM

I bet Pete Best is a Mets fan.

metirish Aug 27 2009 09:45 AM

[quote="HahnSolo":1ag7c11b]Who's that between Jack and Paul?[/quote:1ag7c11b] Lorne Michaels

Fman99 Aug 27 2009 09:47 AM

Sir Appalled's girlfriend is a hot YLDB. I'd poo in her MFY hat.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 27 2009 11:31 AM

[quote="Edgy DC":28t496jv]I bet Pete Best is a Mets fan.[/quote:28t496jv] I met Pete Best once. Really. Didn't ask his team affiliation, though.

G-Fafif Aug 27 2009 04:10 PM

[quote="metsguyinmichigan"][quote="Edgy DC"]I bet Pete Best is a Mets fan.

I met Pete Best once. Really. Didn't ask his team affiliation, though.

Neil Best of Newsday grew up a Mets fan.

metirish Sep 09 2009 07:29 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

The Captain is in a slump but John Harper hits for the cycle in this article , use your imagination as to what a Harper cycle on Jeter would be. Derek Jeter's silent treatment speaks volumes about chase of Lou Gehrig's Yankee record In a world where the Yankees almost never lose anymore, Derek Jeter's unlikely detour on the road to pinstriped immortality is practically inconsequential. But it sure is odd. Hard to say which is more un-Jeter-like: looking as if he's allowed the Lou Gehrig milestone to get to him at the plate, where he is now officially slumping, or pulling a no-show with the media after the game last night. No doubt he'll say he didn't want to intrude on Nick Swisher's night, after Swisher hit two home runs, including a walk-off shot to right in the ninth to give the Yankees a 3-2 win over the Rays. But obviously it's bugging Jeter that his expected coronation as the Yankees' all-time hit leader has turned into intrigue. As in: what's wrong with the captain? Jeter has built up such a resume as a clutch hitter that you wouldn't think he is suddenly feeling the pressure to get the four hits necessary to pass Gehrig. Then again, the Yankee shortstop is so famously about team and winning that you wonder if trying to reach such a personal achievement is messing with his baseball equilibrium. Not only is he 0-for-12 in three games the last two days, but he struck out three times last night for the first time all season. If this were an Alex Rodriguez production, we would assume that he is trying too hard to attain such glory, much the way he has tried too hard to deliver for the Yankees in postseasons past. So what about Jeter? He has always seemed pressure-proof over the years, but this isn't like failing in big games in October. Maybe he's just uncomfortable enough with all the attention surrounding his chase of Gehrig's 2,721 hits that indeed he is trying too hard to get it out of the way, as Joe Girardi suggests. Girardi seemed as bewildered as anyone else when he admitted he didn't know if Jeter was pressing because "I've never seen Derek press, so I don't know what it looks like if he does." It's not as if Jeter is racing the clock or anything, but who knows? If it somehow gets in the way of Jeter's selfless approach to playing the game, maybe it gets in the way of his simplistic approach to hitting as well. Last night Jeter didn't look right, that's for sure. Rays lefty David Price has some nasty stuff, but the Yankee captain seemed baffled at the plate, striking out twice looking at fastballs, and once swinging at a slider at his shins. In other words, he had the look of a hitter who was overthinking at the plate, which is the polar opposite of Jeter's style. Nobody keeps things as simple as he does, whether it's his see-it-and-hit-it approach to hitting, his lead-by-example style of captaincy or his avoid-controversy-at-all-costs dealings with the media, and obviously it works for him. Talk to him about hitting and he'll tell you that he never guesses on a pitch, doesn't even want to know when someone in the dugout has discovered a pitcher is, say, tipping his curveball. "If I know it's coming," he said recently, "I'll get overanxious and swing even if it's not a strike. I'd rather not know." He'd rather trust his extraordinary hand-eye coordination, not to mention, the short, quick, inside-out swing that Scott Brosius once labeled "slump-proof." Talk to him about most anything else and all paths lead to simplicity, which also means revealing nothing of himself about injuries last year or a change in his training regimen that may or may not be responsible for his seemingly dramatic improvement defensively this season. He does admit to taking criticism of his defense personally, saying, "You can take it as a challenge or you can go sit in a corner and sulk about it." His buddy, Jorge Posada, takes it a step further, saying, "He looks for something negative to motivate him." Maybe it helps keep the blinders on. You want simplicity? A couple of weeks ago in Boston I asked Jeter why for years he has had what in some ways is the worst locker in the tiny visiting clubhouse in Fenway Park, nearest the entrance and right in the flow of the constant media traffic. Jeter pointed to the door next to his locker leading to the dugout and said, "Easy in and out." Simple works for Jeter, and you have to think that maybe it is part of the reason he has been such a clutch player over the years. As Reggie Jackson once said about him, "He thinks the game but doesn't overthink it. It's a skill in itself that not many guys have." Call it part of Jeter's genius. Of course, maybe nobody can go forever without overthinking the failure-driven science of hitting, and surely he'll will get past this soon enough and go back to his MVP-like season. But it turns out even Jeter isn't always the unflappable captain. Who knew? jharper@nydailynews.com

MFS62 Sep 09 2009 08:01 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Get out the barf bags, Martha. Later

Edgy DC Sep 09 2009 08:27 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

It's amazing how often people are shocked writing about behavior that is so remarkably un-Jeter like --- slumpiness, churlishness, unclutchness, self-interest, head-up-assihness at the WBC, non-standy-uppyness, human-ness --- when they're writing as much about these exceptions as they are about the supposed rule that Jeter exhibits none of these things.

Ashie62 Sep 09 2009 08:43 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

If the Mets were in 1st place none of this Jeter crap would annoy anyone here

metsguyinmichigan Sep 09 2009 08:55 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Of course, Jeter would be a ways off from Gehrig's record had Gehrig's career not ended prematurely because he DIED. Perhaps Derek knows this, and is in some small part embarrassed by the lovefest surrounding his attempt, realizing that he is unworthy of dusting Gehrig's Hall of Fame plaque.

metirish Sep 09 2009 08:57 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="Ashie62":326sa09b]If the Mets were in 1st place none of this Jeter crap would annoy anyone here[/quote:326sa09b] I think that might be true for a lot of things but not this media nonsense , in good times and bad we as a forum have tracked the media's over reaction to the MFY's

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 09 2009 09:37 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="Ashie62"]If the Mets were in 1st place none of this Jeter crap would annoy anyone here

CORRECTION: If the Mets were in 1st place this Jeter crap would be just as annoying, if not more so (since the column inches would be coming at the expense of a 1st place Mets team).

Since the Mets are not in 1st place, getting aggrieved over this Jeter crap is a good deal more occupying than it might be otherwise. That much I'll concede.

Edgy DC Oct 16 2009 09:42 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

People I have no idea about, but if you put a gun to my head, I've just got to believe are YLDBs: 1. Kelly Ripa 2. Demi Moore 3. Steve Pelluer 4. Kanye West 5. David Beckham 6. Justin Timberlake 7. Monica Lewinski 8. Justine Bateman 9. Dane Cook 10. Lady Fuckin' Gaga

Edgy DC Oct 16 2009 09:47 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Ha! I read backwards and turns out that I'm right about Beckham. Of course, I probably sublimimininally remembered it.

G-Fafif Oct 17 2009 06:16 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="Edgy DC":292rzs0r]People I have no idea about, but if you put a gun to my head, I've just got to believe are YLDBs: 1. Kelly Ripa[/quote:292rzs0r] Kelly Ripa did radio commercials urging all to buy Mets tickets (a la Jon Stewart and John Leguizamo) a couple of years ago. Keep the gun from your head.

metirish Oct 17 2009 06:28 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

They're all douchebags though.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 17 2009 07:02 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

That drunk cop who killed a woman in a hit-and-run then avoided a breathalyzer test for 12 hours? YLDB. I haven't seen a photo of him without a MFY cap and shirt.

MFS62 Oct 17 2009 07:19 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Dear Abby, I'm having a tough time separating the real Yankee loving douchebags from your garden variety frontrunning motherfuckers, who would jump on the bandwagon and root for any winnning team. Any hints as to how I can tell the difference? Please sign me: I want to use the proper epithet Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 17 2009 12:15 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="Edgy DC":3jq0gqvz]People I have no idea about, but if you put a gun to my head, I've just got to believe are YLDBs: 9. Dane Cook 10. Lady Fuckin' Gaga[/quote:3jq0gqvz] Cook grew up just outside Boston, IIRC, but I've seen a handful of pictures with him in a Yankee hat (probably not taken just outside Boston). True-blue YLDB? Dunno. But he's one of THOSE guys. Weirdly, I think you're right about Gaga-- she did a little of her new single on SNL a few weeks ago, and I remembered something about "watching the Yankees with her dad."

dgwphotography Oct 18 2009 06:28 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

I'm going to gavomit... http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseb ... otion.html

metsmarathon Oct 18 2009 07:57 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

yankee fans are not the best in the world. they throw the ball back, too.

metsmarathon Oct 18 2009 08:03 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

"There are other baseball fans in other cities, of course, Mets fans in this one. There are fans who come out strong for teams who haven't won the way the Yankees won, who don't make the playoffs just about every year the way the Yankees have since Joe Torre first came to town 13 years ago and the winning came back to the Yankees and the Bronx." so, yeah, they're great fans and all. but they're only there 'cos the team is winning. that's my takeaway from the article. the rest was nonsense that can be said of the fans of any team, really. oh, one guy didnt want to look at what was left of ysii - the poor thing - instead preferring to remember it as it was (a 70's remodel, ha!). but, y'know, what better way to make yankee fans like you than to tell them, to reassure them, how great they must be because they root for the yankees. because if they didnt need the yankees to make them feel great, well, they'd be mets fans.

metirish Oct 18 2009 08:28 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Well it's a stupid article and I hate the way Lupica does this all the time He is a Yankee fan out of Ohio State yyybbb

Edgy DC Oct 19 2009 10:12 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="metsmarathon"]yankee fans are not the best in the world. they throw the ball back, too.

I know this neither proves nor disproves anything, but...

	CitiField	Yankee Stadium III
Seats sold per game	38,942	45,918
Capacity	41,800	52,325
Percentage Sold	93.16%	87.76%

SteveJRogers Oct 19 2009 10:17 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="G-Fafif":18o1610s][quote="Edgy DC":18o1610s]People I have no idea about, but if you put a gun to my head, I've just got to believe are YLDBs: 1. Kelly Ripa[/quote:18o1610s] Kelly Ripa did radio commercials urging all to buy Mets tickets (a la Jon Stewart and John Leguizamo) a couple of years ago. Keep the gun from your head.[/quote:18o1610s] She is a friend of Willie Randolph though. And did anyone see her at Shea before Randolph was hired, or at Shea/Citi (or talk about the Mets on her show) since? Its possible that she could be a BLDB at the moment.

MFS62 Oct 19 2009 01:00 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Steve's back. We knew it was only a matter of time. Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 11 2009 07:05 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

The city bus driver who struck and killed a pedestrian on his first day back on the job after a suspension for sending text messages threatening to hurt passengers while driving? YLDB, of course.

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 07:25 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Great. Sociopathic YLDBs. My favorite.

soupcan Nov 11 2009 07:33 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":b6sad7i1]The city bus driver who struck and killed a pedestrian on his first day back on the job after a suspension for sending text messages threatening to hurt passengers while driving?[/quote:b6sad7i1] Wait - the picture was taken his first day back on the job or he struck and killed a ped his first day back on the job after the suspension?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 11 2009 07:45 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

The MTA had suspended the driver for texting while driving. On the first day his suspension ended he killed the kid (right where I used to live too -- corner of 53rd & 9th). Granted witnesses say the kid was sprinting across the street to beat traffic, and the yldb hasn't yet been charged, but the content of the text messages (actually Facebook statuses) revealed today included "Thinking about how many people I want to kill today" and "I hate these people, I want to kick the shit out of them" and "I can't wait till it rains again so I can splash more people." Deets in the Snooze today

DocTee Nov 11 2009 08:06 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Prepare to be ill: [url]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=giuliani/091110&sportCat=mlb

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 08:08 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Lie to me, douchebag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJbFxSpMmY

soupcan Nov 11 2009 08:09 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="DocTee"]Prepare to be ill: [url]http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=giuliani/091110&sportCat=mlb

Judging from this picture - Giuliani has been justly punished.

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 08:09 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Why are people running around with those backward-assed caps? Do we need a Yankee-Lovin' Illiterates thread?

soupcan Nov 11 2009 08:09 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket":5n3uih8t] "I can't wait till it rains again so I can splash more people." [/quote:5n3uih8t] I knew it!

MFS62 Nov 11 2009 08:14 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 11 2009 08:22 AM

We can add to the list all those d'bags who voted for Jeter to win the Golden Glove award. Anyone who watched him for more than 5 minutes (For Mets fans, that would have had to have been with a gun to their heads) knew that Jeter now has the range of a fire hydrant. Later

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 08:19 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Phil Rizzuto once told me a story about Joe DiMaggio. One time, The Scooter jogged out to take his shortstop position at Yankee Stadium in the top of the ninth inning. The Yankees were getting clobbered, and obviously had only one more set of at-bats coming in the bottom half of the inning. Rizzuto happened to turn around as the warmup tosses were criss-crossing the outfield. He noticed DiMaggio in center field and immediately had the feeling, "We're going to win this game." Whenever he thought they were mired in a bad losing streak, he would look at DiMaggio, just watch him standing there, and think, "I know we can win this game." That taught me about leadership. Yeah, the lesson of the Yankees is that if you get full enough of yourself, you can escape all accountability for your prior actions. You can beat the rap. You can bullshit your way through school. You can douche your way through your job. You can sweep your skeletons under the rug, smile your bullet-proof smile, treat your marriage like a joke, and talk shit to and bully any people who aren't buying it. You don't believe me? Fuck you! Thanks for that lesson in mookdom, DiMaggio.

MFS62 Nov 11 2009 08:26 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

That warmup story reminds me of a story I read about DiMaggio after he retired. When he came up he had a great arm. But toward the end of his career, his arm was shot. During the warmups before each game, he was still able to cut loose one strong throw. The opposing team would see it, and think his arm was OK, so they wouldn't challenge his arm during the game. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 11 2009 10:28 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Nov 11 2009 10:34 AM

[quote="MFS62"]We can add to the list all those d'bags who voted for Jeter to win the Golden Glove award. Anyone who watched him for more than 5 minutes (For Mets fans, that would have had to have been with a gun to their heads) knew that Jeter now has the range of a fire hydrant. Later

I will say this here, and only here, and never again: Jeter's work on his defense/fitness showed this year (and, to a lesser extent, last year).

Specifically, his range to his left-- to both my eyes and most leading defensive metrics-- showed marked improvement over what it had previously been. While he may not have deserved the Gold Glove-- Elvis Andrus? Erick Aybar?-- he was above-average at his position in the AL this year.

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 10:30 AM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="MFS62":2nx701hr]That warmup story reminds me of a story I read about DiMaggio after he retired. When he came up he had a great arm. But toward the end of his career, his arm was shot. During the warmups before each game, he was still able to cut loose one strong throw. The opposing team would see it, and think his arm was OK, so they wouldn't challenge his arm during the game. Later[/quote:2nx701hr] Beats the story about how he kept Marilyn from running on him.

SteveJRogers Nov 11 2009 05:59 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="Edgy DC":2qg53jf8]Lie to me, douchebag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJbFxSpMmY[/quote:2qg53jf8] Kind of shows you the provincial, small town nature of Cleveland more than the front running doucheness of LeBron. Would it disappoint anyone if David Wright was seen sporting a Carolina Hurricanes or Panthers shirt? Or Jeff Francoeur showing up at the Garden and rooting hard for the Hawks? Or if Johan Santana professed a love for the Vikings from being in Minnesota all those years? Besides, isn't it better that a (insert team here)LBS really IS a fan of said team, rather than a fake phony fraud fan?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 11 2009 06:02 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

what?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 11 2009 08:47 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="SteveJRogers"][quote="Edgy DC"]Lie to me, douchebag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJbFxSpMmY

Kind of shows you the provincial, small town nature of Cleveland more than the front running doucheness of LeBron.

Would it disappoint anyone if David Wright was seen sporting a Carolina Hurricanes or Panthers shirt? Or Jeff Francoeur showing up at the Garden and rooting hard for the Hawks? Or if Johan Santana professed a love for the Vikings from being in Minnesota all those years?

Besides, isn't it better that a (insert team here)LBS really IS a fan of said team, rather than a fake phony fraud fan?

Um... it's a bit different.

The most obvious reason: LeBron never lived in-- much less grew up in-- New York, Dallas or Chicago.

I'm more disappointed that he stands on principle regarding wearing a baseball cap, however impolitic some may find it, but has absolutely no problem bending when corporate interests are at stake (declining comment or any apparent discussion with Nike regarding the China-Darfur connection, e.g.).

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 08:58 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

It's more than a bit different. LeBron is a native son, he's been embraced as such, and in openly sporting enemy colors he's rejected it. And every time he's rejected it, it's for the glamourous frontrunner. Wright is not a native son of New York. And who really notices if Jeff Francoeur shows up at the Garden?

metsguyinmichigan Nov 11 2009 10:13 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

And if someone happens to accidentally wear a Phillies cap to a game, that OK, too!

Farmer Ted Dec 14 2009 04:30 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Totally not surprised. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/medi ... cn_exc.jpg

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 14 2009 04:56 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Truth be told, I would have felt a little conflicted had CD's kid had on a Met hat. Plus, he's a California boy-- the MFY hat is merely an accessory over there.

Farmer Ted Dec 17 2009 01:07 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

This link is chock full of Douchers. http://zellspinstripeblog.com/2009/12/1 ... -fan-list/

metirish Dec 17 2009 01:11 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

There are so many douchebags in there that it's taking forever to load.....

Edgy DC Dec 17 2009 01:13 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Wow, I really had higher expectations for.... well, none of those people. At least, not the ones I recognized. Who's this? Looks like Denis DeYoung.

TransMonk Dec 17 2009 01:25 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

I believe it is Fee Waybill of The Tubes.

Edgy DC Dec 17 2009 01:32 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

Okay, him I disappointed in.

G-Fafif Dec 17 2009 01:36 PM Re: Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[quote="Edgy DC"]Wow, I really had higher expectations for.... well, none of those people. At least, not the ones I recognized. Who's this? Looks like Denis DeYoung.

Some MFYLDB wore an MFY t-shirt with 31 (Winfield) on it in DeYoung's epic video treatment of his 1984 hit "Desert Moon," as evidenced here, though somebody else wears a late '70s-era SOX cap.