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Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

G-Fafif Oct 23 2010 04:35 AM

From October 14's Snooze: Over the past 50 years, the Yankees have won nine of their world championships, 15 American League pennants and fielded the likes of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter. The Texas Rangers, meanwhile, played .471 baseball, moved from one dumpy stadium in Washington to a worse one in Arlington, never captured a home playoff game and never reached a World Series. The Rangers have retired exactly one player's jersey (aside from Jackie Robinson's)-and attempted to counter George M. Steinbrenner with George W. Bush in the owner's box. All they've ever had was Nolan Ryan, and they've ridden him like an urban cowboy on a mechanical bull. Ryan's no-hitters aside, this ALCS represents one of sports' great historical mismatches, 40 pennants versus zero. The Yanks should win this series just by throwing their pinstriped uniforms onto the field and reading from a few pages of The Baseball Encyclopedia. If only Bud Selig would agree to waive a few silly postseason rules, the Bombers might send their Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster to Arlington for the first couple of games, make this a fair fight. Of course, the Yanks are too diplomatic to admit such a thing. "I think history can play a role if you're playing a team where the guys have played against you," Joe Girardi said. "Most of (the Rangers) don't remember the late '90s, so it's not going to affect them one way of another. It doesn't mean anything to them." Well, it should. The Rangers are the oldest of three existing major league clubs never to have won a pennant. They should be ashamed to bring their media guides to the Bronx. The late '90s? What about the '60s, when the Rangers were born as the Washington Senators, mostly to appease congressmen who were ready to vote away the league's antitrust exemptions after the other Senators moved to Minnesota. Those new, second-generation Senators were every bit as lousy and nomadic as the first batch. During their odd-ball stay in our nation's capital - who can forget Richard Nixon throwing out the first baseball? - and then after moving to Turnpike Stadium in Arlington, the Senators/Rangers managed exactly one .500 season among their first 15 years, through 1976. The magic moments since then? How about a New York Times reporter declaring with anguish her retirement from sports writing after fighting the backward postgame flow of fans and dealing with the horrors of the old rat-infested Arlington Stadium? How about the Rangers signing Alex Rodriguez to an unsustainable 10-year, $252 million contract in 2000, when the team still didn't have enough pitching to field a contender? Or owner Tom Hicks defaulting on $525 million in loans and Major League Baseball paying the club's operating expenses from a common fund? Or A-Rod filing as a creditor in court this year, seeking the $24.9 million still owed him by the Rangers? Yes, this has been a sad, losing franchise for half a century, but not in a charming way like the Cubbies. The Rangers are still hoping to emerge from the darkest of dark ages now under the guidance of Ryan and new owner Chuck Greenberg - who happens to be from Pittsburgh, so you can imagine how much he knows about building a decent baseball team. Here's the bottom line: In New York, a professional club is only worth as much as it pays its players, or as much as the franchise can attract on the open market. The Yankees' total payroll on opening day was $206.33 million, while the Rangers' was $55.25. The Rangers were sold to the Greenberg group for $570 million, despite playing now in the respectable Rangers Ballpark. Forbes estimates the Yankees are worth about three times that. Why are they even playing this series? Why don't they just use the scores from '96, '98 and '99? "I can't even think back to those years," Jorge Posada said. "It's over. I don't think it matters." It matters. The Yankees lead, 27 titles to none. Play ball. fjbondy@netscape.net

metirish Oct 23 2010 05:28 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

What an asshole, and he's off covering the NLCS after writing that claptrap......oh I bet he ates that....6 games - 54 innings and the storied MFY's were beaten in probably 50 of those innings.....yes , they should have sent the Minor League team.

Edgy DC Oct 23 2010 06:43 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Is the idea to bait peple into a fight?

MFS62 Oct 23 2010 07:58 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I remember reading that article when it was written and thinking "I hope the Rangers win, then tape that article to a brick and shove it up Bondy's ass." Figuratively, they just did. Later

Nymr83 Oct 23 2010 08:02 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

"I think history can play a role if you're playing a team where the guys have played against you," Joe Girardi said. "Most of (the Rangers) don't remember the late '90s, so it's not going to affect them one way of another. It doesn't mean anything to them." Girardi has it right, the "history" should only matter when it involves the specific players on the field.

Frayed Knot Oct 23 2010 08:06 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Bondy long ago admitted that he's a YLDB and NYM hater to the point where he's incapable of thinking or writing about either subject with an unbiased eye. It's probably the main reason he is assigned to the NL series lest he be moved to (again) write long and lovingly about the obnoxious and sometimes criminal behavior of the "bleacher creatures". That his main point about history determining this year's outcome - despite that history involving no current Rangers and only a few current Yanquis - was shot down by the only two players he quoted clearly didn't stop him from making an ass out of himself by clinging to the theory. "a New York Times reporter declaring with anguish her retirement from sports writing after fighting the backward postgame flow of fans" What exactly is a "backward flow of fans" ? Did they leave the stadium walking backwards? ... Did the poor writer's dinner plans get upset by her unfamiliarity with the local traffic patterns? ... Did some of the patrons look like extras from the caveman Geico commercials and drag her off by the hair? What I remember most from the late '90s Ranger-Yanx series was more than a few NY writers spending most of their time tripping over themselves to tell us what a backward outpost the Dallas/Ft Worth area was, specifically things like the lack of good Italian restaurants where sportswriters could mingle. Gee, life just doesn't get much tougher than that.

Lefty Specialist Oct 23 2010 10:27 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Wow, that's breathtaking in it's douchiness. Reads almost like a piece from the Onion.

Valadius Oct 23 2010 11:38 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

He gets paid to write this tripe?

Ashie62 Oct 23 2010 12:59 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Unbelievable...I do feel a sense of satisfaction.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 23 2010 01:06 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I feel a little more satisfied now, having dropped him a note of congratulations.

G-Fafif Oct 23 2010 01:38 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Bondy does seem to have a delightful knack for writing such screeds and not being around when the MFYs implode. Whenever the Mets would take a Subway Series, after he'd written how worthless they were, I'd look for the mea culpa and he'd be magically off covering Wimbledon or the women's World Cup or whatever. Natch he's on NLCS duty this week. Matt Callan's retrospective on 2000 on Amazin' Avenue, covering fetid World Series Game Two, included a Bondy link, if you dare. What he writes today is tame by comparison; it reminded me how much I absolutely hated him when he came along with the Bleacher Creatures shtick. I always figured there was an element of tongue-in-cheek to all this but I reached the Bondy breaking point in 2001 after the Mets traded Pratt, Wendell and Cook to the Phillies and he wrote, hey Mets fans, just root for the Phillies: Phets or Millies, it's all the same (he got a quote of Al Leiter that cracked the "I grew up loving the Mets" facade, wherein Al said yeah, when the Mets got bad and the Phillies got good, they were closer to Toms River and all; douche). I sent Bondy as civil a FUCK YOU e-mail as I could compose. To his credit, he wrote back, explained he loved the '69 Cubs and they broke his heart (he'd mentioned in previous columns that was a reason he forever resented the Mets...ha) and that he loved the Baltimore Colts and they broke his heart by bolting for Indianapolis. His point was stop taking sports so seriously and don't give your heart over to a professional sports team, it's just a greedy corporate business. (There was also something in there about his beloved Cubbies being bought by the evil Tribune Company, though he didn't mention, as a friend in the newspaper business pointed out, he was among the first to break the News's picket line, against Tribune, during the contentious strike of 1990-91.) Interesting take for someone whose livelihood depended on people maintaining a vested interest in the teams he wrote about. I pointed this out in a followup. He never wrote back.

Ashie62 Oct 23 2010 02:24 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Got this email from Bondy after emailing him on his 10/14 article. Ted: Yanks ask Rangers not to overuse Lee in World Series. Want him in tip-top shape for spring training in Tampa... Arrogantly yours, Filip

Edgy DC Oct 23 2010 03:18 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

The Rangers have retired exactly one player's jersey (aside from Jackie Robinson's)-and attempted to counter George M. Steinbrenner with George W. Bush in the owner's box. He realizes teams don't buy the owner, right?

dgwphotography Oct 23 2010 03:35 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Monumental - ha, I see what you did there...

HahnSolo Oct 23 2010 03:53 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

G-Fafif wrote: as a friend in the newspaper business pointed out, he was among the first to break the News's picket line, against Tribune, during the contentious strike of 1990-91.) Two things about Bondy. The first week I entered the corporate world in 1990 was when that strike began. I got off the 5 train at Union Square and heard a guy railing about the evil newspapers. The man looked like he hadn;t bathed or shaved in months (remember, this was about 36 hours after the strike began). It was Bondy. The other thing? I always wondered by Peter Vecsey referred to him as "Ding Dong" Bondy. now I know.

Frayed Knot Oct 23 2010 04:02 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

The type of fan Bondy prefers to promote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztPQieRu ... re=related

Ashie62 Oct 23 2010 04:18 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Sub-neanderthal

MFS62 Oct 23 2010 04:19 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Ashie62 wrote: Got this email from Bondy after emailing him on his 10/14 article. Ted: Yanks ask Rangers not to overuse Lee in World Series. Want him in tip-top shape for spring training in Tampa... Arrogantly yours, Filip I want him to be tied to a chair in a warm, humid roon, his eyelids taped open, and forced to watch game 6 on a continuous loop for, say, ten years. Later

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 23 2010 06:57 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Got this email from Bondy after emailing him on his 10/14 article. Ted: Yanks ask Rangers not to overuse Lee in World Series. Want him in tip-top shape for spring training in Tampa... Arrogantly yours, Filip Funny. I'm pretty sure I didn't write the same thing as you, and yet I got the following response: Francis: Yanks ask Rangers not to overuse Lee in World Series. Want him in tip-top shape for spring training in Tampa... Arrogantly yours, Filip

metirish Oct 23 2010 07:07 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Those are real ?, I mean the guys a total douchebag but that would put him in a different bracket.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 23 2010 08:13 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Oh, indeed. I just thanked him for putting the same amount of thought into his form-letter middle-finger as he does his columns.

Ashie62 Oct 23 2010 09:02 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I asked him if he got paid for writing this stuff. he must be on robo-email..What a douche.

Valadius Oct 24 2010 03:45 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Bondy just wrote an article basically proclaiming the Yankees the victors of the NLCS. Douchebag.

SteveJRogers Oct 24 2010 05:55 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Valadius wrote: Bondy just wrote an article basically proclaiming the Yankees the victors of the NLCS. Douchebag. Reaching Val, reaching. Though would have been shocking and very nice if Bondy, or anyone for that matter, made the connection that Righetti started his big league life with the Rangers.

Ashie62 Oct 24 2010 06:35 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

SteveJRogers wrote: Valadius wrote: Bondy just wrote an article basically proclaiming the Yankees the victors of the NLCS. Douchebag. Reaching Val, reaching. Though would have been shocking and very nice if Bondy, or anyone for that matter, made the connection that Righetti started his big league life with the Rangers. Not reaching at all really...

SteveJRogers Oct 24 2010 06:41 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Ashie62 wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: Valadius wrote: Bondy just wrote an article basically proclaiming the Yankees the victors of the NLCS. Douchebag. Reaching Val, reaching. Though would have been shocking and very nice if Bondy, or anyone for that matter, made the connection that Righetti started his big league life with the Rangers. Not reaching at all really... So, if an article comes out talking up Ryan's Met beginnings or even Francoeur's ex-Met status, that should be proclaiming a Met victory of the ALCS?

SteveJRogers Oct 24 2010 07:07 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Aliright, number one, it's only mentioned in the headline, which is rarely, if ever, written by the author of the piece, and a brief couple of graphs on Righetti's thoughts on if the Yankees had made it. Not exactly saying Righetti brought over tons of techniques and winning attitude learned from the dozen or so pitching coaches and managers he had when pitching in the Bronx, and that is why The Giant pitching staff is awesome. Second, even if you want to presume 99 percent of readers know Dave Righetti's history in New York, it's still for the 1 percent that might not know and would be wondering why the fuck is this reporter is chatting up the Giants's pitching coach. Look if Righetti was an ex Met you wouldn't be calling douchebagery on this exact article, swap Yankees for Mets in the title, article when it gets linked to in the Rico thread.

seawolf17 Oct 24 2010 07:25 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I'm stunned by that original article. How does that get past an editor? Sweet sassy molassey. I actually read his Creatures book. Horrifying.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 24 2010 08:59 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

He responded twice last night to my responses, and put a little more effort into 'em. (Funnily enough, WHILE he was working, during last night's clincher.) Just taking a break between end-of-weekend chores. I'll post tomorrow.

Ashie62 Oct 24 2010 09:12 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

SteveJRogers wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: Valadius wrote: Bondy just wrote an article basically proclaiming the Yankees the victors of the NLCS. Douchebag. Reaching Val, reaching. Though would have been shocking and very nice if Bondy, or anyone for that matter, made the connection that Righetti started his big league life with the Rangers. Not reaching at all really... So, if an article comes out talking up Ryan's Met beginnings or even Francoeur's ex-Met status, that should be proclaiming a Met victory of the ALCS? thats reaching.

SteveJRogers Oct 24 2010 09:25 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Ashie62 wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Valadius wrote: Bondy just wrote an article basically proclaiming the Yankees the victors of the NLCS. Douchebag. Reaching Val, reaching. Though would have been shocking and very nice if Bondy, or anyone for that matter, made the connection that Righetti started his big league life with the Rangers. Not reaching at all really... So, if an article comes out talking up Ryan's Met beginnings or even Francoeur's ex-Met status, that should be proclaiming a Met victory of the ALCS? thats reaching. So basically the headline writer should not have played up Righetti's Yanqui past is what you are saying? Even though it's for a NYC paper and Bondy got a quote about Righetti's thoughts on the Yanqui's ALCS loss. The original column in this thread is a fine example of Bondy's over the top YLDB-ness. The one Val referenced is not.

SteveJRogers Oct 24 2010 09:40 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Yes, this has been a sad, losing franchise for half a century, but not in a charming way like the Cubbies. The Rangers are still hoping to emerge from the darkest of dark ages now under the guidance of Ryan and new owner Chuck Greenberg - who happens to be from Pittsburgh, so you can imagine how much he knows about building a decent baseball team. Well, considering he grew up on the Lumber Company Pirates, I'd say he would know, and be able to teach the current owners a thing or two.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 24 2010 10:10 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

My head hurts. Who's got the Cliff Notes to this thread?

The Second Spitter Oct 25 2010 01:57 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

batmagadanleadoff wrote: My head hurts. Who's got the Cliff Notes to this thread? Floyd.

seawolf17 Oct 25 2010 05:56 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Filip wrote: Yes, this has been a sad, losing franchise for half a century, but not in a charming way like the Cubbies. The Rangers are still hoping to emerge from the darkest of dark ages now under the guidance of Ryan and new owner Chuck Greenberg - who happens to be from Pittsburgh, so you can imagine how much he knows about building a decent baseball team.

Do some fuckin' research, dick. If that's your argument, Wikipedia says he graduated HS in 1978 in Pittsburgh... which means he grew up watching Clemente and Stargell and some great fuckin' Pirates teams. What a hack.

SteveJRogers Oct 25 2010 06:14 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

My head hurts. Who's got the Cliff Notes to this thread? Seriously? Okay, lets look at what Val is reacting to: [url]http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2010/10/24/2010-10-24_former_yankees_closer_dave_righetti_deserves_credit_as_giants_pitchers_close_out.html Former Yankees closer Dave Righetti deserves credit as Giants pitchers close out NLCS Filip Bondy Sunday, October 24th 2010, 4:00 AM That's all on the headline writer, but as I said, that is telling the few reading who have no idea who Righetti is and why a NYC hack is spotlighting him. PHILADELPHIA - All around him Saturday night in the visitors' clubhouse, the Giants' pitchers were dousing their coach through his shirt, down to the bone. Dave Righetti, the calm center in this swirling champagne storm, was just trying to shake some hands, carry on a conversation with a reporter. "The starters, the young guys, they get a lot of attention," Righetti said. "It's natural. But today, it was all bullpen." The relievers and the starters just kept coming out of that pen on Saturday night, one after another, bringing everybody and everything. Madison Bumgarner pitched a couple of innings, and then later Tim Lincecum was warming up even while Juan Uribe rounded the bases in the eighth with his first-pitch, go-ahead homer off Ryan Madson. "We talked to Tim before the game," Righetti said. "He was ready for this situation." And while Lincecum didn't really do much in his brief, one-out, two-hit appearance, Brian Wilson came in to force a double play, to protect the one-run lead with the same vigilance four other Giant relievers demonstrated in keeping the Phils scoreless after the first inning. The bullpen did what was necessary for this 3-2 victory in Game 6 of the NLCS and won a ticket to the Giants' first World Series in eight years. And the upset really was born in odd, contentious fashion back in the third - when a brouhaha gave Bruce Bochy a legitimate excuse to yank his off-kilter starter, Jonathan Sanchez. Sanchez's pitch hit Chase Utley in the back, though surely not on purpose considering there was a man on first and nobody out. Utley picked up the ball, flipping it back toward the mound as he jogged to first. Sanchez took exception. Utley disdainfully waved him off. The two men jawed. Benches and bullpens emptied, three-quarters-heartedly. After considerable posturing and milling about by the reluctant warriors, Bochy pulled his rattled starter and replaced him with Jeremy Affeldt at an unnaturally early stage of the game - two-plus innings, with the score tied 2-2. Five relievers stopped the Phillies cold. The bullpen was magnificent. So now we have the Giants trying to do something against the Texas Rangers they haven't managed since they foolishly left upper Manhattan - win a World Series. No references to Righetti's past so far. Righetti was asked if it wouldn't even be better facing the Yankees, his old team. "No, it just doesn't work that way," he said. "There are no fairy tales. I feel bad for the teams in the East, the Yanks and the Phils. I know what this means to them here. But we want a piece of this, too." There it is, your only reference in the entire article to the Yankees. He gets that piece now. The San Francisco Giants are the closest thing to a New York team still pitching and catching in October. The franchise played at the Polo Grounds, chased out the Yanks from that home and then betrayed the city in 1958 by heading to the West Coast alongside its partner in crime, the Dodgers. The Giants have three former Yankees on their staff - the batting coach Hensley Meulens, the first base coach Roberto Kelly and Righetti. They also have those familiar six letters across the front of their uniform when they're playing at home. Hmmmm, all it is saying is that there are three ex-Yankees on Bochy's staff, Bondy isn't saying that the Yankees deserve credit for their run. Even the most bitter of ex-New York Giant fans melt a bit at that sight. I'd say he's referring to the GIANTS on the uniform tops, not the three ex-Yankees on the coaching staff. Only one of which is of the fondly remembered kind these days. "I realize this is a New York Giants board," one fan posted last week on a message board for the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society. "But how nice to see the big fellows clinch the Western Division Championship on the anniversary of probably the franchise's and all of baseball's finest moment." The fan was referring, of course, to Bobby Thomson's homer against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951. It was a moment like no other in New York baseball history, in Giants history. While these newfangled Giants can never tug at the heartstrings of New Yorkers like the old ones, there is some recognizable grit to this new version. The underdog Giants closed out the NLCS on the road. During the regular season, they came back from a deficit that nearly evoked memories about the Miracle of Coogan's Bluff. "I'll say this about the club," Bochy said. "We've been tested all year. We've been playing big games. We were six and a half, seven games back. We went down to the wire playing Atlanta and now we're here in Philly, playing a tremendous team that's been to the Series the last two years. "These guys, they're battle-tested," Bochy said. Ryan Howard looked at the last pitch from Wilson, a low hard slider for strike three. No dynasty for the Phils, not yet. The Giants were chugging beers and dancing on champagne puddles. Some old memories and ghosts were stirred, under the Macombs Dam Bridge. Hmmm, more about old NY Giant ghosts than "The Yankees deserve credit for the NLCS win for the Giants."

metirish Oct 25 2010 06:35 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

"Rogers and Bondy sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby Jeter in a golden carriage!"

SteveJRogers Oct 25 2010 07:03 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Fuck off. We know Bondy is a YLDB NYC elitist, but ifI presented the same story, you'd be taking the piss out of me for trying too hard to pile on.

metirish Oct 25 2010 07:14 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

SteveJRogers wrote: Fuck off. We know Bondy is a YLDB NYC elitist, but ifI presented the same story, you'd be taking the piss out of me for trying too hard to pile on. I kid , come on Stevo ...... can you be a douchebag and an elitist?

MFS62 Oct 25 2010 08:33 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

And Andy Martino chimes in with a cheap shot (last paragraph), too. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseb ... llies.html Later

Benjamin Grimm Oct 25 2010 08:39 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

How is this a "cheap shot"? Andy Martino's last paragraph wrote: The gulf is wide between those two teams, but something very subtle has shifted toward the Mets since the regular season ended. The Phils are hoping to extend a sublime era, while the Mets are working to build one. In a cyclical game, those underlying changes might not surface in the standings for years - but they will eventually surface.

metirish Oct 25 2010 08:42 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I thought tracksuits column was good reading overall......Phillies are getting old , even the youngish ones like Utley and Rollins are old for their age.

MFS62 Oct 25 2010 08:47 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Benjamin Grimm wrote: How is this a "cheap shot"? Andy Martino's last paragraph wrote: The gulf is wide between those two teams, but something very subtle has shifted toward the Mets since the regular season ended. The Phils are hoping to extend a sublime era, while the Mets are working to build one. In a cyclical game, those underlying changes might not surface in the standings for years - but they will eventually surface. Oops. I meant the paragraph above it. Remember all that whining in the Mets' locker room last month when Utley slid hard and late into Ruben Tejada? Privately, some Phils players are still mocking David Wright, who chirped about the incident but did nothing, and Beltran, who slid hard once, hit no one, and reverted to passivity. I find that quite out of place in an article about what the Phillies need to rebound. Later

metsguyinmichigan Oct 25 2010 08:58 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I like this line: Derek Jeter aside, no player has seemed suddenly older and more vulnerable this postseason than the 31-year-old Utley, who batted .182 in the series and bumbled around the infield. Look out, Andy! You think Ian O'Connor is going to let you get away with a line like that? I predict swift retaliation.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 25 2010 09:03 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

FILIP AND FASTERSTRONGER: A DULL-AS-DURBIN EPISTOLARY TALE (W/link to his Oct. 14 column) Accurate, unbiased, well-considered. Congratulations on nailing it! Francis: Yanks ask Rangers not to overuse Lee in World Series. Want him in tip-top shape for spring training in Tampa... Arrogantly yours, Filip Thanks for putting the same amount of thought, discretion, and effort into your form-letter middle-finger as you do your columns... and for giving those who say newspaper reporting is dying such tempting ammo. Enjoy the offseason. Real, Live Filip wrote: You try answering 742 (mostly profane) emails! Conciliatory LWFS wrote: Fair enough... but still. You're more or less bringing it on with responses like that, aren't you? (I can't really read the comments section of the online edition anymore.) Anyway... hell of a game tonight, though, huh? This might be the most entertaining game of either LCS so far. Most of the action's been of the non-scoring variety, too. A Guy Who Definitely Didn't Pre-Write His Game Column for Saturday Night wrote: Agreed. I'm in the press box here in Philly watching as I write this == another reason I've been curt, juggling deadlines and responses. Look, you seem like an intelligent guy. The deal is that I wrote a lighthearted piece, with an arrogant persona as a literary device. Didn't make a single wave up here in New York where they know I write a lot of light pieces. Down in Texas, it became some kind of nutty cause celebre. I take sexism, violence, drugs in sports very seriously. I don't take Yankees-Rangers that way. I've covered too many games for too many years. Seemed natural to poke fun at the difference in these two franchise's histories. But if anybody thinks for a second that I approve of a $200 million payroll or thought the Yanks were a cinch, they haven't read much of what I've written. cheers, filip Teasing here, too (some). I can see a little of that in that piece... but, what, was it supposed to be satirical? Lighthearted though it may be, it did come off less like a goof, and more like an amplified version of what you felt was true... and not ALL that amplified, really. And if so... what was the point of the satire, apart from getting the other guys' goat? (I mean, you mock their reaction after the fact... but that's what you were hoping for, wasn't it? Or is your aim to write forgettable pieces?) Thanks, and best of luck with your deadlines. And... scene.

Edgy DC Oct 25 2010 09:08 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Wow. I'm just playing the asshole to fuck with people about something they care about. Edgy DC wrote: Is the idea to bait peple into a fight? I guess I have my answer?

metirish Oct 25 2010 09:21 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

FILIP AND FASTERSTRONGER: A DULL-AS-DURBIN EPISTOLARY TALE (W/link to his Oct. 14 column) Accurate, unbiased, well-considered. Congratulations on nailing it! Francis: Yanks ask Rangers not to overuse Lee in World Series. Want him in tip-top shape for spring training in Tampa... Arrogantly yours, Filip Thanks for putting the same amount of thought, discretion, and effort into your form-letter middle-finger as you do your columns... and for giving those who say newspaper reporting is dying such tempting ammo. Enjoy the offseason. Real, Live Filip wrote: You try answering 742 (mostly profane) emails! Conciliatory LWFS wrote: Fair enough... but still. You're more or less bringing it on with responses like that, aren't you? (I can't really read the comments section of the online edition anymore.) Anyway... hell of a game tonight, though, huh? This might be the most entertaining game of either LCS so far. Most of the action's been of the non-scoring variety, too. A Guy Who Definitely Didn't Pre-Write His Game Column for Saturday Night wrote: Agreed. I'm in the press box here in Philly watching as I write this == another reason I've been curt, juggling deadlines and responses. Look, you seem like an intelligent guy. The deal is that I wrote a lighthearted piece, with an arrogant persona as a literary device. Didn't make a single wave up here in New York where they know I write a lot of light pieces. Down in Texas, it became some kind of nutty cause celebre. I take sexism, violence, drugs in sports very seriously. I don't take Yankees-Rangers that way. I've covered too many games for too many years. Seemed natural to poke fun at the difference in these two franchise's histories. But if anybody thinks for a second that I approve of a $200 million payroll or thought the Yanks were a cinch, they haven't read much of what I've written. cheers, filip Teasing here, too (some). I can see a little of that in that piece... but, what, was it supposed to be satirical? Lighthearted though it may be, it did come off less like a goof, and more like an amplified version of what you felt was true... and not ALL that amplified, really. And if so... what was the point of the satire, apart from getting the other guys' goat? (I mean, you mock their reaction after the fact... but that's what you were hoping for, wasn't it? Or is your aim to write forgettable pieces?) Thanks, and best of luck with your deadlines. And... scene. You're hilarious LWFS.......well done.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 25 2010 09:25 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Well, I'm newly edified, is what I am. I really shouldn't ever judge a single, standalone newspaper column ever again without reading everything the author's ever written. That's the fair way to do it... the Bondy way.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 25 2010 09:59 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I've kinda been on the sidelines here cuz I get the Snooze everyday and understand just what Bondy's doing and it does';t raise my eyebrows when he writes something like that. Yeah, it's kinda douchy, but that's his thing.

G-Fafif Oct 25 2010 10:02 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Well, I'm newly edified, is what I am. I really shouldn't ever judge a single, standalone newspaper column ever again without reading everything the author's ever written. That's the fair way to do it... the Bondy way. "I always think, there might be someone out there in the stands who's never seen me play." --Joe DiMaggio on why he was still playing hard late in his career "Go to the morgue and pull my clips to discern my shtick from my subtance." --Filip Bondy on why he writes as he does

Fman99 Oct 25 2010 10:18 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Well, I'm newly edified, is what I am. I really shouldn't ever judge a single, standalone newspaper column ever again without reading everything the author's ever written. That's the fair way to do it... the Bondy way. I'm looking forward to the episode where you call Bondy on the phone to ask him about the roast, and he misses the Mets turning a triple play.

SteveJRogers Oct 25 2010 04:44 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

metirish wrote: can you be a douchebag and an elitist? Michael Kay & John Sterling.

G-Fafif Dec 14 2010 05:56 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

FILIP AND FASTERSTRONGER: A DULL-AS-DURBIN EPISTOLARY TALE (W/link to his Oct. 14 column) Accurate, unbiased, well-considered. Congratulations on nailing it! Francis: Yanks ask Rangers not to overuse Lee in World Series. Want him in tip-top shape for spring training in Tampa... Arrogantly yours, Filip Every time Lee throws a complete game three-hitter or something like it next year, I will remember this and decide there are worse things than the Phillies, if just barely.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 14 2010 10:19 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

T'would be a little classless of me to re-forward that to him now, right?

Edgy DC Dec 14 2010 10:20 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Can't see how.

Valadius Dec 14 2010 10:21 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Do it. You've gotta hold talking heads accountable.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 14 2010 10:22 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

You guys are a terrible influence. I just did it. #notgigglingatall

Ashie62 Dec 15 2010 11:40 AM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I sent mine 10 minutes ago

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 15 2010 01:24 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

Get a response? I haven't been able to check mine; my Gmail has been hacked in the interim, and I'm waiting for the admins to "investigate."

Ashie62 Dec 15 2010 03:20 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

I did..here it is Congrats on losing him to the Phils.I'm sure everybody down there is thrilled. As I tweeted in my Daily Haiku: Next time, we won't spit; 'Cause apparently, those hit; Think Yanks not good fit. Cheers, filip (and by the way, as my blog http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/bondy/ ... ee-ha.html BEFORE the ALCS series started would indicate, my original column that gained such infamy down there was a satirical piece that somehow flew over the head of Texans)....

Edgy DC Dec 15 2010 05:23 PM Re: Filip Bondy, Monumental Asshole

But was a laugh riot to the rest of us. We read The Daily News. We're sophisticated.