Jan 07 2012 06:51 PM
Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread
post your favorite Posada pix here, fucking twat.
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The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread
| Edgy MD Jan 07 2012 06:25 PM |
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Reports today of Jorge Posada retiring.
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| metirish Jan 07 2012 06:51 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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post your favorite Posada pix here, fucking twat.
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| Fman99 Jan 07 2012 07:28 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| Edgy MD Jan 07 2012 07:39 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Caught Wells' perfect game.
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| metirish Jan 07 2012 07:44 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Caught Syphilis of Jeter.
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| Edgy MD Jan 07 2012 08:01 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The same night?
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| G-Fafif Jan 07 2012 11:23 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Retiring from the MFYs now. Quit on the MFYs eight months ago.
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| Frayed Knot Jan 08 2012 08:59 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I get a kick out of the slant that a catcher who first had his mitt taken away then was increasingly shoved aside by his own team (see the 'Quit' link above) to the point where it was known all along that they weren't going to re-sign him, spending the first few months of the off-season trolling for offers (if not then why wouldn't he have retired during the first week of November?) then, when it's clear that none were forthcoming, is described as "going out on his own terms".
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| MFS62 Jan 08 2012 10:37 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that the YLDB shills in the media will be telling us how he deserves to be in the HOF. Constantly.
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| Ashie62 Jan 08 2012 04:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Heyman has already started..
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| Fman99 Jan 08 2012 06:55 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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So has [crossout]Smiley McDouchenstein[/crossout] Wallace Mathews on ESPN. Read this cocksuckery.
Fuck you in the least ersatz of your holes, sir.
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| bmfc1 Jan 09 2012 05:31 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Matthews is an ersatz columnist.
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| Benjamin Grimm Jan 09 2012 06:57 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Isn't "Ersatz" the mouse who was always throwing bricks at Krazy Kat?
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| Edgy MD Jan 09 2012 08:23 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Posada's case hurt by Girardi, to a degree, at both ends of his career.
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| MFS62 Jan 09 2012 09:16 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Here's someone who actually put together a compendium of ca-ca about George's retirement.
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| Ceetar Jan 09 2012 09:42 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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lol, caught this comment to that article:
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| Mets – Willets Point Mar 09 2012 09:23 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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This article announces that Chelsea and Celtic will be playing a football match at Yankee Stadium III this summer. What grinds my gears is the opening sentence "For the first time in 36 years, a soccer game is set to be held at Yankee Stadium this summer." And thus the media-assisted mythology that allowed the 1976 Yankee Stadium II to be the same place where Ruth and Gehrig played is now considering the four-year old ballpark to be the same place that Pele played. At least with MFYSI & MFYSII one could argue that they were built on the same site but there's no excuse for this BS.
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| MFS62 Mar 09 2012 09:36 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Edgy, its on a Soccer site, most likely written by a guy who only lives and breathes soccer. He probably can't find MFYS II with a GPS. I'd give him more slack than if this were on the MFY site, written by one of the reporters who cover baseball. Or by the MFY PR department. Later
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 09 2012 09:41 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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In addition to the certain lie that David (Fuck that Guy) Robertson hurt his foot in a fall "while moving boxes" word is that Nick Swisher is dealing with a hand cut "from a picture frame."
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| Edgy MD Mar 09 2012 09:45 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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How am I involved here?
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| Edgy MD Mar 09 2012 09:52 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Ah, you've confused me with Willets.
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| Ceetar Mar 09 2012 09:55 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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picture frame? nice..
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| Mets – Willets Point Mar 09 2012 10:13 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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If only I could be handsome with long-flowing locks and write poetry like you.
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| metirish Mar 09 2012 10:19 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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two contrasting teams , Chelsea as blue a Brit team as there is(historically Chelsea fans would be cut from the same cloth as Glasgow Rangers fans).....and Celtic as historically Irish as there is.
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| MFS62 Mar 09 2012 10:27 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Edgy, you are usually at the forefront in the fight for competent journalism. No offense meant to either of you. Later
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| Mets – Willets Point Mar 09 2012 10:29 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Chelsea is historically known for having some of the most vicious hooligan firms too, although I don't know how active they are these days.
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| G-Fafif Mar 10 2012 05:42 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Flipping by YEECH a few minutes ago, MFYs Magazine was doing a feature on Joba Chamberlain. Nancy Newman said (paraphrasing), "Of course Joba's goal is, as it is every year, to win another world championship." And by instinct, I heard myself telling Nancy Newman, "Oh, fuck you."
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| Fman99 Mar 10 2012 06:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I would think Joba's goal is to keep his mother out of the Police Beat.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 11 2012 08:56 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That's not a paraphrase, that specific phrase is the one which was programmed into those specially selected Stepford Yanquis before they are allowed to speak on YEECH. No deviations are heard because no deviations are possible.
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| bmfc1 Mar 16 2012 10:51 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Good news for New York baseball writers, one of their favorite MFY-mancrushes is back: Andy (PED) Pettitte is making a comeback. Look for Sherman, Lupica, Madden... well, all of them, to write loving, fawning, articles in the next few days.
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| Mets – Willets Point Mar 16 2012 10:53 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Maybe we should merge that and make Andy PEDitte, pitcher for the YanHGHees.
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| G-Fafif Mar 16 2012 11:04 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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How suggestible is this guy anyway?
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| GYC Mar 16 2012 01:36 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS
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| The Second Spitter Mar 16 2012 08:52 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Bobby V on Pettite's return: "Is he coming back as a starter or just to pick people off?"" #RedSoxTalk
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| G-Fafif Mar 16 2012 11:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Pettitte sucks. Fuck him.
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| themetfairy Mar 17 2012 08:06 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Call him by his proper name - Andy the Rat-Faced Boy.
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| Edgy MD Mar 18 2012 07:31 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Robby Cano walking off the field holding his hand after an HbP.
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| Ceetar Mar 19 2012 06:49 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I saw a kid in a Cano jersey doing sprints outside the Brooklyn Brewery yesterday. This probably isn't related though.
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| Edgy MD Mar 19 2012 06:54 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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X-rays negative.
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| metirish Mar 19 2012 06:58 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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"don't you know on Robbie Cano"
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| The Second Spitter Mar 26 2012 10:05 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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This deserves to be on display
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 30 2012 09:56 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Pineda confesses to shoulder pain after getting hammered in tonight's start and is having an MRI.
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| Ceetar Mar 31 2012 07:38 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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he also confessed to trying to throw harder last night. You know, because everyone told him his velocity was down. That doesn't seem like a good thing.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2012 09:22 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Papers are Whitsonizing him ("Pineda needs shoulder to cry on" Kernan sez) seemingly with the assistance of the MFYs themselves.
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| Ceetar Mar 31 2012 09:28 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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DL'd.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 31 2012 10:39 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It would be HILARIOUS if Montero went .300/.400/.500 with 30 HRs in Seattle, no?
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| MFS62 Mar 31 2012 04:39 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Little Andy (or is it Andy Little?) scheduled to pitch for the MFYs against the Mets on Wednesday. (Think I heard it on WFAN)
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 04 2012 02:13 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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MFYs trade reliever George Kontos to Colorado for out-of-options catcher Chris Stewart and subsequently demote Cervilli.
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| Ceetar Apr 04 2012 02:20 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Also former-Yankee catcher Chris Stewart (went 0-3 for them in '08 in 1 game) it's an odd move. They're apparently blaming it on depth. Romine hurt so the _need_ Cervelli to catch for "Scranton"
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 06 2012 01:32 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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MFY season opener on now. Rays have loaded the bases with 2 outs in the first. Carlos Pena batting...
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 06 2012 01:33 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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[bigpurple:31nuj3cd]GRAND SLAM!!![/bigpurple:31nuj3cd]
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| Ceetar Apr 06 2012 01:45 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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we should've started an OOT thread. Apparently Girardi walked Sean Rodriguez for the L-L matchup before Pena.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 06 2012 01:50 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Shields now trying to give it all back: Walks, WPs, two runs in and bases loaded ... but Granderson Ks
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 06 2012 02:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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FUCKing Ibanez.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 06 2012 02:18 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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And Longoria upper-decks it in the following half-inning. 6-5, Forces of Evil.
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| bmfc1 Apr 06 2012 04:34 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 06 2012 04:47 PM |
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8th inning, Tampa has 1st and 3d, nobody out, and Robertson strikes out the next three... but is aided by Maddon taking over-managing to new heights by bunting on two strikes with one out and the catcher up.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 06 2012 04:36 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| bmfc1 Apr 06 2012 04:47 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Oh my goodness gracious, Mariano Rivera blows the save!
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 06 2012 05:04 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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LOL YanKeEs
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 06 2012 05:08 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The entire game-- right down to walk-the-bases-loaded-and-bring-in-a-fifth-IF at the end-- was like an Olympics-of-Overmanagement.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 06 2012 06:06 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I was in and out of this game so can't comment on all the goings-on, but I didn't have a problem with Girardi's machinations in the 9th. Once you start the inning by giving up single + triple there's only so much you can do. Walking Longoria was a no-brainer and seeing as how Mariano isn't prone to walks walking the 2nd guy is OK too. Then given how many squibbers he gives up you can certainly make an argument for the 5th infielder.
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| Fman99 Apr 06 2012 06:08 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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God I hope he spends the whole year doing that. DELIGHTFUL.
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| Ceetar Apr 06 2012 06:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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What seems funny to me is that they walked the bases loaded and pitched to Rodriguez. Rodriguez is the guy they intentionally walked in the first to get to Pena. They also intentionally walked him later on too, as YES graphic said he had two IBB. So he's scary in the first but you seek him out in the lineup in the highest leverage part of the game? that's just wacky.
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| Edgy MD Apr 06 2012 07:23 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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C.C. Sabathia intentionally walking somebody in the first --- whether he's Sean Rodriguez or Babe F. Ruth = Living. Like. A Looza.
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| MFS62 Apr 06 2012 08:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I was at work today, but we followed the game.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 06 2012 08:34 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I didn't see the beginning of the game, but if you're IW-ing somebody in the 1st inning of the 1st game of the season just to set-up a lefty-lefty situation with your supposed ace on the mound then, yes, THAT is over-managing.
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| MFS62 Apr 08 2012 02:45 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Our third straight triple-happiness day.
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| Edgy MD Apr 14 2012 09:12 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Hi, I'm 2-3 with a double, a homer, and three RBI. I'm also currently catching a three-hit shutout.
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| Ceetar Apr 14 2012 10:02 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Montero. (I had to look it up) The pitcher? his trade partner Hector Noesi.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 19 2012 10:31 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Big blow to MFYs as Brett Gardner goes to DL with an elbow injury described in terms that could suggest 15 days might not be nearly enough. Kuroda in the meantime got lit up and seemingly for the first time in our lifetimes, the Twins have a chance to win a series (4 games) against the MFYs tonite.
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| sharpie Apr 25 2012 03:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Pineda out for season. Torn labrum.
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| Vic Sage Apr 25 2012 04:17 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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schadenfreude is not a German beer.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 25 2012 04:52 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Were this the old days, that elder Steinbrenner character would right now be petitioning the league (or at least threatening to via the press) for a reversal of the trade on the ground that the Mariners knew he was damaged goods. He would then claim anti-NYY bias as the reason the commish allowed the deal to stand.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 25 2012 06:38 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Cashman simply blamed the Mets for abusing him.
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| The Second Spitter Apr 26 2012 07:23 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wow, Swisher became a twat. Such a shame.
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| metsmarathon Apr 26 2012 09:27 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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good for the yankees! you know, not that i think the mariners knew he was injured, but i'm fairly certain they suspected that an injury was on it's way. his second half was bad, and his velocity was way down at the end of the year. if those aren't impending shoulder-failure warning signs, i don't know what is. it may have been the case that he developed some amount ofweakness or tiredness or fatigue in the muscles around his shoulder last year, and maybe he didn't work hard enough in the off season, but that weakness followed him to this season. and when he tried to turn it on and get back the velocity, or power thorugh some soreness, he shredded it up good. i hate to see a promising career fall to pieces, but if a promising career is to fall to pieces, i'm glad for it to happen to a yankee. particularly when their fallbacks include freddy garcia, phil hughes and andy i haven't pitched in a year pettitte. i'm really rooting hard for montero to be the stud everybody thought he would be. as a side note - any time a team is willing to trade a sophomore pitcher who had an impressive rookie campaign, particularly a rookie campaign wherein the latter half had som red flags a-waving, you might not want to trade your top slam-dunk uber-prospect for him. i'm just sayin'
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| Gwreck Apr 26 2012 12:01 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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What do you mean, "became"?
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 26 2012 01:16 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Point of order: Swisher is much more of a shmuck or twit than a twat.
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| metsmarathon Apr 27 2012 07:59 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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for once, i actually agree with michael kay.
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| Ceetar Apr 27 2012 08:02 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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did the kid ask for the ball? I've been busy and I'm not sure I'd 'follow' this story closely anyway, but I saw some talk that the kid was crying already, that it wasn't about the ball, and that Michael Kay basically just blew everything out of proportion (because clearly from the occasional camera view shown him he knew the whole story exactly while broadcasting the game on the field)
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| Fman99 Apr 27 2012 08:18 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That happened to us last year at the spring training Mets/Nats tilt we took in at Melbourne. Only problem was, they gave Fgirl a ball and not Fboy. Luckily I had a couple of minor league foul balls at home and was able to give one of those to him instead.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 27 2012 08:20 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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ABC News included this "story" as part of their national "news" broadcast last night.
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| metirish Apr 27 2012 08:24 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Christ, in a way I feel for the douchy couple, getting married this weekend to boot.It was on NBC News with Brian Williams too. Didn't help though that they practically taunted the kid. Still , leave them the fuck alone .
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| metsmarathon Apr 27 2012 08:25 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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well, as you can see on the video replay, the ball is tossed into the crowd, in the general direction of the kid, and probably right towards him. he's the only munchkin in the vicinity, and ballplayers have an uncanny ability to toss balls at munchkins. the kid also has a glove on, so he's primed to expect that he'll get a ball. the ball is coming towards them, the dad stands up or is standing, and reaches up for the ball. the ball drops, and hte dad bends over to reach for it.
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| metsmarathon Apr 27 2012 08:27 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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also, yes, it's one thing for the clip to become internet famous. its another entirely for it to make actual news.
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| Edgy MD Apr 27 2012 08:37 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'll guess the kid was over it by the time America got wind of it.
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| Fman99 Apr 27 2012 08:43 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The kid should be happy his dad didn't plummet to his death like that guy in Arlington did last year.
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| metsmarathon Apr 27 2012 08:45 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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no doubt. kids are fickle. it helps that someone in hte rangers dugout eventually tossed him a ball, too. i'm pretty certain the toddler in question will be bringing that baseball to bed with him every night, like it's his new favorite stuffed animal.
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| Mets – Willets Point Apr 27 2012 10:08 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I agree with his first comment: "This is just a blip. There's gonna be much worse to come, kid." This generation needs to toughen up.
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| HahnSolo Apr 27 2012 10:16 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I generally agree, but the couple didn't have to be total asshats about it. If I were the dad of the kid, I wouldn't have asked for the ball, but were it given to my kid, I would have bought the couple some food and drink and all would be well with the world.
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| metsmarathon Apr 27 2012 10:24 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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this. they cannot NOT have known that tehy were sitting by a toddler who subsequently was crying because they got the ball he wanted. the couple got a ball. good for them. they could have made a kid's day. that's better.
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| Mets – Willets Point Apr 27 2012 10:31 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Note: there's a certain level of sarcasm content on my post, mostly informed by the fact that I have a 4-year-old who constantly says "I want!" I'm working on getting him to accept "You get what you get and you don't get upset."
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| HahnSolo Apr 27 2012 10:32 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Bingo.
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| Edgy MD Apr 27 2012 10:40 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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We're just the best people in the world, aren't we? If only the world would act more like us.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 27 2012 10:46 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wifey would never let me take Lunchpail to a night baseball game when he was that little. If she saw this clip that's exactly what she'd say.
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| metsmarathon Apr 27 2012 10:58 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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well, there'd be a lot more mets fans, thats for sure.
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| Benjamin Grimm Apr 27 2012 11:06 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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And this forum would have about seven billion members.
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| metsmarathon Apr 27 2012 11:09 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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jeez, think how much harder it would be to ifnd a good parking spot at the game!
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| metirish Apr 27 2012 11:12 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I can do without the six billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred eighty-five extra members.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 27 2012 12:35 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Well, also, there would be no wars, except over the fairness of classic-rock-countdown-contest scoring, and how unreasonably hopeful Ceetaria was.
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| Vic Sage Apr 27 2012 02:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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i hate being in line for something behind people who, when they get up to the window/cash machine/clerk/etc, act as if they didn't expect it, or are too busy texting/phoning/etc to notice, and so don't have their card/cash/item/etc ready to use/purchase/etc, and have to dig through their bags/wallet/pockets/etc looking for the thing THEY SHOULD HAVE OUT AND WAITING SINCE THEY HAD SO MUCH GODDAMN TIME WAITING ON THE GODDAMN LINE ALREADY!
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| Frayed Knot Apr 27 2012 02:22 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Along those lines, mine is the women (and, yes, it's ALWAYS women) who, upon hearing the total at the supermarket check-out line when paying cash, suddenly declare to the checker; "oh wait, I have the three pennies" before proceeding to rummage through the overnight bag-sized purse for the three cents - AS IF THE FACT THAT THE TOTAL OF NINE RANDOM ITEMS NOT COMING OUT TO AN EXACT ROUND DOLLAR AMOUNT COMES AS A COMPLETE SHOCK TO THEM!!! If dumping off the three pennies rather than gaining two is so fuckin' important to you then have four pennies at the ready BEFORE YOU GET THERE so that you can dish off however many it takes to round to the nearest nickel.
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| Benjamin Grimm Apr 27 2012 02:27 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'm not sure where the Yankees thread became a pet peeve thread, but it doesn't seem inappropriate that it went that way.
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| Edgy MD Apr 27 2012 02:37 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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A moral roadmap at Deaspin to help you escape the censure of Sterling.
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| The Second Spitter Apr 30 2012 02:33 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Red Sox chick gets kicked in the face at MFY Stadium III on Sat night.
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| Gwreck Apr 30 2012 05:49 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Note the usher standing in the background doing nothing. Classy joint, that place.
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| Met Hunter Apr 30 2012 06:01 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I've often wondered about these people. If they're always sifting through their purse for the exact change, how do they have it to begin with? Are there times when they say fuck it, and take the extra pennies? And why am I never around when they do? The only time I give exact change is to mess with the kid taking the money. I'll usually give them a penny or two, when the total is like 56 or 67 and watch them scramble to figure out the change. They always look at the register for help. I remember when you'd have to constantly count in your head. And you never got it wrong.
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| Fman99 Apr 30 2012 06:05 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Fucking savages, all of them. See what the designated hitter does to people?
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| MFS62 Apr 30 2012 06:22 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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This. And if it remains unchecked, it will mean the end of civilization as we know it. Later
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| Met Hunter Apr 30 2012 06:30 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Being drunk or acting like a douchebag or not, any man that kicks a woman in the face is no man.
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| themetfairy Apr 30 2012 06:32 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It appears there was no shortage of douchbaggery or adult beverages with any of the participants.
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| HahnSolo Apr 30 2012 09:14 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It was a woman kicker, no?
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| metsmarathon Apr 30 2012 09:30 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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red sox chick walked outta there with a concussion, no?
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| Edgy MD Apr 30 2012 09:38 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It's amazing to me how much aggression is permitted to fester in ballparks before staff intervene. With concrete floors ready to crack skulls open, iron rails and armrests ready to break spines over, and bleacher overhangs inviting you to plummet to your death, it's just outrageous to look the other way at ballpark violence.
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| Met Hunter Apr 30 2012 11:31 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Geez. Just looked at it again. You're right. Sure don't make 'em like they used to.
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| Methead Apr 30 2012 01:52 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'm currently serving the 39th year of my self-imposed lifetime ban from Yankee Stadium.
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| Ceetar Apr 30 2012 01:54 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I get out to on average .75 games a year at that place (i.e. I've been to two in three years) I like feeling superior and walking around think "Look at this ridiculousness" and "Citi Field does this better" and "They sponsor THIS too?!" I mean, I like stadiums and I'm guaranteed to like exactly one of the teams playing baseball that day, so it's not all bad.
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| Benjamin Grimm Apr 30 2012 02:02 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I've been to Yankee Stadium twice. Once, in 1984, because I figured I ought to go once in my life, and I was able to get $1.50 bleacher seats for a Yankees-Red Sox game.
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| Ceetar Apr 30 2012 02:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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there's a tax at Yankee Stadium. costs you half a game to get in, and you pay with your dignity. The new place is..better. At least from a fan perspective. I went once with my Uncle and once to see the Mets, so there were mitigating factors. I think the perfect comparison is an airport terminal. Maybe terminal 4 or 5 would make a good example at JFK. You have to go through a ridiculous screening process, can't bring in bags above a certain size, and everything inside is designed to try to get you to spend money. They've got some good food, but it doesn't make up for it.
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| soupcan Apr 30 2012 02:52 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I think I was at the old Yankee Stadium maybe 3 times for baseball games (the first Yankee/Met interleague when Mlicki pitched and a Yankee playoff game against the Rangers in the early 90's, or late '80s? Don't remember any others but there must have been at least one) and I saw a U2 concert there.
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| Benjamin Grimm Apr 30 2012 02:53 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Did you feel as if you were surrounded by evil?
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| TransMonk Apr 30 2012 03:16 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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They're finally thinking about changing this...
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 30 2012 03:26 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I've been to both of the more recent incarnations of MFY Evil many times (including my first ball game ever, and pennant-clinching Game 6 of the ALCS in 2009), and openly, loudly cheered against the home team on a few of those occasions, and rarely gotten more than a little rude razzing.
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| metsguyinmichigan Apr 30 2012 05:33 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I was at the Seaver game, too! Brought my parents, brother and sister, too. That was magical. I used to go to the MFY House II during the three years we lived in Connecticut. My wife worked nights, and in those carefree days I probably went to a game a week, depending on whether the Mets or MFY's were in town. I'd never root for the MFYs, of course. But they sucked in those years, and I'd go and cheer for players I liked in the AL. I was in an AL rotisserie league at the time, so it was a chance to see players I liked, like Joe Carter, Kelly Gruber and BJ Surhoff. I became a master at buying one, inexpensive seat, and ending up in the sections behind the visitors dugout. The MFYs were during a down period, so getting a cheap seat and moving down was never a problem. And I could wear a Blue Jays, Indians or Brewers cap and not get any crap from fans. I guess it just wasn't as toxic as it is today. I had two other special moments there. The second-ever Subway Series game was a lot of fun even though the Mets lost, and I saw Jim Abbott's first New York appearance. I've never seen a visiting pitcher get a standing ovation just for his warm-up tosses. But watching him switch the glove back and forth in that fluid motion was really cool.
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| batmagadanleadoff Apr 30 2012 05:43 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| metirish Apr 30 2012 06:16 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I was at the new place on Father's Day when Santana got hammered in the 1st inning , I was in the bleachers wearing my FAFIF shirt, apart from not being able to see the field from 2nd base all the way over to RF all I got was some ribbing , plenty of Mets fans there though .....didn't hang around long though in those shit seats ...
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| Fman99 May 01 2012 06:55 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I went to the old park for a MFY/Red Sox tilt, sometime in the early 2000's. The fans were all animals, from both teams. I won't go back.
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| metirish May 01 2012 06:57 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yes, it's absolutely not a place I would bring my son.
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| Ceetar May 01 2012 06:59 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Sunday? I find in general weekend night crowds are the worse, even at Shea. I blame ESPN.
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| Fman99 May 01 2012 07:15 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It was a Saturday matinee, box score here.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 01 2012 12:30 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Pettitte just testified that Roger told him he took HGH to help recover from injuries.
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| Edgy MD May 01 2012 12:32 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Andy Pettitte: American.
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| Edgy MD May 01 2012 12:38 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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So, the Mets are home on Friday night. Should they hoist the 2000 championship flag then or wait until the Sunday matinee?
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| SteveJRogers May 01 2012 03:24 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Not to play amateur psychoanalyst, but I'd wager it also wasn't a "thing" to rip in opponents, especially if they aren't playing in the same stadium. And most of the fights generally stemmed from just the usual reasons fights break out rather than blaming it on a fan being in the wrong place. Don't know whom to entirely blame for this kind of behavior, ESPN for constantly driving home the "rivalry" to the point where I'm sure a match up between the teams 20 games apart in the standings will be treated as if the division title is on the line. Hell, Bobby Valentine has a paid spot on ESPN radio in New York! What does that say about how they treat the Red Sox. Makes you wonder though about how much shit people take these days just for wearing a cap or a hat when the team isn't playing. I usually approach those fans in a good natured way usually saying "(chuckle) shouldn't you be in (wherever that team is that day)?" but I tried that bit on a Phillie fan one time at Citi and he looked at me with a cold "don't fuck with me" glare and said "Walk away." Even after I explained I was just having some good natured fun and conversation. Did have another experience outside a ballpark here in the Westchester area one time that was similar when I saw a child in a Chipper Jones Braves shirt outside of a movie theatre. I walked up to him, same manner chuckling and smiling and saying how it was pretty bold to be wearing that shirt around these parts. Kid stared at me blankly and didn't respond, the mother (or a woman whom I'd assume was his mother) scurried him away as I was explaining what I was talking about, saying, it looks like he's a Braves fan. Her response while walking away was "No...no...he's not." Almost as if the kid had real stupid DB shit thrown at him that was worse than a simply saying it's a bold move to be wearing that shirt in this town.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 01 2012 03:53 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It's also possible, Jeets, that she saw an older guy talking to her little boy and made another protective assumption.
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| Frayed Knot May 01 2012 04:22 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I vote for: 'Sense of entitlement among YLDBs who think their team winning extends to them a feeling of superiority over those unfortunate fans who root for the "wrong" teams and therefore the right to mock and/or intimidate (verbally or physically) them'. But, hey, that's just me.
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| Edgy MD May 01 2012 05:24 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Steve, considering how high the stakes and tensions have risen, instead of gently and jokingly playing the part of unwelcoming asshole, I'd cut right past that and play the part of welcoming prince.
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| metirish May 01 2012 06:25 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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dying
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| Ceetar May 02 2012 05:54 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I vote for "economy sucks, people struggling at home or walking crappy jobs. pent up aggression likely to come out with other strong emotional (Fan) reactions. "
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| metsmarathon May 02 2012 06:28 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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yankee fans were raging assholes before the housing house of cards tumbled to the ground.
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| Ceetar May 02 2012 06:46 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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yeah...but that may have bumped up the percentages.
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| Edgy MD May 02 2012 07:01 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I see a bumper sticker.
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| MFS62 May 02 2012 07:20 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That's funny, because the most virulent Yankee fan in my office calls people from the State in which the Red Sox play "Massholes". I see a pot/kettle thingie going there. Later
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| soupcan May 02 2012 10:07 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That's how I felt about Giants Stadium and probably holds true for Giants/Jets/MetLife Stadium.
I would say that that is EXACTLY what she did.
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| Mets – Willets Point May 02 2012 10:09 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Masshole is a term used locally here in Massachusetts as well, generally to describe the stereotypical aggressive and selfish drivers of our fine Commonwealth.
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| metsmarathon May 02 2012 11:24 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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stranger danger!
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| seawolf17 May 02 2012 01:49 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| Frayed Knot May 02 2012 07:43 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Ivan Nova (I like to call him New John) in danger of actually losing a game in the Bronx tonight. Such a loss would break his streak of like 89 in a row or something despite only pitching well in about 1/3 of them. This season, for instance, he was 3-0 in 4 starts coming into this game even though his ERA sits north of 5.00.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 02 2012 08:31 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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first place O's
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| G-Fafif May 02 2012 09:10 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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If A.L. playoffs began today, MFYs out of the picture completely, even with the extra Wild Card.
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| MFS62 May 02 2012 09:48 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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And leading off tonight for those first place O's was Endy Chavez. (hitting .109) Later
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| MFS62 May 03 2012 06:03 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Don't know if there's a thread for the new Clemens trial, but ...
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| Ceetar May 03 2012 06:26 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Mariano with some knee strain. nothing a dose of HGH doesn't solve I imagine.
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| metirish May 03 2012 06:36 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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scumbags the both of them.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 03 2012 06:55 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Guy's 42 years old. Was shagging flies before the game when his knee bucked and went flat on his back.
This is about to get real interesting. I guess that scuz they got from the Rays is the new closer.
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| Fman99 May 03 2012 07:05 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Throw him in his own pool, he's done.
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| HahnSolo May 03 2012 07:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I agree with the scumbags part, but I thought all along that this case will hinge on how believable McNamee is.
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| metirish May 03 2012 07:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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dying over here....which is better than dying over there..
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| themetfairy May 03 2012 07:22 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Revenge is a dish best served fried?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 03 2012 09:49 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Torn ACL.
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| The Second Spitter May 04 2012 01:07 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Shocking.
As a speaker of British/Australian English, 'shagging fly balls' has always sounded like a bad idea.
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| Ceetar May 04 2012 07:05 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I've actually been looking forward to this for a while. Now despite the Yankees having relievers just as effective over the last couple of years, they get to panic and judge and hate their closer and call for his head when he blows the first one.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 04 2012 07:17 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| MFS62 May 04 2012 07:25 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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If Joe Torre dies in the next few days, will it mean that he really did have a pact with the Devil?
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| Frayed Knot May 04 2012 07:29 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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David Robertson - the obvious choice to slide into the 9th inning role - has been pretty damn good, essentially throwing to an ERA of 1.00 since the beginning of 2011, a span covering nearly 80 innings.
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| Ceetar May 04 2012 07:41 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Right. I haven't paid a ton of attention but I don't think the back end of that bullpen is particularly good. Robertson was arguably better than Rivera over the last years or so, despite the whole 'proven closer' thing. I'm looking forward to the panic involved over that idea and if Robertson dares to have a shaky outing soon (which he's probably due for too since no one's perfect).
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| Edgy MD May 04 2012 07:53 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wait. Have I missed this? Rivera hasn't come out and announced his retirement, has he, Hoss?
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| seawolf17 May 04 2012 08:05 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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They can have Francisco if they want.
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| Frayed Knot May 04 2012 08:20 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Especially from those raised in the Mike Francesa school of critical thinking, the one that teaches that good relievers do not necessarily make good ninth inning relievers, or about how good players in the regular season not automatically being good October players. So it'll be the graduates of that school - and certainly the teacher himself - who are going to be quickest to express the thought that Robertson, because he's going to a new role, is currently nothing more than an unproven commodity until he shows otherwise, and that his the first stumble is not just a bad day but rather the first piece of "evidence" that he's out of his element meaning that a real 9th inning replacement must be found so that Robertson can be moved back to the 8th inning that therefore back to being good. As Captain Queeg put it about missing strawberries: "and I was proving it with geometric logic..."
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| Edgy MD May 04 2012 08:25 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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On the other hand. This may have saved the Yankee the challenge of replacing a legend just when he was going to start declining anyhow.
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| MFS62 May 04 2012 08:28 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Which he loves to summarize in one brief prrase "I told ya' so". Later
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| metirish May 04 2012 08:39 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Have the beat writers suggested a video tribute at Citi Filed yet and then chastise any of us who tell them to cop the fuck on?
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 04 2012 09:00 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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FACEBOOK PRO TIP: Even the most ostensibly good-humored FB-friends-who-happen-to-be-MFY-fans don't seem to take kindly to one's suggestions that Rivera's injury might be due to something he did that displeased his God.
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| Ceetar May 04 2012 09:01 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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try telling them don't worry the HGH will have him back soon. That'll cheer them up.
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| metsguyinmichigan May 04 2012 09:07 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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He's the last active No. 42, I think.
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| Benjamin Grimm May 04 2012 09:14 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The Mets should reactivate Butch Huskey or Ron Hodges so that they can take that honor away from Rivera.
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| Edgy MD May 04 2012 09:16 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Or insist that legacies get grandfathered in so Cory Vaughn can inherit the number from Unky Mo.
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| Edgy MD May 04 2012 09:32 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Rivera hurt for the Yanks.
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| metsmarathon May 04 2012 09:59 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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it's obvious to me in the wake of this injury, that pitchers have no business attempting to field balls, and especially should not practice to do so. they should throw the ball and get the fuck off hte field. major league baseball needs to adopt the DF (designated fielder) rule immediately and put an end to this ridiculous charade.
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| metsguyinmichigan May 04 2012 01:21 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Supposedly Andy Pettitte is wrapping up his minor league warm-ups now that he's done defending Clemens. Think he'd be a candidate for them to throw out there for the ninth?
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| metirish May 04 2012 01:30 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Only the bore of the core is left, is AP considered part of the famed "four core"?
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| Frayed Knot May 04 2012 01:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Nah, they're even more desperate for starters. Once you get past Sa-bathtub-ia and Rookie Carroca (I once knew a lethal Bantamweight by that name), they're left with Phil Hughes who they'd like to demote to the pen but can't; Freddie Garcia who they'd like to dump in the river but can't; [crossout]Michael Pi[/crossout] oops, not him, and Ivan (not-so Super) Nova whose wins are going to go down rapidly as soon as he stops stumbling into games where he gets 12 runs/game scored for him. Even their vaunted prospects Manny Banuelos & Dellin Batances -- whom they've cleverly dubbed with the highly original name 'The Killer Bees' -- have been injured and/or sucking in the minors so far this year.
Yes. Also is considered part of the field in the Kentucky Derby tomorrow. As in; "Hey Andy, why the long face?"
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| Frayed Knot May 04 2012 04:21 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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'I'm coming back ... there's no way I'm going out like this" -- So says Mr. Rivera.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket May 09 2012 01:34 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Something tells me Rusty Torres won't be invited to Old Timer's Day.
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| Frayed Knot May 09 2012 03:08 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Former MFY OFer (and out-spoken Christian IIRC) Chad Curtis was in the news recently over some accusations involving youth players.
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| Ashie62 May 09 2012 04:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Pettitte starts Sunday against the Mariners..
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| Frayed Knot May 09 2012 08:28 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Getting your first start in over a year against Seattle is what they call in the business, a soft landing. Meanwhile, YLDBs not enjoying the first two days of the David Robertson era: - Tuesday night; comes in in the 9th with a 2-run lead: GO, BB, 1B, K, BB, K -- gets the save but loads the bases in doing so - Tonight; comes in with a one-run lead to begin the 9th: 1B, 1B, BB, K, SF (Blown Save), 3R-HR ... and yanked.
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| Ceetar May 09 2012 08:39 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Robertson feeling a little bit of the Parnell effect. Due for a bit of a letdown, and promoted just before it happens. Now let the blame fall on the promotion rather than the randomness of it.
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| MFS62 May 10 2012 07:09 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That's sick. Please don't tell us that he gave them gift baskets and autographed pictures afterwards. Later
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| MFS62 May 13 2012 10:43 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yogi Berra visited Yankee Stadium III yesterday.
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| Frayed Knot May 13 2012 10:46 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Everyone has to wear a badge in order to get past the "moat" in the stands that separates the elite from the mere mortals who only pay like one or two hundred dollars for their seats.
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| MFS62 May 13 2012 11:11 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I like your sarcasm. But if Yogi isn't elite there and needs to wear either an ID badge or some other type of pass, then someone has to redefine that word. Later
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| Kong76 May 18 2012 03:43 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It's pretty comical listening to Sweeny M. sounding like
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| Frayed Knot May 19 2012 07:21 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Does anybody on this fucking team ever get old?
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| MFS62 May 19 2012 07:23 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Somewhere there's a Yankee team picture ...
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| Ceetar May 19 2012 07:44 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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there's a pill for that.
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| Ceetar Jun 15 2012 06:47 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I always enjoy the Braves organist. I forgot to pay attention last week though.
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 26 2012 11:04 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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A-Rod loves Mex and the Davey Johnson Mets; even owns a game used Keith Jersey, gifted to him by Keith himself.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_ ... andez-mets
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| Frayed Knot Jun 26 2012 11:23 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Sportswriters fall for this story every time ARod tells it - and there probably are some bits of truth to it.
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| SteveJRogers Jun 26 2012 11:53 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Especially in times where Wilpon hate is at its highest levels. "Want more things to blame the Wilpons for? Don't forget that they were the reason the Mets failed to sign ARod when he wanted to be here." One of my favorite conspiracy theories that got attached to that, is that if the Mets had signed ARod, that would have meant a higher franchise value, and more money to payout to Nelson when the split occurred. As if the Mets couldn't be creative with future financial considerations, like with the infamous Bonilla deal.
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| Edgy MD Jun 27 2012 11:30 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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So, DeWayne Wise, you spend a lifetime playing baseball, ten years at the big-league level, then you join the Yankees and become a shameless, pointless cheater. How does that happen? Do they give you a manual at orientation?
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| metsmarathon Jun 27 2012 11:37 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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in his defense, he didn't actually try to deceive the ump. he was still trying to pry himself out of the seats when the ump called the out. i don't really expect him to open up his glove and tell the up, 'no, actually i never caught it. go talk to the guy in the red shirt a few rows up. i think he has it'
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| G-Fafif Jun 27 2012 11:40 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Nobody's better at having birthdays than Derek Jeter, who is better at having everything than everybody, per usual.
One assume he had the kitchen employees reassigned.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2012 11:55 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 27 2012 11:57 AM |
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Mazzillionth update: Lacey has joined dad Lee in working for the MFYs.
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| seawolf17 Jun 27 2012 11:57 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| Edgy MD Jun 27 2012 11:57 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Why do they always let Jeter essay on how awesome his attitude is? If I'm a reporter, I have to call him on that.
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| Ceetar Jun 27 2012 11:58 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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yeah, but they you wouldn't get any gift baskets.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2012 12:02 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'm talking about the Mazzilli clan.
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| Ceetar Jun 27 2012 12:22 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| Frayed Knot Jun 27 2012 12:33 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That's the line of the day. Although it's probably more along the lines of 'I was ordered not to go to the ASG' Now the only problem with that strategy is that Pettitte just took a liner off his foot and had to leave the game.
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| Edgy MD Jun 27 2012 12:35 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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One pitch and the hook. A John Maine start.
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| Ceetar Jun 27 2012 12:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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how's he doing? Maine is 1-2 12ERA in 6 IP with 7 walks and 8 Ks.
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| Ceetar Jun 27 2012 12:46 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Maine's last start was Saturday
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| Edgy MD Jun 27 2012 01:40 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Hochster reporting from the game. Fractured ankle for Pettitte. No surgery, but six weeks minimum. They may indeed work their way down to Maine by then.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2012 01:42 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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LOL
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| Frayed Knot Jun 27 2012 01:57 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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So, in typical MFY fashion, on the day Pettitte exits early and successor's Epply & Rapada combine to give up more hits than outs, Freakin' Freddie Garcia pitches 2-1/3 of perfect relief while the bats tack on a few.
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| Frayed Knot Jun 27 2012 02:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Freaking Indians loaded the bases with one out then went K - BB - FO and so lost by one.
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| Ceetar Jun 27 2012 02:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I thought the Yankees had two stud Ace pitching prospects about to come up? What do you mean one's injured and one has a 6+ ERA?
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| metsguyinmichigan Jun 27 2012 05:03 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Sports writers tend to be pack animals. You want someone to get shunned for going against the story line?
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| Ashie62 Jun 27 2012 07:50 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The Mets strained Sabathia's groin.
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| Ceetar Jun 29 2012 05:47 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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interesting to note, Pettitte went on the _60_ day DL (Mets aren't the only one with roster management concerns) so six weeks is not even an option. Gonna be at least almost nine.
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| PiggiesTomatoes Jun 29 2012 10:02 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Another banner pitching night for the Stripers. Even had Wise pitch the last 2/3 inning.
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| Edgy MD Jun 30 2012 06:18 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wow, is Rick Wise still hanging around?
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| PiggiesTomatoes Jun 30 2012 08:51 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Even 30 years after retiring, they could have used him last night.
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| seawolf17 Jun 30 2012 06:50 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The best part was where Wise only pretended to throw a pitch but the umpire called a strike anyway.
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| Swan Swan H Jul 19 2012 08:28 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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So Brett Gardner got hurt on April 17, and after three months of rehab and general dicking around will undergo elbow surgery within a week, likely ending his season.
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| bmfc1 Jul 23 2012 04:07 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Ichiro Suzuki is now a MFY.
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| metirish Jul 23 2012 04:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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If this were five years ago I'd be thinking wow great player , now its wow he's washed up....great trade .
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| Ashie62 Jul 23 2012 04:45 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Watch...he'll go wild.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 23 2012 05:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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He never walked much even in his prime, so now that his BA is down in the mid-.200s instead of mid-.300s, you're right, he's not nearly the player he used to be. On the other hand he doesn't really have to be on that team. They wanted speed in the absence of Gardner; a glove that's better than Swisher (who is on the shelf for a couple of days at least); and it'll allow them to switch up the DH spot between Jones, Ibanez and whichever infielder they're resting that day. Plus it's a lefty bat and we know what that means in that stadium especially when compared to Seattle. He has 4 HRs to date this year and I'll bet he trumps that in his first 15 home games with the MFYs. Don't know much about the pitchers. Ichiro, like Dempster, is signed just through this season so this is strictly a 60 game rental for the Yanx.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 23 2012 05:59 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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he'll hit 25 homers in that little league park.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 23 2012 07:29 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Turns out they're both small-ish (5' 9" & 6' 0") right-handers and both from the 10th round of the 2008 draft (one by Yanx, one by Toronto) who John Sickels describes as "not stars but possible useful bullpen types". For a 38 y/o, sub-.300 OBA guy who you weren't going to re-sign anyway you probably couldn't expect much more - especially seeing as how the deal will save you some $6mil (assuming no money changed hands). Of course that money is couch cushion change for the Yanx.
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| The Second Spitter Jul 23 2012 07:31 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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He also gives the Yankees an excuse to retire another number. And in the 50's. Wow!
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| DocTee Jul 23 2012 07:34 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wonder if he'll keep 51 or defer to Bernie and opt for sumpin' different.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 23 2012 07:36 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 23 2012 07:40 PM |
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Even the Yanx' standards aren't that low. Now if he hung around for two more years and got his 3,000th MLB hit with them ... well then that's a different story! That the first 2,500 came elsewhere would conveniently be ignored. oe: That's right, #51 is most likely off limits.
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| Swan Swan H Jul 23 2012 07:37 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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31, reports say.
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| The Second Spitter Jul 23 2012 07:47 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Exactly what I was thinking.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 23 2012 08:23 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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He should definitely a Yanqui cap when he goes into the Hall of Fame though. You're not really a HoF-er if you don't.
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| Edgy MD Jul 23 2012 08:27 PM Ichiro? |
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Fuck that. Make your own legends, you fucks.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 23 2012 08:51 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 24 2012 06:40 AM |
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Single and SB in his first NYY AB
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| Edgy MD Jul 23 2012 08:52 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Way to ruin a perfectly good legacy, Ichiro.
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| metsmarathon Jul 24 2012 06:31 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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my thoughts exactly. that and, "damn, i used to like ichiro"
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| themetfairy Jul 24 2012 06:46 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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What a slap in the face to Mariners fans, who basically didn't exist before Ichiro.
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| Edgy MD Jul 24 2012 06:47 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It's like something hastily created in underground lab.
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| Ceetar Jul 24 2012 06:51 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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There were probably fans there last night, that were running late and got there in the second, didn't look closely at the lineups, and were just suddenly blindsided by Ichiro batting in the top of the third.
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| MFS62 Jul 24 2012 07:02 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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This. Later
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| Benjamin Grimm Jul 24 2012 07:04 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I once pretended to like him, in order to be polite to three teenage girls on a bus in Kyoto.
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| Gwreck Jul 24 2012 07:11 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Point of order: The Mariners were already an outstanding team with tons of fan support before Ichiro. His Mariner tenure did not overlap with Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr. or Alex Rodiguez. The Mariner fans were already packing their new stadium a couple of years before Ichiro showed up. As for the slap-in-the-face thing: yep. Mariner fan friends report this weeks' series as "surreal."
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| Frayed Knot Jul 24 2012 07:12 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That's a bit over the top. The 1995 Griffey Jr/Randy Johnson/Edgar Martinez team which featured a crazy September run (winning 14 of 17 at one point) culminating in the one-game play-in win vs the Angels followed by the 1st round playoff comeback from 0-2 against the Yanx is the season that really woke up that franchise. That city had no idea what pennant race baseball was all about until they were suddenly immersed in it on a daily basis and suddenly discovered that baseball was a fun sport. That year was the drive that got them out of the horrid Kingdome ("like watching a game in a Price Club" was my friend's comment) and the one which gave them the status to sign Ichiro. He was a huge phenomenon no doubt, but they were already several years removed from being the invisible franchise by the time he got there.
In some ways, yeah. Turns out he had asked to be traded and doing so to the team that is coming into town that very night is kind of weird. But, if I'm a Mariners' fan, I'm looking at it like this: he's 38, barely productive, and was gone in two months whether he was dealt or not, so if this helps out the bullpen over the next year or three then better now than later. The only thing this really crushes is the 'one and only one' franchise thing if it turns out that he never plays again, but of course that ignores the entire first half of his career thing and even Yanqui fans aren't going to think of him as a Yanqui once this is all over (until they claim him as one of "their" HoF players years from now and wonder why he's wearing a Seattle cap on his plaque).
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| Ceetar Jul 24 2012 07:15 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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This only happens, god forbid, if he gets a big hit on the way to a title.
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| themetfairy Jul 24 2012 07:40 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Trust me on this one - I have in-laws in the Pacific Northwest. There were plenty of folks out there who had a team for 20 years but who never paid attention to them until Ichiro arrived. I witnessed that phenomenon firsthand - your point of order is denied.
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| Edgy MD Jul 24 2012 09:46 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Jason Bay hasn't been the same since Ichiro fucked with his house.
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| sharpie Jul 24 2012 09:54 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I went to a Mariners game earlier this season and sat in right field. Place was filled with Japanese fans (Yu Darvish was going for the Rangers). Everytime Ichiro made a routine catch in right field the section would go wild. Not gonna happen here.
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| The Second Spitter Jul 24 2012 09:56 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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On the basis of this article, I conclude the following: Jason Bay can't smell what the Barack is cooking.
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| Ceetar Jul 24 2012 10:09 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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no? The RF crowd goes crazy for Nick Swisher to wave at them. and then for Curtis Granderson to wave to them..
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| Gwreck Jul 24 2012 11:22 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I think you (or your in-laws) are confused on the timeline and are forgetting that Ichiro did not arrive until 2001. As an example, the Mariners drew 3.2 million fans in 2000. To suggest their fans didn't exist before Ichiro is ludicrous.
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| themetfairy Jul 24 2012 01:54 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I remember clearly a lot of folks who never paid attention to baseball jumping on the Mariners bandwagon in 2001.
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| Gwreck Jul 24 2012 02:16 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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They did also win 116 games that year (admittedly with Ichiro a large part of that).
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| themetfairy Jul 24 2012 02:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yes, but what was different in the rural areas was the merchandise and the people who never talked baseball before who were suddenly into Ichiro. Not necessarily people who would be making it into Seattle for games either way, but people who were suddenly following the team and into the merch. And they were all about Ichiro Ichiro Ichiro, where a couple of years prior they couldn't be bothered with baseball at all.
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| Benjamin Grimm Jul 24 2012 03:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Well, that means that there were more Mariners fans once they got Ichiro, but not that there were none before that.
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| themetfairy Jul 24 2012 03:21 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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We're quibbling. And I don't have an entire evening at hand to split hairs.
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| Ashie62 Jul 24 2012 06:50 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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He will go the the HOF as a Yankee, right?
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| Frayed Knot Jul 25 2012 07:16 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Your math lesson for the day kiddies
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| Edgy MD Jul 25 2012 07:22 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Whoah.
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| Ceetar Jul 25 2012 07:23 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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They obviously are going to trade for Chipper, hold tight.
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| Edgy MD Jul 25 2012 07:25 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Or Murphy.
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| Ceetar Jul 25 2012 07:29 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Murphy isn't an over the hill hall of famer (yet) who's prime was like 10 years ago. he doesn't fit the theme. But yeah, Murphy would actually fit in real well over there.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 25 2012 07:30 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Some mix of Eric Chavez & Jayson Nix will play there for now.
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| Edgy MD Jul 25 2012 08:09 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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So, Reggie Jackson gets his number retired and Winfield gets his reshuffled. Nice.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 25 2012 03:45 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Well, y'know, it's that whole May/October thing. btw, a quick ARod/Chavez comparison seeing as how Chavez will probably be getting the majority of ARod's ABs for a while: AR: .276/.358/.449; Walk Rate = .084; IsoP = .173; HRs = 1 every 28.5 PAs; XBHs = 1 every 13.3 PAs EC: .269/.324/.474; Walk Rate = .055; IsoP = .205; HRs = 1 every 21.6 PAs; XBHs = 1 every 10.8 PAs Now Chavez has seen only about 40% of the playing time compared to Rodriguez and has, up to now, had the advantage of facing almost exclusively RHPs. You figure that cushion won't be happening as often for a while but this is still not as big a blow to the Yanx as it would have been even a year or two ago especially, oddly enough, in the power department.
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| Edgy MD Jul 29 2012 09:04 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Ichiro, looking for that True Yankee moment, lines out to end the eighth. Sox/Yanks go to the ninth tied.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 29 2012 10:00 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Sawx finally win it with a run in the 9th but not before getting the short end of several calls -- Bobby got hisself tossed after the worst of them.
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| The Second Spitter Jul 31 2012 12:26 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Confirmation Teixeira is a compulsive masturbator .
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 31 2012 07:54 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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He could be out for awhile, interesting to see if this outs any more pressure on the MFYs to deal for Daniel Muffy who could fill in for both Gayrod and Gayxiera.
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| Edgy MD Jul 31 2012 07:56 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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He'd add ten homers to his total before the season was over.
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| G-Fafif Jul 31 2012 01:01 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Don't worry, MFYs are reportedly moving in on Dempster.
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| Ceetar Jul 31 2012 01:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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heard a couple of radio callers/hosts (in all of the 20 minutes I listened today) lining up the playoff rotation. They're all content if pettite gets back by mid-September that he'll be good to go in the playoffs. yup, he'll just turn it on, turn back the clock, not get hurt, and will be just awesome!
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| Frayed Knot Jul 31 2012 01:56 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Teixeira's wrist "inflammation, not structural damage"
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| G-Fafif Jul 31 2012 02:02 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Dempster to Texas. MFYs announce thawing of cryogenically frozen Ewell "The Whip" Blackwell for fifth-starter role.
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| G-Fafif Jul 31 2012 02:08 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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They are getting Casey McGehee for Chad Qualls. I'll just go ahead and say I hate Casey McGehee after not having thought of him since the last time we played Milwaukee.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 31 2012 02:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Always hated McGehee. Now I know why.
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| Frayed Knot Jul 31 2012 02:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Pittsburgh actually. McGehee fills in at 1B & 3B/platoons with Eric Chavez
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| Ceetar Jul 31 2012 02:15 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Gee Golly McGehee just homered for the Yanks!
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| TransMonk Jul 31 2012 02:19 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I've always said McGehee's name as if it were a Michael Jackson vocal riff.
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| G-Fafif Jul 31 2012 02:28 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I always think of Casey McGehee when the Mets play the Brewers. I just block him out when they play the Pirates.
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| The Second Spitter Jul 31 2012 02:32 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Neal Huntington ......smh. He's either on drugs or on the MFY payroll.
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| Vic Sage Jul 31 2012 03:44 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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i love that they got Mcgehee. He sucks. I hope he plays every day.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 01 2012 06:58 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Same. (And same with Shawon Dunston.)
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| G-Fafif Aug 02 2012 02:05 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Jeter reportedly out for surgery.
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| Edgy MD Aug 02 2012 02:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Not that Deadspin has a conscience, but they really shouldn't reward gay-hatin' hackers.
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| Ceetar Aug 02 2012 02:12 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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and the first two comments are Mets bashing. yay.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 02 2012 02:52 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Deadspin made a story the other day of teen olympic gymnasts period.
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| MFS62 Aug 02 2012 03:03 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Don't worry. ESPN Radio is still hasn't lost its focus. They're talking about the NFL the NBA and who will be transferring from Penn State.
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| Edgy MD Aug 02 2012 03:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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And of course, their army of [crossout:1v08h1gi]dittohead attention whores[/crossout:1v08h1gi] citizen journalists follow that up by hacking in to a bunch of other MLB twitter accounts and posting juvenile shit.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 02 2012 07:46 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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This post is a bit long (OK it's a lot long. It started short but I got carried away) all for a pretty small point, but, wtf, we’re in a 30-some hour holding pattern between games here.
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| Edgy MD Aug 02 2012 08:42 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Well, you could really go off the deep end and conclude that a .330 hitting Jeter has been deemed to be good for baseball and American League infielders have been ordered to play him impossibly deep --- give him the cheapies to pump the stats and polish his image, but not tilt the outcomes of games so much as letting flares drop into the outfield for doubles would.
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| Ceetar Aug 03 2012 05:29 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Could this not be true (that it's the defenders?) he plays on a team nicknamed the Bombers, when he's actually more like Luis Castillo. Everyone played Castillo short, but if he'd had the short porch, or had just taking a full freaking swing once or twice, defenders would've lined up normally and he would've gotten more hits, had a higher BABIP like Jeter, and hell actually contributed more. The comparison isn't a bad one, Castillo was often the leader in infield hits. I've noticed the same with Jeter but it's been going on a while now. I think it also has something to do with his funky inside out swing, that puts some sort of crazy spin on the ball that infielders have more trouble fielding it. I don't get it though, it's Yankee Stadium and if he hits it hard it'll float out, so play him like Castillo and you'd do well right? Also he gets a ton of benefit of the doubt in terms of beating out throws, and hits that should be errors.
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| Ceetar Aug 03 2012 05:37 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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this is a fun one. Derek Jeter's OPS against AL Teams, starting from the worst
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| Edgy MD Aug 03 2012 07:10 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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More interestingly, the Twitter hacks supposedly weren't actually hacks at all, but an inside job.
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| MFS62 Aug 03 2012 07:24 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Two things:
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| Edgy MD Aug 03 2012 07:33 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I think way too much of the legitimate criticism of Jeter-ism is dulled by that sort of playground bully gay-baiting. It's the kind of ugly that nobody has mastered so well as the bleacher denizens of Yankee Stadium.
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| Ceetar Aug 03 2012 07:42 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Hasn't happened in a while, but there was a subset of fans that used to chant "A-Rod's Boy-Friend" during Subway series games.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 03 2012 10:05 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Mild homophobia aside, the MLBAM-going-rogue act definitely had its moments.
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| metirish Aug 03 2012 10:29 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Fman could totally work there.....not for pennies though.
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| seawolf17 Aug 03 2012 11:02 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I liked the "going back to Montreal" one.
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| G-Fafif Aug 03 2012 12:20 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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What's worse: A sitting Supreme Court justice going on a hunting trip with a sitting Vice President of the United States and not recusing himself from an upcoming case involving the VP -- Scalia and Cheney, circa 2004 -- or this shit with Sonia Sotomayor? I'd say it's a draw (though Scalia doesn't come off well here, either, MFYLDB-style).
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 03 2012 12:37 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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She's pretty good at adjudicatin' and assignin' value an' all that. So, does she prefer the exuberant celebration of tolerance here...
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| Edgy MD Aug 03 2012 01:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'll bet she did.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 03 2012 02:18 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Real easy to sit with the 'Bleacher Creatures' and have a good time and say great things about them ... as long as you have secret service protection with you.
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| Ceetar Aug 03 2012 02:20 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Is it just me or have the critters made a point this year of having celebrities hang out there?
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| Frayed Knot Aug 03 2012 02:34 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Beats me, I've been too blinded this year by the fact that the maybe twenty different guest columns in the Sunday NY Times Sports Section have all started with some variation of: "As a life-long Yankee fan, ...". What then proceeds from there has been an assortment of self-reverential pieces on what that means to that particular author, or about how it reminds them of their grandma, or even, and these were the best, about how tough it was to maintain that fandom during the Horace Clarke years or during that gaping chasm of the late '80s/early '90s and how all the winning since is somehow not as much fun. Most of those were earlier in the spring/summer but it seems like they were printing them at about a one-per-week clip there for a while. From what I've heard, the conduct of the BCs isn't quite as criminal or quite as tolerated in the new stadium as it was compared to what went on in the old. That could all just be pr bullshit though.
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| Ceetar Aug 03 2012 02:46 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Well the old place was a separate entrance and private area and all so it probably lent itself to a more "This is the be stupid area" than the new place where it's all connected.
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| Ceetar Aug 03 2012 06:38 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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chopper to the pitcher. Millwood deflects it into the outfielder for a double. YES announcers call it "good instincts"
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| Frayed Knot Aug 19 2012 08:49 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Following his 2 HRs tonight, he only made it to 3 HRs in his first 16 home games.
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| metirish Aug 20 2012 04:32 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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asshole
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| Ceetar Aug 20 2012 04:54 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Right, but what was his Testosterone Blood Content?
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| The Second Spitter Aug 20 2012 06:16 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The Antichrist is still active..
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| Fman99 Aug 20 2012 07:27 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Agreed. Comedy gold, there.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 21 2012 06:20 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I wonder whether the fucker's taking an outside shot at postponing his HoF ballot introduction. Actually, I outright suspect it.
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| SteveJRogers Aug 21 2012 06:22 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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That rule about Professional baseball is no longer in affect for HOF ballot inclusion, it's just MLB.
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| Ceetar Aug 21 2012 06:34 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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yeah, Henderson played some afterwards right? This is going to be a fun class coming up, full of drama and moralizing and name calling.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 21 2012 06:39 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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But if he can parlay this re-introduction to competitive ball into a (however brief) stint somewhere in the majors (Houston?) that would 're-set the clock' for his HoF vote for another five years and would allow the whole steroids issue to be argued with other guys' names involved rather than his. It would also 'de-link' his name with Barry's on next year's ballot ("of all the dramatic things ...")
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| metirish Aug 21 2012 06:41 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wow, that seems totally plausible , what a dick he is.
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| Edgy MD Aug 21 2012 06:46 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Why else would he develop a sudden interest in August?
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| metirish Aug 21 2012 06:49 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yes, aged 50 no less........wanker
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| Ceetar Aug 21 2012 06:58 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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people said the same thing about McGuire's hitting coach role last year and Tony La Russa was going to pinch hit him in September.
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| Edgy MD Aug 21 2012 07:08 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I don't remember anyone saying that here.
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| Ceetar Aug 21 2012 07:11 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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also unrelated, Jeter apparently has had a cough for two months but refuses to talk about it.
no, maybe not. But the sentiment was out there. I was merely noting the somewhat similar situation.
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| Edgy MD Aug 21 2012 07:19 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Playing independent minor league ball your late forties and coaching in the bigs in your late forties aren't that similar.
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| Ceetar Aug 21 2012 07:20 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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the concept of getting a cameo in MLB to delay/extend your Hall of Fame eligibility is eerily similar though.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 21 2012 08:48 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The reason behind delaying one's HoF eligibility would be based on the hope that maybe five years down the road public sentiment on this topic will be less harsh than it is today. Attitudes change over time so those writers, ex-players, and other keepers of the flame who actually lived through the era and aren't viewing the pre-roids time as some bastion of purity may start to come around to the idea that total banishment of anyone who ever used, thought about using, or knew about others who used is maybe a bit over the top.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 21 2012 10:09 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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In other MFY news, Jeter had four more hits last night (and is hitting .400 in August) giving him 3,255 for his career.
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| Vic Sage Aug 21 2012 10:52 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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i have no illusions about Jeter being denied 1st ballot HOF status 5 years after he retires (unless some damning personal facts come to light).
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 21 2012 11:24 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Also, the guys are different. There's McGwire-and-baseball dependency... and then there's Clemens-and-baseball self-delusional dependency.
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| Ceetar Aug 21 2012 11:56 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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None that would keep him out. (although he certainly won't be unanimous, like I know someone somewhere suggested) But no MVP (though maybe deserved one?), never the best SS in the league (or really his own team..although that never seems to count for much. He gets credit for still playing SS even though clearly the right baseball move was probably to move him. But even the logical fallacies in his game are often glossed over and the narrative grants him so many intangible points. The media loves him because the things he's bad at (like the defense) aren't that clearly measurable and he gives them just enough nothing to placate their columns so that when he runs away and avoids questions they have enough that they don't speculate.
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| Edgy MD Aug 21 2012 01:31 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Two prizes left for him to steal:
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| seawolf17 Aug 21 2012 01:48 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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No and no.
Li'l Pete was a Duck for a while. Dumbass behind us one night: "Hey, that Pete Rose Junior over there? That's Pete Rose's son."
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| Mets – Willets Point Aug 21 2012 02:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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These things are connected in that some voters submitted blank ballots in protest against Pete Rose's banishment thus denying Seaver an even higher percentage of the HOF vote.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 22 2012 03:46 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Apparently, I'm not the only one to see a likely HoF ballot-eligibility-end-run here.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 22 2012 05:18 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yeah, Seaver received five 'No' (blank) votes and I recall at least one writer admitting to submitting a totally blank ballot to protest the exclusion of Rose from consideration. The other four are, I suppose, subject to speculation although there always seemed to be several in those days who would 'proudly' proclaim to never casting a 'Yes' vote for any first-timer, often based on the idiotic logic that if DiMaggio didn't get in on the first ballot then no one should. That the Rose issue won't be there for Jeter's vote and that the no-first-timer mindset seems to be going away (not to mention the widespread Jeter-love among media-types) both add to the idea that Jeter could very well surpass Seaver's vote pct (total votes casts vary per year).
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 22 2012 08:38 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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VENTURA 2012
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| Ceetar Aug 22 2012 09:33 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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the Yankees Ivan Nova 'got hurt' on his last pitch of the game the other night. So they're going to DL him. awfully convenient.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 23 2012 08:07 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Watch Joe Girardi look like a rookie manager taken to school by a wiley vet:
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| Frayed Knot Aug 23 2012 09:18 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The only thing that's salvaged this week so far. Yanx had a 10-game lead in late July. Now it's down to 3.
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| Ceetar Aug 23 2012 09:30 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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And the first two non-playoff teams are only 3.5 and 4 behind for the WC.
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| Edgy MD Aug 23 2012 09:41 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Only wish some of that water that spilled out of the Yankee bucket ended up in our'n.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 23 2012 08:03 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Rays win v Oakland slices the lead to 2-1/2 on Yanx off day.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 24 2012 07:17 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Back to the whole recent Yanquis/steroids connection thing for a minute.
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| Edgy MD Aug 24 2012 07:25 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Can one of these reporters actually dig for facts rather than just speculate? Lord knows, there are enough of them.
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| Ceetar Aug 24 2012 07:37 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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if you mean Bayless, I don't think he's a reporter, he's a ESPN 'be idle and baseless' guy. What Murray Chass has said isn't any more idle or baseless. maybe less, considering it wasn't based on a statistical observation but a appearance one. But could that keep Mike from the first ballot? Could this keep Jeter from being left off by 5-6 so as to preserve Seaver's percentage?
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| Edgy MD Aug 24 2012 07:42 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Do I mean Bayless? Do I mean Chass?
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| Frayed Knot Sep 02 2012 03:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yanx lose two of three to Baltimore at home - and were a bit lucky to get the one they did.
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| Mets – Willets Point Sep 02 2012 04:25 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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With teams like the Mets, Braves, and Red Sox showing us the possibilities of monumental collapse in recent seasons, wouldn't it be great if the Yankees followed suit this September? I'd love to see them lose the 2nd Wild Card spot on the last day of the season or better yet behind and struggling to gain ground with a week to go.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 02 2012 04:41 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I knew the minute Selig announced there'd be an extra WC team that the MFYs would be one.
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| Mets – Willets Point Sep 02 2012 04:58 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yeah, they'll probably snag the second wild card with like 87 wins and then everyone will roll over for them in the postseason.
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| Ceetar Sep 02 2012 06:45 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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hard to see. That team is extremely flawed.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 02 2012 07:01 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Yanx still have a ways to go before they'll be in danger of missing the playoffs altogether - although a scenario where they need the 2nd WC is certainly in play and their 16-18 record since July 27 says something.
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| G-Fafif Sep 02 2012 10:19 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Tigers won, breathing down MFYs' necks.
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| Ceetar Sep 03 2012 06:08 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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yeah, Joe, but so are the Orioles and Rays.
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| Fman99 Sep 03 2012 07:04 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I think I'd like to see them win one of the wild card spots and then lose the one game play-in. It'd give those rubes in the Bronx an entire winter to gripe about how they got screwed by the system.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 03 2012 08:08 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Ate lunch at a Jersey TGIFriday's yesterday, seated about 15 minutes after the Bay grannie. Noticed that there were four TVs hovering in/near our booth, and that two of them were playing the MFY game, with the other two playing a college football game that nobody-- and, doing a scan of the scantly-populated booths, I mean NOBODY-- was tracking. I asked a few times-- the server twice, and a bartender once-- if they would mind changing one of the screens to the Met game; I got sure-not-a-problem-yeah-yeah-yeah-ed by all of 'em. A trying hour-and-a-half later of screaming YoungerPooper, furtive MLB AtBat checks on the phone, and smeared food detritus in/around my face and shirt... there were two TVs playing the MFY game, and two playing that college football game.
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| MFS62 Sep 03 2012 11:09 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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As my old Army buddies might have said, "The Yankee fans are getting so tight, you couldn't drag a needle out of their ass with a tractor."
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| Frayed Knot Sep 03 2012 11:33 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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But ARod's back today so all the problems for Yanx fans are reduced ... or multiplied depending on one's point of view.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 03 2012 09:02 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Amen
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 04 2012 08:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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MFYs lose!
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| Ceetar Sep 04 2012 08:42 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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so you think they just slot in Pettitte as the #2 for the playoffs?
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| G-Fafif Sep 05 2012 04:19 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The expansion of the playoffs in 1995 gave the Wild Carding, second-place MFYs an unprecedented in, while the expansion of the playoffs in 1969 presented the Mets with a hurdle no team with the best record in its league ever had to clear.
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| Edgy MD Sep 05 2012 06:55 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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More exposure, scandal, and disgrace would be nice.
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| Ceetar Sep 05 2012 07:00 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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maybe this Cano being lazy story will gain legs, as they struggle, and people will call for Girardi's head because he "lost the clubhouse". obviously a completely MFY-free postseason is preferable, but how perfect would it be if they fall into the second spot and desperately call on Pettitte off the DL to make that start, and he's very predictably not ready for prime time and gets shelled, hard.
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| Fman99 Sep 05 2012 07:57 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Vomit.
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| themetfairy Sep 05 2012 08:37 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Get your son off that team NOW!!!
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| Frayed Knot Sep 08 2012 07:38 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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So last night was ARod's 300th HR as a Yankme, more than twice as many as Reggie in less than twice the time, plus he has that all-important ring.
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| Ceetar Sep 08 2012 08:24 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'm toying with writing a book that takes place 30-50 years in the future. Fiction or not, I'm envisioning a world where the Yankees are no longer held up as some sort of 'better than thou' franchise, but instead are a relic and a laughing stock. They routinely have spring uniforms with letters (or THREE! digits) They were a world-wide laughing stock back in 2035 when one of their fringe invitees, wearing 2A (he fancied himself the 'next' Jeter but was a long shot at best to make the majors.) He hit like crazy in Spring Training and the Yankees suffered injuries to two SS that spring and he ended up making the team and refused to give up the uniform number so he became the first player to ever wear a letter in a regular season game. They called him "The Apartment" and he ended up having a pretty decent career as a backup middle infielder, but the Yankees were teased all season long for the letter thing.
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| metirish Sep 08 2012 08:21 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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lol.....great game ending double play of the bat of Texeria as the O's hold on to win 5-4, looks like a blown call actually as Texaria dived into first base and the ump got it wrong....delightful.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 08 2012 08:24 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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LOLMFY
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| Swan Swan H Sep 08 2012 08:25 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It was totally blown - Douchebag Cop got there well before the ball, but the slide didn't help him get the call. I think Kay is about to start crying. He just named Jerry Meals the Orioles player of the game.
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| metirish Sep 08 2012 08:29 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I bet Ken Singleton isn't inching up on his seat right now......probably fell back crying...Christ but they are homers.
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| Swan Swan H Sep 08 2012 08:32 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Bases loaded, none out and they hit two weak infield grounders. Fuck 'em.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 08 2012 08:53 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Zackly. Fuck. Them. And fuck Michael Kay. F-U-C-K him.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 08 2012 09:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The Yanx continue to specialize in hitting grounders too shitty to be turned into DPs. I know I can't prove that they do it more often than other teams and don't ask me how a team can do that on purpose but I'll go to my grave believing they have a knack for taking full swings and getting shit exactly when needed as if on demand. Swisher did it the first time and it brought in a run, and then Teixeira did the same thing only he is a bit slower and probably dove himself into a bad call (I still couldn't tell definitively) or else the tying run would have scored. Meanwhile Nick Markakis got himself a broken hand in the game and is almost certainly out for the rest of the reg season. And just minutes before the O's/Yanx ended the Rays lost to Texas in extras, one day after winning in extras on a Ben Zobrist walk-off. Too bad, a Tampa win tonight would have really tightened things up.
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| metirish Sep 08 2012 09:27 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It's getting better
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 08 2012 09:33 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Lololol
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| Ceetar Sep 08 2012 11:14 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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who do I look like, Jodi Applegate?
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| The Second Spitter Sep 08 2012 11:54 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Shame. Six games against Tampa, including the upcoming series is likely to define the O's season. Didn't get to see a replay of the double play as the feed ended immediately. Was Forrest in fact out?
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| Frayed Knot Sep 09 2012 07:10 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Sep 09 2012 07:20 AM |
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Certainly looked to be safe, but he got there via a head-first slide which, as we're often told, almost certainly slowed him down, and I never did see a definitive replay (maybe there isn't one). Plus I think the head-first thing makes it tougher for the ump to call that play.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 09 2012 07:14 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Upon further review ...
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| Swan Swan H Sep 09 2012 07:25 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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To reiterate, this cocksucker is making $23 million and he can't get the ball out of the infield. Fuck him with a broken bottle.
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| Ceetar Sep 09 2012 07:39 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wow, the Yankees really are embarrassing and sore losers huh?
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| smg58 Sep 09 2012 07:50 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Not only should he have never slid, but the right hand that the ump had the clearest view of never touched the bag. The left still beat the throw, but Texeira ought to answer for doing some fundamental things wrong in a very critical situation. The ump should never have been given the opportunity to get the play wrong.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 09 2012 09:19 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I'm all about Team Fuck-The-MFYs... but we're kind of talking around the thing now, aren't we?
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 09 2012 02:37 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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But then, in the middle of the ninth inning, with the MFYs leading 11-3, Michael Kay and Ken Singleton (I think) are having a five-minute-long (and counting) conversation bitching about the Baltimore Sun's and the Orioles broadcast's coverage of last night's game-ending call.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 09 2012 05:09 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I guess the biases at MASN & The Baltimore Sun are too much for Kay et al who prefer the unvarnished truth that one gets from YES as well as from the NY Daily News, a paper that has fostered a commercial and symbiotic relationship with the team they supposedly cover so deep and for so long now that any pretense of objective journalism left the stall about 20 years ago.
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| Ceetar Sep 09 2012 06:33 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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20 years ago? wasn't the Daily News pretty much put on the map by the coverage of Ruth and the Yankees?
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| Frayed Knot Sep 09 2012 06:49 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The DN has been around for a long time covering the Yanx, but it was only relatively recently (probably less than 20 years) that they became essentially a full-time partner with the club, doing things such as hiring Torre as their spokesman when he was also supposedly their biggest target to cover; having the DN pay for one of their writers to be a "guest" in the radio booth for an inning each game; running promotions that are designed to boost both the team and the paper as if there's no line between the two, etc.
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| Fman99 Sep 09 2012 07:00 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Happened to be watching this live when it happened. SO MUCH JOY. Hey, even my kid's superdouchy YLDB coach tells his players all the time not to slide into first.
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| Edgy MD Sep 10 2012 03:24 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Teixiera out 10-14 days.
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| Fman99 Sep 13 2012 07:42 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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| MFS62 Sep 14 2012 07:49 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Toss Jackie Robinson's memorabilia out of the rotunda and replace it with Willie Mays stuff ... NOW!
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| Mets – Willets Point Sep 14 2012 07:57 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I wish this was real. On the other hand it probably would bump all the news from Libya & Egypt off the air if Saint Jeter were dissed in this way.
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| Swan Swan H Sep 14 2012 08:34 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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One of the many things I despise about the DH is its use as a semi-DL for aging players with minor injuries. Well, tonight Jeter is the DH to rest his injured ankle, and Eduardo Nunez just gakked a routine grounder to give the Rays a big insurance run.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 14 2012 08:53 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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When Nunez came up swinging the bat last year some of the MFY mouthpieces were naming him the 'heir apparent' for Jeter at SS - but he's a truly atrocious fielder and spent most of this year in the minors on account of it even with ARod on the shelf for a lengthy run in mid-year while the Yanx traded for Jayson Nix instead. But once they brought him up with the September call-ups he's been getting time in the field semi-regularly because Girardi feels the need to rest the "veterans" down the stretch even when they're not nursing an injury. As a result, Jeter, ARod or Cano have served as the DH in each of their last 13 games. Do that often enough, and it's not a question of IF you're going to get burned by it but when. I just consider it icing on the cake that it happened tonight during the 9th inning of a close and important game.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 15 2012 06:37 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Funny how on the same day and in the same game that Jeter passes Mays to get to 10th on the all-time career hits list prompting mentions and plaudits that stop just short of a Congressional vote for a new national holiday, Alex Rodriguez passes Gehrig to takeover 9th place on the all-time career runs scored list and is greeted by the sound of .... crickets.
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| Edgy MD Sep 15 2012 08:17 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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of course it did.
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| G-Fafif Sep 17 2012 04:08 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Charles Pierce explores MFYS III for the first time on Grantland and gets it immediately.
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| Frayed Knot Sep 17 2012 04:39 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Speaking of MFY articles, I realize that writers don't often get to choose their own headlines so we probably shouldn't crush good ol' Bryan Hoch too much for this one -- but did someone really think that Through injury, Jeter's singular focus is winning was a unique or fresh angle just crying out to be covered?
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| G-Fafif Sep 17 2012 04:44 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wait, let me get this straight: Derek Jeter has an edge? Huh...learn something new every day!
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| Swan Swan H Sep 17 2012 06:28 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Charlie Pierce is probably my favorite journalist, and I love his knack for getting to the core of everything he writes about. And, he kills on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me.
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| bmfc1 Sep 23 2012 09:39 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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It's not cool to be exuberant, unless you're an MFY:
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/ ... wCE2f2lloN
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| Edgy MD Sep 23 2012 10:48 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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The idea that clapping and celebrating is childish and unprofessional is childish and unprofessional.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 25 2012 01:11 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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This is really, really unsurprising. It's also all too common in the restaurant business these days.
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| Edgy MD Sep 25 2012 01:20 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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"Yes." Because "patrons" were deceived into thinking the "fee" was for their servers. I can picture this going to court and the hearing just being a festival of lawyers making quotey-quotey fingers.
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| metsguyinmichigan Sep 25 2012 01:35 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Wait a second, customers are asked to pay stupid-expensive prices for food, and then the MFYs tack on a 20 percent surcharge for the privilege of paying stupid-expensive prices for their food -- and that money isn't a tip? And other restaurants are doing that, too? It sounds like the personal seat license scam the football teams get away with.
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| Ceetar Oct 05 2012 08:43 PM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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I know the game's not until Wednesday..but shouldn't the Yankees have sold out their first playoff home game by now?
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| Edgy MD Dec 26 2012 09:25 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Andruw Jones graduates from batter to batterer.
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| SteveJRogers Dec 26 2012 10:08 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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MFY Fans all over rejoice that for once a former MFY is not indicated as such in one of these stories!
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| Edgy MD Dec 26 2012 10:13 AM Re: The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread |
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Well, he was a Yankee most recently.
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