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The MFYs Are Savages

bmfc1 Jul 18 2019 06:39 PM

Their manager says so: [TWEET]https://twitter.com/Jomboy_/status/1151971547147583488[/TWEET] Boone seems to think that the umpire should only be good because his batters are good ("savages"). Typical MFY entitlement there. Congrats to Brett Gardner on throwing a fit and not self-inflicting a wound requiring stitches.

MFS62 Jul 18 2019 06:58 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

We've come up with a lot of adjectives to describe them, but savages has never been one of them. Later

Edgy MD Jul 18 2019 07:57 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Gardner looks like he missed his nap or something. Thanks for trying to demolish the dugout, asshole.

metirish Jul 19 2019 05:45 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Not a patch on Terry and our "asses are in the jackpot"

Edgy MD Jul 19 2019 06:48 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Edgy MD wrote: Gardner looks like he missed his nap or something. Thanks for trying to demolish the dugout, asshole. That's an Elmer Fudd-sized pate on the guy, too. I'm calling the PDE officers to send him back where he came from.

whippoorwill Jul 19 2019 06:54 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

I assume Gardner is the moronic looking bald guy Question: when he said ‘I feel bad for you' what did he mean? Umpire has personal bad news? :( Also the batter seemed polite enough at least Savages is hilarious though. Maybe it's a new baseball term

nymr83 Jul 19 2019 07:18 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Question: when he said ‘I feel bad for you' what did he mean? Umpire has personal bad news? :( "I feel bad for how dumb you are"

whippoorwill Jul 19 2019 07:25 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Lol prolly

Edgy MD Jul 19 2019 09:27 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

I heard he said "See you tomorrow" to Boone off-camera.

Chad ochoseis Jul 19 2019 11:15 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

The pitch that was "so far fucking outside" was a pretty clear strike. Gardner looks depressed at the end of the video. Like he's been trying to get the Kase look, but realizes he's just not cool enough to carry it off.

bmfc1 Jul 19 2019 12:22 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

REMIX! [TWEET]https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1152242560267685888[/TWEET]

Lefty Specialist Jul 19 2019 01:26 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Hilarious remix.

nymr83 Jul 25 2019 07:05 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Tanaka allowed 7 runs in the first inning tonight, stayed in long enough to allow 4 more in the 4th and is now gone after 3 1/3 with 12 hits, 3 walks, 11 runs and responsible for a man on 2nd. SAVAGE! i like leaving him in there. you are 99.9% fucked anyway, so why burn another guy's arm?

Frayed Knot Jul 25 2019 08:03 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Last time Tanaka faced the Sawx it was in London when he gave up six runs in the 1st inning. But that was London and a jury-rigged stadium; no way that would happen state-side. Nope, today he gave up seven in the 1st inning ... and then things got worse. The Yanx perfect record (2-0) in games where they allow 12 or more runs is in trouble tonight (although there are still [CROSSOUT]seven[/CROSSOUT] six outs to get).

nymr83 Jul 25 2019 08:28 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Austin Romine is pitching now and not well.

Frayed Knot Jul 26 2019 04:26 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 26 2019 08:17 PM

Austin Romine is pitching now and not well. The wacko part about all that was that Aaron Boone and the Yanx went into that game with a two man bench and one of those was the backup catcher (Romine - actually both catchers were backups since Gary Sanchez is, like the Beastie Boys, currently IL'in ... see what I did there?). Gio Urshela was the other. That left them with a nine man bullpen but of course Boone didn't actually want to use any of his respectable penners. Needless to say, none of the position players got to take the remainder of the game off as is common in one-sided affairs. So Tanaka, despite coughing up 7 in the 1st and eventually an even dozen runs overall, stayed in thru 3-1/2 and 87 pitches and was only pulled then because the HP ump threatened to invoke the 'Mercy Rule'. Stephen Tarpley (1.2 IP, 4 runs, 5 hits) and former NYM farmhand Luis Cessa (1.2 scoreless, although by then the Red Sox were batting from their opposite side just to see if they could do it) were the only real relievers Boone used. Romine (lettuce pray) wound up charged with 3 runs in the full inning of work. In Anaheim, Orioles utility man Stevie Wilkerson (I went to HS with a guy by that name) fared much better as a pitcher. He wound up with a 1-2-3 Save in the bottom of the 16th throwing balls at about 45 mph. After BOTH teams put up a 3-spot in the 15th, Baltimore went ahead again with 2 in the top of the 16th. Wilkerson closed it out. Trade Diaz for him NOW!!!! The 6 hour 19 minute game ended sometime after 4:30 AM EDT

Edgy MD Jul 26 2019 06:41 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Mookie. That is all.

Frayed Knot Jul 26 2019 08:03 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Edgy MD wrote: Mookie. That is all. Mookie grounds out in his (almost sure-to-be) final AB. 'Settles for' three HRs and a double. 10-3 Sox heading for top of 9 I was so sure that, after the pasting they took last night, the Yanx were going to win three consecutive close games and win the series despite being out-scored by several touchdowns. Considering that Yanx pitchers have allowed 48 runs over their last four games and yet the team won two of those game, it's not an unreasonable fear. As of now they're being out-scored 29-6 over the first 17 innings of this four-game series.

Edgy MD Jul 26 2019 08:08 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Actually, that shouldn't have been all. I'd like to openly salute any fans back in Baltimore who hung in there for the whole game against Anaheim and got to see their manager be the first manager in history to successfully deploy a position player for a save. I imagine only a few 10-year-olds enjoying summer sleepovers were still tuned in.

MFS62 Jul 27 2019 04:58 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Hall of Famers Tony Perez and Andre Dawson might boycott Jeter's HOF induction. I hope they do, and all the papers report why. https://sports.yahoo.com/baseball-hall-of-famers-considering-boycotting-derek-jeters-induction-225837239.html Later

MFS62 Jul 27 2019 05:01 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Hall of Famers Tony Perez and Andre Dawson might boycott Jeter's HOF induction. I hope they do, and all the papers report why. https://sports.yahoo.com/baseball-hall-of-famers-considering-boycotting-derek-jeters-induction-225837239.html Later

kcmets Aug 02 2019 09:15 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Am I evilly wrong to think after all these years that enough is enough of with the tragic death of Thurman Munson?

MFS62 Aug 03 2019 06:33 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

=kcmets post_id=17448 time=1564802137 user_id=53] Am I evilly wrong to think after all these years that enough is enough of with the tragic death of Thurman Munson?

I stand with you on that one.

Later

41Forever Aug 03 2019 06:57 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

=kcmets post_id=17448 time=1564802137 user_id=53] Am I evilly wrong to think after all these years that enough is enough of with the tragic death of Thurman Munson?

I think it's appropriate to acknowledge it during the milestone years. This is the 40th anniversary, I think.



I would expect to see stories in 2022 about Gil Hodges' sudden passing.

kcmets Aug 03 2019 01:21 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

I was venting, every year a couple of social media MFY friends ball wash each other over this and it's really quite a sight. Dude was not Amelia Earhart, fellas.

MFS62 Aug 03 2019 01:29 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

=kcmets post_id=17461 time=1564860111 user_id=53] I was venting, every year a couple of social media MFY friends ball wash each other over this and it's really quite a sight. Dude was not Amelia Earhart, fellas.

And he definitely was NOT Roberto Clemente (many of the stories try to hit us over the head with that comparison).

Later

Frayed Knot Sep 14 2019 06:30 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

So apparently the Yanqui front office are savages as well. A 'lifetime fan' with a partial (41-games, upper tank) season ticket plan for years decided to give up his season tickets for next year on account of the 40% rise in price over two seasons (2018 to 2020). But it was the bill for this year's playoff tickets which really got him mad. A $92 surcharge was tacked onto his bill and when he inquired about it with the ticket office he was told it was, in effect, a penalty for not renewing his plan. The surcharge was some 8% of the total but since I'm presuming you're required to pre-pay for all potential playoff games, any shortfall in the number of games, either by quick wins or by (heh, heh) early elimination would effectively ramp up the size of the bite the surcharge takes since the unused tickets would be refunded but not the penalty. Or maybe they've banned refunds also and will force him to buy tickets for next year in order to make up the difference.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 14 2019 06:36 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

This is really no different than the way a drug dealer exploits a drug addict.

Edgy MD Sep 14 2019 06:56 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

America 2019. Monopolies are AWESOME.

Frayed Knot Sep 14 2019 07:17 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

While I appreciate the monopoly/drug dealer angles, it's the vindictive nature of the 'Fuck You if you won't renew' aspect of it that's the really dick move here. We're charging you more than we're charging the guy sitting next to you as a punishment for not giving us enough future money. The guy, btw, has vowed never to go to the stadium again after this. He'll watch, and he'll travel to see them elsewhere, but he's done handing over his cash. https://nypost.com/2019/09/14/yankees-fans-are-pissed-about-ticket-price-hikes-its-insulting/

Edgy MD Sep 14 2019 07:59 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

You're halfway there, guy. Mets should give you a season package for 2020 gratis. And they would, but cartel members can't pull that on each other.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 14 2019 08:05 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

He doesn't want Mets tickets. He's still a Yankee fan. He sez he'll continue to watch on TV and maybe, catch 'em on the road. He can. boycott the owners and still go to home games by not. buying his tix directly from the team. That's what I do. I've never bought a Citi Field ticket directly from the Mets. Though they still get my yearbook and food .money, I suppose.

Edgy MD Sep 14 2019 10:21 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

You see trouble in a relationship, it's time to move in and show what you've got, before the one you want falls back into old habits and re-settles with the old-boyfriend.

nymr83 Sep 14 2019 10:56 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

was the $92 fee mentioned upfront when he bought this year's tickets? if so, quit whining! if not, fuck the yankees! (well, fuck them anyway!)

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2019 07:14 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

was the $92 fee mentioned upfront when he bought this year's tickets? -- seeing as how he had to call the ticket office after the fact to find out what the charge was for, the charge was apparently neither mentioned upfront nor explained on the bill if so, quit whining! -- not sure putting a 'Because we feel like it' line on the bill makes it A-OK to charge you more than others for the exact same product or service The blue plate special today is $9.95, unless of course you don't also agree to come back for dinner next week and pre-pay for that meal now in which case we're charging you $12.95

Ceetar Sep 15 2019 08:38 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Frayed Knot wrote: was the $92 fee mentioned upfront when he bought this year's tickets? -- seeing as how he had to call the ticket office after the fact to find out what the charge was for, the charge was apparently neither mentioned upfront nor explained on the bill if so, quit whining! -- not sure putting a 'Because we feel like it' line on the bill makes it A-OK to charge you more than others for the exact same product or service The blue plate special today is $9.95, unless of course you don't also agree to come back for dinner next week and pre-pay for that meal now in which case we're charging you $12.95 I don't care enough to dig in, but I wouldn't be surprised if they charge that for everyone and the ticket office explained it stupidly/maliciously. and i agree, a lot, about how fucked up this all is, and it's also barely unique to the Yankees, as everything that's ticketed has a "cause we feel like it" fee or 17.

MFS62 Sep 15 2019 08:43 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Most business courses will tell you it costs ten times more to get a new customer than to retain an old (dissatisfied) one. They would also say to retain that dissatisfied customer, you offer a price decrease, not an increase (surcharge). This is not only offensive, it is textbook stupid. Later

41Forever Sep 15 2019 08:49 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

One time I bought tickets for a hockey game at the team's own box office and was charged with a $2 service charge. I thought that was odd. It's one thing to get a fee for buying from the team online or through Ticketmaster or something. But I don't it's right to charge a service charge when I walk down to the box office and try to buy one in person from the team itself.

Frayed Knot Sep 15 2019 09:21 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Those kinds of fees are tacked on all the time -- on-line tickets have been known to carry a 'printing fee' even though they didn't print shit -- and are essentially just a way of charging more without raising the base price of the ticket itself. It would be much more honest just to up the price of the ticket and have it be all inclusive but ticket sellers obviously think that type of bait- and-switch is effective at attracting customers who are then reluctant to back out once they've made the commitment. The apparent difference here is that they're specifically charging some customers a different price from others as a penalty for not re-upping tickets plans for next season. Or, as this guy put it, first they gouge you (40% price increase over two years) and then they screw you on top of that. And keep in mind that this $92 'service charge' could apply to as little as two games.

bmfc1 Sep 15 2019 11:14 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

You might not believe me but a pitcher named Wilmer Font played for the Mets THIS SEASON. He pitched 31 innings and started 3 games. Anyway, he's starting for the Blue Jays today against the MFYs.

nymr83 Sep 16 2019 01:00 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Frayed Knot wrote: was the $92 fee mentioned upfront when he bought this year's tickets? -- seeing as how he had to call the ticket office after the fact to find out what the charge was for, the charge was apparently neither mentioned upfront nor explained on the bill if so, quit whining! -- not sure putting a 'Because we feel like it' line on the bill makes it A-OK to charge you more than others for the exact same product or service The blue plate special today is $9.95, unless of course you don't also agree to come back for dinner next week and pre-pay for that meal now in which case we're charging you $12.95 Just because he had to call didn't mean it wasnt already spelled out. And I'm not asking if it was spelled out when he bought playoff tickets, after already investing in the regular season. I'm asking if it was laid out in the pricing he was shown when he signed up for 2019 season tickets before actually paying anything.

Frayed Knot Sep 16 2019 01:52 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

I'm asking if it was laid out in the pricing he was shown when he signed up for 2019 season tickets before actually paying anything. The article didn't specify ... BUT 1) I highly doubt that when he paid for his 2019 season tickets (probably over a year ago) that the agreement to buy included a clause concerning a $92 'Fuck You Fee' to be assessed IF the team made the playoffs in 2019 and IF the buyer wanted a crack at those playoff tickets but also wouldn't pre-commit to re-upping for a plan still two seasons away at that point. AND 2) that that's a good business practice even if they DID jam that disclaimer somewhere into the fine print This guy obviously doesn't think it is and sees it more as them figuring out a way of getting extra cash from those who won't agree to give them the extra cash via next year's hefty price increase. So they've "won" in that they're getting his $92 but they've also driven a lifetime fan and season ticket buyer away from their stadium, he says for good.

Edgy MD Sep 16 2019 02:06 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

If he's like everybody else, he probably checked a box saying that, sure, he's read the five-page, single-spaced, six-point-type agreement, and assents to all its terms, when he, in fact, had read not two words. That's a great place to hide the fuck-you fees.

whippoorwill Sep 16 2019 02:37 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Edgy MD wrote: America 2019. Monopolies are AWESOME. College football tix. Pay for the season tickets plus a large contribution or you're sitting in the end zone. Behind a pole. On the top row. J/K but I've heard at PSU you'd better sweeten your season ticket payment or your seats suck

Edgy MD Sep 16 2019 04:44 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Who'd have thought that tickets would become so poorly regulated that the only way they found to control the secondary scalpers' market was to scalp you up front at the box office.

seawolf17 Sep 18 2019 10:52 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Reading about Dellin Betances' injury yesterday that will end his season. He's 32, a four-time all-star, Can Play In New York™, heading into free agency for the first time. Guarantee the Mets offer him a Familia contract this off-season and then watch him implode, while they DFA someone like Walker Lockett and watch him become a key 8th-inning guy for the Cardinals or whoever.

Frayed Knot Sep 18 2019 11:41 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

I feel bad for Betances cuz he not only got screwed over via the arbitration process but got mocked by the Yanx for daring to suggest that he was worth closer money while never officially being THE closer even as he filled-in at that spot often enough to rack up 36 saves over the years, was often the best reliever on their team, and was usually the one they leaned on hardest. He averaged 70+ appearances and 80-some innings per/year; has a career 2.36 ERA/1.04 WHIP; ERA+ numbers always over 150 and twice over 250 and was a four-time All-Star But because he never had the word C-L-O-S-E-R stamped on his forehead, the arbitration process stuck him in with the middle relievers while NYY Prez/resident asshole Randy Levine publicly berated both Betances and his agent for 'making a mockery' of the arbitration process for wanting to compare himself to the league's top relievers. iow, he didn't "know his place" and how dare he even try. So now here he is finally reaching FA-gency and getting to determine what his true salary would be. But he's going to have to find out while coming off a season-long injury and heading into the off-season with another one and is now on the cusp of turning 32 y/o (Mar 2020) just as older players aren't cashing in on the FA process. He SHOULD be a prime example for the player's union of a guy not getting paid while he's young and good only to find out that he's also not going to be paid on the back half either.

Frayed Knot Sep 18 2019 11:41 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

I feel bad for Betances cuz he not only got screwed over via the arbitration process but got mocked by the Yanx for daring to suggest that he was worth closer money while never officially being THE closer even as he filled-in at that spot often enough to rack up 36 saves over the years, was often the best reliever on their team, and was usually the one they leaned on hardest. He averaged 70+ appearances and 80-some innings per/year; has a career 2.36 ERA/1.04 WHIP; ERA+ numbers always over 150 and twice over 250 and was a four-time All-Star But because he never had the word C-L-O-S-E-R stamped on his forehead, the arbitration process stuck him in with the middle relievers while NYY Prez/resident asshole Randy Levine publicly berated both Betances and his agent for 'making a mockery' of the arbitration process for wanting to compare himself to the league's top relievers. iow, he didn't "know his place" and how dare he even try. So now here he is finally reaching FA-gency and getting to determine what his true salary would be. But he's going to have to find out while coming off a season-long injury and heading into the off-season with another one and is now on the cusp of turning 32 y/o (Mar 2020) just as older players aren't cashing in on the FA process. He SHOULD be a prime example for the player's union of a guy not getting paid while he's young and good only to find out that he's also not going to be paid on the back half either.

Edgy MD Sep 18 2019 11:47 AM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

And yet, minor-leaguers are told that it's good for them to work for starvation wages, because it makes them hungry.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 18 2019 12:24 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Frayed Knot wrote: I feel bad for Betances cuz he not only got screwed over via the arbitration process .... This is, perhaps, the biggest reason why MLB is still in this stupid state where the best relievers are reserved for the ninth inning "closer" role and why the stupid save stat still carries so much weight. Because closers and relievers with high save totals get disproportionately rewarded in the arbitration process. You'd think that the arbitration setting is a more intelligent process, where players are assessed objectively, removed from the emotional and psychic value of "the save". You'd think that arbitrators, by now, have been exposed to mountains of evidence on behalf of so called set-up relievers whose stats are just as impressive as those of the ninth inning guys, other than that they don't get to rack up the saves because they don't pitch the ninth inning. But no. So we're in this loop where the best relievers want to close because they want the saves, which will make them more money. Of the save guys get more money in arbitration, they'll also make more money in free agency. And so it goes.

HahnSolo Sep 18 2019 12:58 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

=seawolf17 post_id=22220 time=1568825565 user_id=91] Reading about Dellin Betances' injury yesterday that will end his season. He's 32, a four-time all-star, Can Play In New York™, heading into free agency for the first time. Guarantee the Mets offer him a Familia contract this off-season and then watch him implode, while they DFA someone like Walker Lockett and watch him become a key 8th-inning guy for the Cardinals or whoever.

Yeah, this has an Omar/Wilpon written all over it.



Really surprised to hear he's 32. Thought he was younger.

Frayed Knot Sep 18 2019 02:23 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

This is, perhaps, the biggest reason why MLB is still in this stupid state where the best relievers are reserved for the ninth inning "closer" role and why the stupid save stat still carries so much weight ... yadda yadda ... And so it goes. The NFL has a somewhat similar, though considerably worse, system. Once an NFL player is "franchised" it effectively negates the fact that he otherwise qualifies for FA-gency. To compensate, said player is to be guaranteed a top salary (Top 5, I think) among those at his position. The snag is that, like the set-up/closer roles, a player's position isn't always so neatly defined. So what an NFL team can do is label the player at a position where the top salaries are lower, even if that position wasn't that player's primary spot! And, as usual in the NFL, players who don't think they were labeled correctly can challenge the league's decision by appealing it ... to the league that made it. And I'm pretty sure that 'The Shield' is undefeated in those fights. Back to baseball, one would think that the arbitration board would be a little less beholden to tradition but I guess it's kind of a Supreme Court 'Stare Decisis' kind of deal: allowing past precedent to rule heavily in present and future decisions. Betances & his agent took the position that the label shouldn't matter, but not only did they lose that argument but then the team essentially publicly berated him for daring to try. IIRC, not only did Randy Levine wail about what he labeled as 'a violation of the sanctity of the arbitration process' (whatever the fuck that means) but then added that Betances comparing himself to a closer was as random as he (Levine) calling himself an astronaut.

Edgy MD Sep 18 2019 02:37 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Dellin Betances: 36 career saves. Randy Levine: 0 career space missions. What a jerk.

ashie62 Sep 19 2019 01:03 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Domingo German, suspended for domestic abuse

Edgy MD Sep 19 2019 01:15 PM Re: The MFYs Are Savages

Not so much suspended as "placed on leave," while the investigation takes place. I usually associate actions like this with relievers. It's rare (to my anecdotal observations) to see starting pitchers getting themselves into this kind of trouble. Good for the Yankees in releasing statements supporting the leave and the investigation, considering they are losing a pitcher with a Conesque 18-4 record on the eve of the playoffs. I guess they more or less had to, but still.