The Other Team in Town - MFY News 2019

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Post runs an excerpt of Klapisch's new Yankees book; illustrating what we all knew about Jeter's scumminess but no one was brave enough to say during his career.

While Cashman insists that he liked Jeter as a player, it isn’t entirely clear that he means it. Or maybe it’s fairer to say that there were two Derek Jeters — the happy-go-lucky kid from Kalamazoo who came up at twenty-one and seduced the sport with his cool-hand poise, that gift for the big play on the grand stage, and the thirty-something Jeter who became somewhat hardened by fame. Treated like a civic institution in New York — worshiped by the faithful in their Jumpman-branded garb, teenage fan-girls rocking RE2PECT tank tops, and adored and protected by the tabloid scolds who trolled other stars on Page Six — he somehow remembered every slight and provocation. Jeter grew distant from writers who dared to notice that he couldn’t get around on a good fastball. His initial coldness toward Alex Rodríguez was as stark as it was cruel: there was that graceless moment in 2006 when a routine pop fly somehow fell between them. Jeter, hands on hips, glared daggers at A-Rod, emasculating him on national TV. That Derek Jeter wasn’t fun to general-manage — or to have playing behind you when you pitched. “When Andy [Pettitte] came back from Houston, there was a ground ball up the middle, and Andy’s like, ‘All right, that’s an out,’ ” says Cashman. “Next thing you know, it goes through for a hit and he’s like, ‘Crap, Jetes can’t get to those anymore.’ ”

[Frayed Knot]

Excerpts like this usually go for the more eye-grabbing quotes so I'm sure that the entire book isn't akin to the above passage and the rest in the linked NY Post article. But in what they did publish Jeter takes a pasting the likes of which I can't imagine he's ever before seen in print. Jeter the player gets questioned (as in above), but also as a negotiator and as an owner right down to the honesty of the ownership prospectus of he and his partner presented to MLB and the public.

[MFS62]

This is my favorite part - something we here all knew about for years:

“At the meeting, Derek said, ‘What other shortstop would you want playing here?’ and I started rolling off names,” says Cashman. “I got, like, three names down and Casey said, ‘Stop, this isn’t productive.’

All together now -
Fuck Derek Jeter.

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[LWFS]

Yankee fans ARE right-- minus the gambling acumen and once-in-a-generation skill set, he IS like the Michael Jordan of baseball.

[Edgy MD]

There was a day when it was revolutionary to print anything bad about Pete Rose, and a goddamned sin to print anything bad about Steve Garvey.

Consensus is a bully. That's my big journalism lesson.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx' early season sked:
23 of their first 53 games (essentially 1/3 of the season) come vs the Orioles (13!!), Tigers (3) and Royals (7), teams which averaged 106 losses in 2018

Also, first games vs Red Sox not until May 26
- first games in Fenway not until the end of July (the two games in London in late June are both BRS 'home' games ... I have no fuckin' idea why)
- last BoSox games in the Bronx come in the first week of August
- final Bos/NYY game of the year is Sept 9th (18 NYY games remaining after that)

[Frayed Knot]

Giancarlo: 10-Day IL -- Biceps Strain

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Not for nothing but the MFYs suck this year. Baltimore is barely a MLB team and took 2 of 3 at their home, and the beatdown yesterday should have been much worse

[Lefty Specialist]

Klapisch wouldn't say any of those things when Jetes was still on the Yankees. I hate tell-alls where everybody knew what was going on but said nothing until it was safe years later.

Funny aside: I was in Seattle last week and Wednesday night I was at a business dinner at the Capital Grille downtown. Who walks right past our table but A-Rod. Comes back out of the private back room a few minutes later and is talking with the Maitre d' for a few minutes not 10 feet away. A woman from China was sitting next to me and she wanted to know who this person was as everyone at the table was buzzing and she had no clue. I explained that he was a famous American baseball player; she nodded her head as if to say, 'okay, but I wouldn't know a baseball if it hit me'. Then I added, "...and he's engaged to Jennifer Lopez"- her face lit up and she said, "Oh, I love J-Lo!!!"

[Frayed Knot]

Add Gary Sanchez to the NYY injury parade: strained calf

[Ceetar]

Add Gary Sanchez to the NYY injury parade: strained calf

so cruel of the Yankees to make their hurt players march in a parade.

[Willets Point]

Add Gary Sanchez to the NYY injury parade: strained calf

so cruel of the Yankees to make their hurt players march in a parade.

All part of the aura and mystique of donning the pinstripes.

[Frayed Knot]

George thought it built character.
In fact, both Yanqui Georges did: Steinbrenner and Costanza

[Fman99]

Add Gary Sanchez to the NYY injury parade: strained calf

so cruel of the Yankees to make their hurt players march in a parade.

I lol'd

[G-Fafif]

Kendrys Morales, one of those fucking 2015 Royals, is now a fucking 2019 MFY.

[41Forever]

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/269 ... es-fat-lip

Brett Gardner, in an 0-19 stretch, threw his batting helmet against the wall in frustration. But it bounced right back, hitting him in the face and opening a wound that required six stitches to close. Yankee magic!

[MFS62]

Brett Gardner, in an 0-19 stretch, threw his batting helmet against the wall in frustration. But it bounced right back, hitting him in the face and opening a wound that required six stitches to close. Yankee magic!

Magic would have been the wound closing and healing by itself.
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