MF the MFYs 2021 Thread

[Frayed Knot]

The thing about the Yanqui announcers is that, because the team has reached the vaccinated requirement, they ARE allowed to travel with the club but, so far, the corporate suits that

control them haven't given the go-ahead. Money is thought to be reason for keeping them locked in the Bronx but of course no one will say that.



GKR, plus Howie & Wayne, don't have that same option because NYM vax are lagging behind (and Luis is at the moment unwilling to hog-tie the stragglers and vaccinate them himself).

[bmfc1]

ESPN is pushing the BOS-NYY games on Thursday and Sunday for the rivalry but not mentioning that one team is in 1st place and the other is in 4th place.

[nymr83]

Yankees/Red Sox postponed so as to avoid the diseased Yankee organization from spreading germs

[bmfc1]

It's hard to believe that a guy with knee tattoos could act this way:

[Benjamin Grimm]

That looks like me trying to get my cat to eat a pill.

[Frayed Knot]

The Yanquis and their stadium "security" tolerated, if not encouraged*, this kind of behavior for years and are now, belatedly, trying to reign it in.









* not officially encouraged as far as on-field stuff goes but allowed all sorts of borderline criminal shit in the stands.

The wife of former Red Sox C Jason Varitek claims that a MFY fan spit on her 9 y/o daughter at a game last weekend

[G-Fafif]

Mike Pagliarulo, who needed to go to Minnesota to know postseason, on the legendary welcome he received in the Bronx.

I was at the ceremony where you were inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame, congrats on that! You told a great story about your best day in the Majors. Could you repeat that for our readers? Bill Madden had asked that question in the clubhouse when I came back for Old Timers Day after I was done playing. I told him it was in 1984 and I had just gotten called up. I went to the ballpark on a Sunday morning and I couldn't find a parking space. It was 9:30 in the morning with nowhere to park. Turns out it was Old Timers Day and I didn't realize it. So, I walk down the tunnel and open the doors and I see all of these great old timers in Yankees uniforms. The greatest players to ever wear a Yankees uniform who were still alive were in this locker room. There's not enough words to describe what I saw. They were all laughing and having a great time. My locker was down in the back right corner, so I walk over there and Joe DiMaggio was sitting in my seat! I walked up behind him and was actually afraid to go to my locker. I introduced myself and he said, “Hey Pags, how are you doing?” I said to myself, “Oh my God, Joe DiMaggio knows my name?” He told me he liked the way I played and to keep up the hard work. I just couldn't believe that I was talking to Joe DiMaggio and he was in my locker. Finally I said, “Do you mind if I get my shoes out of here?” He said, “Help yourself kid, it's your locker.” I always felt bad for him though because he was never alone. He always had a crowd around him. I'm imagining just how crazy that was to have guys dating back to the 1930s there in that room. How incredible. It was something else. So then, I was getting some stuff out of my locker and all of a sudden the doors opened and it got real quiet. It was like Jesus had stepped into the locker room. Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin walked in. Mickey commands that much respect. He pointed in my direction and it was so quiet, I heard him say to Billy, “Hey, is that the kid over there?” I turn to Donnie [Mattingly] and said, “Hey, I think he's pointing at you.” Donnie said, “He ain't pointing at me, he's pointing at you!” Joe DiMaggio said, “What did you do, kid?” Now he starts walking at me. All these great players are all staring at me and the room is dead quiet. Mickey and Billy are walking towards me and I'm sweating. I must have been white as a ghost. I'm thinking, “Did I break a rule or do something wrong in the clubhouse?” Here comes Mickey Mantle and he's got this shit-eatin' grin on his face. He grabs me by the back of the neck and pulls me across the locker room and into the training room. Billy was right with him. Everyone was watching this. Then he starts punching me in the training room like I'm a punching bag. I don't dare hit him back, so I'm just trying to block the punches. Then he just gives me a slap and says, “Hey kid, I love the way you play. Here's my number; you need anything, you call. Welcome to the family.” Then Billy Martin just says, “Hi, I'm Billy Martin.” Like I don't know. I think I said my name back, who knows. They both left and I had the biggest smile on my face. The thing of it is that when I walked out of the training room, all of the old timers started talking to me. It was like I had Mickey's approval. They must have been great fighters back then, because Hank Bauer came up and started hitting me too. Then later I became Hank Bauer and Moose Skowron's driver. I would take them to the field on Old Timers Day every year. Now, I don't remember if we won or lost or how I did that day, but that was easily my best day in the Major Leagues.

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