F the MFYs - 2022 Thread

[MFS62]

A Court has just ordered the unsealing of MLB's letter to the MFYS concerning sign stealing.

It seems they might have been guilty of some of their own, while crying :foul" at Houston.

https://www.audacy.com/971theticket/sports/judge-orders-mlbs-sign-stealing-letter-to-yankees-unsealed?fbclid=IwAR3jtbqW5DQg-_MFE-rKG7vUQ4ZfFh7YiPJipEobSwWgLiAzbIlWarJdD-khttps://www.audacy.com/971theticket/sports/judge-orders-mlbs-sign-stealing-letter-to-yankees-unsealed?fbclid=IwAR3jtbqW5DQg-_MFE-rKG7vUQ4ZfFh7YiPJipEobSwWgLiAzbIlWarJdD-k



This could get interesting.



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[kcmets]

Rat bastards.

[MFS62]

Now here's something you want to add to your bobblehead collection - NOT!



https://www.audacy.com/wfan/sports/yankees/yankees-john-sterling-and-suzyn-waldman-bobblehead-night?utm_campaign=www.audacy.com%252Fwfan&utm_content=1648227253&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=WFAN-AM&fbclid=IwAR2guASLS06QN9sVy_mKoISW91IHPPhFmnQMn960PockpmBV8r5uOBE-Mwghttps://www.audacy.com/wfan/sports/yankees/yankees-john-sterling-and-suzyn-waldman-bobblehead-night?utm_campaign=www.audacy.com%252Fwfan&utm_content=1648227253&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=WFAN-AM&fbclid=IwAR2guASLS06QN9sVy_mKoISW91IHPPhFmnQMn960PockpmBV8r5uOBE-Mwg



They talk?

"Jawn, look what's up on the shelf in George's box"



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[Willets Point]

Bryan Hoch really went to the dark side, huh?

[kcmets]

Willets Point wrote: Bryan Hoch really went to the dark side, huh?

I'm happy for him career-wise, have to admit it saddens me as well.

Most (if not all) of us wouldn't know each other if not for The Hochster.

[Willets Point]

Yeah. It just seem weird that he bled orange & blue and now he's excited about Yankees announcer bobbleheads. Of course, he may be doing what he needs to do for a check, which is fine.

[stevejrogers]

I'm more saddened that he allowed his daughter to be seduced by The Dark Side!

[Frayed Knot]

They talk?

[Willets Point]

"Jawn, look what's up on the shelf in George's box"

I didn't know that Suzyn was from Philadelphia.

[stevejrogers]

They talk?


What would be great is if the Sterling bobble talked in blown calls!!



IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS .... caught by the second baseman



It would be far more authentic that way.

Frayed Knot wrote:

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: What would be great is if the Sterling bobble talked in blown calls!! IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS .... caught by the second baseman It would be far more authentic that way.

Funny. I heard Phil Rizzuto do that on his first ever game as an MFY broadcaster. (Except he said "Way back, back ...")

LOL!



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[Edgy MD]

Aaron Judge is apparently pulling a Conforto — turning down a contract extension and playing out his walk year.

[seawolf17]

Top of the first vs Gerrit Cole: walk, homer, single, double, 3-0 Sox. LOLOL

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Castro in with the bases loaded, 2 out in the 6th, Boston up 4-3, facing Vasquez

[Frayed Knot]

So MFY announcer Paul O'Neill is reportedly in the no-vaxx camp and therefore was not part of the booth for their opening series vs Boston and only joined the telecast of the series vs Toronto

via remote from his home in Ohio whilst Cone & Kay were in situ. Not that anyone in MFY-land is actually saying that's the reason but their excuse of "family reasons" likely doesn't explain why

he's working the games in the first place if that's the only issue.

[MFS62]

I wonder when Paul is going to realize that all those steroids he took as an MFY aren't going to protect him against COCID.



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[Frayed Knot]

The gift that never, EVER stops giving.

This variation of the theme is from last night's 8th inning.



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Love Pa Pinstripe

[bmfc1]

The MFY's walked it off today and then their fans celebrated by throwing garbage at the CLE OFers.

[Frayed Knot]

If only it could have been foreseen that years (decades?) of being indulged by stadium security -- and, by extension, NYY mgmt -- could lead to a sense of entitlement from the self-proclaimed 'Bleacher Creatures'.

[nymr83]

it is disgusting. "Stadium Security" is a joke. NYPD should be out there making arrests - we have the nationally televised video of assaults being committed on Cleveland players.

[nymr83]

A Court has just ordered the unsealing of MLB's letter to the MFYS concerning sign stealing. It seems they might have been guilty of some of their own, while crying :foul" at Houston. https://www.audacy.com/971theticket/sports/judge-orders-mlbs-sign-stealing-letter-to-yankees-unsealed?fbclid=IwAR3jtbqW5DQg-_MFE-rKG7vUQ4ZfFh7YiPJipEobSwWgLiAzbIlWarJdD-khttps://www.audacy.com/971theticket/sports/judge-orders-mlbs-sign-stealing-letter-to-yankees-unsealed?fbclid=IwAR3jtbqW5DQg-_MFE-rKG7vUQ4ZfFh7YiPJipEobSwWgLiAzbIlWarJdD-k This could get interesting. Later

The Yankees letter confirmed what we knew - the Yankees are cheating bastards. They are also tattle-tales.



Manfred's letter was great, like a parent talking to a child who did something wrong and tried to blame their siblings. 'Dear Brian - you tried ratting on the Red Sox. That is between me and them. Now lets talk about what YOU did'

[Edgy MD]

Interesting that SNY was the first outlet to get their hands on the letter and openly report on its contents.



I guess that means the next shoe to drop will be orange and blue.

[Edgy MD]

Texas visiting the Yankees in the Bronx, and the linescore might give you the idea that Nolan Ryan is pitching.

[Edgy MD]

Knable tying more, to get the Mets in the ninth

[vtmet7]

Willets Point wrote: Yeah. It just seem weird that he bled orange & blue and now he's excited about Yankees ....

one of the things that I have wondered over the years is: how many "Yankeees fans" were Mets fans that hopped on the Yankees bandwagon over the decades?



not just Hoch...but...



I remember as a kid getting excited over the Mets quest for the 1969 World Series through the 1973 World Series (which I think we might have had a chance to win with today's challenge rules)...and also getting excited when the Mets hype behind the prospects of Strawberry, Gooden, Hubie Brooks, Mookie Wilson, etc with the promise of snapping out of the mess that M Donald Grant created...and then Frank Cashen and Davey Johnson transforming the hype into reality...and then getting excited by offense that the 1996 Mets generated behind Hundley, Gilkey, Lance Johnson, etc...the pursuit of Leiter and Piazza, which eventually led to the 2000 World Series...and then the Jose Reyes, David Wright, Beltran, Delgado era that led up to the 2006 World Series birth...



what I'm getting at...during each of those times that the Mets had a few good seasons in them, there were a lot of excited Mets fans all over...and then as the team would go back to the abyss, fans would disappear while the Yanks spent money and the Mets floundered...



so where did those fans go when the Mets were out of the limelight? did they stop watching baseball, other than quietly in their house ashamed to where their Mets caps, etc? Or did they turn to the darkside?

[Edgy MD]

More likely, they maintained their support at a lower level.



The difference between a crank going to 10 games a year vs. three games a year may seem like not much of a big deal to the fan. As far as he or she is concerned, she or he is still repping, refusing to die, supporting the boys.



As far as the team is concerned, that's something like a 70% loss of stadium revenue.

[Willets Point]

I read a book called Soccernomics and one of the things they tested was the conventional wisdom that the largest demographic of fans were the diehards who supported the same football club their entire lives. They found in reality that the vast majority of fans attending games and watching on tv changed their allegiance at least once over the course of their lifetimes. I suspect the same holds true for American sports fans. And in a multi-team city like New York there is a sizable block of people who root for all of their hometown teams.

[vtmet7]

Willets Point wrote: I read a book called Soccernomics and one of the things they tested was the conventional wisdom that the largest demographic of fans were the diehards who supported the same football club their entire lives. They found in reality that the vast majority of fans attending games and watching on tv changed their allegiance at least once over the course of their lifetimes. I suspect the same holds true for American sports fans. And in a multi-team city like New York there is a sizable block of people who root for all of their hometown teams.

good points...



in baseball, my "true" allegiance has always been with the Mets, but I've always had a secondary team...when Willie Mays was a Giant, it was the Giants with Mays/McCovey....that ended once Mays became a Met...when the Indians had a young team in the early 90's, with the speedy Kenny Lofton, I also followed the Indians until they couldn't afford to keep their players...when a Met would go somewhere other than the NL East or the Yankees/Sox, I would follow them...currently my secondary team is the Guardians since the trade of shortstops...



in other sports, which nowadays, I almost never watch anything other than baseball, it has varied over the years... I was a Cowboys/Bills fan as a kid in football, losing interest after the Aikman & Emmitt Smith era, casually watching the Patriots/Packers mostly because I live in New England now and my son is a huge Green Bay fan...but can't really say that I've watched football in several years...in basketball, I was a NY Nets fan when they had Doctor J in the ABA, and then became a 76'ers fan after the ABA folded and then a Suns fan for awhile but haven't watched in years...



as far as the NY thing...as much as I have followed the Mets over my lifetime, I can't imagine watching the Yankees, Jets, Giants, Knicks, etc...

[MFS62]

When the Brooklyn Dodgers left town, I could not bring myself to root for the team from the Bronx. My best friend in high school rooted for the Pirates and I followed them through that sweet 1960 World Series victory over the MFYs. Then, there were rumors that the Reds were going to move to New York bringing National League baseball back here, so I rooted for them, not knowing that they would reach the World Series in 1961.

But as soon as the Mets were born, I followed them, from the expansion draft to today.



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