All-Season MFY IGT

[Guest OlerudOwned]

seawolf17 wrote: I don't like the Yanks

[Guest Elster88]

I think they should go into the Boston series with the Yankees up two games, and then Boston could sweep the three game series the way they swept the last four last year. Twist the knife as you drive it in.

[Guest Willets Point]

I hate baseball.

This season will forever go down in Yankee lore and will forever be shoved down the rest of baseball fan's throats.

[Guest Elster88]

You may hate baseball, but I like toast-ejecting avatars.

[Guest cooby]

Al Leiter-"Left handed bullpen specialist"

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Come in, walk batter, leave game


And we were concerned that Boston got Stanton?

[Guest Rotblatt]

Red Sox win and the MFY are now tied for first!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

BEER FOR ALL.
Red Sox 5
MFYs 3

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Strap in. Sheff 3r-HR; Manny 2r-HR in the 1st.

Sterling';s call of Manny's HR:

"Deep to left, it is... a foul ball!

Or fair.

A 2-run homer"

[Guest MFS62]

Oops, its 6-2 Yanks.
Matsui just homered.
Everybody is getting good swings at Wakefield's knuckleball, which must not be knuckling.

Later

[Guest Valadius]

I wonder how old Sal is doing?

[Guest MFS62]

A-Rat with a pile-it-on homer. 7-2 in the fifth.
And Wakefield is still in the game.
Taking one for the team to save the bullpen for tomorrow.
Or does Terry think he might find the "feel" for his knuckler?

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Stanton on.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

]Sterling's call of Manny's HR: "Deep to left, it is... a foul ball! Or fair. A 2-run homer"

Most of the time people get on Sterling for his over-the-top style and goofy expressions, but it's stunning how many calls he's getting wrong these days. It's like his eye-sight is going or something. He of course then compounds the problem by going into whatever 'check-this-out' call he's got lined up first rather than actually waiting to see if it's correct.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Sox look pretty ugly today. Don't look particularly sharp on defense, once they got down, they started swinging early against RJ and Wakefield couldn't keep the ball down.

Come on, Sox, let's get it going.

[Guest MFS62]

Ex-Met Lenny DiNardo pitches a scoreless inning.

Later

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Frayed Knot wrote: ]Sterling's call of Manny's HR: "Deep to left, it is... a foul ball! Or fair. A 2-run homer" Most of the time people get on Sterling for his over-the-top style and goofy expressions, but it's stunning how many calls he's getting wrong these days. It's like his eye-sight is going or something. He of course then compounds the problem by going into whatever 'check-this-out' call he's got lined up first rather than actually waiting to see if it's correct.

Mike and The Mad Dog were talking about this the other day, where its not that John is getting worse, its that listeners are paying more attention now that the Yankees are in the throes of a "down to the final day" race for the first time since, probably 1995 and for the most part you are watching the Post Season games

So John Sterling's errors are more magnified now then they were in the past

Steve

[Guest Frayed Knot]

I'm aware of the increased scrutiny - and the fact that he now has to handle all 9 innings of play-by-play may also be a factor - but I do think he's getting worse too.

His "style" hasn't changed much over the years (even if he is hot-dogging it a bit more these days). His 'Yankees Win, Yankess Win' call has the same cadence as his 'Islander Goal, Islander Goal' chant did back in the '70s when he was calling their games on radio. Maybe it's that he's letting the fame of calling NYY games go to his head and it's causing him to want to make the call "in synch" or "in character" rather than get it right.

Let's put it this way; I listen to Gary & Howie a lot more than Sterling and I doubt I've heard either of them miss as many as 2 in a year. sterling must have missed 15 this summer alone. And yeah I only know of some of them because of M&MD but still ...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rivera on to protect a four-run lead.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Game.

It strikes me that none of this would matter for the Yankees if Jeter could hit in the clutch.

[Guest Rotblatt]

MFY win the game and the American League East.

Sox are guaranteed at least a one-game playoff against Cleveland. If they win tomorrow, they'll win the wild card.

Torre's crying like a little bitch.

Now that the Yankees have clinched, I want Boston to lose. I'd rather see Cleveland in the playoffs.

This sucks. I hope they go three and out.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Edgy DC wrote: Game. It strikes me that none of this would matter for the Yankees if Jeter could hit in the clutch.

This pretty much clinches the AL MVP for A-Rat

And this might FINALLY end all that bull crap about him not being clutch, how MFY Fans would want Jeter up instead of ARod, ect

Okay, maybe a great WS would (and a WS championship) but this should put all that to rest and MFY Fans should reconigze that the best SS in the game, maybe the best player, period in the game, is playing 3B for them

Just think of having him and Wright on the same side of the INF...

Well, hopefully as Wright improves we can have some serious "Who would you rather have at third, a young-mid career David Wright, or a mid career-aging ARod" debating

Steve

[Guest metirish]

The MFY's are pissed at Showalter for pulling his big bats early in the game yesterday,A-Rod talks about a code of honor, Cashman though keeps it real and blames his own team for not winning more...

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/4928338

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

]A-Rod talks about a code of honor,

Slappy has the right to talk about a code of honor?

[Guest Rotblatt]

]Slappy has the right to talk about a code of honor?

Yeah, and why didn't Torre start Mussina yesterday instead of Wright?

Or are the Yankees exempt from following the code of honor?

[Guest Willets Point]

A-Rod's latest deal.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: The MFY's are pissed at Showalter for pulling his big bats early in the game yesterday,A-Rod talks about a code of honor, Cashman though keeps it real and blames his own team for not winning more...

I mentioned this in the other thread, at least as far as how I heard the NYY radio booth talking about it. Apparently they didn't stop all game and the TV guys were at least as bad. Funny how the Yanx didn't need to play everyone: Mussina pulled for Wright; back-of-the-pen relivers used not Small; Jeter pulled with a boo-boo; but Showalter's somehow responsible for making them fly cross-country.
If it's such a big deal then maybe they shouldn't have been celebrating on Saturday. And here's the good part; if they wind up losing Game 5 to Anaheim (on the road) you just know George is going to go off about how his team wasn't "focused" on Sunday and that Joe and the coaches are responsible for this breakdown, etc. George likes to blame little stuff like that.

Francesa, to his credit, used the opening of his show today to tee off on the whole lot of them.

[Guest Centerfield]

Who did Francesa tee off on? The media guys? Or the MFY's for not taking the game seriously?

[Guest MFS62]

He teed off directly on Torre.
He said Torre had absolutely no right to complain about Showalter "not trying to win it" when Joe didn't put his best starter out there to try to win it himself.
Mike also pounded the Yank announcers for licking up and running with that party line.

Later

[Guest Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: Who did Francesa tee off on? The media guys? Or the MFY's for not taking the game seriously?

Mostly the booth guys: Sterling & Suzyn on radio and Kaye & Singleton on TV.
He didn't kill the team for the way it played so much as he pointed out that by playing it the way they did makes complaining about the Rangers off limits and therefore dismissed the comments from Torre & A-Rod plus the handful of callers who wanted to jump on Buck.

[Guest Elster88]

Sounds like he was basically ripping them for being hypocrites. Good job, Mike. He and Russo rip on the Yanx booth all the time, especially Kay.