All-Season MFY IGT

[Guest seawolf17]

My "research" above is pretty unscientific. I basically ran down the espn.com play-by-play of every Yankees loss. I didn't look at any wins, and I may have missed a loss or two. So it's far from exhaustive.

[Guest MFS62]

This really wasn't "in game", but...
After the 2-0 win, I went into the kitchen. My wife (its her birthday, BTW) always keeps that radio tuned to WCBS. The Yankee pre-game show was on. Jon Sterling was giving his "This day in Yankee history" story. Didn't clearly catch the year, but I think he said 1996.

In that game the winning pitcher was Kenny Rodgers (his ninth win of the year) and Darryl Strawberry hit three home runs for the Yanks, becoming only the sixth player to hit three homers in a game in each major league.

Man that hurt.

Later

[Guest Frayed Knot]

First things first:
a) I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I don't believe that the umps or league slant things towards the Yanx
b) today's game was one-sided enough where it's doubtful that a play or two would have made a difference in the outcome

BUT

- Sheffield did the same thing that Cameron did the other day: dropped the ball on the transfer after a catch in RF. In fact, his was worse in that it went from glove to ground w/o ever touching his hand. And you probably know where I'm going with this ... it was NOT ruled a drop.
Like I said last week; I've never seen that called before.

- Matsui forgets the # of outs after catching a fly in LF w/1out and the bases loaded. The runner from 3rd tagged and scored (he would have anyway) but while Hidecki is looking for a kid to toss the ball to in the stands, the runner from 2nd takes off for 3rd only to be thrown out (and he looked safe btw) when Matsui wakes up to the situation.
And I'm sitting there thinking: only the Yanx could get a DP not just despite screwing up but because they screwed up.
It brought back bad memories of the times they got extra outs during the post-season - once vs the Mets and once against Oakland - as a result of missing cut-off men.

It's enough to drive one a bit loopy.

End of rant.

[Guest metirish]

Pavano might not be back any time soon, instead he is going to see Dr. Andrews, he's 4 and 5 so I don't know why MFY fans were getting all excited about him anyway.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Village Voice, working harder on our metaphors than any paper out there.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Did you see the crap Gayrod pulled tonight? With one out, Sheffield on first, Gayrod hits a high fly to deep right that Dye catches at the fence. Sheff is already around second, and Arod is all the way past first when Dye fires the ball in. Gayrod turns to see the throw coming toward first, and Sheff will be out, so he turns his back and stands there so the ball hits him on the fly and allows Sheff to return safely.

I suppose its a clever play but Gayrod has to be the world's worst actor. The umps didn't see it, the replay showed what a wussy he is tho.

I hate that guy and the MFYs. They won.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

I was just about to write about that ... there's no doubt that he saw the throw coming and allowed it to hit him.
Unfrickinbelievable!


Oh, and by the way, Jeter did the drop-the-pop on the transfer play - and again, much more blatant than Cammy's from last week - and he didn't get flagged for it either.
Jim Kaat was the only one to mention that that's supposed to be a non-catch by the rules, but that "you never see that called anymore".
Well, almost never Kitty.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I remember it called once back in the day. Mazzilli in center for the Mets, I think.

[Guest Willets Point]

Yankee fan falls from Upper Deck, saved by net.

[Guest seawolf17]

They're saying he jumped, which makes him even stupider. I hope they throw his ass in jail for a long, long, long time.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That doesn't happen too often. These guys have a way of getting the harshest punishment. One, because, of all ballpark behaviors worth discouraging, leaping into a net over a crowd like you're an intoxicated member of the Flying Fandangoes is really close to the top. Two, because players' families often sit under that net and the players demand harsh penalties.

[Guest KC]

They broke the cardinal sin of broadcasting by giving the assclown way too
much air time.

[Guest metirish]

What a nucklehead, still nothing silly like jail time, great picture though.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Turns out that he's 18, so I wonder if the cops will investigate if he was served.

And, if there was a law against saying stupid things, it would be off to Rikers for

]"That was the only exciting thing that happened today," Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said after Chicago's 2-1 victory.

Thanks for (1) reingorcing the juvenile notion that reckless endangerment is exciting and justified by boredom, and (2) reinforcing the baseball-ignorant notion that that pitching duels are boring.

[Guest silverdsl]

Edgy DC wrote: Thanks for (1) reingorcing the juvenile notion that reckless endangerment is exciting and justified by boredom, and (2) reinforcing the baseball-ignorant notion that that pitching duels are boring.

Agreed. Hard to believe that Steinbrenner thought that asshat was "exciting." Steinbrenner should have ended his comments after he was done ripping Torre. I happen to love pitching duels and think they're way more exciting than a blowout but I guess that's just me.

Back to the asshat, he had to be under the influence of something because no sober person could be that stupid - right?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

silverdsl wrote: Back to the asshat, he had to be under the influence of something because no sober person could be that stupid - right?

The odds are that he was drunk or high.

Although there are intensely stupid people in this world, so I wouldn't totally rule that out.

[Guest Willets Point]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Although there are intensely stupid people in this world, so I wouldn't totally rule that out.

Remember, he's a Yankee fan - presumably even when he's sober.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, I'd say that, but it's hard to argue that I haven't seen behavior that asinine at Shea.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

Yanx & ChiSox tied at 1 at the end of 6 during what should be a mismatch of Freddie Garcia vs Aaron Small.

The NYY continue to get at least as good if not better pitching out of the Chacon/Small/Leiter trio as they ever did out of Wright/Brown/Pavano.
You keep thinking this is going to blow up on them eventually (Scott Proctor starts tomorrow) but a few more injuries and they might just sail into the playoffs.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

Pale Hose took a 1-run lead off Rivera in the 10th on a 1-out Jose Uribe triple and an infield grounder (close play) which followed a failed (fouled off) squeeze play.

Dustin Hermansen comes on to close them out in the bottom: a 1-out Tino walk was stranded. Jeter made the next to last out of the game w/the tying run on (so this one just misses getting added to our 'list') before Cano flied to the fence in CF.

2-1 ChiSox is your final.
Low scoring series.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Skanks lose in the 10th 2-1.

You must really pitch good and hit like crap to record back-to-back 2-1 wins over the MFYs.

[Guest Rotblatt]

I was pissed that they walked Tino. Entering the bottom of the tenth, I was really hoping that Jeter would get to make the last out again. Instead, he made the NEXT to last out by K'ing.

Of course, having the new golden boy Cano end the game with the tying run on is pretty satisfying too . . .

[Guest metirish]

Pavano likely out for season and the fan gets arrested..

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spyside0811,0,5104054.story?coll=ny-sports-headlines

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spfan0811,0,6567609.story?coll=ny-sports-headlines

[Guest seawolf17]

="Frayed Knot"]Jeter made the next to last out of the game w/the tying run on (so this one just misses getting added to our 'list')

Nah, that one counts. Any last-inning potential game-changing AB counts, in my mind.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Letterman's Top Ten about the idiot who jumped -


Top Ten Things Going Through This Guy's Mind At This Moment

10. "Thought the third base coach was giving me the 'jump' sign"

9. "Will I get to watch the end of the game in my jail cell?"

8. "Figured I'd beat the traffic"

7. "If I had a girlfriend, she'd be impressed"

6. "I'm sure Steinbrenner won't mind"

5. "If Marv Albert uses this, I hope he adds a comical 'bong!'"

4. "Giambi said that stuff he gave me would make me fly"

3. "I hope they do some funny jokes about this on Leno!"

2. "I wonder if the newspaper will refer to me as a 'moron' or an 'idiot'"

1. "If a drunken stooge can't disgrace himself at sporting events, then the terrorists have won"

[Guest metirish]

]. "If a drunken stooge can't disgrace himself at sporting events, then the terrorists have won"

Love it, great line.

[Guest Willets Point]

Yanks win and gain a half-game on the idle Bosox and a game on the Angels in the Wild Card. At least Cleveland is winning to keep the Yanks in the 3d for the Wild Card.

At some point in the coming weeks someone needs to figure out the magic number for what it would take for the Yankees to be eliminated from playoff contention, a date that will forever be known as VY Day. Not that that is going to happen, because unfortuntately the Yankees will go on an unprecedented win streak, claim the AL East by a healthy margain and go 11-0 in the postseason, but it's nice to think about.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

A Red Sox loss in Detroit earlier today gave the Yankees a chance to make up some ground, but an eighth inning rally by the Devil Rays leads to a 7-6 Yankee loss.

The Devil Rays scored were able to rally with the help of the Yankees. Aubrey Huff led off the eighth inning with a routine ground ball to Yankee second baseman, Robinson Cano. Cano threw it away for a 2 base error. A single by Jonny Gomes moved Huff to third. Alex Gonzalez then hit a ground rule double to tie the game at 6. The Devil Rays took the lead for good on a wild pitch by Sturtze that allowed Gomes to score from third base.

Not only did the Yankees lose, they self destructed. Many a Yankee fan has a stomach ache tonight.

[Guest Frayed Knot]

What's funny (to me anyway) is the beating that Torre's been taking on talk radio the last 2 nights. Like Willie a week or so back, when the pen fails the mgr is accused from all sides of "misusing" it and would be no matter what his moves.
- When Mariano stumbled it's because Joe's been overusing him
- When someone else does it's because he used "lesser" relievers and not Mariano
- and, as always, fans want the 3 or 4 guys in the back of the pen never to enter a game w/o at least a 16 run lead and less than 4 outs to go. Embree, Proctor, Felix Rodriguez are the whipping boys at the moment and the bloom is def off the Tanyon Sturtze rose as well these days.

My fave comment so far was the caller who stuttering that;
'Torre's been clueless since ... (has to think for a moment as to when the last WS win was) ... '2001!!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I gave up on the Rays winning tonight when after Crawford tripled, he was picked off third on a missed safety squeeze. Something stupid like that happens almost every time the MFYs win, but the Rays have their number this year. They're 9-4 against them and 39-69 v. everyone else.