AP MFY IGT - 2006

[Elster88]

Setting up 2006.

Is Womack still on that team? His eyebrows scare me.

[MFS62]

I think he is, but he's been tougher to find than Waldo.
EDIT
Just checked their 2006 roster. He's not shown. (and now that I was on a Yankee site, I feel dirty).
You owe me.

Later

[Guest sharpie]

He's on the Reds, believe he was dealt right after the end of the '05 season.

[seawolf17]

Funny story: Yankee fan in my office goes down to Miami Beach for a long weekend with his wife. Driving around, they come across a white Porsche convertible driven by none other than Alex Rodriguez, who was apparently taking his time rejoining the Yanks after the USA got eliminated. They stalked him for a few blocks, then parked near him. He got out with two friends and went into a Hooters; my friend approached him, said hello, and got a nice A-Rod autograph... on a Hooter's menu. Now that's an original autograph.

[MFS62]

Chipper Jones got more from Hooters than A-Rod did.

Later

[Guest sharpie]

Hooters: The place for especially hateable third basemen/other position guys who were featured on the losing Team USA.

[Elster88]

Did ARod really play third for Team USA? So letting Jeter keep short extends for every baseball team in the entire world?

I hope we never have to play a from another world team for the rights to our planet.

[Guest sharpie]

MFYs lose 15-2 to the Tiggers. Mike Mussina gives up 10 runs in 4 innings including 4 home runs.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Quote prediction: "The important thing was that I got my work in."

[metirish]

BREAKING NEWS.........

] Book: Sheff injected steroids BY KEN DAVIDOFF Newsday Staff Writer March 22, 2006, 2:44 PM EST "Game of Shadows," the explosive new book that puts together a damning dossier on Barry Bonds' steroid usage, also offers some new details of Gary Sheffield's relationship with the slugger and performance-enhancing drugs. Specifically, Sheffield -- who reportedly testified to the BALCO grand jury in December 2003 that he unknowingly used steroids -- took injectable testosterone and human growth hormone in January 2002, according to the book, written by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. And the Yankees' rightfielder tried to maintain a relationship with Bonds' infamous trainer Greg Anderson, even after Bonds and Sheffield had a falling out. Newsday obtained a copy of the book, which will be sold in bookstores beginning tomorrow. In Sheffield's reported testimony, and a subsequent interview with Sports Illustrated, he spoke of using only "The Clear" and "The Cream," the former an oral drug, the latter applied by rubbing on his knees. Those drugs made an "unknowing" defense slightly more feasible, unlike injectable testosterone and HGH, which is also administered through a subcutaneous injection. Sheffield and Bonds worked out together in the offseasons following 2001 and 2002, and Bonds introduced Sheffield to Anderson. It was a drug calendar kept by Anderson, according to the book, that documented Sheffield's use of HGH and testosterone. When Bonds and Sheffield cut off communication that second offseason, due to several arguments, Sheffield attempted to obtain The Cream and The Clear through Anderson, the book reports. But Bonds ordered Anderson not to speak with Sheffield, and he told people in his entourage that he had offered BALCO head Victor Conte $100,000 if he refused to give Sheffield any more drugs. Jason Giambi's picture is on the book's cover, but he gets off relatively easy, as most of the details of his relationship with Bonds and BALCO had been publicized through the previous reporting of his grand jury testimony. The book does report that BALCO shipped its drugs -- via Federal Express -- to Giambi's homes in New York and Las Vegas and even his parents' home in Southern California.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Now there's a shocker.

[Guest silverdsl]

I may be influenced by the fact that I think Sheffield is an asshat but I find it hard to believe that Sheffield didn't know what was in The Cream and The Clear, especially if it's true that he was knowingly injecting himself with other performance enhancers previously. Sheffield (and any other player in MLB) could still be using HGH to this day since it can't be detected under MLB's current testing.

[Vic Sage]

i wonder... if you shoot an asshat with a bullet of cool, what do you get?
Just another asshole, i guess.

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Y'all have probably seen these MFY-hater caps and posted about them in some thread I don't read. If not.....



http://www.yankeeshater.com/index.shtml

[Elster88]

I hope no Met fan ever wears that hat.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I like how Bonds describes how Greg Anderson's signature contribution to Bonds' training was to tell him when he needed to eat more broccoli.

[Willets Point]

Freakin' hillarious

[Guest Edgy DC]

The greatest Yankee scapegoat to date remains Ed Whitson.

[Willets Point]

They left out Chuck Knoblauch as well.

[Guest GYC]

A-Rod and Giambi already off to a great defensive start.

[Guest Rotblatt]

GYC wrote: A-Rod and Giambi already off to a great defensive start.

Yeah, that was an ugly play all around.

I have a hard time listening to the YES douchebags.

Chavez at the plate, "Not to say that Chavez isn't a good fielder, but A-Rod had a good year with the glove last year. It's just hard to wrest a gold glove away from a guy who's won it 5 years in a row."

The rating for this shit should be R (SC).

Yankees up 3-0 as Zito can't locate his pitches at all. 4 walks and 3 singles given up by him, although he has K'ed 3 batters, including a "lucky" K of Sheffield with the bases loaded.

A-Rod with another meaningless grand slam.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Zito suxxxx.

[Guest SI Metman]

Zito Trade Value -----------

[nymr83]

lets get him for Iriki while his value is at its lowest.

[Frayed Knot]

A-Rod GS in a NYY blowout = meaningless stat padding
Jeter GS on opening day = a flair for the BIG moment and a display of clutch leadership


I like how the TV crew makes the Cano bunt out to be the big play of a 7-run inning. Yeah, there were about 11 BBs in that inning and about 3 other hits plus a Salami (all w/no outs) - but it was the bunt (which the A's screwed up) which was the REAL big play.
Two reasons for this IMO:
- Baseball media types LOVE small-ball and are constantly trumpeting it as a lost art rather than a relic of a bygone era
- MFY types are convinced the reason they haven't won in 5 years due to lack of small-ball play so it falls to the YES mouthpieces to sell that idea

[metirish]

Yeah but you love me...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Cano is also a homegrowner, and worth selling. They do their job right and he's Jeter 2.0.

No matter how much they downplay A-Rod, his numbers will speak for themselves.

[MFS62]

Do the Mets need another starting pitcher? - maybe
Will the Mets get another starting pitcher? - maybe
Do I want the Mets to get Barry Zito - definitely not!!

I watched the Yankee game last night.
He has lost any "stuff" he may have had.
His fastball topped out at 83 MPH!!
His curve was a slow as 69 MPH
Most of his pitches were in the 70's.

That's senior beer league stuff.
He made Jamie Moyer look like Sandy Koufax.

He looked like he's maybe worth Endy Chavez in a trade.
Certainly nothing more.

Later

[Guest Rotblatt]

RJ did look pretty mediocre yesterday.

I own him in 2 leagues, but you know what? It STILL makes me happy to see that.

[Guest Rotblatt]

The Yankees lost, 5-4, as former Met Scutaro singled over Matsui's head to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.

A-Rod went 2-5, but he struck out twice in key spots, and got thrown out trying to stretch one of his singles into a double.

Mussina pitched well and looked pretty good in the first few innings I saw--7 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 2 HR .