AP MFY IGT - 2006

[Guest Edgy DC]

And that guy wants to use Billy Wagner's song.

[Frayed Knot]

I think it's time to declare that Mariano is no longer 'Sandman Worthy' ... or at least he should be according to the logic of some.

I didn't see the end of last night's game so I can't comment on the swing issue (Posada WAS safe the night before). I did see the first coupla innings and the Twins should have been up by more than 4-Zip early. Jaret Wright had diddly but the Twinkies left a ton of runners on. Skimmed over in that article is that the throw to 3rd by Matsui was the real mistake. He had no chance to get the runner there (it was Castillo who was running on the pitch) and making the throw allowed the batter/runner (and eventual game-winning run) to waltz into 2nd. If he throws behind the runner the game-winning single merely ties the game.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Madon! Are we ever going to have a "Triple..." thread for 2006?

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

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[Elster88]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: Madon!

The phrase is actually Madonna, and is a plea to the Holy Mother for help. No one says Madon, except in the Sopranos.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Elster88 wrote: ="mlbaseballtalk"]Madon! The phrase is actually Madonna, and is a plea to the Holy Mother for help. No one says Madon, except in the Sopranos.

Sonny Corleone said it in the Godfather.

Then again Cann is Irish right?

Ah Yankees win anyway, avoid the sweep and are still stuck in the mud

[Elster88]

Eh, I dunno. It's possible and probable that some peeps use the bastardized form. But most of the time they say the full word but the emphasis is so great on the middle syllable that you don't hear the last syllable.

But yes, it's much more common in the movies/TV.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I see that the MFY's motto this year is Pride, Power, Pinstripes.

Puke!

[Centerfield]

Benson picks up the win tonight against the MFY's. Larger story is this, bases loaded, 2 outs, Wang induces a ground ball that Jeter has to range about two steps to his right to field. He gets it, throws high, 2 runs score.

The scoring: Base Hit.

Here's the amazing part, announcers don't even question the call. In fact, they call it a great play on both ends (Jeter, and Phillips who went high to catch Jeter's awful throw).

Amazing.

[nymr83]

the yankee "anouncers" are amongst the biggest cheerleaders in pro-sports. As team captain, jeter gets his fair share of blow jobs, mostly from Waldman.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I tuned into the Tampa feed. Goofy how every reference of "Devil" has been removed.

They'll likely have a new name by opening day next year, I guess.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

What is the derivation of our term "The Bedpan"? I referred to the MFY's home by that name tonight. D-Dad didn't know what I was talking about, and I didn't know how to explain the term to him.

[Elster88]

14 Yankees walked in the game yesterday. 0 of those Yankees scored.

[Frayed Knot]

I only caught an inning or two of it last night but that was a very strange game. And, as usual, only the Yanx can turn a 2-2 game into a 4+ hour affair.

At one point the Yanx turned a few of those walks into a groundball DP even though they started from a 2nd & 3rd/1-out situation following a Damon sac bunt.
- Cano on 3rd, Bubba Crosby (I think) on 2nd;
- Jeter chops a bouncer to Wiggy @ 3rd
- Cano has no business going but does anyway and is caught in a rundown before he's even halfway home
- The D-Rays quickly tag him out after he tries almost no evasive action
- Crosby was then caught miles off 2nd, possibly because he wasn't prepared for how quickly Cano was snagged ... DP. inning over despite 2 leadoff walks.

Cano's turned out to be a much better hitter than a lot of people thought at this time last year but he can be a real dunderhead at times.

[Elster88]

Have anyone seen this before?

ARod clip

[Willets Point]

Elster88 wrote: Have anyone seen this before? ARod clip

TV Producer to cameramen:

"Look, A-Rod's jacking off with his bat. Quick, get me a close-up frontal view!!"

[Elster88]

Jose Contreras (1.41) and Javier Vazquez (2.88) are 1st and 5th in the AL in ERA.

Edit: AL.

[Guest Iubitul]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: What is the derivation of our term "The Bedpan"? I referred to the MFY's home by that name tonight. D-Dad didn't know what I was talking about, and I didn't know how to explain the term to him.

Actually, that term wasn't started here ;-)

Look at Yankee Stadium from a bird's-eye view - it looks like a bedpan.

[Willets Point]

Plunk Papi? So suggests The New York Post.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanqui fan callers to talk radio have been suggesting plunking Papi for about 3 years now.
If ya can't beat 'im, bean 'im.


btw, Sheffield to the DL, Melky Cabrera up.
Cabrera was the one who came up briefly to play CF last year and bombed both offensively & (more importantly since it was the reason he was called in the first place) defensively. He's been hitting real well in AAA and will probably play RF full time until Sheff's drugs kick in ... I mean wrist heals.

[Frayed Knot]

Well one game tonight was fun to watch.

* G-I-am-Big stakes the Yanx to a 2-0 lead
* But then the Big Eunuch falls apart with walks, wild-pitches, 2 ARod errors, a few hits here and there, and suddenly it's 7-2 BoSox and RJ doesn't get out of the 4th inning
* Then later on Melky Cabrera drops a 2-out pop-up to let in 2 more runs

[metirish]

You just know A-Rod will take the blame for this with his two errors, he is such a yankee warrior...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

The Cabrera popup was high comedy.

Johnson and Gayrod are going to get so butchered tomorrow it'll almost make me sorry I take so little pity on the MFYs.

[metirish]

Dickshot take it easy now.....tomorrow when you get the paper you know you will turn first to the MFY coverage and take delight in it....do not feel bad for that.......

[Frayed Knot]

I almost feel sorry for ARod. Not really, but sorta sometimes.

He's such a good player (even though having a bit of an off-year so far) but the Yanx fans are so convinced that he's "un-clutch" that they're blaming him for everything short of high gas prices and hurricane Katrina. At this point it's just a matter of finding the examples tht fit the pre-determined label and I don't think there's much he can do to turn the image around.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Then you remember he used all the leverage he could muster to get himself to the Yankees.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

[Guest silverdsl]

The biggest goat of the game was RJ. He's supposed to be the Ace of the pitching staff and he's been extremely inconsistant. But that is to be expected as his age catches up with him. I'd guess his back is also bothering him.

Errors are going to happen, especially when one of the players in question is a rookie with limited experience in the majors. Though Cabrera did make another bad error the last time he was called up, also against the Red Sox.

[Centerfield]

It's almost a given, that after any big Yankee loss, the rags will put a picture of A-Rod.

[Guest Rotblatt]

From the Times:

]Johnson threw 92 pitches, and the Red Sox swung and missed only three times.

Whoa.