AP MFY IGT - 2006

[metirish]

More Jeter worship....

This explains it all

[Centerfield]

] "Jeter was in every rally," Johnny Damon said.

Well, I guess if you call grounding out to the pitcher being in the rally.

That Newsday article was exactly the type of crap I was spoofing in my WBC "Jeter Fails to do all the Little Things that Constitute the Difference Between Winning and Losing" article.

[Willets Point]

This weeks Dustinland takes on the Yankee fan.

[metirish]

Aaron Small with start on Sunday and not Chacon.

[Guest cooby]

2 questions:

When did Tona Pena become a Yankee?

When did Lee Mazzilli rebecome a Yankee?

[seawolf17]

cooby wrote: 2 questions: When did Tona Pena become a Yankee? When did Lee Mazzilli rebecome a Yankee?

(1) Don't know.
(2) Right after the O's dumped him.

[stevejrogers]

seawolf17 wrote: ="cooby"]2 questions: When did Tona Pena become a Yankee? When did Lee Mazzilli rebecome a Yankee? (1) Don't know. (2) Right after the O's dumped him.

1) When Joe Girardi moved to Miami

[Gwreck]

The Yankees have *four* former managers as coaches. Is that a record?

[metirish]

Probably a record held by many teams.

[Guest cooby]

Cripes, looking in their dugout, how many coaches do they have period?


I've been sitting here trying to remember who the Mets pitching coach was when we were kids; does anybody remember? I know that's totally non Yankee related, sorry...

[DocTee]

Joe Pignataro?

[Guest cooby]

I was trying to think of all the Mets coaches from say, early 1970's, Eddie Yost, Sherriff Robinson, Piggy (thanks!). I mean, did they truly have a mere THREE?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rube Walker, man. Pitching coach from Hodges' first day to Torre's last.

[Guest cooby]

Rube Walker, right. Still, the coaching staffs of yesteryear were quaintly small.

[stevejrogers]

cooby wrote: Rube Walker, right. Still, the coaching staffs of yesteryear were quaintly small.

Size of the staff didn't really start growing untill the late 70's, early 80's when the hitting, pitching and bullpen coach became regular positions rather than a doubled up job.

Then in the 80's you started seeing strenth & conditioning guys getting unis and the Bullpen Catchers and Batting Practice Pitchers began being considered "official" coaches and such

Now it seems all teams go 5 deep with regular guys, (Bench, Hit, Pitch, BP, 1B, 3B) with a mess of extraneous coaches

[Guest cooby]

Don't forget your obligatory 'girl in cammo giving high fives'

[Gwreck]

Jeff DaVannon just hit a 3-run HR for the DBacks to put them ahead of the Braves, 7-5 in the bottom of the 6th.

[Willets Point]

Ok I'm really confused. This is supposed to be the all purpose in game thread for Yankees games, but they're playing the Mets so we're doubling up now. And then Arizona-Atlanta update comes totally out of leftfield.

[metirish]

Just read in the Times that Pavano now needs surgery on his elbow.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

MFYs eploying Tony Pena could provide an edge in the pursuit of his teenage son, Fransisco. His other kid is still with the Braves org.

Linky

[Guest cooby]

Speaking of sons and Tony Pena, my son is named after him

[Guest cleonjones11]

Tony Payson?

[Frayed Knot]

Shawn Chacon DL'd and one-time Met Terrance Long called up to roam the OF (I didn't know he was even in their system)

[Methead]

Yeah... I didn't hear about Long either, so I checked Rotoworld. I love this sequence of posts.

First:

May. 19, 2006 - 9:33 pm
Yankees signed outfielder Terrence Long to a minor league contract.
Long was hitting .229/.260/.292 in 48 at-bats for Triple-A Louisville before the Reds released him earlier this month. It would be bad news if the Yankees need him at any point.

Followed almost immediately by this gem:
May. 22, 2006 - 1:08 am
Yankees purchased the contract of outfielder Terrence Long from Triple-A Columbus.
It'd be good news for the rest of the American League if the Yankees fooled around with Long for any length of time.

[Willets Point]

The Yankees were down 9-1 but Foulke fresh off the Looper-Wagner Seminar for How to Pitch Like Crap in Non-Save Situations has allowed back to back homers and a long double. Score 9-5 with the Yankees still batting.

[Willets Point]

9-5 your final, Mystique & Aura cannot compete with an 8-run deficit.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Willets Point wrote: The Yankees were down 9-1 but Foulke fresh off the Looper-Wagner Seminar for How to Pitch Like Crap in Non-Save Situations has allowed back to back homers and a long double. Score 9-5 with the Yankees still batting.

Foulke has nothing left in the tank (or knee). Papelbon is the closer, Foulke is just there.

[soupcan]

'Double Play-Rod' hits a 2-run jack in the top of the ninth with the Yankees down 9-1.

Yankee fans get more fodder.






(can't take credit for 'Double Play-Rod' heard it on the radio today. Cracked me up)

[Willets Point]

soupcan wrote: 'Double Play-Rod' hits a 2-run jack in the top of the ninth with the Yankees down 9-1. Yankee fans get more fodder.

That was my first thought after the home run: Yankee fans are just going to say A-Rod pads his stats when the game isn't on the line.

[Willets Point]

OlerudOwned wrote: ="Willets Point"]The Yankees were down 9-1 but Foulke fresh off the Looper-Wagner Seminar for How to Pitch Like Crap in Non-Save Situations has allowed back to back homers and a long double. Score 9-5 with the Yankees still batting. Foulke has nothing left in the tank (or knee). Papelbon is the closer, Foulke is just there.

Still pitched like crap in a blowout.