AP MFY IGT - 2006

[Guest Edgy DC]

]You'd think he robs small children of their candy and strangles puppies with the way some can't stand him.

Cue Centerfield with a Mariano Rivera sidebar.

[Elster88]

silverdsl wrote: You'd think he robs small children of their candy and strangles puppies with the way some can't stand him.

That can't be it, because a guy who actually murders small children and puppy dogs is beloved.

Yanqui fans are weird.

Edit: Edgy just beat me.

[Willets Point]

Welcome a-bordick mt8thsw9th. I think we need to come up with a nickname for your unpronouncable handle.

[Willets Point]

Will Yankees fan cheer or boo El Duque on his return to Yankee Stadium?

[Elster88]

They'll probably get confused and start booing ARod.

[Frayed Knot]

I love crap like this:

Bob Raissman reports that higher-ups at YES are scripting A-Rod rip jobs for post-game commentator David Justice and possibly others.
He also speculates that when Jim Kaat was talking about Questec saying "nobody likes someone over their shoulder judging their every move" he may be talking about himself ... and he retired decades before Questec was ever introduced.

[metirish]

I was having a good laugh when reading this earlier, Justice was very pointed in his comments, that's all fine if they came form him and not from others.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Indians 19
MFYs 1

8th inning...

[Guest SI Metman]

Georgie's B-Day has now been ruined 2 out of the last 3 years (Mets sweeping the series in '04, the blowout tonight).

Ain't life great?

[MFS62]

In giving the out of town scoreboard yesterday, Suzyn Waldmann said Petit was pitching and said "He was part of the Josh Beckett trade."

I wonder, have the announcers been told by Boss George to not mention the Mets unless absolutely necessary?
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Or doesn't she read about anything except the Yankees in the sports pages?
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Later

[seawolf17]

Credit occasional CPF contributor Paul Lukas with a zinger in today's column:

="Uni Watch"]Bonus points to Robert Eden for noting that pockets play a key role in the TV series "Prison Break"; the character T-Bag turns his pocket inside-out and has the latest object of his affection hold onto it, sort of like a dog on a leash (there's even a fan site called Hold My Pocket). "I'm dying to see just one MLB player holding another's pocket in the same way," Eden says. Uni Watch heartily endorses this idea, which would surely set a fine example of camaraderie and teamwork on the diamond. Now all we need is a pair of players to inaugurate the ritual. These guys appear to be likely candidates for the job, don't you think?

[metirish]

Just have to post this.....

[Willets Point]

Undetermined but amusing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Most interesting there to me is the acknowledgement that Yankee Stadium was completely rebuilt in 1974 and 1975, despite the bizzarely-accepted party line that the Yankees are playing in a stadium from the 1920s that was merely renovated in the seventies.

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: Most interesting there to me is the acknowledgement that Yankee Stadium was completely rebuilt in 1974 and 1975, despite the bizzarely-accepted party line that the Yankees are playing in a stadium from the 1920s that was merely renovated in the seventies.

Well I guess as long as the location itself hasn't been moved then all those Yanqs from the past did technically play there at a different point in time.

But if your main point here is that Yankee fans are morons, I won't argue.

[Willets Point]

I think the field's been resodded and reseeded since Babe Ruth's time so even that's not original.

[Elster88]

Well, yeah, but I was going for the idea that the ground underneath the grass hasn't changed.

But can we just agree that Yankee fans are morons? (SC = 35)

[Frayed Knot]

Actually the ground has sort of changed.
When they re-did the stadium one of the things they did was to do some excavating and "dropped" the ground 3 feet so that the fences weren't as ridiculously low as they had been.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

A-Rod has 3 throwing errors (each worse than the last) and whiffed with the bases loaded & 1 out tonight but the MFY's lead Seattle 4-2 in the 9th, tho the M's have 1st & 3rd, 1 out v. Mariano ... NOW!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

Although none of ARod's errors mattered - and the Mariners gave back
any chances they had with incompetent base-running, tacked onto the
incompetent base-running by the ChiSox yesterday.

It is interesting that ARod was eventually yanked from the game in late
innings - and the Yanx are trying to sell the story about an injured foot.
Oh yeah, and Mariano got out of his jam ... again.

[metirish]

I will say this I have never seen anyone better than Rivera(like I am the first to say that), but I watched the Yankee game yesterday and his 5 or 6 out save was somthing else to watch,Fransworthless did his best to give away the lead but Rivera was brilliant.

[Elster88]

Ponson 3 ER through 3. Seattle leads 3-2.

[Frayed Knot]

Ponson gave up a 3-run jack to Sexson in the 1st - then settled down and pitched pretty well after that - left losing 4-2.

The Yanx are sticking to their ARod and his toe story by not starting him tonight. He then came in to PH in the 7th with a runner on and two outs: he promptly popped up and the boos started cascading down before the ball ever did.

Same score and they're in the 8th

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx tie it in the 9th in a pouring rainstorm - in part due to a TERRIBLE call at 1st (Posada beats out an infield hit - nuff said).

Now ARod is up with the winning run on base (he stayed in after PH-ing ... guess his toe healed)


... and with a 3-1 count and 2 outs in the 9th [u:1e17bd94b9]the umps call for the tarp[/u:1e17bd94b9]!!!!

[Willets Point]

ARod never hits in the clutch. Or rain.

[Frayed Knot]

Well this is fun:

- ARod's AB resumed after about an hour and a half delay ... and he promptly struck out, and so they head for the 10th

- But Torre had made so many subs in trying to tie the game that they've got an interesting lineup out there, including: 1st base = Johnny Damon; 2nd base = backup 1st baseman Andy Phillips


Seattle goes scoreless in the top of the 10th including a Phillips-to-Damon groundout.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Yankee fans really love their Melky.

[Frayed Knot]

I hope the other umps gave the 1st base guy a solid beating after they realized that his reprehensible call was responsible for them each having to work an extra 3 hours last night.

[Guest Iubitul]

]He battled

Joe Torre on Randy Johnson's loss tonight

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Joe Torre is morphing into Art Howe?