AP MFY IGT - 2006

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Barry Zito may want to go to the Yankees just so he doesn't have to face them. MFYs own his ass.

[Frayed Knot]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Nick Swisher hits a ball into the outfield. Damon is lined up to make the catch but, at the last minute, Mekly Cabrera comes up, gloves extended, and smashes into Damon's face. Damon goes down, the ball drops, and Swisher winds up with an inside the park home run.

And then an inning later Damon took a Swisher drive off the top of the CF fence.
IOW, Swisher winds up with a HR which should have been an out and an out which should have been an HR.


5-5 headed for the 7th.
Chacon not so good in his return from the DL - but (as mentioned) Zito seems to pitch well against everyone except the MFY. Still in there though - at least partially because half the Oakland bullpen is on the DL.

[Guest Edgy DC]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Nick Swisher hits a ball into the outfield. Damon is lined up to make the catch but, at the last minute, Mekly Cabrera comes up, gloves extended, and smashes into Damon's face. Damon goes down, the ball drops, and Swisher winds up with an inside the park home run.

It's the Melky Way!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

A month ago I went to Yankee Stadium to see Zito pitch. He gave up one run in six innings and took the loss.

Today he gives up 5 runs in seven innings, and walks away with a win. Baseball is an odd sport.

Oh, and BTW,

The Yankees Lose! The YankeesLOSE!!!

[Frayed Knot]

I need to get my eyes checked because I thought I saw Jeter make the last out in two consecutive 1-run losses (plus a tying & go-ahead on/2-out/7th inning K) and I KNOW that can't be true since I've been told that he ALWAYS comes through when you need him.



On a related note: Yanqui fans are getting to be an interesting bunch these days.
With the success of Cano & Wang last year and the (kinda) success to date of Phillips & Melky (it's short-term & limited so far ... but, hey, it's something) they - along with a whole bunch of columnists - have gotten it into their heads that they're actually a whole lot better with these 'home-grown' fill-ins than they were when they still had the high-priced imports like Matsui and (particularly) Sheffield. It's all about hustle and "heart" don't you know and, for the first time in a long while, a significant number are NOT clamoring for the superstar-at-each-position-plus-a-backup' stereotype that's defined MFY fans for so long now. They're quite content to stick with what they've got - at least on the offensive end.

Now I happen to think they're wrong, but it is somewhat interesting to listen to. The problem is that, between the '90s crop of homegrown stuff all turning out so well and last year's call-ups doing OK, they're deep into assuming that it's destiny that all future call-ups will simply follow suit and the reports of a thin farm system was just so much anti-Yankee propaganda.
But Phillips is a 29 y/o journeyman and Melky - while only 21 w/time to improve - is a singles-hitting corner OFer and, while you can get away w/o the 60 HRs & 200 RBIs that the missing corners provide for brief spells, in the long term you're going to feel the difference.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

The type of hustle that sends Cabrera barreling into Damon on a should-be flyout.

God Bless the MFY.

[Elster88]

Apparently, the Yankee fans are being quite demonstrative in booing Mr. Rodriguez these days.

[Guest holychicken]

Elster88 wrote: Apparently, the Yankee fans are being quite demonstrative in booing Mr. Rodriguez these days.

They look cross town and say, "hey! It looks like it worked for Beltran, let's see what we can do!"

[Guest Edgy DC]

Trade Floyd for Rodriguez. I'll even go so far as to suggest we take on part of Rodriguez's contract.

[Elster88]

Play Rodriguez in left?

How much of a beat-down would I receive for suggesting that ARod is a better shortstop than Mr. Excitement? Reyes to second?

[Elster88]

holychicken wrote: ="Elster88"]Apparently, the Yankee fans are being quite demonstrative in booing Mr. Rodriguez these days. They look cross town and say, "hey! It looks like it worked for Beltran, let's see what we can do!"

Yankee fans were booing Alex long before Beltran got here.

[soupcan]

holychicken wrote: ="Elster88"]Apparently, the Yankee fans are being quite demonstrative in booing Mr. Rodriguez these days. They look cross town and say, "hey! It looks like it worked for Beltran, let's see what we can do!"

By the way - you're all welcome for that.

[Guest sharpie]

They boo Rodriguez after he wins an MVP for them.

[Elster88]

soupcan wrote: ="holychicken"] ="Elster88"]Apparently, the Yankee fans are being quite demonstrative in booing Mr. Rodriguez these days. They look cross town and say, "hey! It looks like it worked for Beltran, let's see what we can do!" By the way - you're all welcome for that.

Not something to be proud of. ;-)

[Centerfield]

Stupid soupcan.

I knew he wasn't booing Matsui enough.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Unit, Torre ejected for their part in beanbrawl.

[metirish]

Dickshot what happened, I turned over after reading your post but all I heard was Paul O' Neill jawing about how Johnson was a stand up guy.

[Zvon]

]Pitcher Randy Johnson of the Yankees was ejected from the game in the top of the 7th inning by home plate umpire Paul Schrieber for throwing at batters.

Batters?
Yanks up 6-1?

This should be an interesting story.
What pissed off the Unit?

[Frayed Knot]

Posada was plunked and then jawed about it enough on the way down to 1st to get the umps to issue warnings all around. Jeter had also been buzzed earlier but that was mostly him diving into pitches that were only semi-inside.
So an inning or so later Unit throes one under the chin of Eduardo Perez (who smacks Johnson around like a rented mule) triggering the automatic ejections of both himself and his skipper.

[metirish]

So FK in your opionin was Johnson giving payback for Posada or was he throwing at Perez because he hits him good?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Completely on purpose.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: So FK in your opionin was Johnson giving payback for Posada or was he throwing at Perez because he hits him good?

Prolly a bit of both.

- It was already the 7th inning so it's not like he was going to pitch much longer anyway & the Yanx had a decent lead
- So if you're going to "protect" your catcher and try and show some sack (even tho your teammates aren't going to love you anyway) you might as well buzz the guy who's taken you deep a few times

[Elster88]

Did you know that the Yanqs owe the Small Unit $17 million smackers next year?

That makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.

[Guest silverdsl]

Randy Johnson in the fan's eyes: Zero to Hero. He can pitch like garbage the rest of the season and he'll get a pass from a lot of fans because he threw at Perez. Next season when he's earning that $17 mill for pitching like a $2 mill pitcher, he'll probably still be excused because of that magical moment when he threw at a hitter, something the rest of the Yankees pitching staff isn't inclined to do.

[Elster88]

Regarding that, I read somewhere that the seeds for the brawl were first planted because two pitches in a row "almost" hit Jeter.

Shocking really, that so many brawls are instigated by Jeter's at-bats. Who'd a-thunk a guy who dives over the outside corner when he's already standing on home plate would be "almost hit" so often???

[Frayed Knot]

I mentioned the Jeter connection in my post on the bottom of the previous page.


I'm not as posivitve as Silver that the Big Eunuch bought himself a free pass through next year with yesterday's buzzing. A brief reprieve maybe.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Trailing Indians 6-3 in bottom of the eighth, with the bases loaded and no outs, Carmona got Giambi to ground out, scoring a run, then he struck out A-Rod (who had homered in his previous at bat), then struck out Posada.

Cleveland up, 6-4 in the top of the ninth.

[Elster88]

I missed that post. Not thieving, just unoriginal.

Yanquis down 6-4 in the bottom of the eighth.

Edit: Now top 9th.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Indians get it right back and are now leading 7-4 in the top of the ninth.

Runners at the corner with two out for them.

[Elster88]

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