MFY/Tigers Series

[Frayed Knot]

Nope!
Thurs Sked:
Yanx - Tiggers 1:00
Pads - Cards 4:00
Mets - Dodgers 8:00

[Elster88]

Willets Point wrote: Does this mean that the Mets/Dodgers get bumped from the hallowed prime time slot reserved for all Yankees postseason games?

I'm sure they would've if not for the game scheduled for Friday in Detroit.

[Willets Point]

I was being sarcastic, but thanks to all 3 of you.

[Elster88]

Willets Point wrote: I was being sarcastic, but thanks to all 3 of you.

Ya see? I told you it was hard to read sarcasm.

[Guest cleonjones11]

Althought this cancellation came from above the organization...The Yankees often rain out games on get away days...Remember 1 p.m Tampa Bay 2 years ago postpond 10 am sunny at game time.

Shows how much they love their fans.

How about all the girlfriendS and kids who sat through this...Those secretaries will be tossing the Pink yankee caps in the trash.

[Zvon]

There he is nym83 ^

If they changed the Met game time tomorrow night and gave the Skanks the prime time slot I would have gone postal.
Ballistically postal.

[nymr83]

Jeter vs. Jordan is a conversation that should be laughed off the air. Jeter isn't even worth mentioning in a discussion of all-time baseball greats. That same discussion in basketball starts with Jordan.
Jordan, in my opinion, is on a level that maybe only Babe Ruth has ever reached.

as for postponing the game i feel they made the right call. sure the fans were pissed that they had to sit there all night but the last thing any real baseball fan wants to see is mussina and verlander waste themselves in 3 innings tonight and see two clowns (lidle and ??) go at it tommorow.

Don't start a playoff game that you arent >50% likely to finish IMO.

[metirish]

Jeter Vs Jordan..yeah Joe Jordan was a very decent player for Manchester United and Scotland in the 70's and 80's...more than decent in fact,one of the best to play in his time....ESPN should be ashamed.

[Guest Edgy DC]

We're judging Jeter vs. Jordan based on their baseball careers, right?

[Guest Edgy DC]

By the way, if this rainout helps the Yankees stretch their thin pitching staff one inch extra, I'm beating up a cloud.

[MFS62]

metirish wrote: Jeter Vs Jordan..yeah Joe Jordan was a very decent player for Manchester United and Scotland in the 70's and 80's...more than decent in fact,one of the best to play in his time....ESPN should be ashamed.

irish, that had just the perfect touch of sarcasm.
We baseballcentric Americans deserved that.
LOL!

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

And, while this is becoming my personal thread, I thought I'd throw up some billboard material:

Steinbrenner fuming about postponement

By Sean Brennan

New York Daily News

(MCT)

NEW YORK - As thousands of disgruntled fans filed out of Yankee Stadium following the postponement of Game 2 of the division series on Wednesday night, there may not have been anyone more agitated at the evening's events than George Steinbrenner.

In an impromptu session with a small group of writers near his car, Steinbrenner unleashed his trademark rage on the league while also taking time to take a shot at the Bombers' crosstown rivals before calling it a night.

After Major League Baseball waited until almost 10 p.m. to call Wednesday night's contest - first pitch was scheduled for 8:09 p.m. - Steinbrenner fired a high hard one at the commissioner's office for failing to either start the game before the rain came or to postpone it much earlier in the evening.

"I didn't like it," Steinbrenner fumed. "I think we should have played (or) we should have made up our minds earlier (to call it). One of the two."

When asked if the blame lay squarely with MLB, a steamed Steinbrenner barked, "Yeah, sure."

The Boss seemed to calm down after that, and when asked if he was glad to see former Yankee Willie Randolph pick up the first postseason win of his managerial career, Steinbrenner said, "Sure."

But that was the end of the niceties, as far as the Mets were concerned.

When pressed if he was afraid to face the Mets in a possible Subway Series this season, The Boss resorted to vintage form.

"Not the way they played today, I'm not," he said.

[Guest cooby]

"Not the way they played today"?

What could he fault?

[Gwreck]

I view George Steinbrenner the same way I think of Britney Spears, or rubbernecking delays on the highway.

If people stopped watching, they'd go away.
Unfortunately, people aren't smart enough to do that.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know, considering he's going to try to acquire about 10 of them before their careers are over.

[MFS62]

Edgy, just so you shouldn't feel alone: (Lost the link)

]BOSS NOT IMPRESSED BY METS By DAN MARTIN October 5, 2006 -- An ornery George Steinbrenner stormed out of Yankee Stadium shortly after the Yankees game against the Tigers was postponed last night and promptly knocked the league and his team's crosstown rivals. Steinbrenner was asked if he was happy the Mets won their game yesterday afternoon to take a 1-0 lead in the NLDS over the Dodgers and responded, "Sure." When a reporter followed up by asking if he was "scared" of the NL East champs, he fired back, "Not with the way they played today, I'm not," before climbing into his awaiting town car. Steinbrenner was referring to the Mets' 6-5 win over Los Angeles that featured a strange play that saw two Dodgers thrown out at the plate, one after another, and a shaky performance by closer Billy Wagner. Steinbrenner saved some of his displeasure for the league, saying that the game, which was called shortly after 10 p.m. after the rain had stopped, could have been played last night instead of this afternoon. "I didn't like it," Steinbrenner said of the rainout that pushed Game 2 of the ALDS against the Tigers to this afternoon, with Game 3 scheduled for tomorrow in Detroit. "We should have played. Or we should have made up our minds sooner." In the playoffs, such matters are made by Major League Baseball and the umpires, along with discussions with both teams. The issues bothered Steinbrenner, who arrived to the Stadium nearly four hours before the first pitch was scheduled in a significantly better mood, still raving about Derek Jeter and the rest of his team. "He's a good player and a great leader," Steinbrenner said outside of the Yankee offices, regarding Jeter's 5-for-5 showing in Game 1 on Tuesday in an 8-4 win over the Tigers. Jeter tied a postseason record with his five hits and became only the second player, along with Atlanta's Marquis Grissom in 1995, to go 5-for-5. He also extended his record for career hits in the playoffs to 147. Steinbrenner, as he has been throughout the early part of this series, appeared buoyant as his team attempts to get closer to its 27th World Series title. "We're going to do all right," Steinbrenner said. "We've got a good team."

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm so sorry that the Mets failed to impress that old fool.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: By the way, if this rainout helps the Yankees stretch their thin pitching staff one inch extra, I'm beating up a cloud.

Eh, it adds an off-day between games 1 & 2 but also takes away the one which would have been between 2 & 3 so that's all a wash.
The Yanx do get a reprieve as Torre burned through all of their "important" relievers in Game 1 (btw, any words from Wally Mathews on Torre pulling Wang so quick for apparently no reason?) and they're leary about using Farnsworth on back-to-back days.
On the other hand, maybe he'll need them all again today and they'll have no break before tomorrow.

Biggest complaints from last night seem to come from fans at the game who apparently weren't kept up to date very well. Many claim they learned about the cancellation via cel-calls from home.

Game 2 about to start: Mussina vs Loggins (or maybe it's Verlander)
Yanx going w/same lineup

[Guest Edgy DC]

Frayed Knot wrote: The Yanx do get a reprieve as Torre burned through all of their "important" relievers in Game 1 (btw, any words from Wally Mathews on Torre pulling Wang so quick for apparently no reason?) and they're leary about using Farnsworth on back-to-back days.

Yeah, that's the inch. Look out clouds.

Eh, screw 'em. It's all about the Mets, anyhow.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Jeter with an error and a failed sac attempt already.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jordanian.

[Frayed Knot]

The five most dreaded words for Yanqui fans: 'And they're loaded for A-Rod'



... AND HE'S GONE ON THREE PITCHES

[metirish]

That'll soon be forgotten Johnny,Jordan missed a few lay ups in his time too ya know.

Edgy beat me to it...

[Guest KC]

Lol, I logged on just to gloat.

[metirish]

I wonder what goes through his mind after that , did the "fans" boo the shit outta him?

[Gwreck]

I'm curious too. Was he booed? I had to keep Joe Morgan muted to maintain sanity.

[smg58]

RBI single! Go Tigers!

[Guest Edgy DC]

They're getting what they deserve. The clowns should've given A-Rod his tent.

[Guest cooby]

Ooh! I forgot about this!

[Willets Point]

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

GO TIGERS!!!