NYC's Weak Sisters, 2007 (part II)

[Gwreck]

[Restarting the A-P thread that Dickshot started a while ago, but somehow fell off the main board]

This link can't really be described. Just have to see it for yourself.

http://www.projecta13.com/

[metsmarathon]

great. now I want to boo arod.

no, actually, i don't. i want to look out my window and see if there are any pigs aflight... nope... none so far...

then how can it be that a yankee fan has seen the light and recognized that maybe, just maybe, creating a negative - no, hostile - atmosphere for one of their own players might not lead to his being as productive a yankee as they would want to see?

i don't think he'll get many takers. its too much fun to boo mercilessly.

never mind that its productive. never mind that it goes against the yankee philosophy that they all talk about - that the ring is the thing, and winning uber alles, and you do whatever it takes to win.

no, yankee fans will be largely unable to do whatever it takes to do what little they can to help their team win. they will be unwilling to put aside their dislike of arod - be it for his personality, perceived softness, his slight at jeter from, oh, six years ago, his making more money than jeter, his being more talented than jeter, his simply not being jeter, whatever - and do whatever it takes to create a positive atmosphere wherein arod can flourish, and help to propel the yankees to world series domination. winning isnt important enough to yankee fans. they'd rather be imbeciles. if they were smart enough to recognize that booing arod is counterproductive to winning, they wouldn't be yankee fans. they'd be mets fans.

(or silverdsl. silverdsl is an anomaly )

[metirish]

I mean all I can say is WOW...I can't believe someone actually put time into that,it's well done even....from the author.

] I work in Legal for a hedge fund in Manhattan, so I know how demanding this city can be, and how hard it is to block out the "noise".

People boo him at work?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Wow, a cult that controls not only the future of Alex Rodriguez, but that of the game of baseball, as well. That's heavy stuff, man. He really needs to start accepting PayPal if the movement, sorry, The Movement, is really going to get off the ground.

Do you believe? Because I sure as fuck do.

]And make no mistake about it—his future with the New York Yankees, and quite possibly The American Pastime, is in our hands. We hold the power. What we do now with this power will define not only the remainder of A-Rod's career, but baseball in the Bronx for years to come. As stated before, there has never been a more opportune time for change. And judging by how far you've read today, I think we're each ready to step up to the plate—to dig in—with our third baseman, instead of against him. Choose. Believe. Rise. Three simple steps. An infinite supply of possibility. When we choose to accept Alex and support him as a Yankee, and when we believe unconditionally in his talents at the plate, the chances that he will rise as an athlete, as a man, and as a legend increase one hundred-fold. Likewise, by choosing this path of positive thought and good will over the easier, more popular, negative route, the chances that we'll rise as fans, as individuals, and as a city are undeniable. In a very real sense, our fates are intertwined with his, which makes The Movement that much more necessary. Above all things, this is a project about breaking molds, making a stand for principle, and coming together for the common good—to do the right thing, essentially.

[metsmarathon]

well, the last paragraph there is just a bit over the top...

[metirish]

Steve Swindal showed up at MFY home opener yesterday and promptly found a person that might be in lower standing in the great yankee family....

] Swindal, who still has his job with the organization despite the impending split, was elsewhere in the park. He talked only about baseball and said he wasn't impressed with the performance of Yankees starting pitcher Carl Pavano. "We're just hoping to get this team back to the World Series," he told the Daily News via cell phone. "I can't believe that Pavano only made it for five innings." Pavano gave up five runs before he was taken out of the game.

[Guest Edgy DC]

"I can't believe..." is one of the sadder phrases. That's a 5% increase on the total Pavano has racked up for the Yankees over the last two years.

[soupcan]

The website is really well done - I'm very impressed with that, but everything else there makes me fearful for the future of modern civilization.

Creepy.

Choose. Believe. Rise. - uh...yeah.

[metirish]

Newsday has picked up on project13

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spjim0403arod,0,5966430.column

[smg58]

Oh enough already. We're talking about a guy who's torn by whether or not it would make more long-term fiscal sense to walk away from $81M over the next three years as though he were in need of sympathy. Let him rot, and the Yankees with him.

[nymr83]

Yankees are down in the 8th!

[metirish]

Kay asked Girardi why does such a great athlete like Rodriguez have trouble with pop-ups...Girardi said he thought that was a weakness in his game..Joe went onto say he believed every great player had a weakness,without missing a beat Kay asked him what Jeters weakness in his game was.....but it sounded like Kay thought he had found a player that had no weaknesses in his game...Girardi thought going to his left on grounders was his weakness...Kay is such a smug fucker.

[metirish]

Big spot,eight inning with the bases loaded,two out and down a run,A-Rod at the plate....and he pops it up....love it.

[nymr83]

here come the booooooooooooooooooooooooos

[Frayed Knot]

Leave it to the Yanquis to play a 4-hour game in the cold & snow.
So their fans both froze AND went home tired and unhappy.

[nymr83]

they lose!
Mets 3-0
Yanks 1-1

[Guest Rotblatt]

I love that the loss is officially A-Rod's fault when Jeter had two errors, one of which led to a run--in, of course, a one-run game. Oh, and he was caught stealing, too.

Gotta love Yankee fans!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Rotblatt - "Gotta love Yankee fans!"

No I don't. Silverdsl being a rare exception.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Steve Trachsel is a run-support magnet. Baltimore going to town on Igawa in his debut, and the O's lead 7-3 in the 5th.

[stevejrogers]

Matsui strained his hamstring, the fans are starting "We Want Bernie" chants.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

A-Rod just launched a walk-off grand slam. Dead center, deep in to the black seats. Absolutely crushed.

[metirish]

That was a bomb....1 and 2 count.

[nymr83]

he's not "clutch".

edit- oh and there were two outs

[Guest Kid Carsey]

That sucks, I had that whole game on while doing crap all day and left it
when ours started. Freakin' Yankees ...

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm OK with A-Rod prospering. I'd like to see some feet in mouth in the Bronx.

[nymr83]

yeah ditto. the yankees will get some wins, they might as well do it via the Rodriguez longball

[Frayed Knot]

Sure it was a 2-out, 2-strike, come-from-behind, walk-off Grand Slam ... but we all know that it was the Jeter walk two slots earlier which was the [u:99ac5bd7fc]real[/u:99ac5bd7fc] clutch at-bat.

I wonder if, after Giambi's 3R HR and ARod's GS, Yanx fans are still going to be calling for more 'small ball' from Torre?

[stevejrogers]

Thing is, the first out he makes on Sunday the boos will return. Not one for conspiracy theories, but it is probable that this is one that was created by the NYC Yankee biased media, even if it was unintentional.

I mean this is the same market that drove home the point about how much better Jeter was than ARod for all those years, then defended Jeter after the Esquire article and made Jeter out to be so much better because of the intangilbles and ARod was just jealous because he was playing in obscurity in Texas. (ARod in Texas was like the Mona Lisa in some guy's garage was something repeated by Michael Kay after stealing it from a Post reporter)

Then he's brought to the defending AL Champs with all this hype and hoopla about how he was going to collect rings alongside Jeter. Even if the rest of the Yankees went into Operation Shut Down after Game 3 of the 04 ALCS, and even if Gary Sheffield was brought in the same offseason for the same reason, because of all the hype, and because of all the built up hatred of the guy going back, even before the Esquire article or the irrational need to say Derek is so much better than the guy (I mean Reggie Jackson never even had that going against him in 1977, clearly no one thought he wasn't a superior player than anyone on the Yankees) there was no way he wasn't going to be the ultimate scapgoat for the 2004 collapse, and consequentially every Yankee failure since.

Its gotten to the point where even if he does do something that could be defined as trying to keep the Yankees in a game it looks like he's just padding his numbers, while a Jeter will get the "And that Jeter, keeping hope alive for the Yankees" comment after a 2 out hit with the Yanks down by 3 or something in the 9th.

I'm actually rooting that he doesn't come back next year, and will root for him and whomever he plays for next season to win the World Series..unless it's against the Mets of course!

[metsmarathon]

the idiocy of yankee fans is no media creation. they really are idiots.

[Frayed Knot]

- The 5th consecutive Yanqui starter fails to finish the 5th inning

- Torre actually brought Pettitte in for an inning of relief in Sunday's game

- Matsui on the 15-day DL with a strained hammy