NYC's Weak Sisters, 2007 (part II)

[MFS62]

I really do not like Jorge Posada - a lot.
Mainly because he looks like a first cousin of mine who I can't stand.

Later

[metirish]

Clippard feeling the luv on myspace.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=21745547

[nymr83]

thats pretty cool, i hope he's enjoying the hot girls that suddenly want to be his friend.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Like, I don't get myspace.

[Guest Herb Gardner]

Edgy DC wrote: I actaully do have some doubt about the Clemens boost.

Me too, especially since I have heard that he is coming home between starts.

[Guest iramets]

How could one not have doubts, serious ones? It's the "Julio Franco" principle--after a while, even with a good performance in recent years, we all become incapable of performing physical acts at a high level. Eventually Franco, and Clemens, and other athletes in their forties will wake up and be unable to do competently what they used to do superbly.

There is a fairly high probabilty--I'd put it at 10 to 20 %--that for their 20 million dollars the Yankees will get what they would have gotten out of whichever retread/prospect/suspect's starts Clemens will usurp. Ha, ha, ha, because they're committed to pitching Clemens for the rest of 2007, no matter how badly he sucks. Can you imagine the pleasure I'll get from tuning in to watch him try yet again with an ERA in double figures? He ain't walking away from 20 mil, and Steinbrenner ain't paying him 20 mil to sit on the bench or go on the DL.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

While I also figure Clemens at some point will be incapable, I'd almost prefer he pitch as well as he can, only to do so in spite of the fact the Yankees don't contend. Then his bullshit, I'm-very-important admonition -- "this team has to play well before I get there..." blows up in his fat face. Already I believe the MFYs dropped five more games behind since he said that.

Clemens wants to be like the anchor-man in a relay: He wants to be given a lead, not asked to make one.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And that's the good angle.

The bad angle is that he wants $20 million for doing as little as possible and he doesn't care if the rest of the team stinks like shih tzu turds.

And with the moral dubiousness of both positions so obvious, I can't understand why Yankee fan one buys the bullshit.

[metirish]

Yeah but,did you see Clemens tutoring the kids in Tampa,because that's really what he loves to do,maybe he does but it looked so fucking staged with them gathered around the mound listening to him.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Then his bullshit, I'm-very-important admonition -- "this team has to play well before I get there..."

It's like he's saying "I'm in this just for the ring." And not that he wants to actually earn it, it's like a three-month joyride to pick up some hardware.

Then again, if he was in it just for a ring, he should have signed with the Red Sox ...or US!

[Frayed Knot]

That's why part of my fantasy (at least my baseball fantasy) involves the Yanx not only finishing out of the money but also well behind both the Sawx and the Astros.

[Guest silverdsl]

metirish wrote: Clippard feeling the luv on myspace. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=21745547

I don't know what possessed me to look at his pics, but after seeing the one of him admiring himself in the mirror with no clothes on (no naughty bits can be seen), I might be scarred for life.

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://a1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/35/s_36f6397e4f2fea654fb0a78bee4e23d0.jpgHey T-Clip!! haha I heard the good news about you!! So when you become really famous I can show everyone that picture of you and Derek when I dyed your hair and you had all the stuff on your head haha Miss ya mucho!!

[Guest cooby]

Hey, silverdsl, "Naughty bits" is one of my favorite expressions! Naked pictures of Clippard would not be very inticing, lol..

My husband and I were trying to decide which of the two, Maine or Clippard, looked most like a hick the other night. And we know hicks.

[Guest cooby]

And I like the flip flop girl best, she seems so.....sincere.

[Guest Edgy DC]

So, a lot of duh-rama in the media notes recently, including Suzyn Waldman hunting down Mike Francesa at Shea Stadium this weekend and cursing him out, plus Ken Rosenthal on FOX broadcasting this howler: "The guy they need to manage the Yankees may be Vasco da Gama finding the Fountain of Youth."

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: So, a lot of duh-rama in the media notes recently, including Suzyn Waldman hunting down Mike Francesa at Shea Stadium this weekend and cursing him out, plus Ken Rosenthal on FOX broadcasting this howler: "The guy they need to manage the Yankees may be Vasco da Gama finding the Fountain of Youth."

What the hell did KR mean with that gem?...also this from Raissman.....

] All the talk about Joe Torre's Yankee future, or lack thereof, is like gum stuck to a shoe - annoying and hard to get rid of. The story goes beyond the obvious speculation. It's not good enough to just predict whether the manager will stay or get the boot. Who will make the decision? And who are Mr. Torre's detractors inside the organization? That's the direction ESPN's Peter Gammons was headed Sunday night in the fourth inning of Yankees-Mets. Jon Miller asked Gammons if Torre could lose his job. Gammons said it's "not impossible" and reported that George Steinbrenner likely would have something to say following the Bombers' current series with Boston. "There are some problems (for Torre). Randy Levine, the club president who apparently is back in power, is no Joe Torre fan," Gammons said. "There is no question there is pressure coming from George Steinbrenner and some other people in the organization who question Joe Torre despite his resume of remarkable achievement." Bringing Levine into the equation is curious. Or is it? In recent years Levine's role with the Yankees has been clearly spelled out. He is in charge of the business side, so it must have been surprising for him to hear he is back in power. It really does not matter what Levine thinks of Torre. Even in Steinbrenner's weakened state, he - or the family member running the Yankees that particular day - is not going to place an urgent call to Levine and get him involved in pure baseball decisions. For Gammons to leave the impression Levine has enough juice to pull the plug on Torre is a huge reach. As usual, there could be more here than meets the eye, ear, nose or throat. For many years - and this is not a well-kept secret - there has been animosity between Levine and Gammons. They don't speak. The bad blood came as a result of Levine taking issue with a Gammons report about the Yankees acquiring a player for major dough. Levine called an ESPN executive directly, telling him Gammons' report was not accurate. Needless to say, Gammons was not thrilled about this. So, could Gammons' attempt to cast Levine as the heavy in this Torre drama be payback for Levine showing him up, and going over his head?

[seawolf17]

I commented on that Rosenthal comment in the IGT...

]Hey retard, the Fountain of Youth was Ponce de Leon, not Vasco da Gama. If you're going to be Dennis Miller, get your information right. Dumbass.

[Guest iramets]

seawolf17 wrote: I commented on that Rosenthal comment in the IGT... ]Hey retard, the Fountain of Youth was Ponce de Leon, not Vasco da Gama. If you're going to be Dennis Miller, get your information right. Dumbass.

Nobody's asking Rosenthal to discuss particle physics; he's just commenting on a baseball game. Nobody listens to the historical allusions anyway, so I'd rather have someone like Ken Rosenthal up there, who will be mercifully clever (if inaccurate), than some blowhard poster who thinks he's hot shit. Get over yourself, Seawolf.

[seawolf17]

Hey, I'm sorry if you took my "blowhard professor" comment in that other thread personally... it really wasn't directed at you. I'm sure you're a motivating, inspiring professor.

But that was a funny comeback nonetheless.

[Guest iramets]

It's cool, Seawolf. Just joking around with you.

To the small extent I'm not joking around, I'm maybe trying to make the point that standards of acceptable content/error/egregious mistatement/lie/cluelessness etc tend to vary around here depending on whether the speaker is currently collecting a paycheck from Sterling enterprises. Raissman--hang 'im! Wally Matthews--hang 'im twice! Ken Rosenthal--call 'im a dumbass, harp on his gaffes, kick 'im in the balls once or twice for good luck, than roast 'im over a slow spit. Willie Randolph? Hey, come on, be nice.

[nymr83]

]including Suzyn Waldman hunting down Mike Francesa at Shea Stadium this weekend and cursing him out

those might be my two least-favorite sports-related people (that don't actually play/manage a team) in New York.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You're probably not totally wrong. However, I do remember us mocking David Wright for some of his "golly gee" comments, and his endorsement of that feces drinking guy. We made fun of Mike Piazza for his metrosexuality and his comment about how history moves chronologically through time. And I think we got on Keith Hernandez when he reacted to the female trainer in the San Diego dugout that time.

I don't think the problem is that Mets employees don't get enough bile from us; I think that sometimes we're probably too quick to tear apart comments from sportswriters and sportscasters. It's okay to disagree with what they write, but at times we're too nitpicky about it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nymr83 wrote: ]including Suzyn Waldman hunting down Mike Francesa at Shea Stadium this weekend and cursing him out those might be my two least-favorite sports-related people (that don't actually play/manage a team) in New York.

I read in the News that it was Russo she hunted down. Maybe she had her say with both of them individually. I think, according to Raismann, she said something about how Russo "ruined her life."

I'll go look for the quote...

[Benjamin Grimm]

Here it is:

="Bob Raissman"]WALDMAN MAULS 'DOG': If Chris (Mad Dog) Russo was really a dog, Suzyn (Georgie Girl) Waldman might have been charged with cruelty to animals on Saturday. Yet, some might say Doggie deserved the verbal whipping Ma Pinstripe put on him. Russo mentioned the confrontation yesterday while working WFAN's "Impostors in the Morning" AM drive-time show with Mike Francesa (FranDog also talked about it in the afternoon). Waldman, still upset over FranDog mocking her Clemens gaga trip the Sunday that Rocket announced his return to the Bronx (the frantic WCBS-AM radio description was played over and over), tore into Russo after the two came face to face outside the Mets radio booth at Shea. Russo, according to well-embedded moles, tried defusing the situation by telling Waldman, "We were just having some fun." Waldman wasn't buying Russo's damage control/jive. She said she hoped he had "his two days of fun," but had "ruined her life" in the process." Following her down a corridor, Russo tried calming Waldman. But his attempt to soothe backfired. Momma P, screaming, dropped two fat F bombs on Russo before accusing him of "talking behind my back" for "20 years." Waldman's partner John (Pa Pinstripe) Sterling was marked absent during the blowout. No doubt he was high ... far ... gone.

FranDog. Ma Pinstripe. Pa Pinstripe. Georgie Girl. Momma P. Impostors in the Morning.

Raissman sure crams a lot of stupid nicknames into a handful of paragraphs. He'd be more readable if he'd cut back on that nonsense.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Russo it was.

Mike and the Mad Dog are to me as da Gama and deLeon are to Ken Rosenthal.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Understandable. You have some trouble discerning between two slightly different flavors of idiot. Nothing to be ashamed of.

[metirish]

Raissman is credited with giving Russo the "Mad Dog" moniker.

[Centerfield]

Nicknames aside, Raissman has really been cranking them out of the park this year. It's nice to see someone in the media call out those MFY broadcasters for what they are.

[seawolf17]

"Ruined her life?" Come on, Susan. First, you brought this on yourself by acting like the N64 kid. Second, you've been in NY long enough to have a thicker skin than that.