Cheaters, Murderers, Perjurers, Mercenaries

[Fman99]

That article was quite ****y.

[Guest Kong76]

[Guest Edgy DC]

I claim Hornsby. Die a Met. Stay a Met.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I was a big Rickey Henderson fan. I stake my claim. Warren Spahn, too, 'cause I'm feeling greedy right now. Might as well take Piazza. Incoming.

[batmagadanleadoff]

And who the hell is the greatest Yankee to have played his entire career post-1961? I'll tell you who it ain't ..... George Thomas. That's who it's not.

[dinosaur jesus]

I claim this guy, because he was the Seaver of his day.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Keep 'em coming! Duke Snider, Richie Ashburn. Bob Gibson was a coach!

That article was so over the top, it was like the kind of thing we do here when we're making fun of Yankee hacks.

I mean, he can't be serious about at least a third of that crap, can he?

[G-Fafif]

This week's long-distance dedication is sent out to Kevin Frisch for keeping his feet in his mouth while reaching for insipid conclusions.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

[Guest Edgy DC]

If mainstream media really is dead, as many claim, it's because they employ too many idiots.[/quote:3n9r0l33]

According to the byline, he's the managing editor.

[G-Fafif]

If mainstream media really is dead, as many claim, it's because they employ too many idiots.[/quote:1av7ienk]

According to the byline, he's the managing editor.[/quote:1av7ienk]

The Norwich Bulletin: Managed into the ground.

[MFS62]

According to the byline' date=' he's the managing editor.[/quote:ooezc9i5']

The Norwich Bulletin: Managed into the ground.[/quote:ooezc9i5]

EDIT: I changed my mind. The article WAS ****y.
Later

[metirish]

The Smoking Gun got the transcript and video of Fat Joba's arrest for DUI last year , in it Fat Joba assumes the cop knows who he is.....bad mouths New Yorkers....

Joba Goes Nine (Steps)! Yankee pitcher completes field sobriety test in video from DUI arrest APRIL 6--While devoid of Plaxicoesque bombast and vulgarity, the police video of Joba Chamberlain's DUI arrest is not without its amusing moments. After a Nebraska State Patrol officer pulled the pitcher over for speeding last October, the athlete assumed that the cop knew who he was. "I came from Florida," Chamberlain said, "and obviously I play for the Yankees." During a friendly conversation, Trooper Michael Grummert--who retrieved an open bottle of Crown Royal from the passenger seat of Chamberlain's BMW--asked the athlete what he thought of New York. The pitcher responded that "opening a door and saying please and thank you" were rare in Gotham. As for driving, Chamberlain noted that if you let a fellow Nebraska motorist cut in ahead of you, they would roll down their window and say thanks. In New York, "They might hit you. It's a joke." Asked what it was like playing in Yankee Stadium, Chamberlain, a former catcher, mentioned meeting Yogi Berra in the locker room: "I go, 'Yogi, what the fuck are you doing here?" The Yankee great, Chamberlain recalled, replied, "You know what? It's too cold for my old ass to be here." Referring to Berra's height, the pitcher added, "No bullshit, he might not be as tall as the front of your car." A couple of excerpts from the Chamberlain DUI video can be found at right. While seated in the police cruiser's front seat, Chamberlain, 23, was directed to twice recite the alphabet. Before beginning, he asked Grummert whether he would have to say the letters backwards, and wondered whether the trooper had seen a certain famous online video. "Have you ever seen the test on the Internet? The dude does it from forward to backwards and then starts, he does it backwards and starts dancing." Chamberlain added, "The officer has it on tape on her camera. She starts dancing and he says, 'I don't do that 'cause I'm drunk.'" The video in question, however, is actually a clip from the Comedy Central show "Reno 911." Chamberlain, though, is not the only one to have been fooled into believing the clip was from actual police dashboard camera footage. Moments after Chamberlain submitted to a Breathalyzer test, which he failed, another cop pulled up to the scene. Noting that the motorist in his car was about to be arrested, Grummert said, "He's going. He pitches for the Yankees, by the way." The second cop replied, "Is it Chamberlain? It's Joba?" Chamberlain, whose mug shot you'll find here, pleaded guilty last week to drunk driving and was placed on probation for nine months and had his license suspended for 60 days. (1 page)

Joba mugshot from DUI last year




http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0406091joba1.html

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The Smoking Gun got the transcript and video of Fat Joba's arrest for DUI last year , in it Fat Joba assumes the cop knows who he is.....bad mouths New Yorkers....[/quote:3mhun43i]

Changed my mind. Joba should work out of the bullpen, where he can more readily make an impact by accepting compliments for seven innings a game.

[Centerfield]

What the fuck is he wearing? He looks like a catcher for the Alcatraz All-Stars.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The pitcher responded that "opening a door and saying please and thank you" were rare in Gotham. As for driving, Chamberlain noted that if you let a fellow Nebraska motorist cut in ahead of you, they would roll down their window and say thanks. In New York, "They might hit you. It's a joke."

He added, "In Nebraska, if you ask them to build a stadium, they smile politely as they tell you gently to fuck yourself. In New York, they hand you 800 million of public funds. It's really hilarious."

Edited April 7, 2009 by Guest

[Met Hunter]

You guys forgot one HOFer that was a big part of that "aberration" in 1969. Nolan Ryan.

I'm looking at those choppers and I'm thinking of the MFY facade. Dickheads like him have to root for MFYs. to compensate for a small dick and a fucked up head. That way they're really not losers.

OK, I feel better.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Here's how that conversation SHOULD have gone:

"I came from Florida," Chamberlain said, "and obviously I play for the Yankees."

COP 1: "Oh, good. I get to use my night stick."

COP 2: "No, pepper spray."

COP 1: "What? Why would you do that?"

COP 2: "Pepper spray doesn't leave briuses."

Joba: "Yogi's really small. But I know Derek. He's really nice."

COP 1: "Wow. He IS drunk. And stupid."

[Guest Edgy DC]

What the fuck is he wearing? He looks like a catcher for the Alcatraz All-Stars.[/quote:2jzz4sd9]

Give him time.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

What the fuck is he wearing? He looks like a catcher for the Alcatraz All-Stars.

[G-Fafif]

For no reason other than a desire to hear baseball chatter in the background, I put on Michael Kay, and he is beseeching Posada and Jeter to have a talk with Nick Swisher because Swish appears to be enjoying himself too much.

The Yankee way goes on.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

For no reason other than a desire to hear baseball chatter in the background, I put on Michael Kay, and he is beseeching Posada and Jeter to have a talk with Nick Swisher because Swish appears to be enjoying himself too much.

The Yankee way goes on.[/quote:34ekri4z]
I hope they run him across town. I've had a baseball crush on the guy for a while now, funny dude and an outstanding hitter.

[G-Fafif]

Moving over to MF on FAN (their Lojack found me again), the Swisher pitching and enjoying himself thing is becoming a Thing. The arbiter of all that is anything says it's all right with him that Swish saved the ball or laughed or whatever 'cause it's April. If it were September, he boomed, it wouldn't have happened.

Got me thinking that, well, no, the rosters expand in September, thus you don't use position players to pitch. But then I remembered the Mets' first experience with pitching players was a September blowout at the hands of the Pirates, this one. It was a joint production of New York's Gonna Love Bill Pecota and his manager/hypeman Jeff Torborg. We had worked through Hillman, Whitehurst, Gibson, Dewey and Innis over seven innings. Trailing 18-2, it was Pecota to the hill. Van Slyke led off the eighth with a homer, then Pecota set 'em down in order.

I ask now...why? How is it those mentally and spiritually besotted 1992 Mets didn't have an extra relief pitcher to soak up one lousy inning at the end of one lousy year? How do you wind up using Bill Pecota? Barry Jones and Lee Guetterman each pitched an inning the night before. Anthony Young, by then the closer of record (Franco was injured), hadn't bitched in two nights. And you had to use Bill Pecota?

If this were Jose Oquendo, let's let him play all nine positions, OK, fine. But I remember Torborg being taciturn and disgusted afterwards, that this isn't funny, this is the worst thing that can happen. Yet with extra (granted terrible) arms all around, you couldn't get three outs of out of somebody?

Worst team money could buy. And worst manager anyone could hire.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Worst team money could buy. And worst manager anyone could hire.[/quote:1t02vsqg]

And he didn't bat Magadan leadoff, either.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Anthony Young, by then the closer of record (Franco was injured), hadn't bitched in two nights.[/quote:300kpowk]
Which is more than could have been said of me.

[metirish]

Suit: Yankees force fans to sit for 'God Bless America'

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2:21 PM EDT, April 15, 2009 A baseball fan says he was ejected from Yankee Stadium for leaving his seat to use the bathroom while "God Bless America" played. Bradford Campeau-Laurion filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against New York City and the Yankees. The lawsuit contends he was made a victim of political and religious discrimination on Aug. 26. It says two police officers who ejected him were enforcing a Yankees policy that keeps spectators in their seats during the song. A spokeswoman says the city law office has no immediate comment. A Yankees representative did not immediately return a call

[Benjamin Grimm]

If such a policy exists, it's insane.

Do they also require people to take off their caps during the national anthem?

[Guest Edgy DC]

They've been getting away with it for years. They pulled that shit on sharpie.

[metirish]

I remember posting from an article a few years ago about patrons complaining that security personnel would chain in sections so people could not leave their seats during the playing of that song.