Cheaters, Murderers, Perjurers, Mercenaries

[Guest Edgy DC]

Now, it's instead, "What if A-Rod was out there?" with a healthy afterdose of "Hey? Why the hell wasn't he out there?!"

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Jesse Carlson is my newest baseball hero.

[duan]

Jorge Posada's elbow was really, really pathetic. It wasn't sore or anything but it was the hallmark of a total wanker.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

I hope they remember it into next season. It may actually serve to motivate them to keep up with them in the standings.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Shelley Duncan unjustifiably in the middle of things. How not shocking.

Hey, Shelley, try hockey.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I listened to John & Suzyn calling it on the radio, quite hilarious. They said Derrell Cousins, the third base umpire, was injured in the fracas. Anyone see how?

edit --

...struck on the knee by a bottle full of soda that was thrown from the stands.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/09/16/2009-09-16_derryl_cousins.html

[Guest Edgy DC]

1) What huge douchebaggery.

2) It kind of puts the lie to the notion that Yankee ticket schemes have priced the louts outside of striking distance.

3) How do louts even get bottles inside the stadium?

[Frayed Knot]

Once the fight got going all it was was a mass of bodies (two piles eventually) but you could barely tell who was who.
The only thing that stuck out was 150 lb MFY reliever Edwar (buy a 'D') Ramirez tying to pull Jays' catcher Rod Barajas out of the pile by the strap on the back of his chest protector and having 60 y/o Cito Gaston yank him away.

That's not the first time Posada's done that 'oops I accidently brushed past you too hard' thing as the prelude to a scuffle.

[HahnSolo]

Edwar Ramirez--douche.

Comes to the scrum late, then decides he'll be heroic by grabbing the opposing team's catcher--who is at the bottom of a pile--and start pulling him by his catching gear.

And I didn't see Shelley Duncan, but like Edgy says, how unsurprising.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

What I wanna know is whether Carslon did a Shawn Estes impersonation intentionally during Hip-Hip Jorge's at-bat ?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

What I wanna know is whether Carslon did a Shawn Estes impersonation intentionally during Hip-Hip Jorge's at-bat ?[/quote:1ilzqj89]

Almost definitely.

Edwin Encarnacion and Aaron Hill had been hit in the two innings prior, with the Blue Jays leading big. Even if neither was intentional-- Hill's shot in the upper back looked a little hinky-- that seemed to have been the perception on Toronto's part.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

What I'm not sure about is whether he actually threw behind Posada intentionally or whether he was actually aiming at Posada and missed (� la Estes)?

Sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Carlson missed by a lot, although I think he probably meant to hit him. Either way Posada's a punk for mixing it up with a team 25 games out or whatever, and I hope the Jays throw at Jeter, Arod and Texiera tonight.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure they were throwing a Posada because they thought he called for the pitches that hit EE and Hill.

[Frayed Knot]

There was also the one a week or two back where - also during a Toronto blow-out - one of their guys got hit in the face by a NYY pitch.
That one definitely wasn't intentional - the bases were loaded at the time and it was former Jay Josh Towers who did it - but last night's plunkings made it a three-peat so I don't blame the Jays for being mad.

And maybe it's the proximity many of us have to MFY fans or maybe it's simply the amount of whining in the face of so much success, but, for a group of fans that constantly complain how they're forever on the short end of the HBP-ee to HBP-er ratio, they've certainly hit a lot of batters lately. Carlos Pena was lost for the season during the last NYY-TB series after and up-and-in pitch broke two of his fingers. And that doesn't even get into the ongoing Joba-Youkilis target practice saga.

[Farmer Ted]

Roider.


HOUSTON (AP) -- Former major leaguer Chuck Knoblauch has been charged with assaulting his common-law wife.

A judge set Knoblauch's bond at $10,000 after he appeared in court Tuesday. According to a criminal complaint, Knoblauch's wife told police he hit her in the face and then choked her at their Houston home on Friday.

Knoblauch's attorney did not immediately return a telephone call Tuesday.

The 41-year-old former infielder is a Houston native and a four-time All-Star who played for the New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals from 1991-02.

Knoblauch was one of more than 80 players who were accused of using performance-enhancing drugs in the 2007 Mitchell Report on baseball's steroids era. Knoblauch later acknowledged using performance enhancers.

[MFS62]

If he'd tried to throw something at her, he never could have hit her.
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[metirish]

Jeez , but AJ Burnett is some sort of dickhead.... he's done the pie in the face 15 times this season....it's like his thing and he intends to continue the " tradition in the playoffs , even if it's Jeter or Tex"....idiot.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I love Yankee traditions, particularly the one of them coming up short so far this millenium.

[Frayed Knot]

Jeez , but AJ Burnett is some sort of dickhead.... he's done the pie in the face 15 times this season....it's like his thing and he intends to continue the " tradition in the playoffs , even if it's Jeter or Tex"....idiot.[/quote:1vvswo9x]

This new-found fun side of the MFYs is getting the classic 20/20 hindsight as credit for their good season.
Back when they were winning all the time in the late '90s, their "professionalism" was always cited as what set them apart. Now, Swisher's goofiness, Burnett's shaving-cream pies, and Melky & Cano's dugout dances are seen as major factors in a loose and winning team. Of course if they were losing these same things would be blamed as the cause of it all - but that's why it's classic hindsight.

I even notice how they're no longer pretending their clubhouse is a tattoo-free zone. One would have thought that Giambi and Farnsworth had some kind of years-long rash on their arms the way they were always wrapped up. Suddenly though, Sabathia & Burnett are free to show the ink. Amazing how standards melt away in the face of desperation.

[MFS62]

Now, Swisher's goofiness, Burnett's shaving-cream pies, and Melky & Cano's dugout dances are seen as major factors in a loose and winning team. Of course if they were losing these same things would be blamed as the cause of it all - but that's why it's classic hindsight.
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I just love it when Yankee fans deride Reyes' dugout dances.
(Oops, just pegged my sarcasm meter)
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[metirish]

Swisher was a guy I would have liked before but since landing in the Bronx he seems like a total bollox...

[ashie62]

And today Chuck Knoblauch is picked up for assaulting his wife..

If he threw something at her she should be OK

[MFS62]

And today Chuck Knoblauch is picked up for assaulting his wife..

If he threw something at her she should be OK[/quote:290fnety]
Check earlier in this thread.
You're late to the dance.

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[ashie62]

I am tardy

[Frayed Knot]

Swisher was a guy I would have liked before but since landing in the Bronx he seems like a total bollox...

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, that about figures. The question is, is Jeter astride his chestnut flank, or is he depicted as more of a supplicant chained-Heavy-Metal maiden down at Rodtaur's hooves?

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/ex-alex-rodriguez-had-portraits-of-himself-as-a-centaur-over-his-bed-20093010

[metirish]

No matter now....he is been declared a real yankee , it's all he ever wanted and now he's got it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, that about figures. The question is, is Jeter astride his chestnut flank, or is he depicted as more of a supplicant chained-Heavy-Metal maiden down at Rodtaur's hooves?

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/ex-alex-rodriguez-had-portraits-of-himself-as-a-centaur-over-his-bed-20093010

[MFS62]

We've been saying for a while that he's a horse's ass.
Y'mean to say that there's now graphic proof?

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