Yankee-Lovin' Douchebags 2009

[metirish]

Front running douchebags....is there anything worse?




Sir Paul McCartney of Douchebag and girlfriend Nancy Shevell watch the Yankees play the Texas Rangers in the Bronx


four douchebags with small boobs take stand for God Bless America

[MFS62]

How fucking could he?
Doesn't he remember that his American roots were at Shea Staduim?

This one really pisses me off.
Turncoat!

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oh, please. He's a British guy who was invited to a ballgame. That doesn't mean he's a fan.

I went to a Philadelphia 76ers game a few months ago because my daughter won free tickets. Doesn't make me a Sixers fan.

[Guest sharpie]

Sir Paul has been to several MFY games.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Okay, in that case, I'm going to burn my Beatle wig!

[HahnSolo]

Who's that between Jack and Paul?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I bet Pete Best is a Mets fan.

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Who's that between Jack and Paul?[/quote:1ag7c11b]

Lorne Michaels

[Fman99]

Sir Appalled's girlfriend is a hot YLDB. I'd poo in her MFY hat.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I bet Pete Best is a Mets fan.[/quote:28t496jv]

I met Pete Best once. Really. Didn't ask his team affiliation, though.

[G-Fafif]

I bet Pete Best is a Mets fan.

[metirish]

The Captain is in a slump but John Harper hits for the cycle in this article , use your imagination as to what a Harper cycle on Jeter would be.

Derek Jeter's silent treatment speaks volumes about chase of Lou Gehrig's Yankee record

In a world where the Yankees almost never lose anymore, Derek Jeter's unlikely detour on the road to pinstriped immortality is practically inconsequential. But it sure is odd. Hard to say which is more un-Jeter-like: looking as if he's allowed the Lou Gehrig milestone to get to him at the plate, where he is now officially slumping, or pulling a no-show with the media after the game last night. No doubt he'll say he didn't want to intrude on Nick Swisher's night, after Swisher hit two home runs, including a walk-off shot to right in the ninth to give the Yankees a 3-2 win over the Rays. But obviously it's bugging Jeter that his expected coronation as the Yankees' all-time hit leader has turned into intrigue. As in: what's wrong with the captain? Jeter has built up such a resume as a clutch hitter that you wouldn't think he is suddenly feeling the pressure to get the four hits necessary to pass Gehrig. Then again, the Yankee shortstop is so famously about team and winning that you wonder if trying to reach such a personal achievement is messing with his baseball equilibrium. Not only is he 0-for-12 in three games the last two days, but he struck out three times last night for the first time all season. If this were an Alex Rodriguez production, we would assume that he is trying too hard to attain such glory, much the way he has tried too hard to deliver for the Yankees in postseasons past. So what about Jeter? He has always seemed pressure-proof over the years, but this isn't like failing in big games in October. Maybe he's just uncomfortable enough with all the attention surrounding his chase of Gehrig's 2,721 hits that indeed he is trying too hard to get it out of the way, as Joe Girardi suggests. Girardi seemed as bewildered as anyone else when he admitted he didn't know if Jeter was pressing because "I've never seen Derek press, so I don't know what it looks like if he does." It's not as if Jeter is racing the clock or anything, but who knows? If it somehow gets in the way of Jeter's selfless approach to playing the game, maybe it gets in the way of his simplistic approach to hitting as well. Last night Jeter didn't look right, that's for sure. Rays lefty David Price has some nasty stuff, but the Yankee captain seemed baffled at the plate, striking out twice looking at fastballs, and once swinging at a slider at his shins. In other words, he had the look of a hitter who was overthinking at the plate, which is the polar opposite of Jeter's style. Nobody keeps things as simple as he does, whether it's his see-it-and-hit-it approach to hitting, his lead-by-example style of captaincy or his avoid-controversy-at-all-costs dealings with the media, and obviously it works for him. Talk to him about hitting and he'll tell you that he never guesses on a pitch, doesn't even want to know when someone in the dugout has discovered a pitcher is, say, tipping his curveball. "If I know it's coming," he said recently, "I'll get overanxious and swing even if it's not a strike. I'd rather not know." He'd rather trust his extraordinary hand-eye coordination, not to mention, the short, quick, inside-out swing that Scott Brosius once labeled "slump-proof." Talk to him about most anything else and all paths lead to simplicity, which also means revealing nothing of himself about injuries last year or a change in his training regimen that may or may not be responsible for his seemingly dramatic improvement defensively this season. He does admit to taking criticism of his defense personally, saying, "You can take it as a challenge or you can go sit in a corner and sulk about it." His buddy, Jorge Posada, takes it a step further, saying, "He looks for something negative to motivate him." Maybe it helps keep the blinders on. You want simplicity? A couple of weeks ago in Boston I asked Jeter why for years he has had what in some ways is the worst locker in the tiny visiting clubhouse in Fenway Park, nearest the entrance and right in the flow of the constant media traffic. Jeter pointed to the door next to his locker leading to the dugout and said, "Easy in and out." Simple works for Jeter, and you have to think that maybe it is part of the reason he has been such a clutch player over the years. As Reggie Jackson once said about him, "He thinks the game but doesn't overthink it. It's a skill in itself that not many guys have." Call it part of Jeter's genius. Of course, maybe nobody can go forever without overthinking the failure-driven science of hitting, and surely he'll will get past this soon enough and go back to his MVP-like season. But it turns out even Jeter isn't always the unflappable captain. Who knew? jharper@nydailynews.com

[MFS62]

Get out the barf bags, Martha.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's amazing how often people are shocked writing about behavior that is so remarkably un-Jeter like --- slumpiness, churlishness, unclutchness, self-interest, head-up-assihness at the WBC, non-standy-uppyness, human-ness --- when they're writing as much about these exceptions as they are about the supposed rule that Jeter exhibits none of these things.

[ashie62]

If the Mets were in 1st place none of this Jeter crap would annoy anyone here

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Of course, Jeter would be a ways off from Gehrig's record had Gehrig's career not ended prematurely because he DIED.

Perhaps Derek knows this, and is in some small part embarrassed by the lovefest surrounding his attempt, realizing that he is unworthy of dusting Gehrig's Hall of Fame plaque.

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If the Mets were in 1st place none of this Jeter crap would annoy anyone here[/quote:326sa09b]


I think that might be true for a lot of things but not this media nonsense , in good times and bad we as a forum have tracked the media's over reaction to the MFY's

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

If the Mets were in 1st place none of this Jeter crap would annoy anyone here

[Guest Edgy DC]

People I have no idea about, but if you put a gun to my head, I've just got to believe are YLDBs:

1. Kelly Ripa

2. Demi Moore

3. Steve Pelluer

4. Kanye West

5. David Beckham

6. Justin Timberlake

7. Monica Lewinski

8. Justine Bateman

9. Dane Cook

10. Lady Fuckin' Gaga

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ha! I read backwards and turns out that I'm right about Beckham. Of course, I probably sublimimininally remembered it.

[G-Fafif]

People I have no idea about, but if you put a gun to my head, I've just got to believe are YLDBs:

1. Kelly Ripa[/quote:292rzs0r]

Kelly Ripa did radio commercials urging all to buy Mets tickets (a la Jon Stewart and John Leguizamo) a couple of years ago.

Keep the gun from your head.

[metirish]

They're all douchebags though.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That drunk cop who killed a woman in a hit-and-run then avoided a breathalyzer test for 12 hours? YLDB. I haven't seen a photo of him without a MFY cap and shirt.

[MFS62]

Dear Abby,
I'm having a tough time separating the real Yankee loving douchebags from your garden variety frontrunning motherfuckers, who would jump on the bandwagon and root for any winnning team.
Any hints as to how I can tell the difference?

Please sign me:
I want to use the proper epithet

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

People I have no idea about, but if you put a gun to my head, I've just got to believe are YLDBs:

9. Dane Cook

10. Lady Fuckin' Gaga[/quote:3jq0gqvz]

Cook grew up just outside Boston, IIRC, but I've seen a handful of pictures with him in a Yankee hat (probably not taken just outside Boston). True-blue YLDB? Dunno. But he's one of THOSE guys.

Weirdly, I think you're right about Gaga-- she did a little of her new single on SNL a few weeks ago, and I remembered something about "watching the Yankees with her dad."

[dgwphotography]

I'm going to gavomit...

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/10/18/2009-10-18_the_best_fans_ever_no_matter_the_cost_no_other_team_inspires_such_devotion.html

[metsmarathon]

yankee fans are not the best in the world. they throw the ball back, too.

[metsmarathon]

"There are other baseball fans in other cities, of course, Mets fans in this one. There are fans who come out strong for teams who haven't won the way the Yankees won, who don't make the playoffs just about every year the way the Yankees have since Joe Torre first came to town 13 years ago and the winning came back to the Yankees and the Bronx."

so, yeah, they're great fans and all. but they're only there 'cos the team is winning.

that's my takeaway from the article. the rest was nonsense that can be said of the fans of any team, really. oh, one guy didnt want to look at what was left of ysii - the poor thing - instead preferring to remember it as it was (a 70's remodel, ha!). but, y'know, what better way to make yankee fans like you than to tell them, to reassure them, how great they must be because they root for the yankees. because if they didnt need the yankees to make them feel great, well, they'd be mets fans.

[metirish]

Well it's a stupid article and I hate the way Lupica does this all the time

He is a Yankee fan out of Ohio State yyybbb

[Guest Edgy DC]

yankee fans are not the best in the world. they throw the ball back, too.