"Let's have a toast for the MFY-lovin' douchebags!"

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: if they're going to exist they may as well exist to tear down the MFYs.

I could really get behind media bias if this was what media was biased toward.

[Edgy MD]

G-Fafif wrote: Cashman's an unfaithful douche (aside from his MFYness). Why is it necessary to expose him, so to speak? Except for learning the GM didn't care for Posada -- not a surprise -- I didn't see any point to any of that. Was he using city funds to get the girlfriend those seats?

I'm torn on Deadspin. They're crass, vulgar, gossip-driven, and seemingly come up with more sources than three sports newsrooms put together.

Asking themselves Why? on occasion would be a good idea. But I don't doubt that Bissingers of the world are as above Deadspin's scruples as they think. Maybe something about the institutional culture of their paper keeps them in check more than their morals, but do you think now that the beans are spilled, the tabloids are going to lay off of Cashman?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Cashman's an unfaithful douche (aside from his MFYness). Why is it necessary to expose him, so to speak? Except for learning the GM didn't care for Posada -- not a surprise -- I didn't see any point to any of that. Was he using city funds to get the girlfriend those seats? I'm torn on Deadspin. They're crass, vulgar, gossip-driven, and seemingly come up with more sources than three sports newsrooms put together.

Not only that, but when they aren't just churning out hit pieces and traffic bumpers, their feature writing shames newspapers' even more than their news stuff does. (Grantland, with a better success rate and about 1/1,000,000 of the pretensions.)

Asking themselves Why? on occasion would be a good idea. But I don't doubt that Bissingers of the world are as above Deadspin's scruples as they think. Maybe something about the institutional culture of their paper keeps them in check more than their morals, but do you think now that the beans are spilled, the tabloids are going to lay off of Cashman?

Over the last few years, Bissinger's become more of a free-associative Tweeter than a longform writer.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Aaaaaaand now it's news.

Louise Neathway, 36, was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court Thursday after police arrested her Wednesday afternoon. Neathway is facing aggravated harassment charges stemming from phone contact with Cashman. She is also charged with grand larceny and two counts of stealing a total of $6,200 from the victim. A police source said Cashman helped lure Neathway into a police dragnet. A source tells the News that �Lou� and Louise Neathway are the same person.

[Edgy MD]

That's an expensive toothbrush.

[Edgy MD]

Also, kinda seems like Deadspin got kinda played in some sort of vindictive shakedown.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I mean even if this part didn't come out it looked like that.

[MFS62]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Oops, Cashman pulls a Phillips.

Maybe if Phillips could have figured out how to pull something else .....


Later

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I mean even if this part didn't come out it looked like that.

True that.

[metirish]

And here I thought Cashman was having a quite off-season.

[Frayed Knot]

And now with the girlfriend/stalker in jail, Mrs. Cash quickly follows up with a divorce filing.

[metirish]

YES Network's Bob Lorenz charged with DUI

Published: February 9, 2012 8:44 AM

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WESTPORT, Conn. -- YES Network television host Bob Lorenz has been charged with drunken driving in Connecticut where police say he was found passed out in his car in his hometown of Westport.
The 48-year-old Lorenz was arrested early Wednesday morning. Police say they found him slumped over the wheel of his car and when they woke him up he drove away slowly and nearly hit a utility pole. Officers say his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol.
Lorenz hosts pregame and postgame shows for the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets. He was arraigned Wednesday at Norwalk Superior Court and his case was continued to Feb. 29.
There's no phone listing for Lorenz and it's not clear if he has a lawyer. A Yes Network spokesman declined to comment.

[HahnSolo]

metirish wrote: YES Network's Bob Lorenz charged with DUI Published: February 9, 2012 8:44 AM By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WESTPORT, Conn. -- YES Network television host Bob Lorenz has been charged with drunken driving in Connecticut where police say he was found passed out in his car in his hometown of Westport. The 48-year-old Lorenz was arrested early Wednesday morning. Police say they found him slumped over the wheel of his car and when they woke him up he drove away slowly and nearly hit a utility pole. Officers say his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol. Lorenz hosts pregame and postgame shows for the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets. He was arraigned Wednesday at Norwalk Superior Court and his case was continued to Feb. 29. There's no phone listing for Lorenz and it's not clear if he has a lawyer. A Yes Network spokesman declined to comment.

Big surprise to me that he is only 48. Seems much older.

[metirish]

That's what the drink will do to ya........won't be so fucking smug now on YES eh Bob?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Given his total failure to toe the party line, he's kind of a bad fit over there, anyway.

[Frayed Knot]

Police say they found him slumped over the wheel of his car and when they woke him up he drove away slowly and nearly hit a utility pole. Officers say his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol.

So lemme get this straight: the cops find someone passed-out and slumped over the steering wheel of his car but then allow him to drive away and don't get around to arresting him until after he does a slow-speed crash into the utility pole thang?!?
The article doesn't make it clear at what point they noticed the smell of booze and slurred speech so we'll refrain from holding that one against them pending further details.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: Police say they found him slumped over the wheel of his car and when they woke him up he drove away slowly and nearly hit a utility pole. Officers say his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol. So lemme get this straight: the cops find someone passed-out and slumped over the steering wheel of his car but then allow him to drive away and don't get around to arresting him until after he does a slow-speed crash into the utility pole thang?!? The article doesn't make it clear at what point they noticed the smell of booze and slurred speech so we'll refrain from holding that one against them pending further details.

I'm not sure they 'allowed' him to drive away.

[Frayed Knot]

NYPost saying that the not-yet separated Brian Cashman only went to the police to report the stalking/harassment by his girlfriend when the girlfriend started to harass his other girlfriend.

Hate when that happens.

[G-Fafif]

Don Mattingly: MFY douchebag in Dodger clothing.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly, who spent his entire 14-year career as a major league player with the New York Yankees, said Tuesday that despite the major offseason moves and high expectations of the crosstown Los Angeles Angels, the Dodgers still own the Southland. "It's kind of like Mets-Yankees," Mattingly said just before the Dodgers' first full-squad workout of spring training. "The Yankees are the team. (The Mets) are going to have their years when they play well, but the Yankees are still the team. I don't want to badmouth the Angels at all. Mr. (Angels owner Arte) Moreno has done a great job down there in Anaheim, and (Angels manager) Mike (Scioscia) does a great job. But we're the Dodgers, and that isn't going to change." Mattingly's playing career coincided with the longest dry spell in Yankees history, the team failing to reach the playoffs until his final season of 1995, when they suffered a first-round loss to the Seattle Mariners. The Mets, meanwhile, were a dominant National League team through much of that period, winning a World Series in 1986.

[Edgy MD]

"It's kind of like Mets-Yankees," Mattingly said just before the Dodgers' first full-squad workout of spring training. "The Yankees are the team. (The Mets) are going to have their years when they play well --- and, in fact, outplay the Yankees. And outdraw them. Outclass them? Sure. Especially if I'm on the field."

[Ceetar]

out-class? Come on, this is the Yankees we're talking about, they take the team photos in a high end...bathroom?

[metirish]

"STFU cracker"

[Farmer Ted]

Is that Mike Piazza taking that photo, with an iPhone?

[TransMonk]

Dwayne Wade and Tim Tebow

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, ESPN managed to show/mention those two once or twice on the Sunday night game.
Oh wait, upon further review, it was actually 134 times.

[TransMonk]

CNNSI put together a slideshow just for us.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1204/celebrities.athletes.yankees.hats/content.1.html

[Edgy MD]

Congrats to Gabrielle Union, J.R. Smith, and Talib Kweli (whoever the Hell they are) for wearing hats that don't look like they just came out of plastic bags. Also congratulations to Hugh Grant for finding a way to put off his adoring masses by walking as if somebody has a gun pointed at his back.

[MFS62]

TransMonk wrote: CNNSI put together a slideshow just for us. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1204/celebrities.athletes.yankees.hats/content.1.html

Kurt Russell doing his best Tony LaRussa immitation.
We'll know its over when Minka wears a Mets hat.
I betcha' Anna Kournikova wears one because she's never had a Mets fan. I volunteer to turn her from the dark side.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

So... are we never discussing Chris Rock's MFY drag in that photo collection, then?

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

How many of them got their hats as part of a gift basket?