The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread

[Edgy MD]

Reports today of Jorge Posada retiring.

[metirish]

post your favorite Posada pix here, fucking twat.

[Fman99]

[Edgy MD]

Caught Wells' perfect game.

[metirish]

Caught Syphilis of Jeter.

[Edgy MD]

The same night?

[G-Fafif]

Retiring from the MFYs now. Quit on the MFYs eight months ago.

[Frayed Knot]

I get a kick out of the slant that a catcher who first had his mitt taken away then was increasingly shoved aside by his own team (see the 'Quit' link above) to the point where it was known all along that they weren't going to re-sign him, spending the first few months of the off-season trolling for offers (if not then why wouldn't he have retired during the first week of November?) then, when it's clear that none were forthcoming, is described as "going out on his own terms".
Yeah, he is in the same way several recently deposed middle-east potentates did.

I guess part of it is the relief to YLDBs that he isn't going to sully himself with a uniform other than the Yanqui pinstripes.

[MFS62]

I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that the YLDB shills in the media will be telling us how he deserves to be in the HOF. Constantly.

Later

[ashie62]

Heyman has already started..

[Fman99]

So has [crossout]Smiley McDouchenstein[/crossout] Wallace Mathews on ESPN. Read this **********y.

Fuckface wrote: So it should be with relief, not sadness, that Yankees fans bid farewell to Jorge Posada. His decision spares them the heartbreak of having to see him in another uniform -- could you imagine him in a Red Sox get-up or the ersatz pinstripes of the Mets?

Fuck you in the least ersatz of your holes, sir.

[bmfc1]

Matthews is an ersatz columnist.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Isn't "Ersatz" the mouse who was always throwing bricks at Krazy Kat?

[Edgy MD]

Posada's case hurt by Girardi, to a degree, at both ends of his career.

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/1/9/2693299/jorge-posada-hall-of-fame-retiring.

It's kind of funny about this whole Core Four business is that the Yanks won two of their championships with Posada backing up and one with him sharing the catching position.

[MFS62]

Here's someone who actually put together a compendium of ca-ca about George's retirement.
Warning!
You may want to check your supply of barf bags before opening the link.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/writing-jorge-posada-retirement-150930144.html

I warned ya'.

Later

[Ceetar]

lol, caught this comment to that article:

I am a 30+ year Yankees fan.Jorgie is without a doubt a class act, however, I am NOT a fan of his baseball play. Here's why. While catching: 1. He usually (90%) lightly tosses the ball back to the pitcher. Clemens hated that as did others.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

This article announces that Chelsea and Celtic will be playing a football match at Yankee Stadium III this summer. What grinds my gears is the opening sentence "For the first time in 36 years, a soccer game is set to be held at Yankee Stadium this summer." And thus the media-assisted mythology that allowed the 1976 Yankee Stadium II to be the same place where Ruth and Gehrig played is now considering the four-year old ballpark to be the same place that Pele played. At least with MFYSI & MFYSII one could argue that they were built on the same site but there's no excuse for this BS.

[MFS62]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: This article announces that Chelsea and Celtic will be playing a football match at Yankee Stadium III this summer. What grinds my gears is the opening sentence "For the first time in 36 years, a soccer game is set to be held at Yankee Stadium this summer." And thus the media-assisted mythology that allowed the 1976 Yankee Stadium II to be the same place where Ruth and Gehrig played is now considering the four-year old ballpark to be the same place that Pele played. At least with MFYSI & MFYSII one could argue that they were built on the same site but there's no excuse for this BS.

Edgy, its on a Soccer site, most likely written by a guy who only lives and breathes soccer. He probably can't find MFYS II with a GPS.
I'd give him more slack than if this were on the MFY site, written by one of the reporters who cover baseball. Or by the MFY PR department.

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

In addition to the certain lie that David (Fuck that Guy) Robertson hurt his foot in a fall "while moving boxes" word is that Nick Swisher is dealing with a hand cut "from a picture frame."

In other bullshit MFY news, Raissman today relives some of the YES Network's greatest hits.

[Edgy MD]

MFS62 wrote: Edgy, its on a Soccer site...

How am I involved here?

[Edgy MD]

Ah, you've confused me with Willets.

Tough day for Willets.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: In addition to the certain lie that David (Fuck that Guy) Robertson hurt his foot in a fall "while moving boxes" word is that Nick Swisher is dealing with a hand cut "from a picture frame." In other bullshit MFY news, Raissman today relives some of the YES Network's greatest hits.

picture frame? nice..

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Ah, you've confused me with Willets. Tough day for Willets.

If only I could be handsome with long-flowing locks and write poetry like you.

[metirish]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: This article announces that Chelsea and Celtic will be playing a football match at Yankee Stadium III this summer. What grinds my gears is the opening sentence "For the first time in 36 years, a soccer game is set to be held at Yankee Stadium this summer." And thus the media-assisted mythology that allowed the 1976 Yankee Stadium II to be the same place where Ruth and Gehrig played is now considering the four-year old ballpark to be the same place that Pele played. At least with MFYSI & MFYSII one could argue that they were built on the same site but there's no excuse for this BS.

two contrasting teams , Chelsea as blue a Brit team as there is(historically Chelsea fans would be cut from the same cloth as Glasgow Rangers fans).....and Celtic as historically Irish as there is.

[MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: Ah, you've confused me with Willets. Tough day for Willets.

Edgy, you are usually at the forefront in the fight for competent journalism.
No offense meant to either of you.

Later

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Chelsea is historically known for having some of the most vicious hooligan firms too, although I don't know how active they are these days.

[G-Fafif]

Flipping by YEECH a few minutes ago, MFYs Magazine was doing a feature on Joba Chamberlain. Nancy Newman said (paraphrasing), "Of course Joba's goal is, as it is every year, to win another world championship." And by instinct, I heard myself telling Nancy Newman, "Oh, fuck you."

[Fman99]

I would think Joba's goal is to keep his mother out of the Police Beat.

[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: Flipping by YEECH a few minutes ago, MFYs Magazine was doing a feature on Joba Chamberlain. Nancy Newman said (paraphrasing), "Of course Joba's goal is, as it is every year, to win another world championship." And by instinct, I heard myself telling Nancy Newman, "Oh, fuck you."

That's not a paraphrase, that specific phrase is the one which was programmed into those specially selected Stepford Yanquis before they are allowed to speak on YEECH. No deviations are heard because no deviations are possible.

[bmfc1]

Good news for New York baseball writers, one of their favorite MFY-mancrushes is back: Andy (PED) Pettitte is making a comeback. Look for Sherman, Lupica, Madden... well, all of them, to write loving, fawning, articles in the next few days.