The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ate lunch at a Jersey TGIFriday's yesterday, seated about 15 minutes after the Bay grannie. Noticed that there were four TVs hovering in/near our booth, and that two of them were playing the MFY game, with the other two playing a college football game that nobody-- and, doing a scan of the scantly-populated booths, I mean NOBODY-- was tracking. I asked a few times-- the server twice, and a bartender once-- if they would mind changing one of the screens to the Met game; I got sure-not-a-problem-yeah-yeah-yeah-ed by all of 'em. A trying hour-and-a-half later of screaming YoungerPooper, furtive MLB AtBat checks on the phone, and smeared food detritus in/around my face and shirt... there were two TVs playing the MFY game, and two playing that college football game.

As grating as that was from a service standpoint-- leaving aside the specifics, I'd made a reasonable request politely, and been ignored multiple times-- it turned out to be wonderfully satisfying when Hughes gave up the lead to Reynolds and the O's in the sixth or seventh, and the bullpen did their Acostalypse-y thing soon thereafter. As I noticed the falling faces on the families around us-- one member (Dad? Older kid?) of whom, I SWEAR, snickered a little when I asked the server about the Met game-- I started to feel almost full, nourished and smiling fatly like I'd just sucked down the world's best barbecue.

It's gratifying to watch from afar as the Braves threaten to crash out of the playoffs again. It makes my day a little brighter when I find that the Phils have coughed up a ninth-inning lead to fall into fourth. Absent the joy of a Met playoff run, it sticks to my motherfucking ribs and lights up my brain's joyjoy center to overload to watch these fuckers suffer. I kinda hope it always does.

[MFS62]

As my old Army buddies might have said, "The Yankee fans are getting so tight, you couldn't drag a needle out of their ass with a tractor."

Later

[Frayed Knot]

But ARod's back today so all the problems for Yanx fans are reduced ... or multiplied depending on one's point of view.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: It's gratifying to watch from afar as the Braves threaten to crash out of the playoffs again. It makes my day a little brighter when I find that the Phils have coughed up a ninth-inning lead to fall into fourth. Absent the joy of a Met playoff run, it sticks to my motherfucking ribs and lights up my brain's joyjoy center to overload to watch these fuckers suffer. I kinda hope it always does.

Amen

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

MFYs lose!

O's up big.

[Ceetar]

so you think they just slot in Pettitte as the #2 for the playoffs?

what do you mean that type of talk is premature, it's been discussed since June!

[G-Fafif]

The expansion of the playoffs in 1995 gave the Wild Carding, second-place MFYs an unprecedented in, while the expansion of the playoffs in 1969 presented the Mets with a hurdle no team with the best record in its league ever had to clear.

The 1969 Mets swept the first League Championship Series en route to winning arguably the most iconic world championship in baseball history. The 1995 MFYs built a two games to none lead en route to having their hearts smashed by the instantly beloved 1995 Seattle Mariners.

So now, maybe, the 2012 MFYs, who deserve to fall through about twelve holes in perpetual motion to a place lower than hell -- not just for being the 2012 MFYs but the franchise for which they carry the tradition-laden flag -- will descend from first to second and then second to third yet, for the first time a team can do this, make the playoffs anyway.

Their hearts getting smashed in a one-game playoff would be swell, but a completely MFY-free postseason would be way better.

Just the fact that I'm thinking about this with a month to go is dangerous. Clear the mechanism...

[Edgy MD]

More exposure, scandal, and disgrace would be nice.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: More exposure, scandal, and disgrace would be nice.

maybe this Cano being lazy story will gain legs, as they struggle, and people will call for Girardi's head because he "lost the clubhouse".


obviously a completely MFY-free postseason is preferable, but how perfect would it be if they fall into the second spot and desperately call on Pettitte off the DL to make that start, and he's very predictably not ready for prime time and gets shelled, hard.

[Fman99]

My son's douchy YLDB Little League coach on Facebook wrote: Sitting here watching the Yankee game... Derek Jeter makes yet another spectacular play so I say to my wife "that mans a player" her response is "I bet he is a player and I would play with him" my response "what and give up all this" she says " Yup I sure will" gotta love her honesty lol

Vomit.

[Guest themetfairy]

Get your son off that team NOW!!!

[Frayed Knot]

So last night was ARod's 300th HR as a Yankme, more than twice as many as Reggie in less than twice the time, plus he has that all-important ring.
That means they have to retire his number right? I mean, sure he gets booed half the time, but so did Reggie - or has that part been conveniently expunged from the record and from fans' memories now that he's both on their wall of fame and on the payroll?

And once you do it for Alex can you deny such an honor for Teixeira? And once they re-sign Granderson it'll be tough to keep his digits out of Monument Park. And then what about Swisher? Look, the guy invented the post-game pie! Nothing like that had been done before in MLB history. Plus he's so popular with the bleacher bums.

And I haven't even gotten to Sabathia yet.

[Ceetar]

I'm toying with writing a book that takes place 30-50 years in the future. Fiction or not, I'm envisioning a world where the Yankees are no longer held up as some sort of 'better than thou' franchise, but instead are a relic and a laughing stock. They routinely have spring uniforms with letters (or THREE! digits) They were a world-wide laughing stock back in 2035 when one of their fringe invitees, wearing 2A (he fancied himself the 'next' Jeter but was a long shot at best to make the majors.) He hit like crazy in Spring Training and the Yankees suffered injuries to two SS that spring and he ended up making the team and refused to give up the uniform number so he became the first player to ever wear a letter in a regular season game. They called him "The Apartment" and he ended up having a pretty decent career as a backup middle infielder, but the Yankees were teased all season long for the letter thing.

[metirish]

lol.....great game ending double play of the bat of Texeria as the O's hold on to win 5-4, looks like a blown call actually as Texaria dived into first base and the ump got it wrong....delightful.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LOLMFY

[Guest Swan Swan H]

It was totally blown - Douchebag Cop got there well before the ball, but the slide didn't help him get the call. I think Kay is about to start crying. He just named Jerry Meals the Orioles player of the game.

[metirish]

Swan Swan H wrote: It was totally blown - Douchebag Cop got there well before the ball, but the slide didn't help him get the call. I think Kay is about to start crying. He just named Jerry Meals the Orioles player of the game.

I bet Ken Singleton isn't inching up on his seat right now......probably fell back crying...Christ but they are homers.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Bases loaded, none out and they hit two weak infield grounders. Fuck 'em.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Zackly. Fuck. Them. And fuck Michael Kay. F-U-C-K him.

[Frayed Knot]

Swan Swan H wrote: Bases loaded, none out and they hit two weak infield grounders. Fuck 'em.

The Yanx continue to specialize in hitting grounders too shitty to be turned into DPs. I know I can't prove that they do it more often than other teams and don't ask me how a team can do that on purpose but I'll go to my grave believing they have a knack for taking full swings and getting shit exactly when needed as if on demand.
Swisher did it the first time and it brought in a run, and then Teixeira did the same thing only he is a bit slower and probably dove himself into a bad call (I still couldn't tell definitively) or else the tying run would have scored.


Meanwhile Nick Markakis got himself a broken hand in the game and is almost certainly out for the rest of the reg season.


And just minutes before the O's/Yanx ended the Rays lost to Texas in extras, one day after winning in extras on a Ben Zobrist walk-off.
Too bad, a Tampa win tonight would have really tightened things up.

[metirish]

It's getting better


Now it's the media's fault RT @AndrewMarchand Postgame Chaos: Girardi got into it with Joel Sherman of the Post, too. They were separated at one point.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

metirish wrote: It's getting better Now it's the media's fault RT @AndrewMarchand Postgame Chaos: Girardi got into it with Joel Sherman of the Post, too. They were separated at one point.

Lololol

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Zackly. Fuck. Them. And fuck Michael Kay. F-U-C-K him.

who do I look like, Jodi Applegate?

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Frayed Knot wrote: Meanwhile Nick Markakis got himself a broken hand in the game and is almost certainly out for the rest of the reg season. And just minutes before the O's/Yanx ended the Rays lost to Texas in extras, one day after winning in extras on a Ben Zobrist walk-off. Too bad, a Tampa win tonight would have really tightened things up.

Shame. Six games against Tampa, including the upcoming series is likely to define the O's season.

Didn't get to see a replay of the double play as the feed ended immediately. Was Forrest in fact out?

[Frayed Knot]

Certainly looked to be safe, but he got there via a head-first slide which, as we're often told, almost certainly slowed him down, and I never did see a definitive replay (maybe there isn't one). Plus I think the head-first thing makes it tougher for the ump to call that play.

Either way, Teixeira was crying about it in the locker room, about that call and about the called strike-3 he looked at in the 8th inning even throwing in a; "while I'm out there playing on one leg", for good measure. He then went on to imply (if not outright state) that the umps were maybe just looking to go home and didn't want to see the Yanx come back and have to work an extended game.
Can't be any other reason why a call would go against the Yanx otherwise, right?

Joe McGrane on MLBN jumped all over him for that, talking about how he understands the frustration but also about how many calls he's seen go the Yanx way over the years -- definitely becoming the most direct I've ever heard from a paid commentator (as opposed to from a biased fan) about the Yanx getting more than their share of calls, particularly at home games.

Edited September 9, 2012 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

Upon further review ...

[Guest Swan Swan H]

To reiterate, this ********** is making $23 million and he can't get the ball out of the infield. Fuck him with a broken bottle.

[Ceetar]

Wow, the Yankees really are embarrassing and sore losers huh?

[smg58]

Not only should he have never slid, but the right hand that the ump had the clearest view of never touched the bag. The left still beat the throw, but Texeira ought to answer for doing some fundamental things wrong in a very critical situation. The ump should never have been given the opportunity to get the play wrong.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

smg58 wrote: Not only should he have never slid, but the right hand that the ump had the clearest view of never touched the bag. The left still beat the throw, but Texeira ought to answer for doing some fundamental things wrong in a very critical situation. The ump should never have been given the opportunity to get the play wrong.

I'm all about Team Fuck-The-MFYs... but we're kind of talking around the thing now, aren't we?