The Enemy Uptown: The 2012 Yankee Thread

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

But then, in the middle of the ninth inning, with the MFYs leading 11-3, Michael Kay and Ken Singleton (I think) are having a five-minute-long (and counting) conversation bitching about the Baltimore Sun's and the Orioles broadcast's coverage of last night's game-ending call.

[Frayed Knot]

I guess the biases at MASN & The Baltimore Sun are too much for Kay et al who prefer the unvarnished truth that one gets from YES as well as from the NY Daily News, a paper that has fostered a commercial and symbiotic relationship with the team they supposedly cover so deep and for so long now that any pretense of objective journalism left the stall about 20 years ago.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: I guess the biases at MASN & The Baltimore Sun are too much for Kay et al who prefer the unvarnished truth that one gets from YES as well as from the NY Daily News, a paper that has fostered a commercial and symbiotic relationship with the team they supposedly cover so deep and for so long now that any pretense of objective journalism left the stall about 20 years ago.

20 years ago? wasn't the Daily News pretty much put on the map by the coverage of Ruth and the Yankees?

[Frayed Knot]

The DN has been around for a long time covering the Yanx, but it was only relatively recently (probably less than 20 years) that they became essentially a full-time partner with the club, doing things such as hiring Torre as their spokesman when he was also supposedly their biggest target to cover; having the DN pay for one of their writers to be a "guest" in the radio booth for an inning each game; running promotions that are designed to boost both the team and the paper as if there's no line between the two, etc.

This stuff happens with other media outlets and other teams, but few are as long lasting and cozy as this one.

[Fman99]

metirish wrote: 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.

Happened to be watching this live when it happened. SO MUCH JOY. Hey, even my kid's superdouchy YLDB coach tells his players all the time not to slide into first.

[Edgy MD]

Teixiera out 10-14 days.

Girardi vs. Sherman. You can't lose in a matchup like that.

[Fman99]

Willie Mays Refers to Derek Jeter as "Captain Douche" Former Met (and Giant) legend contends Yankee shortstop is an 'overrated hack with womanly hips and a sissy swing' By Adam Rubin ESPN News .... On a night where Derek Jeter tied Willie Mays for tenth all time on the hit list with 3,283 hits, and shameless YES and radio announcers sang his praises to a mostly tone deaf audience, the man he tied on that list was asked at a memorabilia show what he thought of the Bronx Bummer's accomplishment. "Look, all I'm saying is I got that many hits too. Plus, you know, way more of mine were home runs and doubles and triples than him," said Mays. "I understand, in the Bronx, Captain Douche is a big shot and all, but he didn't have to freeze his ass off at the 'Stick like I did." Jeter, seen by this reporter drinking a vinegar and water at a local juice bar, had no comment.

[MFS62]

Toss Jackie Robinson's memorabilia out of the rotunda and replace it with Willie Mays stuff ... NOW!

Later

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Fman99 wrote: Willie Mays Refers to Derek Jeter as "Captain Douche" Former Met (and Giant) legend contends Yankee shortstop is an 'overrated hack with womanly hips and a sissy swing' By Adam Rubin ESPN News .... On a night where Derek Jeter tied Willie Mays for tenth all time on the hit list with 3,283 hits, and shameless YES and radio announcers sang his praises to a mostly tone deaf audience, the man he tied on that list was asked at a memorabilia show what he thought of the Bronx Bummer's accomplishment. "Look, all I'm saying is I got that many hits too. Plus, you know, way more of mine were home runs and doubles and triples than him," said Mays. "I understand, in the Bronx, Captain Douche is a big shot and all, but he didn't have to freeze his ass off at the 'Stick like I did." Jeter, seen by this reporter drinking a vinegar and water at a local juice bar, had no comment.

I wish this was real. On the other hand it probably would bump all the news from Libya & Egypt off the air if Saint Jeter were dissed in this way.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

One of the many things I despise about the DH is its use as a semi-DL for aging players with minor injuries. Well, tonight Jeter is the DH to rest his injured ankle, and Eduardo Nunez just gakked a routine grounder to give the Rays a big insurance run.

We'll never know whether Jeter would be playing SS were it not for the DH, or if he would have made the play that Nunez did not, but with the decision to 'sit' him at DH Girardi got to watch Nunez's buffoonery with Jeter just watching, and you can be sure that every Yankee fan knows Jeets makes that play.

And speaking of Cap'n Crotch, he just waved at a slider in the on-deck circle to end the game. Thuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh Yankees lose 6-4.

[Frayed Knot]

One of the many things I despise about the DH is its use as a semi-DL for aging players with minor injuries. Well, tonight Jeter is the DH to rest his injured ankle, and Eduardo Nunez just gakked a routine grounder to give the Rays a big insurance run. We'll never know whether Jeter would be playing SS were it not for the DH, or if he would have made the play that Nunez did not, but with the decision to 'sit' him at DH Girardi got to watch Nunez's buffoonery with Jeter just watching, and you can be sure that every Yankee fan knows Jeets makes that play.

When Nunez came up swinging the bat last year some of the MFY mouthpieces were naming him the 'heir apparent' for Jeter at SS - but he's a truly atrocious fielder and spent most of this year in the minors on account of it even with ARod on the shelf for a lengthy run in mid-year while the Yanx traded for Jayson Nix instead.

But once they brought him up with the September call-ups he's been getting time in the field semi-regularly because Girardi feels the need to rest the "veterans" down the stretch even when they're not nursing an injury. As a result, Jeter, ARod or Cano have served as the DH in each of their last 13 games.
Do that often enough, and it's not a question of IF you're going to get burned by it but when. I just consider it icing on the cake that it happened tonight during the 9th inning of a close and important game.

[Frayed Knot]

Funny how on the same day and in the same game that Jeter passes Mays to get to 10th on the all-time career hits list prompting mentions and plaudits that stop just short of a Congressional vote for a new national holiday, Alex Rodriguez passes Gehrig to takeover 9th place on the all-time career runs scored list and is greeted by the sound of .... crickets.




btw, Jeter's 'record breaking' hit hit the 2nd baseman right in the glove.

[Edgy MD]

of course it did.

And if the half-millionth error hits him right in the glove, it'll be scored a hit.

[G-Fafif]

Charles Pierce explores MFYS III for the first time on Grantland and gets it immediately.

...George Steinbrenner, who glowers in from a billboard in center field that makes him look for all the world like a movie that's coming out this Christmas.

[Frayed Knot]

Speaking of MFY articles, I realize that writers don't often get to choose their own headlines so we probably shouldn't crush good ol' Bryan Hoch too much for this one -- but did someone really think that Through injury, Jeter's singular focus is winning was a unique or fresh angle just crying out to be covered?

[G-Fafif]

Wait, let me get this straight: Derek Jeter has an edge? Huh...learn something new every day!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

G-Fafif wrote: Charles Pierce explores MFYS III for the first time on Grantland and gets it immediately. ...George Steinbrenner, who glowers in from a billboard in center field that makes him look for all the world like a movie that's coming out this Christmas.

Charlie Pierce is probably my favorite journalist, and I love his knack for getting to the core of everything he writes about. And, he kills on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me.

[bmfc1]

It's not cool to be exuberant, unless you're an MFY:

Eric Chavez stared into the visitor�s dugout from first base as each devastating dagger cleared the left field fence. It was bad enough the A�s were delivering what Chavez, at that moment, assumed was a devastating Yankees loss. But after each of three 13th-inning homers that turned 5-5 to an 9-5 Oakland advantage, Chavez said, most of those on the A�s bench participated in what he described as �an orchestrated clapping, chanting� celebration that he had a great view of from first � a view that made him angrier and angrier with each long ball. Chavez told The Post he considered the acts �high school-ish� and �pretty unprofessional.� �I thought it was distasteful,� Chavez said. �That�s not cool. That�s not how you play the game. I am all for having fun, but that crossed the line. It is all about being humble.�

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/oakland_antics_irk_chavez_IOkxlcZu2HVfwCE2f2lloN

[Edgy MD]

The idea that clapping and celebrating is childish and unprofessional is childish and unprofessional.

As far as I'm concerned, if it happens in the dugout, it's fine. Unless you're yelling vulgarities out of the dugout, you're sharing joy with your teammates and keeping it in the family. Nobody is being "shown up."

Get a grip, Chavez. You were an Athletic once. The whole free word celebrates when people score against the Yankees.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This is really, really unsurprising. It's also all too common in the restaurant business these days.

The servers claim that the 20-percent service charge that Yankee Stadium patrons paid went straight into the pockets of the Yankees and Legends Hospitality LLC, a corporation created to run the stadium's concessions. Legends Hospitality was formed by the Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys and Goldman Sachs... Even so, before we go full-on Occupy Yankee Stadium, let's remember: This particular service charge did have its purpose. Patrons were indeed paying for a "service," and if the actual service providers didn't have a deal that stipulated they received that "charge," well, is that the Yankees' fault? Or responsibility? Yes, says the lawsuit, which charges that state law specifically speaks to this question. The waiters note that from 2009 to 2011, the "service charge" was added to customers' bills as a mandatory fee, and a line on the menu noted that "additional gratuity is at your discretion." (The service charge was discontinued after the 2011 season.)

[Edgy MD]

Patrons were indeed paying for a "service," and if the actual service providers didn't have a deal that stipulated they received that "charge," well, is that the Yankees' fault? Or responsibility?

"Yes." Because "patrons" were deceived into thinking the "fee" was for their servers.

I can picture this going to court and the hearing just being a festival of lawyers making quotey-quotey fingers.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Edgy DC wrote: Patrons were indeed paying for a "service," and if the actual service providers didn't have a deal that stipulated they received that "charge," well, is that the Yankees' fault? Or responsibility? "Yes." Because "patrons" were deceived into thinking the "fee" was for their servers. I can picture this going to court and the hearing just being a festival of lawyers making quotey-quotey fingers.

Wait a second, customers are asked to pay stupid-expensive prices for food, and then the MFYs tack on a 20 percent surcharge for the privilege of paying stupid-expensive prices for their food -- and that money isn't a tip?

And other restaurants are doing that, too?

It sounds like the personal seat license scam the football teams get away with.

[Ceetar]

I know the game's not until Wednesday..but shouldn't the Yankees have sold out their first playoff home game by now?

and it's not like..couple of singular seats floating around..there are huge swaths of empty seats. 6-7 rows in the bleachers (well, $78 for a bleacher seat?) and a bunch of $40 'foul pole in the way' seats in the uppers in LF. The entire 406 section appears to be unsold, for $68. the Malibu Rooftop Deck..whatever that means.

[Edgy MD]

Andruw Jones graduates from batter to batterer.

[stevejrogers]

MFY Fans all over rejoice that for once a former MFY is not indicated as such in one of these stories!

Yes I know Jones is identifiable as a Brave more so than the other franchises he has played for, but generally more times than not articles will point out the MFYness of the perp.

For example, when Jeff Reardon was having his episodes articles actually said "Former Yankee pitcher Jeff Reardon."

[Edgy MD]

Well, he was a Yankee most recently.

Details are starting to emerge, including reports (don't know how authentic) of him allegedly dragging his wife downstairs early Christmas morning. Shmitt.