It's on mornings like this.....

[Lefty Specialist]

....that you REALLY REALLY miss George Steinbrenner.

Think about it. He'd be ripping every player in that clubhouse. Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman would be answering questions about their status for next year. The batting coach would have been found dead in a cheap Detroit hotel. George would be promising to be trading half the team and buying every free agent in sight. He'd apologize to the city for the Yankees' spectacular incompetence. The papers would be having a field day.

Boy, I really miss George Steinbrenner. He was made for moments like this.

[seawolf17]

So true. I miss those days.

I do like the story in the Daily News about how an "unnamed player" says the Yanks "never recovered" from the booing at YSIII. Gimme a break.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

As long as Randy Levine remains alive and employed the MFYs are still as douchy as ever. In some ways this bullshit, with Cashman suddenly becoming manager during the playoffs, is even worse.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

seawolf17 wrote: I do like the story in the Daily News about how an "unnamed player" says the Yanks "never recovered" from the booing at YSIII. Gimme a break.

I actually think fans booing the home team and other negativity against the players does effect outcomes more than most people realize. I'm fully convinced that if the fans at Shea and in the public sphere in September 2007 hadn't so viciously turned against the team they would have won one or two more games and advanced to the playoffs.

ON EDIT: The players should still not complain about it though. They do need to suck up and deal.

[Ceetar]

This is going to be a fascinating offseason. I hope it's also interesting on a Mets front and not just pointing and laughing at the Yankees, but they've got a whole slew of things to take care of or figure out.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: seawolf17 wrote: I do like the story in the Daily News about how an "unnamed player" says the Yanks "never recovered" from the booing at YSIII. Gimme a break. I actually think fans booing the home team and other negativity against the players does effect outcomes more than most people realize. I'm fully convinced that if the fans at Shea and in the public sphere in September 2007 hadn't so viciously turned against the team they would have won one or two more games and advanced to the playoffs.

2007 was so precarious that a pretty barista smiling at one of the umpires while giving him his coffee in the morning might have put him in a better mood that ended with him not calling interference on Marlon Anderson or having a wee-bit friendlier strike zone that resulted in one more bullpen K instead of BS and gotten them in.

[G-Fafif]

And while A-Rod blamed two weeks of postseason futility at the plate, saying it �sucked the energy out of us," another player privately made a far more indicting observation: that the ballclub was affected by the hostility from the fans at Yankee Stadium last weekend. �I really think the booing spooked a lot of guys," the player said. �A lot of guys hadn�t been booed before, and they couldn�t believe how nasty it got in the stands." Obviously Nick Swisher admitted to being sensitive to such treatment after Game 2, but the player said Swisher was far from alone in his reaction. �A lot of guys were talking about it in the clubhouse," he said. �I was surprised by how much it bothered them. I really don�t think they ever recovered." If that�s true, well, so much for the big, bad Yankees.

That's the money passage from Harper. And of course it's beautiful.

MFYs failing, whining, covering themselves in whatever the opposite of glory is...oh, poetry. But MFY fans showing audible disgust because their team that had just persevered in a five-game death march, forced extra innings the night before and had remained deadlocked through six innings during the game in question couldn't quite hit their way out of an overpriced paper bag in the second game of a League Championship Series, the team's 17th postseason in 18 years...well, fuck them, too. "Ya pays your money, ya have your say" is fine (and it's lots of money), but the time for booing (if you must indulge your baser instincts) is after the fourth error that puts you behind 12-2 in May. Fucking support your team when it really fucking matters.

But this is them. Whaddaya expect?

[Farmer Ted]

The best part of mornings like this comes at about the :30 mark with Cashman among a throng of celebrating Tigers fans looking like he just ate a pile of shit. Again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj3MvWzrARw

[Vic Sage]

As long as we're reveling in the MFY's loss...
At CF's request, i reposted my ode to a Yankee loss from 2001. It's here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18698

[ashie62]

I can hear George calling Arod a "Fat pussy toad."