The Dynasty Crumbles - the 2013 MFY Thread

[Guest Swan Swan H]

There was some near-perfect symmetry in the Mets and Yankees, playing their season openers at home at the same time, winding up with an 11-2 Mets win and an 8-2 Yankees loss. Better still is this picture, which has been all over Twitter, of the die-hard Yankee crowd hanging with their boys right until the end.

The caption on Twitter states that this is the bottom of the ninth, but based on the white-clad defense and grey-clad baserunner it is more likely the top of the ninth, just after Joba the Gut turned a 5-2 deficit into an 8-2 punking.

Story link: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/look-empty-seats-york-yankees-sad-opening-day-215800621--mlb.html

[metirish]

I hope they finish in last place....they don't seem to have much young ones coming either.......and yeah that was the ninth but there's empty and then there's that empty....for shame .

[Fman99]

This is so great, it has to be fattening.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Fman99 wrote: This is so great, it has to be fattening.

Bad ass!

[Edgy MD]

Fits the mausoleic theme of the architecture well.

[Edgy MD]

You can find the offseason thread here. When it's archived, it will be found among threads started in October 2012.

[Frayed Knot]

I caught a bit of the 9th inning and saw all those empty seats. Didn't hear any commentary on it but, considering the tight rein they keep on the paid flacks over there, I suspect the mass exodus barely got mentioned. And remember, this is the org that canned Red Barber for remarking on the lack of fans during a cold and meaningless late season game in 1966 I believe it was (paid attendance at YS was literally around 1,000 peeps that day).

To be fair, by the time that photo was taken the day had turned colder, windier, was raining a bit, the game was a blow-out, and, being a Yanx/Sawx game, the contest was of course well into its 4th hour. But still, been a long time since we've seen that place that empty and it started out as supposedly the largest crowd in YSIII history.

Edgy MD wrote: You can find the offseason thread here. When it's archived, it will be found among threads started in October 2012.

Don't threads get archived based on the last month of activity on them?

[MFS62]

That VYF (Virulent Yankee Fan) in my office took the day off to go to their opener.
I was going to ask him how he liked the game. But the more I thought about it, that is something he would do if the situation were reversed.
So I'm just going to sit at my desk, say nothing, and drive him bonkers waiting for me to say something.

Later

[Guest The Second Spitter]

[Edgy MD]

Buster Olney wrote: CC Sabathia's average fastball velocity was down by 2.4 mph from last season's opening day, from 92.1 to 89.7 mph.

[bmfc1]

[Edgy MD]

Most importantly.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Frayed Knot wrote: Don't threads get archived based on the last month of activity on them?

No, they're archived by the month that they started.

[seawolf17]

That picture is from while Opening Day was still going on?!?! That's incredible.

[G-Fafif]

Literally, a playoff atmosphere.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

And all those people you can still see in the stands? Red Sox fans.

[Ceetar]

Hard to rag on them for the 9th inning crowd too much. This is clearly much better, and on the right side of a blowout, but still.

It was freaking cold. I was wearing a t-shirt until the second inning and even with my heavier stuff on was really cold by the 8th it was basically winter with a freaking cold wind, and gusting so much people were holding their caps on their heads every time it did.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Ceetar wrote: Hard to rag on them for the 9th inning crowd too much. This is clearly much better, and on the right side of a blowout, but still. It was freaking cold. I was wearing a t-shirt until the second inning and even with my heavier stuff on was really cold by the 8th it was basically winter with a freaking cold wind, and gusting so much people were holding their caps on their heads every time it did.

No sympathy for MFY fans. I was there until the final pitch yesterday, section 515, row 8. The wind was blowing like a cheerleader on prom night, but I would have stayed even if the score was 11-2 Pods. Your Citi Field snap is after the game was over, and by that time I was probably on the stairs. The MFY snap was the top of the ninth, fer Chrissakes. Fuck those front-running bastards.

[Edgy MD]

Big beer owns the YSIII concourse.

"I do not say this lightly: beer snobs might be the worst people in the world. But not even they deserve to be locked in Yankee Stadium for four hours, with the only unconventional option being this dinky and confused beer stand with four drinks on tap, all behemoth-brewed by the MillerCoors conglomerate."

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe the weirdest part in tuning briefly into the Yanx/Sawx game yesterday was the lack of familiar names, even if some of it is only temporary.
No Jeter, no ARod, no Teixeira, no Papi, no Beckett, no Drew (Stephen or JD) and even some of the recent 'Big Names' were gone or missing such as Granderson, Swisher, Martin, Adrian Gonzalez & Carl Crawford.

One of the few recognizable names was Youkilis and even he was in the wrong dugout! Other than that it was Cano & Joba vs Pedroia & Ellsbury plus two groups of no-names and veteran cast-offs (Vernon Wells, Ichiro, Hafner, Overbay, Victorino, Napoli, etc.) who were there as if assigned by some temp agency.

[Ceetar]

• "I do not say this lightly: beer snobs might be the worst people in the world. But not even they deserve to be locked in Yankee Stadium for four hours, with the only unconventional option being this dinky and confused beer stand with four drinks on tap, all behemoth-brewed by the MillerCoors conglomerate."

Big beer owns the YSIII concourse.

I love that that deadspin post gets the price at Citi Field wrong, links to a 2012 post which is basically the press release version of the beer list despite the post mentioning that I have/had more detailed information, and calls it's ridiculously extensive despite it being 95% behemoth-brewed (though by the other conglomerate). But I guess I'm one of the worst people in the world, so whatever.

[metirish]

Cano fires Boras and hires Jay-Z as his agent.....no I am not making that up.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Cano fires Boras and hires Jay-Z as his agent.....no I am not making that up.

And the really odd part is that he's hired Boras to DJ the music for his wedding.

[Edgy MD]

Well, he signed with Jay-Z's agency, anyhow.

="The New York Times"]Jay-Z for Boras is a trade they would probably make any day of the week because it would seem to increase their chances of reaching a new deal with Cano, their 30-year second baseman, before his current contract expires after the 2013 season and before other teams can begin efforts to take him away.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: I had no idea Cano had been playing with the Yanks for 30 years.

ROIDS

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: I had no idea Cano had been playing with the Yanks for 30 years.

Well, insofar as Jeter has been playing for the Yanks forever, in a sense, and in a sense, we are all Jeter... well, we have all ALWAYS been playing for the Yanks, haven't we?

[Valadius]

How's this for a stat: for the first time in franchise history, the New York Yankees have allowed seven or more runs in each of their first two games.

[MFS62]

During today's radiocast, Sterling said, (I paraphrase, but pretty close) "Tough day for Suzyn. We usually go to spots at the top of the inning, but they weren't sold".

The beginning of the end for their broadcasting cash cow?

Later

[Fman99]

MFYs are currently 1-4 and have the worst record in the AL.

[metirish]

The "if George were alive " articles will be plentiful tomorrow,