The Dynasty Crumbles - the 2013 MFY Thread

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Derek F. Jeter out AGAIN and out indefinitely. Jeter is hitting .186 with one home run and six RBI in 17 games this season. How much are they paying this guy, and how long is that contract?

You have to take in account how he makes everyone around him better, even on the disabled list.

[Fman99]

Our dreams are coming closer to fruition -- the MFYs are four back in the loss column for the last WC spot with 18 to play, and two more teams (Cleveland and Baltimore) ahead of them in the standings.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, the key is as much keeping enough teams ahead of them as it is the number of games behind they sit as then at least some of these head-to-head matches between the other contenders assures that the Yanx can't gain ground that night on at least one of them.
The flip side of that of course is that the Yanx also can't lose any ground to at least one of those teams so it's kind of a good-news/bad-news situation. Baltimore, for instance, has only AL East teams on their schedule for the rest of year while the Yanx are off facing the like of the Giants & Astros. This week alone sees the Indians vs Royals (Cleveland won yesterday) plus the Sawx in Tampa starting tonight.



The best part about last night's game might have been the near manager-on-manager violence that erupted between innings.
Apparently Girardi thought the the O's 3B coach was stealing signs or something like that and started yapping at him from the dugout. Showalter didn't take kindly to this and came out of his dugout steaming mad, fist shaking, finger-wagging, etc. He appeared to be mouthing; 'you got a problem come talk to ME about it' yadda, yadda. Both dugouts emptied but the umps intercepted Buck before the two skippers got close enough to start kissing or anything.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Their next six games are road games against Baltimore and Boston. If their division rivals win at least 4 of those 6 games, the Yankees may be put in too deep a hole for them to regain ground against the bottom feeders. That's my hope at least.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The Yankees' magic number for elimination is



Yankees #11 was worn by Chuck Knoblauch who is famed for injuring Keith Olbermann's mother with a misthrown baseball, getting injected with HGH by Brian McNamee, and physically assaulting his common-law wife.

Keep it classy Yankees!

[bmfc1]

How can FAN keep this idiot?
http://thebiglead.com/2013/09/17/john-sterling-his-worst-screw-up-on-a-home-run-call-ever/

[Centerfield]

The good news is that they have lost 4 in a row.

The bad news is that they are still only 3.5 games back.

[Lefty Specialist]

Magic number for elimination: Roger Maris.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Magic number for elimination: Roger Maris.

I love single digits.

Plus, we got to skip Phil Rizzuto. If only Cooperstown had done the same.

[Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: The good news is that they have lost 4 in a row. The bad news is that they are still only 3.5 games back.

The key isn't the 3.5 games but that there are now FIVE teams even with or ahead of them (not even counting the division leaders) for two spots.
It's one thing to play well down the stretch and have the guys in front of you stumble (1969 & 2007 are two sides of that coin) but it's quite another to have at least four teams fuck up while you play well. And even that only gets you to a 50/50 shot of moving on (and, yes, I know we don't even want it to come to that).

[Benjamin Grimm]

Baseball Prospectus has their playoff odds down to 2.4%. Seven days ago it was 8.2%.

[dinosaur jesus]

Is New York still in the league?

[Fman99]

MFYs lose again, now 4 games back in the loss column for the AL Wild Card with nine left to play, and five teams ahead of them.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Was worried the Jays were gonna blow this one until gasbag Chamberlain came on. They had about a million baserunners in the early innings but only scored two of them.

Second nite in a row a MFY was out as a result of not hustling when Soriano lollygagged on what should have been a gimmee double.

[seawolf17]

I feel like the Yankees play the Red Sox and Blue Jays every series. Do they ever play other teams? (Outside of their annual thrashing of the Twins?)

[metirish]

@RealMichaelKay: "Cano, inexcusably, does not run the whole way. He just stands with his hands on his hips. He thought it was a foul ball."


@RealMichaelKay on Cano: "We're talking about a flat team and a guy who's the star of your team runs three steps out of the box and stops."


delightful

I believe that was from the game two nights ago.`

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, like Cano not running is something new or something that doesn't happen even when the Skanks are winning.
Ditto Soriano. He didn't hustle as a Yank the first time around either.

[metirish]

So true, tolerated when they are winning. I just hope the MFY's ignore the lack of hustle and give cano the ten year $200 million contract he "deserves" from them.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: So true, tolerated when they are winning. I just hope the MFY's ignore the lack of hustle and give cano the ten year $200 million contract he "deserves" from them.

nah, I hope they go the other way and DON'T re-sign the best option they (and really most anyone) has for 2B because of it.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The Magic Elimination Number is now


#7 is retired for Mickey Mantle who once reflected on the mystique and aura of the original Yankee Stadium.

[metirish]

John Sterling is just great(bold is mine)


Voice of Yanks Is Maddening and Memorable

John Sterling�s quarter-century of baritone bombast, mistakes, bizarrely creative home run calls and unalloyed joy at Yankees victories (�Thuuuuuh Yankees win!�) has made him an odd but solid part of the Yankees brand. A singular, divisive, much-debated personality, Sterling seems likely to move with the Yankees� radio rights next season from WCBS-AM to WFAN, which will simulcast the games at 660 AM and 101.9 FM. If Sterling returns, with or without Suzyn Waldman, it will not be because he is a great broadcaster. He is frequently awful and laughable � yet unforgettable in his overblown way. His return would seem to be predicated on lengthy service as a Yankees homer. Longevity is a wonderful asset for a local baseball announcer. It helps build a fan base even if you�re not sublime. Had Bob Gamere lasted as a Yankees voice beyond his nearly forgotten season in 1970, he might have built a following. Sterling�s penchant for miscalling a play, or not describing action with absolute accuracy, is maddening and suggests a problem with his eyesight. On Tuesday in Toronto, he saw something that did not happen, or perhaps he called something he wished had happened. With R. A. Dickey pitching to Alex Rodriguez, Sterling said: �Swung on and drilled to deep-right-center field. That ball is high; it is far; it is gone! Over the wall.� He paused and then added, �Oh, it hit and kicked over.� But it had not gone over the wall. After another pause, he said: �I�m sorry. I�m sorry. I got that call wrong. I got that all wrong. At the wall, Davis made the catch. Honestly, I didn�t think he made it. I thought he gave up on the ball. That�s why I thought it was out.� On the YES Network, Michael Kay said: �Driven out into right-center field. Davis back, and he�ll make the play for the second out.� On the Blue Jays� radio broadcast, Jerry Howarth said: �Rodriguez lines one up the gap and into deep-right-center field. Moving back, Rajai Davis, and he makes a backhanded catch on the track.� There was no visual sign that Davis had given up on the ball. Kay and Howarth saw the routine play clearly. Sterling got it wrong in many ways and delayed correcting himself while exaggerating Davis�s nearness to the wall; he made the catch as he crossed onto the warning track. But at least he apologized. What Yankees management thinks of Sterling is not publicly known. Randy Levine, the team president, would not comment Thursday. Whether Levine and Hal Steinbrenner have combed through Sterling�s radio archive in the past before renewing his contracts is unknown, too. Perhaps management puts Sterling�s faux pas and nutty shtick (�An A-bomb, for A-Rod!�) in the category of Phil Rizzuto�s ignoring plays to send birthday wishes to fans or leaving early to beat the traffic home to New Jersey. Rizzuto was endearing and beloved, almost sweet. Sterling? Not so much. But is he eccentric? Oh my. On Aug. 8, 2012, he starred in another episode of Weird-but-True Yankees Classics. Casey McGehee led off the fourth inning against Detroit starter Anibal Sanchez. �Cuts and misses,� Sterling said. (No, the bat met the ball.) �No, he cuts and hits a fly ball down the left-field line, and the ball is foul.� (It was not a foul ball but a sharply hit ground ball.) �McGehee is headed toward second base as the throw comes in, and he�s staying at second.� (Sterling sounded a bit surprised, but McGehee had hit a ball that bounced fair over third base but landed foul.) �The ball went down the left-field line, and it must have hit it and kicked in the seats for a grounds-rule double.� (The ball did not kick into the stands, and it was not a ground-rule double.) A supportive partner, Waldman said, �We all missed it� � no other Tigers or Yankees announcers did � and added that the ball was �in the air; it flew over the bag.� There was no flying. Honest. The call was skewered the next morning by the WFAN hosts Craig Carton and Boomer Esiason; Carton ended their seven-minute analysis with a plea to the Yankees to sign Sterling and Waldman to a five-year deal. �I can�t live without them,� he said. He described their broadcasts as unique. He said they produced �the most colloquial broadcast ever� and would be missed if they were replaced by perfectly competent announcers who would not be idiosyncratic or memorable. Esiason and Carton had no reason to believe back then that they would ever share a station with the Yankees, and possibly Sterling. But next season, Carton, being Carton, will probably invite Sterling into the station�s studio to analyze Sterling. Imagine that: Carton and Sterling, belly to belly. E-mail: sandor@nytimes.com

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm with Craig. I love John Sterling more every day.

[Ceetar]

he's wrong, I listened to the Kay version the other day (looking for the Sterling call and the article linked that, nice of them)

Kay didn't know it was caught at first either, there was a couple of seconds of silence before he identified what happened. Which of course, is a a benefit of television. Sterling blunders ahead, he's like the typical Yankees fan, he's decided what's going to happen (A-Rod will homer) and let's it color what he's going to say.

[Lefty Specialist]

John Sterling is one of the few reasons I feel sorry for Yankee fans.

[HahnSolo]

Andy Pettitte retiring...again.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

HahnSolo wrote: Andy Pettitte retiring...again.

Kind of wonder how long Mariano Rivera's retirement will last.

[metirish]

HahnSolo wrote: Andy Pettitte retiring...again.

and the media fawning all over him, forgetting conveniently that he is an admitted cheat.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

metirish wrote: HahnSolo wrote: Andy Pettitte retiring...again. and the media fawning all over him, forgetting conveniently that he is an admitted cheat.

Francesa show hilarious today, gives an overblown valentine to him only to find a bunch of callers remind him he's a drug cheat and already retired once.

Francesa's defense of Pettitte's steroid use is not to bring it up. It's boring to him. It's not like Arod.

[Edgy MD]

I tell you though. I have little doubt that big shots declaring a story to be boring has a pretty good history of making a story go away.

[Guest d'Kong76]

HahnSolo wrote: Andy Pettitte retiring...again.

Good riddance...again.