All Star Game--Rivera: You Knew This Was Coming

[bmfc1]

http://www.billy-ball.com/2013/05/introducing-the-campaign-to-startmo/

"There is no finer gentleman in the game...."

[batmagadanleadoff]

And Derek Jeter should take all the at-bats. Leading off ... Derek Jeter. Batting second ... Derek Jeter .... etc.


Oh, what am I wasting my time for? Why don't they just move the whole game to the Bronx and let the Yankees show America how to host an ASG?

[Edgy MD]

I'll put this in the same non-starter category that I put the campaign to award Derek Jeter an MVP that he didn't deserve as a career honor.

I mean, no misbegotten glory grab is beyond the reach of the Yankees, but getting excited about a campaign while it's still in the hands of a blogger may give it more of a profile than it deserves.

And "Billy Ball" was a term coined to reflect Billy Martin's management of the A's, not the Yankees.

[metsmarathon]

he can start the game, but he has to throw his bullpen session from an electrified pool

[metirish]

Om my fecking God......it's like they try to out-do the other arse licker to see who can cum up with a better angle.....this beats all......


a search in Twitter of #StartMo of course has them all gushing....not me though, fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

[Ceetar]

Well, at least they can boo him mercilessly.

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: Well, at least they can boo him mercilessly.

Typical sour Mets fans, no class......


I can see it now......the whole ASG is going to be ruined by crap like this.....as mentioned above, just move it to the Bronx....

Edited May 15, 2013 by Guest

[Ceetar]

It's alright, because Rivera will do his best to get out of it anyway.

[G-Fafif]

Even worse than this campaign succeeding would be Georgia Roddy putting the Laynce Nix on it by saying, no, Mo's too valuable, we can't upset his routine.

I was noticing lately that my anti-MFY bile is at an all-time low, partly because I'm too disgusted by my own team, partly because there's something generically appealing about their castoffs coalescing into a contender. But bile returns with this nonsense.

Ptui!

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: partly because there's something generically appealing about their castoffs coalescing into a contender. Ptui!

even better when the regulars return and they choke it away.

[Frayed Knot]

I was wondering how the Yanx could be succeeding despite the extended absence of Jeter but then I remembered: he's on the bench, so merely his proximity to the others makes them better players.

[Edgy MD]

I always love the "no finer gentleman in the game" claims. Why are these claims always made in reference to an All-Star?

Maybe the finest gentleman in the game is a backup shortstop on the Padres that you've never met and speaks little English. An assitant trainer who has actually taken decorum lessons. An umpire who has studied diplomacy.

[Fman99]

I only wish Piazza were there to tell every hitter what pitch was coming, the way he did for Clemens in that all star game in Houston.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: I always love the "no finer gentleman in the game" claims. Why are these claims always made in reference to an All-Star? Maybe the finest gentleman in the game is a backup shortstop on the Padres that you've never met and speaks little English. An assitant trainer who has actually taken decorum lessons. An umpire who has studied diplomacy.

consider the source I guess.

I'm not sure who it was now ,but Howie and Josh were talking about a backup catcher recently, perhaps on the Pirates? who was the nicest guy you'll ever meet.

[Edgy MD]

God bless Howie and Josh for putting the lie to my claim. Of course, if you listen to Vin Scully, there are fine men wherever you look.

You know who was a heckuva gentleman? Art Howe. No kidding. If you needed your unworldly baby sister to get home safely --- across town or across a thousand miles of lawless wasteland --- how many baseball figures would you trust her with more than you'd trust Art Howe?

[seawolf17]

I read an actual post from an actual person the other day non-ironically suggesting that Jeter start for the AL -- despite not playing a game all season -- for the same reasons. IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING STADIUM ASSWADS.

[Edgy MD]

That wouldn't surprise me at all. Magic Johnson precedent and such.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

seawolf17 wrote: I read an actual post from an actual person the other day non-ironically suggesting that Jeter start for the AL -- despite not playing a game all season -- for the same reasons. IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING STADIUM ASSWADS.

Fat, cowboy-hat wearing old hack Tracy Ringolsby actually wrote a column advocating as much.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Edgy MD wrote: That wouldn't surprise me at all. Magic Johnson precedent and such.

Nah, different stuff. That was a post-announcement, post-retirement, 'lifetime achievement' award for Magic. And the NBA all-star game doesn't count, like the MLB one kinda does. Jeter can play if he ditches the boot and starts mashing like all the other washed-up old farts on the Yankees. Otherwise eff him.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, I agree wit' all that, but I think the Magic Johnson precedent will be cited, just cause it feeds the end they want.

Jeter should need a ticket to get in.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: That wouldn't surprise me at all. Magic Johnson precedent and such.

Does this mean that Jeter will finally cop to spreading STDs?

[Ducks]

[A Boy Named Seo]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I read an actual post from an actual person the other day non-ironically suggesting that Jeter start for the AL -- despite not playing a game all season -- for the same reasons. IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING STADIUM ASSWADS. Fat, cowboy-hat wearing old hack Tracy Ringolsby actually wrote a column advocating as much.

That's an awesome read.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130502&content_id=46468342&c_id=mlb

One of the commenters called it 'verbal fellatio'.

[metirish]

I hate this ASG already.....just go the fuck off all you yankee loving lick arses.......Ian O'Connor is probably working on something even grander.

[metirish]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I read an actual post from an actual person the other day non-ironically suggesting that Jeter start for the AL -- despite not playing a game all season -- for the same reasons. IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING STADIUM ASSWADS. Fat, cowboy-hat wearing old hack Tracy Ringolsby actually wrote a column advocating as much. That's an awesome read. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130502&content_id=46468342&c_id=mlb One of the commenters called it 'verbal fellatio'.

Oh my


Ian O'Connor you have been out Ian O'Connored by a stetson wearing fool

So Derek Jeter is on the disabled list. So he had a setback and he's not expected to play before the All-Star break. So what? Jeter is an All-Star. He has earned it with his play on the field throughout his career and with his actions off the field.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batberracleanup

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I remember Ringolsby being a big intangibles guy with his HoF vote, too, and doing some wacky stuff there... but outside of this, I can't find what my brain is (mis)remembering.

[Edgy MD]

I have say, I hate that one-sentence-paragraph trick that Ringolsby (and too many others in his profession) use.

On one hand, you get to project the notion that every pronouncement from your word processor is an unimpeachable truth from Mt. Sinai.

On the other, you are able to fill column space 2.35 times faster.

It also allows you to live in the thesis of each thought without supporting it with foundational facts.

As if each thought is self-evidently true because you typed it.

It's diminishing to the writer.

Even as it attempts to inflate the writer.

And it's certainly diminishing to the reader.

I hate it.

[metsmarathon]

the unfortunate thing is, there's not really all that much pressing competition in the al right now. jhonny peralta isn't really going to light up the ballot box, nor is elvis andrus or stephen drew. so a concerted mfy effort might actually get hte trick done.

i think i just threw up in my mouth a little just typing that.

[Edgy MD]

We should start an Ankiel campaign. You know, as a career achievement sort of thing.

[MFS62]

seawolf17 wrote: I read an actual post from an actual person the other day non-ironically suggesting that Jeter start for the AL -- despite not playing a game all season -- for the same reasons. IT'S NOT YOUR FUCKING STADIUM ASSWADS.

The biggest insult in all of this is that someone in the MLB front office or in some network ivory tower actually thinks that we want to see Jeter. I hope he does make it, so that the fans can boo the living shit out of him every time he emerges from the dugout or his name is announced.

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