2014 Yanx - The Crumble Continues ???

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Mike and Mike on ESPN Radio this morning took a slight pause from their NFL draft talk this morning for a Q and A segment, and the Q was whether the MYs should bench Jeter.

The Mikes were unanimous with emphatic "No!"

Golic added something stupid like, "This is why Jeter was smart to announce his retirement in the spring so the team didn't have to deal with such questions all summer."

Huh?

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Way to double down on the completely un-necessary condescension. It was a joke. One underscoring what you were saying. Surely you could at least try to be cool about that.

Yes, I understand NOW what it meant but I originally didn't know what it meant which is why I said that I didn't know what it meant.
And the only reason I 'doubled down' on it was your implication that I really did know what it meant and was for some reason only saying I didn't know what it meant.
You know what I mean?

[Guest d'Kong76]

#6 to be retired in August ... they're gonna run out of #'s

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: #6 to be retired in August ... they're gonna run out of #'s

Somebody down the line, maybe 20 years from now, will start rumbling about unretiring the numbers. It'll probably be about some phenom prospect type who they think would do more honor the the number more by wearing it or something.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I doubt that, but there may come a time when they have to go to three-digit numbers, or perhaps, to binary numbers if they want to keep it at two characters.

You can see players wearing numbers like 6E or B2.

[MFS62]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Mike and Mike on ESPN Radio this morning took a slight pause from their NFL draft talk this morning for a Q and A segment, and the Q was whether the MYs should bench Jeter. The Mikes were unanimous with emphatic "No!" Golic added something stupid like, "This is why Jeter was smart to announce his retirement in the spring so the team didn't have to deal with such questions all summer." Huh?

I don't want him to be benched because I want him to suffer the humiliation of an entire terrible season.
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[Guest d'Kong76]

Scoring an E6 on E6 would be kinda fun!

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: Scoring an E6 on E6 would be kinda fun!

I wonder what the most likely alphanumeric uniform numbers would be. Would you have to include a number or could you just be "A"? Would single letters be the highly coveted? or would the A5, A1 etc be?

If someone wears A1 you pretty much gotta nickname him 'sauce' right?

[MFS62]

d'Kong76 wrote: Scoring an E6 on E6 would be kinda fun!

Speaking of that - the other night, Jeter clanked a one hop grounder right at him. It took seemingly forever for the scorer to rule it an E-6. He must have been scouring the rule book to find a way to award the batter a hit, then reluctantly declared it an error.

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[Frayed Knot]

Well, we won't C see-see this week (or is that see C. C.?) - to the DL for "inflammation of the knee".

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Well, we won't C see-see this week (or is that see C. C.?) - to the DL for "inflammation of the knee".

Current thinking has it being at least July before the Yanx see Cee Cee
"No sooner than six weeks from now" sez Cashman (June 30 if taken literally) but even with the best case scenario of early July essentially means post-ASB for a rest and recoop type of injury.

[Frayed Knot]

Was out all day so am just catching up to game results now.
So what was better in the Yanx game today, that Phil Hughes* shut them down to 2 runs on 3 hits over 8 innings, or that Robertson didn't just blow a 1-run save but did so in a way that led to a 6-run 9th (5 after 2 were out) for the Twins?
Twins took two-of-three from the Yanx in the Bronx for what I believe was the first time since like the Carter administration.




* Hughes having himself a very nice year btw

[MFS62]

The CAPTAIN? (gasp)
http://news.yahoo.com/jeters-mental-lapse-helps-mariners-beat-yankees-040607583--spt.html

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[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: The CAPTAIN? (gasp) http://news.yahoo.com/jeters-mental-lapse-helps-mariners-beat-yankees-040607583--spt.html Later

What the lame-duck SS who is spending the season being lauded and celebrated and talking about getting into ownership didn't have his head in the game? I'm shocked.

[Edgy MD]

Interviewer: That must've been embarrassing.

Jeter: Oh, sure. I'm just glad it happened on the road. It would have been really mortifying in front of the home crowd.

Interviewer: Derek, it did happen at home?

Jeter: Wait... seriously? Oh, check it out. White uniform. Damn.

[Centerfield]

Wow, a mental mistake by Jeter. That is rare indeed. I can't even remember the last time that happened.

Wait, what are you saying? Last Friday? Impossible!

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2014/05/yankees_derek_jeter_admits_costly_mistake.html

[Edgy MD]

That game report also includes this delicious line:

It was the last time a Yankee would reach third base.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

What the hell is wrong with the umpiring crew? Jeter said it was foul. So it was foul!

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx blew an early 4-0 lead to fall back to .500 tonight at 29-29 (first time since 19-19) and their record is lucky to be that good considering their [u:pfet8bcj]-29[/u:pfet8bcj] run differential.
That -29 is 8 runs worse than it was at the end of last season when their 85-77 record was 6 full games better than the Pythagorean projection.

[MFS62]

Got in the car and turned on the radio.
The MFY pre-game show was on. Suzyn was saying that they held a ceremony before the game and honored several veterans who had participated in D-Day. That was because D-Day was "50 years ago, on June 5, 1944".
Honest, she said that.
June 5th.

Suzyn, how did you not know that D-Day was June 6th, 1944?

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[Benjamin Grimm]

Thinking that D-Day was on June 5 isn't as bad as thinking that 1944 was 50 years ago.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Thinking that D-Day was on June 5 isn't as bad as thinking that 1944 was 50 years ago.

Good catch. They one slipped right by.

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[MFS62]

The Yanks are going to hold a Tino Martinez Day, and put up a plaque in his honor. Here are his stats:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martiti02.shtml

Do they have one for Bill Skowron?
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/skowrbi01.shtml

I doubt it. Yet he played on lots of World Championships, too, played more years, and had a higher OBS+.
Its the ESPN mentality. Unless something happened while they were in business, it didn't happen.

How soon they forget.

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Edited June 12, 2014 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

The people who were around during Bill Skowron's generation could have given him a plaque, but didn't.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The people who were around during Bill Skowron's generation could have given him a plaque, but didn't.

Plaques and monuments were reserved for the truly greats in the history of the team.

But now that a player like Tino is getting one, it is cheapening the honor. I just used Moose for comparison purposes. He shouldn't get one, either.

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[Vic Sage]

They should give them ALL plaques; Tino, O'Neill, Oscar Gamble, all of them. every single guy who ever donned the pinstripes, no matter how unexceptional, should have a lasting tribute to their unspectacularity put up on a wall somewhere. So archeologists can have a good laugh some day.

[Ceetar]

Vic Sage wrote: They should give them ALL plaques; Tino, O'Neill, Oscar Gamble, all of them. every single guy who ever donned the pinstripes, no matter how unexceptional, should have a lasting tribute to their unspectacularity put up on a wall somewhere. So archeologists can have a good laugh some day.

except A-Rod.

[Edgy MD]

ESPECIALLY A-Rod.

I'm not sure what a plaque means (equivalent of Yankee Hall of Fame?), but Martinez isn't even in the top 50 position players in terms of WAR for the Yankees.

By the way, number eight on that list? Willie the Winner.

[metsmarathon]

oh, c'mon. his 16.6 yankee WAR is more than lenny dykstra's 16.5 metly WAR. that's the stuff of legends right there.

[MFS62]

metsmarathon wrote: oh, c'mon. his 16.6 yankee WAR is more than lenny dykstra's 16.5 metly WAR. that's the stuff of legends right there.

Close. Were they on the same dosage?
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