Where is the 2016 Yankees are Assholes Thread?

[nymr83]

According to The Donald, he has the support of Paul O'Neil. please merge for posterity.

[Frayed Knot]

Well y'know Paulie is "a warrior" (he must be cuz that seemed to be the official Yanqui description of him) so maybe Trump promised him a front row spot in the the only thing that passes as his foreign policy so far: bombing and an increased level of torture.

[MFS62]

The terms "Yankee" and "Asshole" are kind of redundant. Can you please re-word your title to be more specific?
(j/k)
Anyhow, to carry on in the spirit of this thread, Derek Jeter's fiancé just showed off her engagement ring (he must have run out of gift baskets) while wearing a bikini on the cover of a magazine. (found the link, but it was to a lot of pictures.)

Class all the way.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

That Paul era of that Yankee run was the worst. But he battled.
Nightly, daily, hourly...

[MFS62]

d'Kong76 wrote: That Paul era of that Yankee run was the worst. But he battled. Nightly, daily, hourly...

Roid rage.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

Nymr83 wrote: According to The Donald, he has the support of Paul O'Neil. please merge for posterity.

Funny. I remember this Mets yearbook from the late '80s or early 90s. I'm 100% positive that Dave Magadan is in it and about 85% certain that Keith Hernandez was no longer a Met when that yearbook came out. Anyways, most of the Mets got a full page spread with a top to bottom color picture in that yearbook and a series of lightweight Playboy centerfold type questions to answer. Not as vapid as "What's your favorite color?", but not much meatier. Questions like what's your favorite movie ... what's your favorite food ... what's your favorite band or what kind of music do you listen to? Etc. You get the point. One of the questions that I think just about every Met got was along the lines of "Who's your favorite celebrity?" or "Who's the person you'd most wanna meet?" or some such variation on that theme.

And almost every single Met that got that question ... just about every single Met ... answered --- Donald Trump.

[seawolf17]

I literally don't know how anyone is surprised by this. All my MFY fan friends are like NO NOT PAULIE THE HORROR. Are you a rich white guy? Then you're probably a Trump fan.

[Edgy MD]

Indeed it was 1990, and those lightweight questions inspired this quiz.

No Donald Trump content in that thread, unfortunately. But I would encourage any 1990ers working from home today to pull their yearbooks and count the DT references.

[Benjamin Grimm]

A few years ago I was thumbing through a Mets yearbook and was surprised that the favorite TV show of many Mets was Duck Dynasty, a show I hadn't yet heard of at the time.

(Maybe this should be split into the "Baseball Players are Uncultured Louts" thread.)

[Vic Sage]

seawolf17 wrote: I literally don't know how anyone is surprised by this. All my MFY fan friends are like NO NOT PAULIE THE HORROR. Are you a rich white guy? Then you're probably a Trump fan.

no, if you're a rich white guy, you're probably a Republican. If you're a POOR white guy, you're a Trump fan.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

MFYs without suspended Chapman for the first month, may also be down Andrew Miller, who chipped a wrist bone in his non-pitching hand yesterday. bThe Lockdown Bullpen is a myth, people.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

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[Centerfield]

I just watched it last night.

It's awesome.

The Yankees. They are the Republicans of baseball.

I love John Oliver as it is, but I think I have not stopped grinning since I saw that segment. Fucking brilliant.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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They coulda done a lot better than NInja Turtles. I wish they came in rags and tatters and dived into a cesspool before the game so that they'd be odorifically repellent and nausea inducing. It woulda been great to see all those neighboring asshole Yankee fans vomiting into their own laps.

John Oliver shoulda gotten some of those homeless persons a coupla those tickets. The homeless persons that are in the subways and you know they're there before you even get in the subway car because it's rush hour and the car should be packed full of people but instead it's totally empty and only a rube would think that he stumbled onto empty seats worth sitting in.

[Centerfield]

Here is the Lonn Trost quote in all of it's assholiness:

“The problem below market at a certain point is that if you buy a ticket in a very premium location and pay a substantial amount of money. It’s not that we don’t want that fan to sell it, but that fan is sitting there having paid a substantial amount of money for a ticket and [another] fan picks it up for a buck-and-a-half and sits there, and it’s frustrating to the purchaser of the full amount.” “And quite frankly,” he said, “the fan may be someone who has never sat in a premium location. So that’s a frustration to our existing fan base.”

And here you can see that frustrated fan base and how they turned out for OPENING DAY.

[ashie62]

What a crowd.

[Ceetar]

It was a chilly Tuesday makeup game, but yeah, that's pretty bad.

Can't wait to see what fans Oliver picked for today and tomorrow.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Centerfield wrote: The Yankees. They are the Republicans of baseball.

I disagree. The Yankees are an Evil Empire onto themselves. No reason to insult Republicans.

[Zvon]

According to The Donald, he has the support of Paul O'Neil. please merge for posterity. Funny. I remember this Mets yearbook from the late '80s or early 90s. I'm 100% positive that Dave Magadan is in it and about 85% certain that Keith Hernandez was no longer a Met when that yearbook came out. Anyways, most of the Mets got a full page spread with a top to bottom color picture in that yearbook and a series of lightweight Playboy centerfold type questions to answer. Not as vapid as "What's your favorite color?", but not much meatier. Questions like what's your favorite movie ... what's your favorite food ... what's your favorite band or what kind of music do you listen to? Etc. You get the point. One of the questions that I think just about every Met got was along the lines of "Who's your favorite celebrity?" or "Who's the person you'd most wanna meet?" or some such variation on that theme. And almost every single Met that got that question ... just about every single Met ... answered --- Donald Trump.

If it is the 1990 yearbook Keith was gone and Magadan was not. Magadans favorite movie was Casablanca, his favorite musician, Elton John. It's true that not every Met got the question regarding "non-sportsman idol" (Magadan wasn't asked). There were questions like "favorite New York restaurant", "favorite New York Attraction", "favorite musician/movie", and "offseason activity". Two Mets answered Donald Trump for "non-sportsman idol". Wally Whitehurst and Phil Lombardi. So not everyone (I'll spare you how many were asked the question), but that's still notable. I could see it leaving an impression. Macky Sasser liked Nixon. Coney, Jackie Gleason. Doc, his mom .

[MFS62]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Centerfield wrote: The Yankees. They are the Republicans of baseball. I disagree. The Yankees are an Evil Empire onto themselves. No reason to insult Republicans.

I remember when it was said "rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for US Steel". And they weren't talking about the Democrat Union members loading coal into the furnaces.
Later

[TransMonk]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I was watching parts of this game, at least until the MFYs made a different kind of joke about it, but didn't see them. I believe they were strategically cropped out of the center field camera's view on Al-Yankazeera.

[batmagadanleadoff]

TransMonk wrote:

I'm giving this stunt an "A" for idea, thought, concept etc. and a "C" for execution. This turned out to be real lame-o as far as I'm concerned. Oh, the lost possibilities.

[batmagadanleadoff]

According to The Donald, he has the support of Paul O'Neil. please merge for posterity. Funny. I remember this Mets yearbook from the late '80s or early 90s. I'm 100% positive that Dave Magadan is in it and about 85% certain that Keith Hernandez was no longer a Met when that yearbook came out. Anyways, most of the Mets got a full page spread with a top to bottom color picture in that yearbook and a series of lightweight Playboy centerfold type questions to answer. Not as vapid as "What's your favorite color?", but not much meatier. Questions like what's your favorite movie ... what's your favorite food ... what's your favorite band or what kind of music do you listen to? Etc. You get the point. One of the questions that I think just about every Met got was along the lines of "Who's your favorite celebrity?" or "Who's the person you'd most wanna meet?" or some such variation on that theme. And almost every single Met that got that question ... just about every single Met ... answered --- Donald Trump. If it is the 1990 yearbook Keith was gone and Magadan was not. Magadans favorite movie was Casablanca, his favorite musician, Elton John. It's true that not every Met got the question regarding "non-sportsman idol" (Magadan wasn't asked). There were questions like "favorite New York restaurant", "favorite New York Attraction", "favorite musician/movie", and "offseason activity". Two Mets answered Donald Trump for "non-sportsman idol". Wally Whitehurst and Phil Lombardi. So not everyone (I'll spare you how many were asked the question), but that's still notable. I could see it leaving an impression. Macky Sasser liked Nixon. Coney, Jackie Gleason. Doc, his mom .

Getouutttahere. I must be getting Alzheimer's. I was sure a heckuvvalotta Mets picked Trump. Maybe the Mets ran a similar questionnaire in another season/yearbook?

[Zvon]

According to The Donald, he has the support of Paul O'Neil. please merge for posterity. Funny. I remember this Mets yearbook from the late '80s or early 90s. I'm 100% positive that Dave Magadan is in it and about 85% certain that Keith Hernandez was no longer a Met when that yearbook came out. Anyways, most of the Mets got a full page spread with a top to bottom color picture in that yearbook and a series of lightweight Playboy centerfold type questions to answer. Not as vapid as "What's your favorite color?", but not much meatier. Questions like what's your favorite movie ... what's your favorite food ... what's your favorite band or what kind of music do you listen to? Etc. You get the point. One of the questions that I think just about every Met got was along the lines of "Who's your favorite celebrity?" or "Who's the person you'd most wanna meet?" or some such variation on that theme. And almost every single Met that got that question ... just about every single Met ... answered --- Donald Trump. If it is the 1990 yearbook Keith was gone and Magadan was not. Magadans favorite movie was Casablanca, his favorite musician, Elton John. It's true that not every Met got the question regarding "non-sportsman idol" (Magadan wasn't asked). There were questions like "favorite New York restaurant", "favorite New York Attraction", "favorite musician/movie", and "offseason activity". Two Mets answered Donald Trump for "non-sportsman idol". Wally Whitehurst and Phil Lombardi. So not everyone (I'll spare you how many were asked the question), but that's still notable. I could see it leaving an impression. Macky Sasser liked Nixon. Coney, Jackie Gleason. Doc, his mom . Getouutttahere. I must be getting Alzheimer's. I was sure a heckuvvalotta Mets picked Trump. Maybe the Mets ran a similar questionnaire in another season/yearbook?

I believe they did (maybe in more than 2 yearbooks) over the years. Mostly in those 90's YBs IIRC. I'll have to go through them.
Keith Miller's favorite musician was Harry Chapin. Niiiice.

[Edgy MD]

Here we go.

Met	Favorite Movie	Favorite New York Tourist Attraction	Favorite New York Restaurant	Non-Sportsperson Idol	Favorite Musician	Off-Season Activity
Blaine Beatty	Field of Dreams		The Quilted Giraffe		Randy Travis	Hunting in South Texas
Mark Carreon	Field of Dreams		Rusty's		Madonna	Taking up Golf
David Cone	The Black Swan		Zarela	Jackie Cleason	Jim Morrison
Ron Darling	12 Angry Men	Carousel Ride in Central Park	La Petite Ferme		Natalie Merchant & 10,000 Maniacs	Hockey Games
Kevin Elster	Too Many to List Just One		The Palm	Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson		Visiting Las Vegas
Sid Fernandez		WWF Wrestling in Madison Square Garden		Tom Selleck	Eddie Van Halen	Surfing, Diving
John Franco	The Godfather	All of New York	Mother-in-Law		Elton John
Dwight Gooden	No Way Out		Peter Luger Seak House	My Mother, Ella	Patti Labelle, Freddie Jackson
Keith Hughes		Little Italy	Il Cortile		Michael Card	Skiing in the Poconos
Jeff Innis	Amadeus	Metropolitan Museum of Art	The Sporting Club		The Cars
Gregg Jefferies	The Hustler	The Late Night with David Letterman Show	Peter Luger Steak House		Elvis Presley
Howard Johnson	The Outlaw Josie Wales	South Street Seaport			Earth, Wind, & Fire	Offshore Fishing
Phil Lombardi	Fast Times at Ridgemont High		The Quilted Giraffe	Donald Trump	Phil Collins
Barry Lyons	Sea of Love			My college coach, Dave Boo Ferriss	Glenn Frey	Golfing
Julio Machado	Scarface		Rincon Criollo	Sylvester Stallone	All Salsa Music
Dave Magadan	Casablanca	Central Park	Lusardi's		Elton John
Mike Marshall	The Godfather	Walking on Fifth Avenue	Carnegie Deli	David Letterman
Kevin McReynolds	Caddyshack		Benihana		Hank Williams, Jr.	Hunting in My Duck Club in Arkansas
Orlando Mercado	Rocky	Coney Island			Paula Abdul	Spending Time with Family in Puerto Rico
Keith Miller		All of Manhattan	The Pines		Harry Chapin	Hunting
Jeff Musselman	An Officer and a Gentleman	Museum of Modern Art	Ruth's Chris Steak House		The Commodores
Tom O'Malley		Musicals on Broadway	Rusty's		Bruce Springsteen	Fishing in Arizona
Bob Ojeda	Born on the Fourth of July	Subway	Imperbole		Boxcar Willie	Rock Climbing in California
Alejandro Peña			Nino's Café	My Wife, Tellie	Lionel Richie	Golf
Mackey Sasser		Empire State Building		Richard Nixon	Whitney Houston	Hunting and Fishing
Darryl Strawberry	Harlem Nights		Peter Luger Steak House		Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul
Tim Teufel	One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest		Anywhere in Little Italy		Neil Diamond	Hockey Games
Lou Thornton	Raiders of the Lost Ark		Daniel's	My father, Lou Thornton, Sr.	The Jackson 5
Frank Viola	Hoosiers	Jones Beach	Borelli's		Chicago
Wally Whitehurst	Rain Man			Donald Trump	The Temptations	Golfing

[Zvon]

That's excellent. Very kool. That's for the 1990 yearbook. Where are the others?
Ha! Kidding. I didn't even look thru them yet. But they did do it other years.

[Frayed Knot]

I was watching parts of this game, at least until the MFYs made a different kind of joke about it, but didn't see [the costumed folks in the front-row seats]. I believe they were strategically cropped out of the center field camera's view on Al-Yankazeera.

Kind of like Don Zimmer was for a while as per Steinbrenner's orders.






So what better to talk about on an off-day following a shitty four-hour-long loss but Your Last Place New York Yankees!!

Sure it's too early for panic time (at least now that George is gone) and that they're merely 5-8 and just 4 games in back of 1st place Baltimore and 1/2 behind 4th place Tampa. The bigger problem is that they started 4-2 but have lost 6 of 7 since and things don't sound happy in yanqui-land right now.
Ellsbury isn't hitting, ARod isn't hitting, Teixeira isn't hitting, and Headley isn't hitting; all the guys, except Teixeira, who are signed beyond this season at big buxx. Brett Gardner is hitting but to play him they'd have to sit Ellsbury because they already have six DH's. And while their new, young middle infield duo of Gregarious & Castro are doing OK, the high up-side former 1st round picks they brought in hoping to catching lightning (Dustin Ackley & Aaron Hicks) have a combined 1 single in 27 ABs.

And then there's the pitching. Outside of Tanaka, the starters are all putting up ERAs well north of 5.00 while averaging barely over 5 innings/start. So while their vaunted back of the bullpen is dominating: Bettances & Miller have combined to allow no runs on 7 hits over 13 innings and struck-out 30 of the 49 hitters they've faced (with Chapman due back at the end of the month) the soft underbelly of the pen hasn't been able to get those guys leads which is, of course, the problem with building the pen at the expense of the rotation; you can't guarantee that your best guys will be put into meaningful situations.

[Edgy MD]

I looove the fact that the featured showroom item with this team is a four-headed lockdown bullpen. As if shutting down the other team over the late innings two days in five is the goal of the game.

Hey, Yankees, you're starting with the endgame. A dramatically good closing unit is a luxury for a good team. Know who had a really good bullpen? The 1983 Mets had a really good bullpen.

[Centerfield]

I think it's a great way to build a team.

Me, I don't have my dream car yet, but I have this dope set of rims and some shiny naked lady decals.