The cheapening of MFY Memorial Park

[Frayed Knot]

Fman99 wrote: Sure fire way to get a YLDB all riled up is to refer to A-Rod as the "greatest living Yankee."

And certainly the best one still on their payroll.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

I don't know who Clint Frazier is but it's clear that he has the arrogance to be a True Yankee.

[Frayed Knot]

Mets Willets Point wrote: I don't know who Clint Frazier is but it's clear that he has the arrogance to be a True Yankee.

Top prospect that they got from Cleveland in the Andrew Miller trade last summer.
Was a high draft pick out of HS a couple years ago and comes with at least his fair share of typical youthful jock arrogance along with a wild, untamed mop of flaming red hair that he reluctantly had to
shorn after the trade.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I feel like there's a whole echo generation of young players who love Mickey Mantle because their fathers did.

My son isn't going to be a big league player, but if he was, instead of asking for Mickey Mantle's uniform number he'd probably ask for Stan Lee's.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I feel like there's a whole echo generation of young players who love Mickey Mantle because their fathers did.

Oh there definitely is.
Bryce Harper is one despite growing up in Las Vegas. But his father was a Yanqui/Mantle guy and there are a sizable percentage of Nats fans who have pretty much conceded that he's Bronx-bound as soon as he's able.
Jason Giambi brought his father to his MFY signing/introduction and pointed out how he chose uniform #25 because it at least added up to 7

And now we get to wonder how many echo-Jeterites there are going to be in the future.

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: And now we get to wonder how many echo-Jeterites there are going to be in the future.

We have one pitching for us tonight!

[Frayed Knot]

No, Grimm was talking about echo-Mantle fans, guys who were Yanqui fans because of Mantle even though Mantle was retired (or, in Harper's case, practically dead) before they were even born.
The analogy here would be if Harvey's kids (one each by seven different emaciated Eastern European models) became Yanqui fans because their old man had #2 pinstriped footie pajamas as a child.

[Ceetar]

Harvey's main admiration of Jeter was the coke and 'smoke shows' anyway.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I feel like there's a whole echo generation of young players who love Mickey Mantle because their fathers did.

I liked Mickey Mantle, even though I rooted for Brooklyn.
But I kept that part of my history hidden from my children.
And while my Bronx-born wife rooted for Mickey's team, I raised our kids properly - to be Mets fans.

Later

[MFS62]

Fman99 wrote: Sure fire way to get a YLDB all riled up is to refer to A-Rod as the "greatest living Yankee."

Oh no. It can't be A-Rod, because he cheated.
Just ask Carrie Underwood:
Enjoy
Later
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Right now he's probably romancing
some baseball Annie
And she's probably getting frisky
Right now, he's probably wishing
That he didn’t have those shots
'Cause his lovin’ has been risky

Right now, he's probably up behind her
With a fungo
Cause his own “bat” don’t work
Why? Now he knows

He stuck that needle into his side
For his down-the-stretch Hall of Fame drive
Thought each homer would be a record feat
He swung a Louisville slugger both day and night
While he called the finger pointers liars
But maybe next time he'll think before he cheats

Right now, he still thinks its okey dokey
While all his suppliers are serving time in the pokey
Right now, he's probably thinking, "I'm a hunk"
And he's a thinking that he's gonna get away with that junk

Right now, he's probably dabbing on 20 dollars
Worth of that new cologne from Derek
Oh and he don't know


He stuck that needle into his side
For his down-the-stretch Hall of Fame drive
Thought each homer would be a record feat
He swung a Louisville slugger both day and night
While he called the finger pointers liars
But maybe next time he'll think before he cheats


Oh, maybe next time he'll think before he cheats
Oh, before he cheats
Oh

[soupcan]

Nymr83 wrote: why is Jeter a shoe-in? if you accept the evidence that he was a liability on defense his career rate stats on offense aren't very impressive - he's just a compiler who stuck around long past his shelf-life

3,000 hits.