LOL Yankees

[Frayed Knot]

Nice to see that Carlos Beltran used the occasion of yesterday's circus to pass the honoree in career numbers of doubles ... in fewer ABs. He also has more career triples, and about 1.5x as many HRs
Just sayin'

[metirish]

Ugh

[seawolf17]

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[Chad ochoseis]

seawolf17 wrote: BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

I don't know if it was what you intended, but I'm hearing that in Bob Sheppard's voice.

[seawolf17]

Chad Ochoseis wrote: seawolf17 wrote: BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I don't know if it was what you intended, but I'm hearing that in Bob Sheppard's voice.

"BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF."

[Frayed Knot]

btw, that plaque doesn't appear to look a thing like him.
That was my first reaction seeing it from a distance yesterday and now that this shot shows it closer I'm doubling down on that assessment.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: btw, that plaque doesn't appear to look a thing like him. That was my first reaction seeing it from a distance yesterday and now that this shot shows it closer I'm doubling down on that assessment.

That was the first thing the MFY fan in my office said.

Later

[Guest cooby]

I'll bet Bob Sheppard never barfed in his life

[Guest cooby]

Mr cooby wants to know if Derek Jeter's wife is pregnant, or wearing an unflattering dress?

[MFS62]

cooby wrote: Mr cooby wants to know if Derek Jeter's wife is pregnant, or wearing an unflattering dress?

Preggers.
And if they can convince her to have the labor induced, they'll schedule a promotion on that day and have her give birth on the pitcher's mound.

Later

[Fman99]

seawolf17 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: "BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF."

I'm still mad at Bob Sheppard for leading all those people into that cave in "Poltergeist II."

[Edgy MD]

That's an elusive reference, bro.

[Guest 41Forever]

Which is the biggest crime -- the robbery, or the Giambi jersey, complete with the name across the back!

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/05/woman_who_robbed_gas_station_i.html#incart_river_home

[MFS62]

41Forever wrote: Which is the biggest crime -- the robbery, or the Giambi jersey, complete with the name across the back! http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/05/woman_who_robbed_gas_station_i.html#incart_river_home

MFY Gear - clothing petty thieves and armed robbers for over 25 years, now available at Thuggz-R-Us.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Attendance woes at Yanqui Stadium

The LOL here isn't at the Yanx for drawing fewer people as the article talks about various aspects of drawing fans in today's game not unique to the them specifically.
No, the real LOL is for those Yanx fans forever talking about how much better they liked the mid-90s team and their home-grown 'core four' as compared to than the FA-heavy team of the early 21st century.
But the problem with that claim is that the 2000's teams drew about double what the mid & late '90s teams did. And now that they've got what they were clamoring for, a younger, more home-grown, AND winning squad, they're not showing up as much.

The real secret here is that they secretly liked ARod and Clemens even if they were reluctant to say so out loud

[Frayed Knot]

Despite so many other things going right for the Yanx this season (Judge, Castro, Gregorius, Severino, Gardner, etc.) last night's 10-4 loss to the Orioles was the third time in the last four outings that
Masahiro Tanaka got his ass kicked: 7 earned on 9 hits over 5.1 IP (very deGromian of him one could say).
Even including the one good start he's had over the last four that's 22 runs allowed on 30 hits (incl. 8 HRs) in just 17.2 innings.
Take out the one good one and those numbers get real ugly, like ERA of 18.30 ugly.

[seawolf17]

Frayed Knot wrote: Attendance woes at Yanqui Stadium The LOL here isn't at the Yanx for drawing fewer people as the article talks about various aspects of drawing fans in today's game not unique to the them specifically. No, the real LOL is for those Yanx fans forever talking about how much better they liked the mid-90s team and their home-grown 'core four' as compared to than the FA-heavy team of the early 21st century. But the problem with that claim is that the 2000's teams drew about double what the mid & late '90s teams did. And now that they've got what they were clamoring for, a younger, more home-grown, AND winning squad, they're not showing up as much. The real secret here is that they secretly liked ARod and Clemens even if they were reluctant to say so out loud

My favorite response to the "Yankees Having Troubles Getting Butts In Seats" headline was "Butts, yes. Assholes, no."

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: Attendance woes at Yanqui Stadium The LOL here isn't at the Yanx for drawing fewer people as the article talks about various aspects of drawing fans in today's game not unique to the them specifically. No, the real LOL is for those Yanx fans forever talking about how much better they liked the mid-90s team and their home-grown 'core four' as compared to than the FA-heavy team of the early 21st century. But the problem with that claim is that the 2000's teams drew about double what the mid & late '90s teams did. And now that they've got what they were clamoring for, a younger, more home-grown, AND winning squad, they're not showing up as much. The real secret here is that they secretly liked ARod and Clemens even if they were reluctant to say so out loud

Cue the "Area around YS is a dangerous war zone" articles and "never again will I go there" horror stories* on any mass audience platform you can think off.

*My favorite is still an early 1990s call from a "friend" of the "artist" behind the Louisville Slugger bat (smokestack) who claimed that his friend saw a group of people that he thought were admiring it, but it turned out to be a murder victim chained to it.

[Methead]

The Yankees can whine all they want about low attendance, but I'm still not lifting my self-imposed lifetime ban on that stadium. No way.

[Frayed Knot]

SteveJRogers wrote: Cue the "Area around YS is a dangerous war zone" articles and "never again will I go there" horror stories* on any mass audience platform you can think off.

An argument that may have flown back in the late-'70s/early''80s but certainly doesn't today. It also totally ignores the fact that they were cramming 4 million into that place (well, the old version of
that place) just a decade ago for a team that a significant portion of the fan base openly professed not to like very much. But now that they've at least partially got the younger/cheaper/homegrown
roster they claimed all along to want (while at the same time counting the days until they can sign both Harper & Machado) attendance and revenues have fallen off the table.

[Guest 41Forever]

The stadium as a reputation as one of the most expensive in the game, right? At some point, a middle class family can only do this once or twice a season instead of once or twice a month. That's gong to affect the bottom line, I think.

[MFS62]

seawolf17 wrote: My favorite response to the "Yankees Having Troubles Getting Butts In Seats" headline was "Butts, yes. Assholes, no."

Bravo!

Later

[ashie62]

In 2017 the MFY's are far far superior and interesting than the Mets.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I have never, don't, or will ever find the Yankees more interesting than
probably five thousand other things. Maybe ten thousand.

[Edgy MD]

Ashie's jumping ship.

Gonna make swim for it.

[ashie62]

I am frustrated beyond words.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Lotta people jumping back on the bandwagon...
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[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: In 2017 the MFY's are far far superior and interesting than the Mets.

Which, even if true, absolutely misses the entire point of the ongoing discussion.

[Frayed Knot]

41Forever wrote: The stadium as a reputation as one of the most expensive in the game, right? At some point, a middle class family can only do this once or twice a season instead of once or twice a month. That's gong to affect the bottom line, I think.

When the Yanx first built the new place they assumed that their run as the hottest ticket in town was going to continue forever just as the Mets assumed that 2006 was merely the start of a lengthy run
at the top with ticket demand to match. So the Yanx priced their top seats at something like $2,500 per and just figure that the bandwagon celebrities would keep piling in. But tune into any MFY game
and the first thing you notice is that the best seats are the emptiest. It also didn't help when one of their execs told those seat holders not to give away or re-sell their ticket lest it upset those who did
show up by having to sit next to any undesirables who don't normally run with such a crowd.

But none of the NYC sports teams who got new cribs around that time were prepared for what the recession was going to do to their revenue stream dreams and so all wound up cutting ticket prices off
their original plans, or, in the case of the football teams which saw their season ticket waiting list fall from tens of thousands to nil, their PSL fees. Hence the large fall in revenue stream mentioned in
that article.

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Ashie62 wrote: In 2017 the MFY's are far far superior and interesting than the Mets. Which, even if true, absolutely misses the entire point of the ongoing discussion.

Not really, it speaks to attendance

Namaste