Yankees Suck 2008

"Say something honey... don't be shy... OMG - WHY WON'T YOU SAY ANYTHING?!"
~ Matsui realizing the tragic limitations of origami

CRAZY.

Also, doesn't Matsui collect pr0n??

Shhhhhhhhhh -- the drawing doesn't know that.

uh, weird...though, funny that he outfoxed jeter.

The bride is a 25-year-old civilian and had been formerly working in a reputable position at a highly respected company.

my dream woman

she had me at "civilian"

ahahaha wtf

do you think he met her at niagara falls?

http://www.i91.ctc.edu/crimestoppers/20031005/pic01.jpg

NIAGARA FALLS! Slowly I turn...

http://www.taylor-time.com/gif/cuckoo.gifhttp://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/images/2006/08/11/WBVrqKNY.jpghttp://www.patriotsplanet.com/BB/images/smilies/Cuckoo.gif

So who's NOT rooting for a Tampa Bay 2nd place finish (behind Boston, duh)?

Newsday picked Toronto for second.

doesn't Matsui collect pr0n??

I believe he's Japanese, yes.

Meanwhile, here's the lowdown on sanskrit's seats for 2009:

Yankees’ Top Seats Grow Pricier
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
NY Times

If you’re a Yankees fan with lots of spare cash, parts of the new Yankee Stadium will be for you. Consider two offerings sent to season-ticket holders in an e-mail message Thursday.

First up are the Legends Suite seats, the best in the $1.3 billion ballpark, which is to open in 2009. There will be 1,800 Legends seats in the 25 sections closest to the field, radiating up the base lines from home plate. Those fans will sit in cushioned seats with teak arms and have access to three clubs, private bathrooms and waiter service.

The seats will start at $500 each and the tiptop ones — the $2,500, front-row seats — are sold out, said Lonn Trost, the Yankees’ chief operating officer. (A Yankees fan could have spent $500 to see 50 games from $10 box seats in 1987.)

The current stadium has a Legends section of about 160 seats, with a peak price of $1,000 a game. The new Legends section features a home plate area that is 20 feet closer to the plate than in the current stadium’s configuration.

The second offering, which promises a “luxury suite experience one seat at a time,” is the 74-seat Club Suite, which is four luxury boxes combined into one. The $700 price includes food and beverages (alcohol is extra), preferred parking and concierge service.

The e-mail message from Trost asked all season-ticket holders if they wanted to upgrade to the deluxe offerings, “for which we have already received an enormous amount of unsolicited requests.” It also began the process of relocating season-ticket holders to similar locations in the new ballpark.

The team has the equivalent of 39,121 full season-ticket holders.

But Trost cautioned in his e-mail message that “the seat location and quantity of games included in all current ticket license plans are subject to change when you relocate to the new Yankee Stadium.” He said by telephone that he was not referring to the slightly smaller capacity of the new ballpark, but the variety of miniticket plans being sold.

The other two premium plans are less than $500. The 1,200 main level outdoor suite seats — behind home plate in the nine sections behind the Legends area — start at $350. And in the 1,300 terrace level seats located in the sections behind the outdoor suite, you can experience a wee bit of luxury for $100, $115 and $135.

The 4,374 premium seats in the four suites essentially substitute for the usual complement of high-priced stadium club seats. Of the 47 luxury suites available at the new ballpark, 29 have been leased, for between $600,000 and $850,000, Trost said.

There will be 48,000 nonpremium seats in the new stadium. Trost said that 88 percent of those cost $100 or less, and 55 percent will cost $45 or less.

He added that the highest-priced box seats at the old stadium — which rose to $250 this season from $150 last year — would not cost significantly more in the new stadium and would not be priced nearly as high as the cheapest Legends seat. But they could be farther back to accommodate the Legends seats.

I believe he's Japanese, yes.

????

Morbs is so inscrutable.

Just don't take my thumb.

So who's NOT rooting for a Tampa Bay 2nd place finish (behind Boston, duh)?

uh... ME!!!

Perhaps 2nd behind the J's, tho!

and is Matsui's porn collection a matter of public record?

Its existance, yes; its contents, no.

steve shasta to thread

any AL East in the next 5 years with TOR & TBA finishing ahead of NYY & BOS would reaffirm my faith in MLB, God and the building of a better world.

From the looks of it, the only thing Toronto's going to finish is JP Riccardi's career as a front office exec.

BUT HEY THIS IS THE YANKEES SUCK THREAD

lol @ Giambino @ 1B

well that would at the very least reaffirm *MY* faith in MLB, God and the building of a better Jays!

haha there are a lot of things you could put in a yankees suck thread but matsui holding a press conference to show everyone a shitty drawing of his (clearly made-up) new wife is not one of them

honestly that thing looks like it was made in a team-building exercise where they all had draw a picture of their dream girl and on the back write five adjectives to describe her

eagerly awaiting press conference for jeter to show off the lanyard he made after bp

max, we just use a "suck" thread for all Yankee news/analysis/BS, as sanskrit is the only (?) NYY fan left on ILBB.

so what did Godzilla REALLY do on his day off?

and why didn't Piazza think of the sketched fantasy-bride move?

it was a SEGUE morbs i understand that u guys are all chumps about this.

you dont think piazza has a ton of sketches of metallica in his locker??

or Yngwie, sure.

You'll never get me back in old Jankee Stadium this year, but we must go to a Staten Island Yankees game this summer! Same obnoxious crowd filling only 40% of the seats.

does piazza even have a locker with anyone right now?

Local YMCA?

ha ha!

who was the catcher and who was the pitcher?

http://gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/01/WABC_Sam_Champion_2006.jpg

"How do you say 'sneaky' in Japanese?" asked a playful Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter,

and is Matsui's porn collection a matter of public record?

And was it Julian Tavarez porn? Because Tavarez said he thought about becoming a porn star if the baseball thing didn't work out.

Julian Tavarez: Male Fluffer

playful Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter
playful Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter
playful Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter
playful Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter

ayo someone post when this shit starts. rain delay and i don't want to drink my lunch too early.

http://gothamist.com/2008/04/02/surprisingly_cl.php

pretty good game last night!!

So I flip to YES, just to see what's going on, and I'm just hoping Kay & Co. aren't totally punchable, and I tune in just before they go to commercial break after the bottom of the 8th, and not five seconds after I get there does Kay start in on his sub-Sterling "warming up is now the greatest reliever of all time" suckoff about Mariano that they usually save for An Important Game. Then coming back from commercial, he makes some half-ass attempt to draw parallels between Mariano's natty appearance coming into the park (and he did look snazzy in his Burberry chapeau) and his equally smashing couture as he enters the game.

I will take a 12 hour symposium co-headlined by Joe Morgan & Dusty Baker on why walks are bad over 5 minutes with that delusional thesaurus-humping shill.

att NY POST: The last OPENING Day ain't much history

i love it on ILB when people complain about McCarver or Joe Morgan in the post-season. hearing them is manna to my ears after a season of douchey Kay.

"delusional thesaurus-humping shill"

-wow. spectacular.

but is Kay douchey enuf to lol @Pedro injury? I wundah...

john sterling >>>>>>>>>>> michael kay. turn off the yes audio and turn on WCBS

suzyn waldeman sucks tho

Um, Sterling sucks, too. If he manages to go a week (let alone a game) without whipping out a variation of his "baseball -- you just can't figure it out" speech, let me know.

note that i didnt say sterling doesnt suck, just that hes better than kay.

>>>>>>>>>>>
that's like 11 greater thans

IM A YANKEE FAN IM PRONE TO HYPEBOLE OK

Mel Allen is better dead than any of the living

how about that?!

pretty good game!!!

T.W.I.B. NOTES BATCHES

1) Singleton was just talking about Rays prospect EVA Longoria
2) They're calling Hughes, Joba, & Kennedy "Generation Trey"?? Really?

http://images.jambase.com/bands/treyAnastasio/051202_Weiand/t2.jpg

Rays are raking!

Yankees really do suck :)

:(

MARCK C CAN EAT MY SALTY NUTSAC IN MONS PUBIS
SO GLAD MY MAIN STAIN MAX
IS AROUND NOWADAYS
SO LONELY ON ILB BEFORE WITH ALL THESE CONTRARIAN INDEES

otm dude

can we not lol @ 4k arod?

but this is the yankees hate thread! what stops you from stopping a yankees love thread?

uh, starting...

http://yankeeschick.mlblogs.com/yankees_fans_are_the_true/images/sombrero.jpg

LOL because until I saw highlights I thought "4k arod" meant $4,000, was trying to figure out if that was his per-game salary or something.

not even close, A-Rod makes $172,840 per game.

I lol'd when Kay said last week, "A-Rod, never great on popups, is under it..."

"He's no Derek Jeter, that's for sure."

I like to imagine the "I'd buy that for a dollar" guy from Robocop speaking the above line (which I don't think I've heard any YES / Yankee shill use in that form).

well, that comes close to an insult, doesn't it?

yanks so beat up they get former attorney general to play shortstop
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/sports/baseball/10pins.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

is sean casey drunk

I am drunk with love for Manny Ramirez.

aaaaaaaaand fox just cut away from the last at bat to show the automobile race in phoenix...

- J. Bartlett singled to pitcher
- B. Traber relieved I. Kennedy
- A. Iwamura lined out to right
- C. Crawford homered to deep right, J. Bartlett scored
- C. Pena hit by pitch
- B. Bruney relieved B. Traber
- B.J. Upton homered to deep center, C. Pena scored
- E. Longoria homered to deep left

Al Reyes needs another tasing.

wtf they should have dropped a baseball onto the field from a blimp
after that astronaut in space threw out the first pitch

wtf the Red Sox should've had the astronaut pitch in full gear

lol at LaTroy Hawkins being forced to switch from Clemente's #21 bcz Yankeefans found it disrespectful of future Hall of Famer Paul O'Neill. How you spell KLASSY!

What's the diff between life and a BOS-NYY game? LIFE DOESN'T GO ON FOREVER.

the pitch sequence leading up to manny's second bomb as called by Kay and Leiter was so awesome & enjoyable

RECAP PLZ

i guess his 1st homer was on a pitch away (didnt see this) but so they got to talking abt how moose has to come inside to get manny out. so next AB moose gets to 0-2 w/ 2 pitches away and the booth is saying how mussina is showing his stubbornness by staying away.

count gets to either 1-2 or 2-2, all still pitches away/outer-half and the setup was just perfect that kay saw moeller locate inside and comment that now we'll see what happens when he finally comes in to manny and it was just MURDERED (tho granted it was basically left dead center over the plate)

:D

"This is what it means to be a lifelong Yankgluh."

Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner, like his father George, has never been one to mince words. When it comes to where pitcher Joba Chamberlain should be -- the bullpen or the starting rotation -- the younger Steinbrenner's expectations are crystal clear.

"I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now," Steinbrenner told the New York Times. "There is no question about it, you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that."

"The mistake was already made last year switching him to the bullpen out of panic or whatever," Steinbrenner told the newspaper. "I had no say in it last year and I wouldn't have allowed it. That was done last year, so now we have to catch up. It has to be done on a schedule so we don't rush him."

You have to be an idiot to do that

diplomacy runs strong in this family

jesus 6pm sportscenter has spent like half the show on joba/hank shit it is insane

no candy for yanqui...

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/04/19/eat-healthy-play-better/

"I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now"

vs

"It has to be done on a schedule so we don't rush him."

this guy is even better than his dad!

Ozzie G is on my shitlist for letting Dotel pitch to Abreu w/ the bases loaded AND A LEFTY READY IN THE BULLPEN -- OD threw two pitches way outside, then came back in with the sort of thing you wish tee-ball coaches would offer to the kids.

TS: Kay vs. Hawk

I went with Hawk

i'd go with a pistol to the mouth.

Wolf Blitzer

http://bp1.blogger.com/_SHoB5EJ6_Xw/SAYQ7-ECSkI/AAAAAAAAANU/5M5kkP59tzs/s1600/Yankeesreminder.jpg

wtf is this:

J. Damon lf 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 .267
M. Cabrera cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 3 .280
D. Jeter ss 4 0 3 0 0 1 0 .286
A. Rodriguez dh 3 1 2 0 0 0 1 .306
J. Giambi 1b 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 .180
Unknown rf 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 .143
M. Ensberg 3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 .281
R. Cano ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 .154
J. Molina c 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286
J. Posada ph-c 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 .306
A. Gonzalez 2b-3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 .333

that must be bliss for a yankee.

o that was me btw

So much for the young Yankees pitchers, eh.

Think they'd take a chance on Zito?

http://www.robertaonthearts.com/p060905066.jpeg

is phil ughes actually hurt y/n

8-15 when Wang does not start.

NEW YORK (AP)—Phil Hughes has a stress fracture in one of his ribs, and the New York Yankees’ pitcher is expected to be sidelined until at least July.

Hughes, placed on the 15-day disabled list Thursday, had an MRI exam that revealed the stress fracture in the ninth rib on his right side. He will be shut down for four weeks and then re-evaluated. General manager Brian Cashman said the team probably can’t expect the 21-year-old right-hander to return before July.

Hughes is 0-4 with a 9.00 ERA in six starts this year.

yanqui outfield is lol defensively

8-16 when Wang does not start.

Swept at home by Detroit for the first time in 42 years.

Steven Goldman:

"Where did Derek Jeter's walks and power go? And why doesn't he sell cars that are more environmentally responsible?"

i give jeter a few points for having "humpty dance" play as he approaches the plate.

http://gothamist.com/2008/05/05/bostonnyc_rival.php

she doesn't look like the type...

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2008/05/05/1210015981_1414.jpg

you'd have to be really stupid to admit you're a Yankees fan in ME/NH/VT etc

you don't have to be explicit about it, you could just wear a boston university sweatshirt and everyone would know.

also, nashua was about 20 minute drive from where i grew up. the head shop i used to frequent was there, on rte. 111.

Feint-Rod: A-Rod passed out at daughter's birth

May 6 02:58 PM US/Eastern


NEW YORK (AP) - Alex Rodriguez passed out during the birth of his first daughter.
"The one nurse had a cold cloth on his head. The other nurse had the blood pressure on his arm. And my mother was like rubbing his back. And he is passed out on a couch. And I am there, in the middle of labor," Cynthia Rodriguez, wife of the New York Yankees star, said on an episode of the YES Network's "YESterdays" that is scheduled to be broadcast Wednesday night.

"And really, I am not being paid much attention to besides the doctor and a couple of nurses," she said. "And he is there moaning. In between pushing, I am going, `Honey, are you OK?' and `Are you breathing? Are you OK?' "

Natasha Alexander Rodriguez was born on Nov. 18, 2004.

"As tough and big as he seems, he is real wimpy around doctors or any type of medical situation," Cynthia Rodriguez said, according to excerpts released Tuesday by YES. "I don't know why I thought the birth of our child would be different. In the middle of the night, I realized that I needed to go to the hospital. I wake him up. The first thing that comes out of his mouth, `Can we call your mother?' ... A few hours later, I said, `I think you can call my mom now.' Uh, and the color came back to his face when I told him he could call my mom."

A-Rod traveled from New York last week and arrived at a Miami-area hospital about 10 minutes after the birth of his second daughter, Ella Alexander Rodriguez, on April 21.

Alex and Cynthia met in 1996 at a gym in Miami.

"I scouted her out for a month," he said. "I wanted to see her routine, and I wanted to see what time she came in, see how consistent she was. And sure enough, she was like a machine. She would come in right after work, and get on the treadmill and do her abs. And finally, I build enough courage after about 3 1/2 weeks. And I said, `I know you are going to go do some abs after. And do you mind if I join you?"

Cynthia said she was unaware of his celebrity status at first.

"I know he played baseball, because everybody in the gym said, `Do you know who that is? And he plays baseball' or whatever," she said. "I didn't grow up in a sports-oriented family. So, I wasn't aware that you could have an entire livelihood off of a sport. So when they would say, `Oh, he plays baseball,' I always think, `Oh, I wonder what else he does'—like `that's a nice hobby—but what does he really do?"

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/aa/fullj.8ce770615102bd1957df51f87e65ec96/8ce770615102bd1957df51f87e65ec96-getty-80319156jm001_seattle_marin.jpg

So, I wasn't aware that you could have an entire livelihood off of a sport.

WTF????????????????????????

"As tough and big as he seems, he is real wimpy around doctors or any type of medical situation"

yeah, that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard. does a-rod have a time machine by which he plucked her out of the 1920s?

"I scouted her out for a month," he said. "I wanted to see her routine, and I wanted to see what time she came in, see how consistent she was..."

Feint-Rod

Teint-Rod

Where's the copyeditor?
he quit cause he just found out that he could make a livelihood from playing sports.

that's crazy talk!

"I scouted her out for a month," he said. "I wanted to see her routine, and I wanted to see what time she came in, see how consistent she was..."

Paging Logan White!

Oh god I really really really really REALLY REALLY REALLY hope the David Wells rumors are true!!!

: D

Also: Kei Igawa!!!!!!

Jason Giambi doubled home a run in the fifth. But he was tagged out between third base and home in the fifth when he overran a stop sign that had changed as he looked down.

“Big G can’t slow down,” Giambi said. “Once the train gets going, there’s no brakes.”

"Big G". wow.

<3 <3 <3

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard

Rain prevents Jeter from hitting cleanup for Yanks

:( :( :( :(

holy cow @ that giambino quote
wld pay big $$$ to see big g vs. big papi in a footrace

"And I said, 'I know you are going to go do some abs after. And do you mind if I join you?'"

wau

NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- New York Yankees All-Star Jason Giambi said he often wears a tiger-stripe thong to help him out of slumps -- and he has loaned it out to teammates.

Giambi said he only dons his lucky gold lame underwear when all else has failed, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

"I only put it on when I'm desperate to get out of a big slump," the 37-year-old slugger told Portfolio.com.

Giambi said he has loaned the thong out to teammates, including Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robin Ventura and Robinson Cano.

"All of them wore it and got hits," he said. "The thong works every time."

ban

i am v v glad that Posada is not on that list

wd've loved to see Ventura in it.

btw that's Daily News FRONT PAGE headline today... screw u, Myanmar & China.

way more info than i needed to know. just play ball, not play with your B&LLS!
Posted by kjphotog on May 16, 2008 1:56 PM

B&LLS!

this team is difficult to watch

8-/

does anyone else think they spot Tony Bourdain in the front row behind the plate, just 3rd base of center?

i know I see a whole mess of ugly, UGLY people waving at the camera.

I feel... a little bad

arod: back w/ the timely 10-0 down HR

i almost felt bad watching the game, but the sulking giambino and latroy hawkins trying to hit luke scott quickly sorted things out for me.

Torre's got to be loving this right?

I say we take off and nuke the entire roster from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

this fuckin team

hughes, sir. he's hawkins.

the NO network?

^^^ sub morbius

well there was no network there for a while

back in da cellar wit youse!

It really doesn't get better than watching 10,0000 Yankee fans leaving Camden Yards in the middle of the 8th, vestigial tails between their legs.

Bottom of the current Yankee lineup, sans Posada, is kinda brutal.

loving this season so much right now

I just hope it continues.

Every year I enjoy the Yankees done talk, and every year it doesn't last, yet I never learn. This pitching staff is exceedingly brutal though.

o_o

each team must either score zero runs or four runs in a given inning

9 HRs so far...

And one pickoff of sleepy Jeter

Most combined HRs in a 9 inning game is: 12

And it was done twice (by the same teams):

Detroit (7) vs. Chicago (5) = 12
05-28-1995

Detroit (6) vs. Chicago (6) = 12
07-02-2002

a-rod's statistics this year are right in line with his '04 and '06 campaigns, keeping the pattern going of $25 million dollar seasons every other year, with $10 million dollar ones in between.

On Monday at Camden Yards, I was yelling for an A-Rod garbage-time HR.

lol @ sterling, christ:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5kscx_molina-cano-final_latino

A RIBBIE FROM <s>ROBBIE</s> molina

oops

Joba starts next Mon or Tues?

Um, anti-Yankee guys, as much as I like lolling @ this bucket of pinstriped chum(ps), they're still only 5-6 games out of first. This time last year, these clowns were 7 games under & 13.5 games back, and they managed to snag the wildcard and made a run @ 1st as well. Until these clowns are actually 20 games under come July, or Cashman trades Cano & Melky for Juan Pierre & Tony Pena Jr, I'm not ruling out anything.

as long as joe girardi is managing i fear no yanqui dogs.

i won't be scared of the yankees unless they bring paul o'neill back

that guy was a gamer

he was also hitting .420 at the end of May once, Chipper worshipers.

I expect Yanks to take the WC or come close.

unfortunately now that a-rod is back and giambi is hitting like a juicer again i think they have a very good shot at the wc. i just hope that tampa bay and boston can stay the course.

omar, you need to hang around past your cutoff date for beisbol purposes.

tired of abreu glaring and smirking at every called strike that isn't dead fucking center

swing the bat, dick

His .299 / .365 / .483 line seems to suggest he is, mook. Tied for 2nd on the team in HRs w/ 7 (even with Rodney, 4 behind THE GIAMBINO)! You'd rather he take cues from Ribbie Cano?

as a yankee-hater, yes.

i don't mind that he takes a lot of pitches, just his moping when they turn out to be strikes.

Oh shit is today JOBA DAY?

FISTPUMP!

it IS joba day? do you think the locusts will descend?

hey you bitchfed haters
couple weeks ago
i fired a vendor from an $80K piece of business
that he was a red sox fan may have had been a contributing factor

now imma smoke this pinner and bid on one of these shits http://stores.ebay.com/Bill-Cosby-Charity-Auction
YOU MUST DEAL

year two thousand.

in the yeeeeeeer tooooooooo thouzaaaaaaannnnndd.

NO GORDON GARTRELLE
NO DEAL

go sit on my Giambi crustache
DEALT

OMG OMG ONLY A FEW MINUTES AWAY

NO HORSEPLAY DURING THE ANTHEM PINKO RIOS

lol, jumpy joba

MOST PITCHES EVER THROWN BY JOBA CHAMBERLAIN IN ONE INNING

haha 38 pitches~!!

Whenever Michael Kay is shown, I expect to see a 4' 5" version of Danny Bonaduce.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2008/06/ipt/1212539038.jpg

ILB relink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7bKx0-shPI

i'm pissed that sterling video ^^^ was removed

JOBA COOLS

NY Times has funny Joba = Hideki Irabu theme today

irabu's first start was pretty good but i can totally see the comparison

got to witness kyle farnsworth's first victory in person today. i think maybe they should put joba back in the pen

NYC ILBBers WHO IS LAZY AND UNEMPLOYED ENOUGH TO JOIN ME ON MONDAY FOR THE 1 PM START AGAINST YOUR KANSAS CITY ROYALS?! WE WILL SIT WITH DOMINICANS AND EAT "DIPPIN DOTS"

wish I was, but wunst among the Creatures was enough.

NO ONE IS MAS MACHO?

Nevermind, I'm not going either, apparently :(

NEVERMIND I AM GOING AGAIN. SOMEONE PUT IT ON THE GLASS.

mondays are no good for the eradicator

ha hahahaa

lol

I am convinced meecham has cost this team 3 games with bad 3B running decisions.

post dejesus HR vs mo rivera -- Kay "if you'd like to know what shock hears like..."

LOL u jinxed yrself foll

woooo

stache dudes are on a tear

stache brothers...

(do not touch staches after home run pls)

I bleeve J the Mod IS at the game!

jeez, Damon's BA is up to .330.

he's no chipper

Jose Guillen, SEEYA!

Yeah that was annoying.

Also, Mike Mussina seems like he's kind of a sad guy.

Do you think he fills out crossword puzzles and sighs and feels sorry for himself?

YES!

I love Moose's sexy melancholy.

lol

well, here are the yankees blowing another game

you can't predict baseball, suzyn. you just can't

regardless of how the sat nite game ends up, fan stealing rf'ers catch gifting a-rod with a HR = awesome
actually fan interference in general = awesome

after getting an earful fan should of pegged the rfer in the back of the head with the ball

lolz

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=roseandarod

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/eticket/20080618/assets/arodrose_skirmish.jpg

Wang out at least 6 weeks, partially torn foot tendon

fuck! fuck interleague play

Take these broken Wangs. . .

Jeter's on-base is .326! Some All-Star.

Haha so for everyone else 2.5 months is too small sample size, but for Jetes it's OH NOES END OF WORLD!

no, but it IS 60 pts under his lifetime OBP. It was S Goldman who made me look at how his walks & power have sunk.

It's also reason enough for me to All-Star-vote for Michael Young (last year included).

His BABIP being ridiculously low (.293 vs. usually well over .300, although his LD % is also low uh oh) is his real problem.

Giambi's mustache is so ridiculous.

I like it, it reminds me of Chris Guest in Best In Show a little bit. Sheffield's NYY-stache was better though.

it makes giambi look less of a fat tweaker and more like a cuddly father figure.

Yankees sign Sidney Ponson

http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/06/yankees_sign_sidney_ponson.html

HAHAHA fucking awesome.

NO

This is his SECOND tour of duty w/ the Yanks! SIMPLY THE BEST

isn't the elder weaver still up for grabs too? those guys would make the ultimate 1-2 punch.

wait fuck no no no no

with Steve Trout as #3

isn't the elder weaver still up for grabs too?

VERY MUCH up for grabs, but the Yanks would probably have to throw in at least 100 Baja Fresh franchises placed strategically throughout the contiguous Estados Unidos (read: within walking distance from each MLB clubhouse, for the sake of Jefe's full-time weed and guac gun carrier) to get him to return to NY.

honestly, though...the combustible mr. ponson + the combustible mr. girardi + the combustible baby steinbrenner = ratings gold. can we spin this into a reality show?

this might help

???

Meanwhile, how about this? The Yankees are staying in downtown Pittsburgh and are apparently sharing their hotel with a furry convention -- that is, grown men and women who dress up and act like animals. Here's the official Web site -- Anthrocon 2008: "It's a Jungle Out There!"

You cannot make this up.

Most of the players were a little taken aback - Alex Rodriguez was telling Derek Jeter how he got caught in an elevator with nine hissing cats, and thought they might start scratching him -- but Jason Giambi absolutely loved it. Big shocker there. If the Yankees didn't have to get out of town tonight, you get the feeling the Big G would hang out for another night and join the fun.

"Those people are awesome," he said. "Awesome."

that is asbolutely horrifying.

WORST CSI EPISODE EVER

oh boy

http://gothamist.com/2008/06/30/coming_to_a_tabloid_near_you_madonn.php

http://www.tindeck.com/audio/filestore/y/yequ-ucker_furry_7-4-07.mp3

gabbneb believin shit he reads from disreputable sources

i was there, man

am i the only one that thinks it's awesome that Giambi thinks they're awesome!?

yeah, Giambi's upper lip can relate to the plight of furrydom.

http://www.usmagazine.com/exclusive-ny-yankee-making-late-night-visits-to-madonnas-apartment

I'm OK with this story, really.

Good to know A-Rod's being a good parent to his newborn baby.

maybe she was lending him some formula

ugh

giambis mustache keeps giving me mattingly flashbacks

this B. Gardner guy's got something

chlamydia?

a chance to replace d. eckstein as world's scrappiest human?

If he can draw roughly twice as many walks, hit for nearly the same average, and steal 40-50 bases -- which looks possible -- then... maybe.

A-Rod's wife alleges infidelity in divorce papers
By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer

Monday, July 7, 2008
(07-07) 09:03 PDT MIAMI, (AP) --

Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce Monday, calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children."

"The marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken because of the husband's extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct," according to Cynthia Rodriguez's petition for dissolution of marriage, filed in the family division of Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.

The New York Yankees third baseman, who earned his 12th All-Star selection Sunday, has refused to comment on his relationship with Madonna, who denied any romantic involvement with the slugger in a statement posted Sunday on people.com.

"The petitioner has exhausted every effort to salvage the marriage of the parties," Cynthia Rodriguez said in the filing. "However, Alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children and has left her with no choice but to divorce him."

Rodriguez's attorney in Miami, Ira M. Elegant, said he had not reviewed the divorce petition but added: "As you know, anyone can pay the filing fee and make allegations."

Elegant also represents NBA star Shaquille O'Neal in his ongoing divorce from his wife, Shaunie.

A telephone message left for a Rodriguez spokesman Monday was not immediately returned.

The couple, who married in November 2002, have a $12 million, six-bedroom house in the upscale Miami suburb of Coral Gables. A company run by a corporation controlled by Rodriguez bought an apartment at Trump Park Avenue in Manhattan for $7.4 million in July 2005.

Cynthia Rodriguez has asked for primary custody of their two children, as well as child support and alimony.

Their two daughters are Natasha Alexander, 3, and 2-month-old Ella Alexander.

The filing comes just days after the third baseman was linked to Madonna in various media outlets. Cynthia Rodriguez later visited the Paris home of rocker Lenny Kravitz, who said she came to France to escape the media frenzy in New York and denied anything improper.

Cynthia Rodriguez's lawyer, Maurice Kutner, declined to elaborate on the filing, which does not mention Madonna or any other alleged paramours by name.

"Cynthia has made it very clear to me that she wants to take the high road and protect her children and herself. There's no vindictiveness here," Kutner said. "She wants to resolve the issues between Alex and herself in an amicable fashion."

The couple has had prenuptial agreement in place since Oct. 3, 2002, according to the divorce papers.

The divorce petition was filed the day after Rodriguez hit his 536th homer, tying Yankees Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle for 13th place.

Rodriguez is in the first season of a $275 million, 10-year contract with the Yankees, a deal that allows him to earn up to $305 million. He made $185.45 million from 2001-7 from his contract with the Texas Rangers and Yankees.

"I feel like Madonna's using mind control over him. I don't recognize the man he's become. He was a sweet, beautiful, loving husband and father. Today he's very cold and calculating. I believe he was having an affair with Madonna."
--Cynthia Rodriguez

"Today"

should i post a funny picture of my friend's boss at a party w/ gw paltrow on one side and a-rod and madonna talking it up on the other? i thin it was taken around christmas before any of this got out.

:-O

this is such a bad idea
media dudes bloggeur dudes please embargo this

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3677/atestup0.gif

lol. countdown to blogmaggedon.

not exactly damning evidence.

I love bit-shot attorneys: As you know, anyone can pay the filing fee and make allegations.

pretty sure i can't, actually

Look at his eyes.

Where are her hands?

A-Rod? Cold and calculating?

I love Madonna's stone kiss-off of a statement, too. There's holes in it big enough to drive both of their entire entourages' SUVs through.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b145397_madonna_denies_divorce_puts_a-rod_in.html

He also said the baseball star only listens to Madonna music in the car and goes "into a trance" when her music videos play at the gym.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092008/photos/news007.jpg
WE GET THE POINT: Alex Rodriguez, leaving his Manhattan apartment building yesterday, does a double take with his shifty eyes.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092008/photos/news007a.jpg

he looks like a lincoln park a-hole after one too many jagerbombs.

what is up with dude's hair

is it frosted

yankee beisbol muhfuhs

i wonder if his nut hair has been frosted

yankee beisbol muhfuhs

3rd place chachi

oh but wait I forgot about Sir Sidney

make that 4th place lol

sir sidney was in trouble almost every inning; his time will come.

i understand that carl pavano is pitching off a mound

a mound of tears and regret

at least he's not a big pussy like phil hughes

or something

max are you here this summer

ya i was in the city today

do you want to see baseball y/n

y but probably not till august or so

but i gotta get to the stadium at least once this summer

it's gonna be increasingly difficult to get to the stadium as we approach its final hours. but if you'd like, my diabolical wife is a yanqui fan and we could join u.

or jmod and morbs and us could meet you for staten island yanks or cyclones. just bring something to read

lol "diabolical wife"

She should be a Devil Rays fan!

ahem mod, there is no such thing as a Devil Ray any longer. do keep up.

LoL, THaTs wHy I sAiD iT wOuLd bE "DiAbOlIcAl". Like the Rays of the Sun.

^whoa

Great Moustaches in Yankee History

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/09/sports/playemail/munson.ready.jpg

I think Giambi's suits him. ""With Giambi, he's such a beast, he can carry it off."

so if anyone else on anyother team sprouted a stache would we give even half of a shit?

if manny ramirez grew a fu manchu i would devote a website to it

also, if we're talking about yank'staches:

http://www.stevebalboni.com/images_local/power3.jpg

xpost. ok - i will give you that.

so if anyone else on anyother team sprouted a stache would we give even half of a shit?

hi dere Johnny Damon circa 2004

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/MannyRamirez.jpg

and Damon was not just a 'stache; it was an animal hyde short of a captain caveman outfit.

BREAKING: GIAMBI GETS ENDORSEMENT FROM AMERICAN MUSTACHE INSTITUTE

“Baseball has a thick, rich, luxurious history with the mustache,” said Aaron Perlut, the institute’s executive director. “And we’ve tried to be as visible and supportive as we can of Giambi. Not only do we think he’s a great baseball player, but he’s also a great ambassador of the labia sebucula — which is Latin for lip sweater.”

holy shit

I Get it
You’re Madonna
You enjoy
Double entendre

^^Should probably go in Kickass Baseball Media thread.

(Should probably stop posting to this thread for a bit.)

it should!

I love Madonna's stone kiss-off of a statement, too.

I think Piazza's PR guy wrote it.

Piazza has a Puerto Rican guy?

Richie Sexson to "tentatively" hit lefties:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3493648

i like this signing

as a yankees hater

PbdyTnnrs (52 minutes ago) As a Red Sox fan I'm big enough to admit defeat. With Sexson on board I don't see how anybody else can even hope to compete with the Yankees. Well, at least there's still the wild card.

lol

guh

i went to SI Yanquis today! Pat Venditte started warming up but was not used ;_;

lmdo

NYPost:

Ladies and gentlemen, The Bronx is sunburning.

Yankee fans are seeing - and turning - red over a ban on sunscreen, which Stadium security guards say was widely expanded in the last few weeks.

Security guards collected garbage bags full of sunblock at the entrances to Yankee Stadium over the sweltering weekend, when temps hit 96 degrees and the UV index reached a skin-scorching 9 out of 10 - a move team officials said was to protect the Stadium from terrorism.

Have you had bad security experiences at Yankee Stadium? E-mail jols✧✧✧@nyp✧✧✧.c✧✧.

But fans baking in the bleachers and upper deck argued that the sun may be a bigger threat than Osama bin Laden.

"I was really pissed because, since I am Irish and I have a bald head, I need my sunblock," said Sean Gavin, 40, who had to toss his SPF 30 at the gate Saturday.

"After they saw me dousing myself with it, it should have been obvious to them that it was sunblock and not some explosive."

The team contends that sunscreen has long been on the list of stadium contraband, but there is no mention of it on the Yankee Web site.

Four weeks ago, Stadium officials decided that sunscreen of all sizes and varieties would not be permitted, a security supervisor told The Post before last night's game.

"There have been a lot of complaints," he said. "We tell them to apply once and then throw it out."

For fans who bring babies or young children to cheer on the home team, the guard had suggested they "beg" to take the sunblock in.

Seeing the giant bag full of confiscated sunscreen Saturday, one steaming Yankee fan asked whether he could take one of the tubes and apply it before heading into the park.

"Absolutely not," the guard told him. "What if you get a rash? You might sue the Yankees."

Fans said the team seems more concerned with catching the Tampa Bay Rays than ensuring their fans don't catch UV rays.

"Five hours in the upper deck with no sunscreen is crazy," season-ticket holder Dan McCourt said.

The Stadium does sell 1-ounce bottles of Arizona Sun SPF 15 for $5 - a huge markup that makes its beer seem cheap.

Dermatologists said that, security concerns or not, leaving 56,000 fans unprotected from potential skin cancer is "very dangerous."

"This is especially bad for children, as their younger skin is particularly sensitive," said Dr. Babar Rao, a specialist at the Skin and Cancer Center of New York. "Sunblock needs to be reapplied every two hours, even if you are not swimming in the ocean or pool."

Major League Baseball even has a skin-cancer prevention program called "Play Sun Smart."

An hour after being asked about the sunscreen ban, Yankee spokesman Jason Zillo told The Post that the rules would be changed to permit 3-ounce containers.

they really have been letting things slide there - they didn't even check our shoes on our way in last year! it's about time they started taking things more seriously.

also: posada out for the season?!

That's what I saw on other ppl's tabloids.

There will be cavity searches at new Stadium.

Haha so fucking stupid.

That's what I saw on other ppl's tabloids.

There will be cavity searches at new Stadium.

file this under: Jobs You Couldn't Pay Me To Do Because There Isn't Enough Money.

Apparently the Yankees have been embarrassed into lifting the "ban".

Cheapest walkup ticket today was 350.00 USD about an hr before 1st pitch.

Mystique and Aura at market rates

wooooo

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/7be510d2bd_dust07262008.jpg

phil hughes and CARL PAVANO are scheduled to pitch for the class a charleston riverdogs tuesday

ooooow

Posada = out for season
Matsui = foregoing surgery and will try to play through the pain

Nady = first hit in stripes is a HR + outfield assist at homeplate.

gosh, that sounds an awful lot like yankee love!

...nice to see guthrie win the stanford showdown.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/mattschnell/0729082053.jpg

someone defenestrate Michael Kay awready

today's Old Timers Day bathos will include

for the first time

RICKEY!

Randolph return most predictable surprise.

It usta be just the Ruth and Gehrig widows, they had about seven.

this shit is corny but i still love it

especially love recent overrated pikers like Crybaby Paulie and Constantino getting intro'd after Rickey & Raines

you could not watch you know

yes, doc, they are introduced in precise order of importance

no, I enjoy seeing players from my high school years looking like grandpas.

Certainly all the scrubs of the last 20 years were trotted out first.

the volume of fan applause is a direct reflection of their judgment about the historical rank of the player

ie, Yankee fans are eejits

sarcasm is dead. Mets fans would be doing the same thing if they had 4 champeenships since 96.

;_; RIP

:\

:-{ RIP

Joba Chamberlain will fly back to New York tomorrow for an MRI and other tests on his right shoulder.

Chamberlain said he was injured in the fifth inning while pitching. “It was something where it grabbed and popped and got stiff,” he said.

Joe Girardi said that at the very least, Chamberlain would miss his next start. The last time he said that about a starter was Chien-Ming Wang.

D-:<

muy frágil!

That last line mookie quoted is some rather deft bullshit.

it's also poorly written.

chien ming wang is not a time

Wang O'Clock

joba to the 15-day DL, details about his injury not made public yet

tickets for tomorrow night, can't wait

Fucking Jeter w/ the fistpump as Murphy & Pudge collide @ the plate.

That sounds gross.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080809/capt.35e78f3a498040baa20d2b6ea6617df1.yankees_angels_baseball_cama109.jpghttp://www.nychoke.com/images/a-rod%20slap.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1779/yanquisvf4.jpg

Kennedy said it was the "first bad outing I've had in a long time, since the All-Star break" -- of course, the others were in the minor leagues -- and that he was "a little" surprised manager Joe Girardi pulled him after five straight hits to start the bottom of the third inning.

"I'm not going to look much into it. I felt like I made some good pitches," Kennedy said. "What was it, a bunch of singles and three doubles? I'm just not real upset about it. I'm just going to move on and I've already done that."

mystique, aura and ian kennedy

and sent back down today, lol

lol Yanqui loss on defensive indifference

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/mcsweeneys_rejects_mike_mussinas

"Insults That Would Only Work If You Were Talking To The Leucadendron Genus Of Plants"

PECOTA-adjusted Yankee playoff chances: 7%

this must be what it feels like to be a mets fan

god so glad the olympics are on right now so i can distract myself

no max, Mets haven't died in August in awhile

it's usually September, right

its true tho, the mets are doing better than the yankees right now

YES QUE, that was implied.

yanks demote melky, waive richie

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08152008/sports/yankees/melky_to_minors__sexson_waived_124621.htm

barn door, long open

whoa!

"Sexson was brought in with the idea of giving the Yankees a better attack against lefty pitching. But the dramatic holes in the first baseman's swing made him too easy an out."

Richie Sexson as NYY: .371 OBP

OBPs of other Yankee who are much tougher outs apparently:
Jorge Posada .364
Bobby Abreu .360
Derek Jeter .346
Robinson Canó .302
Iván Rodríguez .286
Wilson Betemit .280
José Molina .277

Sexson had 6BBs vs. 6Ks as well.

We've been devastated by injuries. No team I've ever seen in baseball has been decimated like this. It would kill any team," Steinbrenner told the Associated Press. "Imagine the Red Sox without Josh Beckett and Jon Lester. Pitching is 70% of the game. Wang won 19 games two straight years. Chamberlain became the most dominating pitcher in baseball. You can't lose two guys like that."

When was this exactly?

when he pitched one inning every other day last year. For 2 months. Til the bugs attacked!

the blue jays just beat the yankees and the rays beat the angels, so the yanks are now 11 games behind TB and only 1 game ahead of the blue jays.

also: finally an end to the "derek jeter has made the playoffs of every season he played ball" crap.

woah - let's not jinx anything here!

OMG are the Blue Jays going to MISS THE PLAYOFFS?!!!??

Damonlolz

i was referring to the jeter/playoffs part, douche.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/6307/lolyq8.gif

haha "gritty pavano"

lol

f u

The French call this "shitting the bed"

I mean, I hate the guy more than a lot of people, but wtf at AP story piling on A-Rod:

When the Yankees needed Alex Rodriguez at his best, he had one of his worst games.
(...)
Rodriguez flopped in crucial spots all night. He grounded into two double plays -- one with the bases loaded -- and whiffed for the final out.

"Tonight, you can put it on me," Rodriguez said. "It was a lousy night. We pretty much screwed it up every way you can screw it up. There's absolutely no excuse."
(...)
Johnny Damon hit two solo homers for the Yankees, but Rodriguez's failures thwarted one potential rally after another.

"He's the best player in the league. Unfortunately, he had a bad night," Damon said.

Your veteran starter gives up 6 earned and 10 hits in 4 2/3 and it's A-Rod's fault you lost?

Well, duh -- Pettitte's a True Yankee, a gritty gamer, the ace of numerous World Championship teams. A-Rod's just a gun-for-hire mercenary that's as clutch as a Fendi knock-off.

"No one is more frustrated than me," said Rodriguez, adding that he'll show up early Wednesday for extra hitting work with batting coach Kevin Long.

He's one of the best players ever and this makes it sound like he's being given detention for being a goof at school.

Just as the first half of the season doesn't count, neither do the first 5 innings of a game.

Your friends,
Sportswriters

http://gothamist.com/2008/08/27/did_police_eject_a_man_from_yankee.php

unclutch a-rod doubles in a run when he should have homered, doubles again with the bases empty. nice work.

hey max, still LOL'ing at Bay in place of Ramirez?

its hard to laugh through tears doc

TRACK!!!! WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIAMBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Tie game in the seventh inning.)

Jon Lester, how cute.

TRACK!!!! MARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ON THE ASS OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIAMBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:|

JASON GIAMBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE MIGHT'VE KEPT THE SEASON ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SINGLE-HANDEDLY!!!!!!!!!!!

He chewed on his glove, too! That's almost as important as pitching!

jason giambi prolongs my misery for another month

this is fuckt. i was just rooting for the fucking yankees! ugh!

this was the best possible outcome for the series. boston need to lose a little here too, as we all know.

I was @ today's game / debacle. I have sunburn on the side of my neck. I was stuck behind 3 pro-Sox chix that spent more time going for concessions than watching the damn game. (Women / Sox fans, right?) I wish I had binoculars to see John Sterling's hissy fit of joy after the Giambi single. (Loosen the Pap strings, Tito.)

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080902/COL22/809020364/&imw=Y

And that's where the Pudge conundrum became apparent: He wanted to play every game, but he did not always want to make every single play. He won a Gold Glove in 2007 more because of his name than his defense. He had gained a reputation within the organization for failing to call for breaking balls with runners on base, because he didn't want to block pitches in the dirt. He also had a tendency to get frustrated at the plate, and that carried over to his defense.

The Tigers' trade of Rodriguez for Kyle Farnsworth has not worked out. But they were right about Pudge. Just ask the Yankees. Veteran pitchers Andy Pettitte and Mike Mussina prefer throwing to backup Jose Molina. Since the trade, Rodriguez has caught 17 games for the Yankees; Molina has caught 13.

Molina actually outhitting Pudge (yeah, I know) probably has something to do w/ that game split, too.

You know what?

Chicken butt?

(Just talking about how Pudge has fallen so far he's actually getting outhit by one of the worst hitters in the majors.)

Gotcha.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/90_06_giambi-jason.jpg

good work.

ok this dude who caught home run balls on consecutive nights is hilarious

would kick it with this yankees fan

LOL that Easton looks like it could be a 30"/23 oz.

It also looks.. aluminum?

Steinbrenner to be ritually sacrificed on mound after Sunday's game

George skipping finale! must be all Bernied out.

There's a rich symbolism in Molina's Last Home Run At Yankee Stadium moment.

Also, lolbaseballplayers.grammar

No Clemens no credibility

ESPN orgasms over the gang-rapists in the bleachers

Goldman:

As for the battered old Stadium itself, no sentimentality here, or only a little. It had seen much history, but all things must pass and its day had come. It was cramped, dark, and occasionally dangerous. It was built (and remodeled) with very little thought given to crowd control or accommodating the masses it regularly attracted. In this regard, it was inadequate in nearly every aspect of its design. It's time to have a building that doesn't treat its customers like cattle being shunted up and down ramps to the abattoir.

http://www.yesnetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080520&content_id=1443605&oid=36019&vkey=6

gotta say i would have a lot more nostalgia for this stadium if they werent basically building a replica next door

Yankee Stadium was an important stage in my discovery of America. I came here as an immigrant in 1938. In the summer of 1939, I started working in a shaving brush factory. Some of my co-workers turned out to be of Italian origin, and they took me to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium. A seat in the bleachers in those days cost 55 cents. Home plate was far away, and it was not possible to see much of the infield play. But Joe DiMaggio was in center field right in front of us. His graceful, seemingly effortless gliding toward fly balls and the tremendous drives he hit generally in our direction in the far end of the bleachers made the visit exciting. As the years went by, I graduated from the bleachers to the grandstand at $1.10, to the reserved seats — about where the owner’s box is now — at $1.65.

In the early days, the idea that the day might come when I would sit in the owner’s box next to Joe DiMaggio would have seemed beyond even America’s capacity to fulfill dreams. Yet that is what happened, starting in the 1970s, proving America’s ability to make the impossible come true.

After George Steinbrenner became owner, my visits took place under his aegis. I developed vast affection for his capacity for friendship, which matched his fierce pride in his team. We often sat next to each other. During a playoff series game with the Red Sox, Mike Mussina was cruising along with a no-hitter and an eight-run lead when Boston got a hit in a late inning. I pointed out to George that this might be a good thing because the Yankees could now take Mussina out and rest him for a later start in the series. But, for George, there was no way a Red Sox hit could ever be considered a good thing. George was in the process of explaining this to me in his usual emphatic way, when the Red Sox underlined his point by scoring a bushel of runs. Luckily, the rally ended, the Yankees won the game and harmony was restored.

I will always have a warm spot in my heart for Yankee Stadium. This is where I grew to love this quintessentially American game, with its sudden bursts of drama, punctuated by periods of calm, which permit reflection on the subtle positioning of players, the minute adjustments that mark the difference between excellence and mediocrity, before a new drama subsumes all reflection in the emotion of the moment. I will miss the Stadium and its memories, but I am confident that the Yankees will add many experiences in their new surroundings which I shall cherish.

Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state, is chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.

wtg moose

^_^

yes, now please retire so you can have an O's cap on your HOF plaque. (and if the BBRAA doesn't vote you in, fuck them)

Joe Sheehan recommended they re-sign Pvano!

So, were I in charge, this would be your 2009 New York Yankees:

C: Posada, Molina
1B: Teixeira
2B: Cano, Betemit
SS: Jeter
3B: Rodriguez
LF: Damon
CF: Cabrera, Endy Chavez
RF: Abreu, Nady
DH: Matsui
SP: Wang, Chamberlain, Mussina, Hughes, Kennedy, Pavano
RP: Rivera, Ramirez, Veras, Coke, Aceves, Giese

There has to be a better backup catcher than Molina out there.

Player x over molina, gardener over betemit on bench, Add player X over Kennedy (possibly shell shocked). I like Endy Chavez in CF tho.

Pavano?!?!?

Sorry to actually make an October post on this thread, and thus spoil the elegance of it all, but this has to be seen by you, if it hasn't already:

There is one very important point here. The most important thing to remember is this: If you didn't get it from me or my brother, it doesn't mean shit. I don't care about some piss-ant employee. If you don't get it from me or Hal, it's meaningless. I have a lot of things here and Hal is in New York, which is good.

-- Hank Steinbrenner, Oct. 11, 2008

Collins said Chamberlain was taken to the Cornhusker Place Detox in Lincoln, which she said is the normal protocol.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/095J6fP4N62ld/610x.jpg

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11032008/sports/yankees/jeter_gets_no_glove_from_survey_136649.htm

"Maybe it was a computer glitch," Jeter told The Post. "Every (shortstop) doesn't stay in the same spot, everyone doesn't have the same pitching. Everyone doesn't have the same hitters running, it's impossible to do that."