Yankees Suck

EXPANDED ROLE? Fuck that. Maybe he's looking to wash their jock straps, or help apply Ben Gay to rookie's shorts, or something more useful than what he's done in the past, the schmuck. He's a buffoon, he's a PR disaster, he's reviled throughout the entirety of Major League Baseball, the whole of the Red Sox Nation is calling for the public hanging of his Everett-lovin' ass, and he wants to come back? Brilliant.

If the owners want to really fuck up the team, they should woo Allard Baird away from the Royals, or hire Cam Bonifay (the former Pirates GM / genius that thought signing Terry Mullholland & Derek Bell & Pat Meares to multi-year contracts was a smart move). Duquette'll just spin his wheels for X number of years.

What are you, jealous that Otis and Kris went to the game and none of us pulled you a ticket? Good grief, Charlie Brown.

Sure, absolutely I'm jealous! Seeing the Yanks get beat in their home park would have been indescribable joy. Why are you rubbing it in? God, you're such a Lucy. We should have our own comic strip. Hanle y could be Woodstock.

I hope Duquette stays to cause misery to the red sox. Its fun to watch. Don't worry, tha Yanks will soon crush the crappy A's.

I love the Yankees, but here's a joke, for fun.

"In New York there are two teams: The Mets, and the Yankees. "Mets" is short for 'Metropolitains,' whereas 'Yankees' is short for 'Yankees Suck.'"

A's 2 Yankees 0

In the game and in the series!

ICHIRO!

EXPANDED PAPER? Fuck that. It monitored possibly, in order to wash its bridge of jock or helps to apply to glad treetree tree at the short electric circuits rookie or to somewhat that is as more useful, which does to it in the past, decoration. It is farcical, is it an accident of the tape, is it reviled by the whole of the important baseball of the league, designates the assembly of the nation of Sox of the red to hang over general donkeys of its Everett lovin ', and it would like to become? Lighting up. If the owners really require Fuck for mentioned above for equipment, they must umwerben or use Allard Baird far of the Royals the control Bonifay (preceding Piraten GR. / genius, which the Bell and Meareslicht thought on Terry of the company Mullholland and on Derek on the contracts of the multi-yearly knock, was an elegant movement). Right return of Duquettéll its wheels for the number of X von Jahren.

See, this is why I'd never offer you my free tickets or anything like that, Tracer. It's not cos I like the Yankees, cos I don't. I like the Mets and the two are mutually exclusive. It's because you got some sort of bad goddamned attitude and giving you the tickets would be an affront to all good-hearted baseball fans in the world.

I wonder how the game was, my boss said it was damn ass long.

Ah, Ally. Our little thunderkitty.

Fuck the fucking yankees. I have to watch game 5 from fucking Berkeley because of those assholes. I couldn't watch football yesterday because of those assholes. This series should've been over two days ago. Yesterday's game was the worst game I've ever seen in my life. My cousin's drunk friend knows absolutely nothing about baseball but now hates the yankees because someone squirted him with mustard at game 2. Yankee stadium is amazing but it's filled with the dumbest louts on earth. Otis, I think my cousin has your jacket.

FUCK THE FUCKING YANKEES!

Yesterday's game was the worst game I've ever seen in my life

haha.

What are you laughing at, bandwagoneer?

Mike, did you just call me thunderkitty? That's fantastic.

Well, Kris got to see an even worse one last night. It looked like Pony League.

What bandwagon am I on? Or should I ask?

You look like the guy in Josie and the Pussycats who is the first manager (not Alan Cummings, the other guy).

http://homepage.mac.com/elisha/.Pictures/tracer.jpg

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You make the call!

Dammit! E-1! Error on the picture!

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Dude, that's fantastic and bus and wonderful. Thank you for that.

I wish I had a picture of Ian. He looks like Alan M, whoever plays Alan M. Stephanie looks like Melody. Everyone I know = character from Josie and the Pussycats.

YANKEES WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!

Damn, talk about bandwagonesque.

They don't drawl out the "win" like that anyhow, Hanley.

True or false: if the Yankees somehow pull this all out, would it be the most significant win in NYC baseball history or will it just be forgotten in a few years as just another Yankees win?

Given the reactions of Sir Rudy Guliani, Joe Torre, the team, and the crowd at the Stadium following Game 5, I think it'll be pretty significant. However, I've also heard theorizing that having a New York team in the Series would be more of a headache (for security reasons) than a boon. I'd have to agree with that assessment (and, no, not just because I'm sick and tired of seeing the Yankees in the damn postseason).

It's no more of a security headache than any other team - why would they think a World Series game in NYC would be more likely to be blown up than a World Series game anywhere? The World Series is still the World Series no matter where, ie a world televised event located in a capacity stadium in the US.

The world series is not the world series no matter where - an Arizona-Cleveland world series would've been no world series, for instance. Besides, I about want to bomb Yankee Stadium myself, and I don't even hate America.

Hey, at least bioterrorism spares the buildings.

Ally: Which character from Josie do I look like?!

JM, you look exactly like Melody.

Otis, Arizona-Cleveland can't happen because baseball is fixed and the commissioner won't allow for that bullshit, it's bad for press. The Mets should still be in it, as I'm sure you'll agree that Shea Stadium is far superior to Yankee Stadium, which is a hellhole. Whatever happened to their plan to tear it down and move the Yankees to a non-existant impossible-to-ever-build stadium at Chelsea?

Ally, you sound like a friend that used to bitch about conspiracies in the NBA (don't doubt 'em) and EVERYONE'S bias against the Yankees (bullshit - the conspiracy's against the Cubs, damn it; why else do they keep Don Baylor around?)

MLB is most certainly not conspiring for any particular World Series. Having the Yankees in there the past 3 years certainly hasn't helped ratings (oh yeah - BOTH NY teams; that'll bring in folks), and I doubt they were planning that Cleveland/Flordia ratings bonanza in '97.

As for Shea being better than Yankee Stadium - fuck that with a stick of bees covered in alcohol and castor oil. Shea is a pit, a sty, a pox on the baseball landscape. The worst natural turf park in the majors (with Fenway closing in fast, unfortunately). And that stupid apple/top hat thing in center field - CHRIST. I'm just happy they dumped those awful orange & blue pinstriped uniforms.

Yeah but at Shea 1) you can smoke on the ramps, 2) the view of the tennis center is amazing 3) the view from the 7 train walkway as you arrive is perhaps the most suprising in all sports 4) there are very few Yankee fans. Oh and 5) the airplanes :)

What Tracer said, plus the outside is prettier and in a nicer neighborhood.

I believe Mr. Raposa doesn't understand the nature of the ratings: if you have high ratings in the midwest, your pure numbers will be fantastic, but who the hell cares? Advertisers WANT the NYC market, they charged some of the highest commercial rates in ages for the Subway Series. Why? BECAUSE ALL OF NYC HAD THEIR TVS TUNED TO IT. Who cares if someone in Alaska ain't watchin' it? They only care about the major metropolitan markets between ages 18 - 34, and that's just a solid fact, sorry.

The Super Bowl is pretty much the only major one immune to the syndrome, but I think that's just cos there's one game only during a boring, empty time of the day and week.

Surely Shea isn't worse than the "new" Comiskey, or Pro Player stadium, or Disney Field with fake rocks imported from the Matterhorn Mountain, or the Al Davis Mausoleum or even fucking Enron, which looks like a late model Williams pinball machine?

late model Williams pinball machine

this is bad?? at least it's not the cloying homage to old-timeyness that reeks from parks like "The Ballpark at Arlington" and what I fear the New Fenway will be... plus it's much easier to get to from town. It's IN town!

The ball bounces around Enron like it's a pinball too. Homers to left field there bouncing off that thing that looks like a paper mache roman aqueduct that has a toy train toot tooting on top of it are such a joke. At least Coors field is enormous, so homers there actually look impressive even though they aren't. Plus, the Iwo Jima hill thing in center field is just ridiculous.

I was always a big fan of Chavez Ravine...

I can't believe no one has commented on my moustache yet. ;(|

Moustaches are crap, never mind who I am dating.

I guess that'll do.

(my attempts at deception too subtle for y'all shocker)

That's not even a picture of you.

IT is high, IT is far... it... is GONE -

Kinda looks like me tho, no? It's the one that I get all the time.

Isn't that the guy from Do The Right Thing?

I am very proud of the Yankees for their victory. They are on eof the best teams in Yankee history. Too ba dthe royals suck Gaylord Perry cock

Y'know, there's more to the US than just the Northeast, Alaska, and the Midwest. And while my statement re: the Yankees' 3 straight appearances was a bit ... stupid, I do recall hearing that last year's Mets / Yanks matchup (given the ridiculous NYC viewership) did shit-all outside of that area, which is quite a nice chunk of people. NYC is big & all, but I'm pretty sure the rest of the US outweighs our section of the states by a good amount. (Of course, I'll wait for Ally to drop knowledge on my ass soon enough.) (Of course, if the Yanks make it in this year, the ratings will be astronomical - it'd be a baseball boon, security issues aside, which would be a pain in the ass, as I said earlier).

Mike, if you're looking for folks to mirror your sighing re: KC's general ineptitude & stupidity , click on over to Rob Neyer's website, where he & his friend (Rany J., one of the Baseball Prospectus guys) kvetched mightily about the fuckfest that was the 2001 Royals. (That'd be the "Rob & Rany on the Royals" section.) Unfortunately, they've become so disenchanted that they're going to stop covering the team on their site, which is a shame - they managed to make the same general statement every entry (Allard Baird & Tony Muser are IDIOTS) without boring the pants off of someone who couldn't care less about the Royals (like me).

The team has SOME talent...I guess they just coudlnt eat enough wheaties. I wonder if there is a Duquette behind it...

What team, the Royals? They've got Carlos Beltran and future Oakland 1st baseman Mike Sweeney, and no good pitchers at all. They are up there with the Pirates, Detroit, and Tampa Bay (who's at least young) as far as talent goes.

john turturro!

Y'know, there's more to the US than just the Northeast, Alaska, and the Midwest

Apologies to Louisiana and Arizona, then...? Waah waah waah, your team didn't make it. Tough titties for you. No one said that the "rest of the US" (ie 235 million people) isn't bigger than NY (ie 15 million people abouts, possibly more, I know city pop is like 10 million so maybe I should assume more statewide, plus NJ might as well be counted since it doesn't count on its own anyhow), the point is that it's the most important market in the US. No entertainment/sporting event is looking to please the masses. It's looking to make money. Sorry, Pollyanna, but that's a cold hard fact and being able to guarantee that the entirety of the most important market in the US will be watching your event will make you more money than guaranteeing that the entirety of, say, Kansas City will be watching your event.

Yeah, sure. I'm resigned to the fact that the Yankees are destined (yet again) to do what they do best. Yep yep yep.

And, for the record, my team (which, by default, is the Boston Red Sox, and, boy, that's a brick of shit worth flushing) is only 15 players and a GOOD GM away from getting into the playoffs.

The regular season is a billion times more interesting than this silly postseason stuff, anyway. And my titties aren't tough at all - they're firm, soft, feathery pillows.

Unbelievable.

PUT DOWN THE DAMN DOLL!

That doll looks like me.

This is the sound of me laughing at you. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA!

Did you all see that shit last night? And the night before? WHO'S YO' DADDY????

Arizona = Ass, just like Seattle.

We shall see after Sunday, madam. We shall see.

Of course, if Byung-Hyun Kim gets puts into another game this weekend - if he even gets shown on camera, sobbing into his sleeve - the Diamondbacks are done for.

You know, I don't see how it's Kim's fault. When a pitcher gets tired, they make mistakes. The problem with being a closer is that your mistake "costs" the game. Even Mariano Rivera looked a bit worn down last night, and he's supposedly King of the Closers.

Though I don't understand the way Kim pitches. I mean, he throws like a freak.

Ah, but I do not blame Kim. I blame his stupid manager for misusing him. Thoughts regarding this topic have been expressed in other threads, of course. Grrrr.

Maybe I should take to rocking back & forth to relieve stress.

The thing is, Kim is a closer and a very young, inexperienced one at that. He pitched something like 65 pitches, which is a lot for a closer, last night. And ended up "losing the game", which takes a huge emotional toll, especially since this is his first post-season. To put him back in when he is physically and emotionally exhausted is just stupidity. I mean, look at Rivera, seriously - he's the best there is, and HE was looking sketchy last night, he fucking loaded the bases, when was the last time you saw Rivera even put someone on base, period? Much less load them...if Rivera looked that exhausted and bad over being pitched two nights in a row, of course Kim is going to be absolutely a wreck.

You'd think that a manager would know better than to do that, that's what they get paid to do. But that would be asking too much. Unfortunately, management is all part of the team, though, and one manager outplaying another can make all the difference in the world on a pretty evenly matched series...

and by "last night" I meant "the night before", oops.