Tuesday, May 05, 2009
I'm Loving This. Of Course.
I don't know where to start with all the ridiculous Yankee crap today.
This NYT article was obviously written late in the game, assuming that Girardi's ejection would automatically make the Yanks win. It's actually been cleaned up since I read it last night after the game--back then the whole beginning of the article was about this big magical spark Girardi gave the Yanks. Like the guy wrote it assuming the Yanks would win--he must be in the wrong century--and then didn't have time to re-write it. But the headline about the "spark" remains. Look, just because a manager gets ejected, or a team gets in a fight, doesn't mean that team will then win. And if they don't, you definitely shouldn't go ahead with the article you would have written had they won! Like usual, the Yanks' tactics are contrived and just don't work.
That sentiment is in this article Reb sent me. It's good, though it says what I've been saying for years: that the Yanks wish they were the Red Sox. From Johnny Damon (and Bellhorn, Minky, Embree, etc.) to "Yankees Universe" to closer/starter controversy to whether or not to go with young pitchers in your rotation, the Yanks are always a step behind and, ironically, a buck short.
And what the flying fuck is this supposed to mean? Telling Yankee fans they must root for drunk-driving Joba because the drug user/dealer who gave birth to him got arrested? Gimme a break.
No loitering, Paul O'Neill!
Remember the Fenway guy who tells people batting practice is off? That seems tame compared to what happened in the rain at the New Loo last night.
And about those expensive, empty seats there--what bothers me most of all is that they don't let people from other sections sit there. It happens at a lot of places, of course, and it's so stupid. Charge your thousands for the seats, that's your call, but if no one's sitting there, let someone who IS at the game sit there. To avoid the huge embarrassment of seeing almost nothing but empty seats at every game on TV, they really might have to cave on this issue--but they'd sooner give the seats away for free to CEOs. Or hire seat fillers.
This NYT article was obviously written late in the game, assuming that Girardi's ejection would automatically make the Yanks win. It's actually been cleaned up since I read it last night after the game--back then the whole beginning of the article was about this big magical spark Girardi gave the Yanks. Like the guy wrote it assuming the Yanks would win--he must be in the wrong century--and then didn't have time to re-write it. But the headline about the "spark" remains. Look, just because a manager gets ejected, or a team gets in a fight, doesn't mean that team will then win. And if they don't, you definitely shouldn't go ahead with the article you would have written had they won! Like usual, the Yanks' tactics are contrived and just don't work.
That sentiment is in this article Reb sent me. It's good, though it says what I've been saying for years: that the Yanks wish they were the Red Sox. From Johnny Damon (and Bellhorn, Minky, Embree, etc.) to "Yankees Universe" to closer/starter controversy to whether or not to go with young pitchers in your rotation, the Yanks are always a step behind and, ironically, a buck short.
And what the flying fuck is this supposed to mean? Telling Yankee fans they must root for drunk-driving Joba because the drug user/dealer who gave birth to him got arrested? Gimme a break.
No loitering, Paul O'Neill!
Remember the Fenway guy who tells people batting practice is off? That seems tame compared to what happened in the rain at the New Loo last night.
And about those expensive, empty seats there--what bothers me most of all is that they don't let people from other sections sit there. It happens at a lot of places, of course, and it's so stupid. Charge your thousands for the seats, that's your call, but if no one's sitting there, let someone who IS at the game sit there. To avoid the huge embarrassment of seeing almost nothing but empty seats at every game on TV, they really might have to cave on this issue--but they'd sooner give the seats away for free to CEOs. Or hire seat fillers.
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