Yankees win....Sox lose....

[*nsyncablemom]

.....and the hits (home runs) just keep on coming:D



:music:

[princessKT]

I watched "Catch Me If You Can" yesterday, and I love this quote:

Frank Abagnale Sr.: You know why the Yankees always win, Frank?
Frank Abagnale, Jr.: 'Cause they have Mickey Mantle?
Frank Abagnale Sr.: No, it's 'cause the other teams can't stop staring at those damn pinstripes.

;)

[*nsyncablemom]

:laugh:

[*nsyncablemom]

well, that thread topic was in reverse last night...let's hope it holds true for the game tonight.......LET'S GO YANKEES!!!

[*nsyncablemom]

well, what do you know.....;)

[db44]

And reversed again. :eek:

[*nsyncablemom]

And reversed again. :eek:

I'll pretend you never said that :cool:


but speaking of Yankees and Sox fans....why is it because I live in Maine I am expected to be a Sox fan and have to hear comments about my Yankees shirts wherever I go??? If I ask a salesperson a question, if I talk to a mechanic at a garage, if I stand in my front yard....just for that I think I will wear Yankees shirts everyday...I have one for each day of the week;)

[princessKT]

People here give me crap, and I live nowhere near the east coast.

[db44]

Try and imagine what I had to go through living six years in Boston, wearing Yankee garb. :blueeek:

One time the station I was working for sent me out to Fenway in my Yankee stuff to record the abuse I got in front of Fenway during a Yankee/Sox series. Ugh.

[*nsyncablemom]

do you have that on film?? I would love to see it!! :roll:

[db44]

I don't think I have the casette anymore. :\

[Venisenvy]

Well yesterday the Tigers ripped a new one into the Yanks and Schilling pitched a great game.

Enjoy this ride on top while it last because it will end very soon.

[db44]

:o

You said it would never end the first time. Instead the Sox are now tied for the wild card. :rolleyes:

[Venisenvy]

Well we all make mistakes and the Red Sox started sucking for a bit there. But the Sox are back and they will take over first place soon enough.

[db44]

You're forgetting that they are not in the driver's seat right about now. As good as the Sox may play, I expect the Yanks will play just as well. Good luck knockin' out Oakland.

Actually, not. Go A's!!!

[princessKT]

One time the station I was working for sent me out to Fenway in my Yankee stuff to record the abuse I got in front of Fenway during a Yankee/Sox series. Ugh.

:D I would have paid to see that. I told everyone in the office that I would enjoy going to the Convention and wearing a Yankees shirt the whole time. People were like, "you'd get killed!" and I thought it would be fun. hehe

[Annoyedlistner]

if you support the yankees, you support the fall of baseball

yankees have ruined this sport

[princessKT]

Dude, I usually agree with you, but not this time. ;)

[db44]

Well, Yanks lost, but not in the spectacular fashion the Sox did. :o

The Yankees now are no different than the Yankees of the teens, when they first bought Ruth. Or the 20's when they added Gehrig and started building up Murderer's Row. Or maybe of the 30's, when they bought DiMaggio for some unheard of sum of money (I believe the shocking sum of $100K).

Or perhaps of the 40's, when Joe also added people like Scooter and Yogi. Or the 50's, when the Mick was brought up. Maybe the 60's, when Maris was added, Oh, and let's not forget the Chairman of the Board. And oh, yeah, the 70's when the team was the first to embrace free agency, buying Catfish and Reggie.

Yeah, the same cry the whole time. :o

If to support Yankees is to support the fall of baseball, then to make that comment is to be naive of baseball history.

Just as to say "look at the second-division teams that can't compete." Hmm, Pittsburgh, Cincy, Detroit... They've been around since the start (The Reds being the oldest team in baseball). The Yanks didn't create the A Rod situation, they bailed the Rangers out from their own stupidity. Most owners were glad the Yankees stepped in to save the Rangers from creating their own demise. One of the few teams that cried about it was the bitter, pathetic Red Sox, who dropped the ball on sealing up the deal (and, in the process, p!ssed off their own captain).

To say the Yanks are the cause of the fall of baseball is to overlook all the teams that have never drawn fans, except when the Yanks came the town. A traveling All-Star team? Maybe, but do you think Tampa brass would rather have another 10,000 fan draw and still be struggling to compete or would they like to get the 41,000-plus they had last night? It has always been the same. Yet for those 41,000 tickets, for the million-plus the team made in that one night, how much will be put back into the team? How much will has to go to making ends meet? Without the Yankees, if those 25 players were dispersed, can you garuntee the team would ge one of those players? Do you think they would still be able to compete with the Sox? Would the teams all really draw that much better without the Yankees in the league? I seriously doubt it. We have an owner willing to put the money back in the team; Many teams that do turn a profit would rather pocket the money than try to maintain quality.

The A's could have had Giambi cheap had they signed him before the end of the '01 season. He wanted to stay in Oakland, but Beane didn't do it. The Yanks are blamed, but it was an internal decision not to sign Giambi.

When, since the salaries have gotten out of hand, have the Yankees set the bar? Brown, A-Rod, Manny, Belle... Some may have become Yankees, but because the other teams in the league went out and overspent. The Yanks may have the highest collective payroll, but only because the rest of the league decided to spend for their top players the way they do.

Would the Twins have made their recent run without no-hitter winner Eric Milton? Going back to the Rangers, would they be so good right now without Sori? Was Buhner one of the unsung heroes of the 90's Mariners? Players the Yanks traded that helped build teams.

Yet they also got Bubba Crosby this year as a side note this year, which upset Dodgers scouts immensely. When (I believe when is a good, choice word) he really starts to flourish, and should it be with the Yankees, will that be the Yankees fault too, that their scouting knew what they were doing?

Free agency, that was what was to make baseball fair to the players and break away from the owners. Do you wish to bring back the reserve clause, often compared to 20th century slavery?

Yankees destroying baseball? Get real. I'm more likely to believe the Yanks help keep the lesser teams afloat.

[*nsyncablemom]

^^^ WOW!! :blueeek:
YAY Dave:D

[princessKT]

Ya, ya, ya. I guess Dave knows what he's talking about. :rolleyes: :p

[princessKT]

One down, two more to go..

[Venisenvy]

yo no se que esta pasando, esto es algo que no puede pasar. Las medias rojas no pueden perder tanto, tienen mucho talento, esto es como Arsmtrong terminando ultimo en esa carrera en francia.

[princessKT]

Good luck to Armstrong, and to the Red Sox. :p

[*nsyncablemom]

no matter how you say it...the Sox lost and the Yankees won.... :tongue:

[Luckycharm]

Great game! :D

[Venisenvy]

que juego

[db44]

Yesterday was a great game, despite the outcome. It also reflects what kind of two-bit panzy punks the Sox are. They sure love to get surly on their home turf, where the crowd is behind them. Where have all the recent fights between these teams happened? Not in the Bronx. :o

[*nsyncablemom]

Yesterday was a great game, despite the outcome. It also reflects what kind of two-bit panzy punks the Sox are. They sure love to get surly on their home turf, where the crowd is behind them. Where have all the recent fights between these teams happened? Not in the Bronx. :o

THANK YOU DAVE!!!

[db44]

I mean, where was Varitek when Pedro hit Sheffield? Chasing after a better who had been hit, who had no intention of charging the mound, doing the swinging. Same situation, except the whole world knew Pedro would hit one of three players just as he did. But Veritek let that mouthing off, that glance go. Wuss.

[stephj24]

Dave, the real question is, where was Pedro? Of course, one of the last people to get off the bench, and even then he did absolutely nothing but hang back and let all of his other thugs do the dirty work for him. You want to talk about a disgrace, Mr. Martinez is it.

I had a tremendous amount of respect for Varitek before yesterday's melee, but now it's totally gone. I used to think he was a very Jeter-esque kind of player who really understood the game. Now I just realize he's the typical Boston player. They're all cut from the same cloth.

All in all, I hope it's a great game today! :-)

~Steph

[Venisenvy]

Alex asked for it, you can clearly see him say to Varitek, "Come on" begging for a fight and he got one. Please this is baseball not the ice capades.

[stephj24]

Whatever. The Yankees own a 8.5 game lead in the AL East, which the Red Sox don't have.

[*nsyncablemom]

Dave, the real question is, where was Pedro? Of course, one of the last people to get off the bench, and even then he did absolutely nothing but hang back and let all of his other thugs do the dirty work for him. You want to talk about a disgrace, Mr. Martinez is it.

I had a tremendous amount of respect for Varitek before yesterday's melee, but now it's totally gone. I used to think he was a very Jeter-esque kind of player who really understood the game. Now I just realize he's the typical Boston player. They're all cut from the same cloth.

All in all, I hope it's a great game today! :-)

~Steph


^^^^ I totally agree!!^^^^

[*nsyncablemom]

Alex asked for it, you can clearly see him say to Varitek, "Come on" begging for a fight and he got one. Please this is baseball not the ice capades.
last I knew "come on" wasn't begging.....and Varitek wasn't even man enough to remove his mask.....nothing would have happened had he just let Alex have his say to the pitcher on his way to first base, but he had to get his 2 cents in and Alex stood up to him.....who made contact first??.............. Yeah, I thought so!!

[princessKT]

I'm sure you can only hear so much garbage before you can't take it anymore.

[stephj24]

I'm sure that Yankees players can only take being plunked by Boston pitching so many times that they can't take it anymore. ;-)

[princessKT]

That too. I wish I could have heard the convo between Varitek and Alex; I'm sure it was a doozy.

[stephj24]

Let's just say I'm sure it wasn't anything A-Rod will have wanted his unborn child repeating.

[Venisenvy]

poor A-rod, he got hit by a pitch, so yeah varitek comes and goes to arod to see what his problem is and keeping him from the pitcher cause it looked like he wanted to go after him. It was probably varitek who called for it anyway. A-rod asked for it and what is varitek supposed to do take off all his equipment before getting it on with a-rod please, A-rod begged for it so varitek gave it to him.

[stephj24]

Poor A-Rod? This goes beyond just A-Rod. This goes back to Sheffield a few weeks ago, to the whole Zimmer-Pedro melee last year, and even beyond that. What this comes down to is the simple fact that Boston loves to plunk Yankees hitters at Fenway Park. That's what it comes down to.

I hope Varitek did call for it. I also hope that the Yankees get a little bit of revenge for the thuggery of last night. It'll be sweet justice if it happens tonight, but I rest easy with the revenge that Beantown will be scheduling tee times on the golf course come October.

[Venisenvy]

http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/l33tn00b/Pics/PWNT.gif

[stephj24]

Ah yes, it's Pedro "Classless" Martinez! :-P

[princessKT]

Yeah, nothing like throwing down an old man. Pick the easy ones.

[Venisenvy]

I don't care if hes old but if im a starting pitcher and someone is charging after me im knocking their butt to the ground.

Good game tonight.

[*nsyncablemom]

well, this article says it ALL about Pedro (#6. first sentence)........as well as the truth about the rest of the team.........


http://yesnetwork.com/yankees/news.asp?news_id=407

[db44]

Clubhouse karma. I was saying it would be shotty since Schilling was signed. So far, so good. ;)

[*nsyncablemom]

this is sorta delayed, I forgot to ask....Dave, why was Lofton ejected from the game Sat.???? I know a couple sox that should have gotten the heave ho.....I watched and watched the replay and don't see Kenny doing anything more than the rest....