2010 New York Yankees Official Thread

[thomamon]

Did you know Jorge Posada pisses on his hands daily?

[myasu]

Originally Posted by thomamon

Did you know Jorge Posada pisses on his hands daily?

No wonder why Burnett hates him!
I heard before that some baseball players do that, but do not understand why.
Do you know the logic behind it?

[thomamon]

Originally Posted by myasu

No wonder why Burnett hates him!
I heard before that some baseball players do that, but do not understand why.
Do you know the logic behind it?

Supposedly it helps callas'... I'd rather have a callas.

[CommishJoe]

Originally Posted by thomamon

Did you know Jorge Posada pisses on his hands daily?

Better than having someone else piss on his hands

[CommishJoe]

Way to go Hughes!! I know the A's have a weak lineup, but that was still a very impressive start. Hopefully, the Hughes from before his hamstring injury is back

[Green & Gold Heart]

The A's were 9-5 going into this series so this series with NY was to be the big test. So far, test failed.

C.C. today. He's historically bad in Oakland but Braden is historically bad vs. the Yankees.

[thomamon]

That was HUGE from HUGHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loved it!

[thomamon]

I guess the bottom line is not to mess with Braden's rubber's!

Hey, A-Rod: Stay offa my rubber! - Yankees Blog - ESPN New York

If this isn't the most ******ed thing I've eve heard...

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

The A's were 9-5 going into this series so this series with NY was to be the big test. So far, test failed.

C.C. today. He's historically bad in Oakland but Braden is historically bad vs. the Yankees.

Now that I dealt with the latest moron and his anti-Yankees screed, I will post what I came here to post. Which was, G&GH, that your folks outlasted a decent outing by CC and even a Yankees triple play (their first since 1968)!

That's all. This is no fun right now. I'm still steaming over that other nonsense. I'm hoping the mods will let stand my wish for the Yankees to win another five championships in a row (sorry G&GH) and ram them down the throats of people like him.

[NYY #23]

Hughes was awesome last night. After two starts he sure looks like they made the right pick for the fifth starter, hopefully he'll keep it up.

Two out of three against a first place team is never bad.

[myasu]

I feel like my team is in a different division this year.
I am lonely...

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by myasu

I feel like my team is in a different division this year.
I am lonely...

There's an American saying, "What goes around, comes around." Meaning, your turn will come again, sooner or later. Not that much later, I hope, for your sake!

[Green & Gold Heart]

Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

Now that I dealt with the latest moron and his anti-Yankees screed, I will post what I came here to post. Which was, G&GH, that your folks outlasted a decent outing by CC and even a Yankees triple play (their first since 1968)!

That's all. This is no fun right now. I'm still steaming over that other nonsense. I'm hoping the mods will let stand my wish for the Yankees to win another five championships in a row (sorry G&GH) and ram them down the throats of people like him.

Heh, I must've missed something better than the A-Rod/Braden pitching mound argument.

[CommishJoe]

Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

Heh, I must've missed something better than the A-Rod/Braden pitching mound argument.

Better is a pretty subjective term

[RchW]

Originally Posted by thomamon

Supposedly it helps callas'... I'd rather have a callas.

What does pissing have to do with an Opera singer?

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart

Heh, I must've missed something better than the A-Rod/Braden pitching mound argument.

I read later on what that was about. A-Rod running from first to third on a foul ball, I think, and crossing directly over the mound with Braden still around it or standing on it, to go back to first. Frankly, there's no law against it, but I think Braden is justified for taking it as "in-your-face" and giving it right back to A-Rod.

[thomamon]

Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

I read later on what that was about. A-Rod running from first to third on a foul ball, I think, and crossing directly over the mound with Braden still around it or standing on it, to go back to first. Frankly, there's no law against it, but I think Braden is justified for taking it as "in-your-face" and giving it right back to A-Rod.

That is ******ed to throw a tantrum like that for something as trivial as that. Players run across the mound all the time, he probably wasn't even thinking about it. A-Rod may be no angel, but he needs to mature a bit.

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by thomamon

That is ******ed to throw a tantrum like that for something as trivial as that. Players run across the mound all the time, he probably wasn't even thinking about it. A-Rod may be no angel, but he needs to mature a bit.

No, no, think about it. A-Rod, the current god of baseball. Dallas Braden [who?] a struggling young pitcher [who seems to be getting better each year, though]. Superstar walks [jogs] over your place of business when a few steps in either direction could take him around it. Do you blame Braden for thinking that A-Rod's thinking that his stuff don't stink?

Not that A-Rod should be shy and retiring, walking on eggshells to apologize for his success and wealth, but do you think the guy could spare a thought? Let me say it this way. If I were back pitching in my school days and somebody had done that to me, he'd be sitting on his backside in the batters box sometime soon, that's for sure.

The follow-up article that I read today said that all of the Yankees supported A-Rod, of course, and considered it to be a joke [which is itself a bit offensive]. That's natural. However, the same article went on to say that everyone else in baseball that the writer(s) had interviewed agreed with Braden's viewpoint [although maybe not with his overreaction after the game].

[1998 Yankees]

I liked this enough to post it here. Not so much about NY or the Yankees, but about the greatness of baseball in which something like this can be recorded for history and admired 23 years later.

THIS DAY IN NY SPORTS HISTORY
Friday, April 24, 1987
Henderson homers off two 300 winners

Rickey Henderson became the first player in baseball history to hit home runs off two 300-game winners in the same game in the Yankees' 6-5 loss to the Indians at Cleveland Stadium. Henderson, 28, hit a solo homer in the eighth inning off Phil Niekro, who had 312 wins at the time. In the ninth, the leftfielder hit a two-run shot off Steve Carlton (324) that gave the Yankees a 5-4 lead. Henderson was 2-for-4 with a walk, a stolen base, three runs and three RBIs against the eventual Hall of Famers. Cory Snyder's RBI single in the bottom of the ninth won it for the Indians. Henderson, best known for his walks and stolen bases, hit 17 homers in 95 games that season and had 297 in his Hall of Fame career.

I'd like to find out more about that game, to see how Niekro and Carlton were pitching in the same game, at least one of them in relief, apparently.

[Edit] - Here are the box score and PBP, thanks to Retrosheet: Retrosheet Boxscore: Cleveland Indians 6, New York Yankees 5. Carlton relieved Niekro in the 8th inning. I wonder why, what was the situation with Carlton at that time to be called in to a late-inning game like that?

[Edit 2] - See below. At 42, apparently Carlton had stayed around just a year or so too long. See ERA, and G vs. GS. As this portion of his record shows, he was just hanging on, coming into games as a reliever after all those years of superstarter stardom.

[Edit 3] - I found this on Wiki about Carlton:

[In 1987,] he caught on with the lowly Cleveland Indians, where his most notable achievement was teaming up with Phil Niekro in a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium [10 days earlier, on April 14, 1987, again according to Retrosheet], where they became the first teammates and 300-game winners to appear in the same game. Both were ineffective in a 10-6 Yankee victory. It would be his first and only pitching appearance in Yankee Stadium.

Also, he was STILL looking for work in 1989 but nobody wanted him! Talk about knowing when to let it go... Still, quite a career and one of the all-time greats, no doubt about that. And a nice bit of Trivial Pursuit for a lazy Saturday afternoon.

[1998 Yankees]

Rounding out my troila, which of these YES announcers do you think is the better-looking? Kimberly Jones and Nancy Newman - neither of these official bio photos does them justice.

[Edit] - Hint: I love those lines around Kimberly's mouth.