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02-11-2007, 09:33 PM | #1 | |
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I would like to start this year's thread with the following tribute to Bernie Williams, a true Yankee who is very likely facing the end of his long career with the New York Yankees:
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WTF is a "true Yankee" anyways?
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I don't think anyone really knows. It's just a label to throw around.
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To put it in ootp terms, True Yankee is:
Local Popularity = 6/6 (Extremely Popular) Bernie Williams --> true yankee Gary Shefield --> no so much ... Hideki Irabu --> fat toad
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So does Hughes have any shot at the Yankees rotation or is he purely trade bait?
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Hughes is as protected and untradeable as they come. He won't start in the majors, but we'll probably see him get a call up sometime around July/August if someone goes down and he pitches enough in AAA. |
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GMs have been begging for Hughes for years. I doubt Cashman and Steinbrenner would resist trading him for so long, only to give in when he's just about ready for the bigs. He might not start the year with the club, but it's even money that he'll be in the rotation before the All-Star break.
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Everyone always asks what a True Yankee is and even though any definition could be extremely broad, the truth is, anyone that watches baseball can tell me who a True Yankee is just by following the team for a bit.
Right now, the only true Yankees on the roster are Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera. Some people will probably put Pettitte there and I wouldn't argue it. Cano and Cabrera need some time to show their worth, as does Wang. Then there are those honary guys that people give the title of True Yankee because that's how everyone remembers them. That's guys like Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez. We love them so much we want to call them True Yankees. |
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Yes again. The first requirement that I mentioned, coming up through the organization, can be waived if the other qualities are pronounced and the player has been around a sufficient amount of time. For this reason, I give you the name of a player who will be a candidate for True Yankee long before Mussina and Giambi ever will, if he stays with the Yankees and keeps producing for several more years: Matsui. |
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Agreed on Matsui.
I hope the Yankees decide to retire Bernie's number years from now. |
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I love Bernie, and I'll miss him, but I want to see Bernie retire with his dignity intact. I don't want to see him embarrassed by forcing the hand of Cashman & Torre this spring. I hope he retires of his own accord, so that we, the fans, can give him the loving send-off that he has earned.
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Yeah, and don't forget about the 5 month ESPN Bernie Williams True Yankee Tribute Tour.
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Sometimes, even performance isn't considered in the equation. Not every player who has worn the pinstripes for a long period of time and who has performed well here has been thought of by the fans as "true Yankees". Take Dave Winfield, for example, who not only played for the Yanks for 8 years, but was unequivocally one of their two best players his entire stay here. I never thought of him as being a true Yankee, and most Yankee fans at the time never did as well. And yet, we've seen plenty of players over the years who have come to the Yanks from other organizations and who have played here for shorter durations but were thought of as "True Yankees" by the fans (Bucky Dent, Mickey Rivers, Chris Chambliss, David Wells, Godzilla etc.).
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I only imagined it'll take a few years officially because initially I thought the Yankees would want to unveil it along with the unveiling of the New Yankee Stadium. But, now that I think about it, it would make more sense to do it in 2008 with the Stadium closing down and leave 2009 to celebrate the new stadium. Obviously, they'll unofficially retire it by not giving anyone the number 51. |
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When other new ballparks open the fans are lucky if they're treated to a cheesy fireworks show and free nachos. The opening of the new Yankee Stadium, however, will be truly historic, and tantamount to the christening of a new cathedral, or a great new ship. I can't wait.
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LOL is right. This article just reaffirms why I stopped reading the Newsday years ago.
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A-rod is the antithesis of Scott Brosius. Brosius is a true Yankee and logical choice for the Hall of Fame.
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I'm a Phillies fan, but I live right near the Yankees AA park (Trenton Thunder), so I will be going to watch Ian Kennedy pitch sometime this year.
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