By TPerl
If A-Rod (and the other overpaid, past-their-prime all star hitters in the Yanks lineup) had actually done their jobs in the ALDS against Detroit, maybe Cory Lidle would have been at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday afternoon getting ready for Game 2 of the ALCS instead of flying a plane along the East River.
By no means am I trying to make light of this tragic accident, but can you really argue that I don't have a valid point?
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Also Steinbrenner. He paid the guy enough to buy a plane, that insensitive bastard.
true, very true...I say throw Ram-Rod in sing-sing. oh and maybe trhow r. johnson in there as well
through the whole team in, because they all stink on ice.
THROW the team in ... throw
think it's safe to say that the yanks have taken on the Bostong Redsox curse? ever since Ram-Rod cam aboard...they really are f*ckin cursed. how else can you explain it???
Apparently he wasn't getting paid enough - supposedly he bought a used plane.
I betcha A-Rod bought his plane brand spanking new!
The curse does seem to be gaining momentum.
I actually blame the curse on Aaron Boone. If he hadn't gotten hurt in that pick-up basketball game, none of these events would have come to pass...
"The Curse of the Boone-bino"???
I don't know if they're cursed. It's not that they've had bad luck, it's that they've gotten soft and just suck when the chips on on the table. They need that fire they lost when Pauly O'Neill left. They all talk about winning being the most important think, that the season means nothing if they don;t get that ring. Yet, none of them seem to care if they lose. They feel like they need to follow Torre and create this face of calm, but when their backs are against the wall, they need to show some fight, not calm.
Please, people...6 years without a World Series crown does not a curse make.
But on the off chance that you're getting there, don't ban any goats from the ballpark. We Chicagoans learned that lesson, and it's going on 99 years.
The Yankees are victims of the buttoned-down, corporate, boring workmanlike culture they've cultivated over their 80+ years of unprecidented success.
Jeter, the face of the organization, is about as dynamic and fun as a head of iceburg lettuce.
Cory Lidle provided the most explosive moment of the season, and it came three days too late.
sorry for the novel. I'll give you the 6 yrs & the 99, but Chi-Town plays with heart. as for yanks...formula below = curse.
1) the red sox winning the world series thus handing over the curse
2) last time yanks are in world series is against the METS, and its the last world series of the 20th century
3) most expensive team ever, with .5 the club on the all-star team losing to the tigers (not to mention every other upset before that)
4) oh yeah...one of their players just crashed into a freakin building
4) every all star that comes over lately has a tendency to have their stats droped DRAMATICALLY
I can go on & on...
PS is that what happened in Chicago? You guys banned goats?
Weren't the Yankees in the world series in 2001 against the Diamondbacks?
Yes, some restauranteur in Chicago once tried to bring his goat into the ballpark, and he was denied. So he put a curse on the team. And the rest is...miserable.
For the record, Abreu hit .277 with 8 homers and 65 rbi in 98 games with the Phillies. In 58 games with the Yanks he hit .330 with 7 homers and 42 rbi.
And Damon had a career year. Arod's the only one to plummet, him and any NL pitcher that comes to the yanks or any other AL team.
Oh wait. Arod was MVP last year. The list can go on. What's this DRAMATIC drop in stats?
meant won the world series.
ok, ok...not every new player. maybe just a-rod, johnson, wright.
if only we still had boggs & o'neil
Don't forget Pavano. That guy RULES since coming over.
Wait a minute...is there more than one Anonymous here, or do you just have two personalities arguing with each other?
mvp. big deal. he can hit all the 8th innning homers in blow out games he wants, & drive in all the runs he wants, but he's still a murderer and still doesn't produce sh*t in the clutch, when it counts.
the guy hasn't driven in a run in his last 10 postseason games and is bats a .125 in his last 11.
some mvp
funny! no 2 diff anonymous'. and I think the others my co-worker.
we've completely ruined this blog
:(
Two different Annonymouses.
No we're not.
Yes we are!
All anonymice are welcome to scurry over here at rolling bones. But just out of curiosity: do I know either of you?
You don't know either of them. But you know me. I passed along the posting to some of my Yankee fan co-workers and the comments started flying...
While this may not be the best post ever on Rolling Bones, and there have been a few really good ones recently, it's got to be up there for most comments.
And to think I was scolded by Bones that last time I wrote a Yankee-related post.
If you really want more blog readership, maybe you two need to step off your journalistic high horses and start writing about the stuff people really want to hear, like Yankees misery...and yes, boobies.
And just to attempt to sum up the Yankees talk:
1) Regular season numbers mean shit - we're talking about October, which is a different animal. So ignore Bobby Abreu's half a season and Damon's "banner year". And certainly ignore A-Rods 2005 MVP award and 35 HRs in 2006.
2) The comments about O'Neill, Boggs, et al are all right on. These were the guys who for some reason knew how to win in October while on the Yankees (which is different from winning in October while playing for ANY OTHER team, by the way).
3) The only guys left from those 1996-2000 teams are Jeter, Posada, and Rivera (and yes Bernie, but this year was really just a victory lap for him). And it's no coincidence that Jeter and Posada both hit .500 in the ALDS while everyone else did shit.
4) Bottom line is that the Yankees need more guys like Jeter and Posada if they want to win again. Clearly, they care about winning and take it personally when they lose. They also came up through the farm system, as opposed to free agency, so maybe that is a big factor. I think that having guys like Cano, Wang, and Cabrera on this team are a great step in the right direction - the fact they've already tasted the postseason will be useful in future years as well.
5) Players we don't need/want anymore: Sheffield, A-Rod, Giambi, Pavano (as if we ever really had him), Randy, Farnsworth.
My horse is low to the ground because I am very short.
Perl, you true-believing fool. Anything can happen in a short series in baseball. Putting so much emphasis on what happens in the playoffs doesn't make sense.
It doesn't matter much if it's April or October: the best team doesn't always win a best of five. And it usually comes down to pitching.
And if you need more evidence, examine this post by fellow NYU journo and occasional Rolling Bones reader:
http://slidersandscoops.blogspot.com/2006/08/myth-baseball-teams-should-be-measured.html
And anyway, I just wanted to see if we can push the comments up to 30.
Maybe the Jets and the Yankees could engineer a career exchange day and play on each other's teams for the season. Couldn't really make them that much worse.
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