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| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
Honorable mention goes to Pena, Molina, and Melki and truly to the rest of the team. You should all be proud. I noticed Teixeira went 0 fer but just like when you play Blackjack at the casino and everybody plays the right way at the table most of the group win and that’s what happened the end result was a much needed victory on a night when the whole team seemed to be focused and acted relaxed and professional. Thanks guys. | |
| TheRipper007Posts: 55Location: Join Date: November 30, 2007 4:32 PMSend Message | Bruce4Real wrote:
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This game felt good. Let’s take it for what it was a win vintage Hughes together with a professional team performance on the offensive side.Why do I get the feeling this win will turn things around for all the right reasons? It's not going to turn around. That feeling you have is you "Yankeeing" your little Yankee. The Yankees Suck and their fans swallow!!!!! LOSERS!!!!
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| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message | We were treated to another well executed game by the offense with Swisher delivering another awesome performance both at the plate and on defense and Joba who started shaky (Joba admits that much although the tabloids are saying that Joba’s performance was peerless from the first pitch on) got rid of the butterflies and began throwing with great ease right after he fanned Cabrera to stay alive. The team had his back and deliver another string of hits were they put the ball in play almost with total abandon and you could tell how the Yanks were doing by watching Leyland’s reaction (no poker face here), Matsui had a great night. Again Teixeira wasn’t apparently affective and I say that because I’m thinking: “this guy is about to explode and Aroids is almost back in the lineup which makes me feel PRETTY good about our future chances." Let’s not forget Pena; he's really something on defense and he’s beginning to feel more comfortable at the plate, this is a thinking rookie with great potential. My only question is: Why is Albaladejo still here? He should be taping commercials for Taco Bell or Burger King but NOT coming out of our bullpen to make our nights even more miserable. We have plenty of guys who can do a great job in both AA and AAA ball and Albaladejo is NOT one of them. He acts like if he doesn’t care whether he’s ahead or behind in the count or the score BECAUSE he actually doesn’t care. Please don’t tell me this is our long reliever. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
The team is staying focused and the wins will continue to happen. Last night it was Melky who took care of the win helped by the rest of the offense including Pena who continues to show he’s doing his best to be counted on as part of the main roster, if this guy starts hitting better or continues to steadily improve at the plate he’ll be really something to watch . . . . . . . . he flashes leather with the best and he doesn’t panic easily. Coke threw pretty well he seems to sense that something good is about to happen, we’ll stayed tuned. We need Coke, Melancon and Robertson to come to the team’s rescue. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
I’m not buying that story about something being wrong with Burnett he simply can’t pitch to Posada for the limitations that Posada is known for and other fine pitchers have also stayed away from him in the past. But if Girardi wants to act politically correct and do nothing about it then his a$$ should be on the line if things go bad in the future with what until a couple of games ago was our most reliable ACE. Dou you think Posada cares? This guy has only cared about his playing time first because he had a contract to renegotiate and now because he thinks he’ll play until he’s 49. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
With two strikes on Teixeira continues to see nothing but garbage just like when Aroids is on the team he sees nothing but breaking balls or fastballs away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . things should improve once Aroids is back. With the exception of Tex, Berroa and Gardner the offense is doing okay everybody is steadily contributing and now is the time to gain on the division leaders. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message | Now the selena book excerpts are beginning to hit the tabloids and my question is: other than the frigging sux and their tabloid lovers who cares? | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
In my view we already had our fill of frigging selena and Aroids use of PED’s. We have already stated that unless frigging selena and her sister Verducci provide us with the names of the remaining 103 guilty players (found guilty by the media that is) we don’t give a care about whether Aroids has **** or not that’s fodder for the freaks who surf the net for that kind of stuff. If you want to show us Alex **** also show us the ones sported by Beckett, Millar, Varitek, Lowell, Matsuzaka, Penny, Drew, Papelbon and other sux and non-sux players and pitchers. Until that happens screw you and selena too. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
Do you want to talk about the use of PED’s show us that Pedroia whose body has always defied the laws of physics and his rage as well as the rage shown by Youk, Beckett, Penny, Coco, Tavares, Arroyo, Pedro which seemed to be very symptomatic has nothing to do with the use of PED’s. Plenty of chances for selena do perform her due diligence as she claims she did with Aroids. Until that happens and we know is never going to happen or when MLB puts a HGH reliable test in place we’ll take it for what it is: plain garbage directed towards a not so randomly chosen Yankee player. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message | Aroids should now focus on baseball and not give too many explanations to the media after all he’s getting paid a ton of money to do just that and the only persons who may complain about it are the Steinbrenners and until we hear any of them saying anything to that effect we Yankee fans we’ll stick to baseball. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message | Before we fully concentrate on baseball I want to dedicate a couple of comments to Ozzie the guy who made points with Chavez and Fidel (via Chavez) when he brought to his master in Caracas the WS trophy won by his team in Chicago. BTW this guy just became a U.S. citizen and if I’m not mistaken he swore under oath he had never associated himself with members of the communist party here or anywhere else. What do you call then Chavez or any of his assistants? | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
I’m saying this because Ozzie took exception to a statement by Swisher, who is nothing but a great player and fun guy, who said that Girardi is the best manager he ever played for and Ozzie went on to insult Swisher solely for that reason. Hold it right there you beatch. You were a great player but you are a terrible manager and you have messed with great players in the past one that comes to mind is Magglio Ordonez who you publicly threatened with bodily harm a few years ago at that time we all said “this guy has some cojones” but you knew what you were talking about because Ordonez is Venezuelan and you knew you had Chavez in your pocket and you know how much Chavez cares about the life of any of his citizens but that was then this is now and this is America and still is a free country and if Swisher decides to state you’re an a$$hole that’s what you are in our view. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
Could you believe the gall? This jerk is in frigging Chicago managing a team in Chicago and he can’t fathom that Swisher may have an opinion (and the right to express it, not because he dislikes someone else but because HE’S HAPPY HERE IN NY) as to who’s the manager he ever liked the most? Here in America one of our most admired baseball players cannot exercise his right to free speech because of FRIGGING OZZIE????? Give us a break you jerk. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
Listen to what Verducci had to say about Aroids latest story: The account in the book, written by Sports Illustrated Selena Roberts, is so detailed and -- as described -- is so harmful to the integrity of the game that Selig may need to do the interrogating himself. When you go to a baseball game, you need to be absolutely certain that the competition you are paying to see is legitimate and honest -- no matter what the score. That Rodriguez would conspire with friendly opponents for the sake of their own batting statistics is a corruption of honest competition, which has to be the bedrock of baseball. If the charges are true, Selig will have no choice but to level disciplinary action against Rodriguez. And, worse, Rodriguez, having already repeatedly disgraced himself before fans and the media, will have shamed himself before the people of his own profession. The key words here are “would conspire” and “IF . . . . . . . . the charges are true” | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message | Verducci has no shame it was his knowledge of the names (provided to him by the honorable senator Mitchell in the name of due diligence) he passed on to another shameless character frigging selena that led to the famous investigation (in record time since selena in all the years she was after Aroids not for the sake of the game but due to a personal vendetta she could never dig out of her own [I think that’s also called due diligence]) that prompted Aroids to admit he did ROIDS. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
Verducci and selena’s acts were shameful in the sense that they were the sole judge and juries that led to the rest of tabloids to come after Aroids and not the rest of the 103 players who failed their Roids tests a test that was supposed to be a dry run with no implications for the players involved who could have easily refused to go along but decided to cooperate with MLB because they were duped by their own Union and by MLB itself. Does that sound like intent to deceive? Do you agree to be tested "just for the hell of it" no one will know the results because they will remain confidential no actual names will be used and if someone fails the test the results will be used as an statistical tool only, no more no less. What do you say? Sure . . . . cool. Well you can picture the whole scene as it played out. Far from: "our investigators worked for three years 24/7 never went home to their families because they took this investigations so seriouly because time was of the essence due to the mandate given to us by the Commissioner of Baseball to unearth this diabolic conspiracy etc, etc, etc.. The biggest cosnpirator and user Canseco was telling the world "I did it I used roids and it felt good and it is so okay to do it." | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
Due to an oversight in the understanding of how to protect their players the players union screwed up and the end result was that Mitchell found a way to harm the Yankees while pretending to investigate every MLB player and later with the complicity of verducci who managed to pry selena away from the NY Times and used her for the sequence to his modern witch hunt of Yankee players. I guess having tasted a championship these members of the frigging nation will now do whatever necessary (it’s called cheating) to keep their team in the run for as long as possible or should we call it . . . . . . in the words of verducci? “A corruption of honest competition.” The exact same flaws they claim to have found in Aroids. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message | Verducci soils whatever credibility Sports Illustrated still has but it’s obvious now that the magazine that used to be the bible for all of us fans has turned (with the help from verducci) into the pulpit where this shameless guy can now manipulate the fate of MLB and it won’t stop until he provides the list of all those remaining players and I think Congress should get involved and demand that this guy produce such list; players whose rights were already violated by Mitchell and continue to be violated by verducci and sister selena. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message | Verducci ends up his article with the expression “if the charges are true” which I believe is a Freudian slip because he knows selena is just overreaching with this “most of the team didn’t know” “the former Rangers I spoke to whose names I can’t reveal say they saw something out of the ordinary” “Rodriguez would made these gestures that normally people wouldn’t associate with cheating but actually he was tipping the pitches to his opponents” SAYS WHO? Oh I get it “those whose names I can’t reveal” SURE whatever you say selena you have a monopoly on the truth” and who gave you that right? Oh I get it verducci the same guy who gave you that job at SI so you could come and do that hatchet job on Alex and Alex only as a quid pro quo to obtain said job. You could have done the same piece while at the NY Times but you knew you were going to be double checked and triple checked so you decided to join verducci who’s standards run more along the lines of his friends John Henry and Theo who connected him with Mitchell who let’s not forget was still a Director of the Sux while performing the quasi investigation on the use of Roids by MLB players but only found Yankee players in his vast and expensive research. | |
| Bruce4RealPosts: 1681Location: Join Date: November 29, 2007 11:46 PMSend Message |
Wait . . . . . . . . Aroids won an MVP while with the Rangers so that might be true BUT then how do you explain the other MVP he won with the Yankees? He was no longer playing the QB equivalent position in the team . . . . . . . . that fell on Jeter. Was Jeter also in the conspiracy to inflate stats? DID Jeter pass that information in nanoseconds to Aroids who in term signaled that information to his friendly opponents to help each other all done from the confines of third base now? Quoting verducci again: “If that information was true.” What kind of shiit is that? |