Topic: Yankees Baseball

According to selena and verducci that collision between Jeter and Aybar was no accident.  Jeter was just trying to make sure Aybar understood the signals they would be using to help each other inflate their stats in case the game got out of hand.

Verducci and Co. keep going at it    . . . . . . . .    trying to put pressure on MLB to discipline Arod.  What for? For flying by private jet while they have to beg John Henry for a lift?

MLB asked sister selena to help them in this would be investigation but she refused saying that this would represent a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.  GTFOOH.

YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS SHIIT UP, EVEN IF YOU TRIED.

Meantime back in MANNYWOOD.

Surfing the Net we found the following in the L.A. Times

Manny said the new Yankee Stadium, erected next to the old Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, was built on a former track and field site where he played as a teenager.

"I used to run there when I was about 14," he said. "It also had a little [baseball] field, and I used to go over there and practice.

"I had a bunch of friends and . . . we used to run and go hit after that," he said. "It's weird now when I look at the new stadium and think, 'Wow, I used to run there.' "

I’m sure the Yankee fans would go: “Wow Manny used to play here when he was only 14”  now we know why he always wanted to play for the Yankees but the stars were never properly aligned.

The Dodgers by the way are unbeaten at home and are currently in first place in their Division (tied with the Cardinals with the best record in baseball) even after they parted ways with a few pitchers and position players.

Verducci would say the Dodgers are doing well ONLY because his buddy and co-conspirator Torre is managing the Dodgers but we Yankee fans know only too well that is just Manny being Manny.

Let me play Sherlock for a second.

LA  SCHIVOSA COMMEDIA

Canto Primo

There was this kid from Jersey who a long time ago grew up surrounded by brothers and other relatives who were into sports  . . . . .   rough sports. He was not the broad shoulders, powerful legs type and had to deal with his siblings taking shots at him for being the weakling in the family (his looks didn’t help either) but he persevered and went on to enjoy a life in sports merely reporting the facts but that sort of made him forget about all the teasing he suffered at the hand of his loved ones.

A few years ago he overheard a colleague saying that some baseball players were into steroids and as a result of that they have developed some funny looking breasts so he approached one of those players and with great discretion asked this great player if it was true that he had a pair of those    . . . . . . .    the player's immediate answer?  GTFOOH you anal cavity. That hurt the writer’s feelings and he swore he was going to get even one day.  One thing is to take shiit from siblings at a time he couldn’t do anything about it another thing was to be told to bug off by this frigging guy who had high jacked the game he loved.

Canto  Secondo.

Don’t mess with the dog.

Back in 1988 Orel Hershiser was a great pitcher who despite some problems took his team on his shoulders and almost singlehandedly took them all the way to the WS and won it for them and in the process collected almost every single award was there to be won: CY Young, WS MVP you name it he got it.

Hershiser was known at Dodgers stadium as someone who wouldn’t back down and would play hurt or on a shorter than usual rest for the good of his team ALL THIS IN A YEAR went first they were the underdogs against a heavily favorite METS team and later they were so much more considered the ultra underdogs against that powerful team full of what seemed at that time the who’s who of the Steroids baseball world still he went on and with his arm, his guts and his bat he beat the A’s (win a little help from Kirk Gibson). In essence he was the clutch pitcher, leader and batter that unforgettable 1988 season in other words all the things that Arod hasn’t ever been.

Canto  Terzo

Fast forward to year 2003 Arlington, Texas where Arod has been told he not only owns the Rangers team but also every single human being in the Dallas/Fort Worth area something he actually believed.

The team is playing terrible and Arod is not taking the fall he doesn’t get along with Butch or any of his coaches and he wants out of Texas and can no longer take the losing so when a new player starts catching for the Rangers he takes matters into his own hands and intervenes to try to help his pitchers win some games. He tells the catcher he’s going to help him call the pitches and every player that matters agrees since they believe it couldn’t get worse than it is but Arod true to his nature (while playing in Texas) does it without checking with the bulldog or Butch and gets in trouble for pitch calling and Arod wants Hershiser fired (he thought he was God in Texas when actually God doesn’t make that kind of money) but what happens is Arod gets traded out of Texas the following season and everybody in Texas and Arod seem to be happy and all is forgotten and back to play baseball.

Canto Quarto.

A few years later.

Three lives will intertwine and will try to decide the fate of what Sports Illustrated has began calling “arguably the best Baseball player alive” that happened a few months before Theo would try to pry Arod away from Texas in a move that would see Manny being sent to Texas in exchange for Arod a move called by SI unprecedented in the annals of baseball akin to the steal of the Babe by the Yankees way back when. But the sux overestimated themselves and tried to get Arod to give 30 million away which he does only to be forced by his union to back pedal and void the deal but the fun didn’t end there and the Boss jumped and signed Arod and the rest if history or so we thought . . . . .

Canto Quinto

There is this pain in the a$$ reporter in the Times who is obsessed with Arod particularly with the fact that Arod declined to go to Foston and decided to play instead for the enemy but now she covers the area where this cheap arrogant jerk moves and she begins to get dirty detail after dirty detail about him because she knows in her heart she is going to demonize this so called best player in baseball “he treats me like if I’m a jerk or just another bimbo”, “I write for the frigging Times a$$hole," and soon she hooks up with  a few guys who are not that crazy about Arod because with Arod making the money he’s making where are the Yankees going to find the money to resign some of these guys and at what price and the jerk thinks he’s still in Texas and behaves like a peaco&k while accumulating all these garbage runs and failing in the clutch just like every one of them but a much higher prices.

So she gathers all this information and starts writing about this Afraud but nobody seems to care because it’s mostly light hitting shiit and she gets even more personal and digs all the garbage she is capable of and prints this article about everything garbage about Arod from being a teammate every Yankee player wants to strangle to the clumsy womanizer, the terrible in the clutch batter who thinks the whole world stops to watch when he’s at the plate to the slumlord he has become she feels so good about this piece of work that she’s thinking Pulitzer YET nobody cares about the frigging piece and her bosses are not happy with all the time she dedicated to this guy and she has come empty handed nobody read the frigging piece except this jerk Bruce and this guy from SI Verducci who actually told her it was one of the best investigative reports he has ever read and he might be in a position to help further her career. She hopes to save face soon enough so the Times can stuff this job she has no time to continue wasting here.

Canto Sexto

One day while working at ESPN verducci comes across Hershiser and they start talking baseball and almost at the end the name Alex Rodriguez is mentioned verducci’s ears perked up when he hears Hershiser talk about the nerve this guy Arod has by doing in Texas what he calls pitch calling something he says almost got them to come to blows but left a bitter taste in his mouth and he no longer feels Arod is as great as he once thought.

Verducci calls the reporter offers her a job and tells her about a piece he’s working on the Yankees with Torre because he didn’t like the way Torre was treated by the Yankees and although is going to be a light hitting piece they are hoping that Torre’s popularity will pay off and hordes of New Yorkers and fans across the nation will rush to the bookstores and buy the book. The reporter wants to know if Arod is one of the targets and verducci wouldn’t say but he neither would deny it and the reporter now turned SI writer answers “go get the bastard.”  Verducci knows he has picked the right guy.

Canto Settimo e Ultimo

Once the former reporter has made herself comfortable at SI she gets together with verducci to talk about some projects he has in mind the book on the Yankees by the way didn’t sell as they planned but didn’t do bad either so he tells her that he has come across some information that would make her mouth water and he tells her about having come in possession of a list of players who failed the dry run test on steroids the union and MLB had agreed on and he knows from a good source Arod and other notable players didn’t quite make it. He warns her that he didn’t entirely do something illegal but that’s also debatable. Would she be interested? She answers “who’s di&ck do I need to sw..” and he says I thought you might be interested.  She says: who else do you have on that list and he replies you don’t need to know just concentrate on this a$$hole.

He gives her the list of names that could verify Arod did roids as it was passed on to him and the rest is history.

Arod admits he did roids and the Yanks are screwed or are they? A problem surfaces when she wants to do an article on the pitch calling that verducci told her about but he soothes her while saying "how about a book on this subject and others we can think of later on?"

"We need to keep these jerks on their toes," she thinks it’s a great idea and starts working around this new twist she’ll call pitch tipping what could be more disgraceful than betraying your own team causing them to lose games for the sake of inflating his stats? But the legal dept. tells them they could be subject to legal action and they agree that the story would be then around the fact that none of these actions made the Rangers lose games but it will still have the impact they hope it would, after all who the hell is going to make them reveal their sources? How do you like the First Amendment a$$holes? What are you going to do about it?

Meantime in the AL Eastern Division the hated Yanks are not in last place as they should be despite some of the expensive acquisitions not responding well so far but the sux can’t spend additional money on new players so they have to hit the road sooner than expected and so the sale of their masterpiece is moved to Monday May fourth.

Alfredo Aceves has been recalled from triple A to join the team and sort of help the bullpen find its rhythm. Welcome back to the Bronx Alfredo, mi casa es tu casa.

Could he be our new our new Ramiro Mendoza? Hey you never know. Cashman what took you so long?  

The fans are beginning to boo, that was expected most of the fans now are not the regular ones the regular fans have problems affording the new prices (it is what it is) and the new ones expect more bang for the buck. So let’s get accustomed to the booing and stay focused at least you work in much better conditions than before and your offices (the club house) look more like a sultan’s palace, nothing to complain about.

Let’s start righting this ship, we’re very much within striking distance and we should be thinking about what we’ll do when we catch these guys and pass them always think a step ahead.

And there’s got to be a way to figure out all those rookies or unknown pitchers the teams throw at us because that’s what you should expect come the playoffs.  BE PROACTIVE.

WE need to be patient with all these new hands they won’t click in just a couple of outings we can’t let the media pull our chain. We know only two well how good they are at predicting outcomes or qualifying talent with them everything (with few exceptions) is a knee jerk reaction.

How do you guys think Lasorda or Earl Weaver would have reacted to this piece of garbage written by roberts and her handler? Do you think Girardi overreacted?  Where do these guys in the media get off thinking they are judge and jurors over the lives of professional athletes? We know not everybody in the media is guilty but  . . . . . .  if the shoe fits   . . . . . . . .

Girardi is a very smart man and I’m pretty smart myself so stuff that baloney about Roberts exercising her first amendment right we know when it is that the country as a whole benefits from this constitutional amendment common sense tells you that don’t make it sound like you have to be rocket scientist to know that. Let’s just remember for a second that the judge in the Bonds case castigated the government for possible abuse of authority and for overreaching a charge the media itself is guilty of.

This doofus roberts and her handler set out to prove that Arod was a cheater, that he’s still cheating and that he’s a phony.

They have not being able to prove Arod is still cheating (it’s all vivid imagination helped by some hallucinating but no solid proof.  No test has been failed so far.  His use of PED’s (Roberts conveniently calls them drugs in her piece of garbage)  was evident once he failed that test in 2003 a fact that was never meant to be known and was never meant to be an actual valid test, this information landed on their lap with a special gift card from the honorable director of the SUX.

As to Arod being phony a charge that has been made all the time by sports writers lead by Lupica (and I don’t mean to imply that Lupica was wrong or acted in bad faith I’m merely stating a fact) read the following:

As to why she wrote the book, roberts said, "I think Alex is a complicated, fascinating personality and I thought he was a good book subject. And I think what I've done - if you read the book in full - it's not an excoriation. It's an explanation concerning just who is Alex Rodriguez as the greatest and richest player in the game."

To me that adds nothing to what we fans already know about Arod we know he’s far from perfect but we think he’s just a kid from poor beginnings who through hard work, dedication and raw talent has gotten to where he is and being poor almost all his life that is until he signed with Seattle he has developed the type of personality that he has.

Roberts tells us that all her sources of information had told her they can’t stand the guy yet former and current colleagues keep going on record saying that Arod is a great teammate who is kind to the rookies and sometimes take them under his arm. Does anybody remember how the great Yankee Clipper welcomed another great player     . . . . . . .    Mantle?