how embarrassing

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:53 pm

3-1 O's. Kevin Brown breaks his hand by punching the wall. Ha!

skin_to_the_bone · Post by **skin_to_the_bone** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:10 am

Jake wrote:ROTFALMAO 3-1 O's. Kevin Brown breaks his hand by punching the wall. Ha!

God, I love it it! Sometimes its great being a Sox fan in an evil way :twisted:

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:58 pm

I believe the Rangers handed your butt to you tonight, Bone.
Anyway, it's nice to see Maz get a couple against the Yankees. It's a long season, and if you can't win a game or two with THAT roster, you ain't long for this league.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:53 pm

Note that Brown broke his non-pitching hand. Won't miss a start.

Still unbelievably brainless. Exceeded only by the time that Gus head-butted a wall at Giants Stadium.

Overall, the Yankees have a lousy set of starters, and a thin bullpen around Mariano. Columbus (AAA) has done well this year, so maybe Cashman has some pitchers left in the minors.

ORIOLES 7, YANKEES 0

Boston also lost. So (without looking at the standings: still NYY 2 1/2 games up.)

[Yes: although I am an unshakeable Washington Senators fan, if I don't root for the Yankees, my daughter will give me The Look that Kills. And it happens that the Yankees players are good people. As I said before, Bernie Williams is the Art Monk of baseball.]

welch · Post by **welch** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:04 pm

I just caught the top of the game article. So:

I'm not happy," George Steinbrenner, the Yankees' principal owner, said about Brown as he left Yankee Stadium yesterday.

Steinbrenner said he had not talked to Brown. Neither had most of Brown's teammates, although Mussina offered the sharpest rebuke of his actions.

"I think we've all been frustrated about stuff," Mussina said. "We've all been upset. We've all said stuff. But to physically do something to cause injury to yourself, I don't relate to that."

The Yankees said the fracture of Brown's fifth metacarpal is displaced to the wrist. Brown will have the bone pinned today at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Brown said Friday that he hoped he could pitch with his left hand in a splint, but that does not appear to be an immediate option. Manager Joe Torre said yesterday that Brown would be lost for at least three weeks - and he acknowledged that he was being optimistic.

General Manager Brian Cashman did not rule out Brown's missing the rest of the season.

"He's clearly down, possibly for the whole time," Cashman said. "We'll see."

From NY Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/sport ... nkees.html

skin_to_the_bone · Post by **skin_to_the_bone** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:30 pm

welch wrote:Note that Brown broke his non-pitching hand. Won't miss a start.]

He's out for 3 weeks at least. Surgery has already been scheduled and there's a "slight" chance he'll miss the rest of the season.

skin_to_the_bone · Post by **skin_to_the_bone** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:36 pm

tcwest10 wrote:I believe the Rangers handed your butt to you tonight, Bone.

Granted they did TC. After 10 straight wins I guess a loss is expected eventually :lol:

The next couple series are gonna be tough for Boston while the Yanks have it a bit easier.

This is the time of year I love most! Football is starting up and Baseball is coming down to the nitty gritty. And yes I think it will be Boston vs. New York in the ALCS again. With hopefully a different outcome from lst year, and 78, and well.......need I go on

NikiH · Post by **NikiH** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:44 pm

The Yankees didn't have it easy tonight, they lost. Orioles 7, Yankees 0. Yep goose egg again! :-P

skin_to_the_bone · Post by **skin_to_the_bone** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:05 am

Afetr one more against the O's....Things could get real interesting if Tampa takes 3 out of 5 in the next series against the Yanks. I know a lot of you are saying "yeah right!" But Tampa has been known to give the rest of the division fits. They could be a big part on the outcome of Homefield in the playoffs. Then its Baltimore again...followed by KC and then Boston. Its gonna be down to the wire the rest of the way out.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:57 pm

Sunday, 9/5: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/ ... nkees.html

Jorge Posada drew a bases-loaded walk from Jorge Julio in the ninth inning Sunday, giving the New York Yankees a 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

Still NYY up by 2 1/2 games, as

Curt Schilling pitched into the ninth inning for his major league-leading 18th win, David Ortiz hit his 35th homer and the Boston Red Sox held on for a 6-5 win over the Texas Rangers on Sunday

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/ ... d-Sox.html

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:31 pm

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Yankees asked the commissioner's office to award them a forfeit over Tampa Bay after the Devil Rays failed to arrive in time for the scheduled start Monday because of travel problems in Florida due to Hurricane Frances.

The doubleheader was changed to a single game and the start time, pushed back Sunday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., was reset for 7 p.m. The Devil Rays, who reported to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg at 8 a.m., left the ballpark at 1:05 p.m., departed Tampa International Airport at 2:40 p.m., arrived at LaGuardia Airport at 5:25 p.m. and pulled up to Yankee Stadium in two buses at 6:05 p.m.

``The rule states that if your team is here and ready to play, and the other team isn't here and not ready to play, there should be a forfeit, and we believe there should be a forfeit,'' Yankees president Randy Levine said.

``There are no plans to reschedule any games until this issue is worked out,'' he said.

Levine said the commissioner's office had been told by the Devil Rays that Tampa Bay would head to New York late Friday or Saturday. Levine called for an investigation by baseball, and said that if the facts as the Yankees understood them were true, the game should be forfeited. Alternatively, Levine said the game should be rescheduled for Oct. 4 -- the day after the regular season is scheduled to end -- if it's necessary to decide a postseason race.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/ ... ravel.html

OK, sports fans, the last forfeit that I remember -- note, that I rememeber...research invited -- was the final game of the Washington Senators. They were beating the Yankees at DC / RFK Stadium in September 1971, after Frank Howard, our Hondo, crushed a homerun to put the Nats far ahead. With two outs the top of the ninth, fans poured out of the stands and began to pull up chunks of sod. Maybe someobody got a base. I was listening to the Yankees radio broadcast, and I rememeber it as first, last, and only time that Phil Rizzuto was at a loss for words.

Nats had to forfeit.

welch · Post by **welch** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:08 pm

YANKEES 7, DEVIL RAYS 4

"The Yankees finally played ball last night, taking advantage of an opponent that looked as if it had spent the whole day sitting in ballparks, on buses and in an airplane.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays actually did all of that yesterday. They scrambled from hurricane-ravaged Florida to New York only to lose to the Yankees, 7-4.

For the third day in a row, the Yankees (85-52) succeeded in not losing ground to the Boston Red Sox."

NY Times.

Red Sox game in progress as I write.

Speculation is that MLB will not allow the Yankees request that TB forfeit the first game. Given the race, it seems unfair that the game not be replayed...somehow.

welch · Post by **welch** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:53 am

OAKLAND, California (Ticker) -- The Boston Red Sox have taken
their power show on the road.

David Ortiz homered and drove in four and Manny Ramirez hit a
solo shot as the Red Sox won for the 12th time in 13 games,
posting an 8-3 triumph over the Oakland Athletics.

Still NYY 2 1/2 games ahead, assuming the league does not make TB forfeit yesterday's first game. And that seems unlikely:

A forfeit didn't appear to be likely.

"Given the stage of the season we are in, and the exciting pennant races, it is critical that we do everything to decide the championship on the field," Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.

(From Post)

welch · Post by **welch** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:34 pm

Tampa Bay Top 9th
- Julio Lugo grounded out to short to end the game.
- Brook Fordyce popped out to second. None on with two out and Julio Lugo due up.
- Geoff Blum grounded out to second. None on with one out and Brook Fordyce due up.

Tampa Bay 2, NY Yankees 11

Boston at Oakland just starting.

NYY (temporarily) + 3 games over Boston

redskinsranger · Post by **redskinsranger** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:49 pm

Oh man, NO OFFENSE to any yankee fans, but I ABSOLUTLEY HATE THE FREAKING YANKEES!!!!!!!! GO RED BIRDS

welch · Post by **welch** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:08 pm

No offense taken. 26 World Series championships. Nothing bothers a Yankee fan...not even George (mostly).

Yankees 3, KC 0. Yankees currently lead Boston by about 4 games.

And I don't know why Boston hasn't run far ahead. Boston has two superior pitchers, and they have Lowe, who was supposed to become superb. The Yankees have no starting pitchers...El Duque returns as the ace of the staff??

Boston should be six games ahead by now.

(Q: what pitcher shut out the Yankees three games in a row? Not three starts, but three consecutive games.

A: Walter Johnson, Washington Nationals. Shut them out on Friday and Saturday. The teams had Sunday off, so Johnson rested. He came back and shut them out on Monday.)[/b]

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:08 pm

Anyway, I have some feelings on that 'forfeit' issue.
I think it was callous and stupid of our front office to even bring it up. Sweet Lou was right. Family first, baseball second.
I can be a Yankee fan without necessarily loving the front office, can't I ?

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:52 am

tcwest10 wrote:I can be a Yankee fan without necessarily loving the front office, can't I ?

Well, you like the Redskins, so you have some experience with disliking your team's FO. :lol:

ANT7088 · Post by **ANT7088** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:25 am

Jake wrote:
tcwest10 wrote:I can be a Yankee fan without necessarily loving the front office, can't I ?

Well, you like the Redskins, so you have some experience with disliking your team's FO.

LOL, they don't call him "Snyderbrenner" for nothing!

joebagadonuts · Post by **joebagadonuts** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:38 am

not to revive this dead thread, but they're actually selling t-shirts based on the 22-0 loss a few weeks ago. man, some people REALLY hate the yankees.

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/fashion/ ... shion?pg=7

welch · Post by **welch** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:54 pm

Oh, go ahead, Joe. The Yankees won again today, clinching at least a playoof spot. Classy players, lousy owner, fine manager.

Until the Nats return, I'll enjoy watching Jeter, and Williams, and Posada.

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