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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/16/07 01:10 AM
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Man, Clemens didn't pitch badly, the Yankees just couldn't score runs. Clemens numbers were 6 1/3 innings, 7 hits, 2 runs, 1 BB, 8 SO, 1-1 with a 3.65 ERA. For some reason, the Yanks only got 5 hits off of Perez and bailed him out a couple of times. He was starting to lose the strike zone and guys were swinging at pitchers that should have been balls and were making easy outs. Oh well, hopefully Clippard can get them back on track tomorrow.
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/16/07 07:17 AM
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I am going to a BBQ with a bunch of Mets fans tomorrow... Be careful they don't BBQ YOU!!
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/16/07 12:54 PM
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I am going to a BBQ with a bunch of Mets fans tomorrow... Be careful they don't BBQ YOU!! With Irish as we know him...he's doomed to be covered in Worcestershire sauce.
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/16/07 01:00 PM
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I am going to a BBQ with a bunch of Mets fans tomorrow... Be careful they don't BBQ YOU!! I am so dreading this BBQ now. They will be gloating all day. These people are "those" kind of fans, and I am going to hear it all day long. Hopefully, the Yankees will win this afternoon and level the field, no pun intended.
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/16/07 01:45 PM
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I am going to a BBQ with a bunch of Mets fans tomorrow... Be careful they don't BBQ YOU!! I am so dreading this BBQ now. They will be gloating all day. These people are "those" kind of fans, and I am going to hear it all day long. Hopefully, the Yankees will win this afternoon and level the field, no pun intended. and the Yanks fans there are not?
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/16/07 03:46 PM
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I'm sure there are plenty of Yankee fans that are. There are "those" kind for every team. I happen to think that it's poor sportsmanship, I don't care what team you root for.
And of course, Ronnie, I know with that post that you weren't insinuating that I was that kind of Yankee fan, although there are some people who could interpret it that way. But I know that you didn't mean that. Who said you're a jackass Yankee fan? You're not. Its just, as an outsider to that whole Mets/Yanks bitter inner-city rivalry, one side trashing the other side for doing the EXACT same thing they do as well...it all seems sorta silly. All I know is, the Mets have done well this year, the Yanks are on a hot streak right now (still 9 games back, but hey its June) and it should be technically a good series, right? Yeah, I'm the new Bull Connor!
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/16/07 03:52 PM
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I am going to a BBQ with a bunch of Mets fans tomorrow... Be careful they don't BBQ YOU!! I am so dreading this BBQ now. They will be gloating all day. These people are "those" kind of fans, and I am going to hear it all day long. Hopefully, the Yankees will win this afternoon and level the field, no pun intended. Well, I hope you're enjoying the BBQ SB. It's 8-5 Yanks with rain holding it up
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/17/07 12:01 PM
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Ronnie, as a matter of fact, I said that I knew that you WEREN'T insinuating that!!  It was a good day, and when my daughter started dancing around when the Yankees won, I told her that it was poor sportsmanship, and that a true baseball fan shouldn't do that. Actually, it's the a'hole son of these people who acts that way. He's so anti-Yankee that it's ridiculous. I think that the Mets are having their second great season in a row, and I wish them all the best. First and foremost, I am a NYer. To give you an example of this kid's stupid arrogance, when Posada caught Beltran's foul for the final out of the game, I said, "Good job, Georgie!!" And he said, "It's pronounced Jor-ge!" and gave me an eye-roll. I said, "Duh, kid! His nick-name is Georgie!" Maybe it's not the Yankees. Maybe he's just an arrogant snot in general! 
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/17/07 11:30 PM
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-Well the Yanks win their 5th straight series -Are now 3 games above .500 at 35-32 -A-Rod hit another bomb, #27 -And Posada hit his 9th -Wang had a great outing: 8 2/3 innings, 6 hits, 2 runs, 1 BB, 10 SO (a career high for him), 7-4 with a 3.33 ERA. I wish Joe would have left him in the game to finish off Delgado and get the complete game. -The Yanks split the season series with the Mets  And I'm not sure if anyone else has heard of this, but apparently ESPN is going to run an 8-part miniseries about the 1977 New York Yankees season starting in July. The name of the show is entitled, The Bronx Is Burning
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/19/07 12:03 AM
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DJ, what do you think about this? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yankees sign two Chinese prospectsNEW YORK -- The Yankees' foray into the Far East has paid dividends, and it continued Monday. The Yankees announced that they signed two players -- left-handed pitcher Kai Liu and catcher Zhenwang Zhang -- to Minor League contracts, with approval from the Chinese Baseball Association. "This is an exciting opportunity for us to integrate Chinese players into the organization," said general manager Brian Cashman. "We believe that this is the start of something we can develop further as we work toward our commitment to help grow the game of baseball in China." Along with team president Randy Levine and assistant general manager Jean Afterman, Cashman was part of a contingent that visited Beijing in January, announcing a working relationship with the Chinese Baseball Association that will attempt to grow the game overseas. At the time, it was suggested that the effort might someday yield baseball's answer to basketball superstar Yao Ming. The Yankees agreed to allow Chinese teams and officials to use their training facilities in New York and at Legends Field in Tampa, Fla., while swapping coaches and trainers to help the CBA's burgeoning program. Liu, 19, began playing baseball in 2000 for the Guangdong Province team. In addition to his playing career in the six-team Chinese Baseball League with the Guangdong Leopards, he was chosen to participate as a member of the People's Republic of China National Team. Zhang, 19, began his playing career in 1998 in the Municipality of Tianjin. He helped lead his team, the Tianjin Lions, to the CBL championship series in three of the past five seasons (2002, 2005 and 2006) and was selected to represent his country as a member of the PRC National Team. Zhang also participated in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Both players will be introduced at a formal press conference at Yankee Stadium on July 6. Following their introduction, the players will report to the Yankees' player development complex in Tampa. Source: Yankees
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/19/07 08:13 AM
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Strange. I thought the Dice-K signing meant that the Sawks already had control over the entire Asian continent.  --- It can't hurt. Why not? It's a good move. They are nothing more than prospects, and at positions where its always good to be reinforced. The Yankees phenom catching prospect from Venezuela Jesus Montero is around the same age, if not younger (I think he may be 17...), so if Zhang can show some competency behind the dish, that works out great. Frankly, while it would cost more prospects - I'd love to see Jarrod Saltalamacchia in a Yankee uniform. The Braves have McCann (who, if you watched Monday Night Baseball last night, had a great game), so having Saltalamacchia is a luxury. I'd like to see if the Yankees could snag him. And left handed pitching is always a commodity. Speaking of which - Tyler Clippard was sent down to AAA after bombing out against the Mets, and, yep, our Miracle Man Kei Igawa is back, with his reinvented delivery and three strong starts in AAA (including one against my Buffalo Bisons). He'll make his re-launch this Friday. Clippard was a bit of a mystery to me, in a way. I do think that, like Hughes, he was rushed because of the injury and instability at this level, and with some refinement (now that he knows how difficult it is on the MLB level), hopefully the pitching coaches in AAA (especially Nardi Contreras) can get him to be a viable major league option. The funny thing is that Clippard broke his stride...in previous levels, he's struggled his first 1 or 2 outings, and then became dominant. Clippard did well his first couple of outings for the Yankees, and then lost it. Hopefully, Igawa will be able to come back strong, and now show some of that "superior" control he was touted to have when he was in Japan. --- BTW - Irish - I figured you'd be all over Schilling's loss last night, getting rocked by the Braves. He didn't throw a strikeout, which hasn't happened in forever. Pitcher IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Schilling (L) 4.1 10 6 6 2 0 1 81-50 4.20

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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/19/07 09:01 AM
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A feel good story about our favorite second baseman: A Yankee Needs An Ambulance, To Help His Home CountrySource: NY Times By DAVID GONZALEZ Published: June 19, 2007 When Robinson Canó, second baseman for the New York Yankees, went comparison shopping for a new vehicle recently, he wound up at a Bronx hospital. He wasn’t injured. He was sizing up ambulances so he could donate one to the hospital in his hometown in the Dominican Republic, San Pedro de Macoris. He is doing this not at the urging of a tax adviser or media consultant, but because of a nagging memory. A friend who once played softball with him, Luis Romero, was thrown from a motorcycle last year when it bounced at the bottom of a hill. “He hit his head,” Mr. Canó said softly. “The hospital had no ambulance, so they had to put him in a jeep and take him to Santo Domingo, an hour away. He died when he got there. Maybe if they had an ambulance with first aid he could have been saved.” Mr. Canó, an unassuming 24-year-old in his third season, sought out Julio Pabon, who has done media training for the Yankees’ Spanish-speaking rookies. “I thought he was going to ask me something personal like he wanted a girl’s number,” Mr. Pabon said. “But an ambulance?” Mr. Pabon was surprised, since Mr. Canó hardly made major league money, just under $500,000. And San Pedro de Macoris — renowned for its shortstops — has no shortage of stars with salaries to match.  “What got me was Robinson gets a little more than minimum wage — for baseball, anyway,” Mr. Pabon said. “Guys in their first or second year playing are not thinking too much about their community, bro. They’re thinking about how to stay alive in the majors and get that big, multimillion contract.” Mr. Pabon arranged for Mr. Canó to see different ambulance models at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, where representatives of TransCare, an ambulance company, waited to discuss how they could help. Any thought of calmly inspecting the ambulances vanished once Mr. Canó arrived. An overprotective bubble of hospital security people clung to him as he looked at the vehicles while passers-by held phones aloft to snap pictures. One woman who tried to get an autograph argued with one security officer. “Do not touch me!” she shouted. When Mr. Canó went to look at a Fire Department ambulance, one security guard gruffly shouted, “No pictures! No pictures!” even though the vehicle was parked on a public street. Mr. Canó soon left for a local restaurant to meet with the TransCare representatives, who wanted to learn more about conditions in his hometown. He was impressed with the ambulances, but puzzled by the local reaction. As they drove off, he mentioned to Mr. Pabon how the woman who had tried to get his autograph did get his attention. “She said ‘Tell your bodyguard to treat women better!’ ” he recalled. “But I do not have a bodyguard.” He does not make that kind of money — yet.
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/20/07 11:23 AM
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Here's some info for all those fans out there that think the Yankees are so horribly bad for baseball: -The Rockies average about 24,000 per game -With the Yankees in town for the next 3 games, their attendence has doubled to 48,000+ and are sold out or almost sold out -Still bad for baseball? 
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/20/07 01:19 PM
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No chance a deal for Helton gets done. His contract is too huge, and too long for his age (until 2011), he has a full no-trade clause, no thank you.
Teixeira is younger and will be available sooner...possibly in a three way deal involving the Yankees (sending Giambi, prospects, possibly Melky, receiving Gagne/Otsuka and Teixeira), the Rangers (receiving prospects, cash, ?), and the Angels (receiving Giambi, ?).
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Re: How bout them Yankees!?
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06/20/07 01:46 PM
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No chance a deal for Helton gets done. His contract is too huge, and too long for his age (until 2011), he has a full no-trade clause, no thank you.
Teixeira is younger and will be available sooner...possibly in a three way deal involving the Yankees (sending Giambi, prospects, possibly Melky, receiving Gagne/Otsuka and Teixeira), the Rangers (receiving prospects, cash, ?), and the Angels (receiving Giambi, ?). Who will pay giambi's contract? When he signed with the Yankees, it was understood that they were the only team that could afford his price tag. Now he is a fraction of the player he was supposed to be, and has quite a bit of baggage, and perhaps not in the best shape. I would be a little surprised if the Teixiera deal gets done soon. Texas is in no hurry, and according to Ken Rosenthal, is asking for Phil Hughes to be included in the deal. They may wait it out, and see if the Yankees include him, or see if they can cut another deal elsewhere. If not, they may wait close to the deadline.
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