Category: yankees

I feel bad that I just chased Mets Police Junior to bed in the middle of the second.  Baseball can spin these “before 8” starts all they want – Jon Miller clocked it at 7:59pm.  Then again, yesterday’s game started at 4 and I still would have chased him to bed.

I was talking to another one of my Yankee friends today, and he was raving about Miller and Morgan, and how they actually described the game.

Soak that in.  Think about it.   Here’s one of those big time obnoxious Yankees fans and he is telling me that he likes the ESPN guys because they describe the game.  That’s how horrible Sterling and Suzyn are.   Imagine (in the unlikely event the Mets were in a playoff, tickets available on Stubhub) bailing on Howie after 162 games.  Of course you wouldn’t.   The Yankee fan is excited to hear Morgan and Miller.  Think how much Mets fans dislike Morgan and Miller – our nightmare is a Yankee fan Christmas.

My least favorite thing of all things Yankee is the Suzyn Stall.  King Sterling will not say a peep until the first pitch is halfway to home plate.  So on nights when 7:57 games start at 7:59 you get to enjoy Suzyn pull any random fact she can think of to kill time.   So I got sick of that and headed over to 1050, but unfortunately 1050 uses batteries after dark and after I heard Miller tell me what time the first pitch was I headed back to 88.

Seeing Kazmir in a big game never gets old.  As I write this the game is a scoreless tie so I don’t know what wound up happening, but this guy could go 10 and 14 for the Nippon Ham Fighters and Mets fans would still complain.  Omar might want to consider acquiring him just to shut jerks like me up once and for all.

8:49 and it’s the 3rd.  I’m good for about six innings tonight.

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Let’s head on out to cold fake New New Yankee Stadium with our Yankee friend, Mr. Sunshine who is as they say “on assignment.”

Looks like he’s climbed down the ugly cement to see the new unattractive Monument Park.  “Mystique and Aura” says Sunshine.

I love the size of “the moat.”  From 500 feet away you can see it.

That sure is a large flag.  Looks like Mr. Sunshine is either sitting low or has a good zoom lense.

One thing I will give them, the color scheme sure reminds you who plays there.  

The empty seats are in the auxiliary press box.  Looks like the folks from the Yonkers Tribune got cold and left.

Chip Caray sure makes Joe Buck seem like Jack Buck doesn’t he?  I wonder if that would work on Kenny “no really, this is my natural speaking voice” Albert?

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You know that Yankee fan I call “Mr. Sunshine?”   He just sent this over..

Mrs. Sunshine gets credit for seeing it and freezing it, but I snapped this for you off the screen.  From YES Network.  The center-fielder behind the super-imposed graphic (you can see his feet), made one hell of a catch!


Hilarious!

I went to Citi Field with Mr. Sunshine (the Yankees can do no wrong, hence the name) last week.   He wouldn’t admit that Citi Field is better than Yankee, but he and I both know he liked it better.  Even the most die-hard Yankee fans know it.  The best I could get out of him was “why do we have to compare?” which is something I say when the number 26 gets compared to the #2.

Well it was nice to have some Yankees content on here, it has been a while.   I suspect there’s going to be a lot of it in October since the Mets won’t be able to hire their new manager until after the World Series….and if you come back after 6am I will tell you who it is going to be and why.


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Halladay:   I think it’s the right move to hold on to the youngsters.   The Mets can finish 4th without him and maybe second with him.   5 games out and 27 out are the same thing on November 1st.

Yankees Stuff:   As much as I like killing the Mets for not having Old Timer’s Day, the Yankees went a little nuts.    There were tons of “really?” guys.   When you can trot out Yogi Berra you don’t need to invite Pat Kelly and Homer Bush.

I noticed that they had Bob Sheppard introduce Sterling and Kay.  Presumably the re-used a recording from a previous ceremony.   Weird move.  I love Bob as much as anyone, I hope his health is ok, but it’s time to let that one go.   The new building is the perfect excuse – so just let Paul Olden do it for the next 50 years.

I think the Yankees go out of the way to trot Gooden out there.  Sure he threw a no-hitter but it’s not like he’s Whitey Ford over there.    At least it gives me evidence that if you pick up the phone it is relatively easy to get him to an Old Timer’s Day.

Finally, don’t forget about the Mets fans gathering at Two Boots tonight.   While it’s not great blogger etiquette, here’s a blatant lift from the awesome Uni Watch.  I’m doing the lift because I’m lazy, I like what they wrote, and at the end of the day they just want the event promoted:

And Baked Agbayani for Dessert: Remember, live Mets uniform quiz contest tonight, at Two Boots. Festivities begin at 7pm and I’m told that I’ll be going on third, after Greg Prince and Jon Springer, and before Matt Silverman.


And if that’s not enough to entice you, check out this note from the evening’s host, Two Boots manager Phil Hartman:

We’ll be marking the occasion by serving up “The Montañez” — a spicy chorizo and andouille pizza, with a jalapeño pesto swirl. Fitting, I think, for the spicy and over-styled Willie. And at the bar, we will be serving “The Hammer,” the ingredients of which are as inscrutable as John Milner’s career.

I selected these because they sum up my feelings about the Mets. Milner was my favorite Met in the late ’70s, and he was traded for Montañez, perhaps my least favorite player in all of baseball. I specifically remember cursing the baseball gods when I heard about it. Yet within a few weeks of the onset of the ’78 season, I had become a big Monteñez fan — after all, he was now part of the family.

For more about the event read here.

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