OT: The Yankees

[BCrespi]

If only they had a couple guys to throw the ball to the plate, you might be right.  Until then, not now, not in that division.

[dsr11]

Lets go Red Sox!

Seriously, living right outside NYC (about 5 minutes), I'm sick and tired of hearing about the Yankees.  While I'm torn between rooting for the Mets of Yankees (since they are both right here), I'd have to root for the Mets (yeah yeah, I know about 1986, but this is 2005, and the Yankees suck!)

[cth95]

I am sure the Yankees will snap out of it, but in the mean time I will enjoy am this slump which has taken over almost the entire team.  Watching E-Rod blow plays is particularly amusing after his girly antics in the ALCS.  In the mean time, the Sox are starting to click so I baseball is good right now.

[DeltaOne81]

Wow, I agree with your sentiment, but your grammar is something else entirely ::wtf::

[jbeaber1998]

I agree, fun to watch the Yanks flounder but it likely is a temporary thing.  I love the fact that the A-Rod antiperspirant ad is being shown constantly.  Look at the lights at the end.  Someone involved was a Red Sox fan....

[cth95]

Sorry about that.  I reworded a couple of sentences and didn't realize that I had not erased everything.

[BCrespi]

Alright, that's it.  I've had enough of this crap.  A-Rod's slap was the right thing to do, and anybody who thinks differently, is just like one of those moronic Red Sox trying to take pot-shots at him (for reasons I don't know.  What has he ever done to anyone?  Seriously, besides make a great deal of money and, outside of a year and a week be the best player in the game.).  Game is on the line, what are you gonna do?  Just let yourself get tagged out?  End your team's season?  I mean, sure, it looked bad, especially because it was kind of a girl-like slapping motion, but that surely shouldn't be the point here.  Here, to put it in this board's perspective, if our belived Red were down 2-1 with 50 sec to go in the ECACHL championship and we had McKee pulled and Cavanagh was racing in alone with only Downs chasing him, would you not expect him to do everything in his power, including tackling, punching, maiming, even slapping to keep his team alive?  Of course we would.  Get out behind your red(sox) tinted glasses and look at it from a serious baseball (sports?) perspective.  It was the right play, and would only have been better had he lowered his shoulder and put Bronson (I have the strangest hair in the league) Arroyo into right field, but to his credit, Arroyo stayed out of the baseline.  What would you really want him to do in that situation?

[French Rage]

[Q]BCrespi Wrote:

 Alright, that's it.  I've had enough of this crap.  A-Rod's slap was the right thing to do, and anybody who thinks differently, is just like one of those moronic Red Sox trying to take pot-shots at him (for reasons I don't know.  What has he ever done to anyone?  Seriously, besides make a great deal of money and, outside of a year and a week be the best player in the game.).  Game is on the line, what are you gonna do?  Just let yourself get tagged out?  End your team's season?  I mean, sure, it looked bad, especially because it was kind of a girl-like slapping motion, but that surely shouldn't be the point here.  Here, to put it in this board's perspective, if our belived Red were down 2-1 with 50 sec to go in the ECACHL championship and we had McKee pulled and Cavanagh was racing in alone with only Downs chasing him, would you not expect him to do everything in his power, including tackling, punching, maiming, even slapping to keep his team alive?  Of course we would.  Get out behind your red(sox) tinted glasses and look at it from a serious baseball (sports?) perspective.  It was the right play, and would only have been better had he lowered his shoulder and put Bronson (I have the strangest hair in the league) Arroyo into right field, but to his credit, Arroyo stayed out of the baseline.  What would you really want him to do in that situation?[/q]

I would hope that the other guy's empty net shot rolls wide and we tie the game with 30 seconds left and win it in OT. :-D

[DeltaOne81]

Cheating was the right thing to do? Total bull. He broke the rules and did so intentionally. Tried to cheat his way to a basehit?

ARod's actions were not within the lines of the rules, even general baseball behavior. It'd be one thing to run into a guy, which is legal in the baselines, it's another to try to slap the ball out of his glove.

For the hockey analogy, it'd be one thing to dive to block anything you can, even hook, which is within the realm of normal hockey behavior. It'd be an entirely different thing to take your stick and toss it in front of the net to try to block a shot. That's low class, against the rules,and results in it being called a goal anyway. Just like ARod's low class, illegal, and penalized move.

And no, if Down's or anyone else punched or maimed a guy to prevent a goal, they deserve and would receive all sorts of criticism. There's a line that you do not cross and ARod crossed it from playing hard, into being a whiny pansy cheater.

Take off your pinstriped glasses - not 'anything is okay' just because you tried to help  your team. So goes for Cornell, they should do everything they can, but punching, maiming, etc, is just wrong. You can no more justify ARod's interference in the flow of the game then you can justify the Sox fan who interfered with Sheffield this weekend. You cannot interefere to get what you want, fan, athlete, or anyone else - plain and simple.

[Will]

[Q]BCrespi Wrote:

 Alright, that's it.  I've had enough of this crap.  A-Rod's slap was the right thing to do, and anybody who thinks differently, is just like one of those moronic Red Sox trying to take pot-shots at him (for reasons I don't know.  What has he ever done to anyone?  Seriously, besides make a great deal of money and, outside of a year and a week be the best player in the game.).  Game is on the line, what are you gonna do?  Just let yourself get tagged out?  End your team's season?  I mean, sure, it looked bad, especially because it was kind of a girl-like slapping motion, but that surely shouldn't be the point here.  Here, to put it in this board's perspective, if our belived Red were down 2-1 with 50 sec to go in the ECACHL championship and we had McKee pulled and Cavanagh was racing in alone with only Downs chasing him, would you not expect him to do everything in his power, including tackling, punching, maiming, even slapping to keep his team alive?  Of course we would.  Get out behind your red(sox) tinted glasses and look at it from a serious baseball (sports?) perspective.  It was the right play, and would only have been better had he lowered his shoulder and put Bronson (I have the strangest hair in the league) Arroyo into right field, but to his credit, Arroyo stayed out of the baseline.  What would you really want him to do in that situation?[/q]

Someone's touchy...:-D

You're right, A-Rod made the right move.  But that doesn't make the move any less agaisnt the rules, and the umpires absolutely made the right call to call him out on interference.  Similarly, in your scenario, if Downs has to obstruct, interfere, clutch, grab, hook, or even slap to stop the play, yeah it's the right move at the time, but that shouldn't stop the referee from calling a penalty on Downs.  Of course I wouldn't like it and I would probably be angry over it, but I would understand the call and begrudgingly have to agree with the referee's call.  And, as a sports fan, I'd have to put up with the barbs and the insults and the jokes, because I know I can take it as well as I can dish it out.  That's the nature of sports fandom in this country, and I wouldn't have it any other way.  Therefore, A-Rod will always be Slap Happy in my mind. :-P

Think of it this way.  A-Rod's allegedly girly antics in the 2004 ALCS and his team's subsequent choke job still doesn't take away from the Yankees' 26 World Series championships, the most by a wide margin in baseball.  So quit complaining and enjoy your team's laurels. :-)  In the meantime, I'll watch my Mets, await their inevitable seasonal choke job, and drink myself into a stupor until hockey season begins again. :`( :-D

[Tub(a)]

 ::nut::

[Will]

It's the off-season.  Everything off-topic is fair game now. :-D

[Tub(a)]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 It's the off-season.  Everything off-topic is fair game now.[/q]

I was just proud of myself figuring out the tag

[Trotsky]

The Yankees put 13 across in the 2nd inning tonight.  For those of us who hate or love them, they've recovered.   For those of us who don't care about them... we still don't care about them.

[DeltaOne81]

And have given up 8 since to the Devil Rays. They'll almost certainly win but I wouldn't call it a night to feel great about after the second inning. I'm sure they'll take it though.