On the Yankees beat

Thanks for the info Kat, do you know when on Friday? Can we purchase tickets Friday @ 0000 EST????

If anyone wants to sell a some tickets to Old Timer's Day, please let me know. I've never been to an OTD and I'd love to go.

Also, tickets can be found at 55millionfor2wins@sepuku.com.

Slow Night Trivia:
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Did you know that the last three times that the New York Yankees have hosted the all-star game, they have made it to the World Series?

In 1939, the all-star game was at the stadium and the Yankees went on to not only play in the World Series but they won the championship.

In 1960, the all-star game was again played at the stadium and the Yankees again made it to the World Series.

In 1977, the all-star game was once again played at the stadium and the Yankees once again went on to play in the World Series...as per their .677 winning percentage in World Series play (won 26 of 39 appearances) they won the championship.

Well, the New York Yankees are hosting the 2008 MLB All-Star game...Yankee fans - start making your postseason plans.

Ant Colony,

If you're going to make a lame @ss joke, the least you could do is be accurate with the numbers.

They invested $46M ($26M for posting fee + $20M for the actual contract) in Igawa.

Dumb@ss.

Slow Night Trivia continued...
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Did you know that the Yankees were the first team to retire a player's number?

Lou Gehrig was the first player in baseball to have his number retired.

It was number 4.

Anonymous is god or reasonable facsimile thereof!

Sorry, I stand corrected. Let's hear it for our brilliant GM, which the team (and all of us in fact!) have such confidence in ...

You can also order tickets at ...

46millionfor2wins@sepuku.com.

Anonymous, my anonymous friend, I am sorry I misremembered the exact amount. So how many million for last year's 2 wins by Kei Igawa? Can you do the math for me? And what about Lilly's 15 wins (after winning 15 for Toronto) for around 10 million or so last year with the Cubs. With the Yanks he would have won probably 17 games all things equal.

Let's all praise Cashman. He's a baseball genius!

Also, I read in Newsday that when a naked then-wife Jessica Canseco was sunbathing without her top in the backyard, Clemens threw a towel over her because he "thought it was the ball."

You can beat the Yankees (especially if you are Paul Byrd pitching with a tumor in the most important game of the year), but you CAN'T beat the Yanks for comedy!

Jim A, thank you for pointing out (yet again) to Nudge in the last thread that he seems to spend a lot of time being negative about anything regarding the Yankees. Does he really think he's going to turn Yankee fans away from the team or does he just get a kind of masturbatory thrill out of those kind of posts? Well, obviously only Nudge could tell us that.

It's a shame, Nudge, because some of your criticisms are worth debating but so many of them are just plain petty, and exposing yourself as that doesn’t do you any credit with anyone. But I suppose that you don’t care.

DRU - you the man!! I mean Nobody Beats the DRU! You have silenced more mentally challenged and/or disturbed individuals than anyone I've ever seen on any blog! Please don't go away!

Diane, you are 110% correct. After I've pegged a poster as a poseur or an impostor, I just 'scroll on by' each and every time thereafter (paraphrasing that great song, "Walk on By!" By the way, was it the immortal Aretha Franklin that sang that song?)

But I do love reading DRU's following put downs that have made so many of these characters look every bit the fools that they are. Go DRU!

Yanks61,

Good to see you back!

As for Nudge's constant etiquette lessons, he seems to think that posts here are addressed to the general public or to Mets and Sox fans in particular, and that our remarks should be tailored to spare their feelings. The fact is that we come here as Yankees fans to enjoy and celebrate our team together. If others decide they want to be part of a Yankees discussion, they need to be tough enough to endure our pleasure in doing so. Whining and carping because we appreciate our team too much is just laughable.

If you want 'fair and objective', don't participate in a discussion with fans of a particular team. If you want praise for the qualities of another team, find that team's blog sites. Don't bog us down with complaints that our remarks are biased. Of course they are! We're *fan*atics!!!

Now that Yogi Berra is in camp here is a tidbits about him -

Yankee fans know alot about Yogi Berra.

They know he proudly served for a little over 4 years during WWll and was in the D-Day invasion of Europe and also served in North Africa.

Yankee fans know he played in 14 World Series and earned 10 World Series rings, the most as a player in baseball.

Few fans know or appreciate that although he played an amazing 19 seasons he struck out only 414 times in his career.

Just go give you an idea of how great that is, consider the late great Ted Williams, who was known for having an excellent eye at the plate and also played an amazing 19 seasons with about the same number of at bats and was struck out 709 times.

I wonder if he was the toughest player in MLB to strike out...especial when you consider almost two decades of playing.

Yanks61,

Speaking only truth. Sometimes speaking truth to kooks, but still speaking truth. BTW check the last post of mine on previous thread to get a full understanding on the charity issue. Again speaking truth. Sometimes the truth hurts.

Again if you wish to see the truth with your own eyes, go to each teams MLB site and click on the Community link. It will list all the community activities that every team is associated with. You will be surprised most likely that the Yanks although a generous team, don't have the most extensive list. Many teams have more programs. So charity was not invented in the Bronx immediately after VA Tech. What truths are you speaking of?

Danny,

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/lists/toughk.shtml

Check this list and you will see many players that were tougher. In fact Yogi was never the toughest even in his own time. He only lead the league one time while there were others that did it ten times and with less frequency. Sorry for more truth.

....He only lead the league one time while there were others that did it ten times and with less frequency. Sorry for more truth.
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Nudge -

Thanks for the website...you are absolutely correct. Nellie Fox and Bobby Richardson almost never struck out...amazing!

Be back later...I have to go through the website. Thanks again.

Danny,

Check out Joe Sewells numbers.

BTW the website www.thebaseballcube.com is a great sats and history site for those who want to do a quick lookup on such matters. The downside is it is as of now only updated through 2006.

I stand corrected it appears they have added the 2007 years stats now. So its even better.

Nudge -

Joe Sewell...he played 155 games one season with over 600 at bats and only struck out 4 times...it just doesn't seem possible but it is a fact.

He played his last three years with the Yankees...he won a World Series ring with the Yankees in 1932...close to 500 at bats that season with only 8 K's and batted .302.

Great website...simply wonderful...thanks again.

Just trying to some charity work of my own!

Stats are interesting but sometimes can paint a different story. So I like to also complement the stats with the opinions of contemporaries and those who saw those players. My reach only goes back to the 60's, but my dads stories form pre-war till the 60"s is helpful.

Anyone want tickets to my jail league game? I have traded in my pinstripes for prison stripes.

Hi Diane,

Right on! You've hit the nail on the head! But of course we poor, clueless 'fan - atics,' as you put it, need to know how awfully ordinary our Yankees, past and present, were or are. I guess all those titles and the recent run of playoff appearances were all just a mirage.

Frankly I don't give a hoot about anybody else's negative opinions, which is why I breeze by those posts. I'm all for a good discussion of the merits and defects of this Yankee team and any Yankee team of the past. But in relation to what! That's really the point, because you've obviously noticed that the folks who do most of the negative posting don't tell us who THEY root for, so how we are suppose to compare? Turn about is fair play and all that, but these posters don't play fair since there is nothing to debate against! It's easy to attack when you have nothing to defend! And it’s pretty damned cowardly if you ask me. I mean if you want to attack, give folks a target to attack back. Even if I could, I’m not going to waste my time fighting shadows.

If you check into Lohud you'll find that folks like Nudge are 'blasted' off the site by a bevy of regulars who are really smart and quick witted (attributes that I don't have, that's for sure.) Fortunately we now have DRU here, but of course he can't always be around as much as we'd like. Once in a while HYD or Viper will work over these guys, but unfortunately Chip seems to have gone off to somewhere else. I’m happy to see that you also understand where these negative blokes are coming from.

But there you are Diane. Your comments are exactly right, but unfortunately there are always a few people who enjoy being spoil sports or enjoy just plain aggravating other people. I remember a guy I once worked with who used to enjoy driving slow in the passing lane of a highway just so he could annoy other people. And he took great pleasure in that. I'm not a psychiatrist, so I can't explain it. I only know that life is too short to spend it being annoyed, so my preference is to just 'scroll on by!'

Enjoy your afternoon Diane.

Thanks, Yanks61.

I know you're in a distant time zone but look forward to seeing you on another thread.

P.S. Another difference on lohud is that Pete Abe chimes in to 'correct' those who don't play well with others, and cuts off trolls.

Yanks61..lol..glad someone enjoys them. I love discussing baseball with knowledgeable fans of other clubs like Sully and Cas. I know the Yanks are far from perfect, but that’s what makes sports fun to chat about, just don’t come spewing garbage about stuff you don’t know or that is irrelevant

I don’t hate the Mets or the Sox at all. I respect them for bringing their A games all the time. The Mets may be my favorite NL team, my grandmother was a big Mets fan and got me into them. David Wright is my favorite non-Yankee player. If he was on the Yanks, he would be my #1 guy. I just love players like David, Papi, Paps, Beckett, Pedro that go all out every game. They get fired up, but don’t talk trash ( maybe Pedro now and again ). They play the game the way it should be played. When Pedro was on the Sox, and was striking out 300+ with a 1. whatever ERA, how great was that? That stretch of 4-5 years was the most dominate stretch of pitching Ive ever seen. I mean Nolan Ryan was awesome, but even he couldn’t control that fastball and was erratic every once in a while. Pedro was like a surgeon on the mound. Mixing pitches, pin-point control..he could throw any pitch at any time for a strike. That’s what made beating him so special. The Yanks knew the only way to beat Pedro was to have our SP match him frame for frame and get him out of the game late. Ill take those 1-0 games over a 10-9 shootout any day.

As far as the ignorant fans that I respond to. Its all fun and games, they can never get to me. I read their stuff and have to laugh sometimes, I never take it seriously. I know some people will say “ignore the trolls”. Sometimes I do, but if they are going to make statements like “Melky the .250 hitter”. I have to correct them since they are just talking out of their arses. If they are going to come to a Yankee site, and spew inaccurate stuff, I have to jump in. Its not that I get mad, I just like to get even. If I was on a Red Sox or Mets site ( cant really imagine that since I never would be ), I would expect to get jumped by the posters when I say incorrect stuff. If posters from other teams want to come to a Yankee site, they should expect that to happen, not just the silent treatment. Its like having an 8 year old that opens up a paint can and put paint hand prints all over your walls and floors. Some people would say…no Johnny, now go to timeout. Johnny aint gonna learn a damn thing from timeout. That’s where a smack on the @ss is needed. Lord knows I had many spankings coming to me when I was young, timeout would have been a blessing. So while some of the bloggers will put the Boston Anon and Say Hey into timeout…Im getting my hand warmed up for an @ss slap.

; )

Yanks61,

How is it that you don't give a hoot about what I say yet every post of yours mentions me? Hmmmmmmmm? Also DRU and I agree on more points than we disagree. I don't believe I can recall a single incident where we majorly got into it. As for Lohud....those guys were all here previously trying to "Blast" me off here with their quick wit as you put it. So who's here and who's not? Most of those guys where one tune tommys> Ill sum up their knowledge of the Yankees in one phrase......26 championships. Thats about the extent of their vast baseball knowledge.

Oh and thanks for the psycho-babble and all. Interesting from a guy who isn't concerned or interested in what I say but has an indepth enough understanding to analyze it. Thats an odd approach to indifference. Keep trying though. Maybe you will blast me off here unlike the 100 others who couldn't.

Did I mention that I know more about the Yankees than anyone on this site????

Yanks61,
Wasn't it Dionne Warwick who sang "Walk on By"? Maybe she did a cover of it but I know she did record it.
Dionne was (probably still is) hard to look at but has a great voice.