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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 31, 2007 14:46:32 GMT -5
I'm different........all I care about is winning. To me, that is the point of whatever you do, whatever you watch...you want to be the best and you want your team to the be the best. I'm not bailing on the Yankees, I'm not switching teams and I'm not going to stop watching....but it is so God damn frustrating to have them be this bad. I don't think it's a game and I don't think it's funny when we sign players and they fail or when everyone's job is at stake and George is thinking about firing everyone...that is so much NON-baseball related activity that it puts everyone's focus so far away from the real mission...WINNING BASEBALL GAMES. Any year that the Yankees do not win the World Series is a wasted year and it just makes everyone a year older and makes it harder to win with the same players the next year. When I play tennis or baseball, it's no fun to lose, I don't feel like I accomplished anything when I don't win...just like when you take a test in school or you go to work and you can't do your job...it's not ok to fail. Every year, one team wins the World Series....the other 29 teams were failures and shouldn't be proud of anything, they didn't get the job done, they didn't do what they get paid to do.....WIN. Typical Stereotypical NY Sports fan Maybe more people should act like they are from New York. It's not ok to go out there and half-ass something or just not care when you don't do well....that is the point of life, to be successful.
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Post by bjd on May 31, 2007 14:53:01 GMT -5
I could see if you were on the team... but you know what, I'm not. So I couldn't care less about winning.
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Post by Jimmy on May 31, 2007 14:59:29 GMT -5
The Reds are somehow only 8.5 games back despite sucking miserably at life. Woo-hoo!
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Post by drippy on May 31, 2007 15:12:59 GMT -5
I love how ESPNews spent like, 5 minutes on A-Rod saying "Ha!" Pretty ridiculous, really. If it were any other player on any other team not New York or Boston, they wouldn't give a shit.
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Post by krush on May 31, 2007 15:14:19 GMT -5
Circle July 16 on your calendars, folks. On baseball's biggest stage we'll get to witness a talented superstar arrive a the crossroads of his career. LOL! You guys sure are taking this crapseriously. Really...get over it.
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Post by krush on May 31, 2007 15:19:13 GMT -5
I love how ESPNews spent like, 5 minutes on A-Rod saying "Ha!" Pretty ridiculous, really. If it were any other player on any other team not New York or Boston, they wouldn't give a ****. No kidding. I don't see what the big deal is, I love athletes who try to get into their opponent's heads. It's really no different than a pitcher throwing a brushback pitch at a guy crowding the plate. If you're mentally tough, it won't affect you, it's that simple. For an example in basketball...even though I am not a LeBron fan, when he whispered "you're gonna miss these" in Gilbert Arenas' ear last year in the playoffs and Arenas missed both at the end of the game, I loved that moment. Then when Rip Hamilton tried to do it to LeBron the other night, LeBron shoved him out of his way and sank them both like it was nothing. The only reason it's getting the reaction it's getting is because of A-Rod's slapping at the ball in the '04 ALCS (which was a total bitch move), so when A-Rod does something like last night people consider something like that bush league.
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on May 31, 2007 15:27:54 GMT -5
ARod said 'Mine' not Ha, but still, its silly, but hes known for being a dick, if it was someone other than ARod, it wouldnt be this big of a deal
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Post by ThugSuperstar on May 31, 2007 16:01:11 GMT -5
Giambi goes to the DL, out at least 3 weeks.
This season rocks.
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Post by bbb on May 31, 2007 16:23:52 GMT -5
Yanks finally one yesterday
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2007 17:10:48 GMT -5
Circle July 16 on your calendars, folks. On baseball's biggest stage we'll get to witness a talented superstar arrive a the crossroads of his career. LOL! You guys sure are taking this **** seriously. Really...get over it. incase you didn't notice i didnt say that. that was from sportsnet
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Post by gregthebunny on May 31, 2007 17:22:17 GMT -5
ARod said 'Mine' not Ha, but still, its silly, but hes known for being a dick, if it was someone other than ARod, it wouldnt be this big of a deal Yeah, he said "Mine" which, like the glove thing, is a total bitch move. The reason people are talking about it is not because of who it is or what team he plays for, it is because most people have never seen anything like this before in pro-baseball. A-Rod pretty much called the fielders off of a pop fly, which is unprofessional and cheating. I love how A-Rod is the only person saying "This happens to me all the times" and yet every other person in both in baseball and the media are saying "We've never seen this before... ever."
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Post by ThugSuperstar on May 31, 2007 17:53:15 GMT -5
Everyone needs to just move onto something else because this is not nearly as much of a big deal as you people are making it out to be.
When a kicker is attempting a PAT after a touchdown, does the opponent just stand in an organized line and not bother to try and get him to miss just because it's an easy play to make? No. This is basically the same thing. If you're honestly dumb enough to fall for it, then that's your problem. There are instances where this occurs in every sport. To say that this is the first time this has ever happened is just absurd. When there's a foul pop up near your opponent's dugout, their teammates say things that are much more of a distraction.
Plus, it's not like the game was tied or anything. The Yankees were already up by 2 runs with Rivera on the mound, who had his best stuff this season yesterday.
I applaud A-Rod...someone needs to make an A-Rod/ Los Guerreros "We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal" sig.
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Post by nyk9327 on May 31, 2007 18:06:23 GMT -5
Christ can there be anymore crying about A-Rod in this thread. I watched the game live... he DEFINATELY did not say "mine" you could read his lips and he said "Ahh" or "Ha." You could hear it barely on the replay and it was definately not "mine." It was a Ha or an Ahh, without a doubt... I don't care what the people in toronto who are crying about a game they were losing anyway. Besides that wasn't even the best part. The best part was the next at bat when Giambi came up and the ump stopped the game for a second to yell at the catcher and right on live TV you heard something along the lines of "Shut up- Shut the up, do you wanna play ball? Then shut the up and catch!" right in the catchers face. Sounds like Toronto was just crying too much about one play. How many times does this **** happen to a catch who is trying to catch a pop fly foul ball near the opposing dugout... EVERY TIME. And for the Yankee fans in here making ridiculous predictions and acting spoiled... it's pathetic. And for the Red Sox fans who are acting as if those Yankee fans are pathetic.... it's pathetic. Rewind to a few years ago and listen to yourselves. This thread isn't even fun anymore. I am a Yankee fan and I know they have been horrid. I believe there are still chances they could even win the division. Anything can happen. Look at the Sox in the second half of last year? They blew everything. Once again, the Yankees just won 4 championships in my lifetime. The first was coming back from 0-2 on the best team of the decade, the Braves, who were unbeatable. We had a few bought players like Boggs and David Cone... the rest were home grown. I'll take that **** over Boston's imports of Pedro Manny, Lowe, Ortiz, Damon etc having an 8 game open path to the WS on slumping Yankee and Cards teams. Edmonds, Pujols and Rolen combining for ONE base hit all World Series long is nothing to consider magical.
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Post by Nash on May 31, 2007 18:10:16 GMT -5
Halladay and Buehrle both looking for their 100th career win. Should be a good game tonight.
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Post by T R W on May 31, 2007 18:11:24 GMT -5
I'm no Yankee fan, but I find the A-Rod thing awesome.
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Post by krush on May 31, 2007 18:11:33 GMT -5
LOL! You guys sure are taking this **** seriously. Really...get over it. incase you didn't notice i didnt say that. that was from sportsnet I know. By "you guys" I meant you Blue Jay people. Including you because you've made 15 posts about A-Rod since yesterday. That was the most ridiculous article I've ever read-- you'd think A-Rod took a dump on the field and started flinging it all over the Blue Jay fans.
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Post by nyk9327 on May 31, 2007 18:19:47 GMT -5
I give A rod credit now for smirking right on the field and getting Toronto all upset and bitchy.
Hell, I give him credit for admitting to doing it immediately after the game.
He's come a long way from "that's just how I run" (the swatted ball incident).
Speaking of the swatted ball incident, just get off his dick already. It was an impulse move and he had two sox players running at him.... even if Arod ducked Arroyo's tag he had Doug Men. standing there blocking first base... you'd feel caved in too. Not that swatting the ball is right.
People need to get off the Yankees dicks in general... all this bitching about how they buy players and they are sick of them winning etc. Then they don't win and you talk about them MORE THAN YOUR OWN TEAM. Get off the Yankees dick as a whole.
The Mets and Red Sox have imported all of their big players as well and have turned into winning teams off of imported players. Bottom line is, if Pedro doesn't go to Boston, Manny probably doesn't go either and so on.
If Beltran doesn't go to the Mets, then Pedro, Delgato etc prob don't go either.
Why does no one ever mention this? I mean christ Beckett was bought, so was Schilling, JD Drew...
get off the Yankees dicks and realize if the Sox or Mets win 4 out of the next 5 world series people would say the same thing as they did about NYY. It's just that NYY got it done 4 out of 5 years.
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Post by krush on May 31, 2007 18:21:27 GMT -5
Everyone needs to just move onto something else because this is not nearly as much of a big deal as you people are making it out to be. When a kicker is attempting a PAT after a touchdown, does the opponent just stand in an organized line and not bother to try and get him to miss just because it's an easy play to make? No. This is basically the same thing. If you're honestly dumb enough to fall for it, then that's your problem. There are instances where this occurs in every sport. To say that this is the first time this has ever happened is just absurd. When there's a foul pop up near your opponent's dugout, their teammates say things that are much more of a distraction. Plus, it's not like the game was tied or anything. The Yankees were already up by 2 runs with Rivera on the mound, who had his best stuff this season yesterday. I applaud A-Rod...someone needs to make an A-Rod/ Los Guerreros "We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal" sig. Right. This is really no different than a shortstop or second baseman pretending they're about to receive a cutoff throw to stop a runner at second that could have made it to third (which happened at least twice last season). It's the runner's responsibility to know what's going on in the field of play and to communicate with his base coaches. The same thing is true of an infielder about to catch a pop fly-- if that were a real major league infielder and not some career minor leaguer like Howie Clark, the ball probably would have been caught and this would have been a non-issue.
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Post by nyk9327 on May 31, 2007 18:37:29 GMT -5
Yea exactly... why is nobody talking about how the ball was right there and he had the play made. He went out of his way to step out of the way. Nobody woulda called that ball off of him when he was right under it like that.
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Post by Mike LOL on May 31, 2007 19:13:49 GMT -5
Christ can there be anymore crying about A-Rod in this thread. I watched the game live... he DEFINATELY did not say "mine" you could read his lips and he said "Ahh" or "Ha." You could hear it barely on the replay and it was definately not "mine." It was a Ha or an Ahh, without a doubt... I don't care what the people in toronto who are crying about a game they were losing anyway. Besides that wasn't even the best part. The best part was the next at bat when Giambi came up and the ump stopped the game for a second to yell at the catcher and right on live TV you heard something along the lines of "Shut up- Shut the up, do you wanna play ball? Then shut the up and catch!" right in the catchers face. Sounds like Toronto was just crying too much about one play. How many times does this **** happen to a catch who is trying to catch a pop fly foul ball near the opposing dugout... EVERY TIME. And for the Yankee fans in here making ridiculous predictions and acting spoiled... it's pathetic. And for the Red Sox fans who are acting as if those Yankee fans are pathetic.... it's pathetic. Rewind to a few years ago and listen to yourselves. This thread isn't even fun anymore. I am a Yankee fan and I know they have been horrid. I believe there are still chances they could even win the division. Anything can happen. Look at the Sox in the second half of last year? They blew everything. Once again, the Yankees just won 4 championships in my lifetime. The first was coming back from 0-2 on the best team of the decade, the Braves, who were unbeatable. We had a few bought players like Boggs and David Cone... the rest were home grown. I'll take that **** over Boston's imports of Pedro Manny, Lowe, Ortiz, Damon etc having an 8 game open path to the WS on slumping Yankee and Cards teams. Edmonds, Pujols and Rolen combining for ONE base hit all World Series long is nothing to consider magical. Still bitter about 2004? Jeez..
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