Yankee elimination day
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Sorry to break up your post, but I wanted to focus on this part in response.....celebrating their ouster yes, but the other thing you get out of YED is not having to live with any anxiety about them pulling still more junk out of their butts to gain another WS title. Now I can have as much enjoyment as possble of a non-Sox postseason, free from having to take on rooting interests based on future tough matchups for the MFYs.54thMA said:
Yea I LOVE stress-free playoff baseball. When both the Sox and Yanks are out, I can relax and enjoy the game. Although it sucked the Yankees made the playoffs, it ruled that they were the first ones out. An awesome way to kick off what looks to be an awesome postseason.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
I never saw the old one but the new one absolutely sucks ass. I was at the 19 inning game, they had ushers posted up in the 13th inning to keep us from moving into the 300 section. Like, 7 ushers guarding an empty, shitty section at 12:30 in the morning.
I might add that it reminds me of a Disney ride, right up to the forced march through the gift store before you leave.John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
Having said this, the "Spring Training" and "beveled edges" quotes nailed it perfectly. Yankee Stadium is now safe and comfortable.
As much as I enjoy the A-Rod pile-ons, his overall post-season career numbers aren't that bad. He's got a .822 OPS.
That said, of 19 post season contests, the only series where he hit well (.820 OPS or higher) and his team won) were: '04 ALDS, all 2009 (3 series). The ones where he hit well and his team lost anyway: '97 ALDS, '00 ALCS, '04 ALCS, 07 ALDS.
In the other 11 times, he never hit higher than a .635 OPS. To be fair, two of those series were 1AB affairs when he was 19. But still, half the time in the post season, you got a decent-to-excellent batter. Half the time you got garbage from the $400 man.
That said, of 19 post season contests, the only series where he hit well (.820 OPS or higher) and his team won) were: '04 ALDS, all 2009 (3 series). The ones where he hit well and his team lost anyway: '97 ALDS, '00 ALCS, '04 ALCS, 07 ALDS.
In the other 11 times, he never hit higher than a .635 OPS. To be fair, two of those series were 1AB affairs when he was 19. But still, half the time in the post season, you got a decent-to-excellent batter. Half the time you got garbage from the $400 man.
SydneySox said:
It's an acquired taste like beer or coffee. For pure unadulterated bliss, try the Lidle sausage. You can actually taste the exhaust! Stay away from the Munson version, completely overrated.
From the 2004 post season, where A-Rod was charging several thousand dollars a head for an event where you'd get 2 minutes of face time with him, billed as "an A-Rod experience." Barry Halper, a minority owner of the Yankees: "An A-Rod 'experience'? How about he hits a few balls through the infield in the postseason? That's the kind of A-Rod experience I'd like."
bob burda said:
It's amazing to look back at the road we've traveled. The 2003 ALCS had felt like a match of equals but it was hard not to shake the feeling that the Sox let maybe their best opportunity to beat their New York rivals slip away. At the start of the 2004 season, the good feelings in Boston about trading for Curt Schilling had been tempered somewhat by the very public failure to land A-Rod (and to a lesser extent the MFY's trade for a then in-his-prime Javier Vázquez). New York had dropped the '03 Series to Josh Beckett's Marlins but they had won six of the previous eight AL pennants. It certainly felt to many of us that they would not only be a serious contender for years to come but that SiaS would go to any length to get the elite talent they needed. The outcome of the 2004 season was glorious but the Yankees were still rightfully feared by most Boston fans.
If you had told me back then that the next eleven Yankees seasons would go like this:
2005 - lost ALDS
2006 - lost ALDS
2007 - lost ALDS (and Sox win another championship)
2008 - fail to reach postseason
2009 - win World Series
2010 - lost ALCS
2011 - lost ALDS
2012 - lost ALCS
2013 - fail to reach postseason (and Sox win another championship)
2014 - fail to reach postseason
2015 - lost Wild-Card play-in game
it would have seemed unfathomable.
Arod, at his maxed out HGH level, fucking carried them in 2009. He was fucking unbelievably good. It cracks me up that Yankee fans blame him for their fall from grace, when he carried them to the only title they won this millennium.
Equally unfathomable is Cashman still being employed afterwards. Outside of 2009, their best results are getting rolled twice in the ALCS.JimD said:
bosockboy said:
Paid attendance since opening of the Bidet:
2009: 3,719,358
2010: 3,765,807
2011: 3,653,680
2012: 3,542,406
2013: 3,279,589
2014: 3,401,624
2015: 3,193,795
JimD said:
If you had showed me this I think I would've asked "what the fuck is a Wild-Card play-in game?"
This post deserves more love.John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
Is Yankee elimination day still a thing? To be brutally frank since the ALCS it almost feels like the roles have reversed, given how loudly my MFY friends celebrate Red Sox misfortune. And I just smile and reply "The great thing about being a Boston sports fan is that we always know another title is waiting around the corner somewhere."
I look forward to non-Sox teams getting behind 3-0 because it's another excuse to talk about it. Ah, yes. It really happened. And it's for-fucking-ever.
1. I think his point was that a "cursed" frachise coming back from 3-0 against a New York rival in a LCS before winning the WS would have remarkable parallels.
2. Any opportunity to link anything at all to the Red Sox comeback in 2004 is appropriate. Other times when it is appropriate / recommended to reference the 2004 ALCS would be: A. when a sports team (any sport) is down 3-0, B. when someone is facing improbable odds (sports or non-sports), C. when it's a day of the week that ends in "y".
2. Any opportunity to link anything at all to the Red Sox comeback in 2004 is appropriate. Other times when it is appropriate / recommended to reference the 2004 ALCS would be: A. when a sports team (any sport) is down 3-0, B. when someone is facing improbable odds (sports or non-sports), C. when it's a day of the week that ends in "y".
[SIZE=10.5pt]Well then, if it is OK to talk about 2004 in the YED thread, they talked about it in the NLCS postgame last night as they asked Pedro what it was like. He said they called a players only meeting the day of game 4 (I'd seen that mentioned by Damon on one of the DVDs, but I don't remember him saying the players only part). Pedro went on that they just talked about winning one game, especially after being "beat up" in game 3. They didn't want it to end in a sweep. Just go inning by inning, pitch by pitch...Millar's famous mantra "don't let us win tonight, cause then we have Pedro in game 5, Schill in game 6, and anything is possible in a game 7" was mentioned a couple of times. Sheffield said in retort to "the mantra" that the Yankees thought Boston had better pitching but the Yankees had better hitters. People should watch TBS before and after the game. Pedro's participation makes it a giant hoot, and maybe they talk 'coming back from 0 - 3' some more.[/SIZE]
