Happy Yankees Elimination Day!
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It’s a dark morning— the morning after YED when we need to get back to life as usual…
I feel so badly for the Fox sports promo group who had so many ads hyping Judge in the World Series on deck. These little town blues indeed…
I feel so badly for the Fox sports promo group who had so many ads hyping Judge in the World Series on deck. These little town blues indeed…
Really, why choose?
It can refer to both. Our facile minds will be able to determine what is meant by the context. Even "GROIN LOCK just gave up a beautiful, juicy GROIN LOCK" would not confuse us.
And why do you like Nestor? He's the latest Aaron Small who sucked out loud before he put on that uniform and somehow the MFY pixie dust made him better, hopefully for just one season.
A Stantonian whimper
In retrospect, we should all be thankful that the Astros cheated their way to a title. They did what needed to be done to ensure a safe and restful YED for all.
Exactly. Never understood why some Sox fans are upset at Houston. Their cheating helped end the Yankees season. And the fact a respected former Yankee was the ringleader makes it even more tasty. Ends justify the means.
Although to be clear the Yankees offense laying goose eggs in game 6 and 7 in 2017 had nothing to do with trash cans and led to their ultimate demise.
Very similar to Bobby Clarke hacking the Russian. It is important to consider the alternative.
Some of us recall that Houston beat the Red Sox in the ALDS before beating the Yankees in the ALCS that year... The cheating may well have helped end Boston's season too.
Well sure but the Sox got even the following year while Cashman won't stop complaining about it. So that works out just fine.
Sure sure. I'm over the Astros' cheating*, particularly given 2018. But let's not pretend it was some great favor to the Red Sox fan base.
* However, I'm not at peace with their apparent lack of remorse and I'm not at peace with Yuli Gurriel's racist behavior toward Yu Darvish. I hope they lose forever, or at least until or unless those things are properly addressed (they won't be) or the players are no longer on the team.
Sure, but risking a Yankee win, is never something revisionist historians should envision as a positive.
Well, because the Astros cheated in 2017, Alex Cora became even more of a hot property as a managerial candidate and wound up managing the Red Sox to the 2018 title ... so, it was a kind of a favor to the fanbase
it can never be said enough, the 2004 ALCS is the gift that keeps on giving".
In the above example, a Kay meltdown 18 years after the fact.
In the above example, a Kay meltdown 18 years after the fact.
After a very disappointing season, and with a lot of unknowns heading into the off-season, the fans of the Boston Red Sox have been given a gift of Schadenfreude so luxurious, and so beautifully wrapped! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/yankees-celebrate-playoff-berth-with-bronxie-the-turtle/
I am not. I’m also not opposed to adopting it as a euphemism for groinal liberation.
I really wonder what Ortiz's advice could have been.
"Okay, bro, first, make sure the pitching on your team is way fucking better than theirs. Now also, you also gotta have a badass Hall of Fame bound motherfucker with ice water in his veins in the lineup to save your ass almost every game. Now pretend you're trying to save the fans begging for a championship after lots of years of nothing. That part shouldn't be too hard for you, I guess."
"Okay, bro, first, make sure the pitching on your team is way fucking better than theirs. Now also, you also gotta have a badass Hall of Fame bound motherfucker with ice water in his veins in the lineup to save your ass almost every game. Now pretend you're trying to save the fans begging for a championship after lots of years of nothing. That part shouldn't be too hard for you, I guess."
This has immediately jumped right behind The Day After on WFAN on the best 2004 MFY media meltdown list.
And it's a day late, but you can't get enough of it:
Probably some variation of, "just block out all of the distractions and have fun. Remember to have fun and trust that you're good enough."
Boone almost has to be fired on principle. If you’re fucking dumb enough to think that’s a good idea, maybe you don’t get to be Yankees manager no more.
"Don't forget, you're just a bunch of idiots which is why you see so many crazy hairstyles and beards on the team!"
It was like 20 years ago and they’re all new players. I’m not saying it would be particularly helpful but I don’t think it’s worth Michael Kay’s over the top meltdown.
Can’t wait to finish my time machine and go back to Boston in the 90’s and be like, “listen folks, I know this sounds crazy, but one day a Yankees manager is going to inspire his team by recounting how the Boston Red Sox came back down 3-0 against the Yankees to win the ALCS then swept the World Series. Oh, and despite the pep talk the Yankees will get swept by Houston. Yeah, the Astros. They’re really good now. Also, we win a bunch of other World Series and like 6 Super Bowls.”
David Ortiz giving ANY aid and comfort to the MFYs doesn't make me smile. Then again, said Ortiz could take a righteous dump on my doorway and I would thank him for his contributions to my mental well being.
2003 is also the gift that keeps giving. No 2003, no Aaron Boone in the Yankees manager chair.
2003 is also the gift that keeps giving. No 2003, no Aaron Boone in the Yankees manager chair.
It was 18 years ago.
And 18 years before THAT year, some of us watched our TV’s in horror as first Schiraldi and then Stanley couldn’t nail down the third out of some extra inning game at Shea. So, yeah, some of us (like Mr. Kay) are getting old, and 2004 was a LONG effing time ago.
he probably told them that their children and grandchildren would remember if THEY FUCKED THIS UP SO DON'T FUCKING FUCK THIS UP
In the unlikley event the Yankees did come back, they would have owed it to Ortiz.
OMG that is so delicious. I don't need to eat dessert for the next two weeks.
Michael Kay is such a complete asshat that I was very hesitant to click on this. Then I read the comments in this thread and figured I’d see for myself.
This thread has it right: It’s not quite “Francesca the morning after” great, but it’s pretty damn great.
Well he is right. It’s kind of like asking Slappy if your purse goes with your shoes!
I feel like he’s the exact person to ask and would even give you blue lipstick.
The bit starting at 5:00 is as relevant today as it was then.
And that whole intro segment from M&TMD that day went for nearly 40 minutes before they went to commercial, and the whole thing is epic. Somewhere on the Pedro server is the full audio. Here's the second 10 minutes:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEOxtQOb92E
Funny that both the 2004 Mad Dog and 2022 Michael Kay make reference to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln about a minute into their broadcasts...
Never liked Michael Kay of course, but listening to him I understand exactly where he's coming from. Maybe it's better the kids today don't remember what we all went through back then.
Never liked Michael Kay of course, but listening to him I understand exactly where he's coming from. Maybe it's better the kids today don't remember what we all went through back then.
Which would have been truly unacceptable and awful and impossible to digest and shitty and WTF, David?
"We watch the Red Sox lose in excruciating fashion, so that our children may have liberty to watch them heroically overcome their tragic history, so that their children have the right to watch them calmly proceed through an enjoyable series of baseball seasons."
- John Adams writing to Abigail from Valhalla, probably, circa the 1980s.
I watched all 3 parts last night going down the rabbit hole after watching the Michael Kay bitching fest. Even after all this time, watching that post-mortem still gives me goosebumps and brings all those memories back again.
We will never have something like those 4 days ever again.
Since 2000, the Yankees have won 11 division titles, 2,023 regular season games, and just one WS championship.
One.
In 22 years.
One.
In 22 years.
And about 40% of members here seemingly would prefer that vs. the ups and downs the Sox have had, with all the last places interspersed with titlesSince 2000, the Yankees have won 11 division titles, 2,023 regular season games, and just one WS championship.
One.
In 22 years.
Eh Ortiz knew they had no chance so why not? There is no Kevin Brown or Javier Vazquez in the Astros rotation.
Andy Martino just posted this article about how the toxic and negative nature of the fans at Yankee Stadium has gone to a new level in the eyes of the players. He says players are getting to the point that they don't want to be in New York if this is how they are treated by the fans after such a good season.
https://sny.tv/articles/yankees-external-toxicity-aaron-judge-free-agents
Can't deny I find this delightful to read. But we should probably look at our own house. We too have had a lot of success and it can breed entitlement in our fans as well. There are thirty teams and several of them are really well-run and many of the others can get lucky at any time. Winning is hard.
But the hypothetical was that the MFYs win after the call. In THAT event, it would have sucked in retrospect that Ortiz played a role, any role.
Happily, this did not happen and the conversation is academic.
Jarrett Seidler (a Mets fan who works for Baseball America, I mention the Mets fan part because it means he has paid a lot of attention to Martino) just went off on Martino after that article.
View: https://twitter.com/jaseidler/status/1585294791880974340
View: https://twitter.com/jaseidler/status/1585294791880974340