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…
 

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I'd actually prefer that GROIN LOCK refer to any 3-run homer given up by a Yankee.

1. More opportunity to use it
2. I kinda like Nestor

edit 3. Would be enjoyable to scroll through a full gamethread page of GROIN LOCK!!! whenever the Yankees give up a 3-run HR
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.
 

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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.
He also tried to get his turtle drunk.
 

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Sterling’s call of the final out included the words “underhand to first.”

I like this.
A Stantonian whimper
You guys are all happy like Ted Cruz is right now. How does that feel?
I remember the dread I felt when the 2017 Yankees surprised everyone by pushing the Astros to 7 games in the ALCS. I feared that Judge and Sanchez would lead the MFY's to at least a couple of titles, if not more. Amazing to look back and realize that the '17 run would end up being the highlight of the 'Baby Bombers' era, and that our Red Sox would actually end their season two more times and claim another trophy along the way.

Happy YED, everyone!
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.
 

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Much like Easter, the date of YED rotates within a ~6 week period of the year, results in a lot of prayers being answered, involves some poor schlubs publicly sacrificed for the sins of others, and symbolically represents the final triumph of life over death.

Hallelujah, amen.
This needs some love.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
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
 

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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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."
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.”
 

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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.
 

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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.
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.
 

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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.
he probably told them that their children and grandchildren would remember if THEY FUCKED THIS UP SO DON'T FUCKING FUCK THIS UP
 

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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.”
This made me laugh to the point of tears.
 

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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.
In the unlikley event the Yankees did come back, they would have owed it to Ortiz.
 

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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:

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
 

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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.
 

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Maybe it's better the kids today don't remember what we all went through back then.
"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.
 

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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
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.
 

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Since 2000, the Yankees have won 11 division titles, 2,023 regular season games, and just one WS championship.

One.

In 22 years.

:)
 

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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.
"I’m an Astro, bro," Reggie Jackson, a special advisor to Houston owner Jim Crane, told Mark Berman of Fox 26 last week at Minute Maid Park. "The pinstripes get heavy sometimes."

It is not, therefore, a new emotion to be exhausted by the unrealistic expectations and anger that follows when those expectations aren’t met. Even Mr. October felt the weight of it. But even before the Astros swept the Yankees in the ALCS last weekend, the clubhouse and front office had quietly noticed that the external energy surrounding the team felt as angry as it has been in ages.

If you’re Aaron Judge, booed in the playoffs days after setting an American League home run record, why wouldn’t you prefer sunny Los Angeles or familiar San Francisco?

And if you’re a free agent talking to your friends already on the team, why would you subject yourself to the experiences they describe?

You won’t find any Yankee players willing to offer a quote criticizing fan culture, but I’ll pass along these observations after embedding with the team throughout a difficult month.

First, this is not a criticism of folks who feel angry and disappointed that they don’t get to cheer for their team in the World Series. It’s just an objective truth that the team is taken aback by the level of negativity hitting them after a division title and 99-win season. Those feelings could have real consequences for the roster.

More than one Yankee player has told his agent this week that playing at the Stadium last weekend was an unusually brutal experience. It was hard for many teammates to believe that fans booed Judge. Even a difficult person and underperformer like Josh Donaldson was turned into a somewhat sympathetic figure internally by the force of the jeering.
In the days that followed, many in the organization were surprised by the tone of fan and media reaction. Rivals were shocked too. One longtime exec texted to say he was struck by "the irrational opinions on Cashman and Boone. I get that it’s World Series or bust but damn they’re spoiled."

The gap between industry and fan perceptions of Cashman and Boone is particularly striking. Rivals consider Cashman one of the greatest executives in sports, and say that Boone will immediately become a coveted free agent if the Yankees fire him. Other GMs and agents are genuinely baffled by fan hate toward those two.

Cashman and Boone can take it, though. They’re not going anywhere unless Hal Steinbrenner tells them to (and while that’s not expected, we’re still awaiting word, and there are no guarantees either way).
It’s player reaction to the toxicity that poses a tangible problem, and the Yankees know it. That’s one reason why the front office supports Boone’s relentless positivity when discussing players in public: Between fans in the stadium, social media and traditional media, the team figures that players have enough criticism in their day. It’s the modern manager’s job to provide an environment that serves as an escape from all that.

Cashman and his staff believe that Boone is the right person for that task. We will see if they retain the power to decide that.

The Yankees themselves created this problem long ago. George Steinbrenner’s oft-repeated theme, later adopted by Derek Jeter and others, that a season is a failure if it does not end in a championship has come to define the Yankee brand.

Now the clubhouse itself feels crushed under the weight of that brand. More than I’ve ever seen, players don’t want to be Yankees. The team needs to find a way to change the message and tone -- though after all these years, doing so might be near impossible.
https://sny.tv/articles/yankees-external-toxicity-aaron-judge-free-agents
 

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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.
The Yankees themselves created this problem long ago. George Steinbrenner’s oft-repeated theme, later adopted by Derek Jeter and others, that a season is a failure if it does not end in a championship has come to define the Yankee brand.

Now the clubhouse itself feels crushed under the weight of that brand. More than I’ve ever seen, players don’t want to be Yankees.
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.
 

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Eh Ortiz knew they had no chance so why not? There is no Kevin Brown or Javier Vazquez in the Astros rotation.
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.
 

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