Yankee elimination day

[Flynn4ever]

We seem to have forgotten this beloved tradition of marking the day that the MFYs are in the same boat as us. I'll allow that our team was nothing to brag about (except that they were exciting down the stretch) and that this particular Yankees team was not as deplorable as some others, but tradition is tradition! Go Jays and Pirates and even Royals!
 

 

[Joe D Reid]

Zero runs at home
Home is a goddamn phone booth
[makes fart noise with hand].

 

[Coachster]

It's the most wonderful day of the year.....

 

[ypioca]

 

[Shane]

They're gonna suck for a long time now

 

[swingin val]

They're gonna suck for a long time now

They haven't sucked since 1992. Good luck

 

[LuckyBen]

The fat guy in the jeggings gets me every time.

 

[Mugsy's Jock]

Went to the game with my son the Yankee fan, and as he's had a really tough year I honored a promise to not get in the way of his rooting for the bastards.
 
Was actually not as hard as I'd have imagined -- in part because this MFY team is not as deplorable as most, but moreso because the fans were lame and the Toilet was just dead.  You just didn't see tons of guys like our knucklehead friends GIF'ed above.  Now it's just happy-go-lucky dorks who want to get on the Jumbotron making funny faces.  And as a result the Stadium, like the team, is just meh.  I kind of missed the bad old days.
 
At one point between innings, they aired a replay of Chris Chambliss' series-winning HR against the Royals on the Jumbotron.  You saw the fans pouring onto the field, Chambliss determinedly slugging his way around the bases as hundreds of fans tried to pull his uniform off.  The police just gave up and let the hordes take over the field.  It was terrifying and glorious.  My son was amazed.
 
R.I.P. Yankees.  Yeah, of course they'll be good again someday.  But the new Toilet squeezed out a lot of the mystique and aura.

 

[E5 Yaz]

We seem to have forgotten this beloved tradition of marking the day that the MFYs are in the same boat as us.

 
Must not have read the game thread

 

[canyoubelieveit]

Happy YED to one and all.  2015 can now be remembered as a year when the Red Sox and Yankees scored the same number of runs in the post-season, but the Sox got a much better draft pick.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Forecast today is a beautiful, sunny day, but it would be a beautiful day anyway.

 

[Flynn4ever]

True E5 Yaz, I was working but we needed the separate thread anyway.

 

[Pearl Wilson]

Ding dong the witch is dead.

 

[staz]

Happy Yankee Elimination Day (observed)

 

[Buzzkill Pauley]

Happy Yankee Elimination Day (observed)

 

Now every day can be Yankee Elimination Day, if only we keep it special in our hearts.

 

[tims4wins]

NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees still have not led in a postseason game since Derek Jeter sprawled in the dirt three years ago, screaming in pain from a broken ankle.
It's a string of playoff losses that reached five straight Tuesday night to match a franchise record. The team had a streak of nine games without a win from 1921-23, but that stretch included a tie in the 1922 World Series.

 

[JimD]

A-Rod made a flip comment last week about the four-game series in the New Toilet with Boston being 'their World Series'.  Well, Alex, at least the Sox showed up for theirs.

 

[54thMA]

Today is a day where I am both happy and sad; happy these assholes are out, but sad as well, part of me wanted them to win last night so I could watch them get steamrolled by the Royals.  
 
 That said, be careful what you wish for and all that; knowing these assholes, they'd find a way to win the series and land in the ALCS, where anything can happen, so fuck them, I'm glad they got bounced.
 
 And not with a bang, but with a whimper, they put up a goose egg at home, no runners past second base and correct me if I am wrong, only one inning where they had more than one runner on base; that was the inning ARoid swung at the first pitch and hit a lazy fly ball to center, ending that threat.
 
 As others have pointed out, that stadium has no life, no nothing, but they still showed a lot of crowd shots of neanderthals in the cheap seats clinging to their memories of the good old days.
 
 Fear not MFY fans, Harper is a free agent in a few years, rumor has it Mantle is his favorite player, 10/400 should get it done and he's all yours.
 
Adios for now.

 

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

The Red Sox have won a playoff game more recently than the Yankees.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

The Red Sox have won a playoff game more recently than the Yankees.

 
But the Yankees have celebrated more recently than the Red Sox.

 

[Detts]

 
 
What a beautiful morning.

 

[Number45forever]

The Stadium was quite loud at the beginning of the game yesterday.  Then, later, not so much.  Glorious silence, making 55,000 people shut up.

 

[Humphrey]

Jacoby Ellsbury not in the starting lineup.   I guess Ben's off the hook for that move.

 

[OCST]

Went to the game with my son the Yankee fan, and as he's had a really tough year I honored a promise to not get in the way of his rooting for the bastards.
 
Was actually not as hard as I'd have imagined -- in part because this MFY team is not as deplorable as most, but moreso because the fans were lame and the Toilet was just dead.  You just didn't see tons of guys like our knucklehead friends GIF'ed above.  Now it's just happy-go-lucky dorks who want to get on the Jumbotron making funny faces.  And as a result the Stadium, like the team, is just meh.  I kind of missed the bad old days.
 
At one point between innings, they aired a replay of Chris Chambliss' series-winning HR against the Royals on the Jumbotron.  You saw the fans pouring onto the field, Chambliss determinedly slugging his way around the bases as hundreds of fans tried to pull his uniform off.  The police just gave up and let the hordes take over the field.  It was terrifying and glorious.  My son was amazed.
 
R.I.P. Yankees.  Yeah, of course they'll be good again someday.  But the new Toilet squeezed out a lot of the mystique and aura.

This + 100000000.

A perfect storm took the piss out of Yankee Universe:

-The new stadium - soulless, dead, corporate, boring
-2004, and the death of 1918
-retirement of the CORE FOUR TRUE YANKEES ZOMG
-failure of the farm system to deliver compelling players
-dialing back on free agency from the SiaS heyday- even the productive FAs (Teixiera) are kinda dull - Reggie ain't walking through that door
-all of the above leaving ARod as the face of the franchise, and even Yankee fans can't stand him

So the unthinkable has happened- the Yankees are boring, dull, irrelevant even.

There will be a generation of Mets fans here.

 

[Bozo Texino]

The Stadium was quite loud at the beginning of the game yesterday.  Then, later, not so much.  Glorious silence, making 55,000 people shut up.

 
Kurt!  Wie geht's dir?  Lange nicht gesehen!

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Box score says 50K in attendance, did they really sell out a game?

 

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

Nowhere near that many in the stands, unless it was Dress Up Like A Blue Seat Night.

 

[Huntington Avenue Grounds]

It was touching to see the Yankees rally around CC and support him by refusing to participate in any alcohol-fueled celebrations.

 

[glennhoffmania]

Billy Crystal was there.  He's gotta count for like 100 people.

 

[Sox and Rocks]

NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees still have not led in a postseason game since Derek Jeter sprawled in the dirt three years ago, screaming in pain from a broken ankle.
It's a string of playoff losses that reached five straight Tuesday night to match a franchise record. The team had a streak of nine games without a win from 1921-23, but that stretch included a tie in the 1922 World Series.

Someone has to make a gif of this (Jeter screaming in pain, that is).  It can be placed next to the gif of the archetypal yankee fan above and used every year for MFY elimination day. 

 

[Sox and Rocks]

The fat guy in the jeggings gets me every time.

My favorite is the larger man in the next row back, dropping F-Bombs with a stolid face

 

[ookami7m]

New Toilet Volume
seats as well as audible
Less than A-Rod's hope

 

[mt8thsw9th]

 

Someone has to make a gif of this (Jeter screaming in pain, that is).  It can be placed next to the gif of the archetypal yankee fan above and used every year for MFY elimination day. 

 
You didn't think it was already made?
 

 

[Gubanich Plague]

My favorite is the larger man in the next row back, dropping F-Bombs with a stolid face

Somebody did a brilliant job making up the backstories of the 14 people shown in this video.  I read a=it again last night in celebration of YED
http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/5/31/2995814/yankeesfans-gif-animated-yankee-enthusiasts-story

 

[tims4wins]

That article or whatever you want to call it never fails to disappoint. Amazing.

 

[millionthcustomer]

Pretty sure he's not dropping F-Bombs--he's saying the centerfielder is a "vacuum..vacuum!"  
 
 
Oh, and Happy YED!

 

[Mike Greenwall]

Popcorn guy never gets old.  I was a bit irrational wanting the Yankees to lose last night.  My life can return to normal level of baseball obsessiveness.  Go Bucs! 

 

[ToeKneeArmAss]

That article or whatever you want to call it never fails to disappoint. Amazing.

I always enjoy it too (I think that's what you meant).

Next to a Red Sox championship, YED is the most enjoyable day of the baseball season for me. And it's happened 14 of the past 15 seasons.

With apologies to the Special Olympics, allow me to offer my own version of their creed:

"Let the Red Sox win. But if they cannot win, let the Yankees go down to ignominious defeat."

 

[Minneapolis Millers]

I sometimes feel a little petty still rooting for the Yankees to lose, after 2004/07/13 and all, but, really, mostly, I'm ok with it.  (Especially with A-Roid still on the squad.)
 
Happy YED.

 

[staz]

Somebody did a brilliant job making up the backstories of the 14 people shown in this video.  I read a=it again last night in celebration of YED
http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/5/31/2995814/yankeesfans-gif-animated-yankee-enthusiasts-story

Forgot about "Severino"

Life imitates art.

 

[86spike]

Pinstripes pack it in.
No one seems to notice though.
It's a Mets town now.

 

[DourDoerr]

One of the most glorious days of the year!  Sun is brighter, air is fresher, and the coffee is tastier.
 
On that gif of Pedro throwing down 72-YO Don Zimmer, it's amazing that Zimmer didn't have serious repercussions health-wise.  I'd forgotten how violent it was (at least appears).  The symbolism is amazing though with the new era Sox literally throwing aside a physical embodiment of previous teams' biggest flaws - horrible game and season management featuring favoritism, questionable moves, and stubborn resistance to progressive ideas.

 

[Leather]

Somebody did a brilliant job making up the backstories of the 14 people shown in this video.  I read a=it again last night in celebration of YED
http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/5/31/2995814/yankeesfans-gif-animated-yankee-enthusiasts-story

I always figured the high five girl is the guy's sister. She seems a bit out of his league.

 

[terrisus]

We seem to have forgotten this beloved tradition of marking the day that the MFYs are in the same boat as us. 
 

 
Maybe for this year it's the day that they're "in the same boat as us."
But, YED is about more than that.
 
In other years, it has been the day when they've been set adrift, watching our celebration from afar.

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

Was actually not as hard as I'd have imagined -- in part because this MFY team is not as deplorable as most, but moreso because the fans were lame and the Toilet was just dead.  You just didn't see tons of guys like our knucklehead friends GIF'ed above.  Now it's just happy-go-lucky dorks who want to get on the Jumbotron making funny faces.  And as a result the Stadium, like the team, is just meh.  I kind of missed the bad old days.
 

 
I haven't been to the new Toilet, but on television it looks like a Spring Training facility on steroids. With the huge walkway separating the really good seats from the kind of good seats, it just seems like most people are far away from the action. At the old Toilet, it looked as if the rat-faced bastard fans of this piece of garbage franchise were right on top of the fielders, so much so that the fielders had to wear surgical masks to keep from fainting from the smell of the MFY patrons' foul breath consisting of grease ball pizza and rat sausage and peppers and heavy-on-the-fuckin'-onions heroes.
 
The new Toilet seems to be rounded, sanded and beveled for everyone's safety. In other words, no edge. And I think that the Yankees lost something. Which is fine by me, because fuck that old house of voodoo and superstition. 

 

[SydneySox]

Rat sausage is the best kind of sausage.

 

[Doctor G]

They gagged like Pizza Rat.

 

[terrisus]

At the old Toilet, it looked as if the rat-faced bastard fans of this piece of garbage franchise were right on top of the fielders, so much so that the fielders had to wear surgical masks to keep from fainting from the smell of the MFY patrons' foul breath consisting of grease ball pizza and rat sausage and peppers and heavy-on-the-fuckin'-onions heroes.
 
The new Toilet seems to be rounded, sanded and beveled for everyone's safety. In other words, no edge.

Probably to make it harder for the fans to throw trash onto the field.
One of the sadly under-appreciated moments of the 2004 ALCS.

 

[joyofsox]

 

[joyofsox]

Slappy with .156 BA with RISP, worst in MLB postseason history (minimum 40 AB)