Posted on 05/05/2005 8:22:46 PM PDT by ElTianti
I'll bet that cellar smells!
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Baltimore | 18 | 9 | .667 | -- | 9-7 | 9-2 | 16-6 | 1-1 | 1-2 | Won 1 | 8-2 |
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Toronto | 16 | 13 | .552 | 3.0 | 5-6 | 11-7 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | Lost 1 | 7-3 |
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Tampa Bay | 11 | 18 | .379 | 8.0 | 10-8 | 1-10 | 8-16 | 0-0 | 3-2 | Won 3 | 3-7 |
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Quite possible. Between now and then the whole Yankee complex may disappear through a black hole unless they get a team of skilled curseologists to undo the hex. Or they might as well start playing in the N.J. Kiwanis.
Well Babe Ruth was from Baltimore, come to think of it.
Yeah...that too! :)
>>You've nailed it!!<<
You have nailed it yourself!!
Few months ago, I was at a company dinner with clients and two of them were Red Sox fans. They brought the subject up and I gave them their due. I told them that the way they beat the Yankees was a fair compensation for the 86-year dry spell. One of them started making fun of Yankee fans and boy, did I give to him.
I told him that winning the WS after batting 1 for 87 is way below the Mendoza and even the sub-Sahara lines! The important thing for the RS fans and players is to turn from green with envy to green as a champion to gracious as a champion. Unfortunately, to become gracious and classy requires more WS wins and that ain't gonna happen.
The client boss laughed like crazy, pointed at his subordinate and said: "Touché, the man is right, judging by the juvenile crap I hear from our fans."
Only the NY voters can undo the "hex" ....by voting out the Hildebeast. (They haven't won a WS since she's held office). If she bows out before the '06 elections and throws her hat into the Presidential ring, then the hex can be undone either by a Pubbie winning her abandoned seat or by NY becoming a "red state" (and voting against her) in '08.
If, that is, one believes in hexes ;)
Well said, and spot on.
I like that theory. The Hildebeast Hex Curse of '04 and '05.
This is just killing my husband!
Well, there shall be no "angels in the outfield" (or the bleachers!) to steal a pennant this year.
Your a Yankees fan??!
Such a shame, she seemed like such a nice girl too!
If injuries had rendered them a Triple-A team for these 29 games, that would be one thing. But it's not just one thing.
The Yankees are playing lousy, uninspired, stupid baseball.
Looking far more like $1,200-a-month New York-Penn Leaguers than $200 million big leaguers.
Last night alone, Alex Rodriguez dropped a pop fly, which led directly to two D-Rays runs; Jorge Posada got caught off second base on a ground ball hit in front of him, thwarting the Yanks' last rally; an inning later when Posada threw to second base trying to catch a runner stealing, nobody covered the bag; and pitcher Chien-Ming Wang froze on a comebacker, failing to get the lead runner with men on first and second, and two runs followed.
You can tolerate losing streaks. You cannot tolerate brutal baseball like that.
Nor can you survive it.
This isn't just a slump anymore. It's looking more and more like the start of a long, hot, empty summer.
And summer doesn't even get here for another six weeks.
I watched the "highlights" this morning and I just marveled at the brain dead display of baseball.
I've gotta disagree with you. Off the top of my head, I can name three games of the 11 they won where that was the case, and there's probably more.
There are probably 3 hitters on the Yankees who are actually earning their money this year: A-Rod, Sheffield, and Jeter. I think the problems with the team stem from the bottom of the batting order, and the lousy pitching, but starting and in the bullpen. And so-called "true Yankees" Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada and Tino Martinez have had a lot more to do with the team's hitting problems than Alex has! Plus Jason Giambi and Kevin Brown, at 36 million a year between the two of them, are much more of a drain on the payroll, with little to show for it.
You dark years (mid-80s to early 90s) coincided with my Mets best years (I know, mock me). ;-)
Perhaps you should actually, oh I don't know, know what you're talking about before you make such assertions. ;) As I noted earlier in the thread, A-Rod not only made the playoffs with the Mariners, but his team beat the Yankees in 1995! And it wasn't just one time but three. But it's easier to make him the scapegoat for the Yankees, than to actually look at what's really going on with the team.
I think the Sox plan is to keep him at Portland this year and next spring decide if he's ready to make the jump to the big club.
Unfortunately for him the Boss has made some personnel decisions over Cashman's objections. Having said that Cashman has made some blunders of his own as well.
Perhaps you should, Oh, I don't know, learn to read.
I said it seemed.
And judging from what I saw from the last three nights it seems more and more, there is a big problem in NY.
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