What an Off Day
In a day where the New Mets were off, no trade rumors escalated and D Wright didn't even make it on Page 6 (although there was a mini-stir created by an ad he filmed, but that seems to have been resolved today), Monday remained an awesome day to be Sip.
I started this site because I hated the Yankees, it was October, they were there and we weren't. Their fans started watching, New York was flooded with shiny new Yankee caps and of probably greatest significance, I was a paralegal who had more free time in a day than the average American worker has in a month.
That is why Y2K was born. Clearly the site has evolved. The November acquisition of AFOMG, an exciting offseason, and a season filled with action has really helped to turn the direction of the site. 90% of the time we talk about the Mets here, which of course I love. After all, Family-->Friends-->Mets.
That's just who I am.
Today is another day and today we do what we originally came here to do. Today we bash.
So on Monday night I was sitting at my buddy Maxy Baseball Stuff's watching Baseball Tonight while his roommate's girlfriend cooked us some lasagna. I was content.
If you didn't catch the highlights or the Yankee game itself on Monday, well too bad. The highlight was one of the better ones I have seen in some time.
There was A-Rod. Frosted tips, lipstick, cliches pouring out, talking about his game on Monday.
The line: 0 for 4, 1K, 3 Errors in the Yankees' 4-2 victory.
And you're telling me A-Rod isn't there in the close ones?
A-Rod looked pathetic. His side arm throw, once conventional, now is starting to resemble Chad Bradford's. He looked scared in the field making his cocky smoothness look forced.
I can't really describe it. Just watch the highlights.
And then, WATCH THE POST GAME.
See, postgame interviews is where A-Rod has always flourished. He sits there all primped with 15 of those paintings with the inspirational word and their inspirational meetings (i.e. "Hope: Knowing that there is a better tomorrow") lined up right in front of him.
When asked about his game A-Rod responded: "Perfection: Never letting yourself leave anything out there."
Well not exactly, but you get my point.
A-Rod had two memorable quotes:
When asked if a foul ball that he hit off his foot affected his performance in the field, A-Rod didn't refute the comment but instead was just "happy his team won the game."
Selflessness: It's not how I do, it's how we do.
He then went on to talk about his defensive struggles, claiming that his defense comes and goes. He referred to his play in the field earlier in the week as "brilliant."
Last time I checked this was baseball, not the World Cup. Soccer players use the word "brilliant" as a word to describe the beauty of the sport.
Baseball players do not. Brilliance in baseball is saved for Tony Gwynn's hitting. Every swing looked more graceful than the next.
Then there was Ozzie Smith's fielding. The guy was a magician
That was baseball brilliance.
A-Rod's defensive performance last Saturday was not. It was "good" or "very good." This guy is not David Beckham. He is the most talented 5th best player on his team in baseball's history. The fact that he would even use those words perfectly show what A-Rod is.
A brilliant piece of shit.
I needed to get this one off my chest. I have a really sore throat right now.
VCD,
SM
I started this site because I hated the Yankees, it was October, they were there and we weren't. Their fans started watching, New York was flooded with shiny new Yankee caps and of probably greatest significance, I was a paralegal who had more free time in a day than the average American worker has in a month.
That is why Y2K was born. Clearly the site has evolved. The November acquisition of AFOMG, an exciting offseason, and a season filled with action has really helped to turn the direction of the site. 90% of the time we talk about the Mets here, which of course I love. After all, Family-->Friends-->Mets.
That's just who I am.
Today is another day and today we do what we originally came here to do. Today we bash.
So on Monday night I was sitting at my buddy Maxy Baseball Stuff's watching Baseball Tonight while his roommate's girlfriend cooked us some lasagna. I was content.
If you didn't catch the highlights or the Yankee game itself on Monday, well too bad. The highlight was one of the better ones I have seen in some time.
There was A-Rod. Frosted tips, lipstick, cliches pouring out, talking about his game on Monday.
The line: 0 for 4, 1K, 3 Errors in the Yankees' 4-2 victory.
And you're telling me A-Rod isn't there in the close ones?
A-Rod looked pathetic. His side arm throw, once conventional, now is starting to resemble Chad Bradford's. He looked scared in the field making his cocky smoothness look forced.
I can't really describe it. Just watch the highlights.
And then, WATCH THE POST GAME.
See, postgame interviews is where A-Rod has always flourished. He sits there all primped with 15 of those paintings with the inspirational word and their inspirational meetings (i.e. "Hope: Knowing that there is a better tomorrow") lined up right in front of him.
When asked about his game A-Rod responded: "Perfection: Never letting yourself leave anything out there."
Well not exactly, but you get my point.
A-Rod had two memorable quotes:
When asked if a foul ball that he hit off his foot affected his performance in the field, A-Rod didn't refute the comment but instead was just "happy his team won the game."
Selflessness: It's not how I do, it's how we do.
He then went on to talk about his defensive struggles, claiming that his defense comes and goes. He referred to his play in the field earlier in the week as "brilliant."
Last time I checked this was baseball, not the World Cup. Soccer players use the word "brilliant" as a word to describe the beauty of the sport.
Baseball players do not. Brilliance in baseball is saved for Tony Gwynn's hitting. Every swing looked more graceful than the next.
Then there was Ozzie Smith's fielding. The guy was a magician
That was baseball brilliance.
A-Rod's defensive performance last Saturday was not. It was "good" or "very good." This guy is not David Beckham. He is the most talented 5th best player on his team in baseball's history. The fact that he would even use those words perfectly show what A-Rod is.
A brilliant piece of shit.
I needed to get this one off my chest. I have a really sore throat right now.
VCD,
SM
posted by Sippy Momo at 12:26 AM
6 Comments:
A little Yankee-bashing courtesy of Steve Berthiaume over at SNY.tv: http://www.sny.tv/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060717&content_id=1405373&vkey=1
I like his conclusion:
"So there you go Yankees fans. Stop freaking out, stop yelling at A-Rod and stop wringing your hands over the Mets' success this season. We're here in mid-July and despite showing us all the angst and self-pity for which you've always killed Red Sox fans in the past, it's down to a lousy half-game in the A.L. East as we hit the first full week of the season's second half."
Sounds like a lot of sour grapes to me. Yankees are looking poised to push da Mets off the backpage and they're doing it with guys names Melky, Bubba, and Andy. Meanwhile Arod, despite yesterday's performance, is finally starting to come up with big hits when it matters, which of course includes a 7 RBI performance in the rubber match against YA BOYS.
And why shouldn't the Yanks be getting more hype? They're playing in the ONLY league that matters right now. The NL, in particular the Mets and the Cards, proved that they can't compete against the best of the AL. This is a 4 horse race, and none of those horses are riding on the senior circuit.
But, hey, enjoy the season. It's fun rooting for a winner, isn't it? And the team, outside of Pedro, is pretty likeable. Heck, you guys even have your own version of the sandman, right? Well, maybe not, but that song really gets ya pumped. And who cares that you guys are playing ALMOST .600 ball in a league where no other team has a winning % over .535. All that matters is that you guys are the ones left standing when the NLCS is decided and your league sends one team to be sacrificed in the world series.
There's an awful lot of bluster in that comment, timmy, but I think it's more hot air than anything else. I'm not going to argue that the AL isn't a better league, there's really no comparison right now.
But as for your assertion that the Mets "proved they can't compete against the best of the AL", that's not quite true. The Mets beat the Blue Jays 2-of-3 in Toronto. We beat the Yankees 2-of-3 at Shea, and were an improbably Billy Wagner meltdown away from sweeping. In the series at Yankee Stadium, the Mets lost a good game on Friday, won a blowout on Saturday and were beaten in a blowout on Sunday. The difference in the two blowouts is that in the one we won, we faced Randy Johnson, your second or third starter in a playoff series. In the blowout you won, you faced Alay Soler, who is now in the minor leagues and never had a chance of starting a playoff game.
All in all, the Mets and Yankees split the season series and I think in everyone's opinion should have won that Wagner meltdown game (and thus the season series, 4-2). Please explain how that proves the Mets can't compare against the Yankees.
As for the sweep against Boston, I mean, that sucked, but there's nobody who has watched the Mets all season who feels that that series was representative of the kind of ball the Mets normally play. It was one really shitty three-game stretch. I'm not saying the Mets don't have their problems, nor am I saying they're better than the Red Sox necessarily, I'm just saying you're extrapolating a lot out of 3 games.
Glass--
I appreciate the retort, but my hunch is that someone who uses "YA BOYS" in his post will not be able to extrapolate anything out of a response that contains the word "extrapolate".
Well, I looked up the word extrapolate, and I'm gonna give this whole response thing a shot....
After reading this website daily since my good buddy Sip started it, I figured it was about time to throw up a comment from a Yankee fan. In retrospect, I'm not really sure why I chose this one. The post about the sandman music got me going more than today's. I'm not even a big Arod fan. I'm just starting to take pity on the guy because he's doomed to spend the rest of his career playing for fans who will never love him, never even accept him, and certainly never appriciate what he brings to the ballclub.
That being said, there were just some things I thought needed to be thrown out there to bring some Mets fans back down into the ozone layer, if not completely back down to earth. Look, I'm all for irrational exuberance at times. If I wasn't, I couldn't standing living in Chicago around Cubs(not so much this year), Bears, and Bulls fans. (Any of you guys think Rexxie's not gonna lead the Bears to the superbowl or Big Ben won't take the Bulls past the heat next year, I've got guys who'll take the other side.) But a solid 3 1/2 months of it... and at the expense of a team who's been playing the majority of their season in a tougher league, without 2-4 of their opening day position players, with the AL MVP having a down year and getting booed all the time, with a rapidly aging pitching staff, with the Farns holding leads, with Shawn Chacon/Sidney Ponson now starting every 5th day......? Yeah. we can all harp on how they're overpaying their players, but even you have to admit that's pretty impressive that they even smell the Red Sox.
I don't hate the Mets. I actually hope they win the pennant. I'd LOVE to see another subway series. Bottom line is the Mets are the best team in the NL. But that's about all you can say about them. They're gonna beat up on the rest of the NL east during the last 2 months of the season, and IF their starting pitching holds up (which is a huge IF with their top two guys being a combined 104 years old), they shouldn't have a problem winning the pennant. But it doesn't matter who they face in the world series... their journey ends there.
You know, every time the Yankees get saved in the 9th inning by some horseshit call like that infield "single" Posada just got, I kinda now think that this is how Juventus won so many championships.
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