The Curse Remains
And the curse lives on.
Yankee fans say making the playoffs never gets old. Well as a Yankee hater, watching the Yankees lose in the post season ain't getting old anytime soon either.
So many great things.
There was the lower tier of Yankee stadium that appeared to be 80% full entering the 9th inning. Thousands of Yankee "diehards" jumping in the their car services looking to beat the traffic back home. They had pleased their clients enough with their tickets, it was time to get home and iron tomorrow's blue oxford. That was pretty embarrassing.
There was the first player TBS showed after the game, Johnny Damon, baseball's biggest turncoat and the embodiment of what makes the Yankees cursed spitting out wods of dip. Classy, Johnny. The Yankee way is what I believe they call it.
There was the unlikely goat, Derek Jeter, who looked more like his good pal A-Rod for the entire series than the Mr. November that once had the women of Manhattan shaking in their uggs.
There was Roger Clemens, the $28 million dollar man, whose 6 wins this season trailed Jorge Sosa's win total by a measly three. He came back to the Yankees to win another ring (and a little bit of cash too). I'll never forgive him for throwing that splintered bat at Mike Piazza in Game 2 of the 2000 World Series. It is nice that this is how his career will end.
There was Joba. As AFOMG said, this guy was just getting a little too much love for a late season call up. Looks like the name Mr. Joctober isn't getting going anytime soon.
And then there is Joe Torre. Let me say this about Joe Torre. As great of an ego massager as he apparently is, he seems to make a ton of bad baseball decisions. Nothing he did this series worked, notably throwing Wang on short rest. But Torre also managed to cash a bullpen in a short series. That's hard to do.
But I think Steinbrenner's handling of Torre was inexcusable. As much as I have hated Torre over the years, I do sympathize with him a little bit with this one. This is baseball George. The Yankees failures in the new millennium are as much attirbutable to the pressure Steinbrenner has placed on this organization to "win now" as anything else.
Which bring us to A-Rod. Was this his last game as a Bomber? Who knows? What I do know is that A-Rod must have wanted to do something special in the 9th inning of this game more than any player ever has wanted to do so. And fortunately for us, he failed.
Yankee fans will scratch their heads tonight, go to Starbucks in the morning, and then prepare for their inevitable 11 month vacation until next September. Only this time, there are a ton of reasons why the Yankees might not be right back where they always are..
This is going to be a fascinating offseason surrounding Yankee baseball. Next season's team could actually be mediocre. Take A-Rod, Posada and Abreu out of this lineup and all of a sudden it is relatively unimposing. No Clemens, Pettite or Rivera and a washed up Mussina and the pitching staff is all of a sudden pretty pedestrian as well.
But more on the Yankees off season to come. Lets all soak in the joy that is losing Yankee baseball. I look forward to "anonymous" postings from angry Yankee fans talking about how the Mets didn't even get there and whatever else. In advance, let me tell you guys this:
It's not your fault.
Vaya con dios my brethren.
The curse remains.
Sip
(Pics courtesy of msn.com, usatoday.com)
Yankee fans say making the playoffs never gets old. Well as a Yankee hater, watching the Yankees lose in the post season ain't getting old anytime soon either.
So many great things.
There was the lower tier of Yankee stadium that appeared to be 80% full entering the 9th inning. Thousands of Yankee "diehards" jumping in the their car services looking to beat the traffic back home. They had pleased their clients enough with their tickets, it was time to get home and iron tomorrow's blue oxford. That was pretty embarrassing.
There was the first player TBS showed after the game, Johnny Damon, baseball's biggest turncoat and the embodiment of what makes the Yankees cursed spitting out wods of dip. Classy, Johnny. The Yankee way is what I believe they call it.
There was the unlikely goat, Derek Jeter, who looked more like his good pal A-Rod for the entire series than the Mr. November that once had the women of Manhattan shaking in their uggs.
There was Roger Clemens, the $28 million dollar man, whose 6 wins this season trailed Jorge Sosa's win total by a measly three. He came back to the Yankees to win another ring (and a little bit of cash too). I'll never forgive him for throwing that splintered bat at Mike Piazza in Game 2 of the 2000 World Series. It is nice that this is how his career will end.
There was Joba. As AFOMG said, this guy was just getting a little too much love for a late season call up. Looks like the name Mr. Joctober isn't getting going anytime soon.
And then there is Joe Torre. Let me say this about Joe Torre. As great of an ego massager as he apparently is, he seems to make a ton of bad baseball decisions. Nothing he did this series worked, notably throwing Wang on short rest. But Torre also managed to cash a bullpen in a short series. That's hard to do.
But I think Steinbrenner's handling of Torre was inexcusable. As much as I have hated Torre over the years, I do sympathize with him a little bit with this one. This is baseball George. The Yankees failures in the new millennium are as much attirbutable to the pressure Steinbrenner has placed on this organization to "win now" as anything else.
Which bring us to A-Rod. Was this his last game as a Bomber? Who knows? What I do know is that A-Rod must have wanted to do something special in the 9th inning of this game more than any player ever has wanted to do so. And fortunately for us, he failed.
Yankee fans will scratch their heads tonight, go to Starbucks in the morning, and then prepare for their inevitable 11 month vacation until next September. Only this time, there are a ton of reasons why the Yankees might not be right back where they always are..
This is going to be a fascinating offseason surrounding Yankee baseball. Next season's team could actually be mediocre. Take A-Rod, Posada and Abreu out of this lineup and all of a sudden it is relatively unimposing. No Clemens, Pettite or Rivera and a washed up Mussina and the pitching staff is all of a sudden pretty pedestrian as well.
But more on the Yankees off season to come. Lets all soak in the joy that is losing Yankee baseball. I look forward to "anonymous" postings from angry Yankee fans talking about how the Mets didn't even get there and whatever else. In advance, let me tell you guys this:
It's not your fault.
Vaya con dios my brethren.
The curse remains.
Sip
(Pics courtesy of msn.com, usatoday.com)
posted by Sippy Momo at 11:49 AM
9 Comments:
How'd your playoffs go guys?
...once again, i am made unreasonably happy by the skanks' entirely predictable flameout.
i really should get help, i know.
and yet, how much easier our offseason has just been made.
if any skank fan -- that's if you can FIND any (tough guy there, mr. anonymous) -- starts mouthing off about the mets, there are so many ways to shut him/her down, well, it'll be a pleasure.
let's see, your team won exactly one more playoff game than my team.
over two years time, your team won exactly two playoff games. over the same two-year period, i could be wrong, but the mets have a better postseason record, i think. and how did your team do in last year's league championship series? oh, that's right. they didn't play in it.
but at least you got six wins out of clemens. my hat's off to you on that. money well spent. (i actually heard some moron say on FAN today that he was as good a No. 3 pitcher in baseball.)
the baseball gods are cruel. but even they know when enough's enough.
The Curse of the Bambino. Next year the Yankees will go out in flaming glory..just like the stadium.
I think a lot of it hinges on Torre, who it sounds like won't make the cut.
Mariano, Posada and maybe even A-Rod will have added incentive to go elsewhere, to turn the page, to go to Boston or Toronto and slaughter the Yankees next year.
Sip is right on target with the unknown Yankee fan spam. It's like you used the Jedi mind trick or something to get that post. Of course, why would a Bankee fan be here on Y2K at 2:08 am? Talk about having rage to direct. I'm surprised we didn't get the totals (WS, Pennants, free agent sigings, wins as the Baltimore Orioles, etc.) - funny, the one total you never hear from them is the payroll figure...
This makes all of our lives easier, and, quite frankly, fills us with, I don't know, how would you describe it? Glee? Unbridled joy? I feel all warm and moist - probably just because I walked about a mile to get to work in the heart of it all.
If the Spanks ran the table, it would have been the worst baseball year ever. EVER! Instead, we get to enjoy the sideshow that is the Bronx Zoo, at least until next opening day, probably through the next season.
Not following the connection between not wanting to register a blogger account (because I rarely spend my time doing that sort of thing) and being gutless. "DMG" doesn't exactly give you a face.
Yes, the yankees stunk but it isn't like we are all wallowing in misery right now. Changes need to be made. I'm glad you enjoyed the idea that you thought you were getting to yankees fans but in reality I checked this board just because it made me feel better to see the hypocrisy of the fans of a team who didn't even make the playoffs celebrate our loss. It seemed somehow more pathetic than the yankees bats in this series.
The Curse Lives!!!
So Anonymous above me, Y2k didn't get to you. So you mean a yankees fan checks an anti-yankees blog after the yankees lost in their typical one round and out?
Yankee fans and their false sense of entitlement.
anonymous,
dmg is my handle. i don't comment a lot, but it's the one i use. i'm stricken with remorse that you don't like it.
and how exactly does this site try "getting to yankee fans"? YOU came HERE.
your world view is amusing. bent, yes, in need of professional care, that too, but amusing nonetheless.
I thought the Mets pitchers looked great in the NLDS. Don't listen to the media: the Mets bats will pick up as this series goes on.
As for mediocre: Alou is 49, Delgado can't play anymore, Reyes fell off a cliff, Glavine's gone, Pedro's all but cooked....but otherwise, I think the Mets are gonna be really good next year.
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