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Topic Started: Apr 7 2005, 10:47 AM (520 Views)
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Yanksfan03
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Apr 7 2005, 06:28 PM
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Somebody get me a pair of sunglasses, it's getting too bright in here. <_<
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Apr 7 2005, 08:13 PM
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while i think mattingly23 makes some good points, i really think strider makes more good points. i'm sorry, but booing not only serves as a means to express your displeasure, which is every fans right, it serves as a measure to let the players know "what have you done for me lately." personally, if im a player and i'm getting my balls licked for the past and am getting a permanent pass, what's my motivation? i got my millions, i got my rings, i got my world series mvp. sure, rivera is probably ticked as hell about these blown saves, but i think it also serves as an extra motivator to know that if you can't right yourself against boston, the fans are going to boo you til your head explodes.
And that's how New York fans are. It's definitely "what have you done for me lately".
Yup...and Yankee fans, especially those 18-25 are spoiled rotten. I do agree with this too!! I became a Yankee fan in '86 watching the way Donnie Baseball played and I had to wait 10 years before the Yankees won a World Series. Do you know how many Yankee teams lost during those years? Plenty!! I was there when they won the WS back in '96 and it was worth the wait. If I could wait at least 10 years to see a championship then this generation's Yankee fans can wait at least 10 years or more to see one as well!!
The "what you have done for me lately" mentality that fans have towards Mo is pathetic but that's way most fans are these days. They are very fickle. I use to boo the Yankees when they were horrible in the late 80's and early 90's. This is a time where you a valid reason to BOO the Yankees. If you go to a game and Mo pitches poorly like he did and you want to boo him then you could boo him, but I wouldn't. Booing doesn't really help Mo, but for some players it does. I was at Tuesday's game for Pavano's debut and when Mo blew the lead some fans around me wanted him traded!! :please: Now that to me is assinine!! :thumbdown: We are NOT replacing Rivera anytime soon so why say such a comment? This is when I think Yankee fans are spoiled!! :no: We're NOT getting Lidge, Gagne, or K-Rod anytime soon so we're just going to have to pull through for Mo!! :rock: This mentality also is the way women think as well, but that's a whole other topic for another day!!
Can you please post in the normal font size. You make good points, but it is a pain to read your posts. Thank You. :peace:
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Mattingly23
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Apr 7 2005, 08:18 PM
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Can you please post in the normal font size. You make good points, but it is a pain to read your posts. Thank You. :peace:
Did the llama step on your reading glasses again?
(joking, joking) <-- in honor of YFF
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YankeeBaseball
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Apr 7 2005, 08:21 PM
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- Apr 7 2005, 09:47 AM
Mike Vaccaro - NY Post- Quote:
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BRONX CHEER BACK AT YA By MIKE VACCARO
SHAME on you, if you were a member of the leather-lunged brigade of blowhards who stood up at Yankee Stadium yesterday, just as the big Armitron clock clicked to 4:13 p.m., and committed one of the most despicable acts of baseball ingratitude we've seen around here in a long, long time.
You booed Mariano Rivera?
You really booed Mariano Rivera?
Yeah. Damn right. Shame on you.
"After everything he's done for this team in this ballpark," Mel Stottlemyre fumed, "I was shocked."
"Maybe," Mike Mussina mused, "it was just a case of temporary insanity."
"There are always about 20,000 Red Sox fans here when we play them," Mariano Rivera said, a half-smile on his face. "Maybe it was only Sox fans who were booing."
If they were, then a lot of the people showering Rivera with their unspeakable bile were Sox fans who decided to wear Yankees hats, Yankees jerseys and Yankees jackets to the Stadium yesterday, who decided to take out their frustrations on the impending demise of their dream of a 162-0 Yankee season on Rivera, who is only the reason these soulless dopes have had such a magnificent team to root for these past few years.
Maybe Mariano Rivera didn't mind what he was hearing since he lives by a similar credo, the same one any reliever with any degree of success endorses. He has a short memory. He worries only about today, has no use for yesterday, last week, last year.
Fans are allowed short memories, too. Yankees fans prepared to canonize Aaron Boone one very late night were fully inclined to toss him in the Harlem River just a week later after a dozen feeble World Series at-bats. Mickey Mantle was booed here. Hell last year, even Derek Jeter was booed here, when he was at the dregs of his 0-for-April slump.
But Mariano Rivera? Are you kidding?
"It's inconceivable to me if he was getting booed by Yankees fans," Joe Torre marveled yesterday, a few minutes after watching the Red Sox roar back to beat the Yankees, 7-3, a few minutes after he'd seen Rivera blow a second straight save against the object of their fans' nonstop jihad. "They wouldn't be champing at the bit to get in here if it wasn't for him."
To the credit of many of the 55,165 people crammed into the Stadium, a fair number rose quickly and tried to drown the boos with cheers. They were a little too late to the cause. The boos carried the day, and it was as disgraceful a performance as you will ever expect to see at Yankee Stadium.
Rivera's crime? He's off to a tough start. He blew a save chance Tuesday when Jason Varitek caught up to a 95-mph cutter and dumped it in the right-field seats. And he blew yesterday's game when he couldn't throw strikes and then couldn't catch a break, Alex Rodriguez botching a double-play ball that should have rescued him.
So for a second straight day, what is normally a 1-2-3 trip to the bank became a 24-minute, 38-pitch adventure. The Sox, who reached Rivera on back-to-back days last October, did it again in April. Rivera has now blown 10 of his last 19 save opportunities against Boston. Is that a source of concern? You bet it is. Is it a little disconcerting to see Mariano Rivera do this Armando Benitez impersonation? Hell, yes.
Is it a reason to start booing the greatest closer in the history of baseball?
Only if you're an ungrateful lout. And yesterday, there were a couple thousand of you, maybe more, who sure played the part to perfection. Shame on you.
"This is what I do," Rivera said. "I love to be in this situation. It won't be the last one."
Good news for the Yankees. [size=7]Bad news for those who see falling skies and gloomy times ahead[/size] because Rivera has committed the unpardonable sin of breaking slow from the gate. Those fans? They should be sentenced to a season of watching Braden Looper instead. See how much fun that is.
Agreed.
[size=14]Reminds me of YF03, the Chicken Little [/size]of BAS!!! Posted Image
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Apr 7 2005, 08:25 PM
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YB - I don't know why you wanted to join the VC/Band/CircleJerkers in the first place. That is their deal. The sky is falling after every loss.
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Apr 7 2005, 08:27 PM
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Can you please post in the normal font size. You make good points, but it is a pain to read your posts. Thank You. :peace:
Did the llama step on your reading glasses again? (joking, joking) <-- in honor of YFF
I get the rest, but why a llama? :dunno:
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Yanksfan03
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Apr 7 2005, 08:28 PM
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Haters. :-|
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Apr 7 2005, 08:29 PM
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:please: Chicken Little your new nickname. :laugh:
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Apr 7 2005, 08:30 PM
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I wasn't sure what that thing was you were petting in your picture in the Big Apple photo thread, so I went with llama.
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Apr 7 2005, 08:31 PM
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I haven't even overreacted yet. At least let me get in to midseason form and actually earn that nickname.
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Apr 7 2005, 08:32 PM
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I wasn't sure what that thing was you were petting in your picture in the Big Apple photo thread, so I went with llama.
it was a miniature horse, but llamas are cool too! :peace:
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Apr 7 2005, 08:35 PM
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I haven't even overreacted yet. At least let me get in to midseason form and actually earn that nickname.
I know. You've just started your engine. You haven't even pulled out of the pit yet.
:furious2: Hell on Wheels :furious2:
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Apr 7 2005, 08:38 PM
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I haven't even overreacted yet. At least let me get in to midseason form and actually earn that nickname.
I know. You've just started your engine. You haven't even pulled out of the pit yet. :furious2: Hell on Wheels :furious2: :laugh:
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Apr 7 2005, 08:41 PM
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I haven't even overreacted yet. At least let me get in to midseason form and actually earn that nickname.
I know. You've just started your engine. You haven't even pulled out of the pit yet. :furious2: Hell on Wheels :furious2: :laugh:
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Apr 7 2005, 10:47 PM
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And the Band played on......
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I ride Mo's dick harder than anyone but he deserved to get boo'd. Our season is done with if he can't close out the Sox. If he did this against the D'Rays they we shouldn't boo but against the team that stands in our way it's unacceptable. Mel and Torre can shove it. They're part of the problem.
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