Wednesday, June 19, 2013
ESPN.com: Yankees Acquire Fartinez
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posted 21 hours ago by Gonna break my Rusty Kuntz and run . . . Arbitol to astros, mets, prospects, yankees
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I’m predicting about 30 home runs during the remainder of 2013 and 50 next year.
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1 2 >Reading some Yankees fans' thoughts about this possibility in a thread a few days ago, it might disturb them more.
I won't and I hope he sucks and gets cut, like immediately.
Seriously, people really hate the red laundry that much?
Nope, just the person. The whole Red Sox-Yanks thing doesn't bother me these days and even when it did, I liked plenty of Ex-Sox. This guy just sucks.
I will be equally upset when they sign Piersnynski (I don't care enough to spell it right). Those two and Pettitte, gross.
I normally don't do this here...but you're an idiot. Youk is an intense, 98 IQ guy, who used to pound the ground with his bat.. holds his bat funny and shakes his ass. AND THAT'S IT. He's not A.J. He's not a guy who loafs and if he ##### up, the first guy to get onto him will be himself.
I hope he gets an 8 WAR. I hope every starter the Sox trade or let go*, go to the AS game...though it's going to be hard to top the cumulative seasons Lowrie, Reddick, and Scutaro had compared to Mortenson, Bailey and Melancon.
*In moves I disapprove of, of course. Yes I'm petty, I don't think that was ever up for debate.
Well between those 3 and A-rod, NY could pretty much have the all, "boy these guys are real arseholes" team going.
As a Sox fan I generally don't get bothered by the whole rivalry either, but those 4 guys are pretty unlikable. Guys like Granderson, Mo and yes, even captain perfect I can respect.
It's not all the ########. Soriano just left. Padilla isn't on the team. I'm sure there are plenty of others still out there I can't think of off the top of my head.
I'm not even sure I would call Youkilis an #######. I just find him thoroughly unlikeable and the though of him being on my team makes me like my team less. Laundry is mattering less and less to me as each year passes.
His range usually ends up being about 5-10 runs below average over a full season, but he typically makes most of that back with his low error rate. If he's healthy for most of the season (not likely), he could be above average over there honestly. He looks a lot worse than he actually is over there. He's very awkward looking but he makes the plays. His range has suffered over the past few years while he played with ankle injuries, but when he's healthy his defense over there is at least average.
I really hate this. Seeing Youkilis on the Yankees just sucks. I fully expect him to have an OPS between .850 and .900 over 120-140 games while playing reasonable defense at third base.
I'm going to guess this is in about 12 AB.
So long as he's hitting at all, Youkilis is a really calming presence in the lineup. It's not that he's the greatest hitter, or that he's any better in the clutch than anyone else, but he always puts in a good at-bat. He might get beat, he might swing through a ball with his ridiculous uppercut, but he very rarely ##### up an at-bat by going after the wrong pitch at the wrong time. For a fan, it's really quite pleasant.
I'm also horrified by the thought of clean-shaven Youk. That beard is hiding something awful.
For all I know he really is a true 100% purebred assh*le. It's just a weird hunch on my part. But right now, I sorta like him for reasons that I can't entirely defend.
EDIT: Meanwhile, Kevin Youkilis can go #### himself. I don't like his jerk-off name, I don't like his jerk-off face, I don't like his jerk-off behavior, and I don't like him. Jerk-off.
Actually, I kinda like the guy and understand zero of the Yanks/Sox laundry wars. Still...
I really wish somebody would share the apparently super-secret trick to getting curse words by the cybernanny. I see some people doing it, and I feel like there's a 'cool kids' club that I've been excluded from.
I'm a non-White Sox fan who lives in White Sox territory, and I've come to love A.J. for many of the reasons you describe. He's been doing a weekly spot on one of the sports radio programs and I don't know if I've ever heard an athlete more consistently funny and engaging and self-deprecating as Pierogi. And I agree that much (but not all) of the actions are designed to get under his opponents' skin.
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Use small sample sizes much?
Just testing a different strategy
Well between those 3 and A-rod, NY could pretty much have the all, "boy these guys are real arseholes" team going.
It will save you time if you just assume pinstripes = arsehole. I woulda thought an Aussie knew that sort of thing.
EDIT: Like the 12-year-old boys we are, I assume we'll have nothing but profanity-laced posts for the next week until Jim calls in Supernanny.
Sort of related, I've always been fascinated by the fact that a certain form of Tourette's leads to uncontrollable swearing. If it's neurological in form, why does the brain go toward taboo?
Good point. I'd better get my licks in while I still can. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck.
A good friend of mine had the plausible theory that it was Scutaro who was the snitch. His argument in short form was "why else would they pick up the option then trade him two months later?" For all the talk that they needed the money for Cody Ross or weren't sold on Scutaro as a shortstop it was certainly an odd sequence of events.
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It saved them from paying him a buyout and they received a pitcher who gave them 42 innings or 136 ERA+
It will remind Yankees fans of how he looked as a clean-shaven young bench-rider during the '04 ALCS.
edit: I can learn!
I kind of like him, and would have no problem rooting for him as a Yank. (The Pierzynski storry about punching the trainer in the nuts is just too hilarious to hate the guy; "Q. How does it feel? (taking a foul ball to the nuts). A. PUNCH "That's how it feels!")
Just like I'll have no problem rooting for Youkilis. Hell, I rooted for Reggie and Clemens. There aren't two big asses than those two.
Look at Frosty go!
EDIT: While we're at it, might as well mention the seven dirty words.
....How did "tits" ever make the list? Carlin had a point. "Tits" doesn't sound profane at all. Was it ever really naughty? I can't imagine it being so, but then I'm a Millenial.
I blame myself for all of this, of course.
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