Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Washington Post: Tom Boswell: Yankees Are Monuments To Baseball Success
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posted 5 days ago by The Yankee Clapper to aging, great baseball players, injuries, pennant race, veteran leadership, yankees
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Boz pays homage to the gritty, gutsy, scrappy, first place 2013 underdog Yankees:
Read More...Perhaps for the first time in their history, the Yankees now epitomize exactly the kind of team that always used to try to beat them: a group of inspired-by-adversity, too-old-or-too-young, one-last-chance players who band together to prove that baseball is a team game, not just an aggregation of talent and fat contracts.
Put a few all-star seasons, such as Cano’s 31 RBI, Kiroda’s 1.99 ERA and Rivera’s 16 ...
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1. Chris Needham posted on October 01, 2012 at 11:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0(he said, with tongue firmly planted in cheek.)
Thank you. And when St. Louis gets in, I hope they knock off Medlen and the Braves in the wild card game so damn badly.
And speaking of the Braves, I'll bet rat-faced coward doesn't even show up here on the site for the rest of the week.
It's pretty awesome when someone is able to live up to the hype. This kid was one of the most hyped prospects ever, and sure enough, he turned out to be the greatest teenage position player in the history of baseball.
My hope is Nationals-Orioles. I don't want the Braves because of Medlen; would rather take on SF as Cain/Bumgartner have been so-so in September.
Not even to pinch hit, Larry? (.277/.333/.426)
Make of that what you will.
This is kind of bizarre. Would they use him, after all? Are they planning on Jason's pinch hitting scenario.....
I have to know, who said that?
Indeed. I came into this season really wanting to hate Harper, but you can't if you are a baseball fan. I can't believe how his numbers crept up without anyone really noticing - its a wonder he's not getting morepress. Do you realize despite missing almost all of April he's 5th in the NL with 97 runs? He also has 9 triples. He and Trout are going to be like Mantle/Mays 2.0, and although not at all likely, its not inconceivable that they could both end up being better.
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The fact that the division came down to a start won by John Locke sort of sums up the mediocre crap that is the division/league this year.
Here ratface, have yourself a giant foam rubber tomahawk to cry into.
Don't tell them what they can't do!
Wouldn't it be hysterically tragic if Strasburg pinch-hit in the NLDS, only to break his right hand on a Cain fast ball?
You know, Joey, you could focus your energies on contributing something positive to the world instead of this sort of thing. For example, you could round up everyone who shares your immediate DNA into a single room and then set it on fire.
Hysterical, yes. Tragic? No.
Is Locke some sort of finesse lefty? That would make Thomas Hobbes a right-handed power arm, perhaps?
Make of that what you will.
Sweet, sweet love.
And Sam and Joey need to get a room.
Meh. The Braves lost to a soft-tossing lefty they threw in along with Gorkys Hernandez in the Nate McLouth deal. The Nats "won" the division on the arm of a guy 1/3 as valuable as Nate McLouth. Dance in the streets, boys!
You're so precious, Billy. So, so precious. Your "favorite team" "wins" their first division ever and your instinctual reaction is to hunt me down? So, so precious. One prays to all the gods that you are infertile.
Not at all it turns out; Tom Gorzelanny will be starting tonight instead of Gio. Congratulations to Dickey on his (likely) Cy Young Award.
Well...that's probably for the best. Was looking forward to one more start from Gio though.
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