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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Washington Post: Tom Boswell: Yankees Are Monuments To Baseball Success

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posted 10 hours ago by The Yankee Clapper to aging, great baseball players, injuries, pennant race, veteran leadership, yankees | 9 comment(s)

Boz pays homage to the gritty, gutsy, scrappy, first place 2013 underdog Yankees:

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. RollingWave posted on March 12, 2013 at 06:05 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Well A-rod would like a Tanya type....

2. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) posted on March 12, 2013 at 06:18 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Well, at least he's still got Cousin Larry.

3. Rants Mulliniks (formerly Cold Prosimian) posted on March 12, 2013 at 08:24 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Is Yuri claiming that A-rod laced his bibbi-babkas with roids?

4. GregD posted on March 12, 2013 at 09:18 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

It would be exactly in keeping with A-Rod's general savvy to cut off the person who could most easily bring him down. This is when you need a personal manager who explains to you that your reputation is forever dependent on Cousin Yuri during his lifetime so you only have two options: 1) keep him happy or 2) arrange an accident.

5. flournoy posted on March 12, 2013 at 09:32 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Does A-Rod have a Russian cousin, or is Yuri from the Vladimir Guerrero School of Naming?

6. RollingWave posted on March 12, 2013 at 10:30 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

@4 , the later should be easily enough in the DR... or is his cousin living in Florida?

7. attaboy posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:11 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

2013 is not shaping up as a good one for Mr. ARod!

8. boteman posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:20 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Sucart, his eyes uncovered!!

9. Ray (RDP)

posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:28 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

How many famous and talented people end up with leeches hanging off of them who don't have to go out and get real jobs because of it? When one of the leeches causes problems, it's pretty low, but not surprising.

10. Randy Jones

posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:29 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Sucart, his eyes uncovered!!

A-Rod, when the walls fell.

11. Greg (U)K posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

How many famous and talented people end up with leeches hanging off of them who don't have to go out and get real jobs because of it? When one of the leeches causes problems, it's pretty low, but not surprising.

A childhood friend of a good friend of mine is a relatively big UFC fighter. From what I hear about it, due to the constant training and travel the life is awfully lonely as you don't really have any actual friends, just a cadre of people who cling on for the perks.

12. Greg (U)K posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:35 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

So does that make Jeter Jalad?

13. Cabbage posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:41 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Does A-Rod have a Russian cousin, or is Yuri from the Vladimir Guerrero School of Naming?

Is Yuri who drive delivery truck. Is good job, have room in truck for rock and roll band.

Hey Yuri! Don't smoosh package!

14. GregD posted on March 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

A childhood friend of a good friend of mine is a relatively big UFC fighter. From what I hear about it, due to the constant training and travel the life is awfully lonely as you don't really have any actual friends, just a cadre of people who cling on for the perks.

Even Mark Sanford--not exactly A-Rod--had his staffers keep track of which people around him had known him before he was elected to Congress so he could separate the people who were only leeching off him from the people who were both his friends and leeching off of him. The idea that he had to have it written down speaks to the incredible press of people on even a lower-level person like him.

15. YR Misses Reggie Bars posted on March 12, 2013 at 01:15 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

A childhood friend of a good friend of mine is a relatively big UFC fighter. From what I hear about it, due to the constant training and travel the life is awfully lonely as you don't really have any actual friends, just a cadre of people who cling on for the perks.

There are perks? UFC fighters earn peanuts. If your name isn't John Jones, George St. Pierre or Anderson Silva you're basically busting your hump for a middle class paycheck, and they are plenty of guys making 8 and 8 ($8000 to show and another $8000 to win). The UFC is a fine example of how a complete lack of market balance and a closed economic system depresses pay, boxers were making bigger money than UFC champions almost 100 years ago.

16. Walt Davis posted on March 12, 2013 at 03:57 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Suing him for famation of character I assume.

17. Athletic Supporter gangnam style posted on March 12, 2013 at 04:08 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Damn, it, #13 beat me to it.

18. Ray (RDP)

posted on March 12, 2013 at 05:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

One of my favorite hangers-on was Kato Kaelin. Here he was, simply living on OJ's estate in a cottage in the back.

19. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) posted on March 12, 2013 at 05:07 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

A childhood friend of a good friend of mine is a relatively big UFC fighter.

Physically big (a-la Mark Hunt?), or in terms of star power?

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