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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
AJ BURNETT IS IN ENTENMANNS BOX AND AJ BURNETT IS COMIN’ BACK. OH MY GOOD—GOODNESS GRACIOUS! OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS—OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN, AJ BURNETT STANDING RIGHT IN ENTENMANNS BOX ANNOUNCING HE IS BACK!
I’ve been either covering or broadcasting Yankees games for 23 years…and until this weekend, I’ve never seen a Yankees player get hit in the face with a whipped cream pie. Now, 4 of them in a few days…Brett Gardner, Melky Cabrera , Alex Rodriguez and yesterday Johnny Damon. They are the brain child of AJ Burnett, who keeps his supply in the video room right off the Yankees dugout steps.
I think a few of the “core” players in that Yankees clubhouse were a little stunned when the first pie went into Brett Gardner’s face, but it was Mariano Rivera, an ultimate “core” player who told a dejected AJ Burnett yesterday, who was sitting in the clubhouse after being taken out of the game to “get out there….get that pie ready, man, you can’t change karma!”
To those of you who say “Act like you’ve been there before” or “That’s not the Yankee way!”....I say to you…, well, most of these guys have NOT been there before, and how’s that “Yankee Way” worked for the past 7 years? A little life is needed in there…if a pie in the face on a walkoff win is what does it…so what?
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1. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder Posted: May 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM (#3185843)yeah, the rest of the teams do this #### all the time. yawn.
Yeah I was about to say...doesn't every team do this?
Of course, I speak as a fan of a team that had AJ Burnett the last few years
If this was supposed to be an internal YES memo, maybe it would've been better to not post it on the web?
IMO, the Joe Torre era was as much (if not more) the Mariano Rivera era than the Derek Jeter era.
I tend to think that the "era" got the Derek Jeter appelation because (1) Mariano is not a playboy/player always making Page 6 news; (2) Mariano is Latin American, and thus couldn't quite be an "All-American" figure; (3) Mariano doesn't like calling attention to himself.
(I don't pretend to know the dynamics of the Yankee clubhouse, but I would think that nobody, not even Jeter, Posada or Pettitte, woudl think of overruling Mariano on something like this).
Suzyn Waldman is Shooty's mom?
Apparently not the Yankees.
Yeah, but the trick predates Burnett's arrival with the Jays - Vernon was a victim of it back in his rookie year, and I'm sure it happened on quite a few occasions before then.
I don't buy #1-3 too much as explanations.
I tend to think that the "era" got the Derek Jeter appelation because (1) Mariano is not a playboy/player always making Page 6 news; (2) Mariano is Latin American, and thus couldn't quite be an "All-American" figure; (3) Mariano doesn't like calling attention to himself.
(I don't pretend to know the dynamics of the Yankee clubhouse, but I would think that nobody, not even Jeter, Posada or Pettitte, woudl think of overruling Mariano on something like this).
I think in terms of clubhouse leadership the first half of the Torre era was Cone and O'Neill. Since they left it seems like Jeter.
I don't think a closer can be much of a leader, outside of the bullpen guys. He spends the whole game most nights isolated from 20 of the players.
I would think Posada.
Mo doesn't actually spend the game in the bullpen - he doesn't go out there until about the 6th inning. He usually stays in the dugout or clubhouse and sometimes takes a nap.
Man, it's good to be the closer.
An unfortunate choice of headline
An unfortunate choice of headline"
You don't even need to take her out to dinner!
Write an article about how much you hate it.
We need more Francoeur threads.
Does anyone here actually hate Francoeur? I thought the major reactions he inspired were mild amusement, and joy at the knowledge that he's not starting for your team. I didn't think there was anyone who disliked him on anything approaching a personal level.
You'll have to excuse him, he's Canadian.
I'm glad I went somewhere - I'm really not sure where I was intending to go with that comment.
Besides the comment made before that Mariano does not spend the whole game isolated from other players, you seem to be equating leadership with having to be in the dugout during the game.
I would think that a team leaders leadership would apply to a bunch of different situatons (clubhouse when not playing, travel, spring training, public appearances, etc.) not just actual game time spent in the dugout.
Mike Mussina (a pitcher who I much miss) is not usually talked about as a leader of the Yankees, but in many ways he acted like one in things like his take down of Carl Pavano, and THAT didn't happen in the dugout.
Nothing says "class" like being owned by a felon for 30-odd years.
... & wife-swapping ...
The Yankees are so classy they swapped the entire families, not just the wives.
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