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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Suzyn Waldman: As Easy As Pie

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?

Repoz Posted: May 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM | 31 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder Posted: May 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM (#3185843)

OMG!!! PIE!!!

yeah, the rest of the teams do this #### all the time. yawn.

2. Greg K Posted: May 20, 2009 at 12:31 PM (#3185845)

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

3. Best Regards, President of Comfort, Esq., LLC Posted: May 20, 2009 at 12:33 PM (#3185847)

To those of you who say “Act like you’ve been there before” or “That’s not the Yankee way!”

I say it's a game. Have some fun.

4. tfbg9 Posted: May 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM (#3185848)

The Yankee's clubhouse attendants are probably told to keep tabs on which players are making pies, so the team can charge them for it.

5. The Essex Snead Posted: May 20, 2009 at 12:40 PM (#3185850)

To those of you who say “Act like you’ve been there before” or “That’s not the Yankee way!”

If this was supposed to be an internal YES memo, maybe it would've been better to not post it on the web?

6. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: May 20, 2009 at 01:12 PM (#3185891)

but it was Mariano Rivera, an ultimate “core” player

7. RJ in TO Posted: May 20, 2009 at 01:19 PM (#3185898)

Suzyn Waldman: As Easy As Pie

Suzyn Waldman is Shooty's mom?

8. RJ in TO Posted: May 20, 2009 at 01:21 PM (#3185901)

Yeah I was about to say...doesn't every team do this?

Apparently not the Yankees.

Of course, I speak as a fan of a team that had AJ Burnett the last few years

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.

9. Cooperstown Schtick Posted: May 20, 2009 at 01:23 PM (#3185905)

(4). If Mariano appeared for one inning in half of the team's games, that was a lot.

I don't buy #1-3 too much as explanations.

10. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) Posted: May 20, 2009 at 01:29 PM (#3185914)

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).

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.

11. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: May 20, 2009 at 01:33 PM (#3185918)

I thought this would be about the sexual promiscuity of Suzyn Waldman vis-a-vis Orioles outfielder Felix Pie.

12. NJ in NJ Posted: May 20, 2009 at 01:45 PM (#3185934)

Since they left it seems like Jeter.

I would think Posada.

13. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder Posted: May 20, 2009 at 02:02 PM (#3185947)

Carlos Beltran needs to hit David Wright in the face with a pie.

14. aleskel

Posted: May 20, 2009 at 02:05 PM (#3185951)

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.

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.

15. BFFB

Posted: May 20, 2009 at 02:27 PM (#3185984)

"Suzyn Waldman As Easy As Pie"

An unfortunate choice of headline

16. Crispix Attacksel Rios Posted: May 20, 2009 at 02:31 PM (#3185990)

Yeah, that's as bad as "Maureen Dowd: Rogue Diva of Doom" from last week's NYT. Apparently the subject of the column was...Dick Cheney.

17. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: May 20, 2009 at 02:31 PM (#3185991)

""Suzyn Waldman As Easy As Pie"

An unfortunate choice of headline"

You don't even need to take her out to dinner!

18. Ben Broussard Ramjet Posted: May 20, 2009 at 02:54 PM (#3186020)

I'm pretty sure the first paragraph is factually incorrect (shocker!), as I distinctly remember Marcus Thames, as a Yankee, getting a pie in the face after his first major-league hit was a home run off Randy Johnson. Although, I suppose, Waldman might not have seen it. But even so.

19. Lassus Posted: May 20, 2009 at 03:02 PM (#3186028)

Continually posting articles about how much certain people are hated is really making this site look like crap.

20. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: May 20, 2009 at 03:51 PM (#3186079)

Continually posting articles about how much certain people are hated is really making this site look like crap.

Write an article about how much you hate it.

21. MSalfino Posted: May 20, 2009 at 04:00 PM (#3186087)

I hate you Darren for making Waldman seem reasonable and measured. Is nothing sacred anymore?

22. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: May 20, 2009 at 05:10 PM (#3186158)

Continually posting articles about how much certain people are hated is really making this site look like crap.

We need more Francoeur threads.

23. RJ in TO Posted: May 20, 2009 at 05:15 PM (#3186166)

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.

24. Shock has moved on Posted: May 20, 2009 at 05:24 PM (#3186184)

Kinda went from A to Q there Ryan

25. Randy Jones

Posted: May 20, 2009 at 05:28 PM (#3186187)

Kinda went from A to Q there Ryan

You'll have to excuse him, he's Canadian.

26. RJ in TO Posted: May 20, 2009 at 05:30 PM (#3186191)

Kinda went from A to Q there Ryan

I'm glad I went somewhere - I'm really not sure where I was intending to go with that comment.

27. JRVJ (formerly Delta Socrates) Posted: May 20, 2009 at 06:51 PM (#3186318)

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.

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.

28. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: May 20, 2009 at 08:10 PM (#3186463)

"... the Yankee brand is supposed to represent class and professionalism ..."

Nothing says "class" like being owned by a felon for 30-odd years.

29. Mr. Hotfoot Jackson (gef, talking mongoose) Posted: May 21, 2009 at 01:47 AM (#3186926)

"... the Yankee brand is supposed to represent class and professionalism ..."

... & wife-swapping ...

30. Dan The Mediocre is one of "the rest" Posted: May 21, 2009 at 03:38 AM (#3187184)

... & wife-swapping ...

The Yankees are so classy they swapped the entire families, not just the wives.

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