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Post by Alberto Balsalm on Oct 14, 2012 0:24:38 GMT -5
Wow. For as much as I hate the Yankees, Jeter has always been the one guy I actually like. He is like the ideal ballplayer and person. I really do feel bad for him. Don't feel bad for the Yankees at all though.
Post by iamthehorn on Oct 14, 2012 13:24:57 GMT -5
My original comment was kinda dumb, but I honestly believe if more than a handful of Yankee fans had actually stuck out the game Saturday a little crowd support could have put them over the top. It was pathetic how few people stayed (or could afford tickets in the first place).
Mar 14 Sheepdogs/Fitz & The Tantrums/City & Colour (Austin)
Mar 15 Jim James (Austin)
Apr 26 Jim James (Boston)
May 4 Clutch & The Sword (Portland ME)
Jun 8 DMB (Hartford)
Jun 21 Jim James (Northampton MA)
Jul 27-28 Newport Folk
Aug 6 Death Grips (Boston)
Oct 25-27 MOEMS
The Yankees have become the team of the 1%, pricing out most of its fans from games. Probably to pay for that 200 something million roster.
That and half their fan base accepts nothing short of a World Series.
Quacker and I proudly support the 1% around here then.
I secured tickets for game 4 of the ALCS for the boys just before Jeter broke his ankle. Jeter is a terrific person and a terrific, reliable player. He is the George Brett or Cal Ripken of this generation. A loyal, true blue, committed baseball lover. All he wanted to do is play for the Yankees as a little league ball player. He lights a fire under the rest of the team. He will be sorely missed this post-season, especially since most of the team seems to be a bunch of "choke artists"* once October rolls around (as some would say) I figure New York must be a hard city to play ball for
I stay out of this thread for the most part, due to my lack of the appropriate appendages. Therefore I am late to the game here. But what a bunch of Moneyball, Billy Bean, New Age malarky. Not that anything I'll say can convince you that the the way that baseball has been measured for the last 100 years has validity...Yet Cabrera is in the ALCS and Mike Trout is sitting at home on his mom's couch crying and watching Moneyball. September does matter more, Cabrera led his team to the playoffs and Trout led his home.
People used to think the Earth was flat a long time ago, too. I guess if you would have lived in those times you would have lauded the validity of out-dated theories in opposition to the idea of a round Earth as well. We know a lot more about the game now than we did 100 years ago, and therefore have developed methods to better analyze players. You can keep living and thinking in 1912 times if you'd like, but I'll go with the Billy Beane "malarky" - as I believe you put it. The guy whose team just won the toughest division in baseball with the 2nd lowest payroll, who had a book and a film made about his innovative thinking, and who made every franchise in the MLB spend millions of dollars in research staffs to change the way they analyze and recruit players in order to keep up with him. Have fun counting RBI on your abacus, though.
As for the very tired "playoffs" argument, I just really don't see how one can clearly see that:
Player A has a massive advantage over Player B in 1/3 of the game, a massive advantage in the second of the three aspects of the game, and they are neutral in the third
yet somehow conclude Player B is more valuable to his team as a byproduct of factors out of his control that surround him. Clearly Player A added more to his team, yet you fault him for the shortcomings of his peers? How is that fair? Trout helped the Angels win more games than Cabrera did for the Tigers, but missed out on the playoffs by technicality. You're diminishing Trout's achievements because his teammates weren't good enough to help the Angels make the playoffs. Is having better teammates a skill? Is playing in a weaker division a skill? Why is Cabrera being rewarded for playing on a better team? Switch Miggy and Trout and the Tigers would have won more games and the Angels less than they did...how exactly is Cabrera more valuable? "Because he helped his team win games when it mattered", right? Does a win in September count more towards the standings than wins in May, June, July and August? (the 4 consecutive months that Trout helped his team win games - which still "counted" just as much as the September games - more than Cabrera)
Ahahahahah!! I forgot I posted this shiz. I get pretty ballsy with a bottle of Pinot in me. I love looking back on InfoRoo and Facebook after lushy nights and laughing at the crap I managed to come up with once my filters were removed.
That being said, I do stand behind the statement. I'll tell ya why when I have a minute tomorrow.
* This will be part of my argument when it comes to the Sept vs the rest of the year stats.
The Yankees have become the team of the 1%, pricing out most of its fans from games. Probably to pay for that 200 something million roster.
That and half their fan base accepts nothing short of a World Series.
Quacker and I proudly support the 1% around here then.
I secured tickets for game 4 of the ALCS for the boys just before Jeter broke his ankle. Jeter is a terrific person and a terrific, reliable player. He is the George Brett or Cal Ripken of this generation. A loyal, true blue, committed baseball lover. All he wanted to do is play for the Yankees as a little league ball player. He lights a fire under the rest of the team. He will be sorely missed this post-season, especially since most of the team seems to be a bunch of "choke artists"* once October rolls around (as some would say) I figure New York must be a hard city to play ball for
Mar 14 Sheepdogs/Fitz & The Tantrums/City & Colour (Austin)
Mar 15 Jim James (Austin)
Apr 26 Jim James (Boston)
May 4 Clutch & The Sword (Portland ME)
Jun 8 DMB (Hartford)
Jun 21 Jim James (Northampton MA)
Jul 27-28 Newport Folk
Aug 6 Death Grips (Boston)
Oct 25-27 MOEMS
Quacker and I proudly support the 1% around here then.
I secured tickets for game 4 of the ALCS for the boys just before Jeter broke his ankle. Jeter is a terrific person and a terrific, reliable player. He is the George Brett or Cal Ripken of this generation. A loyal, true blue, committed baseball lover. All he wanted to do is play for the Yankees as a little league ball player. He lights a fire under the rest of the team. He will be sorely missed this post-season, especially since most of the team seems to be a bunch of "choke artists"* once October rolls around (as some would say) I figure New York must be a hard city to play ball for
I'm going to have to hope against hope that this series ends up like the 1996 WS against the Braves. The Yankees looked overmatched losing the first two at home and then stormed back. But with Jeter out and the way A-Roid, Granderson, Swisher and Cano are swinging the bat right now it looks pretty bleak.
Mar 14 Sheepdogs/Fitz & The Tantrums/City & Colour (Austin)
Mar 15 Jim James (Austin)
Apr 26 Jim James (Boston)
May 4 Clutch & The Sword (Portland ME)
Jun 8 DMB (Hartford)
Jun 21 Jim James (Northampton MA)
Jul 27-28 Newport Folk
Aug 6 Death Grips (Boston)
Oct 25-27 MOEMS
No, when the Mets make the playoffs they don't bend over and take it like a $2 hooker. Sorry.
No, they just do that at the All-Star break.
Right, when the entire world isn't watching. We also fill the stadium in the rare event we have a playoff game there. Oh, and they don't pay their #1 pinch hitter $30 million.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Oct 17, 2012 22:35:55 GMT -5
Fuuuuuuck you MLB. We were delayed for 1.5 hours before the cancellation came. I can't come back up tomorrow. The boys can. Some guy offered me 10 bucks for my $100 ticket. Fuuuuuck him too.
Right, when the entire world isn't watching. We also fill the stadium in the rare event we have a playoff game there. Oh, and they don't pay their #1 pinch hitter $30 million.
We will never know if Citi Field will ever host a playoff game and the Mets aren't good enough for the whole world to watch. Yeah, tickets are expensive and the schedule was shortly announced. I wouldn't pay $100 to see this team to be honest because they remind me of the Mets. I would only pay around $20 which is what I would expect to pay at a Mets game. Why? Because they are the Mets and you expect them to bow out sometime in the season. You know you can't win the playoffs with the longball and the Yankees (I don't think) won a single game without won.
But they're my team and deep down in my gut I believe in them because I am a diehard fan. A-Rod's contract is beyond ridiculous, I am plenty aware of that and his actions over the last few days are disgusting but prior to this, I want to root for this guy to do well because of the money he gets and how valuable he could be for our offense.
This whole who has the bigger d*ck in New York is obnoxious enough on a music forum, I can only imagine what it's like in the city.
Has anyone gone from so likeable early in their career to hateable later in their career more than A Rod? EVERYONE loved him when he was coming up with the Mainers, now everyone including many diehard Yanks fans have been sick of him for years.
