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The Yankees Want To Thank Their Haters Too

Posted by on 18 November 2009, 5:53 am

When the honorable opportunity to wear Yankee pinstripes as a player, it is more than just a career uniform.

It is part of sports history that associates with distinction due to outstanding accomplishments.

On top of that, to represent New York City; a platform that comes with strong expectations. Everyone wants to make it and nobody wants to leave it.

Am I conceited?

Of course, I am a Yankee fan.

So to all the haters out there, I believe I owe you one. You help my Yankees remain in the main stream. As the saying goes, press is press, and you consistently deliver your time to my team.

In NY, the city and the players are immensely proud in pinstripes. Mainly, so are the fans and without that a team is not complete.

Who did our captain thank first?

The fans.
It is time to dismiss the petty attitudes, which reek of jealousy.
Why?

Reality is you are not changing anything that has happened in the past, but you still have the future.

The Yankees work just as hard as any other team. Mr. Steinbrenner would allow the shirt off his back if it could help in any way. The Boss is so proud and noble.
My advice to all Yankee haters:Altogether or separately the energy you spend on the Yankees (press is press) should and could be re-focused positively, on your team.

Obviously every team needs assistance to win their own World Series ring and it starts with the fans. Just look at the Red Sox fans since 1918 or the Cubs fans who show-up despite the outcome.

The anti-Yankee fans cannot give so much airtime and effort to a team they hate.

Try and imagine the only time your home ballpark is packed, is when certain visiting teams come to town. It must be tough to rise-up as a player.

Spirit is a huge pick-up but you have to show-up and thats half the battle won.

To defend the Yankee players, who pitch with the same balls and hit with the same bats, as every other MLB club. If the Yanks baseballs or gloves were made better because of their higher paychecks, then it is a valid argument. In reality, that’s just not the case.

Money does not come with comradeship, nor joy and certainly not a championship ring.

It is teamwork and total focus on the purpose. Winning the World Series takes undeniable output from every direction of an organization and that is a fact.
The anti-yankee fans favorite topic is about how the Yankees buy teams, spend so much more money then everyone and how it’s bad for baseball.

FYI, no one is stopping any other MLB team from spending whatever amount of money for players, stadiums etc. Boycott your owners for not spending the cash or if you are serious, just go look in the mirror.

Why spend when it doesn’t bring more fans; best to just pray your schedule has the Yanks, Red Sox, Mets visiting more each season.

The fans generate the revenue. In turn, money gets made, owners see potential from the rising fan-ship totals. Look, it’s never to late to buy a
few regular season tickets, because it has to start from somewhere.
(this picture is from after the game ended at old stadium’s last week in 2008; Yanks were already out of the playoffs)
Go to a game and help cheer on your ball-club, without seeing who their playing. Thats what fans do because you can’t just jump on the band-wagon last minute.
A true fan is sincere.Terrible or marvelous, the Yankee fans still appear in the Bronx.They might be yelling or booing but they are there each game, no matter what.

Go ahead and blame yourselves for giving the Yankees so much free advertisement. Again, I will refer to the saying, press is press.The ones most affected and who hurt the most, are the teams you pledge loyalty to as fans.

How is that possible?

ESPN: BBTN Yankees’ World Series Analysis

It is possible because the Yankees still win. And you anti-fans make the Yanks players are household names across the country, even if it is out of complete hate and anger.

Without the action from you, the haters, the Yanks would not be the most popular team in sports. Popular, of course, but not the headline and Sports Center hogs which you complain about non-stop. You help create the buzz and I thank you.

Finally, just go give your team a shot by bitching about their problems and make them the news. Focus your energy on the team whose hat you had since you were 15 years old. Be the leader  and people will follow by example, I promise you that.

Let the Yankee fans deal with their Yankees, and now we are the Champs. So stop trying to take that away from us and please, just leave my Yankees alone.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Posted by on 8 October 2009, 5:12 am

Tuesday night, baseball fans across the country watched in anticipation to witness something that has only happened four other times in MLB history.

I have to say that the game between the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers lived up to more than anyone could have expected. It was one of the most intense, well-played baseball games I have ever seen. Both teams played with such heart it was inspiring and I am a Yankee fan.

And to hear the Tigers, who just experienced a loss of that magnitude, more than gracious remarks after the game speaks volumes of the ball-club from Detroit.

The respect that the Tigers gained last night from all fans will not mend the wounds but all over the sports world today it was mentioned. Losing graciously after that game just summed up the capability of this evening.

The City of Detroit should be extremely proud of the Tigers.

The Minnesota Twins claimed more than just the AL Central on Tuesday.

This is a hot team, finishing 11 of 12 to end the regular season, winning a playoff deciding tiebreaker and literally flying into the playoffs to play the Yankees.

Safely, I can admit that as a Yankee fan I was scared death before tonight’s win against the Minnesota Twins. Keeping in mind that it is one game but I forgot and got a nice reminder.

A reminder because for a minute I truly forgot, how good my Yankees are.

How could any New York fan not be worried? The amount of reference to David is going to meet Goliath remarks all over newspapers and ESPN the minute the game ending hit a nerve.

Thoughts of Arod leaving runners stranded on base and just thinking of CC’s last game in Tampa were rampant in my head all day.

The team with all the “heart” will win was said to me over the TV and even by my own doorman, the prime example of the Yankee fan who never gives them any credit.

Some might call it brainwashing but any NY Giant fan knows the David besting Goliath theme all to well.

Than I realized that the Patriots and the Yankees were not the same team. My Yankees have heart and anyone who says that is not true has not seen the Bombers play this season.

The Yankees are loaded with money, players and stadium so the scrutiny comes with the territory, granted. Does that make the players heart-less or less deserving? Does being born into a more fortunate family than you co-worker make him/her automatically have a better character? Does someones at work get more praise because you have a nice home?

No it doesn’t in life nor in sports. A bad attitude has nothing to do with money or wins. It has to do with the individual spirit and that is why the Giants won the Super Bowl in 2007.

The G-men played with heart just as the Twins, the Tigers, the Rockies, the Cardinals, the Red Sox, the Phillies, the Yankees and many more teams have done all season long.

Game one was not a perfect night for New York but good enough. CC preformed very well, not a lights out night but he did his job. The hitters worked to get a comfortable lead. The bullpen’s Hughes to Joba to Coke to Mo finished the game nicely.

Arod drove on two runs and this Arod seems to be here to stay. Alex has been a reformed man this season, blame it on Kate Hudson but also the relief of the letting the world know the truth seemed to life a lot from this super-star’s shoulders.

In the post-game interviews the Yankees are very aware that the Twins were tired and that Minnesota is a very hot team. The Yankees are not the Patriots of 07′ and are very familiar with the feeling of losing.

The Yanks struggled in the first half of the season. The Red Sox swept the Bombers eight games before the All-Star break. The Yankees overcame many obstacles this season and fought their way to the position there in today.

As a fan I will do my job better and not let Sports Center or Pat my doorman get me to jump off the bandwagon so easily ever again.

My Yankees deserve as much glory as any other team. Attitude and performance are what champions are made of.

The Tigers were the perfect example of a winner, when they lost the other night.

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Three Playoff Headlines No Yankees Fan Wants To Read

Posted by on 29 September 2009, 4:02 am

The playoffs are about to start for the baseball world. Teams are claiming spots on the October schedule and others are looking towards next season.

The Yankees swept the Red Sox on Sunday to win the AL East. The first team to clinch a playoff berth but immediately followed the Cardinals winning the NL Central, the Dodgers clinched a spot and just minutes ago I caught the Angels winning the AL West.

It made me start to think of what the possibilities, which are endless, that could play out this October. The ideas quickly turned to waves of anxiety that started to absorb my thoughts.

Here are the three that no Yankee fan hopes never to have to read….

1. Watching the Angels win was not thrilling, as it was a complete accident as I was innocently tuning to ESPN hoping for Sports Center.

I was not paying attention as I was on the web surfing when I heard the screaming fans and looked up. It was Ian Kinsler at bat and the bottom ticker read 1 Out For Angels To Win The AL West. The score being 11-0 it was not a promising situation for the Rangers.

Subsequently, Kinsler grounded a ball to third and Figgins threw to first for the easy out. Then the celebration began. Watching it felt wrong but it also made me realize that the Yankees do not have to see the Angels first round.

The Angels are like being on the other end of having to face Ray Lewis in the NFL. Lewis is the scariest defender and the Angels are that team.

I hope that the headline will not read ANGELS SWEEP THE RED SOX! MESSAGE SENT TO YANKEES: BRING IT ON.

2. The second headline is purely out of spite for our old skipper Joe Torre.

TORRE UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS: DODGERS WIN WORLD SERIES.

Look, it was hard enough to be at Torre’s last game but that turned to betrayal fast after the release The Yankee Years.

Call it bitterness and that would be completely correct. The Dodgers are not as much of a threat because the only place the Yankees can meet Torre’s team would be in the World Series. Do no think the Dodgers will beat the Cardinals or the Phillies (if they make it).

I just hope that the Dodgers do not even win a game. As for their manager, Mr. Torre is not in it for the team or the game of baseball. Gaining the trust of players as people, only to take personal club house on-goings and exploit them for his own benefit is being nothing more than a traitor.
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Sorry Mr. Torre but you do not hold a candle to the character of our new skipper, Joe Girardi.

3. THE CURSE IS STILL REVERSED

It is safe to say this is common knowledge to anyone that no Yankee fan could stomach this.

After the embarrassment of being 8-0 to Boston earlier this season to only come back to finish 8-8 is only the icing on the cake.

This rivalry has built so many heart-breaking instances and revenges for decades that the list is endless.

The only thing that Red Sox and Yankee fans firmly agree is on is that neither wants the other team to win.

I love the history and the intense competition the games bring. It is much better to win in the end, especially for the loyalty of each teams fan base.

Some have described the feeling of losing to Boston along the lines like being dumped by a guy you really like, out of nowhere.

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The Yankees: Not The Headlines At The Trade Deadline, Finally!

Posted by on 1 August 2009, 5:32 pm


Should Cashman Have Gotten Halloday? Is it true that Cliff Lee or Jarod Washburn are not in pinstripes?

Guess time will tell if Cashman will still have a job next year….but it was time for the Yankees to try something different and in the perfect position to take a back seat.

The Yankees were the quietest team as the trade line past today. This is a new and very un-Yankee like type behavior. Not being the team hogging all the front-page headlines or main story on Sports Center is definitely a change.

The Yankees made a nice pick-up by adding Cincinnati Reds utility Jerry Hairston Jr. who has been in the majors for a decade. An experienced player who can be put anywhere, except behind the plate.

Cashman made a minor addition in Hairston that will be useful to the team but his smartest move was not trading Joba or Hughes. Roy Holladay is the most talented pitcher in baseball and the temptations must have been tough for the Yankees to fight off by not making the biggest storm. Hughes and Chamberlin are just looking to good to trade for another all-star, big name player.

For the Yankees it is a whole different set of possibilities that have to be taken into account that other teams do not have to deal with. While a talented all-star player might be the jolt for most clubs to become better as a team, this is not the same for the Yankees. The Bronx Bombers have the all-stars and the talent that comes along with the overwhelming hype of playing in NYC; the pressure to make the World Series annually and the most loyal fans who show up no matter what.

Cashman did plenty of spending in the off-season but it paid off. The Yankees don’t need the hype of bringing a Holliday to New York. This is because how talented and famous Roy Holliday is and it is just an example of the bigger picture of the situation.

Should Cashman gone and grabbed Cliff Lee, Jake Peavy or Jacob Washburn? Should we have gotten in the way of the Red Sox a little more so our dominant rivals don’t get better again? I would answer both questions with a NO.

Here are the most noteworthy swaps (no specific order):

 Cliff Lee was the best trade made overall. The Philadelphia Phillies are the World Series champs and continue to be the winners by adding Lee to their starting pitching staff. The Phillies needed a pitcher and if anyone thought that Pedro Martinez was going to be their answer must be mindless. Fact is that this does guarantee the National League is the Phillies to have but the post season is a different story. For now, Lee gives Philadelphia the best tools for an attainable chance to repeat.

 The decision by the Detroit Tigers was solid and just shy with the Phillies getting Lee. Losing the bat of Matt Holliday to St. Louis will hurt but the addition of Jarrod Washburn makes the Tigers rotation one of the toughest in baseball. Washburn is a solid, reliable pitcher who the Mariners must have hated to part with. I think this trade will be more significant than the Red Sox and the Tigers are a shoe-inn in the AL Central.

 Oh how much do I hate the fact the Red Sox got better? Very much. Good job done by Theo Epstein for not just the trades but in getting the Ortiz headlines pushed aside, for now at least. Boston was falling apart, while the Yankees were as hot as ever and these rivals never let that happen for very long. Boston added the switch hitting bat of Victor Martinez who plays 1B as well as catcher in the field. This allows Varitek to get more rest from behind the plate and Youkilis can go to third more often. Theo ‘the whiz’ Epstein got this exceedingly, very good player for a bargain price.

 Minnesota Twins upgraded their middle infield by getting Orlando Cabera from the Oakland A’s. I think this addition could get the team more excited because the front-office finally made a move which might spark some of the players up, like Punto and Castilla who have toiled at the plate. The Tigers look like the team to beat with that ridiculous rotation but don’t count out the Twins just yet.

 The White Sox have wanted Jake Peavy for a long time now and finally nailed him. Peavy is a first-rate addition if he is not on the DL that is. He claims that by end of August he should be back on the mound but until it happens not much speculation about the future of that relationship.

 St. Louis got Matt Holliday from Detroit helps their struggling offense and in the NL Central it reinforces them as a huge contender.

 Seattle Mariners did establish themselves with some under the radar moves that will help them in the years to come. Trading Washburn in the hopes of getting him back for next year for the two young arms of Luke French and Mauricio Robles. Mariners also nailing down a shortstop for five years in Jack Wilson will make more of an impact then realized. Ian Snell from the Pirates will join the rotation and his once promising arm could resurge again.

There were other trades of course. In my humble opinion these are the ones that we will see the biggest differences on.

First time, in a long time the Yankees are not on this list. Changes are hard even from negative patterns or just consistently not getting the outcome at hand. As a fan, to be the Yankees of today that are neither the spectacles, nor the top story is refreshingly different.

For sure, something that this team didn’t need, nor wanted.

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