|
MATTS-MATICS: NY Jets vs NY Rangers |
BRAVE Fan Talks REDSKINS
|
 |
 |
< body>
|
|
|
SABRES, PENS, SHOTGUNS & METS |
BILL BUCKNER WAS INNOCENT |
 |
 |
|
|
|
Spring Break Training PART I |
Spring Break Training PART II |
 |
 |
|
|
|
| You are not authorized to post a reply.
|
|
| Author |
Messages |
|
TheMatts
Posts:1598
 |
| 09-09-2008 - SelecA - |
 Alert
|
BRONX, NY – The time has come to grade the Yankees individual performances for the 2008 season. It’s been a year marked by the end of the Stadium, serious injury and remarkable under performance. There was also a seismic change in ownership. Not the actual financial control of the team but a philosophical modification and personality shift that moved control from a drooling George Steinbrenner to his sons Hank and Hal Smothers; Tweedledum and Tweedledummer. Hal is the one lurking in the background like Jack the Ripper. Reserved and complacent at press time, we know Hal will jump into homicidal action after some Pavano tweak, Cano flub or ARod strikeout, it’s coming. Hank (enstein) on the other hand is the chain-smoking, emotion on sleeve wearing halfwit. The Gin to Hal’s Yang, as in Tanqueray. Prone to bombastic press releases and diatribes, Hank single-handedly ruined Joba Chamberlain’s 2008 and possibly beyond. Our prediction is that General Manager Brian Cashman will cash in his chips at the end of the season and walk away from the Bombers. The team he won with in 1998, 1999 and 2000 was largely inherited and his record of steering the team since is atrocious considering the money the Yankees spent. He gave the fans one bloated superstar after another. We’ll give Cashman a D for 2008, a C for the years 2001-2007 and a B for the championship run. We award an A+ to the outgoing Yankee Stadium for being the most successful venue in sports history and home to Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Stengel, Berra, Rizzuto, Ford, Mantle, Guidry and Jackson. For Monument Park. For the New York Football Giants. For 37 World Series. For Championship Boxing Events. New York just won’t be the same without it.
Mike Mussina A-
Can’t knock this year. Could actually reach 300 lifetime wins now. A feat we thought impossible this time last year. Still a jerk though.
Andy Pettitte C+
Alternately dominant and hittable. If he thanks Jesus for wins, we wonder if he curses him for loses?
Sidney Ponson C
Started hot, ending frigid. Still wanted for questioning in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance.
Carl Pavano I (not enough data)
Who’s laughing now? Look out free agent market!
Darryl Rasner D
After early excitement he displayed his true talent – lameness.
Chien Ming Wang I
Some fans will blame the team collapse on his injury, an unfair conclusion.
Mariano Rivera A-
Still the best. You can’t argue that.
Joba Chamberlain B
See above.
The rest of the pen D+
A Goop Mélange.
Jorge Posada I
Other fans blame collapse on his injury, a fairer conclusion.
Jose Molina C-
Least productive Molina. Fattest too.
Ivan Rodriguez IRod
Not enough data other than being a poster boy for what steroids did well.
Jason Giambi C+
Started as bad as Delgado and caught fire late. When your mustache dominates headlines, your team loses.
Robinson Cano C
1 stolen base?? Robby is SLOW DON’T CHA KNOW!
Derek Jeter B+
Power numbers down, defense down. Still the captain and still knows how to hit.
Alex Rodriguez C+Rod
Statistically a very good year but when Carl Pavano is more popular – you got problems. His clutch statistics blow.
Johnny Damon B
Still a good leadoff hit. Arm atrophy at an all time high.
Xavier Nady A-
Far and away the best move the Yankees made. Go Nads!
Bobby Abreu B
Good stats. Afraid of walls.
Hideki Matsui B
Injury ate into 1/3 of his season and 2/3 of his face. Best corn collection in MLB keeps the minus off the B.
Bench C-
The Brett Garnders and Wilson Betemits have had their moments but they’ve been fleeting.
Joe Girardi D+
Injuries notwithstanding, Joe had the personnel to do better than he did. If someone told you in April that in September Joe Torre would have the fake Dodgers playing 500 ball AND contending for the NL West and that the Yanks would be 8 games better than that and in 4th place, you’d have been cleared to rochambeau him.
As bitter and jealous Mets fans we’re tickled pink with the Yankee struggles this year. Their fans continually remind us of the Mets unique collapse of late 2007 and of the volume of Yankee championships. Each Matt must have 6 individual wagers with Yankee friends over “who will end with a better record?”, “who will go further in a potential post season series?”, “who will finish first?” etc, etc For the first time since 2000 and only the 2nd time since 1991, the Mets will finish with a better record than the Yankees. The city is ready, once again, to be a Mets town. The playing field is even and with two new stadiums in 2009, the slate is clean and the Mets are better suited for long-term success. We’ll break down the 2008 Mets on Thursday. Will little going on in life, we trust there will be an Angry Ward Wednesday.
|
|
|
|
Yankee Joe
Posts:379
|
| 09-09-2008 - SelecA - |
Alert
|
Dude - I am here, front and center.
Matts - You have to smoking the peace pipe again Matts. This is nothing but a Yankee town. The Mutts wont even make the playoffs this year. Then what? Next year? You will lose Perez. Pedro is awful. Delgado will hold you up for randsome. Castillo??? Wagner? Are you kidding? |
|
|
|
Dude
Posts:608
|
| 09-09-2008 - SelecA - |
Alert
|
| i knew you hadn't left us joe. . . that was the phanatic making those claims. but i have to say i welcome any of your predictions as they seem to have the opposite effect. ps i know i guy who can make some standees to fill those empty seats behind home plate next season. |
|
|
|
ANGRYWARD
Posts:709
|
| 09-09-2008 - SelecA - |
Alert
|
| Good job, but you forgot the biggest mistake the Yankees made this year, relying on the likes of Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes to carry their staff, rather than a known commodity such as Santana. By the way, save some of Oscar Madison's famous Goop Melange for me. |
|
|
|
Randy Levine
Posts:171
|
| 09-09-2008 - SelecA - |
Alert
|
| Where's my grade? |
|
|
|
TheMatts
Posts:1598
|
| 09-09-2008 - SelecA - |
Alert
|
Sorry Randy we left you AND Ian Hughes and Phil Kennedy out of the grading system.
Randy C-
As the Yankees VP, you are equally to blame for this years failures. However, your comic timing and terse delivery save you from an F.
Ian Hughes & Phil Kennedy I
Their lack of appearances kept them off the list because they didn't contribute enough either way. We suppose that their presence did create a philosophy of reliance on youthful arms but that's not their fault. That goes against Cashman, Dumb and Dummer, Levine, Girardi et al. Yes They both stunk it up the little they played but the Yankees gave up on them way too fast. The Mets could have easily quit on Mike Pelfrey after 2007 when he was the absolute pits but they didn't.
We never had the guts to actually make a goop melange but we do think its qualities accurately sum up much of the Yankees 2008. |
|
|
|
|
| You are not authorized to post a reply. |
|
|
|
ActiveForums 3.6
|
|
How Philly Won |
One Of Our First
|
 |
 |
< body>
|
|
|
ROY HOBBS ON STEROIDS??? |
MEAGHAN & JAKE: COOLEST FANS |
 |
 |
|
|
|
Nobody Remembers The Loser |
Giant/Super Tuesday |
 |
 |
|
|
|
MATTS-MATICS: Hockey Nuts Go At It |
See us on: "Law & Order" |
 |
 |
|
|
MATT FACTS:
Chad Pennington is NOT a Brett Favre fan... Hillary Clinton and Don Nelson have never been seen in the same place... Jerry Manuel is not related to Charlie ManuelJerry Manuel is not related to Charlie Manuel... Somebody namd Michel coaches the Pittsburgh Penguins... Tiki Barber quit the Giants. The Giants then won the Super Bowl... The New England Patriots only lost ONE game out of 19!!! Aaron Heilman was actually funny in re to Eli and Plaxico Burress helping the Mets as a pitcher and outfielder, respectively. Repeat, Heilman was funny... Jessica Simpson would rather date Tom Brady - trust us... Eli Manning is better than Archie - now... Alyssa Milano is a Met fan. RRRRR... Rickey Henderson speaks in the 3rd Person... Shawn Green has big ears... Howard Johnson likes to stay at the Holiday Inn, ironically... Sandy Alomar, Sr. is the youngest of 9 kids. That's why he was quick around the dish. Jiminy Cricket was the Philly Phanatic in a previous life…Fred Wilpon is pals with Sandy Koufax... Mike Ditka is a really tough guy.. Buffalo has a Triple A baseball team. They are NOT called The Snowballs... Chan Ho Park has people thinking of naming a ballfield after him - it would be called Chan Ho Park Park... John Maine has never been, oddly enough, to Maine... Curt Gowdy, Jr. has never been to Yellow Knife, Canada... Kevin Mitchell played 6 positions for the Mets in '86 and, according to Doc Gooden's book, didn't like cats... John Olerud & Wayne Gretzky have never been seen in the same place... Kevin McReynolds now makes his living doing laugh tracks for sit-coms... Tony Gwynn is nearing 300 lbs... Carlos Beltran has Mercedes Benz dealerships named for him in Barcelona, Spain... Willie Montanez was called Guillermo by Lenny Randle... Rusty Staub beat Jeff Kent in a race – TODAY... Jay Horwitz is a dynamite Cricket players – somebody said... Jeff Wilpon was a decent minor league catcher... Ziggy Palfy lives in Slovakia and is a big Met fan... Superman Returns, yet still can’t hit Billy Wagner... David Wright will win the Triple Crown – on a horse... Omar Minaya is Tobey McGuire’s stunt-double in Spider Man 3... Hilary Clinton has Mr. Met pajamas – we think... Albert Einstein was a HUGE Met fan... The Metropolitan Opera House was named for the Mets after their 2nd season in ’63... Wally Backman, ’86 sparkplug, considered changing his name to Wally Back-Matt... Neil Allen and Mike Stanton, former Mets, have Allen & Stanton Streets on Lower East Side named for them.
|