Right...plus you don't want to move Cano to SS or 3rd because then you lose his exceptional double play turning skills from 2nd.
Was there any doubt about what he was gonna do when he came up in the 9th? I knew it, I just thought it was gone when it came off his bat.
smoking a cigarette on the bridge. i walked around to the 1st base side and asked a guy leaving early if i could get his ticket.the guards at the gate happen to be talking to each other so i stood at the gate and smoked a cigarette.when they realized i was there,they told me i could stay there.i said i just wanted to smoke a quick cig and didnt want to smoke inside b/c i didnt want to get thrown out.i also showed him my ticket. he said put it out and go back to your seat.ok no problem sir. section 107 row 1 seat 8 thank you to the good man that gave me his tickets. called my friends and told them to look at the ball boy chad 1st base side. when they did, i stood up...good times.
Jeter is one of the best to ever play IMO. I'm a Met fan and I am impressed with everything he does! He will not have the best numbers when he calls it quits but the intangables are off the charts. I knew what he was going to do as well. I just hoped the others were going to fall short and thankfully they did. Anyone else feel that plunking Jason Bay was bush league? The guy just hit two homers and the curve that gets away just happends to land in the middle of his back? If they hit anyone else I would not have blinked an eye but he just hit two HR's. IMO Typical Yankees when it comes to the Mets! I know all the Yankee fans will spout off about how they are treated by the Redsox but this is not the redsox so that is a lame excuse!
I agree and so did the fans. The fact that they hit someone and it "just happened" to be the guy that was killing them.
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. If you're going to hit someone, you don't do it with a curve ball. Aside from it being less effective in terms of sending a message, it's a hell of a lot harder to control. Before today, I don't think I've ever heard even the most biased of hometown homers accuse an opposing pitcher of purposefully hitting someone with a curve.
Sorry, But I do get the feeling it was on purpose. Being a curve to me just says that the Yankees did not want people to think they did it on purpose when they did. After the dirty rodger incident years ago and how all (most) of the Yankee fans defended him when he threw a 94 MPH fast ball at Piazza's head. A move that is indefensible by the way (because he could have killed him). So maybe it is me, but being a curve was to avoid that type of controversy.
The fact that only one curveball missed like that and it was to Bay? Only because you haven't been paying attention.
I didn't see it, so I can't really comment on it, but usually you don't throw a curveball at someone. I'm not saying it was intentional or not since I didn't see it, but it's a lot harder to believe a curve was being thrown at someone than a fastball. If it was intentional, I'd be the first to condemn it. I don't believe in throwing at someone unless it was done to your guys first. If you're getting beat, that's your fault, not the player's who is beating you.
well cerbelli put 2 fingers down and set up away. not for a second did i think it was intentional both teams being warned was ridiculous
well, now I know the details of the pitch, and I would agree with 17a. From my vantage point, all I could see was that Bay got hit, not what sign was put down or what the pitch was. Not that they would normally show a replay of that anyway, but they were very bad with putting replays on the screen. The only replays were basically big hits by the Mets. For example, they didn't show Cervelli's hit off the top of the left field wall. Somewhat understandable, until the crew decided to review it. There's no harm in showing it then. I mean, if you're watching on TV and a call goes under review, you get showed with like 5 replays. Here, we were left to our own devices. There are so many delays in action in baseball, and I'd love to see more replays of the action instead of all the garbage they do play instead.
See, I probably should have guessed that it was something like that. Whether or not some idiotic Yankee fans tried to defend what Roger Clemens did ten years ago is pretty much irrelevant to whether Mitre was trying to hit Bay last night. Are you really telling me that the Yankees were aware that there might be controversy and so told Mitre to go out there and throw a curve, but throw it so it doesn't break and still manages to hit Bay? Come on. Occam's Razor, dude. Yeah, and given the specifics, it's still ludicrous to think it was intentional. Haven't been paying attention? Okay. Then please name me one other scenario where someone thought that HBP on a curve was intentional that wasn't just reactionary homerism.
The highlight of the night was Miller, Orel and Morgan joking about the terrible ground rules in place at Citi which turn out to not really be the rules.
Sorry, my bad for not being clear. Show me one other example, period. I don't think I've never heard anyone complain about a HBP on a curve being a purpose pitch, period. And I've known a lot of crazy my team can do no wrong type of fans.
Thought I'd tell you guys a pretty funny story about my subway series experience (being that I work at Citi) So, All 3 games I was assigned to a beer stand (ya know the outside ones) but I was working it solo with no help (stupid idea). Anyway, while I'm pouring beer during the first couple of innings, A chant starts up, but it was different, and it was Mets and Yankee fans together, chanting "LETS GO KEVIN! (followed by clapping) LETS GO KEVIN! etc, It was pretty funny to have a whole line of people chanting my name. Anyway, During the 7th inning as we were getting ready to shut down beer and i was Finishing off my line, another set of both Yankees and Mets fan started chanting "KEVIN! KEVIN! KEVIN! KEVIN!" (think the Rudy chant) It was pretty funny stuff.
