A-Rod finds a way to take the Yankees losing streak off the tabloid covers...

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The Post says today that Stray-Rod has been seen with a blonde in five cities.

In the article:

Want to edit that, N.Y. Post?

 

Sure, Clark shouldn't have let it affect him, but it's a cheap thing to do in the first place.

Ricciardi was on the radio this morning, and compared it to a third base coach yelling "cut" when the throw's coming in to the third baseman. I thought it was a good comparison.

 

Good comparison. That's fine, too. You are TRYING TO WIN.

Came close many times ... never ate one.

 

And once again Derek Jeter ... captain in name only ... proves what a great teammate he is:

Matt Stairs, who came in from left field while shortstop John McDonald was railing at third base coach Larry Bowa, was crisp in his criticism.
"It was a [horsespit] play; I hope you use that," Stairs said. "Ask his teammates about it and if they say, 'No comment,' that will tell you."
Derek Jeter did exactly that.
"I don't know; you will have to ask him," Jeter said. "I wasn't out there."

There is no bigger fraud than Derek "I don't know anything" Jeter.

 

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He's a professional. He should catch the damn ball. That's his job -- and he didn't do it!

 

Christ, these baseball guys should watch hockey sometime. This shit happens all the time. Who was the young guy (I'm thinking it was Gagne or Tanguay) who was chasing Lemieux up the ice and got him to pass him the puck by using his little-known nickname "Ace"? Lemieux laughed about it after and said the kid had done his homework.

A guy I know was playing an NHL exhibition game against the Sabres. He took the puck behind his own net and Chris Drury was right on his ass, banging his stick on the ice and hollering for the puck. My guy took a quick look, dumped it to him and Drury put it in. My guy was off to the AHL the next day.

 

Well of course you're trying to win. But there's a way to win without embarrassing yourself and your teammates. The Yanks have done enough of it over the past 15 years to know that.

 

I'm afraid I can't even give you that, because it comes back to "ways of winning." And I'm saying you WIN. PERIOD.

If A-Rod's teammates have a problem with him pulling that schoolboy trick -- which led to Toronto botching a play and a run being scored -- then they didn't want to WIN as badly as A-Rod did.

 

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John McDonald is one of my favorite players -- terrific guy, very professional, hard-nosed but kind of humble -- but he was wrong on this one and I think he'll figure that out for himself. He got embarrassed and reacted like a lot of people when they've been embarrassed -- by getting mad. But gamesmanship is part of the game: infielders pretend they're getting a throw to force a baserunner to slide; outfielders pretend they have balls lined up; catchers try to get inside hitters' heads, and the trash-talking from dugouts is virtually non-stop.

 

I'm with Huggy on this.

I'm a Jays fan but McDonald's reaction was way out line.

Admittedly, A-Rod pulled a grade school trick and unfortunately it worked. I'm sure he was as surprised as anyone else.

However, the piece in the Globe this morning is pretty funny:

http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070530.wsptjays30/GSStory/GlobeSportsBaseball/home

"I've never seen it happen," Toronto manager John Gibbons said of the play that led to the second of four runs that the Yankees piled on in the ninth inning last night. Right, John.

And some of the comments attached to the piece are hilarious.

"...there is a rule and it falls under "interference". When a player takes any action which "confuses" another player, that is interference. The umps should have called A-Rod out and Gibbons should have protested the game"

Huh?

 

The only way this would have been funnier would be if he'd yelled "NOONAN!"