Indians, yeah!

[spnited]

I tip my cap. Been a Yankees fan since I was a kid. Kind of hard to root for a team that A-Rod's on. The team I loved in the late 90s is GONE.

Hey, they could be back.

Melky Cabrera, Andy Phillips, Robinson Cano, Nick Green, Kevin Reese, Chien-Ming Wang, T.J. Beam

Who are those guys?

Kinda like that '96 team that started a dynasty with no-names, playing unselfish team ball and coming through in the clutch.

Remember, Jeter, Rivera, Posada, Pettitte, Stanton, Nelson, etc. were once "Who are those guys?" type of players.

Well, teacher, Stanton didn't join the Yankees until '97 and he was not an unknown but an 8-year vet who had had success with the Braves and Red Sox. Nleson had been a reasonably successful set-up man in Seattle before the Yankees signed him.

Of the current guys you mentioned, Nick Green is a 28-year-old minor league veteran who was released by Tampa Bay; Kevin Reese is a 28-year-old who has spent 6 years in the minors before his first call-up this season; Andy Phillips is a 29-year-old who has taken 7 years to get to the bigs; TJ Beam is a 26-year-old 10th round draft pick who is nothing more than a stopgap in an awful bullpen.

Cabrera, Cano and Wang might be OK...but they're in anyone's wildest imagination not Jeter, Posada, Rivera, Pettitte.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

This Yankee team basically has about seven or eight Kevin Maas clones and Oscar Azocar and Mike Pagliarulo models thrown in for good measure.

 

[Jim_Mora]

thanks for deciding to play ball, tribe......after you're 18 games out of first >:(

 

[Oz]

You have to feel bad for the Yankees tonight. :D

 

[PEteacher]

I tip my cap. Been a Yankees fan since I was a kid. Kind of hard to root for a team that A-Rod's on. The team I loved in the late 90s is GONE.

Hey, they could be back.

Melky Cabrera, Andy Phillips, Robinson Cano, Nick Green, Kevin Reese, Chien-Ming Wang, T.J. Beam

Who are those guys?

Kinda like that '96 team that started a dynasty with no-names, playing unselfish team ball and coming through in the clutch.

Remember, Jeter, Rivera, Posada, Pettitte, Stanton, Nelson, etc. were once "Who are those guys?" type of players.

Well, teacher, Stanton didn't join the Yankees until '97 and he was not an unknown but an 8-year vet who had had success with the Braves and Red Sox.  Nleson had been a reasonably successful set-up man in Seattle before the Yankees signed him.

Of the current guys you mentioned, Nick Green is a 28-year-old minor league veteran who was released by Tampa Bay; Kevin Reese is a 28-year-old who has spent 6 years in the minors before his first call-up this season;  Andy Phillips is a 29-year-old who has taken 7 years to get to the bigs; TJ Beam is a 26-year-old 10th round draft pick who is nothing more than a stopgap in an awful bullpen.

Cabrera, Cano and Wang might be OK...but they're in anyone's wildest imagination  not Jeter, Posada, Rivera, Pettitte.

Oh come on ... I was just trying to cheer up Mr. Soprano after his Yanks were spanked like a monkey who has been inactive for a couple weeks.

 

[tonysoprano]

Pile on. I'm a big boy, I can take it. No worries. ;D

 

[Boom_70]

As we celebrate Independence day it's really hard to rejoice in the Indians dominance of the Yankees since they still have their racist mascot logo. ;)

 

[Songbird]

Was it really 22-0? Wow. I haven't looked at any scores yet.

I know the Sox beat the Yanks 22 to something a few years back, but 22-0? Wow.

 

[sportsed]

Was it really 22-0? Wow. I haven't looked at any scores yet.

I know the Sox beat the Yanks 22 to something a few years back, but 22-0? Wow.

Nah, just 19-1. The photo montage I posted was from the Tribe's rollicking 22-0 victory from a few years back (the one you're thinking of, probably).

If form holds, the Indians will lose tonight by a run or two. :-\

16 games back, ******* ... here we come!

 

[Orange44]

I tip my cap. Been a Yankees fan since I was a kid. Kind of hard to root for a team that A-Rod's on. The team I loved in the late 90s is GONE.

Yeah, just must make you sick to have a guy who won the MVP award last year. The torture of watching a Hall of Famer in his prime. Must be awful for you. ::)

I understand why Yankee fans are on the guy so much, but it's still ridiculous.

Seriously. Get off the bandwagon already and go be a Mets fan

 

[farmerjerome]

You have to feel bad for the Yankees tonight.  :D

Yeah, I'm reaching for a tissue.

I did try to keep Dr. J away from the TV after the Yanks started losing by double digits.

 

[outofplace]

I tip my cap. Been a Yankees fan since I was a kid. Kind of hard to root for a team that A-Rod's on. The team I loved in the late 90s is GONE.

Yeah, just must make you sick to have a guy who won the MVP award last year. The torture of watching a Hall of Famer in his prime. Must be awful for you. ::)

I understand why Yankee fans are on the guy so much, but it's still ridiculous.

Yeah, and how many World Series titles have A-Rod's previous teams won that he was on?

Seriously, back on topic, congrats to the Indians. They were deserving.

Back off topic, that Ernie Banks guy sucked, too, right? I'll take A-Rod on my team any day. Then again, he'd take up the whole payroll, so maybe that's not quite realistic.

Again, the guy won the MVP last year and he's going to the Hall of Fame. Yankee fans need to stop whining and enjoy watching that.

As a Pirates fan in the early '90s, I could have chosen to hate Barry Bonds for struggling in the post-season. Instead, I chose to enjoy the very short time my favorite team had the best player in the game (my opinion of Barry at the time, in his pre-huge-head days).

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Personally, I find Chief Wahoo far more endearing than jerkoff Donald Trump parading around some owners' box.

 

[beefncheddar]

Tribe may wish it saved a few of those 19. Yankees already up 9-1 in the fourth tonight.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I SWEAR I was actually thinking about how ill-advised this thread was yesterday, even though I didn't post it. I looked at the pitching match-up, Paul Byrd vs. Mike Mussina, and thought, "tomorrow's game has the potential to make half the people piling on in this thread feel foolish." At the end of the day, you know, the Indians are still, what, 16 games out?

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I know I'm a day late, but the Yanks got thumped by the Indians two years ago. Was that not enough? I mean, **** for ****'s sake. First 22-0 now 19-1. Jesus H. Christ.

 

[sportsed]

I SWEAR I was actually thinking about how ill-advised this thread was yesterday, even though I didn't post it. I looked at the pitching match-up, Paul Byrd vs. Mike Mussina, and thought, "tomorrow's game has the potential to make half the people piling on in this thread feel foolish." At the end of the day, you know, the Indians are still, what, 16 games out?

Thanks, Ragu. I know I needed that, being a big Tribe fan who got uppity for once in this Ishtar of a season. Back into my hole and not posting anything positive for my favorite team ever again I go.

 

[Oz]

I SWEAR I was actually thinking about how ill-advised this thread was yesterday, even though I didn't post it. I looked at the pitching match-up, Paul Byrd vs. Mike Mussina, and thought, "tomorrow's game has the potential to make half the people piling on in this thread feel foolish." At the end of the day, you know, the Indians are still, what, 16 games out?

Yeah, but it's always fun to bring attention to the Yankees when you can laugh at them like that.