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Ummm... No.
Time for those fair-weather yank fans to swing towards Queens. I'm not saying this is you, but there are droves of them out there. They'll be coming out of the woodwork over the next 5 years.
AGGI hit hod 1.08 currently .97x 1.02 has lots of room imho.... In since .56....Luvin it
We're starting our prime time right now.
i love florida... especially in the winter!
lol yea still standing!
Used to cruise Cross Bay Blvd., and beat up the little mafiosos. (I don't recommend that to anyone unless they are crazy or have a death wish).
Smith Haven Mall still standing?
Yes, I was only partially joking. :) I will try to recover and watch the Giants.
NY fan from FL now (born in Brooklyn, raised on LI - Hempstead/East Meadow, Smithtown/Hauppauge, Wading River and most places in between).
never been to a wedding there...ERA parties....and yes the food is great....not to mention the open bar...lol
Yes it was very nice.
It's the first time that I have been to a wedding where you get to pick from 11 different entres.
Usually it's chicken, fish, or beef.
ahhh...nice place...been there a few times...
I was at a wedding in Howard Beach in August.
lol..small world....my parents and brother live in HB still...
thats funny i lived in ozone park till i was 10 then moved to hauppauge... i still have family in Howard Beach my aunt lived Gotti's block i think it was 85th st.
lake grove?...my ex mother in law lives there...the pines
i grew up in Howard Beach...bought my house in North Babylon
Go Mets! 20 yrs after my '86 boys did it..these guys are gonna be world champs!
i havent either! pizza sounds good actually might do that for dinner!
will do! thanks!!
no, staten island, my Moms family is in da bronx, we're just shooting down to see Donnas best friend on the island for a bit, and to eat like pigs!
Can you tell I haven't eaten yet?
The mind is on food!
Are you going to da Bronx Billy?
ok added thanks that was a good one...damn!
haha, yep, gonna have some this weekend when we go down to visit
Don't forget NY Pizza!
Show Torre The Door
by: Bill Chuck | Special To NY Sports Day | Monday, October 9, 2006
The Yankees are out.The last team mauled this badly by Tigers were Siegfried and Roy and I know this won't be a popular opinion (I'm not looking forward to my family reading this), but I think it's time for Joe Torre to go. I know the thought of firing a person you see as an uncle is not a pleasant thought, but I think that it's a concept whose time has come.
There are a number of reasons I come to this conclusion and quite honestly I feel they are pretty weak individually and even cumulatively they are not compelling. There has been the consistent overuse of middle relievers until they have been used so frequently that there effectiveness is diminished late in the season. Tom Gordon had been a good example of this in the past, Scott Proctor, Kyle Farnsworth and Ron Villone, all of whom appeared in over 70 games this season are the most current examples. Granted, my case is weakened by the fact that the Yankee starting pitcher has been invariably so pitiful that relievers are consistently necessary, but it has been Torre's habit to go to people he trusts as opposed to developing trust in new younger players that is the issue here.
It is this perspective that resulted in Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield back in the starting lineups for the post-season, despite the fact that they had little to do with the Yankees achieving the best record in baseball this season. It was young, fresh, hungry players like Melky Cabrera and Andy Phillips that rescued the Yankees this season and they were relegated to the back of the bench during the post-season.
But, for me the compelling reason for change is what has been perceived as the great strength in the chaos of the Bronx Zoo, and that's the "calming influence" of Joe Torre.
Compare that to Jim Leyland. Look at what Gary Sheffield had to say about Torre versus the effect that Jim Leyland has on a team. Now, before you dismiss the comments from today's Newsday because it came from Gary Sheffield, his words make sense.
Sheffield contended that by dropping Alex Rodriguez to the eighth spot in the lineup, it created a distraction for the Yankees and gave the Tigers additional confidence.
"I think that affected the morale and psyche of the entire team, not just A-Rod," he said. "I'm not making any excuses, but everyone was wondering what was going on. It made it a real weird day. You would like to be treated with a little respect, I don't care who you play for.
"We were worrying about all of that stuff, and we still had a game to play. If I'm on the other side, and all of a sudden they're putting Rodriguez eighth and putting me or Jason [Giambi] on the bench, you wonder what's going on. Those guys [the Tigers] were asking me about it. I think it boosted their morale. It gave them confidence they didn't have.
They key is what the veteran Sheffield said next - "Jim Leyland took advantage of that. He can make you believe anything. He can put a fire under your belt like you never had before in your life.
"Not to make excuses, but we didn't have that."
Jim Litke, the national AP reporter, after writing about the pitching staff as being a "way station for AARP millionaires," writes in Joe's defense, "Torre, on the other hand, has been consistent, maybe the best thing that ever happened to you. He was the buffer all these years between expectations and reality, and every year he got your team close enough to win it all."
Jim, consistency isn't always the best thing in sports. Consistency often results in complacency. Consistency also often results in unpredictability. Consistency can get tired and it has in this case. Corey Lidle whose mediocre pitching did very little to help the Yankees or his career said, "I don't think we took the Tigers for granted, I just think they were up for it a little more than we were. They were fighting tooth and nail down to the last game of the season. We clinched pretty early. Maybe we were in cruise control a little bit too much."
Mike Lupica in today's New York Daily News, writes, "But if the Yankees looked nothing at all like the championship teams we remember against the Tigers, Torre looked nothing at all like a championship manager, especially on Friday night, when he benched Gary Sheffield - who he had put in A-Rod's cleanup spot - and put A-Rod back at cleanup and put the guy replacing Sheffield in the order, Bernie Williams, at No. 8. All of a sudden the manager of the biggest baddest team, the coolest guy going, looked as if he had panicked. In the end, he sat there in the dugout and looked as beaten, as beat-up, as any of them."
But as usual, it is the captain who summed it up best and whether he meant to or not, he is the one who called for a change, "We haven't played well when it counted," shortstop Derek Jeter, one of the few Yankees who hit in the Detroit series, said. "That's it. Bottom line."
Thanks for all the great years Joe, but you know as well as anyone that managers are hired to be fired and it's your time. As Mike Vaccaro points out in today's New York Post, Miller Huggins, it turns out, is the only man who ever led the Yankees to a title (and he won three of them)without getting fired. "And that's only because he was lucky enough to die on the job."
The Yankees need a new voice. The Yankees need new inspiration. The Yankees need intensity. The Yankees need Lou Pinella.
grew up in hauppauge just bought a house in lake grove ...you?
theres still football and hockey
Since the NYY are finished, I guess this board will be on hold till the Spring? ;8^(
~In Mourning, F8
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