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This is true..lol em.
You are 100% right. Thats always a big thing. I hate it when you hear a ump say well I interpret the strike zone to be such and such,,,no no no no, It says in the rulebook what it should be. It is NOT what the ump interprets it to be but what it is
Oh, the irony
He is not right. I missed the end of the game but from what I have seen his cutters are ending up right over the plate. Out of everyone on the team it is him I am worried about the most. What do you do when your closer can't close.
If you read Susie's post, much of the press coverage is on Manny now and also Much of the press is going to be in LA..A-rod just became yesterdays news for a couple of days.
The said that on espn also. There will be less pressure on AROD.
Huge blow for the Dodgers as he is the focus of their whole campaign out there. Mannywood billbords and all out there.
Funny I knew you would say that..lol Depending on who you listen to on the radio some are willing to give him a free pass and some want to butcher him. You always have to wonder but in Manny's case I am really surprised.
I am sure you will feel Manny was completly clean when he was in Boston..lol
Was driving when I heard and before they found out what it was you should have heard the self professed Red Sox fan Peter Gammons who has always excusing Manny until Manny left. He said we should give Manny the benifit of the doubt because Manny said so. What a putz. Now we know and they have not interviewed him since.
It was a mercy move for sure.
Did you hear the chants last night? Some fans chanting we want Joe Torre in the stands? Seems also the honeymoon is over. I heard Flaherty use a old Boss trick last night. I am sure the bobsie twins put Flaherty up to it. He said he never has seen the yankees argue balls and strikes like this years club and it;s is led by the manager Joe Giardi and that needs to stop.. I heard him say it and I just knew one of or both the twins told him to say that. Now granted, the same ump was behind the plate as the other night and he was bad. But he was bad for both Teams. Calling a strike on a ball that is 4 or 5 inches off the plate is bad.
Yea, that was bogus for sure.. I don't care how many he struck out. When the dameage was already done. That was a crock for sure.
Bio hazard: A-Rod author has credibility issues
by Jason Whitlock
A-Rod biographer/hunter Selena Roberts is beginning to remind me of Rev. Al Sharpton.
Sharpton separated the crime from the culture, too. When he gallivanted around New York in the '80s seeking justice for alleged victim Tawana Brawley, his target was the culture of racism more than the six white men falsely accused of rape.
Tuesday, as I listened to Roberts defend her New York Times columns that painted the Duke lacrosse players as rapists, cowards and liars during an interview on Jim Rome's nationally syndicated radio show, I couldn't help but notice she went with the Sharp-tongue defense.
"I wrote about the culture at Duke, and there's no doubt about that. I stand by that today," Roberts said. "I separated the criminal investigation from the culture."
Maybe it's a New York, freedom-fighter thing, this amazing ability to ignore the innocence of the criminally accused while making your justifiable point that America suffers from and with racism and sexism.
Roberts' writings/rantings on Duke lacrosse have become relevant again because she's asked us to trust her anonymous investigative reporting and speculation about Alex Rodriguez, the confessed steroid cheat and home run hitter.
According to Roberts' new book and her interview blitzkrieg, Rodriguez used steroids in high school, tipped pitches to opposing batters, tipped Hooters waitresses a paltry 15 percent, was nicknamed "Bitch Tits" in the locker room and is caught up in being perfect because his father abandoned him as a child.
Her sourcing for the most damaging allegations, by her own admission, is either anonymous or non-existent. She wants us to trust her, and her New York Times- and Sports Illustrated-highlighted résumé.
Unlike Bob Costas, the producers at ESPN and the steroids-obsessed baseball journalists, I don't trust Roberts or her book, and I expressed some of my reasons in a Kansas City Star column that ran on Sunday.
The Times and SI can kiss my ass. Jayson Blair worked at The Times. Mike Price won a lawsuit against SI for the lies the magazine published about him. And years ago, an SI writer wrote a profile about me for the Columbia Journalism Review and, among other journalistic crimes, lifted a quote from an old column and passed it off as something I said to him.
Never trust a publication. Hell, the more prestigious the publication, the more pressure there is for the writers to cut corners in pursuit of a good story.
Place your trust in the writer. And Roberts' reaction to the exoneration of the Duke lacrosse players calls into question her credibility. By refusing to acknowledge her mistakes in the Duke case, she creates the impression that her agenda trumps the truth.
She looks like a feminist version of Al Sharpton.
Jim Rome asked Roberts about the questionable sourcing for the allegations she levels against A-Rod.
"You give people a litmus test, Jim," she said. "You say to them, you go back to them over and over again and you say, 'Is it consistent what they're saying to me? Have they changed at all? Do they have a credibility issue? Is there anything in their past that might make me wary of this person?' "
You see, Selena Roberts thinks like me. Is there anything in her past that would make me wary of her allegations against A-Rod?
Rome asked her specifically about my column contending that the Duke lacrosse case should make us suspicious of her reporting about Rodriguez.
"First of all (Jason) needs to go back and read the columns that I wrote about Duke lacrosse," she said. "It doesn't exactly jibe with what he's saying now. I have always separated what the crime was ... and what the culture was. It didn't have to rise to the level of a crime to rise to the level of a column. And I wrote about the culture at Duke, and there's no doubt about that. I stand by that today."
She later added: "What I did about Duke is I separated the criminal investigation from a culture. Now we know what is irrefutable about that night. These women had pornographic pictures taken of them and distributed on the Internet. These women had racial slurs yelled at them. That is indisputable. There were broomsticks waved at them. That is indisputable. The issues that happened that night, separate from the crime, were in my opinion — and people can disagree with this — were worth writing about."
Here's what's also indisputable: At no time in her original Duke lacrosse-bashing column did she mention anything about pornographic pictures, racial slurs or broomsticks waved at strippers. She wrote about rape, robbery, strangulation and a hate crime. You can read the column for yourself here.
You can read a detailed analysis of Roberts' many Duke lacrosse errors at this blog.
It is embarrassingly disingenuous for Roberts to suggest that her columns about Duke lacrosse weren't founded on the belief that the players sexually assaulted the false accuser. Her refusal to admit this mistake and apologize makes me wonder what other truths she's willing to fudge.
During her interview with Jim Rome, she claimed she went into her investigation of Rodriguez believing he had never used steroids. She said that A-Rod's interview on 60 Minutes convinced her of his innocence.
I didn't think he was dirty," Roberts said. "I thought he was clean."
This is nearly impossible for me to believe. Roberts is a cynic, at least she is in her column writing. When she worked for The New York Times, she wrote numerous columns about A-Rod with the same theme: Rodriguez is a phony. Read this, this and this and then read this blog for examples of her A-Rod cynicism.
In those columns, does she come off like someone who would take Rodriguez at his word? She comes off like someone who doesn't believe a word that comes out of A-Rod's mouth.
What I'm about to write is pure speculation.
Selena Roberts believes America is a safe haven for sexism (I happen to agree, but that's beside the point). She wanted the Duke lacrosse players to be shining examples of how deep-rooted and protected our sexism is, and she was more than willing to ignore their innocence to make her point (this repulses me).
Selena Roberts believes professional sports — the money, fame and power they primarily give young men — are corrosive of good values and a haven for sexism (I happen to agree, but that's beside the point). She wants Alex Rodriguez to stand as a shining example of what's wrong with American sports, and she just might be willing to ignore flattering truths about A-Rod and publish hearsay and gossip to make her point (and this is unfair).
She's written a celebrity-gossip book, "A-Rod: Game of Innuendo." Maybe you despise Rodriguez so much that you don't care about her methods and whether the rest of the alleged mainstream media characterize her work properly.
I bet the Duke lacrosse players and Tawana Brawley's victims could explain to you why you should care.
You or someone you love could be the next criminally innocent, shining example of a New York freedom fighter's social agenda.
You can e-mail Jason Whitlock at ballstate0@aol.com.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9542614/Bio-hazard:-A-Rod-author-has-credibility-issues
Give it time. Season is still young. Boston is do to come off their high horse. Most times than not they fall back to reality.
Hughes can't pitch like a ace every day. I didn't expect much out of him since he warmed up yesterday like he was pitching and then they postponed the game. Then today he went and did his warmups and posponed the game last moment. So lets see how he does his next few starts.
I edited and deleted as I was posting to what you said earlier but after I read what you had said in later posts I changed it becausee I saw you do understand and maybe I was jumping to conclusions also.
edit never mind
Maybe he has. I am sure there was no press release. I can tell you that dealing with a drug addicted family memeber is nothing that I wish on anyone. I have gone through it 1st hand and giving them money is the worst thing you can do. Every little dime you give them does nothing but feed the lifestyle. Not just to go to drugs. The lifestyle itself. As long as they have money they look at it like they are succeeding nomatter where they got the money.
I agree, as susie pointed out you don't really hear about Jaba's mother. So I think it is safe to say they have nothing to do with each other and why they talked so much of the father raising him..
I think that this explains why to.
Joba Chamberlain's mother arrested on suspicion of selling methamphetamine
by The Associated Press
Monday May 04, 2009, 6:10 PM
LINCOLN, Neb. -- The mother of New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain is jailed in Nebraska and facing a felony charge after being arrested on suspicion of selling methamphetamine to an undercover police officer in February.
Lincoln Police Capt. David Beggs said Monday that 44-year-old Jacqueline Standley was arrested at her apartment Saturday night.
Beggs said she allegedly sold 1 gram of a substance believed to be meth to an undercover officer for $110 on Feb. 11. The substance tested positive for meth in testing at the state laboratory.
She was charged Monday with delivery of an exceptionally hazardous drug. Her bail was set at $5,000, and she was assigned a public defender, whose name was not on her jail record.
I missed it. I agree though. So we have the dreaded un-named sources again.. I hate those. But if he is guilty for real of pitch tipping then something needs to be done. I was reading the post and Joel Sherman likened Giardi to some dumb hick from Iowa pretty much for what he said at the press conference. Guess he is friends with Salena Roberts..lol This has turned into such a dumb soap opera already and the guy hasn't even had a at bat this year. One thing that I didn't agree with Giardi about though was mentioning A-Rod has kids he wants to sheild from this. Hello A-Rod, if you want to sheild your kids from this you just don't do it. Your one of the most well known names in baseball. You really don't believe people will find out?
lol I think we need to send a petition to Susie to please remove all Yankees from her Team..lol
I think the Red Sox and their fans are so busy concentrating on A-Rod so much they forgot they were very embarrassed by giving up a record for steals. Think they forgot they were playing baseball the last 3 days.
I am not sure this is true but I saw this post somewhere else.It sure does make you wonder. I am sure some of the stuff is true and known already. But I also wonder how many of the bigtime un-named sources will be in the book to.
Posted by Lipso on 05/03/09 at 3:16PM I'm far from an A-Rod supporter...but Selena Roberts is a reporter who indicted the lacrosse guys from Duke and proclaimed them guilty from day one. And we know where that case went....I would've sued her her for libel....I think she has an A-Rod fetish...She should be writing for the National Enquirer...[i/]
I think the Mets should issue a public apoligy to Willie Randolph, the way they fired him and went about things. It is obvious the team is not as good as they think it is. I think if anything Willie had a way of getting the best out of what he had to deal with.
I think Giardi is also getting past the I'm your friend manager and being just the manager.I liked the one sided conversation he had with Andy the other night. You can tell he was not happy that Andy was being to watchful of the base runner. I wouldn't say he was yelling at Andy but he seemed like his voice level was a bit higher and he ever acted a bit annoyed. I don't mind they let Melky take a seat at the begining of the season having thought that he lost his starting job.He was dreadful last year. Same with Cano's benching. Phil Hughes, He will not pitch for AAA ever again unless it is for Rehab after getting hurt. He will not get sent back down. Hughes is very mature even for his still young age but I think he had alot of pressure put on him and the saviour and he threw to hard to act like it and hurt himself. He worked hard this off season.
Well lets think about it. After the last baseball strike and people were not going to the games and people were fed up, what gets credit for saving the game? Big Mac and Sammy Sosa.It filled the seats. It filled the airwaves. No wonder the owners turned on to this so fast and turned a blind eye to it. Now on this board we have a pretty good group of real baseball fans that believe in the integrity of the game and agree with you as I do. Some of these owners were desperate to fill the seats though. Some of the same owners that always claim poverty to begin with and cry to the press when Yankees, Mets or Boston have to much money to spend.. Do I agree with them. No, I don't. But thats how it went.
I thought the same thing about Teixeira, I think the only thing saving him right now from the boo birds is he has a decent on base percentage for how low his batting average is. I really like the way Cano has been since his benching and for him to even bring it up ther other night in the interview. That doesn't happen alot with any pro player ever admitting that something like that has anything to ever do with them playing better ball.
Through the Torre years the Angels are one team that gave them just as much fits as Boston has. I am glad we got the 1st 2 of 4 from them.
Ok, I want to know right now how many Yankees you have on your fantasy baseball team. And can you replace them with some Red Sox ones before we play them next?..lol
Nick Swisher is someone I have seen here and there play but I have to say I am happy we have him. He plays the game hard and the way it should be played.His batting average is sure to come back down to earth but I am impressed watching him everyday.
I have to agree, there is such a thing called overkill. I do believe a player should live up to certain standards on and off the field. But to write a book like this is just looking for a mean ticket to be set for life and trying to play the hot hand she had bit to far.
Wondering if anyone ever checks this board anymore?, I am pretty slow on the stocks now and don't do day trading like I did. Still play around with the market though. Just not like it used to be.
I am a bit concerned about Mo right now. His cutter isn't cutting like it should be. He is leaving the ball up and over the plate. I don't know if his arm is tired or what. But the speed isn't there right now either.
lol, I thought it was a 3 game series.lol Sooooo yanno.
I really hope not. I am really keeping my fingers crossed on that one because we need him. It would be really bad if he doesn't come back.
I agree, that would be bad. I had heard the 8th is when they plan on bringing him up.Even if Boston were to take 2 of 3 from us I wouldn't want them to rush him back and risk losing him for the season.That would be very dumb.
Although Melancon can't pitch every day for us I think he will be a factor out of our pen. Last night was the begining of the end for Jaba in the starting rotation. Wang will come back, Hughes wont get sent back down and will be our #5 pitcher. Jaba is not the same pitcher trying to use location. All will be well.
What a difference a day makes, after yesterdays doom and gloom Phil Hughes came in and saved the season, Didn't you see it on the news?.lol Yesterdays press had Yankees losing 142 games this year and now we are off on a roll. But in all seriousness though, Boston took it to us and we lost but 2 of the 3 were very winable games for the yankees. I think we are going to have a very good homestand and we will beat Boston 2 of 3.