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Dodgers are begging the Mets to steal this game, and the Mets are doing their best to politely decline. So far in this half inning, the Mets sac bunted with their hottest hitter, had Wright hit a single with a runner on second that didn't score a run, and then Ike Davis got an RBI on a ground ball that went 30 feet. This is one of the worst baseball games, and series, I've ever watched.
Also, the fake-the-pickoff-to-third-then-look-to-first is the dumbest move I've ever seen. Has anyone see it work before?
Even the umps are having an awful game. The Mets' catcher was just out by a yard and was called safe to prevent a double play. Which was a make up call for a terrible call in the 9th inning. Which was a make up call for an earlier terrible call. This is fun.
Would love to see a salary comparison between those two infields.
New York Yankees infield payroll: $89m A. Rodriguez - $29m Mark Teixera - $22.5m Derek Jeter - $16m Robinson Cano - $14m Russell Martin - $7.5m
Oakland Athletics infield payroll: $11.855m Brandon Inge - $5.5m Kurt Suzuki - $5m Jemile Weeks - $482,500 Eric Sogard - $482,500 Brandon Moss - Unavailable, but since he was a midseason call-up and on a minor league deal I just bumped him up to a full-season league minimum ($390k)
For those of you that care, the Yankees' infield (just those 5 starters) is the 15th highest payroll in the league. They cost about $1 mil more than the entire Cubs team, and $3ish mil less than the Mets, who are still dealing with some bloated contracts of their own.
Yeah, the Yankees play by the same rules as everyone else...
Would love to see a salary comparison between those two infields.
New York Yankees infield payroll: $89m A. Rodriguez - $29m Mark Teixera - $22.5m Derek Jeter - $16m Robinson Cano - $14m Russell Martin - $7.5m
Oakland Athletics infield payroll: $11.855m Brandon Inge - $5.5m Kurt Suzuki - $5m Jemile Weeks - $482,500 Eric Sogard - $482,500 Brandon Moss - Unavailable, but since he was a midseason call-up and on a minor league deal I just bumped him up to a full-season league minimum ($390k)
For those of you that care, the Yankees' infield (just those 5 starters) is the 15th highest payroll in the league. They cost about $1 mil more than the entire Cubs team, and $3ish mil less than the Mets, who are still dealing with some bloated contracts of their own.
Yeah, the Yankees play by the same rules as everyone else...
Just more dedicated to winning. The Yankees are what make America special.
What did the Yankees ever do to you? All they do is give and all you want to do is take.
Thank corncat Boston didn't resign him, got enough crap here.
I'm still convinced if he stayed in Boston he would've been the same player he was before the new contract.
He came to NY, the field got in his head, then the field wall smacked his head, and now he's like a concussed, battered fool who is more timid than a 2 pound chihuahua.
FACT: Derek Jeter (3,211), A-Rod (2,869) and Ichiro (2,533) enter tonight's game with 8,613 combined hits.
I have to act like this when I constantly here about the Yankees buying championships and shiz like we cheat.
You just got swept and you're trash talking. That doesn't strike you as odd?
Yeah that series hurt but we were in every game and you're talking trash about the Yankees who aren't even in your league and you just lost 3 in a row.
You just got swept and you're trash talking. That doesn't strike you as odd?
Yeah that series hurt but we were in every game and you're talking trash about the Yankees who aren't even in your league and you just lost 3 in a row.
Actually, if you didn't have such a hard on for my comments in this thread you would have seen I was answering a question someone posed.
I'm a Yankee fan (in case nobody noticed) but I always respected the A's. They can find talent in a women's volleyball league. Good for them. But it's not like the Yankees don't grow their own.
Yeah that series hurt but we were in every game and you're talking trash about the Yankees who aren't even in your league and you just lost 3 in a row.
Actually, if you didn't have such a hard on for my comments in this thread you would have seen I was answering a question someone posed.
I saw that comment, but it's the "Yanks play by the same rules" comment that I felt I needed to address.
I'm a Yankee fan (in case nobody noticed) but I always respected the A's. They can find talent in a women's volleyball league. Good for them. But it's not like the Yankees don't grow their own.
My intention wasn't to say they didn't grow their own, 2/5 infielders are from the Yankees farm system, and when your home grown players become superstars you pay them. You hear that, Wilpons? You PAY them *throws laptop*. And I grew up watching the '96 Yankees and the subsequent teams after that one, where it wasn't a superstar-laden quasi-all-star team like it is today. I genuinely liked those teams and rooted for them in the WS all but one year (I'm sure you can guess which one). I was just pointing out that their infield is closing in on $100 million and with Cashman's lip service about a budget, you'd think things like $7.5 mil to a mediocre catcher wouldn't happen. And now that the generation of Yankee fans that grew up with those WS teams are adults, their mutant perspective of baseball is the most visible representation of Yankee fans.
I actually talk Yankee baseball every day since it's unavoidable with my group of friends, and with most of them (like Quacker) you can have good baseball discussion. But there's lemons in every fan base and guys like funky are lemons.