The Official New York Yankees Thread

Newch91

Anyone see this?

Oops! Forgot to post the link.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=a ... edplayoffs

Cliffy6745

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

More bad news....Bill Shannon the official scorer at Yankee Stadium died in a house fire. Horrible year. Jesus.

Best official scorer in the business. I just saw him last week and we were joking how Game Five arrived to the seventh inning stretch in a brisk three hours and 15 minutes.

When I used to have to keep track of games on a pitch-by-pitch basis, he had a simple way for keeping track when at-bat reached five pitches on a non full count. He would briefly look at his scorecard, turn around and wave his hand to indicate we were at five pitches.

When he signed his copy of the official scoring book four years ago, he inscribed it: "Thanks for all the fives".

By the way I still keep score that way, partially because it's a way to keep your head in the game.

Forgot to add the way he read the pitching lines was a treat. Here's the line on Pettitte, 7 IP, 2 runs, 4 hits, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts, 1 home run. He would read that a second time and it would end with him saying after a pause and one home run.

Plus nobody hated the sacrifice fly more than him. You'd hear in a low grumble say, sacrifice fly.

Fantasic stuff. I thought you would probably have something great to add about him and was hoping you did. From everything I have read about him today and heard about him in the past, baseball lost a great guy tragically.

I also remember MIchael Kay talking about him quite a bit during one of the Felix Hernandez games. It was the one that there was a passed ball (I believe) on a strike out and the runner reached first. No one could figure out if Hernandez was able to retire every other batter whether it would be counted as a perfect game or not because there were no no hits, errors, or walks but a runner did reach base. I believe Bill Shannon was not even sure and they finally figured out that it would not be a perfect game (which I didn't think it would).

Wobbie

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

Best official scorer in the business.

only you yankees guys.......

xavier mcdaniel

imalive wrote:

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

Best official scorer in the business.

only you yankees guys.......

I'm pretty sure the rest of major league baseball felt the same way.

xavier mcdaniel

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd ... 0&c_id=mlb

neilybabes86

CC has a small tear in his knee

everyone was hurt...no wonder we bombed out

Newch91

neilybabes86 wrote:

CC has a small tear in his knee

everyone was hurt...no wonder we bombed out

He'll be fine by pitchers and catchers.

xavier mcdaniel

and hardly surprising news, the yankees declined the options on berkman, johnson and wood.

Johnny Abruzzo

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

and hardly surprising news, the yankees declined the options on berkman, johnson and wood.

Wood? Seemed like he was huge for them. I don't know what his option was for though.

Cliffy6745

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

and hardly surprising news, the yankees declined the options on berkman, johnson and wood.

Wood? Seemed like he was huge for them. I don't know what his option was for though.

$11.5 or some shit like that. Way too much. Would love to see him somehow back but he will find a closing role somewhere I would imagine.

rival.

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

and hardly surprising news, the yankees declined the options on berkman, johnson and wood.

i was thinking the other day, "holy shit, nick johnson is a yankee." he got swept under the carpet pretty quickly.

surpised about wood though. thought he would be back.

tcaporale

I definitely think it would be worth it to bring Wood back. Our bullpen wasn't exactly a strong point for most of the season and he was a pretty damn solid eighth inning guy.

Cliffy6745

Would love to have him back but not for that money, that's crazy

igotid88

looks like lee's value will be going down now. 7 earned runs.

neilybabes86

Cliffy send me your address in a pm

Gonna send you a cool thing

The Juggler

neilybabes86 wrote:

Cliffy send me your address in a pm

Gonna send you a cool thing

why not just pm cliffy?
:?

neilybabes86

The Jeagler wrote:

neilybabes86 wrote:

Cliffy send me your address in a pm

Gonna send you a cool thing

why not just pm cliffy?
:?

I'm stoned

Newch91

neilybabes86 wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

neilybabes86 wrote:

Cliffy send me your address in a pm

Gonna send you a cool thing

why not just pm cliffy?
:?

I'm stoned

And you don't share with us?

Cliffy6745

Girardi has been signed. Now please get Jeter done ASAP.

Cliffy6745

So the guy that the majority of people in this thread wanted to manage the Yankees instead of Girardi has added another gaffe to his resume...

Donnie Baseball ran out of pitchers and had to call the game while managing in the Arizone Fall League.

This on top of...

Not noticing a team batting out of order during a spring training game and walking off and back on the mound and having to take his closer out of the game which resulted in a loss.

I love Mattingly as much as everyone but I think we can all be thankful Cashman and the Steinbrenners picked Girardi over him.

rival.

i think it just came down to experience. girardi already had the head coaching title... mattingly did not.

have the yanks ever hired a first time manager?

BinauralJam

Cliffy6745 wrote:

So the guy that the majority of people in this thread wanted to manage the Yankees instead of Girardi has added another gaffe to his resume...

Donnie Baseball ran out of pitchers and had to call the game while managing in the Arizone Fall League.

This on top of...

Not noticing a team batting out of order during a spring training game and walking off and back on the mound and having to take his closer out of the game which resulted in a loss.

I love Mattingly as much as everyone but I think we can all be thankful Cashman and the Steinbrenners picked Girardi over him.

Fuck That, i want Donny B.

Cliffy6745

rival. wrote:

i think it just came down to experience. girardi already had the head coaching title... mattingly did not.

have the yanks ever hired a first time manager?

Agreed. The New York Yankees is not really the place to learn on the job.

Don't know. Good question. Xavier should be able to get it.

Cliffy6745

BinauralJam wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

So the guy that the majority of people in this thread wanted to manage the Yankees instead of Girardi has added another gaffe to his resume...

Donnie Baseball ran out of pitchers and had to call the game while managing in the Arizone Fall League.

This on top of...

Not noticing a team batting out of order during a spring training game and walking off and back on the mound and having to take his closer out of the game which resulted in a loss.

I love Mattingly as much as everyone but I think we can all be thankful Cashman and the Steinbrenners picked Girardi over him.

Fuck That, i want Donny B.

haha. Fair enough I guess. Could you imagine if one of these things happened while he was managing the yankees though?

Black Diamond

Cliffy6745 wrote:

rival. wrote:

i think it just came down to experience. girardi already had the head coaching title... mattingly did not.

have the yanks ever hired a first time manager?

Agreed. The New York Yankees is not really the place to learn on the job.

Don't know. Good question. Xavier should be able to get it.

Buck's first job was with Yankees.

Cliffy6745

Black Diamond wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

rival. wrote:

i think it just came down to experience. girardi already had the head coaching title... mattingly did not.

have the yanks ever hired a first time manager?

Agreed. The New York Yankees is not really the place to learn on the job.

Don't know. Good question. Xavier should be able to get it.

Buck's first job was with Yankees.

No shit. I don't think I remembered that. Thanks.

Glad to see you are alright.

BinauralJam

Ya, the newspapers alone would run him out of town.

Newch91

BinauralJam wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

So the guy that the majority of people in this thread wanted to manage the Yankees instead of Girardi has added another gaffe to his resume...

Donnie Baseball ran out of pitchers and had to call the game while managing in the Arizone Fall League.

This on top of...

Not noticing a team batting out of order during a spring training game and walking off and back on the mound and having to take his closer out of the game which resulted in a loss.

I love Mattingly as much as everyone but I think we can all be thankful Cashman and the Steinbrenners picked Girardi over him.

Fuck That, i want Donny B.

Me too.

rival.

Black Diamond wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

rival. wrote:

i think it just came down to experience. girardi already had the head coaching title... mattingly did not.

have the yanks ever hired a first time manager?

Agreed. The New York Yankees is not really the place to learn on the job.

Don't know. Good question. Xavier should be able to get it.

Buck's first job was with Yankees.

double no shit. i think stump was even a first timer? hmm....

Gary Carter

Cliffy6745 wrote:

So the guy that the majority of people in this thread wanted to manage the Yankees instead of Girardi has added another gaffe to his resume...

Donnie Baseball ran out of pitchers and had to call the game while managing in the Arizone Fall League.

This on top of...

Not noticing a team batting out of order during a spring training game and walking off and back on the mound and having to take his closer out of the game which resulted in a loss.

I love Mattingly as much as everyone but I think we can all be thankful Cashman and the Steinbrenners picked Girardi over him.

wow just wow