2007 Yankees

igotid88

2 A-Bombs by A-Rod

PJ_Lukin

igotid88 wrote:

2 A-Bombs by A-Rod

Shit, beat me to it!!

igotid88

Home run by Giambi

xavier mcdaniel

nice night by jose molina too with a 4-for-5 performance. this is also two good starts in a row by mussina.

Bathgate66

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

nice night by jose molina too with a 4-for-5 performance.

yeah

his first 4 hit game.





Lets Go Yankees.

Bathgate66

Babe The Ladies Man


August 12, 2007 -- THE Yankees had their hands full with the Alex Rodriguez scandal a few months back, but A-Rod's alleged dalliances with a busty blonde don't hold a candle to the wild and unquenchable sex life led by home-run king Babe Ruth in the 1920s, a new book on the Bronx Bombers reveals.

The Sultan of Swat bedded an endless parade of women, regularly visited whorehouses, and considered his sex organ and and his home-run bat his two greatest assets, according to "Five O'Clock Lightning," which chronicles the legendary,World Series-winning Yankee team of 1927.

"Liquor, women, partying and sex were always present . . . and where George Herman Ruth was always at the top of his game," writes Harvey Frommer, whose book hits stores in November.

Ruth routinely held wild parties jammed with young beauties in hotels on the road. During one bacchanalian bash, Frommer says, "Seizing the moment, savoring the time, perhaps a bit tipsy, the Babe climbed atop a piano and bellowed at the women, 'OK, girls, anyone who does not want to get [bleep]ed now can leave!' "

When he traveled with the Yanks, one of Ruth's favorite brothels was the oddly named "House of the Good Shepherd" in St. Louis. "Babe exiting the whorehouse would always stop off next door at a bakery at about five in the morning and gulp down a dozen freshly baked donuts. He could never get his fill," Frommer relates.

He says Ruth's favorite women were "mostly prostitutes, who in the 1910s and 1920s spoke of themselves as 'sporting girls.' They certainly were sport for Ruth, who had the telephone numbers of the girls in all the big cities. He also knew intimately the red-light districts in even the smallest towns."

Frommer also quotes baseball historian Fred Lieb as explaining: "Babe was inherently a phallus worshipper . . . His phallus and his home-run bat were his prize possessions, in that order."

Oddly, Ruth's extraordinary sexual appetite was in sharp contrast with that of his teammate Lou Gehrig. "Ill at ease in the company of women, viewed as a virgin by reporters and teammates, the young Gehrig spent as many nights as possible with his parents," Frommer writes.

NCBRI

Pettitte looks great today. Cleveland was not impressive this weekend. There lineup is as inept as the Bad News Bears with Kelly Leak out of the lineup. Uh Oh.........they are threatening as I type this.

The Giambino with another HR today. I still dislike him severely.

Kei Igawa started at Triple-A Scranton on Saturday and is not a candidate to make Tuesday's start. Hope the Pads take him. We know they have been interested in him for a while. They put a bid in for him when he decided to come over from Japan.

With Clemens moved back to a Wednesday start because of the suspension, we should get a great matchup. Clemens vs Bedard who is a Cy Young candidate.



tied for the Wild Card spot

igotid88

tense moment in the bottom of 9th

igotid88

whew that was close.

Bathgate66

whew that was close ( whats up mariano ? )

but it completes the season sweep - yanks winning all 6


Lets Go Yankees

igotid88

gagne blew another one. It could be 4 games by the end of the day.

igotid88

igotid88 wrote:

gagne blew another one. It could be 4 games by the end of the day.

Yes. 4 games back. Millar walk off against his old team.

NY PJ1

igotid88 wrote:

Yes. 4 games back. Millar walk off against his old team.

niceeeeeeeeee

xavier mcdaniel

did anyone read this? an insider's account of the 1977 yankees:

http://www.nj.com/yankees/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/1186893601111330.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

rival.

only 4 back......... helllllllll yeah!!!!!!!

xavier mcdaniel

from today's boston globe:

Mayday.

In this case, that is not a distress signal, even though you could almost imagine dozens of red flares firing over Boston Harbor as the Red Sox landed at Logan Airport following their 6-3, 10-inning loss to the Baltimore Orioles yesterday.

It is, instead, a bleak acknowledgment that the race in the American League East has not been this close since the first of May, when the Sox held a 3 1/2-game advantage over the Toronto Blue Jays and the Yankees were in last place, five games behind.

Now, the Yankees are only four games in arrears, having swept the Cleveland Indians and knocked them out of first place in the AL Central, while the Sox were losing two of three here to the Orioles, who had not won a series against the Sox in more than two years. Both losses came in walkoff fashion, yesterday at the hands of the American Idiot (as he was called in Baltimore Magazine), Kevin Millar. The former Sox motivational speaker hit a three-run home run off Kyle Snyder after Miguel Tejada took Eric Gagne deep for a tying two-run homer in the eighth.

"[The Yankees are] playing a whole lot better than we are right now," said Curt Schilling, who was in line to win for the first time since coming off the disabled list last Tuesday until Gagne coughed up another lead. "It's that simple. They're winning, we're not. But the answers are in this room and we're going to find them."

Gagne has been anything but the solution since he arrived in a much-heralded trading-deadline deal with the Rangers. With the memory of Friday's flameout (four runs in a third of an inning) still fresh in the memory of another Sox-besotted crowd of 48,551 in Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Gagne entered with one out and a runner aboard in the eighth, Hideki Okajima having walked the leadoff man in the inning, Corey Patterson.

It took only one batter for Sox fans to join their French-speaking neighbors in muttering, "O mon Dieu." Gagne missed with his first two fastballs to Tejada, which drastically lessened his options. He threw five more fastballs, the fastest registering 96 on the scoreboard radar gun. Tejada connected with No. 7, driving the ball into the left-center-field seats.

"I don't care if the gun showed 120," said a wrathful Gagne, whose ire was directed at only one target. "It doesn't matter. I'm not doing my job. It's very simple. It doesn't matter. I'm not making pitches. I'm going out there and messing the whole thing up. Everybody's out there playing a great ballgame, and I'm going out there and messing it up. That's not what I do. I need to step up my game."

Getting old?

"It's ridiculous, is what it is," he said, eyes blazing like the flaming peepers on the back of the sports jacket David Ortiz wore last week in Anaheim. "We should have won three games of three. I blew two."

Gagne was not without help in losing this one. Five times on this three-city, nine-game trip, the Sox scored four runs or fewer. They had runners on first and second with no outs in the second but did not score, Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts taking a hit away from Jason Varitek and third baseman Melvin Mora making a Mike Lowell-esque diving catch on Julio Lugo. Manny Ramírez doubled home two runs in the third, then was erased at third when he took off on a ball that fell at catcher Paul Bako's feet and no further. Doubles by Varitek and Lugo produced a third run in the fourth with one out, but the rally died there.

The Sox' failure to pad their lead reached ridiculous extremes in the sixth, when singles by Lowell and Varitek put runners on first and third with none out. The next batter was Eric Hinske, Coco Crisp an unexpected scratch because of what manager Terry Francona called "tired legs," perhaps flu-induced.

Hinske hit a one-hopper back to pitcher Steve Trachsel. He checked Lowell at third, then whirled and threw to second. The relay beat Hinske to first for a double play. When Lugo popped to third, the inning was over.

Francona did not second-guess Lowell for not trying to score when Trachsel threw to second.

"Once he checks the runner, Mike can't go," Francona said. "He doesn't have the speed to go. We just hope [Hinske] can beat it out. Sometimes other players make good plays. [Trachsel] checked the runner like he's supposed to, and throws to second. [Lowell] thinks about it, but he can't go. They turn two. We were hoping they wouldn't."

Two more chances would pass unrequited. In the seventh, Kevin Youkilis singled and Ortiz walked with one out, Trachsel finally yielding to reliever Jim Hoey. One batter later, the Orioles were headed back to the dugout, Ramirez having rolled into a 6-4-3 double play.

Hinske, the first batter in the ninth, was grazed by a pitch. But Lugo bunted foul twice, then flied to the track in left. One out later, Hinske managed to steal second, but reliever Danys Baez induced Youkilis to ground out.

Schilling neither struck out a batter nor walked one in his six innings, but he allowed just five hits, all singles, and an unearned run, the result of Lugo's two-base fielding error, and was in line to gain the victory that would have given the Sox a winning record on this trip after they'd split the first eight games. Friday night, with a 5-1 lead, Francona had Gagne start the eighth, then brought in Okajima. With a two-run advantage yesterday, Francona opted to have Okajima start the eighth to face the two lefthanded batters leading off the inning, Patterson and Nick Markakis. But Okajima walked Patterson, so after Markakis grounded into a force play, Tejada represented the tying run when Gagne entered.

"We had the inning set up the way we wanted to," Francona said.

When Gagne was running off a record 84 consecutive saves for the Dodgers, the Dodger Stadium scoreboard used to flash "Game Over," because it was a given Gagne would save the day.

Now, on a day Gagne had the odd experience of being booed in the ballpark where he'd just given up the lead to the home team, nothing is a given.

But for now, Francona insisted, nothing will change, either. He has no plans, he said, of altering Gagne's role.

"No," Francona said when it was suggested he might do just that. "Nope. We need him to be good. He will be very good."

With Francona holding back Jonathan Papelbon in hopes the Sox would get the lead, Manny Delcarmen pitched the ninth and struck out three, including Roberts after Tike Redman's two-out pinch single.

With Mike Timlin having already pitched the seventh, the summons then went to Snyder, who gave up singles to Patterson and Markakis to open the 10th. Tejada popped out, and Snyder had two strikes on Millar before he launched his 11th home run, a ball that didn't even elicit a glance from Ramírez as he trudged toward the dugout.

"I had to get a strikeout," Snyder said. "I thought I could put him away, but I left the ball over the plate."

So now the Sox return home, with the Yankees closing in, and Gagne a giant Gallic question mark.

"You can't allow one or two outings to shape your mentality, singly or as a club," Schilling said. "It's unfortunate, but it happens.

"It happens. That's just the big leagues. Sometimes, it just snowballs a little bit. He's going to be an essential part of us playing in the World Series, if that happens. Take it for what it's worth. He'll be right back there the next time he gets the ball."

AllNiteThing

Great Yankee weekend! Boston is going down the tubes. Forget the wild card...we're taking the whole thing. :cool:

Anyone else get the Yes network? I love those Yankeeographys...the Billy Martin one this weekend was really great. Between that and the Bronx is Burning show, I'm really learning a lot about those 70's/early 80's teams.

xavier mcdaniel

AllNiteThing wrote:

Great Yankee weekend! Boston is going down the tubes. Forget the wild card...we're taking the whole thing. :cool:

Anyone else get the Yes network? I love those Yankeeographys...the Billy Martin one this weekend was really great. Between that and the Bronx is Burning show, I'm really learning a lot about those 70's/early 80's teams.

If you want to learn more, you should check out a book called "Damn Yankees", which details all the craziness from 1978-1989.

AllNiteThing

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

did anyone read this? an insider's account of the 1977 yankees:

http://www.nj.com/yankees/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/1186893601111330.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

Great article...thanks! :cool:

AllNiteThing

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

If you want to learn more, you should check out a book called "Damn Yankees", which details all the craziness from 1978-1989.

Will do! I became a fan in the mid-late 80's because of Donny Baseball, and had some awareness of Martin and the previous teams, but I was really too young to understand it all. This team has so much history behind it.