The 2008 New York Yankees

stickboy

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

probably because you felt badly how steinbrenner treated him by making him ride the columbus shuttle in the 1980s.

WOW :eek:

ok I'm one step below you as a Yankee fan..howd u remeber that???


I mean..I remember Andy Stankiewicz...lol..does that make me official?

stickboy

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

anyone else notice that the yankee fans are still present and accounted for even though they lost? Some fans go into hiding when they lose, but magically reappear when they get a safe lead

I aint going nowhere
I died with this team in the scrubby 80's, was right there in the 90's for our good yrs and if we go thru another 10 yrs of suckin I'll still be a diehard.

xavier mcdaniel

stickboy wrote:

I aint going nowhere
I died with this team in the scrubby 80's, was right there in the 90's for our good yrs and if we go thru another 10 yrs of suckin I'll still be a diehard.

i remember those teams 1989-1992 decently and even though they didn't even make the playoffs, 1993 is still one of the most exciting seasons.

stickboy

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

i remember those teams 1989-1992 decently and even though they didn't even make the playoffs, 1993 is still one of the most exciting seasons.

damn, okay so maybe I do got u beat by just a lil. I got dran to the yankees my 1st yr in NY, 1980 and even tho we sucked..I still loved watching Steve Kemp, Claudell Washington, Steve Sux, Wayne Tolleson, Soul Glo Mel Hall, and how bout the prospects? Maas, Meulens, Brien Taylor, etc

ah the good ole WPIX days..miss em sometimes

xavier mcdaniel

stickboy wrote:

damn, okay so maybe I do got u beat by just a lil. I got dran to the yankees my 1st yr in NY, 1980 and even tho we sucked..I still loved watching Steve Kemp, Claudell Washington, Steve Sux, Wayne Tolleson, Soul Glo Mel Hall, and how bout the prospects? Maas, Meulens, Brien Taylor, etc

ah the good ole WPIX days..miss em sometimes

you definitely got me beat. i was 11 when the yankees lost 95 games in 1990. I don't remember Kemp much, but I still recall Mel Hall homering off Jeff Reardon on Memorial Day 1991. And Meulens was a regular on the Columbus shuttle back in those days.

BetterManningNYG

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

The Aruban Irabu

that's pretty good. :cool: you should trademark it before abraham steals it from you.

i wouldn't mind seeing kennedy get another shot. it sounds like they fixed a mechanical problem or something. alfredo aceves is another possibility.

BetterManningNYG

stickboy wrote:

WOW :eek:

ok I'm one step below you as a Yankee fan..howd u remeber that???


I mean..I remember Andy Stankiewicz...lol..does that make me official?

i remember hensley meulens... does that count for anything?

EDIT: it seems like i already got beat to the hensley meulens reference. :mad: that's fine... i'll be the first one to name-drop oscar azocar and steve balboni...

xavier mcdaniel

stickboy wrote:

WOW :eek:

ok I'm one step below you as a Yankee fan..howd u remeber that???


I mean..I remember Andy Stankiewicz...lol..does that make me official?

i remember him, he was on the opening day roster in 1992 when gallego got hurt. you're not one step below me, i just have a really good memory for this stuff.

rival.

can i throw a steve farr in the mix?????


i was not expecting a sweep, but a solid weekend none the less for the yanks.


side note:

nady looked awful in left field tonight. was that his first game in fenway??????

xavier mcdaniel

singularity wrote:

can i throw a steve farr in the mix?????


i was not expecting a sweep, but a solid weekend none the less for the yanks.


side note:

nady looked awful in left field tonight. was that his first game in fenway??????

i think it might have been, as for farr, i remember him as the closer in 1991 before steve howe came on the scene.

rival.

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

i think it might have been, as for farr, i remember him as the closer in 1991 before steve howe came on the scene.

ahhhh early 90's yanks.

mel hall, roberto kelly, mike humphreys, jesse barfield, jeff nielsen

i have the yankees 1992 yearbook. there is a section towards the back that has photos of all of the players families.

randy velarde's wife was SMOKING!

xavier mcdaniel

singularity wrote:

ahhhh early 90's yanks.

mel hall, roberto kelly, mike humphreys, jesse barfield, jeff nielsen

i have the yankees 1992 yearbook. there is a section towards the back that has photos of all of the players families.

randy velarde's wife was SMOKING!

other than mattingly, mike stanley was one of my favorites in the Showalter era.

stickboy

singularity wrote:

ahhhh early 90's yanks.

mel hall, roberto kelly, mike humphreys, jesse barfield, jeff nielsen

i have the yankees 1992 yearbook. there is a section towards the back that has photos of all of the players families.

randy velarde's wife was SMOKING!

Randy fuckin Velarde..damn!

gotta love my old schoolers who go back with me...

throw in Jack Clark, Matt Nokes, John Candelaria and Pasquale and Melido "SNIIIFFFF SNIFF" perez bros and we have the ALL Star scrub lineup


oh yea

Luis Polonia too

xavier mcdaniel

stickboy wrote:

Randy fuckin Velarde..damn!

gotta love my old schoolers who go back with me...

throw in Jack Clark, Matt Nokes, John Candelaria and Pasquale and Melido "SNIIIFFFF SNIFF" perez bros and we have the ALL Star scrub lineup


oh yea

Luis Polonia too

you want an all-scrub team? here's mine from 1985-1995

C - Mark Salas
1B - Kevin Maas
2B - Steve Sax
SS - Bobby Meacham
3B - Mike Blowers
OFs, Mel Hall, Deion Sanders, Roberto Kelly
DH - Ken Phelps

SP - Tim Leary, Andy Hawkins, Chuck Cary, Dave LaPoint, Steve Trout
RP - Steve Farr, John Habyan, Eric Plunk, Jeff Robinson, Clay Parker, Lance McCullers

Manager - Stump Merrill

stickboy

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

you want an all-scrub team? here's mine from 1985-1995

C - Mark Salas
1B - Kevin Maas
2B - Steve Sax
SS - Bobby Meacham
3B - Mike Blowers
OFs, Mel Hall, Deion Sanders, Roberto Kelly
DH - Ken Phelps

SP - Tim Leary, Andy Hawkins, Chuck Cary, Dave LaPoint, Steve Trout
RP - Steve Farr, John Habyan, Eric Plunk, Jeff Robinson, Clay Parker, Lance McCullers

Manager - Stump Merrill

daayyumm!
The only 2 Id swap with you would be Deion and Roberto cause they at least ahd a few good moments with the yankees. The rest never did shit.

Thats def a last place team tho if I ever saw on..prolly not one guy batting over.... .212, lol!

xavier mcdaniel

stickboy wrote:

daayyumm!
The only 2 Id swap with you would be Deion and Roberto cause they at least ahd a few good moments with the yankees. The rest never did shit.

Thats def a last place team tho if I ever saw on..prolly not one guy batting over.... .212, lol!

salas was awful, maas couldn't hit after hitting those home runs, sax couldn't throw, meacham was not a good player, ken phelps was traded for buhner, steve trout was the pitcher that steinbrenner claimed to pinella in 1987 that his acquisition would win the yankees the AL, hawkins tossed a no-hitter and lost.

The others were crappy, Hall treated Bernie Williams like crap in 1992, Tim Leary almost lost 20 games in 1990.

Basically a lot of inept moves in those days. Oh and I just realized I left out Ed Whitson, the man that challenged Billy Martin to a fight in Baltimore in 1985.

stickboy

Yo, I remember how pissed I was and for how many yrs on the Phelps for Buhner trade...Jay went on to have monster yrs for Seattle and Phelps just...simply sucked!

Ed whitson, LOL!!..how bout Dan Pasqua

xavier mcdaniel

stickboy wrote:

Yo, I remember how pissed I was and for how many yrs on the Phelps for Buhner trade...Jay went on to have monster yrs for Seattle and Phelps just...simply sucked!

Ed whitson, LOL!!..how bout Dan Pasqua

At the time that was bad, but looking back if Buhner has those monster years in right field for the Yankees, then you could think they might not get Paul O'neill.

Fighting Hellfish

ahhh, the memories.

Stankiewicz---how could anyone forget Stanky the Yankee? I bought my then 3 year old nephew a Staniewicz name and # T-shirt shortly after he was demoted, or traded. it was like $3 at Stan's

Matt Nokes---favorite memory--Clemens drills in the ribs with heater. A pissed off matt Nokes catches the ball between his ribs and his arm, and fires it back to Clemens, who didn't realize what happened right away (that it was Nokes firing it back at him and not his catcher)

Steve Farr/Steve Howe---my friends brother is a bleacher guy from way back. he once told me of a gimmick/chant they used to have back in those days: Howe---Farr---will they hit it? or something like that

Bob Wickman---I think it was 1993, he couldn't lose a game. he'd give up 6 rusn in 3 innings, and they would come back. Or he'd give up 4 runs in 5 innings and get a win. i remember him being 8-0 while teh mets had a guy naemed Anthony young who pitched halfway decent, not great by any means, but he had a 27 game losing streak spanning a couple seasons

Mike Stanley---I too was a big fan. when they showed the Girardi montage tonight, it reminded me of how much I hated the move to bring in girardi to replace Stanley. Didn't Stanley come back for a brief sting during the dynasty years?

Kevin Maas---I remember being so excited. We weren't just gonna get to watch his Hall of fame career, but he had a brother who was gonna be great too. Jason Maas

mel Hall---favorite memory. Trying to score on a base hit and he blows out a wheel 20-30 feet short of home plate. Goes down liek he was shot. Tries pathetically to crawl to the plate, but gets tagged out

here's a name that hasn't been mentioned----Alvaro Espinoza. Phil Rizzuto LOVED him

stickboy

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

At the time that was bad, but looking back if Buhner has those monster years in right field for the Yankees, then you could think they might not get Paul O'neill.

thank god that one turned out well at least cause at tth time I was still kind of a Kelly fan and I didnt like the trade...well without O neil I dont think we win...the man brought such FIRE and intensity to the locker room! I MISS seeing him beat the shit out of the Gatorade coolers!

Fighting Hellfish

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

you want an all-scrub team? here's mine from 1985-1995

C - Mark Salas
1B - Kevin Maas
2B - Steve Sax
SS - Bobby Meacham
3B - Mike Blowers
OFs, Mel Hall, Deion Sanders, Roberto Kelly
DH - Ken Phelps

SP - Tim Leary, Andy Hawkins, Chuck Cary, Dave LaPoint, Steve Trout
RP - Steve Farr, John Habyan, Eric Plunk, Jeff Robinson, Clay Parker, Lance McCullers

Manager - Stump Merrill

Don't remember Mark Salas. Do remember Butch Wynegar. How about hal Morris? he'd make a great backup to Maas. I thought he was gonna be the next Mattingly. At least Sax got to play for the Mr. Burns All Star Team. Blowers was part of the Tino deal, right? I catch him some nights on the baseball package doing Mariners post game. Deion Sanders. possibly my most hated Yankee ever. Hitting .151, he demands a $ 2 million contract, or he's walking out, not playing any more

Fighting Hellfish

stickboy wrote:

Yo, I remember how pissed I was and for how many yrs on the Phelps for Buhner trade...Jay went on to have monster yrs for Seattle and Phelps just...simply sucked!

Ed whitson, LOL!!..how bout Dan Pasqua

not just monster years, but he owned Yankee pitching. he hit some shots in the 90's that still haven't landed

stickboy

hellfish you just gave me the crazy flashbacks! Esp the Nokes/Clemens incident, LOL! and Soul Glo trying to crawl home! hahahah
I can hear the Scooter in the background....
"HOLY COW THAT BALL IS...oh...wow THAT one looked like it was gonna carry..."
I loved the scooter

stickboy

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

not just monster years, but he owned Yankee pitching. he hit some shots in the 90's that still haven't landed

word I wanted to break somthing every time I saw him light us up!

uhm Hal morris was amazing after he landed on the Reds...until he had a really bad injury..was instrumental in their WS win with my boy Chris Sabo who played hockey and backed up John Vanbiesbrouck in the minors

Stanley did get brought back I think...uh ..99?? I could be wrong tho

rival.

i love mike stanley's batting stance. i use to try so hard to copy it in little league.

i remember pat kelly had an autograph session at a mall by my house when i was about 11. i waited on line for like 2 hours to get his signature. i was so proud to show off my pat kelly autograph baseball & rookie card to my friends! hahahaha.

rival.

stickboy wrote:

Luis Polonia too

wasn't he arrested not once, but TWICE for having sex with underage girls in his hotel room while the yanks were on the road?????

Fighting Hellfish

singularity wrote:

wasn't he arrested not once, but TWICE for having sex with underage girls in his hotel room while the yanks were on the road?????

and then returned to the team after his jail stint. i never saw a yankee player abused so badly by the home crowd.

stickboy

singularity wrote:

wasn't he arrested not once, but TWICE for having sex with underage girls in his hotel room while the yanks were on the road?????

I know he def did one time...he got caught doing it again??lol

Soul Glo wasn't too far behind:

http://www.waswatching.com/archives/2007/06/mel_hall_arrest.html

stickboy

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

and then returned to the team after his jail stint. i never saw a yankee player abused so badly by the home crowd.

oh man..check out this list and then tell me about how that msg boards got you trippin out

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=37392

Fighting Hellfish

stickboy wrote:

oh man..check out this list and then tell me about how that msg boards got you trippin out

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=37392

wow. I remember Spiezio being cut by St. louis this year after a DWI. Zero tolerance after Hancock last year, even though laRussa himself got one last year before hancock's death