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Mariano Rivera Blows a Save!!!

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This happens so rarely, I thought it was worth noting. image And we all love to have more threads about the Yankees.

Nice comeback by the Twinkies.
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  • iamthegreatcornholioiamthegreatcornholio Posts: 3,366
    Hopefully more to come image

    edit to add - blown saves that is...
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Well he was booed by the hometown 'fans' last year in April after blowing a couple saves against Boston. Shows how classy those dopes are - he's been their most consistent and most valuable player for a decade and he gets booed in April.

    You stay classy, New York!

  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    It happens...image

    And Ax, you just keep cheering your Mariners...you dont boo because they ALWAYS suck! image
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    No, you don't boo your own players you dope, and you sure as hell don't boo your BEST PLAYER.

    Good god you NY 'fans' are incredible (though not in a good way).

    Keep thinking you're being a 'real' fan by booing the hometown team.

  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Axhole

    Dont you realize that we may boo our best players because of their recent performances and not because we dont like them? I see nothing wrong with fans showing their disapproval of a players performance. Maybe NY fans expect more than mediocracy from their players? Its no different when it comes to the Mets, Knicks, Giants, Jets, Rangers, or Islanders.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    YOU NEVER BOO THE HOME TEAM.

    I know you NY dopes are so used to buying, err 'earning' wins that you can't stand the fact you lose, but it happens. And to have booed him in April was utterly and completely classless.

    Yes you boo Rivera IF YOU ARE A RED SOX FAN. You DON'T boo him if you are a yankee fan. It's obvious you booed him. Shame on you, sir. Shame on you.
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Im so ashamed!!!!








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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>Im so ashamed!!!! >>



    As well you should be. I've never understood the mentality of a so-called 'fan' that allows him to boo the home team. Disappointed, sure, but how the hell are you encouraging a guy to do better by BOOING him?

    The boos only proved how spoiled rotten yankee fans are. To boo the guy who's saved your team's collective asses time and time again in the postseason is inexcusable.
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Sucks being you, doesnt it.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>Sucks being you, doesnt it. >>



    No, actually it's pretty good being me.

    Sucks for you that you are so spoiled by buying, I mean winning (I hate when I get those mixed up!) that you think you have the right to boo your star reliever when he has a bad couple of games.

    Sucks to be you for you that you think you are owed a perfect season by a pitcher who has been lights out consistently.

    Sucks to be you for you think that you are somehow being a 'good fan' by 'encouraging' your team's players by booing them.

    Sucks to be you that you have no team loyalty.

  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>YOU NEVER BOO THE HOME TEAM.

    >>



    sigh

    what a PUTZ. No doubt this dope just started "following" (and I mean that lightly) his Mariners. And CERTAINLY Axtell did not grow up with sports. image

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Maybe I am wrong...is this an east coast thing? Is this just a NY thing? Have west coast teams NEVER been booed due to displeasure of a player's or team's performance? I think I need to start watching more west coast games to see if this is true or not. I would be especially interested now to hear if Seattle fans ever boo their home teams to show their displeasure?
    What do they do? Toss their hands in the air, toast beer bottles, and laugh saying "HAHA! Maybe they will do better next time!"?
    I may have to purchase the baseball package on my cable just to find this out!
  • estangestang Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭
    I watched the game last night, and was shocked they beat Rivera. One of the better baseball games I've seen in a long time with Santana starting and looking superb at time. Then Jarret Wright being unbelievably awful but only giving up 3 runs because the Twins bad baserunning and poor 2-out clutch hitting. Wright threw a ball that was 3 feet over the cather's head. He looked awful.

    Luis Castillo was a great pick-up. He started off the 9th with an intentionally chopped hit/bunt in front of home plate for his 4th hit. Then Joe Maurer had the most disciplined at bat you'll ever see. Passing on Rivera's well placed (but just out of strike zone) pitches. He then took it the other way to left field on a full-count as Castillo was running on the pitch. Then the incredibly bad (should be sent to minors or released) Rondell White looked as bad as me up there (he's batting about. 080) and then the over-rated Torri Hunter and his undisciplined self whiffed for the 5th time in 13 at bats against Rivera. Morneau (whom is equally undisciplined --- question that lineup string) places it perfectly in the hole for the win (likely broke his bat on it). Win Twins! Win Twins!

    5 in a row to go 6-5. Twins may have had the hardest start of the season as far as schedule thus far. Playing Cleveland, White Sox, As, Yankees.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hey stang, that Rondell White at bat was eye opening. He is such a great person and it stinks to see him as a shell of his former Expo self. Also, you are right about those two Mo pitches to Mauer. They were perfectly placed and he laid off.

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  • CardCoreCollectorCardCoreCollector Posts: 462
    Maybe I am wrong...is this an east coast thing? Is this just a NY thing? Have west coast teams NEVER been booed due to displeasure of a player's or team's performance? I think I need to start watching more west coast games to see if this is true or not.

    Of course it's not just an east coast thing

    I've seen the Lakers get boo'd at home many times

    Dave
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    WELL.....How dare those stupid, ignorant LA Laker fans boo their team! NO loyalty what so ever!!!!
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I happen to agree that the booing of Mariano Rivera was not justified. If anything, HE has earned the right to screw up in April!

    BUT, to come on here and foolishly scream that the home team should NEVER get booed is just plain silly and more than likely comes from ignorance. Passion is what fans are about and Axtell has never showed any PASSION for his teams. Which of course is why he can't relate to the vast majority of East Coast fans because they show alot of passion (misguided at times but passion) and Axtell can not relate to that.

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  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    What would happen if Mariano has hit the wall? He's not a young man anymore, and with the state of the Yanks pitching and bullpen, if he's not effective, the Yanks would really be in trouble.

    It's not like they can go out and sign another closer during the season.

    (I know it's just one game, but he's not exactly a spring chicken anymore.)
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    CT, I will tell you what will happen if Mo gets old quick. Its back to the late 80's for my Yanks! Whooo Hoooo. Thats what will happen image

    With that said, Mo's stuff yesterday was as usual. Breaking bats, over powering in the upper strike zone.

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On a side note, Octavio Dotel has been progressing very nicely by all accounts. What a blessing he would be in the late innings come late May.

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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    To say I am not passionate about my teams is about the most ignorant comment I've ever heard. Oh wait, it's from softy, he's the king of ignorance.

    No, you don't boo the home team. It's classless, it's silly, and shows you have NO appreciation for their past accomplishments, you just want MORE. Of course Laker fans are going to boo the home team, they're the same spoiled children yankee fans are. I can't recall ever hearing Patriot fans boo Brady, or Packer fans booing Favre. You just don't do it.

    I am sorry you equate passion with acting like a spoiled child. They aren't the same. Yes you get disappointed when your team performs poorly, but booing just reeks of classlessness. It proves you care not one iota what they've given you in the past, all you care about is what they can give you now, and if nothing, damn them.

    Please tell me how a hometown player is supposed to feed off of negative energy in his home stadium? Opposing players feed off it, yes, but the home team? Support them ya crackhead.
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Axhole teaching etiquette? image I dont think so!

    It doesnt happen all the time....and since you are such an expert on Yankees and their fans, I would hope that you wont forget the beginning of the season for Jeter last year. The guy couldnt hit the side of the barn but yet Yankees fans cheered him like crazy ever time up to bat encouraging him.

    And how about also a couple of years ago when David Wells pitched in NY when he was a San Diego Padre? Did you know he got an incredible standing ovation thanking him for what he has done for the Yankees?

    There is just as much positive energy as there is negative energy given in NY. Its a nice, delicate balance and what makes us so passionate about our teams and success.

    Something you will never experience Axhole....and thats why its sad to be you.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>
    It doesnt happen all the time....and since you are such an expert on Yankees and their fans, I would hope that you wont forget the beginning of the season for Jeter last year. The guy couldnt hit the side of the barn but yet Yankees fans cheered him like crazy ever time up to bat encouraging him.
    >>



    So why the disparity between how golden boy Jeter is treated struggling, and Rivera?



    << <i>And how about also a couple of years ago when David Wells pitched in NY when he was a San Diego Padre? Did you know he got an incredible standing ovation thanking him for what he has done for the Yankees?

    So why are you continuing to justify your booing of Rivera? Nothing you can say will refute the fact that you booed.



    << <i>There is just as much positive energy as there is negative energy given in NY. Its a nice, delicate balance and what makes us so passionate about our teams and success.

    Something you will never experience Axhole....and thats why its sad to be you. >>



    Again, you are missing the point. What does booing your home town player, many who would argue is the one most responsible for your recent world series wins. Its simply classless.

  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    All of your statements prove that you have no clue. You have no understanding of why a player gets booed or encouraged.

    All NY players in every sport even know why they get booed. If you dont get it then you dont belong in NY.

    You think Jeter has never been booed? He sure has! Dont worry, Im sure Rivera, Jeter, or any other ball player isn't in the clubhouse crying because the fans booed them one evening.

    I havent seen anyone refuting the fact that a player was booed. We just understand it. The players understand it. Only a child like mind doesnt understand it.

    I have a hard time understanding why you cant understand that the fans are booing past accomplishments..they are booing their displeasure in the present performance. Maybe its because you dont care enough to want to win...or just no experience in success.

    I guess I could try to explain this until my fingers are bleeding but I know it wont do any good. It's like trying to teach a chimpanzee calculus.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    If 'belonging' in NY means booing the home town players, then you're right, I don't belong.

    Booing Rivera, in April no less, is inexcusable.

    There is no way to excuse it, no way to cut it, other than to say you NY fans are clowns.
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    I meant players shouldnt be in NY if they cant handle it...not the fans.

    And that's your take, eh? image
  • thegemmintmanthegemmintman Posts: 3,101 ✭✭
    It was a broken bat base hit. It happens.
  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    Figured I would give this thread a bump...


    Mariano hasnt much work so far, but look out now, the Yankees have a staff E.R.A. of 3.80, second only to Detroit whose team average is 3.73. The yanks have also given up the second fewest earned runs in all of baseball, with 62 to the Mets 59. Is it time to praise Guidry and reassess the staff, or just an early fluke ?
    "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
    -- Yogi Berra

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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,868 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Figured I would give this thread a bump...


    Mariano hasnt much work so far, but look out now, the Yankees have a staff E.R.A. of 3.80, second only to Detroit whose team average is 3.73. The yanks have also given up the second fewest earned runs in all of baseball, with 62 to the Mets 59. Is it time to praise Guidry and reassess the staff, or just an early fluke ? >>



    A tad early. Playing the Royals can do wonders for your staff ERA. If Aaron Small cannot effectively come back from the DL, they will be offering Clemens $30 million.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a TAD early. It is WAY early. Like I have said before, wait until Memorial Day to take any first look at what teams are doing regarding any stat.

    Carl Pavano and Octavio Dotel are their with Small too. We shall see .....

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  • DirtyHarryDirtyHarry Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭
    Fans in major markets will "boo" anyone. That is why they are viewed as discriminating and knowledgeable. They pay big bucks to support their teams and will razz anyone who doesn't deliver the goods. That is their right, and the players know it.
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  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


    << <i>Carl Pavano and Octavio Dotel are their with Small too. We shall see ..... >>



    I can't help but laugh every time I see the injury reports and it lists Pavano with "bruised buttocks".
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  • RickyHendersonSDRickyHendersonSD Posts: 327

    Rivera gives up 2 runs and loses to the lowly Devil Rays. His ERA is above 4 now.

    Over the Hill
  • iamthegreatcornholioiamthegreatcornholio Posts: 3,366
    those rays are pesky image
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Break up the D'rays!

    Not only is Rivera's ERA above 4, it's nearly 5! 4.91.

  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    This thread should see a lot of life this season...
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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>This thread should see a lot of life this season... >>



    I bet Yankee fans wish Rivera's arm had as much life as this thread will.
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When September rolls around I will be back to visit this thread and quote the foolish ones. Every time a Yankee slips up it is "Oh my god, Randy Johnson done!" "Oh my god, Mariano Rivera is done!" "Oh my, Mike Mussina is done!"

    And Axtell, I'm really gonna have a field day with you in the end. Lets not forget these gems image



    << <i>

    AL West - Seattle
    NL Wild Card - Florida
    World Series - Chicago and Florida, all wild card world series, with Chicago winning it.
    AL Cy Young - Felix Rodriguez

    hey softy,
    no one was asking for your insight on my picks, ok numbnuts?
    Florida won't lose 100 games, dontrelle will win 20, and the yankees will finish THIRD in the al east behind boston and toronto.
    Now go put that in your pipes and smoke it. God you guys are beyond stupid. >>



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  • Writer11Writer11 Posts: 738 ✭
    Rivera will end the year with a sub 2.50 ERA and 35+ saves like always. I'm a Blue Jays fan, but I have a deep respect for Rivera and that organization. All this talk about Rivera losing it is premature in my opinion.

    I'm looking forward to the Jays/Yankees series this weekend. The Jays are an exciting team this year, but their offense has carried them (Wells, Rios, Glaus) so far. Their starting pitching needs to come together. This weekend should be exciting.
  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    Mariano wouldnt have had the chance to blow the game if the team didnt leave about 100 guys on base again. They got 14 walks and left every single one of them stranded. It is making me sick to see Pujols get a game winning hit just about every other night and certain guys in the Yankees lineup who I will not mention cant get a clutch hit if they were being paid $25 million a year.....oh wait, they are getting that $$.
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    -- Yogi Berra

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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Please softy...predictions are just that. And if you go with the 'safe' picks, you'll never be right.

    And yes, the yankees left a lot of men on base, but isn't Rivera's job to get people out, not worry about how many men they left on?
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    Rivera's job really has nothing to do with the Yankees leaving guys on base. You couldn't put together a more powerful offense on paper (we know they have tried!) than the Yankees currently have, so if they can't score runs with what they have now - then it's going to be a long season. Rivera needs to come in, and shut down the opponent regardless of what the Yanks offense does. He used to do that very well - but the times are changing.
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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    LOL You guys crack me up....a bad pitching performace and the guy is done...a reliever blows a save...the guy is done....Yankees signed a guy this year that is already done...
    If we went through the Mariners and the Red Sox then Im sure we could find guys who are toast and dont even belong in the majors.
    Go ahead and beat on Cano...he's having a much better season than Felix Hernandez!
    Your chances of eating crow is very high!
    The Yankees started off worse last year and ended up winning the division. Yankees haters are much more concerned about the Yankees performing then the Yankees fans! LOL....I guess we just know how it's going to end up image
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ct, come on now. Its APRIL for crying out loud. You think the Yankees having a bad APRIL game against the D-Rays is a tell all for the season? Some of you guys are just too funny. When the weather heats up and the Yankees are pounding teams into the dirt you will all find some other bull$hit reason to bash the Yankees.

    CT, I will make sure every time the Sox have a bad game that I come on here and turn that bad game into a season long trend for the Sox. I mean afterall, Curt Schilling was LOUSY the other night. Surely he is DONE and it will be a long season for the Sox huh? I mean he is "no spring chicken" as you would say.

    None of you clowns even DARE mention that Derek Jeter is hitting OVER .400. Hell no, that would be something POSITIVE in Yankee land. But I gaurantee if he was hitting .125 all of the "over-rated" idiots would be blowing that horn.

    Robinson Cano is hitting .375 with 1 error on the season AND a 13 game hitting streak. Again, nothing but SILENCE from the peanut gallery. BUT, if he had 6 errors and was hitting below the Mendoza line ALL of you would be on top of it.

    What a joke all of you are image

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    Lets not forget that both Giambi and Jeter have OBP of over .500!!! How incredible is THAT!? ...no matter who they play for!
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OH MY GOD!!! Josh Beckett got slapped around like a little leaguer today! I mean, there is no way he even BELONGED on a big league mound today. I know what it is, HE IS A FLUKE. Its gonna be a loooooong season at Fenway with a over rated nobody like Beckett taking the hill every 5 days.


    CT, that was for you my friend! image Obviously I know NONE of it is true but it might give you a little INSIGHT into how easy it is for the Yankee hater to jump right onto a BANDWAGON at every opportunity. The above rant is what the Yankee hater does with every bad outing by a Yankee. It is so so funny how you guys micro analyze every happening with the Yankees.

    Worry about your own damn teams and the problems they have.

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  • RickyHendersonSDRickyHendersonSD Posts: 327
    Hey softparade, the Yankees also have the lowest Runs Allowed of any team in the majors and Chacon now has an ERA lower than Josh Beckett.

    I hate the Yankees but you gotta give them credit. By the way I hate the Red Sox too.

    Go Rickey. You will waltz into the Hall of Fame!
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rickey,

    don't know who you are but you just NAILED my point.

    It is APRIL FOR PETE SAKE. In APRIL (1st month of the season for the beginners) all it takes is ONE bad night for the stats to COMPLETELEY FLIP FLOP. Axtell was real quick to get on Chacon for two so so starts early on but OF COURSE is nowhere to be found saying anything about him when he has two superb starts in a row. Also, where are the "STONE HANDS" taunts of Cano as he plays a near flawless second base and gets himself into a 13 game hitting streak?

    I have watched this game long enough to KNOW that you don't make assumptions in APRIL or even MAY for that matter. Randy Johnson has a bad start and he is DONE according to the haters. A overpowering start? Nothing but crickets. And the beat goes on. The leaches that they are move to the next available poor outing by a Yankee making bombastic blanket statements about the downfall of whole careers.

    It really is an incredible behavior to witness over a period of time.

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭
    The hatred takes over! They just cant help it! Wait for those 8 game winning streaks...even the crickets will be dead!
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