Why not have some cheese with that $200 million bottle of whine
The New York Yankees -- yeah, those Yankees -- are miffed because Texas Rangers skipper Buck Showalter (a former Yankee manager) pulled three starters in the third inning in the season finale against the Angels, and the Rangers wound up turning a 4-1 lead into a 7-4 loss that gave Anaheim home field advantage in the Division Series against the Yanks.
Showalter said he wanted to pull his three stars to allow them to get a proper, final ovation from the home crowd in recognition of their fine individual seasons. It's commonplace for the final game of the regular season. Stars often sit out that last game, or just make a token appearance solely to please the fans one final time before the offseason starts. Evidently the Yankees don't find that very apropos, though:
Former Ranger Alex Rodriguez, who played for Showalter in Texas, was one of the Yankees who was peeved at the Rangers manager's decision.
"There's a code of honor when so much is on the line," Rodriguez told the New York Daily News. "You hope people do the right thing. But you can't control what people do."
That's right, the $250 million man and self-promotion machine extraordinaire A-Rod is speaking of a "code of honor." God, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.
Of course, the Yankees, in typical New York fashion, can't possibly look in the mirror to notice that, hey, had they not gotten blown out in their own season finale on Sunday, they would've finished with a better record outright and rendered the game in Texas irrelevant. But then, the earth revolves around the Yankees, who clearly have every right to expect other teams to cater their strategies to suit the Yanks' needs.
And as an aside, let me just note that this sort of arrogance extends to Yankee fans as well. Prior to the 2001 World Series, a Yankee fan remarked to me that she hoped the series would go seven games, just because it would make it a little more exciting for her, since the Yankees hadn't stretched things out at all in winning the World Series the three previous years. Mercifully, karma came back to bite the Yankees in the ass.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: GO HALOS!
Showalter said he wanted to pull his three stars to allow them to get a proper, final ovation from the home crowd in recognition of their fine individual seasons. It's commonplace for the final game of the regular season. Stars often sit out that last game, or just make a token appearance solely to please the fans one final time before the offseason starts. Evidently the Yankees don't find that very apropos, though:
Former Ranger Alex Rodriguez, who played for Showalter in Texas, was one of the Yankees who was peeved at the Rangers manager's decision.
"There's a code of honor when so much is on the line," Rodriguez told the New York Daily News. "You hope people do the right thing. But you can't control what people do."
That's right, the $250 million man and self-promotion machine extraordinaire A-Rod is speaking of a "code of honor." God, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.
Of course, the Yankees, in typical New York fashion, can't possibly look in the mirror to notice that, hey, had they not gotten blown out in their own season finale on Sunday, they would've finished with a better record outright and rendered the game in Texas irrelevant. But then, the earth revolves around the Yankees, who clearly have every right to expect other teams to cater their strategies to suit the Yanks' needs.
And as an aside, let me just note that this sort of arrogance extends to Yankee fans as well. Prior to the 2001 World Series, a Yankee fan remarked to me that she hoped the series would go seven games, just because it would make it a little more exciting for her, since the Yankees hadn't stretched things out at all in winning the World Series the three previous years. Mercifully, karma came back to bite the Yankees in the ass.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: GO HALOS!
posted by Alexander Dubcek | 19:32
3 Comments:
you dredge up that 2001 comment almost every time the yankees come up in conversation ;-) glad it wasn't me
Wait, that wasn't you? Whenever he tells that story I always just assumed it was.
No, no, it wasn't Colleen.
Colleen isn't evil enough (or at all) to be a Yankee fan.
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