The Yankees Win!! Theeee Yankees WIN!!!!!

[Teddy_Salad]

Seeing as everyone here loves the Yankees so much, I thought I'd let ya know that...

We actually won a game! 10-8 against Oakland.

Scored 6 runs in the eighth inning to come from behind.

6 runs......in one inning!
Unheard of!

Watch out, here we come. :bounce:

[Triple H]

1. Christ.

I hope they lose the rest of the season. I hate them. :grr:

[candy]

17. Me too!!!!! Go Sox

[newyorican]

2. I watched some of it...

and I think the score is more indicative of the poor play of Oakland.

On Edit: and I'm a diehard fan.

[Teddy_Salad]

3. The poor pitching

The A's manager did a Grady Little, didn't he?

Hudson was pitching pretty well and he took him out at the end of 7.
The A's have a crappy bullpen.

If Hudson had of stayed in for the 8th, it more than likely would have been very different.

[Faygo Kid]

4. Well, lah de frickin' dah!

With apologies to Chris Farley. May the Yankees rot in hell. Sincerely, a Tigers fan for 44 years.

[playahata1]

5. Aaah.... LOU GEHRIG! My FAVORITE player.

And a STONE cutie, too, though he has long been dead.

My (not yet published) poetic tribute to the original "Iron Man":

PROPERS
(for Lou Gehrig, 1903-1941)

Jackie takes up one wall of my space.
I have made room for you on another.
As much as I revere the Brotha –
and never mind that your team was one of the last
to sit a Brotha’s butt on the bench –
you are mine, your team is mine,
though God knows why I found myself
pulling for the Drama Queens from Queens last year,
and I didn’t trip when y’all got Snake-bit
in the Desert back in November.

Your pinstriped jersey hangs proudly in my closet.
I wear ten carats worth of Number Four around my neck.
I’ve got your Cooperstown Collection T-shirt
which I never wear but will never throw away.
As much as I like Cal, I was quite upset
at what went down on September 6, 1995.
(I was even more pissed off, though,
when Junior and Edgar and The Unit
kicked your asses a month later.)

With all due respect for Eleanor,
why have I had such a crush on you –
though you were long gone by the time I got here?
As much as I LOVE my Beautiful Black Men,
you are the best-looking White man –
living or dead –
I have ever seen, even with all the Hollywood Honeys –
living or dead –
that have come along since you last passed this way.
That smile, those dimples, those eyes, that body....

Just think if you were playing today.
From what I know of your dedication to fitness,
you’d run all these juiced-up Peons
out of the weight room, out of the clubhouse,
out of the ballpark, out of the game
that you played so brilliantly for seventeen seasons.

Yet and still,
you constantly needed to show and prove,
though Playas then as well as now
would kill to put up your numbers
You were always trying to figure out:
“What the hell do I have to do to get my Propers?
Why the hell can’t I be Ruth? DiMaggio?”

[Teddy_Salad]

6. Ever read "Iron Horse"

by Ray Robinson?

A great book on the great man, the ultimate gentle giant.

[playahata1]

8. I have that book. Excellent read.

I've been a Yankee fan for the last 26 years, since I was 11 years old. Early on I took to Lou, identified more with him than I did Babe Ruth and all the other Yankee greats. I guess it's because we have somewhat similar personalities -- though I'm not quite the wallflower Lou could be at times.

[Teddy_Salad]

10. Yeah...

He seemed like the proverbial 'good guy'.

His story is a sad one. I think that's why I've been interested in him.
The way a disease can ravage the body of a seemingly healthy, big, strong man like Lou Gehrig at the age of only 37 is pretty sobering.

Also, the way he was treated by the Yankee organisation was terrible too.
Gehrig had to go work for the NYC prisons dept. when he was sick, he had no other income.
Of course, this was before the days of the multi-millionaire ball players and the Yankees should have looked after him.

He is and always will be my favorite Yankee.

[playahata1]

14. Had he not gotten sick,

Lou, to this day, would be in the top ten -- top five, matter of fact -- in virtually every offensive category. It is estimated that if he had played three, four more years, he would have ended up with 600-plus home runs, 2000-plus RBI, 2000-plus runs scored, as well as 3000 plus hits.

He, not Carl Yastrzemski, would have been the first American Leaguer with 400 home runs and 3000 hits. He retired just 279 hits short of 3000. FWIW, Babe Ruth started his career as a pitcher, which cut down his at-bats. Furthermore, Ted Williams (who also lost two seasons serving in Korea) and Joe DiMaggio missed time because of World War II. Ty Cobb played in the era of the so-called "dead ball," pre-Babe Ruth.

[Teddy_Salad]

19. Teddy Ballgame

Two players I would have loved to have seen play were Gehrig and "The Splendid Splinter".

People have told me that no-one hit the ball like Ted Williams.

[jus_the_facts]

7. Staaaaart spreadin' the neeeews.....

.....s'bout TIME they won one! :evilgrin:

LET'S GEAUX YANKEES!! :bounce:

[Zech Marquis]

9. Mussina still blows

and Mulder and Zito are coming up in the next 2 days, so Im not exactly pleased with the win tonight. i need t see more improvment, and some actualt changes in the AL East standings first...

[fishnfla]

11. Should it not be "thou Yankees win"?

for once?

[Teddy_Salad]

12. Hark! Thou Yankees Win!

Howzat?

[playahata1]

15. Wow, what a great time to get into some Martin Heidegger,

he of the "I-thou" philosophy. (I never did get the hang of that.):-)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

13. Congrats-Sox got rained out

so you gained 1/2 game on us ;-)

I love your Lou Gehrig pic, by the way.

[Teddy_Salad]

18. Hi Rose...

Yeah, I've been on my knees praying to the good lord all day long that it would be raining in Boston tonight.

Not so much that we would get the half a game on your Red Sox but that we would stay half a game above the Devil Rays! :D

[Kathy in Cambridge]

20. Like I said, Georgie will pick up some pitching

and then your woes will be gone. Yankee bats are definitely intimidating.

[Teddy_Salad]

21. Bats? More like toothpicks lately

Hey, I love your kitties there.

How many you have? "The Boss" (Not George but Mrs Salad) and myself have three.

If you took those black markings off the face of the one on the right, it would look exactly like our Busby.....Mr Mischief.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

22. Thanks-the black cat is Reno and Noah is the black and white kitty

I have two-I adopted them last May. They were abandoned and had lived together. They are the BEST cats!

Three cats? I can imagine the food/litter you must go through!

[Blue_Tires]

16. SIX RUNS?!?!? yawn

I remember a dodger game in the early 90s where they were down EIGHT(!) in the bottom of the 9th against philly and scored 9 to win...that's called ONIONS

[OneBlueSky]

23. bottom line: Yanks ain't goin' nowhere with these starting pitchers . . .

bullpen's okay, but the starters just don't have it (other than maybe Kevin Brown) . . . losing Clemens, Pettitte, and Wells was a MAJOR hit that they haven't recovered from . . . wouldn't be surprised to see Steinbrenner start shopping real soon .. .