The "I hate the Yankees" thread

[Q Classic]

You are kidding about the Mets, right?

no. the mets don't stoop to using a "designated hitter". if you field, you hit. you don't have a permanent pinch hitter taking the place of your pitcher.

[Arrian]

Ah, a purist in the DH/noDH debate. On the one hand, I do see the DH as an artificial add-on. On the other, watching pitchers hit is usually pretty painful. Most of them are awful "hitters."

-Arrian

[Q Classic]

oh, i'll admit it's pretty painful. but every now and then they surprise ya. kinda like woods in the nlcs.

it's far better than adding some other person in whose only job is to bat. it's pointless, and it's a crutch.

[Arrian]

Crutch yes, pointless no. The point is to put a good hitter in the black hole otherwise known as the pitcher's spot in the lineup, thus increasing scoring. I'm enough of a hardcore baseball fan that I'd be ok with getting rid of the DH, especially with the offensive numbers being put up nowadays. But obviously MLB sees value in the DH, and even if that wasn't the case, the player's union would NEVER surrender jobs like that. So we're stuck with it, for better or for worse.

-Arrian

[Q Classic]

bah.

it's for the worse. still, there are some american league teams which i'll grudgingly admit are ok. the yankees are not one of them.

[Arrian]

Of course not. If you're not a Yankee fan, you must hate them. It's a rule.

-Arrian

[Guynemer]

****ing Yankees.

**** the ****ing ****ers.

[reismark]

The only problem with the DH is the fact that the NL hasn't adopted it yet. Bunch of 20th century ancients...

[St Leo]

George W. Bush is a Yankee. I really really hate George W. Bush.

[Q Classic]

reismark, you are obviously a neanderthal. the dh isn't a "progressive" rule. it's an abberation.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The DH isn't just an abberation, Q, it's an abortion on the sport of baseball .

It's supposed to be the perfect sport. Nine players play offense, same Nine play defense. Obviously the DH league isn't real baseball. It's kiddie baseball, like T-ball or baseball with aluminium bats.

Well, I believe in the soul, the ****, the *****, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

- Kevin Costner as Crash Davis in Bull Durham

[Nubclear]

Death to the Yankee capitalists.

[Dis]

woohoo! the Yankees lost today!

And about the DH. I'm pretty much against it, because it lessens the strategy of baseball. The main reason I watch sports is for the strategy. That's why I like football so much.

Just look at tonight. They knew they had to pull Clemens to put in a pinch hitter. Though the move didn't exactly pay off, but they had to try to get some runs. And then Florida had the painful decision which pitcher to play in the 9th. That decision didn't pay off well in the 9th, but they managed to win it in the 12th.

And about pichers hitting. Roger Clemens last at bat was a hit!

[Zero]

I used to live in Flushing Queens, whith shea stadium just around the corner. Obviosuly Im gonna hate the yankees.

[-Jrabbit]

Last night was good. Very good.

I just about did a spit-take with my beer when Urbina hung that pitch to Sierra. OMFG.

Good thing Weaver returned the favor to Gonzalez...

** -Jrabbit in the afterglow of a Yankees loss **