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Check the article he did before the season.
"The Yankees' interest in Schilling waned weeks ago as fears arose about his age and contracts demands. Now they are looking to sign free agent Bartolo Colon to a three-year deal worth about $36 million. They also plan to bring back David Wells, the source said, leaving them again with the deepest starting rotation in the game: Colon, Pettitte, Mike Mussina, Jose Contreras, Wells, Jon Lieber (trying to come back from a season-long stint on the DL following Tommy John surgery) and Jeff Weaver."
"I know I speak my mind, but I don't just talk the talk, I walk the walk. And if we don't win the World Series, everybody can come and see me first, because I'll take the blame."
Bill Simmons excerpts
You have to be from here to understand. You just do. It wasn't just that the Yankees always win. It was everything else that came with it -- the petty barbs, the condescending remarks, the general sense of superiority from a fan base that derives a disproportionate amount of self-esteem from the success of their baseball team. I didn't care that they kept winning as much as they were a-holes about it. Not all of them. Most of them. In 96 hours, everything was erased. Everything. It was like pressing the re-start button on a video game.
And yeah, I know. We need to win the World Series to complete the dream. But you can win the World Series every year. You only have one chance to destroy the Yanks. As my friend Mike (a Tigers fan) wrote me last night, "Everyone outside of Yankee brats are celebrating quietly with you guys. It's like you killed Michael Myers, Jason, Freddie Kreueger and Hannibal Lecter in one night."
It was the choke of chokes, an unprecedented gag job. For once, finally, the Yankees have some baggage. Just like every other baseball team.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/041021
AcquiredTarget
10-21-2004, 02:38 PM
From NY Daily News
Alex Rodriguez and Gary Sheffield will bear much of the blame. The Yanks' two biggest offseason additions slumped miserably during Boston's improbable rally from a 3-0 series deficit. Sheffield was 9-for-13 in the first three games of the series, all Yankee wins, but then went 1-for-17 during the four straight losses; Rodriguez was 6-for-14 in the wins, 2-for-17 in the defeats.
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Sheffield said much of the credit should go to the Boston pitchers for changing their patterns against the Yankee hitters after getting battered early in the series.NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/244621p-209575c.html)
And now it's time for George to go apeshit.
http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/Headline_Archives/iChoke.jpgsweeeeeeeet
Digital*Firefly
10-21-2004, 02:55 PM
that's great Scot.
Tedakin
10-21-2004, 02:57 PM
Let's see if they can push their budget to over $200... They'll be more expensive than the movie Titanic. And then next year they can lose the WS to a half ass moderately budgeted team like Florida... again.
AcquiredTarget
10-21-2004, 03:02 PM
Bill Simmons excerpts
You have to be from here to understand. You just do. It wasn't just that the Yankees always win. It was everything else that came with it -- the petty barbs, the condescending remarks, the general sense of superiority from a fan base that derives a disproportionate amount of self-esteem from the success of their baseball team. I didn't care that they kept winning as much as they were a-holes about it. Not all of them. Most of them. In 96 hours, everything was erased. Everything. It was like pressing the re-start button on a video game. I found some posts over that the Yankees MLB forum, the funniest ones were from people who couldn't understand the hate the Yankees are getting from non-Yankees fans. They don't get that their being paid back for those reasons, lol
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