Congratulations to Big Blue
Not surprisingly, baseball is on the back burner in New York today, as everyone in the sports world seems to be consumed with Big Blue and their upcoming date with the Super Bowl in Arizona.
Having picked the Giants over the Packers — Lambeau Field weather and everything – I’m wondering if I can conjure up the same level of confidence for the Patriots two weeks from yesterday. It’s not there yet, but seeing the Giants faithful celebrating out at the New York bars last night (a staple of the TV news) definitely is enough to get your juices flowing.
New York and New England meet again? We’ve heard this before.
Anyway, we have a few small Yankees items out there this afternoon. Marty Noble caught up with Mets closer Billy Wagner, who seems truly excited to have the chance to hang out with Goose Gossage at Sunday’s BBWAA dinner in New York. If you’ve never thought about going to the BBWAA dinner, it’d be worth your time. It isn’t a cheap ticket – $225 a pop – but rarely will you get the opportunity to see so many MLB greats in the same room at the same time.
Yankees.com also has a mailbag up, as it is Monday. The lead question this week concerns Jorge Posada and a potential position switch.
Bryan Hoch
Sorry for the late blog post this afternoon. I’m playing hurt today — been off to the doctor and the pharmacy to knock out a fun little blast of winter.
Tampa can’t come soon enough.
Strahan is playing at a phenomenial level. Thanks for the blog Bryan.
Hey Bryan,
do you guys ever see George in Tampa. I know he’s there but do you ever see him? Does he come say hello to the media?
Oh my God, I’m so happy that the Giants won yesterday, I’m especially happy for Eli! ESPN needs to fire all their football ‘experts’, NO ONE, gave the Giants any kind of shot to win that game, **** EPSN should hire me, I can make bad predictions all day, and get paid for it? What a sweet gig.
Jeterstar,
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it 1000 more times. The only difference between you, me, every arm chair QB in the world, and an ESPN analyst is they have a research department that helps them drop their knowledge. Anyone that can read a teleprompter can do that job.
You know what irks me about the Pats most? I guarantee you that when (if?) they beat the Giants, the crowd that shows up to celebrate will chant, “Yankees s_ck!” more than they will cheer the Super Bowl win. Boston fans are spoiled, uppity, and most of all obnoxious. I hope the Yankees will sack up and take ‘em down a peg or 2 this season. Even as far west as Idaho, the loudest idiots at the bar are the bandwagon Pats and Sox fans. What a bunch of losers.
I’ll say this. It may be bandwagoning on my part, but I will strongly consider becoming a Giants fan if they can beat New England. How awesome of a, “Shut up, Chowd!” will THAT be! Go G Men!
I predicted the G-Men would beat the Cheatriots in the last game of the season, granted I thought that it would be the last regular season game, but little did I know… Anyway I love how the Suchs fans all call for Roger to give back his Cy Youngs and put an asterisk next to the Yankees World Series title, but if? the Cheatriots win the Super Bowl they’ll say it’s all different. They’re already telling me that their cheating is different because it didn’t disgrace the game. Ummm hi, the only reason why the Pats cheating didn’t blow up that big is because ESPN decided it shouldn’t have and they stopped covering it every time the Pats came up. Had it been a non-Boston team it would have been a different story, F the Cheatriots (every team in baseball cheated with steroids, maybe every football team has filmed other teams but prove it… the Pats were busted and got off scott free. They lose their lousey draft pick and get fined a small amount. Even if it was the most in NFL history it was not enough.) But thats my rant.
Say what you will about the Pats, they are a well tuned machine. I am a Dolphin fan that saw them go 17-0. They were good but the Pats are the greatest TEAM that I’ve ever watched play. The key word being TEAM, they are well coached and appear to operate as one, each player doing his job and doing it almost to perfection. With that being said I am pulling for the Giants to whip their butts in the Super Bowl. I’m afraid that will not happen. I pick the Pats to win 35 – 10.
We only really had a few public George sightings during all of Spring Training ’07. The one I remember most was a pack of reporters following Steinbrenner from the elevator behind home plate to the Yankees clubhouse in February. George couldn’t have said more than four or five words that day.
Other days, he would dine in the little cafeteria underneath the stadium and security would redirect the press so George could get back to the fourth floor. The truth is, at this point, he just doesn’t seem to have a lot to say publicly. I expect that to continue now that the Hank and Hal era is underway.
Well being a Met and Jet fan, I am really straying far posting here although I do like the Yankees alot anyway and have posted over at Beth’s and Jasons
Anyway I have to say, the Giants played with heart and soul yesterday. Eli was spot on and defense was superb. The OT “pick” of course is the play of the game.
Being a Jet fan, I loathe the Patriots so I am agreeing with fjr69 that I hope the Giants whip their butts…and good!
Go Blue
Lee Ellen
fjr, no arguments about their skills or anything like that, when you’re good you’re good. But I dislike the Pats for three main reasons
1) They have no class (the way they acted after beating the Chargers last year in the playoffs and how Belechek refuses to pull starters and goes for it 4th and 1 when they’re up 35. He’s scummy)
2) Their fans (see above statements about Sox/Pats fans and cheating)
3) They were supposed to move to Connecticut a while back and Kraft decided to stay in Mass. It’s a rather personal vendetta on that not but I was willing to give them a shot because I miss the Hartford Whalers so much, and adopt them as my second football team, but no, they’re too good for Connecticut so Mass can keep ‘em.
I hope Strehan buries Brady and the G-Men can take home so well deserved and hard earned hardware and lead into the Yank’s 27th World Series title.
The Giants gave the Pats a real run for their money in week 16. Eli put up a ton of points and only lost by a field goal. We’ve definitely got a shot. Go Giants!
Thank goodness I get to pick my Yankees tickets today…I need it after my Pack dropped a stinker Saturday night. Although, I will be rooting for the Giants…I root for the NFC as long as it isn’t Chicago, Minnesota or Philly.
Scott Proctor gets $1,115,000 to pitch for Joe Torre once again.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080120&content_id=2351609&vkey=hotstove2007&fext=.jsp
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t there a Patriots player busted for roids this season? Didn’t he have to serve out that half game suspension that they give out? (OOOOOOO, AHHHHH)
Anyone who thinks that the NFL is a clean sport free of roids is either in denial, or just plain naive. Otherwise, is must be perfectly normal for a 275lb man with 2% body fat to run a 4.2 40 yard dash? I suppose he just “works out a lot”.
You think the fans turned a blind eye to steroids in baseball? Can you even imagine the level of apathy towards a pervasive investigation into what football players take? LOLlyskates! Their could be dudes on the sidelines pushing needles in their buttcheeks on live TV and the fans wouldn’t think anything was going on. Sheep.
I wonder how many appearances Proctor will make for Torre? Any predictions? My guess is 162. Proctor has to be the happiest man in baseball right now, only not.
John,
Only the final seconds stunk and Brett’s last pass. So again I’ll hit erase in place of copy to VCR. But I’m still watching the SB and if the Giants pull off what the Red Sox did in 2004 I’ll be plenty happy. And if they’re stll alive in the final seconds I’ll enjoy it too. But if the Pats have a lead of 15 or more at the half, I’ll watch something else “live.”
Chaz,
Bedlam could stand changing to DoomSayer, yet I enjoy your comments. Something like “shock and awe.”
Bryan beat me to the news of Proctor.
Tom Brady is in a boot, see TMZ.com video.
Sammy Sosa as a DH? I have heard this if Cabrera is moved. Someone in the organization thinks Damon is healthy enough to resume fulltime cf dutires.
Rodney Harrison (Pats Safety) served a 4 game suspension for HGH.
But of course, that won’t taint any Patriots championship…
http://www.northjersey.com/sports/knicks/13964142.html
ny post is dead?
Why are we undervaluaing Cano? If we don’t to give him a multi year deal, we need to let him go elsewhere and get his money. Please pay him 10 per.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spjohan225547476jan22,0,6852653.story
Hey Bpark,
Do you have any resources on whether the Giants are going to resign Steve Spagnoula, instead of allowing the Falcons or any other team to get him? I hope they do b/c he is the reason we made it this far.
I agree Bpark. Cano is worth a phenomenal contract. Again, a future AL MVP in my book. If he gets that accolade in another uniform, I am going to be pissed.
Honestly, Sosa? No way. Frankly, I don’t care if he’s still a good power hitter, he’s a roid head. I think we already have enough drug addicts in pinstripes, thank you. Besides, he’s old enough to be Cabrera’s great grandpa.
I think Spagnola is gonna leave.
Yeah, it does seem like my comments have shifted toward the negative lately. I apologize. I’m in one of those “world’s going to **** in a handbasket moods”. I’ll try and hit the killswitch on ‘em. Once something in the sports world goes my way, of course.
Cano $10mil? I don’t know about that. What are the top 2Bs getting? I don’t think it’s in that range, bpark, do you know? It’s easy to throw $10mil out there when it’s not your money!
Agreed, the urgency for Cano isn’t that high, he’s asking for $4.6M why the heII would we pay him $10M? I say pony up the extra million and meet his demand of $4.6M, he’s worth that but $10M, c’mon Craig Biggio got $5.5M last year and I don’t think Cano is worth more than Biggio yet. You all say a FUTURE MVP, he’s not a MVP yet, why would we give him a MVP when he’s not? I want Cano in pinstripes for a long long time, but not at $10M per or even $7M. We’re trying to change our old Yankee ways of throwing astronomical contracts at people who don’t deserve them, and a $10M per contract for Cano would be exactly that. Give them man the $4.6M he wants, thats a fair price seeing as how we wanted to give him $3.6M and call it a day.