Baseball Fans,
HE'S A DIRTY ROTTEN CHEATER WHO SHOULD BE BANNED FROM BASEBALL PERMANENTLY!!! - Iggy and Joe.t
Of course this is what they said last year when Clay Buchholz was accused for the same unproven offense. They were all over this issue for a long time demanding a ban due to a video allegedly showing the presence of a banned substance even though the substance had not been identified and there was some question about it being a banned substance at all. Where is this call with the same 100% condemning certainty by these same BOYZ today. I don't even have to read any of their posts to know it doesn't exist because neither has any HONOR when the shoe is on the other foot for exactly the same circumstances where pinstripes are involved. No principles, no scruples, no honor.
John Farrell said it was a non issue, Buchholz said it was a non issue, even Papi said it was a non issue, the only person this is a issue to is SK,
on to the next story.
Girardi didn't make Buchholz an issue last year yet you cried continuously about it. You want to dump the issue now because Joe.t is acting like the definition of hypocrite.
Ellsbury was a great leadoff, when he wasn't on abnormally extended leaves. If he had Pedroia's heart a team of bulldozers couldn't have kept him from playing. Still, he was a legitimate 5-tool leadoff player much of the time. These are rare, so the likelihood of finding a matching replacement is near zero. The threat brought by his presence is a significant loss. Cheers all,
Merlot
This is exactly why he got the money he got. He has the 5 tools. Most impressive thing I have seen from him now that I watch him every day is his rapid acceleration as a base runner. When he is off to steal second base, he is at full speed on his 2nd step. This is the rarest thing of all, even in premiere basestealers. He is the best I have seen since Rickey Henderson played for the Yankees.
However, on the Yankees he has been deposited by the wise Girardi into the 3 hole, this because Gardner has great leadoff skills but not the same power as Ellsbury.
This is how I talk about a player regardless of the uniform. Honestly. I didn't downgrade him, knock him, or portray him in any other way than what he is...pinstripes or not.
If it is so blatant then how come your manager Farrell, a former pitcher, is asleep at the switch? You are telling me Farrell is a fucking moron. The YES announcers are saying Farrell isn't saying anything because Bucholz is also cheating and if he exposes, then Girardi exposes. And Farrell knows if he says jack fucking shit, Girardi will rip Bucholz a new asshole for the world to see.
What you do not understand is that one of the great things about baseball is the threat of retaliation.
This is how you talk about an issue, solely because of the uniform. You may not have gone as far as the no-honor twins, but you made the same basic claims. Now you talk about reactions based on retaliation. How revealing of your thought process: retaliation, blame, tit for tat, threats and cover-up are what you focus on.
The entire baseball world is talking today about how this kind of thing goes on everywhere and how at certain levels there's some kind of de facto gentlemen's agreement giving it a pass most of the time except when it gets so damn obvious it becomes an embarrassment to the game itself. Yet you've got to puff yourself up with total garbage about Farrell fearing what Girardi might do. Farrell would NOT give a damn how Girardi feels on any issue if he felt it was right to call it out. Both of them are simply treating both issues as they see it. I personally don't think any manager should let this go on. They should call it out no matter who the accused team is regarding the rules, which should not be a joke, regardless of gentlemen's agreements. If it's against the rules take care of it or change the rules. But these men choose to treat each other with the same criteria. Yet you Yankees fans can't ever own up to anything without this shady subverting of the issue.
If Pineda was doing something blatantly illegal it's only because the Yankees have something on the Red Sox.
So you approve of cheating through de facto blackmail. Really.
"You just won a World Series and you’re bitching about a regular season game. Hey Boston, your inferiority complex is showing"....
You sure cried for some time over a one-game incident. Talk about insecurity, you're all either defensive, attacking or ignoring the FACTS.
Actually Iggy another explanation was provided for Farrell's silence in this article, by none other than Clay Buchholz. Buchholz said he had no problem with what Pineda was doing, because it was cold, it was hard getting a grip on the ball and the last thing you want is a guy who throws as hard as Pineda losing his grip on the ball and then hitting people in the head:.
Thanks for pointing out the the Boston Red Sox aren't making the same cheating crisis out of this incident all three of you guys hammered at for days last year. I don't support cheating by anyone, but Girardi and Farrell are using the same standard of play and reaction to an ALLEGED cheating incident this year and last. But the facts are the photos show the very high probability this is an illegal substance.
Anyone calling this wet glistening black mass dirt based on the photo is a fanboy sellout. If it is sweat why is that black spot the only apparently sweating area on his hand or entire arm.
Oh right Beav, it only rained (didn't at all) on one small spot on his hand? Dirt only sticks on that spot? Dirt shines like that on a dry night while the rest of his sweaty arm stays perfectly dry?
In addition, sweat is not a foreign substance.
NOT foreign substances.
Right Beav, Pineda is the perfect evolution of the pitcher. He only "SWEATS :lol: on one tiny spot of his body, right under the baseball.
:crazy:
Like last year we can't be sure what it is. Like last year no one chose to look at it despite some information AT HAND for both managers. Like last year the photos implicate the pitcher. Unlike last year the same accusers that wanted Buchholz hung out to dry are giving their player a total pass... and a lot of very shady excuses.
The embarrassment has been the shady excuses and complete turnaround of principles ONLY due to the uniform by you three Yankees fans.
YOU GUYS MAKE ME LAUGH, :lol:
Merlot
