5/4-5/10 MLB Discussion

[Sandman42]

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Dear Mark Teixeira,

Please stop sucking and hit some home runs.

Thanks.

Well that worked.

[SPTO]

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Hey at least the Indians won. Is having LaPorta in the lineup all game long better then not winning a game?

Anyways the Jays just couldn't deliver that knockout punch tonight. Hopefully Cecil does well in his MLB debut tomorrow afternoon.

[BatsareBugs]

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Cla Meredith needs to be traded ASAP, or cut outright. Nothing like have an ERA of 3 while allowing every single inherited runner to score.

[DTX3]

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Dodgers are now 11-0 at home.

[BatsareBugs]

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Dodgers are now 11-0 at home.

I'm jealous. I wish the Padres didn't ruin my expectation and have gone 0-12 at home instead of 6-6, now that's effort!

[Lintyfresh85]

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Hey at least the Indians won. Is having LaPorta in the lineup all game long better then not winning a game?

Anyways the Jays just couldn't deliver that knockout punch tonight. Hopefully Cecil does well in his MLB debut tomorrow afternoon.

Ha, can't I have my cake and eat it to?

Yes, the main goal is to win games... but I just fear what Wedge has planned for LaPorta in the future.

[ChubbyBanana]

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What a way to lose a game in extras none-the-less.

Hopefully we can split series with Florida tomorrow night.

[SPTO]

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Another black mark in the short history of New Yankee Stadium

Yankees fans told Red Sox game cancelled, not let back into Stadium

BY Matt Gagne
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Tuesday, May 5th 2009, 12:51 AM



Hundreds of irate fans - some who claim Yankee employees told them the game had been rained out - stormed away from Yankee Stadium before Monday night`s game against the Red Sox even got underway and couldn`t get back in, resulting in a an ugly scene at one of the ticket gates.

With rain falling for hours and no start time announced until shortly before 9 p.m., hordes of fans began leaving the Stadium and heading home - some who said they had been advised that the game had been called by Yankee employees who walked the concourse holding pinstriped "How may I help you?" signs.

When a 9:20 p.m. start time was eventually announced over the public address system, a crowd on the sidewalk outside Gate 6 tried to get back into the Stadium, only to have the employees working the turnstiles promptly close the doors in their faces. Panicked fans began racing up and down the sidewalk, trying to find a way back into the ballpark, while others remained at Gate 6 either pleading or demanding to be let back in.

"We talked to the security personnel, who said there was zero chance they were going to play the game," said Tom Stuart, a 27-year-old from Astoria who waited out most of the rain delay before leaving with his girlfriend. "We spent three hours drinking beer - you can`t drink much because they`re 10 bucks apiece - now they`re going to play a game in front of 35 fans."

Becky Wright, who flew in from Oregon for Monday night`s game, had bought two tickets as a birthday present for her 16-year-old son, Seth O`Neil. They left the game because "the guys holding the `How may I help you signs?` said they weren`t going to play," said Wright. They were among the hundreds of fans outside Gate 6 trying to get back into the Stadium.

Jason Zillo, a Yankee spokesman, said the team has a firm no-reentry policy. He also said the NYPD and Stadium security hadn`t let any fans back into the ballpark.

"We`re a part of hundreds of people, if not thousands," said Martin Watson, a 39-year-old New Yorker who spent $800 for four tickets and tried to reenter through Gate 6. "This is not fan-friendly. This is B.S. You pay money for a top-of-the-line franchise, and you get bottom-of-the-line customer service."

"I built this Stadium and they won`t let me in it," a man wearing a local union jacket said before storming off.

While fans were being rebuffed outside Gate 6, scores were having their tickets rescanned outside Gate 4 and being allowed back into the Stadium, but that lasted only for a limited time.

One fan, who was wearing a No. 2 Derek Jeter jersey and a backward Yankee hat, approached a reporter to say he had been let back in, but couldn`t do so because the Yankees wouldn`t rescan his father`s ticket. A turnstile supervisor directed the reporter and several fans to the customer service window, which was locked.

At least one fan was arrested outside the Stadium. Roseanna Franco, 25, of White Plains, was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after she allegedly kicked a New York City police officer after not being let back in.

Stadium security also threatened to revoke the credential of Daily News photographer Robert Sabo, who was shooting the scene outside Gate 6 - a location photographers weren`t prohibited from working at on Opening Day.

"They were super-embarrassed and told me to go back to my position on the field or they`d take my credential," Sabo said.

After most of the crowd had dispersed outside Gate 6, turnstile workers opened the doors and began letting people back into the Stadium. But it was already too late for hundreds of fans.

"This is unfair what they did to the people," said one Yankee employee who witnessed the entire scene outside Gate 6. He declined to give his name for fear of losing his job, but added: "For the people who left the game, what are they going to do about their money?"

With Simone Weichselbaum

[Misfit]

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That sucks. I'd be pissed if I spent that kind of money and was told the game would be postponed, only for it to take place without me in attendance. At least it made the paper, so now those people will likely end up with either refunds or free tickets (one would think).

[OSUFan_88]

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The Bullpen From Hell...

Edit: Eric Wedge is apparently going to go through relievers until he finds one that can get him out of the damn 7th inning.

Edit 2: ****

[SPTO]

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Yes, Thank you Indians bullsh..pen

[OSUFan_88]

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Shapiro and Wedge need to be canned. Today.

[Sandman42]

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10 K's for Joba through 5. If it only wasn't for that first inning.

Edit: Finished the night with 12 K's. His last 8 outs were by strikeout.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Volquez looked strong tonight and our bats provided the needed support.

Nice to split the two game set with Florida. Now back home for Milwaukee.

[cubsfan203]

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Rangers only a half a game out of 1st.