related to the yanks/rays silliness

by deacvision7 on Mar 12, 2008 4:02 PM PDT Comment 48 comments

little help please?
which game was it where a yankee totally took out kenji before the ball really even reached the infield grass?

and is there video of this?

i have a douchebag yankee fan that swears it never happened.

thanks in advance.

if it helps i think it was mientkiewicz or phelps...

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I think it was Phelps.

But don't quote me on that. I do recall the game you're talking about though.

"Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?"

by Thingray on Mar 12, 2008 4:06 PM PDT reply actions

Was on 5/6

Phelps was the culprit. Your friend is stupid.

by Graham on Mar 12, 2008 4:08 PM PDT reply actions

Doesn't that go without saying?

He did state that he was a "douchebag yankee fan". I'm pretty sure that's a synonym for stupid.

"Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?"

by Thingray on Mar 12, 2008 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions

A redundant synonym, no less

by Llewdor on Mar 12, 2008 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions

26 seconds.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Mar 12, 2008 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm Pedro's daddy.

by Llewdor on Mar 12, 2008 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions

douchebag is redudant.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Mar 12, 2008 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions

thanks.

whats the easiest way to search for the game thread on here?

i assume no video of it is on youtube?

and yes. the friend is a moron. i did say he was a yankees fan.

oh, also a patriots fan. since that makes sense.

by deacvision7 on Mar 12, 2008 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions

answered my own question.

got it once i knew the date and phelps.

although this douche of a yankee fan yelling is annoying as hell.

and doesnt know how to write down dates properly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBZfVLZJWls

by deacvision7 on Mar 12, 2008 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions

Fitting that he can't even say the catcher's name

Why would he if he's not a Yankee?

by Mariner John on Mar 12, 2008 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions

What happened exactly betwen NYY and TB?

by Mariner John on Mar 12, 2008 4:15 PM PDT reply actions

A TB 2B took a spring training

game a little too seriously, and ran into the catcher at home, fracturing the catcher's wrist.

Or at least I believe.

Then today, a Yankee pitcher threw at Evan Longoria, which led to a benches clearing "incident."

by redwolf75 on Mar 12, 2008 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Right

Though the brawl happened after Shelley Duncan took out Akinori Iwamura at 2b. Jonny Gomes tackled Duncan, unpleasantness ensued.

by marc w on Mar 12, 2008 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Poor Gomes

He probably thought he was saving the world from the zombie apocolypse.

Bad luck on the shootout, by the way.

by Graham on Mar 12, 2008 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Grrrrrrrrr

Damn it Jenas....

by marc w on Mar 12, 2008 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I was rooting for you guys too

And Everton.

Would have been a terrible day if not for Lampard the Magnificent. Against Derby, but still.

by Graham on Mar 12, 2008 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions

cheering for english teams in europe...

good.

cheering for chelski ever. bad.

englands penalty curse does not spare clubs.

by deacvision7 on Mar 12, 2008 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions

That I was in the domain of such a knowledgable follower of football. I'll just throw all of my old Chelsea posters away. And that little doll of Dennis Wise that sits on my desk? Gone. The 1994 kit that fit 8 year-old-me? I'll BURN it.

I should have known that continuing to support a team AFTER they got good meant you're a horrible glory-hunter. My apologies.

Go... uh... Rushden and Diamonds? I assume they still suck. I'd support my hometown team, but I still hate them from when they were Wimbledon.

by Graham on Mar 12, 2008 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions

haha.

dennis wise was a prick.

by deacvision7 on Mar 12, 2008 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Don't bother

All the Chelski comments tend to be from jealous fans of other teams.

And I say this as a Liverpool fan.

visiting A's fan.

by rfloh on Mar 13, 2008 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions

im not jealous

Chelski have no history

by deacvision7 on Mar 13, 2008 8:02 AM PDT up reply actions

Neither does the United States. So what?

by Graham on Mar 13, 2008 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions

Studs Terkel disagrees

by Sec 108 on Mar 13, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Ok, my second response is:

You aren't allowed to discuss my football team anymore.

by Graham on Mar 14, 2008 3:09 AM PDT up reply actions

Earlier this week a guy from TB

took out the Yankees catcher. So today a Yankee did a take out slide on the TB 2B, and some hell broke loose.

"Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?"

by Thingray on Mar 12, 2008 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Redwolf and I apparently read

two different descriptions of the events.

I heard Longoria just got his jersey brushed by a pitch, everyone was warned, then Duncan leveled the 2B on a force play, leading to the scrum.

Same basic idea though.

"Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?"

by Thingray on Mar 12, 2008 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Well...

both teams had already been warned before today's game even started due to the incident earlier. So when Longoria got hit, the pitcher was immediately ejected.
Then Duncan did what he did.....

by marc w on Mar 12, 2008 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions

Gotcha.

I just didn't think that the Longoria pitch as what started the ruckus.

"Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?"

by Thingray on Mar 12, 2008 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions

My bad --

I took a cursory glance at an mlb.com article about the incident, and missed the part about Duncan's slide.

by redwolf75 on Mar 12, 2008 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions

I heard

Longoria spit in Heath Phillip's general direction while at-bat in the bottom of the 1st inning. Iwamura thought this was funny and was caught smiling about it by the Yankees' dugout.

Then, in the top of the 2nd inning, Shelley Duncan ran out from the dugout and took Iwamura's knees out with a baseball bat while he was trying to field a routine groundball.

Gomes wanted in on the action, came in from RF, and held his teammate down as Duncan began working on Iwamura's toes.

Iwamura couldn't stop laughing about what was happening because he thought it was an honor to take on a beating.

The umpires broke things up and had to eject Duncan and Gomes because Iwamura though it was funny what they were doing to him.

I didn't see the game, this is just what I heard. I could be wrong.

by Wilder83 on Mar 12, 2008 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Duncan's Ty Cobb slide

didn't help. Made a hell of a picture, though.

by OldFan on Mar 12, 2008 6:14 PM PDT reply actions

Potential career-ending spike to the knee

type of play.

Shelley Duncan is an ass.

by Wilder83 on Mar 12, 2008 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Let's not be overdramatic

it was a stupid thing for Duncan to do, but it wasn't going to ruin anyone's life.

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 12, 2008 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions

Iwamura will be fine,

but Duncan put that spike right on Iwamura's knee. I have seen a person's athletic career end on a stupid play like this.

by Wilder83 on Mar 12, 2008 6:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Next frame brings up all kinds of ow thoughts

Slide

by OldFan on Mar 12, 2008 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions

One name comes to mind:

Felix Pie

by Wilder83 on Mar 12, 2008 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions

He put it into his thigh

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 12, 2008 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions

There's dirt on his knee...

in the second picture.

by A Public Alias on Mar 12, 2008 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions

He was cut above the knee

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 12, 2008 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions

Jeff likes Shelley

by Sec 108 on Mar 12, 2008 7:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Shelley is stupid and I like the Rays

but this was idiotic, not dangerous.

by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 12, 2008 8:00 PM PDT up reply actions

I totally agree

But how often does a baseball player come along with a girls name? When you are 35 going on 13 like myself it just has to be said.

Also, I find myself very excited and anxious to see how the Rays perform this year. I feel like this could be their 1993 Mariner season.

by Sec 108 on Mar 12, 2008 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm just annoyed

because my friends and I spent the entire M's/Rockies game yesterday agitating for a spring training bench-clearing brawl, because it always seemed so unlikely. And stupid. And then it happens, on the other coast.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Mar 12, 2008 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions