AL Wild Card Game: A's (Hendriks) at Yankees (Severino)

So happy for you, Kaybli.  I really look forward to your first-hand reports.  It will be like having John and Suzyn checking in, with the modest difference that you actually know something about the game of baseball.  I know it is blind faith, but in my mind I already have the Yanks preparing for Boston.

Awfully nice of you, Kaybli.  Yeah, every now and then I evaporate, not sure why.  But as long as you are on here, this forum will always be entertaining.  I've seen that Womack avatar a million times and it still makes me laugh.  And you are definitely speaking for me when you go into your "sit down, you bum" mode.  Kind of reminds me of how the late great Mr. G used to say "we're going to smack the crap out of (fill in pitcher's name.)" 

Man, hard to believe Womack goes back that far.  Right around when Cano was breaking in, and Jeter and Posada and Mo were in their primes.  Kyle Farnsworth and Tanyon Sturtze!!  Sidney Ponson and Aaron Small.  Yikes!!

I know MrG would love this team, which really is one of the more likeable in a good while.  Lots of good guys.  I remember MrG was always skeptical about Posada -- it cracked me up, it was one of the few places I disagreed with him -- that and he was a lot easier on A-Rod than I was.  But it was always good-natured.  Remember he used to say "I like Cairo."  I think of him a lot.  Just like I think of Jwild and Ban and Grandforks and so many other knowledgeable contributors.  Maybe some day they will all show up and we'll have our "Field of Dreams" moment.  Maestro from Venezuela. UKYank.  TrotNixonForPresident.  The woman Barb from Massachusetts -- can't think of her handle, she was very cool.  Don't know if you recall an earlier guy, bangbangplay.  He was good too, an old guy like me who grew up watching Mantle and Maris and Ford.

Well, don't want to turn this into a thread hijack.  We can reminisce in the off-season, which I hope doesn't start for the Yanks until sometime around November.  Don't let this end on Wednesday night, kaybli!!

That was a really cool tribute, Kaybli.  Very movingly done with the Soul Asylum song.  Names I had forgotten -- nick2slick, sebboH, PSUNYC -- wasn't nick2slick part of a brother act?  Didn't somebody once accuse him of having a statue of A-Rod in his bedroom?  Funny stuff.  Some of the skirmishes were entertaining, some got a little too tense.  There was another poster with a name similar to Great Fatness -- he had the word Fat in it.  There was a guy named Miguel who was based in either Uruguay or Israel or maybe both.  Fun to look back at that.

Just re-watched that tribute. For some reason it made me recall the incident with JoeBee when I had commented that my fondest memories of playing baseball often surrounded my best defensive moments and wanted to turn that into meaning I was a “Good field/no hit outfielder”.

It was quite funny to me, since I was a power hitter, though my biggest failure was the desire to hit every ball over the fence, and being an extreme pull hitter...

I had the feeling old JoeBee had only played as ball as a man coukd while operating an elevator... (:

Here I go stealing the thread pipps decided not to highjack... ooops. Bad habit of mine, I know...

nick2slick & PSUNYC were brothers.   I remember when they started their won message board and poached some our posters, most of them ended up coming back.

Thanks for the reminder Chi.  Now I remember getting a PM from one of them asking me to join.  Kind of like the USFL trying to get NFL players to jump back in the day!