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Post by kaybli on Jul 9, 2021 23:46:03 GMT -5
Tom Gordon signed with the Yankees in the winter of 2003 with little more expectation than what a 36-year old journeyman was bringing to the roster. He turned out to be an extremely valuable piece for the next two seasons as the Yankees topped the division. His combined numbers out of the bullpen for the two seasons were 14-8; 2.38… easy to overlook… but 179.1 innings were well covered by Gordon… only to totally crap the bed in the playoffs.  |
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Post by inger on Jul 9, 2021 23:50:58 GMT -5
Tom Gordon signed with the Yankees in the winter of 2003 with little more expectation than what a 36-year old journeyman was bringing to the roster. He turned out to be an extremely valuable piece for the next two seasons as the Yankees topped the division. His combined numbers out of the bullpen for the two seasons were 14-8; 2.38… easy to overlook… but 179.1 innings were well covered by Gordon… only to totally crap the bed in the playoffs. Yeah, but he didn’t mean for you to take it personally… 🤓 |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 10, 2021 0:19:51 GMT -5
only to totally crap the bed in the playoffs. Yeah, but he didn’t mean for you to take it personally… 🤓 Oh I took it personally. If not for him we probably don't lose in 2004 to the Chowdah Heads, setting forth a butterfly effect that leads to 3 more championships for us, zero more for them, and Yankee fans everywhere still chanting "1918!" in 2021! 
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 10, 2021 1:19:35 GMT -5
Yeah, but he didn’t mean for you to take it personally… 🤓 Oh I took it personally. If not for him we probably don't lose in 2004 to the Chowdah Heads, setting forth a butterfly effect that leads to 3 more championships for us, zero more for them, and Yankee fans everywhere still chanting "1918!" in 2021!
At least you’re not bitter.  |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 10, 2021 2:22:40 GMT -5
Oh I took it personally. If not for him we probably don't lose in 2004 to the Chowdah Heads, setting forth a butterfly effect that leads to 3 more championships for us, zero more for them, and Yankee fans everywhere still chanting "1918!" in 2021!
At least you’re not bitter. I was at Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS (I don't like to talk about it as much as being at Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS). Terrible times man, terrible times... |
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Post by desousa on Jul 10, 2021 5:51:03 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Jul 10, 2021 9:08:09 GMT -5
At least you’re not bitter. I was at Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS (I don't like to talk about it as much as being at Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS). Terrible times man, terrible times... You need an exorcism done. If you were THERE you must get that taken care of… Don’t delay… |
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Post by inger on Jul 10, 2021 9:29:14 GMT -5
Thanks. I also listened in again, since there was a “play” button. It was a little catchier the second time around. And it honors a guy with a 120-115 record, which is pretty neat. Remind me never to write a song about a temperamental Cuban though. At least not to write a song with his name for a title. I might scream if he came to me looking for money for the use of his name. In my greenhouse days I met a man who said he had escaped from Cuba. He told be an abridged version of his escape, of which I believed every word. He seemed very sincere. The words I will best recall were from the crucial moment when the boat arrived and the watchmen from the regime got there at about the same time. He said “I never wanted to kill anyone, but when the time comes you do what you have to do”… |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 10, 2021 11:42:57 GMT -5
I was at Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS (I don't like to talk about it as much as being at Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS). Terrible times man, terrible times... You need an exorcism done. If you were THERE you must get that taken care of… Don’t delay…  |
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Post by inger on Jul 10, 2021 12:37:53 GMT -5
You need an exorcism done. If you were THERE you must get that taken care of… Don’t delay… We admonish the demon of the arm of Tom Gordon and demand that the hung breaking balls leave the body of Kaybli. We demand this so Kaybli can enter a portal and return to that forbidden time and place and so that the “pitch” will be redelivered by the arm of Gordon with the spirits in the proper alignment so the orb will break with impunity. The arm will say to impunity, “I breck with thee impunity”, and then it will. When the dust settles the dinosaur will again rule the earth… wait a minute… I turned this thing back a little too far, I think. No, that was Jimmy Carter, not as far back as I thought. There, the Yankees win, thuhhhhhh Yankees win. There we go, it was Sterling the whole time… “Jawn, did you see dat dinosaw? I hope you sawr it cause I taught I seen a dinosawr. I DID, I DID!!! |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 10, 2021 13:12:28 GMT -5
We admonish the demon of the arm of Tom Gordon and demand that the hung breaking balls leave the body of Kaybli. We demand this so Kaybli can enter a portal and return to that forbidden time and place and so that the “pitch” will be redelivered by the arm of Gordon with the spirits in the proper alignment so the orb will break with impunity. The arm will say to impunity, “I breck with thee impunity”, and then it will. When the dust settles the dinosaur will again rule the earth… wait a minute… I turned this thing back a little too far, I think. No, that was Jimmy Carter, not as far back as I thought. There, the Yankees win, thuhhhhhh Yankees win. There we go, it was Sterling the whole time… “Jawn, did you see dat dinosaw? I hope you sawr it cause I taught I seen a dinosawr. I DID, I DID!!!  |
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Post by inger on Sept 29, 2021 23:05:12 GMT -5
Here is the career batting record of Bob Meusel, one of the longer term and more important members of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig’s supporting staff in NY. Bob wax with the Yankees for ten years, compiling a .311 BA as a Yankee, and missing out on being a legacy Yankee only because of a final season spent in Cincy… www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/meusebo01.shtml |
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Post by noetsi on Sept 30, 2021 13:17:54 GMT -5
Joe Torre. Including by me.
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Post by pippsheadache on Sept 30, 2021 13:45:17 GMT -5
Here is the career batting record of Bob Meusel, one of the longer term and more important members of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig’s supporting staff in NY. Bob wax with the Yankees for ten years, compiling a .311 BA as a Yankee, and missing out on being a legacy Yankee only because of a final season spent in Cincy… www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/meusebo01.shtmlThe knock on Bob Meusel -- who purportedly had the best LF arm of his day -- was that he had a tendency to not go all out if the mood struck him. An undeniable talent for sure, and a frequent barnstorming partner of Babe Ruth. Like The Babe, he was hit with heavy penalties for flouting restrictions on such tours. He had some remarkably similar stats to his older brother Emil "Irish" Meusel, an OFer who mainly played for the Giants and Phillies. Each played eleven seasons. Bob had a career BA of .309, Irish .310. Bob's OBP was .354, Irish was .348. Bob had a career OPS+ of 118, Irish 119. Bob Meusel was definitely a key member of the Ruth/Gehrig supporting cast. With his HOF OF partners Ruth and Combes, it was clearly one of the elite outfields ever put together. |
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Post by inger on Sept 30, 2021 14:27:42 GMT -5
Here is the career batting record of Bob Meusel, one of the longer term and more important members of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig’s supporting staff in NY. Bob wax with the Yankees for ten years, compiling a .311 BA as a Yankee, and missing out on being a legacy Yankee only because of a final season spent in Cincy… www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/meusebo01.shtmlThe knock on Bob Meusel -- who purportedly had the best LF arm of his day -- was that he had a tendency to not go all out if the mood struck him. An undeniable talent for sure, and a frequent barnstorming partner of Babe Ruth. Like The Babe, he was hit with heavy penalties for flouting restrictions on such tours. He had some remarkably similar stats to his older brother Emil "Irish" Meusel, an OFer who mainly played for the Giants and Phillies. Each played eleven seasons. Bob had a career BA of .309, Irish .310. Bob's OBP was .354, Irish was .348. Bob had a career OPS+ of 118, Irish 119. Bob Meusel was definitely a key member of the Ruth/Gehrig supporting cast. With his HOF OF partners Ruth and Combes, it was clearly one of the elite outfields ever put together. I noted with some mild degree of sadness that Meusel was sold to Cincinnati for the 1930 season. In my imagination, Meusel felt talented enough to continue and the Yankees thought he was finished, or simply had no room for him in the outfield that year. The Yankees have a total of 25 legacy players that played at least 20 years with them. I think the Cardinals are second with 17 such players. Yogi, Elston, Bob Meusel. At least three more legacy stars we could have had. Somehow, once a player is a Yankee from the beginning and for so many years, if just seems wrong to have them wear another uniform… |
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