We’re declaring a truce for 48 hours
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Mar 14, 2007 
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This Alex Rodriguez stuff is getting a little personal now. Here one of my most recent e-mails:
Dear (bad word):
I read your coverage on Alex Rodriguez and it was (bad word) awful. It’s (bad word) like you who will drive Alex out town.
(More bad words)
Michael
So, I am declaring this an Alex Rodriguez-free zone. From now until 3 p.m. on Friday, I will not write the words “Alex Rodriguez” on this blog. Perhaps that will bring a sense of calm to the proceedings.
But there could well be a reason to mention the third baseman. So rather than write his name, I will use the name of beloved cartoon character Underdog.
Underdog is a lot like the third baseman in that he had great powers but not always the support of the people, except for Sweet Polly Purebred.
So I call on you to please refrain from writing you-know-who’s name for 48 hours so that we can have peace in our time.
Thanks
Amen to that!
though, I was always more of a Mighty Mouse fan.
hilarious.
gotta love the passion of these people, i guess.
No matter what – Pete’s humor always cracks me up.
Underdog sucks, he’s conceited, overpaid, never comes through in the clutch, not a true super hero.
You can’t make this “stuff” up. This is just too funny. Personally, I would love to WATCH the whole season with Arod “The Player” and not HEAR another word about Arod “The Person”
just ignore them Pete, your doing a great job with this blog and it’s one of my favorite sites.
gotta love how it takes all of 6 posts for someone to screw up the underdog rule
Well Kasey I have never agreed with you on anything, do you agree with my selection of the best scene in the shows history?
I used Arod…it’s different! lol
And Pete said HE will use Underdog….didn’t say anything about the rest of us
“So I call on you to please refrain from writing you-know-whos name for 48 hours so that we can have peace in our time.”
I just hope that I don’t see the stands filled with people wearing Simon Bar-Sinister masks.
By the way, it’s nice to see that Michael Kay reads your blog.
I wonder if media guys who openly support the Yankee 3rd baseman get hate mail, too. Wait…nobody in the media openly supports the 3rd baseman. What did he do to you guys, anyway? Maybe he should take you guys out for steak and lobster. lol.
I don’t know if you will read all the way down on that last post, Peter… but my question remains. Even in light of the “grace period” we’ve now entered.
well done on brokering the peace, fine sir.
LOL Peter. And JB, as much as I dislike the hoopla (stories about he-who-shall-remain-namelesss, posts in defense/posts against), that is nothing compared to dissing Underdog.
Nobody f’s with Underdog.
I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again — stories about HWSRN are legit, just keep them in context.
And Peter, I do disagree very much with you about HWSRN, but I do appreciate your reporting & blogging.
Mel, Lowly Shoeshine Boy can’t spring for a restaurant. Maybe one of those Swanson Hungry Man® Dinners?
The point you are making is that he is greedy. SO WHAT. And, I am not totally convinced of that. I have heard that he is a very dedicated player and often is the last to leave the practice field. Cover the player and the game. I don’t give a rats ass what kind of a business man he is, how much $ he makes, how much he is worth.
Its cool that you have this blog. Its very interactive. And everyboby gets a chance to freak out about stuff and throw in their two cents. Good job.
Peter, can’t wait to see the lineups through Friday. I wonder if Underdog will be batting 4th or 8th? You have to use his alias or you’ll be putting your journalistic integrity on the line. lol.
Too bad you can’t hear this in the dugout:
When Wang’s in trouble, I am not slow,
So it’s hip! hip! hip! and away I go.
or
There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here.
Let’s not forget:
Schilling:
“Look in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane!”
Beckett:
“It’s a frog!”
Matsuzaka:
“a frog?”
What’s-his-name:
Not bird, not plane, not even frog, it’s just little old me, Underdog. (and homers to right)
Think how Derek Jeter feels. And this blog continues to be informative; I enjoyed the spring training basics entry very much. It had the kind of detail I like.
Pete:
Remember that day a while back when you were saying to yourself: “Hey, I know… I’ll start a Yankees blog. It’ll be different from the other blogs, yeah… we’ll be intelligent, insightful and, um, we’ll keep it at a high level and….”
Welcome to the blogosphere, bro.
Wow. Finally shouted down and shut up by the Kool-Aid drinkers, huh?
Pete, I appreciate your efforts, but I already shot all the other kittens. I know, I’ll go get more!
Okay, back from the pet store. Respect Pete’s authoritay or snookems eats the Glock!
I was always partial to He-Man.
Skeletor, Battle Cat, and the rest.
but… Underdog it is.
I wonder, regardless of where Underdog ends up this time next year, if he will ever be 100% supported by fans… even in that particular area.
if he flies in to… Los Angeles/Anaheim, let’s say… and signs another $200-plus million for the next eight years… will those fans truly embrace him? Cheer him, and root for him?
I think Underdog’s going to have something in common with Bonds from whatever point forward. He’ll be universally held down, with the Texas contract… and any subsequent one. And, unless he has enough rings for at least his two hands, while winning MVP’s the entire time… he’ll never live up to the hype that’s continued to surround him.
fitting, I think.
Underdog.
he’s one just to actually satisfy a majority of people at any given time.
Murphydog: I think this blog is different than the rest and the discussion is intelligent. What fun would be it if everybody agreed with me always?
I’m having fun with this and I think a wide majority of other people are. The cranks don’t get me down, never have.
End of the day, I watch baseball and write for a living. Way, way better than any dream I ever envisioned for myself when I was a kid.
Steve over at Was Watching tried this last season, and I don’t think he was too successful at it!
Pete,
Who is going to be Simon Bar Sinister?
JFH
So, are you going to write “Underdog” in the lineups??
Good or bad comments, no one can say we’re not passionate about the Yanks!
I think Boras.
can we also get a moratorium declared on Clemens (I’m sure you can come up with a nickname, Pete). I’m sick of hearing about his every move becoming a story (attending a yankee spring training game, maybe thinking about going to the yankees. Says he’s 80-20 in favor of retiring). The guy has got enough attention for the same schtick last season.
Lol…. Let’s talk something else
Schilling can be Riff Raff.
Riff Raff! lol.
Here’s the lastest report on the third baseman.
http://melaman2.com/cartoons/s.....derdog.mp3
If I were a big free agent…in the future…I would look at all this…and sign with somebody else.
If Underdog brings us a World Series, I don’t care if he opts out and goes to Boston. We’ll have won the World Series and that’s what’s important. That’s more important than any individual player to me. Players might leave, but WS titles stay.
Same goes for the Green Latern (aka Clemens – who always chases the green).
Looks like some of the fans are in mid season form.
It is only spring training people so take a chill pill.
Underdog. Not only is this appropriate, it’s wuite ironic, and I love it. I needed a nickname for him anyhow, so from now on, he-who-shall-not-be-named will definitely be referred to as Underdog in my book.
So….who’s going to play (bad word) third base for the (bad word) Yankees next season?
How about a mid-season trade of (bad word) Pavano, (bad word) Underdog, (bad word) Sardinha, and (bad word) Clippard for (bad word) Rolen and (bad word) Pujols?
I always think of bad words when people talk of Pujols anywhere near the yankees, lol.
Peter: I am smarter than you and will someday be a better journalist than you are.
-Charlie
It’s cool, Pete. May not always agree, but you’re still one of the best!
Charlie, are you serious? If you are, you’re a major league a##hole. What is the point of taking a cheap shot at Pete? The guy goes out of his way to put this blog up for us fans and you have the nerve to say that you are smarter. Grow up man.
mark: I am smarter than you and will one day be a better blog commenter than you are.
-Chris
P.S. just messin’ around
Alex Rodriguez
oops.. My bad, it just slipped out
“What is the point of taking a cheap shot at Pete? ”
What’s the point of Pete taking cheap shots at Rodriguez?
LAME thread pete
Pete,
For good Yankee seats I will moderate comments for you.
Just a thought,
John
i doubt anyone ever wants charlie to post on this blog again
Do you think the chocolate factory will take him back?
The amount of mental energy spent loving/hating/blogging about Underdog could power a small city.
Every blog I go to anywhere on the Internet – Underdog rules the threads. I can’t figure out why people – not just Yankee fans – care so much about him. He’s under contract for the year. That’s that. He has to play for the Yankees for at least one more year. Clutch or not. MVP or not. Jeter’s BFF or not. If he leaves, I still think the Yankees will decide to go through with the ’08 season. Someone might even console Cashman (and other Yankee fans) by telling him that we’ve had pretty decent seasons with less than HOF caliber 3B in the past…like the Hayes/Boggs platoon in ’96 and some journeyman name Scott something in the late ’90s.
While Mel Hall may not be a HOF caliber player, Wade Boggs was, you know.
Wow. This is a blog, yes, but it’s one written by a beat writer for the Yankees on a site run by his newspaper.
“Underdog”?
Unbelievably unprofessional. Stunningly so.
Wade “was”…the operative word being “was”…by ’96, he was splitting time with Charlie Hayes (who caught the last out in that WS, while Wade was busy looking for a police horse to climb on). I mean, Randy Johnson is a HOF caliber pitcher too, just not when we got him.
Admittedly the only “Hall” Mel will probably ever see is in his name, but he did crack the game winning homer in the bottom of the 9th against the Red Sox in a July 4th game back in the day. I think the Beach Boys and Charlie Daniels Band played afterwards.
After 3 Pm Friday we should shift to “The player formerly known as ____. Or maybe ~*^$.
MK get a humor sense transplant.
And Underdog, get a footmouthectomy.
Underdog: that is hilarious. funniest thing I’ve seen on a baseball blog in I don’t know how long. Pete: please keep using the name thru the season or until he has that great October and ring.
“Someone might even console Cashman (and other Yankee fans) by telling him that we’ve had pretty decent seasons with less than HOF caliber 3B in the past…like the Hayes/Boggs platoon in ‘96 and some journeyman name Scott something in the late ‘90s.”
Well, yeah, but we also had great pitching. If you’re going to have a Brosius level player at third instead of ARod, then you gotta give me something better than Wang/Mussina/crappy Unit/fill-in-the-blank that we had last year.
Here’s one writer who had a positive interpretation of Arod interview on WFAN. I’m stunned. She must not have gotten the Arod bashing memo.
For once, A-Rod rings true
Johnette Howard
http://www.newsday.com/sports/.....-headlines