Go get ‘em, Josh
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jan 10, 2008 
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Hey, Josh Phelps signed a minor-league deal with the St. Louis Cardinals. Guess this means Albert Pujols is about to be traded.
Yes, we’re kidding. Just a gentle jab at those Yankee fans who thought Phelps was the answer at first base last season.
Meanwhile, new Yankees Hall of Famer Goose Gossage did the Top 10 List on The Late Show with David Letterman last night. Check it out here.
Pujols would solve the 1B issue, how about Hughes, Melky, etc…
Very funny Buddy.
Tex in 2009 for 1st Base!
And come on Pete, Phelps is HOF bound, didn’t you know that?
We all knew the Phelps post would come, hehe.
Aww, you couldn’t resist could you
Phelps has a very good bat, it is just a shame that he has such poor defensive versatility.
Pete,
I don’t think any of us thought he was the “answer” at first base, but it was a cheap risk worth taking. Didn’t pan out and we moved on.
Joe Torre is notorious for not giving players a chance to play. The first base issue would have been resolved if Carlos Pena had been given a shot in 2006. Pena credits Kevin Long for helping him out with his swing as well, but oh I digress…..
Pete,
Thanks for the Letterman clip. Gossage seemed to be having a great time! He looked pretty good, too.
Man Pete, you are starting to get a little too predictable.
This just in Hank offers Melky and Nieves for Pujols, Cards have till midnight to respond. If they get back in the next half an hour, we’ll throw in Pavano.
Hey, somebody in the last thread said Pete was going to weigh in soon with a sarcastic joke about Phelps. Good job!
Okay, guys, I have to say this:
We went the entire last thread without mentioning Clemens, McNamee or Mitchell once!
Well done! I am incredibly impressed!
Now, to get back on topic:
I wish Josh Phelps all the best! I wasn’t Stateside when he was playing with the Yanks much, but I’m glad he’s landed on his feet.
Glad to see Cairo, Phelps and Clippard find a soft landing.
rebecca…. and andy phillips
I totally agree with you in Torre. If Phelps would have had more playing time,maybe he would have still been here.
As far as Pena is concerned, who would of thought he would blow up like he did? If i can recall he was batting like 250 in the minors. Cant blame the Yanks on that one.
Goose was Great with the Yanks!
He’d come in with the big Big Fu Man Chu…
Warm up…throwing hi 90′s…then the final warm-up pitch was chin high wild in the batters’ box…as the hitter looked on from the batting circle.
Rizzuto would generally pronounce the game over..in ways only the Scooter could…
It was a great time to be a Yankee Fan!
Rebecca,
Don’t forget Matty DeSalvo.
i miss bernie and mel:
You guys are totally right! I am such a horrible fan for forgetting, my apologies!
GMan
i love torre, but i was really wishing we could bring billy back from his repose for like one week last May.
pull someone off the field for misplaying a ball, throw a few bats, pin someone up against a locker, punch out a reporter (not pete though) i just always felt like there was nobody there to shake things up, which is what i thought they needed.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WO.....index.html
Sir Edmund Hillary, first guy to climb Everest, has died. RIP.
RIP, Sir Edmud Hillary…
Uhh, that would by Sir Edmund Hillary.
and major props to that sherpa Norgay who climbed every step up with him, CARRYING ALL THIER S***!
GMan
i love torre, but i was really wishing we could bring billy back from his repose for like one week last May.
pull someone off the field for misplaying a ball, throw a few bats, pin someone up against a locker, punch out a reporter (not pete though) i just always felt like there was nobody there to shake things up, which is what i thought they needed.
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More Billy Martin moves-
Having Mike Pagliarulo bat righthanded against the Tigers & Rick Rhoden (pitcher) be the DH in a game, hitting a SAC Fly for an RBI.
Oh how I miss the ‘ol days.
A few Yankee fans got excited that the team made a low-risk move by grabbing Phelps off the Rule 5 Draft. He didn’t pan out but the Yankees spent virtually nothing on him. He didn’t block any prospects and wasn’t significantly worse than Phillips or Mientkiewicz.
I can understand the Pavano jokes. Pavano cost the team $40 million and had a terrible attitude. We can all laugh together about him so we don’t have to cry.
But why is Phelps a running joke? Because someone sent Pete an email saying he is the next Mattingly?
Phelps is just a journeyman the Yankees turned to in the hope of getting cheap, adequate production at first base. Some people were happy the Yankees adopted this approach rather than make a crazy free agent signing. I just don’t see the humor.
buddy
LOL, i forgot about pags, that was GREAT!
Josh Phelps is a hitting god!!! I am counting the minutes until he gets his own monument in the park!!!
maybe he can have fun throwing the ball into left field for the cardinals farm system….lol
P-abe always weighs in.
“I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform but I was the proudest.”
Billy Martin
you dont hear today’s players say things like that. RIP Billy
jerkface, any relation to Idiot Face?
Brian Cashman is talking on Hot Stove and boring as usual but no Santana questions.
Bernie-
Glad you appreciate it, here’s the link documenting “Pags” that was from memory, I wish I could think of more off the top of my head.
http://books.google.com/books?.....#PPA103,M1
“and boring as usual”
Good…I’d much rather have a GM who doesn’t like the spotlight and the hype.
Buddy: Can’t be. He doesn’t end his posts with “but then, I’m Idiot Face”
Rebecca-
wouldn’t it be “but then, I’m jerkface”
Growing up Billy(he was as mean as i was), Ed Lopat(we pitched the same) and Mickey(we both were switch hitters) were all my heroes. I use to love watching them play, and they played hard…on and off the field.
buddy, thanks for the link.
btw, a trip to Martin’s grave in hawthorne is worth the trip, he’s buried a few yards behind The Babe, and its about 5 miles south to Valhala where the Iron Horse is buried.
The top 10 list itself wasn’t too funny, but Goose did a great job reading it and obviously had a great time.
I’ll miss Phelps. Me and my father always had a good time going, “What’s that guy’s name again?”
New pics of stadium
http://slidingintohome.blogspo.....adium.html
He did have a .902 OPS last year.
Pete, do you think you’ll be on Yankees Hot Stove on YES at any point this winter?
Say it Ain’t So: I imagine Pete will let us know when it happens
(I refuse to say ‘if’)
I really hope he can get a chance to get on there, we all know he could do a much better job than King is doing tonight. I wonder how much more they could have fit into this show if King would talk faster, haha.
George King = doom & gloom. Just a very slight notch above Lupica.
Oh, I’m not watching that, I’m watching the Devils
Mike Emerick might be the best play by play guy I’ve ever heard, the Devils have amazing announcers…
Billy Martin …
http://www.thedeadballera.com/billyandme.jpg
The Mick …
http://www.thedeadballera.com/.....Grave3.jpg
Not only is George King the worst and most unreliable Yankees beatwriter in the business, but he is officially the worst guest host in the history of Yankees Hot Stove.
How this guy still has a job covering the Yankees – or baseball for that matter – is beyond me.
It’s not his gloom and doom attitude – it’s just that he really doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
This just in from Phelps: “Pete likes me. He really likes me.”
We were hoping Phelps could win the job over Phillips, because we already knew how poorly he would do.
And Minky was what he was. A former starting 1b who’s only value was as a defensive replacement. Phelps wasn’t a terrible move, just a DH who was playing 1b. Still better than Minky, IMHO. Still think Pena outperforms Minky even before last season. You know Minky will give you an OPS of around .750, maybe. Pena’s career OPS before last season was 0.789 and he was turning 29. But I digress.
Hey, you know what?
Gossage WAS a flame-throwin’ sum’bitch!
Nicest guy in MLB and potential All-Star Andy Phillips got signed by the Reds.
Yankees really screwed that up. Phillips will get a batting title when he plays his first full season, at 40 years of age.
Three posts earlier, Rob wrote: And Minky was what he was.
In Dennis Green-speak, perhaps that translates into “He WAS who Rob THOUGHT he was!”
Pete Abe you are hee-larious
If he remains true to form, Pete will now post a sarcastic comment about the people defending Phelps.