Papelbon: I want to close tomorrow night
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Terry Francona has literally said all the right things when it comes to the Yankees, even to the point of saying he’s hitting Derek Jeter second “because that’s where he deserves to be.”
Kevin Youkilis, David Ortiz, J.D. Drew, Dustin Pedroia … the same. Respectful of the Stadium, the Yankees, the tradition, everything.
Then we have Jonathan Papelbon, who thinks he should close tomorrow night.
“If I was managing the team, I would close. … But I’m not managing the team,” he said today.
Sam Borden and some of the other writers there asked Papelbon whether Mariano Rivera had earned the right to close.
“I think we both earned that right.” he said
After acknowleding Rivera’s status, he said he earned the right to close by winning the World Series last season.
Talk about delusional. It’s Yankee Stadium, he’s having a Cy Young year, Mariano closes. Period, end of story.
Terry Francona wouldn’t bite when asked what he would do. But Joe Girardi seemed to have idea.
“Terry is a wise man,” he said. “He knows what to do.”
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Peter Abraham
Nothing surprises me with him. It’s amazing to me that he’s actually the classless idiot that he tries so hard to be.
That Papelbon… sheesh
Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Wow. Talk about being a first syllable of assume!
my take on the first half
I think I heard somewhere that Terry said Mo was going to close, but I guess that’s just a rumor then?
Papelbum shut up
quickly moving up my list of hated players from that team…
First class moron that guy is.
He really needs to get a good beating.
What a arrogant S.O.B.! Papelbon has officially become my most hated Red Sox player now, congrats.
Papelbon, Lord of the Dunce. Is he for real?
If for nothing else but that it’s the last ASG at the Stadium I would think Tito would have Mo close.
What an out of touch little schmuck Papelbon is. I hate the guy.
I think Paplebum was just trying to give everyone a rise, the following is a posted on Boston.com by Gordon Edes - http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/
NEW YORK — Jonathan Papelbon spent much of the 50-minute long media interview session with the AL All-Stars answering questions about who he thought should close tomorrow night’s game.
He said that he’d love to close the game — he wouldn’t be who he is if he didn’t feel that way — but that he understood it would not be an easy call, since the game is in Yankee Stadium and Mariano Rivera is not only a hometown favorite, but maybe the greatest closer in the game. Papelbon said he’d talked it over with manager Terry Francona a couple of days ago, but that Francona had not made a final decision.
But after the interview sessions were over, Papelbon pulled a reporter aside outside of the hotel ballroom in the Grand Hyatt and said that he had something more to say.
Papelbon took the reporter’s tape recorder, held it to his mouth like a microphone, and said: “This is Jonathan Papelbon, closer of the Boston Red Sox. Mariano Rivera will be closing the 2008 All-Star Game in Yankee Stadium.
“I’m making a statement right now, saying I don’t want it, I want him to have it. I said all that earlier, but that’s the way I feel about it.”
Wow…I actually thought he was an o.k. guy before that…that’s pathetic.
ESPN should write a story on THAT, not hate on A-Rod…
I had a conversation with some friends earlier this year and we all came to the same consensus: now that Shilling is gone, Papelbon is without a doubt the Red Sox we hate the most. This just confirms that we made the correct decision. Manny is a close second.
What did Hank call him?
A fly when he derided Hank.
That is how we have to take his comment.
Mo closes, end of story.
Jonathan Papelbon is a very talented pitcher. He’s also a classless yahoo.
Well, thanks for posting that matt h.
Still, he is a weird, weird boy.
Amazing how quickly homers like Edes and Gammons rush to the defense of their favorite team’s players.
So Papelbon covers himself when he loses out to Mo by saying he wanted Mo to have it.
I didn’t think it was possible for me to dislike a Crock Sox player more than I dislike Manny Ramirez. I’ve just been proven wrong.
My new hated list reads: Papelsmear, Ramirez and Pukelis.
Rebecca
Everyone should read your post, because it sums up our season so far.
Funny about Mussina hitting Manny! Steve Carlton used to hit batters who would have success against him in working the count. Why waste 10 pitches on some batter if the next player is a free swinger. Just hit them!!
There really are just not words
It’s really freaky watching Francessa and Russo and seeing Francessa avoid eye contact at all costs. He just keeps looking straight ahead. I just had to say that. It’s really weirding me out.
“I’m making a statement right now, saying I don’t want it, I want him to have it. I said all that earlier, but that’s the way I feel about it.”
Unreal - he’s trying to deflect it and concede, but he still sounds as if if was his and he wants to GIVE it to someone else.
It’s about who’s earned the right, jackass, and who is deserving.
I hope Yankee fans boo that morons every move. He has too big of a head already.
This is the 2008 all-star game and so far in 2008 Mariano Rivera has been the best closer in the American League. Thus he should close for the AL all-star team. It doesn’t matter that Mo is the best closer of all time and it doesn’t matter that Papelbon won the 2007 world series.
mark, I don’t think that’s different from the norm
what about the fact that Mo is having a better year than Pap? this is the all-star game for this year right?
on a side note…i used to dislike Manny as much as the next guy but after watching a non-Yankee game at Fenway last season I realized he is really just the village idiot that happens to be a savant at the plate…he really was fun to watch and is all about the fans, I now don’t think anything he does is malignant and the phrase “Manny Being Manny” makes much more sense.
“Terry is a wise man,” he said. “He knows what to do.”
aka
Mo is closing.
He’s an inbred hick from Louisiana. What do you expect? Freaking bum.
Yankee Trader: Thanks–everyone that voted in the poll helped. I wasn’t always voting with the majority!
I don’t hate Papelbon or Manny or anybody of the Sox, even Papi (who I like a lot by the way) because that means that you have respect for him. He is just an idiot, and an idiot doesn’t deserve my hate. End of story.
“The Boston Globe confirms ESPN’s Peter Gammons’ report that the Braves have had talks with the Red Sox regarding Mark Teixeira.”
“Jonathan Papelbon is a very talented pitcher. He’s also a classless yahoo.”
Orioles had Papelboner the other night. If only Markakis didn’t swing at ball 4 and Mora just missed.
MLB Trade Rumors says that Atlanta asked for Youkilis and Hansen in exchange for Teixeira. But Boston declined.
Actually Papelbon, based on most saves F. Rodriguez is ahead of you by 5 and leads you in ERA.
Based on ERA the top 5 AL relief pitchers in order:
Rivera, Nathan, Soria, Jenks then F.Rod. Jenks should be on the team as the 5th reliever instead of you!!
Wouldn’t Francisco Rodriguez get the nod over Paps too? He’s having a monster of a season.
“This is the 2008 all-star game and so far in 2008 Mariano Rivera has been the best closer in the American League. Thus he should close for the AL all-star team. It doesn’t matter that Mo is the best closer of all time and it doesn’t matter that Papelbon won the 2007 world series.”
couldn’t have said it better.
Looking at the AL Closers who made the team Papelbon isn’t even in the top 3…
P Mariano Rivera, NYY R/R
P Joakim Soria, KC R/R
P Joe Nathan, MIN R/R
P Francisco Rodriguez, LAA R/R
P Jonathan Papelbon, BOS R/R
P George Sherrill, BAL L/L
4 and 5 were a toss up…
YOU DECIDE WHO SHOULD CLOSE…
Papelfag - 2.43 Saves 28; save opportunities 32; IP 40.2; SO - 51 blown saves - 4
Mariano - 1.06 Saves 23; save opportunities 23; IP 42; SO - 50 blown saves - 0
Papelbon should know that if you don’t open your mouth you can’t stick your foot in it.
Next, Jason Varitek will be saying he should start because his team won the World Series.
Teixeira for just Youklis would be worth it for Atlanta. Youklis has better average better SLG% . Teixeira hasn’t been hitting lefties well and is going to require a bloated 20+M Boras contract.
If Papelbon were a Yankee, people would be singing his praises and using words like swagger. That’s all Papelbon is displaying here. Whether it’s unfounded or not is another issue. He’s just a guy with a lot of confidence in his ability.
He definitely should NOT close tomorrow night, but I have no problem with him wanting to close
Joba pumps his fist and everyone and their mother calls him out and says he needs to learn respect. Are we all just supposed to chalk this up to Pappy being Pappy, and excuse him from being a total Massengil?
Mariano - ER 5; HR 2; H 23
Papelfag - ER 11; HR 3; H 32
Should I go on?
Somewhere he is depriving a village of an idiot
Somewhere he is depriving a village of an idiot
I cannot stand Papelbon. He insists that he is not going to agree to a deal that lets the team buy out his arbitration years and a year or two of free agency, which means the Sox can be rid of him sooner rather than later. Given how he has pitched this year and the condition of his shoulder, I expect he’ll live to regret not taking guaranteed money when he had the chance.
I found him amusing last year, but only because I assumed he’d grow up. Now his act has worn thin.
Are we all just supposed to chalk this up to Pappy being Pappy, and excuse him from being a total Massengil?
No we’re supposed to remember that he said he deserved more money last year because he was the one setting the standard for closers in the majors. We’re also supposed to remember that he said he was the best closer in the game last year.
We need to always remember that the guy is a walking Massengil and not excuse his arrogtance.
There is NOBODY in baseball who thinks Rivera shouldn’t be closing tomorrow night except Papelbon.
“Looking at the AL Closers who made the team Papelbon isn’t even in the top 3…
P Mariano Rivera, NYY R/R
P Joakim Soria, KC R/R
P Joe Nathan, MIN R/R
P Francisco Rodriguez, LAA R/R
P Jonathan Papelbon, BOS R/R
P George Sherrill, BAL L/L
4 and 5 were a toss up…”
Absolutely not. Papelbon is better than everyone on that list except Mariano.
That said, he is still a moron and should shut his big trap.
What a disrespectful punk that Papel-bottom is he is forgetting his several blown saves and failure against the Yankees as recently as last week what a clueless turd Mo has 4 rings you have one it is his building sit down and shut up!
Anyone who lets up a walkoff hit to gardner (only because he’s a week-old rookie, I actually like the guy) doesn’t deserve to make an all-star team. He just gets alot of attention because he plays in Boston. Soria and K-Rod are better.
No pitcher should win the Cy Young working only one inning a game
JR,
I hate to agree with that, but I think MLB needs to fix/change the awards.
MVP should either change or have Most Outstanding Player added. MVP leaves way too much interpretation open for the writers and voters who have shown they are clueless.
Cy Young should go to the best starter. The Mariano Rivera award should go to the best closer or reliever each year.
ROY should be changed to “Best Player who is in their first season in MLB, whether they have played 10 professional seasons in Japan or not”
just my take…
what is this guy smoking. “he earned the right to close by winning the World Series last season”. the last time I looked 4>2. But maybe in Boston they have different math.
There is a difference between this idiot and Joba, Joba would never call out his manager right before the all-star game and demand he close. Especially when the other closer in question is a first ballot hall of famer having a career year at the final all-star game in the only ball park he has ever called home. This truly shows the deterioration of the chain of command in baseball this is like Roger Clemens saying that he is better than Nolan Ryan or Huston Street calling out Dennis Eckersley. The whole respect elders concept and seniority policy in baseball is long gone Papel-Sux demanding to close over the best closer who ever stepped on a diamond is pure blaspheme. Just goes to show the class and respect being preached up in Beantown.
“Absolutely not. Papelbon is better than everyone on that list except Mariano.”
Uh, sorry, that’s not true. Joe Nathan is much better than Papelbon, and having a much better season.
Doesn’t Papelbon realize he wasn’t even in the running? Why would he close before Joe Nathan who’s better than him altogether, and having a season that makes Papelbon look like an AAA closer.
So then it really comes down to Rivera and Nathan, and Rivera would close because he’s having a better season, and oh yeah, because Nathan isn’t a complete jerk like Papelbon and would never start lobbying for the close.
Just goes to show the class and respect being preached up in Beantown.
Al this is the team that had Manny backhand Youklis in the dugout and Manny push down their traveling secretary because he didn’t get all the tickets he wanted. What do you expect? They stand for “do your own thing” up there.
I wanna punch this retard right in his purse lipped Alcohol fetal syndromed face.
“If Papelbon were a Yankee, people would be singing his praises and using words like swagger.”
That’s totally not true because the Yankees NEVER said stuff like that when they were winning the World Series. They may have had a sense of swagger but it was only in how they played on the field and never in how they talked. These Red Sox talk a lot and whether or not they can back it up, its still pretty lame when compared to how the Yankees have always handled themselves. It’s going to be funny watching these guys in five years once Ramirez and Ortiz are gone and their forced to face the fact that they had a lot less to do with the team’s success than they thought.
Papelbon appears to have a very low IQ. I almost feel sorry for him.
I am in total and utter shock with that statement. I have taken this whole Red Sox/Yankees rivalry and put in on the back burner for the sake of sending off The Stadium in proper fashion.
I have stuck up for both Youkilis and Manny for their respective starting roles even though many others would like others to be starting. I do, however have a problem with Pedroia starting over Kinsler and anybody who has read my posts can see that.
Now Papelbon goes and opens his mouth and speaks this bull and insults argueably the greatest closer in the history of the sport in his own stadium while he’s having one of his best seasons.
No words to describe how this angers me.
pap is a good closer,mo is a great one,pap is classless,mo is all class.pap will not come close to the saves that mo ends up with or the total rings.pap is a total loser who makes me appreciate mo. mo always says the right things,pap never says the right things and pap enjoys being an idiot.it is going to be great when francona brings mo in as pap watches.
personally, i think paps is right. i mean he did win the world series last year while mo was playing golf. gotta be fair, dudes
Come on now, according to Gordon Edes, Papelbon is deferring the 9th inning to Mo. He’s doing the right thing.
Incredible. LOL.
sox rule,
History is nice, but take a look at this year’s stats. Papelbon isn’t even in the running. Mo is.
Papelbon may be a good closer, but Mariano is the greatest closer in the history of the game. Mariano deserves to close.
If Francona does not pick Mo over Papelbon, I will loose all respect for Francona.
Well DUH Sox Rule and now I know it is all part of the stupidity package up there, fans like you included.
The choices for this year’s All Star Game weren’t made based on LAST YEAR’S WORLD SERIES loser-dude. See loser-dude, the league that wins gets HFA during the World Series. So it pays to have the BEST out there. Not last year’s has beens.
Go way.
And another difference is that Papplebum is classless… whereas Mariano is one of the classiest guys in baseball.
Unbelievable. Is this the new face and attitude of the RedSox? If so, they should be very ashamed and embarassed. I’m gobsmacked.
Going back to the Teixeira / Youkillis talks. One thing you are forgetting is that Youkillis isn’t as talented an athelete, he fades in the second half of the year because of having to put out so much in the first half. Teixeira gets better during his second half of the season.
I don’t think the Red Sox will make that move though, because Youkillis is cost controlled for 2 more years and he can cover 3rd, meaning a lot more flexibility for the team. The only thing that might make them go that route is if Ortiz is done for the season, and they might not have the window of time to know till after the trade deadline.
It still could happen, but Teixeira might not be there if they wait too long. Tough to say.
I just think its ridiculous that somehow he thinks he’s entitled to all this stuff because he was the closer of the World Series team. Keith Foulke wasn’t even entitled to his job the next year. There are a lot of guys like Papelbon who close for a few years and then flame out. And now I hope he ends up being one of them just so his inflated sense of self importance has to deal with it.
Chris I have to laugh. You ever watch Papelbon coming close to imploding and wiggling out at the last minute? In Mo’s worst season he’s so much better than this joker. Papelbon calls himself the best closer in baseball. He’s already looking extremely shaky. The only thing scary about him is that ugly mug of his. Imagine what he’ll be like in say three or four years. A flash in the pan.
Mariano’s numbers are not of this planet even for his standards. 1.06 ERA 50 K 42.1 IP 4BB 23 SV’s. This is just one occasion where there shouldn’t even be an argument. Papelbon is a good top 5 MLB closer. Mariano Rivera is the best closer in the history of baseball having his best year ever and he has not blown a single save while Papel-bottom has blown 4, most of which were on bomb home-runs end of discussion. It will be a crime if Francona punks out and uses Papelbon just to appease his whiny brat closer.
Is Papsmear on Drugs? Give me a break fool.
Fish lips should just be quiet
You guys (Pete included) all missed the part where Pap pulled a reporter aside right after that interview and said “Mo will be closing the ASG tomorrow”
You people love to hate. Hal, you are right. Paplebon ADMIRES Mo and has admitted it. Just something to work Yankee fans up over nothing.
Why it seems just like yesterday they were complaining about the “WE Stink” comment. (Oh,It was yesterday.)
People, Get a life.
And by the looks of it Pete, You better have more than 1 Diet Coke. Actually Gastric ByPass surgery should be highly considered!
Mark said it best with the stats, compare the numbers, Rivera should close based off of this season.
i dont know papelbon well, but holy crap what a douche, show some respect
Hal and Joe,
Yes, it’s so nice of Papelbon to grant Mo a role that was never Papelbon’s to begin with. How very gracious and magnanimous of him.
LOL.
Say what you want Old Lady, Paplebon admires and looks up to Mo and why shouldn’t he. As a Sox fan I will admit Mo is and was the best, unlike some of you Yankee fans who are crying about Youk and Pedroia.
He even stated at the last All Star game they sat and talked after everyone left the locker room for a while.
So basically the statement was tongue and cheek.
If Papelbon really felt that Mo should be closing, then that is what he should say. That aside to the reporter was probably because Francona already told him that Mo would be closing. It doesn’t mean that Papelbon thinks Mo deserves it or anything else.
He mouths off all the time. I guess Sox fans will forgive him right up till he is playing for another team. Just like Manny and all the other baby crap that comes from the players of that team.
Most times when people do the whole tongue in cheek (not “and”) it is done to convey a truth.
Papelbon is an arrogant jerk. The real him was on display, then his aside to the reporter was because his brain actually moved some electrons and he realized what a jerk he sounded like.
So Joe the Sox fan defends Papelbon nonstop on a Yankee blog. How boring.
And I still have to read any Yankee fans crying about Youkilis & Pedroia, no matter how much you all want to believe that’s true. There are definite questions over whether either deserves to be starting, and before you get all defensive again over your players, there are the same questions about Jeter.
Delusional fool better check the numbers before he says stuff like that. Oh but that would require him to be able to read wouldn’t it.
Dis you’re right. It’s always fun to see the Sox apologists though.
What a punk.
Wasn’t it nice to see the Aaron Boone highlight closing out the leadins to the Derby.
“And the Yankees are going to the world series!”
I REALLY want to hear that again this year.
I’m a Red Sox fan and I agree that Mo is, by far, the greatest closer in baseball and that he should close teh All-Star Game. I see Papelbon as a much younger and more enthusiastic (for lack of better words) version of Mo. Sox fans would be worried if their closer didn’t want to close a game.
Paps just likes to have his fun. A previous post revealed that he knows that Mo is closing the game and he supports that.
He must be joking. In either case Rivera will close, Francona has that much sense. If he didn’t he would be hounded by all the media and it would just be stupidly controversial.
Dis, Yeah theay are adversaries that hate each other(tongue and cheek)meanwhile they are probably going out to dinner together tonight making millions per year while your making 60 G’s and complaining. Get a Life.
Support your claim, when does he mouth off all the time? That’s what I thought.
Red Sox,
It’ll take 5 more years like last season to be able to call Papelbon a much younger version of Mo.
Well Old Lady if you make 5 years you will see it!
So because Papelbon was on one of the 2 Sox championship teams in the previous 90 years he should automatically get to close the All-star game? Using that logic Mo should close because the Yankees have 26 championships in that same time…what a dope who cares if he bit his tongue and retracted it was a dumb statement in the first place.
Pedroia rookie of the year that probably has the look of Jeter several years ago with a special sparkle in his eyes. Admit it Yankee fans, he wouldn’t be getting all this slack from you guys and be starting in the AS game if he wasn’t good!
It is great how current Sox players IE: Pedroia, Youk, Manny,Pap seem to forget the Sox futility of 1919-2003. Perhaps if Ted Williams were still around he could teach them to not take those rings for granted and also how to not use the championship as a crutch or excuse for your ludicrous sentiments. Even as a Yankee fan I am embarassed that the aforementioned clowns got a ring and guys like Yaz, Ted Williams, and Fisk never did.
“Pedroia rookie of the year that probably has the look of Jeter several years ago with a special sparkle in his eyes. Admit it Yankee fans, he wouldn’t be getting all this slack from you guys and be starting in the AS game if he wasn’t good!”
LOL, Pedroia= The Captain….. wow pass me what you’ve been smoking bro.
I have a question, If you could what players from the Sox (Red)would you sign if you could? Be honest!
From the Yanks I would take Mo, Joba, (even though unproven), Jeter, Arod, Wang and maybe Pettitte for a year.
seriously… he needs to shut his mouth
I hate everyone on the Sux because they are all tremendously overrated. If I had to have a few Lester, Papi(just so he could stop hitting our pitching) and maybe Beckett. No to Manny he is what people in sports call a CANCER.
Joe, we get it. You’re a Sox fan.
As for your observation about Pedroia, add that to the other Sox fan’s comment comparing Papelbon to Mo, you only prove how silly Red Sox fans are.
Actually Dennis Eckersley is the greatest closer in the history of the game. Sure, he gave up the Gibson HR, but Mo blew the 2001 World Series and the 2004 ALCS.
Mo blew the 2004 ALCS?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA … gasp … AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Did you even watch the games? Do you know anything about baseball?
Papelbon is a class a jerk. Mariano’s lost a few, but his stats in the post season are untouchable. He’s All-Time. Let Papelbon win a few World Series, and put together a hall of fame career, then talk.
There’s a way to go, but so far this is arguably Mariano’s best season ever.
His ERA - a fair measure since he’s a closer - is 1.08, and his WHIP is 0.638. 0.638 - that’s insane.
What a hack. Here are some extended quotes from Papelbon:
“Of course I want to close the game out, I wouldn’t be Jonathan Papelbon if I didn’t. But at the same time there are also things within this game that I and other people have to understand that things don’t always work that way.”
“We owe a lot to this game, we truly do and I feel that I owe a lot to this game and if that’s one of things that I owe this game, letting an elder statesman go ahead of me, then that’s what it is.”
“I’ve always referred to him as the Godfather of the closers, which he pretty much is. Obviously he’s done a lot of great things for this role. He’s one of the main contributors of making this role what it is today.”
From:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txallstarpapelbonftr&prov=st&type=lgns
I thought Bozo just dies. Guess not. Classless buffoon. He can’t carry Mariano’s jock. And don’t get me started on his stare with the sphincter mouth impression.
CORRECTION: I thought Bozo just “died.”
Open Mouth
Insert Foot
Repeat
John Lithgow lookalike
Just wondering, how is Pedroia not as impressive as the younger Jeter? Lets compare their rookie years…
AVG SLG OBP SB SO* BB RBI HR
Pedroia .317 .442 .380 7/8 42 47 50 8
Jeter .314 .430 .370 14/21 102 48 78 10
Here are the fielding stats:
G E* DP FPCT
Pedroia 137 6 78 .990
Jeter 157 22 83 .969
*I will give Jeter a little slack on the SOs and Es. He had 62 more ABs than Pedroia. Maybe he struck out at each one. Though the BBs and HRs are nearly the same. And maybe he made an error in 16 of those extra 20 games.
By no means am I declaring Jeter a bad player. I think he’s a great SS, but I also think that Pedey is just as good (if not better).
Oh god, everything was a little neater when i typed it up in the comment box. Sorry! Just try lining everything up.
You’re right that Mo is not soley responsible for the 2004 ALCS meltdown (though he did walk Millar and allow Roberts to score). The entire Yankee team - from Captain Jeter to $300 million ARod - is responsible.
And you want to talk about class? How about handing out 20,000 mustaches to the fans? That is a disgrace. All-Stars shouldn’t campaign to get voted in (especially when they don’t deserve it). Or Hank’s petty comments on others? Or A-Rod announcing his departure from the Yanks during the clinching game of the WS? And people wonder why he is always in the spotlight.
I dont see a problem…the guy wants to close the game…He won the world series last year not Rivera or the yankees..The Red Sox are good and the Yankees suck, Papelbon should close the game. Rivera doesnt deserve anything! end of story, PAP, he is not classless he is just stating the facts and his beliefs. Paps for the 9th!!
I really can’t believe I read this. What an idiot - just goes to show how out there in la-la land the red sox and their fans are. Of all the things that the Sox fans say (and NESPN for that matter) is when they talk about Papelbum like he is the best closer in the game… that honor goes to MO every single time. I wish MO was a little big more outspoken because I’d love to hear what he actually thinks about this. I know he would definitely take the high road - “Papelbom is a great closer etc. etc” but someone needs to put paps in his place.
So, wait, is that the 150,993,201st reason to hate Papplebon, or the 150,993,202nd??
What a total classless moron. Mo has earned it this season alone. Ignore the rest of his career, the fact that it’s at The Stadium, etc, Mo has been a better closer THIS YEAR too.
So, wait, is that the 150,993,201st reason to hate Papplebon, or the 150,993,202nd??
What a total classless moron. Mo has earned it this season alone. Ignore the rest of his career, the fact that it’s at The Stadium, etc, Mo has been a better closer THIS YEAR too.
Sox fans are out of their minds as well if they think his TEAM winning the world series LAST YEAR has anything to do with who closes the game. Best man wins and that trailer trash is far from the best man.
Mariano is having the best season of his life. He should start AND close.
Pimplebeak will be traded off the Sux in a couple years cause they won’t put up with his bum shoulder. Who will he be setting up for then, I wonder.
I dislike: Papelbon and Varitek.
Have nothing against Ramirez and Papi.
Evidently the MLB drug testing policy that Bud Selig crowed about on Letterman last night isn’t tough enough to catch whatever Papelbon’s taking.
Mo will pitch the ninth no matter what, I think.
I look forward to Pap-smear’s career ending injury.
I look forward to Pap-smear’s Tommy John surgery. What a rube!
Does anyone know where I can get a picture of The NY Daily News Cover with Papelbum on it?
what the is wrong with you people? A daily rag reporter grills Pap and he says “yeah I would like to do my job and get in there and close the game” and this is NEWS? He said nothing bad about Mo. I guess “Pap thinks Rivera is a great picher” was not a catchy enough headline. And then at the parade, you typical classy Yankee fans tell his wife to get a abortion? Yell obscenities in front of the kids? Bunch of puppets - just do what you are told.
my theory is that wearing a cap with a intertwined NY symbol on it makes you stupider than you already are. Us rubes don’t have the imagination to be that stupid.
Cheer up Yankees fans! I know you’re hoppin’ mad that the Red Sox dominated the last All-Star game in “your” house so you feel the need to make a big stink out of Papelbon’s tongue in cheek comment but just bear in mind that you won’t remain down for long. In order to justify the $27 hot dog-and-a-beer package at the Stadium you’ll surely sign an aging “big name” to stumble through the end of their career in pinstripes. My prediction: Barry Bonds. Yankee brass doesn’t seem to have any moral dilemmas about signing known cheaters (see Clemens and Giambi for starters). Regardless, enjoy third place this season!