Run for your life, Joba
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on May 29, 2009 
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Andy also started “the Midges” game.
That was such a great game. Pettitte was awesome.
I was there in 07 – they were in my beer!
damn maggots
Damn midges
I live outside of Cleveland and my window is covered with them.
Those are to big to be midges.
I think they’re gi-ants.
…too big…
I can’t tell a joke…
As if there weren’t enough reasons not to live in Cleveland.
You just don’t walk in to a meeting and say “bugs”!
slow news day huh
Still can’t believe Torre didn’t take the team off the field…ah well.
Once the wind picks up to 15 mph or so as it is expected to do in Cleveland this evening, the midges should not be much of a problem. They do stay around for about a week though once they spawn in a warmer Lake Erie, so it may affect the games at SOME point.
Maybe they should light the lake on fire again. That would probably keep all the bugs away.
The midges thing is on Torre.
As soon as Joba walked the first guy, Torre should have gone to MO
We had an off-day the next day too. That is even more of a blunder than not pulling the team off the field
Torre burned MO countless times for 3+ out saves in the regular season but couldn’t do it in Game 2 of the playoffs?
That happened to be the night I broke out my “Joba Rules” t-shirt for the first time. I threw it out after the game.
Let me clarify. Not out of disrespect to Joba. I love the guy. But because I am superstituous to the point where its comical, and I think the shirt was hexed
Ah, the midge game.
I had a doll named “Midge” a long, long time ago. She was Barbie’s best friend.
Terrible job of managing. That was when I started to see that maybe Torre and the Yankees were no longer meant for each other. He really let his players down that night.
Well, it’s true that Rivera has reached such a pure, beatific state that the midges would not have been able to get anywhere near him.
Interesting fact- but the trainer spraying bug spray on Joba that nigth was also a big mistake. Apparently, midges are attracted to bug spray and it just makes it worse. The Cleveland trainers knew that. Monahan didn’t.
->
ugh, hate those damn things.
Erica,
Can we request a do over?
“Maybe they should light the lake on fire again. That would probably keep all the bugs away.”
Classic. Burn that filthy cesspool
Sure Bodhisattva. I am all for do-overs. Its like when my friends and I used to play kick ball at night and the games would last 4 hours cause we’d all cry and yell do-over when we didn’t like the result. And in the end there was never a winner cause it would get too late and our mom’s would yell at us. Ahh- those days were the best
. (I am not being sarcastic here either)
My god I hate those midges…don’t remind anymore of them as those things still haunt me to this day
It was the Cuyahoga River that caught fire in the ’70′s, not Lake Erie.
Stupid Midgets… that game hurts… where is travis hafner anyways
Erica
I was just going to say the Yankees know better how to handle it should it come up again.
One thing, I heard someone called the INdians when this was going on and told them not to use spray. I don’t believe they knew either.
Hafner’s in Triple A. Wang pitched against him recently.
Doreen,
The time for Torre to go was after the 2004 ALCS collapse, from which they still haven’t recovered.
Cleveland…the mistake on the lake that just keeps giving and giving…I spent a month there one week.
Yes, Erica, I have my own version of those good old days
Rich,
Agree he should have gone after 2004 – not so much because of the highly unpopular result, but because he managed that series the way Paul Hackett ran the NY Jets’ offense.
I don’t buy the “we’ve never been the same” stuff, however. We just haven’t had any pitching since the year prior – and the lack of a lefty starter killed us in that series.
“Cleveland…the mistake on the lake that just keeps giving and giving…I spent a month there one week.”
GGBG, is that a Harry Chapin reference?
I’ve always felt we should try to convince the terrorists that Buffalo and Cleveland are the most vital cities in the country.
Oh no! Don’t make him pitch there, please!