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Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jun 05, 2009 
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Clutchy Cabrera did it again as the Yankees beat the Rangers and bailed out Chien-Ming Wang.
A.J. Burnett was suspended for six games. This notebook also has updates on Dave Robertson, Xavier Nady, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Nick Swisher.
Lets go CC! Get us started off on the right foot this series. Again.
going to be a great game tonight.
Welcome back to the big leagues Melky! I thought he was done as a pro player. Glad to see him regain his form since he’s a likable player and is good for the team.
When is Shelly Duncan going to get his chance? Lets dump Berroa already!!!!
Go Yanks! Beat the Rays!!!
Happy National Donut Day
hhhhhhhmmmmm donuts
http://www.nydailynews.com/spo.....tml?page=0
Sterling really is driving me more nuts than usual this season
Since Lupica seems to have taken the night off, I thought I’d provide a Lupica fix for all his loyal fans on the blog: (Satire warning! Satire ahead!)
Last night, at the House that Homers Built, Melky Cabrera did it again; hit a game winner, hit a cheapie, won the game, saved Wang’s bacon. Melky, a guy who lost his job last year, lost it by playing lazy, saved his seat at the Big Table in the Bronx for the rest of the season on a weak fly ball that is an out in any other park. That’s how you earn your money in the Bronx these days; earn it by fraud. Earn it by deceit. At Yankee Stadium: House of Fraud.
But cheap home runs don’t fool anyone, anyone with half a brain knows this team is no good, rich, spoiled. If you don’t see it, see it clearly, see it crystal clear in HD, you are a Republican neo-con thug. Like Steinbrenner.
Sure, Girardi has tried to be looser, more relaxed but he’s failed; failed as a manager, failed as a man. Cashman, who can’t seem to do his job at all, got the benefit of someone else’s cheap hit last night and won’t be fired now. Not yet. Not at this juncture. Not today. As my father, a middle class guy, who worked hard all his life, used to ask: What did I ever do to get such an arrogant, short putz for a son?
Look: Hank and Hal need to learn this: $200 million doesn’t get you a playoff team, not in this league, not today, not in this age of parity. No. Doesn’t. Nah-ah.
Happy Birthday to the most wonderful woman in the world, my wife, Mrs. Lupica. Love you more than myself; not something I ever thought could happen. And Hillary Clinton: you’re fat and wrong. And you wear tacky clothes, wear them poorly, wear them too tight; like ten pounds of sausage in a five pound bag as my working class Italian father used to say in that blunt honest way of his; said it all the time while he was beating me with a leather belt. Back when this Country was a good, decent place full of good, decent men and women. Not now. Not anymore. Ruined, destroyed by Dick Cheney and Bush, and anyone who disagrees with me.
Uh, I know that’s supposed to be satire but we could do without mentioning the names of politicians.
murphydog
God I hate Lupica
Giuseppe,
That’s exactly how a Lupica column reads nowadays. Can’t be Lupica satire without there being some kind of political angle to the story.
I sure hope they get the game in tonight. Weather is not looking too good here in NY
Anyone have a guess on the over/under on the Burnett appeal?
If it’s parody of a Lupica column, there MUST be some Bush Derangement Syndrome in there.
Anyone have a guess on the over/under on the Burnett appeal?
IMO, one game, just like Beckett so AJ doesn’t have to miss a start.
murphydog
UM you forgot to mention his Mets, how his boyfriend is working hard at returning, but can’t. Hello!! How can you forget Reyes!!
Murphydog – yeah, that was my thinking too. Cool.
“murphydog
UM you forgot to mention his Mets, how his boyfriend is working hard at returning, but can’t. Hello!! How can you forget Reyes!!”
jennifer:
Mea culpa. You are correct.
How could I forget to mention the best shortstop in NY; the only one that matters, the only one who can go to his left, save a game, get a hit. The “other team” in NY is really the best team in NY; no cheap home runs in that park, no way, no how. It takes a real man to hit a home run in Citifield, a man like Gary Sheffield, someone whose clubhouse truthing got him fired by the Steinbrenner thugs. Call it as you see it and the corporate thugs in pinstripes will lose you, consign you to baseball oblivion, dump you in the bargain bin. Not the Mets. They gave Sheffield back his voice, his stark dignity. They treat men like men in Flushing. And men like Reyes, a true 30-30-30 man if ever I saw one. The only shortstop that matters. Ever. On the “other team,” the better team, the best team. The Mets.
Hey Pete can you do something about those ad’s!
Good work, murphydog. Gave me a nice start to my day.
I NEVER EVER read Lupica or even click on his articles, I refuse to add to his circulation numbers.
You won’t hear to much from Loopy Lupica right now as the Yanks are tied for first and his beloved Mets got swept by the PIRATES! Yowza…that hurts. He’s reduced to writing etiquette lessons for LeBron James.
Much better Murphy!! bravo!!
people have to understand that hr’s can hurt us as much as help us.
the object of winning is to score one more run.
i don’t see the advantage that the yankees have.
How could I forget to mention the best shortstop in NY; the only one that matters, the only one who can go to his left, save a game, get a hit. The “other team” in NY is really the best team in NY; no cheap home runs in that park, no way, no how. It takes a real man to hit a home run in Citifield, a man like Gary Sheffield, someone whose clubhouse truthing got him fired by the Steinbrenner thugs. Call it as you see it and the corporate thugs in pinstripes will lose you, consign you to baseball oblivion, dump you in the bargain bin. Not the Mets. They gave Sheffield back his voice, his stark dignity. They treat men like men in Flushing. And men like Reyes, a true 30-30-30 man if ever I saw one. The only shortstop that matters. Ever. On the “other team,” the better team, the best team. The Mets.
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Hahahahaha
Well done
“Uh, I know that’s supposed to be satire but we could do without mentioning the names of politicians.”
Over the majestic arc of human civilization, nobody but nobody has been lampooned more often or harder than our elected officials and nobody deserves it more. (And I even used elected officials from both sides of the aisle to be fair and diverse).
“Hey Pete can you do something about those ad’s!”
It’s come up before, and apparently not. It’s Lohud’s call.
Satire was “invented” to poke fun at those in control.
murphydog
For a newspaper those ads are pretty crude. But I guess in this economy they take whatever ads they can get.
The strip-club ads don’t offend me as much as the “click here to buy Red Sox gear” ones do…
murpydog-
here’s mine on cashman:
reporter:
so brian, do the yankees bear any responsibility with wang’s problems this year?
cashman:
listen, wang had nothing else to prove at scranton, wake up and smell the coffee.
reporter: but didn’t you tell wang to not do any rehab on his foot and lower body last winter?
cashman:
that’s crap. i remember what marty miller once told me who by the way had nothing more to prove at the retirement spa in palm beach, never do anything ahead of time that you could be blamed for later.
reporter: was there some reason that you didn’t test wang in early spring training to see if he had healed from his lisfranc fracture and he was back to full strength?
cashman:
wake up and smell the coffee. what do you think we are the red sox?
do you realize how much money we save by waiting until something breaks before we fix it.
this whole proactive conditioning thing is overrated. when i used to get coffee for george, he used to constantly say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. he meant the coffee machine, but what’s the difference? players? coffee machines?
if they break. you buy a new one.
reporter:
did you over react when chamberlain was hit by the line drive and call up wang to soon when he could have made several more starts at scranton?
cashman:
that’s crap. wang had nothing else to prove in scranton.
reporter:
but wasn’t wang losing the starting length he had built up in scranton?
cashman:
as dave eiland says, wang has to take it from the bullpen to the game, wang has to take it from the bullpen to the game, wang has to take it from the bullpen to the game, wang has to take it from the bullpen to the game.
how’s he going to do that if he’s not in the bullpen?
wake up and smell the coffee.
reporter:
you seem to mention coffee a lot. is that because you spent the first 10 years of your career getting coffee for george?
cashman:
that’s crap.
“Satire was “invented” to poke fun at those in control.”
See, e.g., http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
Jonathan Swift, to whom all of us papists owe a great debt.
reporter:
you seem to mention coffee a lot. is that because you spent the first 10 years of your career getting coffee for george?
cashman:
that’s crap.
lol! Randy, you’re up and at ‘em early, my friend.
Ah, yes Jonathan Swift, who along with fellow papist, Alexander Pope, created some of the best Satire of all time. Infact, IMO the early part of the 18th c. was the golden age of Satire. Pope’s “Dunciad”, Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ are clasics of the genre.
murphydog-
hey, if we didn’t poke fun at them , they’d really make us crazy.
actually i’m surprised and pleased how cashman has made a firm decision and moved wang into the rotation even though he’s going to take his lumps as he does his rehab in real games.
there was really no other choice, but cashman didn’t just sit on it . the yankees if wang gets back to good wang, could be a real powerhouse. there’s signs already that this could be the year they get #27.
my only problem with that is then proving cashman is a bozo when he has that world series ring on his finger. not that i won’t try
randy
Are you becoming a Cashman Truther?
I figured I’d get that in seing Nick isn’t here.
seeing
Trying to misspell like GB7 till he gets here.
Carton is an iddiot
murphydog – good stuff man. You could write for Loopy when he goes on vaca and no one would be the wiser.
Those who read Lupica anyhow are none the wiser…
I wonder if John Kruk thinks Burnett’s suspension was .an absolute joke’, the way he described Beckett’s suspension when his came down.
murphydog,
The best thing I’ve ever read on here – in a landslide.
I was crying, do you hear me? Crying.
The thought I had while reading was this:
Why does anyone bother to re-read Lupica? If you read one column, you’ve read them all.