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Fan Confidence Poll: January 11th, 2010
By2009 Season Record: 103-59 (915 RS, 753 RA), won AL East by 8 games, finished with the best record in MLB by 6 games, won 27th World Series
Top stories from last week:
- The Yankees avoided arbitration with righty Sergio Mitre, signing him to a one year, $850,000 contract.
- A potential leftfield option, albeit a far-fetched one, disappeared when Matt Holliday re-signed with St. Louis. Former Yankee mascot Shelley Duncan signed with Cleveland. Johnny Damon is open to a return, however.
- A potential bench piece vanished when Eric Hinske landed in Atlanta, though the Yanks are interested in bringing back utility man Jerry Hairston Jr. and they appear to be in serious talks with him. However, they’re in no rush to find a righty hitting leftfielder, and Brian Cashman said the team was pretty much set.
- Makeup and long-term role concerns had the Yanks out of the Aroldis Chapman sweepstakes, and he ended up getting big money from the Reds. Chien-Ming Wang, meanwhile, will throw off a mound in 6-8 weeks and has had 15 teams express interest in his services.
- The entire coaching staff will return in 2010, and hitting coach Kevin Long has already made the rounds and worked with various players this offseason.
- Former Padres’ GM Kevin Towers is expected to join the front office as a consultant.
- The Yanks’ recent drafts have been middle of the pack, basically, though Zach McAllister is a prospect worth hanging onto.
- The 2011 NHL Winter Classic will not be held at Yankee Stadium, which turned out not to be the bandbox everyone thought it was.
- Derek Jeter is getting married.
Please take a second to answer the poll below and give us an idea of how confident you are in the team. You can view the new and improved Fan Confidence Graph anytime via the nav bar above, or by clicking here. Thanks in advance for voting.
Given the team's current roster construction, farm system, management, etc., how confident are you in the Yankees' overall future?
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9 still. No reason to be concerned. I do still think Callis’ draft grades are flawed.
Do you have a link to that?
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ack-22075/
9, stay the course.
10-now that Derek put Minky on his Mantle….
I can’t believe people (guys) on here say she’s plain. She’s a doll! She just doesn’t look like a porno star (with the bleached hair and the huge boobs)that guys have been programed to like. Also, maybe he actually has true feelings for her. (I know, hard to imagine.)
Something wrong with huge boobs?
It’s a matter of personal taste.
The obviously fake, huge ones are a deal killer for me.
Are you questioning my manhood?
In all seriousness, she’s stunningly beautiful.
In all seriousness, she’s
stunninglybeautiful.I can put up with “beautiful”. Anything beyond that is hyperbole.
(and yes, I know I’m arguing about your own personal opinion, which is incredibly dumb on my part. Whatevs. There’s principalities involved.)
If you choose this over this, I think the impact of your comments on this topic may be compromised.
+10
A) When Derek was with Mariah Carey, she didn’t look like that. That was 10 years and 50 pounds ago. Huge difference.
B) I never said Mariah (either old Mariah or young Mariah) was better looking than Minka Kelly. All I objected to the other night was the statement someone made that Minka was >>>>>>>>> both Mariah and Tyra Banks (who, again, Derek was dating many years and many pounds ago, at the height of her hotness.)
I’d say it’s more Tyra >>>>>>>>>>>>> Minka = Mariah. But yes, Mariah is also one of Derek’s lesser conquests. If he would have married here back then, I also would have had snarkiness galore.
In any event, Minka, Mariah, and Tyra are all beautiful. Tyra is the only one who has EVER been “stunningly” beautiful, at any point in her life.
“A) When Derek was with Mariah Carey, she didn’t look like that. That was 10 years and 50 pounds ago. Huge difference.”
But when you say that she’s >>>>>> hotter than Minka, you’re not talking about 10 years and 50 pounds ago, you’re talking about today. So no, she’s not hotter than Minka. I think we can agree that you maybe stretched a bit too far in making that Minka/Tyra/Mariah comparison.
“In any event, Minka, Mariah, and Tyra are all beautiful.”
Agreed. And today, which is really what matters, Minka’s the most beautiful of the three, in my opinion. I’m sure you disagree about Tyra, but the public humiliation she’s brought upon herself through her TV shows and the more advanced age (relative to Minka) make her less attractive, in my book.
“Tyra is the only one who has EVER been ‘stunningly’ beautiful, at any point in her life.”
Eh, like you said, totally subjective. Tyra was absolutely stunningly beautiful in her day, obviously. Mike thinks Minka’s stunningly beautiful today, you don’t think she is. Like you said above, it’s totally a matter of personal opinion.
But when you say that she’s >>>>>> hotter than Minka,
I didn’t say that.
And again, I prefaced all this by saying that I was entering into a dumb argument since it’s Mike’s opinion. You’re taking this way too far.
Saying that Minka >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mariah is false is not the same thing as saying that Mariah >>>>>>>>>> Minka is true.
I don’t much care for EITHER of them.
Ummm… I’m sorry, but you know what’s coming next… You did, in fact, say exactly the thing you’re denying you said.
See:
JMK @ 8:35 PM:
Having said that,
Minka>>>>>>>>Mariah+Tyra.
You @ 8:37 PM:
Only if Minka massively wins the personality battle.
On looks/body alone, it’s the exact opposite.
[emphasis added]
Ugh. Oversimplification fail on my part.
Should have spelled it out more thoroughly. My bad.
Lol… I know that’s the closest we’ll ever get to getting a mea culpa out of you, so I’ll take it without further comment.
You guys are missing a key point. I’m willing to bet that Minka in 10 years >>>>>>>>> Mariah now. That is, Minka’s looks will age better. She’s prettier and less likely to balloon.
You can always count on the captain to think long-term.
she is certainly attractive on Friday Night Lights. I think she must have won over Derek’s family. I think it is a good thing for the next few years. If the love fades, it won’t be till after he retires. Most of Derek’s teammates are married except for Alex…better not to be hangin’ with Arod…
I can’t believe people (guys) on here say she’s plain. She’s a doll!
Words I’d associate with someone called “a doll”:
Plain-looking
Exactly. I wouldn’t want my daughter playing with a doll that looks like a porn star…..oops, forgot about Barbie.
Terrific body. She’s sexy as hell.
sorry, didnt mean to reply to you Andy
Sure you didn’t. Doll lover.
haha, that’s funny
Terrific body. She’s sexy as hell.
That’s a telling statement.
“Terrific body” = Her face is utterly “meh”
She has a great personality too.
http://www.urbandictionary.com.....ersonality (safe)
I think her face is average. But I think she has a better body than Biel (i’m not in to the new muscular version) and Alba (though this is very close).
Jessica Biel, facially, is the ugliest of all of Jeter’s girls. She has the face of a dude.
But an incredible body.
Dude, did Minka Kelly put you in a dress and f*ck you or something?
C-L-O-W-N
/PinstripeDestiny’d
Niiice.
9.
So is this poll, like, important or something?
Confidence level on 10:01am on 01/11/10: 10. No, wait: 11.
/repetitive’d
Thanks for the line graph instead of the bar graph, I like it a lot.
Still at a 10. Still wish I could vote 11. Or 28.
I haven’t been this confident in success since the Kobayashi Maru.
/Kirk’d
I’m voting zero, but then again I’m rooting for them to fail
They are dissapointing me terribly….
KILL WHITEY!
http://s26.photobucket.com/alb.....iteMan.flv (safe-ish)
:::pretends to insert a youtube clip of Howard Stern’s “Kill Da White Man” gig from the movie Private Parts:::
I’m too busy to actually find the clip, but its the thought that counts, right?
My favorite Eddie Murphy skit of all time.
The two Tyrone Green poetry pieces were better. Harder to find, though.
Dark and lonely on a summer’s night.
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking. Do he bite?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Slip in his window. Break his neck.
Then his house I start to wreck.
Got no reason. What the heck?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L my landlord.
Meh, Party All The Time was better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMaibJAy-wY (safe for work, not safe for life)
IETC
Confidence level in team = 10
This Minka debate reminds me of the Hillary Swank episode of The Office. “You’re asking me whether I think she’s hot or not. Not whether I would do her.”
Wow this went really off topic.
Still at 9. I wouldn’t mind having Damon Back for 1 yr/$6-7 million.
I don’t think any of us would mind that.
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