Comments on: Remembering the Next Generation

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:27:11 +0000

Really classy to compare a juicer to a guy that played it straight.
Man, you guys are fucking morons.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:25:19 +0000

Derek’s the cleanest

By: Omar

Omar — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:49:19 +0000

I wish Nomar was caught juicing that way the Boston media can’t fawn over his retirement and relieve a bunch of shitty memories.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:44:05 +0000

Nomar was taking better steroids than Arod.

By: Business Suit

Business Suit — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:42:57 +0000

Alex also stole 111 bases out of 141 tries and was always considered the better defender.

And he averaged 36 HR, something the HOF definitely looks at.

By: Riddering

Riddering — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:21:18 +0000

I know this was just a comment sharing your anecdotes but…SSS applies here too.

By: Riddering

Riddering — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:01:46 +0000

The Town so good they towned it 1.19 times.

By: The Honorable Congressman Mondesi

The Honorable Congressman Mondesi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:28:50 +0000

I totally disagree, and I’ll point to Murcer again. If the guy is shipped out (i.e. he doesn’t decide to leave), I don’t see why fans would lose their connection with him. People feel bad for Murcer for getting shipped to San Francisco, they didn’t stop rooting for or liking the guy. The relationship with the player would be different in that you would lose a few years of seeing the guy every single night, but that doesn’t necessarily change the love/respect for the player.

Also… Don’t discount how much the opinion of the old-guard matters to the fans. The old guys, the legends… They LOVED Mattingly, they accepted him as one of them. Listen to Scooter in those old highlights and the way he talks about Mattingly, it’s different than the way those guys talked about other players. Whether fans realize it or not, I think that stuff matters a lot to them and helped shape Mattingly’s legacy.

I get what you’re saying and obviously it matters if someone plays his whole career with one team or not, but I think you’re massively overstating the possible affect on Mattingly’s Yankees legacy here.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a The Large Sample Size

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a The Large Sample Size — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:28 +0000

I think playing even a few meaningless years in a non-pinstriped uniform would knock Donnie down a huge amount in the mental resonance of Yankee fans. He wouldn’t be the same in a way they can’t quite put their fingers on (because they’re dumb, but I digress).

By: The Honorable Congressman Mondesi

The Honorable Congressman Mondesi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:43 +0000

I said that poorly… I think some of the love would have decreased had we not gone through ’91-’95 with the guy, but not nearly to the extent you seem to think it would have decreased, is what I meant.