Most teams have a tough time when the fans have to pick their all-time teams. Not because there are a lot of great players competing for a spot. More that there are not enough a good players to field an All Star team let alone an All-Time Team. I mean the Mets fans are arguing about the relative merits of Eddie Kranepool and John Olerud. Or the Brewers fans deciding whether to vote for Sixto or Sevento Lezcano. Or ask nd whose the bomb......John Mayberry or Steve Balboni. The only team that will have a bona fide Hall of Famer at every position is the New York Yankees. And what is remarkable is that it is quite possible that three of the All-Time Yankees are on the team right now.
Now it is obvious that Derek Jeter will go down as the greatest Yankee shortstop of all time. Five rings. Maybe four thousand hits. More pussy than the port-a-potty at the Lillith faire. The popular choice before was the Scooter Phil Rizzuto but even he acknowledge that Jetes was the man and would take his place with Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio and Mantle and Berra. You are witnessing the career of the greatest shortstop on the greatest franchise in all of professional sports history.
The toughest thing for me to admit is that A-Rod might end up being the greatest Third Baseman in Yankees history. By the time his career is over he will have played the majority of his career as a Yankee. He might hold the all time home run record. I wish I could vote for Jumping Joe Dugan or Craig Nettles or Clete Boyer or Jerry Kenny or Celerino Sanchez or fucking anybody other than this annoying prick but waddayagonnado? He will have the stats and most likely two or three rings by the time his career as a Yankee is over. I am stuck with him and I think he will have the third base spot on the All Time Yankee team. That sucks.
But the guy that is really surprising me is Robinson Cano. He has a good shot to be the All Time Yankee second baseman. I mean I guess most people would pick from a hodgepodge of Bobby Richardson or Willie Randolph or Tony Lazzari but I don't think any of them will measure up to what Robinson Cano is going to do if he doesn't get hurt or start hanging out in the Hamptons with Jason Kidd. Robinson Cano is on a tear lately and the last few years he might actually be the best player on the team. Which is saying a lot when you play for the Yankees. I actually plan my bathroom breaks around when he is coming up when I watching the game. If he continues on this pace he will have a sport with the immortals.
I feel honored to watch them play.
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Here the guys are comparing how big Mariah Carey's twat really is in comparison to JLO.
The toughest thing for me to admit is that A-Rod might end up being the greatest Third Baseman in Yankees history.
Hey, man, you can have Wade Boggs if you want him.
Lem and I don't.
Wade Boggs doesn't even have the Yankee record for fucking the ugliest girl on the side.
Jerry Coleman used to bang Totie Fields back in the fifties.
The Yankee player I'd most like to go back in time and shoot (just to disable, mind you) is Lou Pineilla, right before he makes that lucky fuckin' stab of that line drive in the '78 playoff game.
Every time I watch a video of it I think it's gonna get by him for sure.
Who do you pick in CF? Roberto Kelly?
Jerry Coleman used to bang Totie Fields back in the fifties.
Was her dad's name Ebbets?
No I think it was Barren.
Or Baron....something like that there.
Roberto Kelly doesn't make the all Latin Yankee team.
Um, about this...The only team that will have a bona fide Hall of Famer at every position is the New York Yankees.
1B Jimmie Foxx
2B Bobby Doerr
SS Joe Cronin
3B He Who Shall Not Be Named
LF We got three here!
CF Tris Speaker
RF (coming soon...Dwight Evans)
C That Guy Who Was Way Better Than Munson..especially at flying
P Cy Young, Lefty Grove, Pedro! (and some fat fuck I can't remember offhand)
Roberto Kelly doesn't make the all Latin Yankee team
But possibly the best-hung Irishman of All Time!
You want to put out that motley crew?
Jeez the Cardinals or the fucking Pirates could do a lot better.
Even Lawnboy's Reds.
Lou Gerhig (so good they named a disease after him)
Robbie Cano doncha know.
The Captain Derek Jeter.
A-Rod because every body needs an asshole.
Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle.
Berra.
There is no comparison.
The only Rex Saux who has a chance to crack this lineup is the Headless Horseman.
And he could only be the DH.
It's no stretch to say that if the Sox had been willing to integrate early, they'd have had Mays in CF and Robinson at SS or 2B.
They had the original rights to Mays cause of whatever collusive deal MLB set up to prevent a bidding war for black players, and Robinson had a tryout w/ the team in '45.
Marilyn would've made a play for Williams instead of that ugly dago.
BTW, I hope you noticed the Pride of the Yankees clip I put in one of the megathreads as a little shout-out.
Everybody loves Gehrig.
The Red Sox were the only team that was more racist than the Yankees.
Until George bought the team. He didn't have a racist bone in his body.
Yeah. Who'da thought that a South Carolina trustafarian would have a thing against black players?
That was a bigger curse than that Bambino shit. That plus hiring one drunk after another to manage the team.
But shit, those were the times. And he did get the team to adopt the Jimmy Fund as its official charity. I think that was a first.
I saw the great Charley Smith play 3rd for the Yanks back in the late 60's. Why mo love for Charley? Or how about Bobby Cox, I saw him play 3rd also.
In 2002 we took out daughter and a teammate to Detroit to see Jeter play. We drove past Kalamazoo and she wanted to try and find his old house and high school. I was making good time and kept driving. Dads can be pricks.
Joe Posnanski, who is the best writer working the sports beat today, has coined a bunch of useful words, but none so useful as clemenate and jeterate.
When discussing the Yanks, Trooper can't help but deal in fanbole, but that just makes him a typical NYer. Right, spinelli?
ChipS, Trooper is the archetypal full of shit, blowhard, provincial, loudmouth, profane, pit stained, subway pisssing, flatulent, drunken, know-it-all, never been anywhere, momma's boy, New York asshole.
That's what makes him so much fun.
Fun and maddening @ different times.
Troop just cares about shit that I don't. That makes large swaths easy to ignore. I'm sure that he feels the same way. Maybe that's why we get along?
Hey take that back.
I have been to Canada.
Twice.
...the second time on purpose. Sober!
Draft dodger!!
Jimmeh Carter forgave him.
I'm putting in my late vote for Joe Gordon!
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