And I call “Bullshit” on this contention. 
Dougie was close but he was just inside the corner.
Anyway, Dougie wasn’t the guy that A-Rod hit.
;j
You mean MINTY.
At least that’s what we’ve been calling him for the last four or five years in Minnesota.
His other nickname is “Dougie Defense.”
Ironically, they play this at Yankee Stadium when they introduce the visiting lineup.
This afternoon on NPR, they were discussing the play involving A-Rod, and whether or not it was shown on the fanavision screen. Apparently it wasn’t, and the rationale was that replays could incite misbehavior from the fans.
Despite my passion for a team, throwing shit and attempts at justification of cheating just isn’t there.
Kudos to the officials for their consensus based review of controversial plays, as I’d have felt it an undeserved run had not Jeter been returned to first.
OK. I’m not saying that the fans at the park last night were right. And, just because fans of other teams (cough RedSox cough) have done it before us doesn’t justify it. However, don’t you think that calling out the riot police to line the field was just a BIT of an overreaction for booing and some plastic cups?
It wasn’t just plastic cups it was bottles, baseballs and batteries as well.
And don’t forget the incidents in other stadiums of Jerry Springer guests running onto the field and beating the shit out of coaches.
Perhaps not so much a reaction of any caliber; more like a precaution. Someone said upthread that cops were standing guard in Kenmore Square in Boston, to head off potential disgruntled Sox fans coming out of the bars. Three years ago I think it was, Laker fans trashed the Staples Center because we won. And there was that incident at the OSU game a while back. I’d rather see riot police doing nothing than see destruction and wonder why there weren’t any cops.
Nicky: Schadenfreude huh? what’s that, some kind of nazi german word?
Gary: Yep. It’s German for happiness at the misfortune of others.
Nicky: Happiness and the misfortune of others, THAT IS German!
Avenue Q
(no offense to people of german descent. take it up with broadway not me)
i’m just so stoked about game seven i had to mention that.
Well, that’s because it’s true.
Right here in Baltimore, at Camden Yards, you can’t sit through a single inning without all the morons second-guessing every ball and strike call. I’ve ranted about it before.
Lisa: Dad, do you know what Schadenfreude is?
Homer: No, I do not know what shaden-frawde is.
[sarcasm] Please tell me, because I’m dying to know.
Lisa: It’s a German term for `shameful joy’, taking pleasure in the suffering
of others.
Homer: Oh, come on Lisa. I’m just glad to see him fall flat on his butt!
[getting mad]
He’s usually all happy and comfortable, and surrounded by loved ones,
and it makes me feel… What’s the opposite of that shameful joy
thing of yours?
Lisa: [nastily] Sour grapes.
Homer: Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!
Agreed, but just to make my point more clear, since we’re on commercial, and we’re both on the same side of the fence on this (Go Sox!) so I’d rather not go round and round over it, but if A-Rod had put his hands out to protect himself in anticipation of a collision with Mientkiewicz (which was likely) while running straight to first base and in the process, knocked the ball out of Arroyo’s glove instead of obviously swiping at the glove, that would have been perfectly legal, and I think there still would have been a pit thread about that play*. Perhaps not by you, but by a more rabid pro-Sox or anti-Yankee fan.
- We used to diagram sentences in Jr. High English class. This would take at least 3 panels on the blackboard, huh?
Agreed. Now let’s go Sox! 
Just to pour salt on the wound, the Sox were favored in this series.
Yankee fans are fucking animals? Isn’t that sort of thing illegal in America?
That’s illegal? 
My career childhood cul-de-sac batting average just went down by about 40 points. Loved that move.