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Bigboote said:
I pretty much despise the Yankees as a group, but there have been many I've really liked as players. Jeter, Posada, O'Neill, Pettitte come to mind.

I'd be surprised if Judge isn't a unanimous ROY, but Altuve has my vote for MVP.
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Altuve is a great player, no doubt but he second in the MVP to Judge. Despite Jose's high batting Ave, Judge's OBP is higher, Aaron led the league in Runs scored by 16 over Jose which is a very wide margin. Plus Aaron WAR IS 8.8 to 7.9 for Altuve. Here's what I would really enjoy-Judge winning ROY and MVP like a former Red Sox OF by the name of Lynn...
 
Alydar said:
Of course Boston fans don't want to talk history. It reminds them of that annoying 80+ year drought they would sooner forget.

Wasn't this thread supposed to be about a rookie setting a record? So why do Red Sox fans feel the need to ridicule, berate and generally "rain on the Yankee parade" whenever anything positive about the any Yankee is mentioned? Why is it that Boston fans hate the Yankees? The Sox have admittedly been the better team over the last dozen or so years but that isn't enough for them, they have to rub Yankee fans noses in it and turn any discussion into petty bickering and outright insults. If you go to NYC and ask the fans that live there about Boston you will get very little of the vitriolic hatred that permeates Beantown. Sure, they think it's a great rivalry but there are more New Yorkers who will say that the biggest rival to the Yankees is the Mets, despite playing in different leagues than the Red Sox. I can remember a stretch of years when the Yankees' biggest rivalry was with Baltimore, in the Weaver/Palmer/Brooks era. But in Boston it's always been only one enemy, the "Evil Empire". They need an arch-evil foe to justify themselves as righteous and heroic. Reminds me of a lot of cults.
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Did you really just ask this question? You are also way off base if you don't think Yankees fans hate the Red Sox with the same passion. There is definitely not "more New Yorkers who will say that the biggest rival to the Yankees is the Mets". Has each club had short stretches against different teams? Sure, but over the last 50+ years there has not been a more heated rivalry in all of sports than the Red Sox/Yankees.
 
Apparently, doctors were in awe of Mantle's muscle bulk and strength. Many of his problems stemmed from the violence of his swing causing his muscles to tear from his bones. Just too powerful for his skeletal system.

Joe DiMaggio's jealousy is blamed for Mantle stepping into a drain hole in center field when he called Mantle off of a fly ball that was rightly Mantle's to handle. Joe hated Mantle for taking his job in center field.
 
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A Yankees win with Justine is just too great of a night!
 
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TitleTown said:
Did you really just ask this question? You are also way off base if you don't think Yankees fans hate the Red Sox with the same passion. There is definitely not "more New Yorkers who will say that the biggest rival to the Yankees is the Mets". Has each club had short stretches against different teams? Sure, but over the last 50+ years there has not been a more heated rivalry in all of sports than the Red Sox/Yankees.
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I live in CT where the Yankee rivalry has been a part of my entire life and without doubt the king. But in NY itself there is no where near the passionate hatred that you see in the Boston area. And you can't judge it by the crowds at games because a large part of the fans there aren't natives of either Boston or NYC. Of course in recent years Boston has been the better team but my history goes back to the late 50's and early 60's when the Yankees were on top most years while the Red Sox were closer to the bottom of the league. I had no reason to hate the Red Sox, they stunk. On the other hand the hatred some of my friends had for the Yankees grew with each pennant raised by NY. I had no reason to hate the Sox. My team won.

In NY City there are 2 teams to choose from. That sets up a natural rivalry. But like in CT, when fans interact all the time there is a degree of politeness. Sure, we argue and tease each other constantly but it ends when the game is over. I used to have several friends from NY and I was always more keyed up for a series against Boston they they were. People in Boston have made the Red Sox into a cult. There is only one team. And there are no rival fans to deal with. The hatred for NY grew over the decades as one would expect when all the glory was in NY. The friends I have that grew up in and around Boston are nothing like the friends I have in my town that root for Boston. There is a viciousness in those from Boston, a bitter hatred. For them it has gone way past a sports rivalry and become a battle between good and evil. And the worst crime is to betray them. When Roger Clements left for Toronto most of them wished him well. But when he signed with NY the bitterness erupted into an ugly display.

So I disagree strongly with you. There is no comparison between the fans who live in Boston and the fans who live in NY.
 
MilfordHusky said:
LOL! I probably watched over 1,000 games on TV and listened to Mel Allen, Red Barber, and Phil Rizzuto on WPIX, Channel 11.
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I bet, like me, U remember the Ballantine Beer jingle by heart.
 
oldude said:
I bet, like me, U remember the Ballantine Beer jingle by heart.
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MilfordHusky said:
LOL! I probably watched over 1,000 games on TV and listened to Mel Allen, Red Barber, and Phil Rizzuto on WPIX, Channel 11.
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Scooterisms:
- Holy Cow!
- Cannoli's
- "They're dear friends of Cora and me...."
- "White, I gotta go....(beat the traffic on the bridge)!"

Oh yes, there was a game going on, too;):rolleyes:
 
MilfordHusky said:
LOL! I probably watched over 1,000 games on TV and listened to Mel Allen, Red Barber, and Phil Rizzuto on WPIX, Channel 11.
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Remember my first game on WPIX....parents had stuck me in their upstairs bedroom while they had a party downstairs, but turned on the game to keep me occupied (or maybe fall asleep). It was in the early '50's and I recall so clearly watching this funny looking guy get up to bat and hit a home run, and then, this other guy, #4, got up and hit another. Yogi and Mickey. Back to back homers. I was a Yankee fan for life.
 
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Bestiarius said:
Joe DiMaggio's jealousy is blamed for Mantle stepping into a drain hole in center field when he called Mantle off of a fly ball that was rightly Mantle's to handle. Joe hated Mantle for taking his job in center field.
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Mick should have taken his job in CF in 1951 but did not. Joe D started every game in CF that he played. In every game that both players started, Mick played RF.
 
augustaTC said:
Remember my first game on WPIX....parents had stuck me in their upstairs bedroom while they had a party downstairs, but turned on the game to keep me occupied (or maybe fall asleep). It was in the early '50's and I recall so clearly watching this funny looking guy get up to bat and hit a home run, and then, this other guy, #4, got up and hit another. Yogi and Mickey. Back to back homers. I was a Yankee fan for life.
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Mickey was #7. Gehrig was #4.:rolleyes:
 
huskeynut said:
And don't forget the "Balantine Blast."
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Who could forget that great line from Mel Allen, the voice of baseball back in the 50’s & 60’s.

Interesting to note that Mel Allen was fired by the Yankees in 1965 in large part because Ballantine objected to his long, folksy stories that frequently conflicted with commercial breaks.

Fortunately, after George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees he rehired Allen in 1976, remembering the kindness that Allen showed a young kid years earlier when he talked to him for an hour about the kid’s interest in broadcasting. That kid was George Steinbrenner.
 
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oldude said:
And Yogi was #8
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Ya know, I do know that....the problem with being 71....memory sucks! Need to start fact checking my posts. However, many years ago I somehow managed to find a reference to the back-to-back HRs and if I recall, they actually did it 2 or 3 times. Thanks for the correction.
 
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