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You kids stay off of Goose Gossage's lawn!

Goose Gossage misses the good 'ole days:

"But there's no one to pass the torch anymore, no one to teach the young kids how to act. The Mets did a lot of that [celebrating] last year, and look how it came back to haunt them."

Gossage told the Record that he would have never been allowed to celebrate like Chamberlain. His teammates would make sure of that.

"I'm trying to think of what would've happened if I did what Joba did, especially if I was a rookie," he told the Record. "The veterans would've sat me down so fast, it would've never happened a second time. Truthfully, there would've never been a first time."

I didn't like what Joba did, either. Frankly, it's a little bush. I believe that Barry Sanders' Dad said it best: "Act like you've been there before." But Goose Gossage sounds cranky here.

Couldn't Goose have called Joba himself? Or called Mo? Someone? Complaining to the press about how Baseball used to be a purer game (make your own Greenie joke here) is irritating, frankly.

Every time I hear a former ballplayer whine about something like a fist pump when they ignored asses full of nandrolone, greenies, racism, juiced balls, etc., I just have to sigh.

And post, too, I guess.

cross posted at ontheperiphery.wordpress.com

 

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What do you think of the "back in my day" commentary by former ballplayers?
Talk on. You've earned it.
12 votes
Makes for good talk radio.
6 votes
Sigh.
31 votes
"And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you stupid bloggers!"
9 votes
"Wait, he's still alive?"
8 votes

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You make a good point

People can say what they want about Joba’s so-called “antics” but I don’t think he’s going to change. It doesn’t bother Girardi or Cashman, so why should it bother us?

Goose doesn’t need to rip the kid in the media because that’s not the “Yankee way” either. Well, except for King George in his heyday, Billy Martin, and Reggie Jackson when they created the Bronx Zoo.

Maybe Goose can learn a little something about the “Yankee way” because the current crop of leaders like Jeter, Mo, or Posada wouldn’t dare rip a teammate through the media.

This is such a stupid argument.

by anaconda on May 13, 2008 5:03 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

When did ...

Goose become Bob Dole?
If we aren’t careful he’ll stick us in the neck with that damn pen.

"Baseball is the background music of my life." -George Will

by Ronster22 on May 14, 2008 12:53 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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