19 HR's Total During 10 game Home Stand

by LouieTheLip on Jul 27, 2009 10:48 PM EDT Comment 52 comments

The New Yankee Stadium averaged 1.9 HR's per game during this past home stand. I just thought I would mention it since nobody else seems to be.

During the first game of the road trip, the Yankees hit more home runs then they did in any game during the home stand,.......and the two teams combined tonight for more HR's than any total during the home stand.

Johnny Damon hit a HR to RF at Tropicana tonight that would have been ridiculed at Yankee Stadium.

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Your persecution complex...

…is amazing.

And while the stats for the last homestand are accurate, you left out the fact that during the previous 7 game homestand, 23 HR were hit at Yankee Stadium.

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 27, 2009 11:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Call yourself a jerk.....

……and then you act like a jerk. You are so clever and original. Can I be your friend??

I said what I wanted to say. IF YOU COULD READ,…you would have understood that I was mentioning the numbers because nobody else was. I was aware of the 23 HR’s during the previous 7 games,…BECAUSE IT WAS MENTIONED. Still and all 23 HR’s in 7 games is a far cry from the 4 HR per game average they had in April

I see things you don't see.

by LouieTheLip on Jul 28, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

23/7 = 3.3

Yes, such a far cry from 4 homers per game.

All you ever do is complain about how the Yankees get slighted or are so persecuted by the media.

Drop it, it’s pathetic. This is our place in the baseball world, accept it, or go root for the Royals.

And no, you can’t be my friend, because I’m not friends with whiny babies who don’t like it when people take shots at my team.

Grow up.

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 28, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Get Real

All you do is put words in peoples mouth to support your argument that has nothing to do with what the subject matter is. I think your parents were cousins because you have a hard time with simple comprehension.

I see things you don't see.

by LouieTheLip on Jul 28, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Unless I'm wrong...

…the point of this post is that everybody makes fun of Yankee Stadium for all the HRs, but during a recent run where there weren’t AS MANY HRs hit, nobody mentioned it.

You wrote this to once again suggest that everyone has it out for the Yankees and people only focus on the negative.

Am I wrong?

I don’t think I am, and it goes right along with the basic theme for everyone of your posts … your massive persecution complex. I don’t expect you to understand because you’re a simpleminded fool, but there you go.

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 28, 2009 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wrong

I was just suggesting that maybe the numbers would come down some by the end of the season. I wasn’t crying about the way Yankee stadium has been potrayed. I was just pointing it out. A ten game home stand averaging 1.9 didn’t seem possible early on. i thought it was a big deal and a good sign.

My threads are more toward hating Red Sox Fans.
It’s not so much the Yankee bashing that bothers me, I’m used to that. It’s the influence that Red Sox nation has on a national level that bothers me. I knew In June they were making a push to make Tim Wakefield an all star. They were talking about it all season, because Tim Wakefield himself,, before the season started, said he would love to be an all star,…..and so it began. It bothers me that they have the power to lobby for such things and get them. There were 3 Yankee pitchers with better ERA’s and more deserving. When did win total become the only cria. it’s a joke and i’m sick of it. Do you really think That Pedroia was the MVP last year,…come on Jeter has how many seasons like that,…did we kick and scream for MVP.

You have to understand I transplanted from Yankee country to Red Sox country. Their hatred goes beyond the game. it’s real and you would never understand their obsession for us until you live with them. their obsession has caused me to be obsessed.

I see things you don't see.

by LouieTheLip on Jul 28, 2009 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I would understand..

…I have family up in New England, and deal with their crap constantly. Difference is, I let it roll off my back because I recognize that they’re fools.

It would piss them off if you just ignored them and left them to their own devices. I mean, why the hell do you care so much about the All Star Game and who gets in? I agree Wakefield doesn’t belong, but so what?

And RSN doesn’t have any more influence than the Yankees and the NY media when it comes to stuff like that. There have been plenty of examples of questionable Yankee all-stars.

As for the 10 games, it’s known as a “statistical anomaly.”

In the first 42 games at the new Yankee Stadium, there were 142 HR hit, an average of 3.38 per game. That’s been pretty steady all season long.

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 28, 2009 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

it's hard

I can’t talk baseball anymore.

I see things you don't see.

by LouieTheLip on Jul 29, 2009 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Louie what I don't understand

is that if you came from NY, don’t you realize there’s 2 teams in NY?

Boston only has one team, and when you think about it you have basically Maine, VY, NH, MA, and probably half or greater of RI and CT as their fan base.

Imagine a fan base that can call a team their home team that is as rabid and passionate about their home team as any fan of the Yankees.

Imagine that NY didn’t have the Mets, and all the dunces that root for them (I know there’s educated Met fans, but there’s 60%+ of idiots like any fanbase) rooted for the Yankees.

They only have one team to root for, so of course they are obsessed.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

culture shock

allow me to adjust. I’m getting better

I see things you don't see.

by LouieTheLip on Jul 29, 2009 11:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What is a "persecution complex"?

Is it anything like the “Little Man Syndrome” that it is obvious that you suffer from?

And don’t be so high on Crawford and Longoria… They will want to play in NY when they are ready to win an ring.

And I guarantee you would wet your size 16 little boy pants if your sorry team ever had a chance to sign the best player of his generation.

So please, my friend, put down whatever PEDs you’re currently smoking and try to use just a little bit of reason when hating on the Yankees.

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

James A. Michener

by Lumpee on Jul 28, 2009 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Who are you responding to?

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 29, 2009 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Here is where I have to eat crow.

I have re-read this post about 10 times, and have come to the conclusion that I had 1 too many to drink that night. I sincerely apologize…I usually make sense, except on the rare occasion that I drink.

To be clear…my above post makes no sense…I should have been more careful…Feel free to call me an idiot, moron, or dipwad…I deserve it.

I promise to stay off of the boards next time I drink!

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

James A. Michener

by Lumpee on Aug 3, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey Sam

Good to see you here. I would tend to agree with your assessment of an outsider coming onto our teams board and talking trash. He doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and the little piss ant should probably hone his skills elsewhere. I don’t think he has a persecution complex, I think he has an inferiority complex.

One f’n winning season and he’s arrogant enough to talk trash. Whew!

BobbyO from voyu

by Bronx1 on Aug 5, 2009 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey Buddy..

How are you…

Everybody is jealous of Yankee fans, but I was a little in the wrong here, too.

I guess if you drive a Yugo, all you can do is go into the Benz showroom and act like you are somebody.

VOYU is hanging tough, but I wonder if they will make it. I’m not sure KR wants to commit to keeping up a MB. If not, you will be able to find me here or at BTB… BTW, BTB does have a game thread. While they are a little harsh on other long timers, they have been real nice to the newbies. I started a thread to intro myself under ‘Off Topic’ entitled “greetings to all”.

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

James A. Michener

by Lumpee on Aug 10, 2009 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well playing at Yankee stadium

is like taking Anabolic roids, and HGH, because the yankee management “accidentally” overlooked building the stadium to resemble a wind tunnel. Besides, A-rod should know what that feels like, and must obviously not care because these numbers will be as tainted as his steroids ones. Buy some real talent, and maybe a victory over the sox.

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 12:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Seriously?

Are you kidding? “Buy” some “real” talent?

A. A-Rod is not real talent? You’re talking about a guy who’s not looking at the Hall of Fame – he’s looking at immortality. HGH or not.

B. Every single team in baseball has players that have taken steroids. Bashing one team or another for individual users of banned substances is a juvenile and fruitless practice, and you’re better off not making yourself look stupid.

C. The Yankees will beat Boston this year. They’ve played 3 series so far. Don’t act like they’ve never beaten them before, because they have a storied history of beating them. You’re just another loser focusing on a contrived and arbitrary sampling of games (much like the “Win a World Series this century!!” taunt) to support the blind hatred you have for a team that the Rays and Sox will never be. It’s almost like being a jealous younger brother who wishes he could be as good as big bro. And now that the Yankees have stumbled (if you’d like to call it that) for a few years, you’re jumping at – correction, you’re MOUTH BREATHING AND SALIVATING ALL OVER – the chance to rub our faces in the dirt a little bit.

Enjoy it while it lasts, because it won’t.

by hivemind on Jul 28, 2009 1:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agree with your friends

they said you didn’t buy a-rod

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

they traded for him

So they didn’t really buy him actually. Why do you think they did?

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm afraid that I don't understand your points.

-The management of the Yankees decided to build a new park. They can damn well make that park however they please, within certain specifications. The Yankees have done NOTHING to break the rules. The idea that any statistics put up in the Stadium are absurd. If the management of the Rays or of any other team decided to build a new park the same dimensions as Yankee Stadium they would be well within their rights to do that.

-Very clever insult on A-Rod, I’m sure it took you hours of skimming through your 6 brain cells to come up with the “he made himself stronger using chemicals” one.

-As for buying talent, again, the Yankees do nothing to break the rules. Just as the Rays can go out and sign free agent Pat Burrell, the Yankees can spend to improve their team. If you don’t like that, then fill some seats in your own stadium for a change. I’m sorry that your owners aren’t as committed to putting a winning team on the field as ours, but don’t blame the Yankees for that.

Oh and last season was the first time EVER that your team was above .500. The only reason you don’t completely suck still is because you got so many high draft picks from being so terrible.

One lucky trip to the World Series (where you choked) does not give you the right to come onto the site of 26 time world champs and start talking tough.

So I say again, enjoy riding the bandwagon all the way back to irrelevancy as the Yankees and Red Sox continue to dominate the division, and you continue to dominate the October golfing.

by Lord Duggan on Jul 28, 2009 2:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well...

The rays bought ONE person-Burrel. And he wasn’t signed to be a huge threat, he was signed to drive in runs. And high draft picks isn’t the only reason the rays are good. Good trades (Delmon Young for Jason Bartlett and Matt Garza) and smart picks (Longoria, Crawford) helped just as much. Besides, look at the pirates who have been so bad for so long, but can’t make a good choice. Besides, the Yankees passed on some of our best guys, like James Shields and Evan Longoria. And I’m sorry that you feel I mentioned the AL pennant and I know we’re not here to talk about the past, but that’s exactly what you’re doing by bringing up your championships. Besides, I’m sure you never choked i a World Series. You can just ask Luis Gonzalez or Josh Beckett. And thank you for mentioning the bandwagon but I’m not on it. I’ve been a Rays fan since they were created in ‘98, and I’m sure there are no yankees bandwagons. And for you to think of Yankee stadium’s dimensions, that must have taken days skimming through your 3 brain cells because its the wind that makes the place a launchpad.

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Who the hell...

…comes and smack talks after losing a game by 7 runs??

You need to work on your timing … and probably your hygiene, because I can tell just by reading your nonsense that you smell.

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 28, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Yankees didn't pass on Evan Longoria

what the hell are you talking about? The Yankee’s haven’t picked #1 or #2 overall in almost 2 decades, let alone a few years ago and that’s the only way they could have gotten Longoria.

I mean congradulations for finally putting it together with your team. Coming in here and trolling, especially after your team just got smacked around, is not gonna show there are any Rays fans with a brain.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

every team passed on him

he went undrafted before going back to college.

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Longoria didn't receive a single scholarship offer either

Nobody thought he could play, including in college, so let’s not act like the Rays saw some diamond in the rough and took him.

He was the 3rd overall pick after tearing up the college ranks and Cape Cod league.

It didn’t take a skilled front office to take him, it took having the 3rd pick in the draft to get him.

As for Crawford, the reason he fell into the 2nd round was because EVERYONE thought he was going to play QB at Nebraska. The Rays got lucky, nothing more.

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 28, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

lucky?

well or the yankees just didn’t make good picks. Instead of crawford you picked david walling. Instead of James Shields you picked David Parish, Danny Borrel, Jason Grove, and others yet to see regular playing time in the majors.

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

like he said

Crawford, kinda like Austin Jackson, had strong offers to play other sports. Rays took a chance, and got lucky (cuz if he took that offer, a 2nd rounder for a guy that plays another sport is as dumb as it gets).

And OK, they passed on James Shields for a bunch of busts. It happens in the draft and will happen again. Its really not like 100% of the Rays picks, even if they are all top 10, actually are good players.

You got lucky, that’s the baseball draft is mostly comprised of.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and I can't believe

you’d bring up that the Yanks passed on him in HS as a relevent thing.

It happens all the time.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ok, let's look at some other draft screwups

Dewon Brazelton – #2 overall in 2001, ahead of Mark Teixeira, Casey Kotchman, David Wright

Wade Townsend – #8 overall in 2005

Every team makes draft mistakes in MLB, but it’s much easier to find a player when you pick in the top 10 every single year.

And Shields was a 16th round pick. A lot of teams passed on him, including the Rays 15 times.

by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 28, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm sorry, what?

You’re talking trash about Yankee Stadium when your team plays in Tropicana Field? Unbelievable.

by dzawaki on Jul 28, 2009 4:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

didn't the Rays have Greg Vaughn?

know roider right there.

Oh I forgot, you weren’t a fan when they were bad. OHH!!

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 5:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

ooooooo

good one

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

it was a good one

bringing up the PEDs thing is very risky nowadays. we all know that EVERY team has had it’s share of users. don’t act all high and mighty as if no (devil) ray has ever taken a PED. that would be very naive. didn’t Canseco put on a TB uni?

by Travis G on Jul 28, 2009 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They also had Jose Canseco for a while.

by subliminalnirvanaist on Jul 28, 2009 7:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah but

remember all the guys you got. Canseco was never a part of rays success

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 29, 2009 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He hit 30+ HR's in 1999 or 1998

by subliminalnirvanaist on Jul 29, 2009 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He did say 'success'

Although with only 1 1/2 years of ‘success’, there’s really not much to skim through.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 29, 2009 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's true...

But to say that Canseco wasn’t one of the better players on the Devil Rays in those years is wrong. Then again, its not like there were many good players on those teams. Maybe Fred McGriff and Wade Boggs a little bit ,but nothing really special.

by subliminalnirvanaist on Jul 29, 2009 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and the Yankees will beat the Sox

that they are 2.5 games ahead of them without beating them shows those game pretty much didn’t mean squat.

I know we have to beat them tho and the Yanks will.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 5:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I still say it's somewhat of an anomoly

Ignore home runs for a moment – the Yankees are slugging .487 at home and .460 on the road. That’s not that big of a difference.

by 3460kuri on Jul 28, 2009 9:09 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

why is there a "Rays fan" in here just to be a hater?

Thank you FreeBradshaw for the for the Greg Vaughn ref. Bandwagon fans have short memories.

by ReggieARodJeter on Jul 28, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

well while we're at it

Jose Canseco and Vinny Castilla also played there.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Andwhile you're at it

Canseco, Sheffield, Giambi, Clemens, Pettite, Knoblauch, and Justice have played for you. And a-rod still does

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ok.

All Im saying is don’t rip the Yanks past and present roiders when there were past and are present roiders on the Rays.

And boy are you a hater. Just read your little fanpost and I got to say its a load of crap.

who the hell cares that they “buy players”? Maybe if a few fans existed/went to Rays games they’d have a few bucks to spend, rather than threatening to trade Pena, Crawford et al before this years deadline.

What the hell does leading the league in HR mean that is so bad for the Yankees? I aint sure if they lead the league, but teams like the White Sox and Phillies have won WS recently (Im sure you remember the latter…) and they were predominately HR hitting clubs.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and I'm sure

you remember the diamondbacks and marlins.

And who on the rays is on steroids right now?

Also, the rays are not threatening to trade pena or crawford before the deadline so I don’t know where you got that from

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

http://www.draysbay.com/2009/7/28/966375/tampa-bay-rays-have-shopped-scott#comments

willing is as good as threatening, especially when your talking about 2 of your best players.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Only Crawfors is very significant

Pena is slumping, he just hits a few home runs here and there. And give me the steroid users, I’m waiting.

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

they're all gone now

congrats, you have no confirmed roiders, thou plenty on the team you can make cases for (also playing in Florida, the roid capitol of the US).

Yanks have 2. Shoot them.

by FreeBradshaw on Jul 28, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And John Rocker, Jose Canseco and Greg Vaughn played for you.

All proven cheaters. And don’t even try talking shit about Yankee Stadium when you play at the luxurious Tropicana Field.

by subliminalnirvanaist on Jul 28, 2009 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well cuz

that makes a whole lot of sense

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 29, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

But that's not a reliable stat

because slugging relates to number of hits, and I’m talking about number of home runs. An unusually high difference in doubles and triples can correspond to your research, and if you were smart enough you would have seen that the Yankees have hit better on the road in terms of doubles (105 to 96 at home) and Triples (12 to 3). And they have played more home games, which makes the road hits worth more. So do your research a bit better next time.

9=8

by El Rayhawk on Jul 28, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs