Late Nineties veteran hitter/clubhouse guy.
Rock:
or Chili?
I really liked Davis on the Yanks, but Rock was hilarious. Anyone who could get away with busting O’Neill’s chops is aces in my book.
Saturday
November 16, 2024
Since 2002
"This ain't football. We do this every day."
--Earl Weaver
--Earl Weaver
Why not both? That seemed to work well:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1996.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1998.shtml
Why the contest? In '98, having both was pretty sweet. Pair of great guys.
Yeah, I was afraid of that. Just trying to drum up some chatter, but you are right, they were both good. I'll have to think of something that is a bit more clever.
It was worth it to just have a reason to look over the Yankees 1998 roster. Not only did every "regular" except Curtis (90) and Knoblauch (102) have an OPS+ over 115 , but the Bench included Raines (107), Davis (116), Bush (134) and Spencer (236!!). If Girardi, the BUC, had an OPS+ of 85. The only position player who really didn't contribute much was Sojo, but we all know he was a good luck charm.
[2] It's 24 days to pitchers and catchers. I've got a foot of snow on the ground. It was 6 out this morning, which was an improvement over yesterday, when it was 2.
Spring can't come soon enough.
Sojo was more than good-luck charm; he was charm itself.
I've come to think that the 96-2000 dynasty's signature moment may actually have been when he tripped over his own shoelaces during the playoffs in Oakland. Here's a team that rode a big losing streak into the ALDS, and now they're down a game on the road. When he tripped and fell, it brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the eighth.
And they all stood around laughing.
They say you have to play baseball "tight but loose." Have you ever seen a better display of that? Have you ever seen more serenity and confidence on a playing field? I can't help but smile whenever I think of it. So glad he's still in the organization.
We could come up with an all-President team, to pass the time ...
Homer Bush
Mudcat Grant
Lew Ford
Otis Nixon
Trot Nixon
.... Rowland "Oval" Office ...
etc.
Theodore Roosevelt Lilly and Grover Cleveland Alexander would have to top my list.
Along with any of the eight players whose first and middle names were Thomas Jefferson, any of the three whose first and middle names were Abraham Lincoln, and of the five whose first and middle names were Andrew Jackson, or any of the 18 whose first and middle names were George Washington (not including Sloan Vernon Washington who played under the name George Washington). There have also been two John Kennedys, and a few John Adamses, as well as the delightfully named John Quincy Adams Strick. Other favorites include Martin Van Buren Walker and William Henry Harrison Geer. And then there's current Braves second baseman Kelly Andrew Johnson, unintentionally (I assume) named after the first president ever to be impeached. William Clinton Zepp couldn't have been named after the second because they were born in the same year.
I could go on . . .
Alex: How about Straw vs. Fielder vs. Sierra? Ruben Rivera vs. Ricky Ledee?
How 'bout someone find me a tape of the Benitez-drills-Tino fight? Simply cannot find it online. Man, you've got me on a late-90s bender.
Never saw anyone "become a Yankee" more quickly than Graeme Lloyd did, sprinting from the bullpen to the infield to throw that punch.
that '98 team was just sick...oh well, am ignoring the freezing rain here and thinking about how A-Rod will hit 55 taters this year and then become Reggie II in the playoffs...sigh...