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Subject: 2/29 Action Thread...
Posted by: clv
- Sustainer [5911351713] Fri, Feb 29, 2008, 10:08
Will not have any posts from me. I will be sitting on my reserved barstool at 1 PM watching the Braves and Dodgers on ESPN...screw work!!!
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| 1 | Great One
ID: 1122611
Wed, Mar 12, 2008, 14:44
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Yanks and Tampa had a bench clearing brawl today! whohoo!!! :)
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| 2 | Great One
ID: 1122611
Wed, Mar 12, 2008, 14:55
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays brawled in the second inning of a spring training game Wednesday, an inning after Yankees pitcher Heath Phillips was ejected after hitting Rays prospect Evan Longoria with a pitch.
The escalation of bad blood between division rivals stemmed from a home-plate collision in a spring training game four days ago that injured a Yankees catching prospect and irked Yankees manager Joe Girardi.
In the second inning on Wednesday, Yankees first baseman Shelley Duncan slid hard, spikes high, into Rays second baseman Akinori Iwamura. Duncan was subsequently tackled by Rays right fielder Jonny Gomes, clearing the benches.
No punches appeared to have been thrown as order was restored. Duncan, Gomes, hitting coach Kevin Long and Yankees third base coach Bobby Meacham were ejected.
On Sunday, Duncan had dropped a hint that the Yankees might match the Rays' intensity on the basepaths. "What it does is it opens another chapter of intensity in the spring training ballgames," Duncan said, referring to the home-plate collision. "They showed what is acceptable to them and how they're going to play the game, so we're going to go out there to match their intensity -- or even exceed it."
"There's going to be no malicious evil intent in terms of carryover, but it just adds a different type of fire to your gut when you play that team because you understand how they're playing the game and what their mind-set is," Duncan said Sunday.
But Duncan's slide was the second of two plays suggesting the Yankees were more than a little upset at the Rays.
In the first inning. Yankees pitcher Heath Phillips hit Rays third baseman Longoria on his midsection. Home plate umpire Chad Fairchild ejected Phillips.
The Rays had already scored two runs and three hits in the inning.
The bad blood stemmed from a ninth-inning play at home plate four days ago. In that incident, the Rays' Elliot Johnson barreled into Yankees catching prospect Francisco Cervelli at home plate. Cervelli broke his wrist in the collision and Girardi complained about the play afterwards, saying it was unnecesary in a spring training game.
But Girardi also said he didn't want the Yankees retaliating against the Rays in future games.
The umpiring crew which met with Girardi and Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon before the game and issued warnings to both dugouts after Longoria was hit and Phillips was ejected.
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| 3 | Great One
ID: 1122611
Thu, Mar 20, 2008, 16:30
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Looking at the first couple weeks for the Red Sox?
BRUTAL schedule... just brutal. I can easily seem them coming out of the gate VERY slow this season.
And just ask the Yankees what a trip to Japan does... Didn't Jeter say it took them til May to truly recover from that?
vs. Oak in Japan for 2 games
@Oak for two games
@Toronto in Canada for 3 games
Finally we're home... except.
3 games vs. Detroit
3 games vs. NYY
then back on the road with no off day
@Cleveland for 2 games
@NYY for 2 games
than back him again with no off days for 4 straight vs Tex and Anaheim.
Wow.
Can't get much more difficult than that. Thats every playoff team, no off days (except after the Japan trip), multiple short 2-game series, 3 different countries, 5 different time zones... Good luck boys!
I had glanced at the schedule and didn't really even notice that - til Francesa said on WFAN that was the most brutal opening stretch he'd ever seen.
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