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From ESPN.com, headline: Matsui 'dissapointed' after wrist injury.
Two of the first three paragraphs are absolutely hilarious:
NEW YORK -- Immediately following surgery Friday to repair a broken wrist that will sideline him for at least three months, Hideki Matsui apologized for getting hurt.
"Due to this injury, I feel very sorry and, at the same time, very disappointed to have let my teammates down," Matsui said in a statement. "I will do my best to fully recover and return to the field to help my team once again."
Hideki Matsui: every silly racial stereotype about the Japanese completely embodied in one person!
It's like Krusty says on that one Simpsons: Me so solly...
(PS - advance apologies for the "me so solly" thing if by chance we have anyone with either: A - thin skin, B - Asian heritage or C - both)
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As funny and stereotypical as that apology may be, you have to love that attitude. Matsui is one of the few professional athletes that not only plays to live, but lives to play.
This injury will hurt the Yankees more than the Sheffied injury, and not just because Matsui may not be back until '07 and Sheff should be back within a few weeks.
Matsui is one of those character guys that everyone loves to talk about and say are crucial to winning championships. He is cut from the same mold that guys like Paul O'Neill, Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius.
The Yankees will sorely miss his bat(has averaged 110 RBI's in his 1st 3 years in the league), but they will also miss everything else he brings to the team.
Hopefully The Boss won't go crazy and start barking at Brian Cashman to make a deal. Once Sheffield returns, they should be fine with in-house guys.
There's always Bubba Crosby to fill a hole. He's a scrappy player that can fill a gap. He won't give you great (or good for that matter) numbers at the plate, but he'll do a good job in the outfield and cover some ground in Death Valley out there in left-center.
Then there's Bernie Williams. He is on his last legs (pun intended to steal that line from my idol Woody Paige), but he still has some life left in his bat as evidenced by his HR against Oakland the other night. You can stick him in left field and hope Damon can range over and cover some of the ground Bernie's aging wheels can't carry him to.
And now onto The Melky Cabrera. Oh The Melky... Last year he was shoved into arguably the most prestigious position in the game, Yankee Centerfielder, and he failed horribly. Within a week of being called up he was asked to play centerfield in Fenway and he looked like a blind one-legged duck trying to swim his way back to Mommy Duck.
When called up this year he was hitting .385 with AAA Colombus and so far so good with the big ball club(4 hits in 9 AB's). I say let the kid play. If he doesn’t work out, oh well. If all else fails, send him back down and maybe get lucky again when sending him down and bringing someone else up(like they did last year when they sent The Melky down and brought up Aaron Small).
That's enough for my 1st post on this blog thingy space place. I have rambled long enough.
Ivan, I can't help but ask--are you an actual reader or just the faceless, disembodied antithesis to my condescending anti-Old-World-baseball-voodoo knowitallism? Better yet, are you Ivan Rodriguez?
Anyway...though I know we should probably bow down and kiss the feet of any outside reader we should be so lucky enough to have, I can't but say a few words.
Come on...you sound like a Yankees fan. You believe that "guys like Paul O'Neill, Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius" really had some magic quality that helped the Yankees win championships? Or were they just decent-to-good players who happened to be members of overall stocked team? I mean, come on. In fact, it just so happens that the first "character guy" you list there is one of the most notorious whiny pricks in recent baseball history.
And you're going to cite ONE individual home run as evidence that Bernie Williams "still has some life left in his bat"? Mercy.
And Bubba Crosby is "scrappy"? Let's just say that a few authors on this blog don't particularly care for that term. Ok, this really isn't a big deal to be honest. I'm just being a dick now.
Thanks for reading and tell your friends! (No seriouisly, please do. I won't be a jerk next time either. I promise.)
I am indeed a Yankee fan, and as one I can tell you that you can ask any intelligent Yankee fan, and they will tell you that "character guys" are what has been missing over the last 6 years. Pau O'Neill, Tino Martniez and Scott Brosius were all integral part of the dynasty years. Yea they didn't put up the best numbers, but they all put up solid numbers and were "blue collar" players.
As far as O'Neill's character goes, yea he was whinny as all hell, but he was as ahrd working as they come. The reason for his whinning was his insatiable desirte to be the best at what he did. I remember one at-bat when he slammed his bat against the ground so hard that the thing snapped, and the ball ended up going over the porch in right field for a hommer. My point is that the guy lived to play and didn't accept any failure in a sport where failing 7 out of 10 times is considered to be very good.
Bubba Crosby... well I needed to say SOMETHING about the guy. I can't say he's a good hitter cause he clearly isn't. He isn't a great fielder, and he doesnt have a great arm... so... scrappy is the best compliment I can give the guy. I apologize for the use of the word.
Bernie Williams, I realized when I wrote my comment that one homerun isn't enough to state that he's still capeable at the plate. That being said, I'd still rather have him in the lineup than Bubba Crosby, or have the Yankees go out and overpay for some veteran.
Finally, I'm not exactly an outside reader. I'm Gavin's friend who threw up on his carpet 2 octobers ago.
I shall keep reading and hopefully posting more intelligent comments than the one I did. I just felt compelled to say something about our injured China-man(I know he's Japanese, I just wanted to throw in a racist comment)
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