Of course, it’s on the condition that I get to bash an old Yankee but it’s still progress. Recently elected Hall of Famer Rich Gossage is feeling nostalgic about the good ol’ days. Here’s some of what he had to say about Joba Chamberlain’s displays of emotion of the baseball in this article:
“There’s no place for it in the game. I will stand by that and I love Joba Chamberlain. I’m with him down in spring training. He’s a great kid, but no one is passing the torch today. Nobody talks to them. When I broke into the big leagues, I didn’t say two words all year.”
Here’s a sampling of what was going on in the world when Gossage broke into the big leagues:
Times have changed, Johnny Cakes. Please inform all the old timers that not everything was better when you were playing and that not every old ballplayer displayed a ton of tact on the field. At least Joe Girardi chimed in with a voice of reason:
“That’s who he is. He’s not showing anyone up. He’s going to show emotion. He didn’t look at David Dellucci. He looked into our dugout.”
Not good enough for the Goose (I refuse to make a gander joke here):
“I’m old school, I’m sorry, I didn’t see [Dellucci] celebrating when he hit the home run.”
You’re have an old school mentality? Get the fuck out of here! Really? Besides, it’s not Joba’s fault that Delucci hit 29 homeruns in Texas in 2005 and now he thinks he’s better than he is. He has 21 homers in the last three seasons combined. When Delucci goes yard, he should grab a bottle of champagne celebrate like Brandi Chastain on PCP.
At least he didn’t mention any of that Yankee way bullshit that all the old guys like to talk about….wait a minute, let me just finish the article….oh fuck me:
“That’s just not the Yankee way, what Joba did. Let everyone else do that stuff, but not a Yankee. What I don’t understand is, the kid’s got the greatest mentor in the world in Mariano [Rivera]. He’s one of the leaders of the team, so you’d think it wouldn’t happen on that team.”
Luckily, I called in a few favors and found a copy of the Yankee Way, a doctrine which was written on a dried up piece of Lou Gehrig’s skin in Yogi Berra’s blood that hangs above the door of the Yanks’ locker room:
Please Goose, move on to nobler causes of which you probably have a more relevant opinion on.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Shakespeare DiMaggio // May 13, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I completely agree with Goose, except for the Holier
Than Thou Yankee bullshit. Joba gave up an enormous home run to Delluci, then struck him out with no one on and up three. He acted like he won the World Series after k’ing Delluci and it was very obvious that Joba felt like he got him back, which was far, far from true. Joba looked like a total fucking asshole and Delluci and Goose are right to call him out. He can come pitch for the Mets if he wants, though.
2 Harvey Bars // May 13, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Joba acts like this all the time, even at Nebraska. K-Rod points to God between every pitch. Sammy Sosa hopped and curtsied his way around the bases 600+ times. Baseball players are so sensitive and are always so worried about being shown up.
If I would have included this passage from the article, would you have agreed with me?:
“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.”
3 Shakespeare DiMaggio // May 13, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I don’t mind Joba celebrating so much, though I think it motivates your opponents more than it motivates you. My major problem was that he made a point of showing up Delluci, even though Delluci had gotten him so much worse the day before. That is what made him look like such an asshole in my mind.
Goose is right about the Mets. It would make me a happy man if Reyes never did another one of his gay fucking handshakes.
4 Harvey Bars // May 13, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I’m going to go ahead and blame the collapse on godawful pitching (109 runs given up in the last 17 games, including 42 (!) in six games games against the Nationals (!#!~!!) and not on celebrating. I doubt Reyes was doing much handshaking with Aaron Sele and Brian Lawrence over the last three weeks.
5 Nelson Figueroa // May 13, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Why doesn’t he get excited like Lastings Milledge, and start a team-wide patty-cakes clap-cheer in the dugout?
6 Cecilio's Scribe // May 14, 2008 at 7:10 am
there is no “right time” for defending a Yankee, particularly Joba.
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