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.
