Mike'd Up: The Mike Francesa Show
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Totally! Lots of nervous chuckling from Heyman to remind Mike "Uh.. Hey I'm still on the line..."
Mike's still getting a lot of mileage out of the MFY attempt to 'fix it' by going out and spending $400M during the off season, comparing it to the $14M spent by the Sox.
Now talking about the outrageous ticket prices, and how the Yanks are reducing $2500 tix to $1250
Here is the link to the Hal statement that Fatso is trying to talk to:
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Somber Mets caller: "Mike I've been really thinking about it this winter. I think if we can sign Holliday to a long-term deal, we should trade David Wright for Matt Holliday."
Edit - They all want Wright shipped out of town.
Down 1 run the 9th, with runners on first and 2nd and nobody out, Mets fans wanted Wright to bunt.
Now, I can see the argument here. A struggling hitter up to bat with the game on the line. Home team down a run. Successful bunt puts the tying run on 3rd and winning run at 2nd. Seems like a decent idea, right? Except Wright has exactly zero sac bunts in his career. What happens if he pops it up? Why take the bat away from your best hitter, even if he's mired in a slump?
Edit - They all want Wright shipped out of town.
Down 1 run the 9th, with runners on first and 2nd and nobody out, Mets fans wanted Wright to bunt.
Now, I can see the argument here. A struggling hitter up to bat with the game on the line. Home team down a run. Successful bunt puts the tying run on 3rd and winning run at 2nd. Seems like a decent idea, right? Except Wright has exactly zero sac bunts in his career. What happens if he pops it up? Why take the bat away from your best hitter, even if he's mired in a slump?
It really does say something if Mets fans are, for the first time in history, choosing to rip David Wright instead of Carlos Beltran or Carlos Delgado.
Mike fellating Theo: "the Sox are the model franchise in baseball." Do a better job than the Yanks at setting value for players and sticking to it; of developing younger players; of making trades (Arroyo-Pena the lone exception).
Fun stuff.
Fun stuff.
Did he mention:
a) That Drew might be the least likely player to get angry about it
and
b) The next batter, Bay, went deep
So, Francessa's excited that the Yankees hit a batter, but the Red Sox got 2 runs?
I will admit I didn't stay up so I didn't know Bay went deep right after Drew got hit. And Francessa neglected to mention Bay's at bat. That's just great.
Ah, music to my ears.
But the man should not be taken seriously. Does this mean that the Rays are "tightest, toughest, best" -- for they have beaten the Red Sox in every important series over the past two seasons?
A Yankee win or two and Mike will begin saying these things about the MFYs. Then Red Sox fans will begin ridiculing Mike as "Cap't Intangibles."
You're right, but Fatso always does throw in the, "...and they've been very very lucky. They've been trying to run Lowell out of town for years, they wanted ARod, they wanted Teixeira. So they lucked into some of it...".
This kind of stuff is maddeningly stupid.
The reality is that every GM in the game should be doing what he can every year to improve the team. The Red Sox have not tried to "run Lowell out of town," what they've done is identified areas where they thought they could get better and went after the improvement. When it didn't pan out, they had Lowell in place or available as a free agent to fill the void.
That's not luck Mike, it's planning.
I wonder if Lisa from Whitestone will call in tomorrow complaining how classless Joba's antics on the mound after striking out Lowell tonight were. I'm guessing no. I'm guessing Jacoby tipping his cap to the applauding Fenway crowd aftre stealing home was way worse.
But to be fair, the RS have been lucky. Lucky in finishing second to the MFYs on several misbegotten acquisitions, deals the RS wanted to consummate. Lucky, maybe, in who happened to be on sabbatical when Beckett first arrived in town. Mike's examples are ill chosen, but you have to be lucky and good, and sometimes lucky is better.
I was wondering this.
I could definitely see him taking the "Yankees don't jump around the mound down 4-3 in the 4th inning" angle, but I could also see him sticking up for him.
He might have gone that route if they had won. Instead he's pissed and he's going to take it out on them, especially JtC.
He hates Joba's celebrating, he was very critical last year at Joba fist pumping in the 8th inning of games. And he was calling Yankee callers who defended Joba hypocrites for complaining about Manny posing but giving Joba a pass for his antics.
But he's going to like that Joba hit Bay, and he's going to like that Joba was acting confident (Mike's complaint has been Joba looks too timid in the rotation compared to the bullpen). So I think Joba gets a pass, and maybe even some praise. Instead he'll go after the hitters for looking lifeless, and maybe Girardi gets some more heat.
But he's going to like that Joba hit Bay, and he's going to like that Joba was acting confident (Mike's complaint has been Joba looks too timid in the rotation compared to the bullpen). So I think Joba gets a pass, and maybe even some praise. Instead he'll go after the hitters for looking lifeless, and maybe Girardi gets some more heat.
Couldn't you say any team in any sport thats won a championship has been "lucky" though?
It's kind of a silly argument if it applies to everybody.
The only GM that can likely say they didn't get lucky on a move they wanted to make, but fell through on them, that in retrospect looks bad is Bill Stoneman. Because he never attempted to make a deal.
Yes. If nothing else, you need luck on the health front.
I interpret Mike's point as follows: the Red Sox have run circles around the Yankees since 2004; but don't go too far in painting this as unalloyed brilliance vs utter incompetence b/c the Red Sox have had some pretty serious errors of judgment that, very fortunately for them, turned out to be near misses.
I think that's a point worth making because some people do get carried away with this. I just think Mike's examples were not particularly well chosen.
I just downloaded an app called Flycast on my blackberry just so I could listen to Mike today. Very excited.
Yeah me too! I think he's gonna lose it today at 1pm.
I'm going to tape it and post on youtube if it's good. I'm prepared today, for once. He's gonna rip Joba, and most of the Yankees, no doubt in my mind.
God, I wish Russo, or even Russo's dad Tony, would chime in somehow.
He's going off - ripping Joba getting "Player Of The Game" - saying the Yanks have a "losing mentality" - Bay is officially the "new Manny" - "The Red Sox Do Everything Right".
I'm so glad I took a sick day today.
I'm so glad I took a sick day today.
Oh this is great stuff. Ripping the Yankees, Joba, the Joba player of the game, everything. And heaping praise on the Sox.
"The Red Sox make every play and the Yankees make none."
Calling the Yanks a disaster from top to bottom while contrasting them to the Sox.
Praising the Sox bullpen, disgusted by the Yanks - "nobody can throw a strike... it makes me sick"
Calling the Yanks a disaster from top to bottom while contrasting them to the Sox.
Praising the Sox bullpen, disgusted by the Yanks - "nobody can throw a strike... it makes me sick"
"Teixeira can't, Bay can. Joba can't, Beckett can. Every guy out of the Yankee bullpen can't, Okajima can...Saito can. Molina can't, Varitek can. Pena can't, Green can."
The Red Sox do every single thing right. Name one thing they do wrong.
One Johnny Damon swing. That's the Yankees night.
One Johnny Damon swing. That's the Yankees night.
This is better than the game itself.
"The Stadium's depressing right now - it's like a Broadway show with nobody in the orchestra seats - it's DEPRESSING! It's like a morgue right now! There's no energy in that ballpark!"
"Yankees used to have a home field advantage - they got nothin' right now!"
"The Stadium's depressing right now - it's like a Broadway show with nobody in the orchestra seats - it's DEPRESSING! It's like a morgue right now! There's no energy in that ballpark!"
"Yankees used to have a home field advantage - they got nothin' right now!"
I think he's more ripshit at YES for praising him.
"Turn Bay into Babe Ruth and the next Manny Ramirez"
"All Pena has to do is flip the bat out there and it's a 4-4 game."
"Let's turn this into a Joba festival that's wonderful. I'm glad he struck people out after spotting them 4 runs. This is wonderful. Is this what it's come down to?"
"If you're a Red Sox, you're laughing at me. The only thing you're mad at is you don't play the Yankees 162 games. The Red Sox do EVERYTHING right."
This is top notch.
The place is like a broadway show with the orchestra seats empty. Let the fans move down during th game. They've got to fill those seats.
Wish I could be seeing this on video.
If I'm the Red Sox, I couldn't be more overconfident when the playing the Yankees.
The place is like a broadway show with the orchestra seats empty. Let the fans move down during th game. They've got to fill those seats.
Wish I could be seeing this on video.
If I'm the Red Sox, I couldn't be more overconfident when the playing the Yankees.
"They look like two ships passing in the night. One is taking on water and it's not the Red Sox."
The rants of the last two days by Mike tell me one thing: that he is finally coming to the realization that not only is Boston a better run organization but that Karma is a b**ch. That drives arrogant Yankee fans like Mike absolutely nuts. They can't accept that the fortunes of both teams seemed to swap post-2004. This is simply good times right now listening to the Fat Man.