Yankees Manager Joe Girardi continued the stereotype that the Yankees get what every they want in baseball and complain when they don’t. After Saturday’s doubleheader against the Orioles was postponed, Girardi whined that his team would lose an off day on September 8th to make it up. “I don’t understand why we didn’t play a split doubleheader today,” he said. “Someone’s got to step up, and they did it all over the country. They did it in Philadelphia, they did it in Boston, they did it in Florida.”
Girardi wanted the Yankees and Orioles to play two games on Friday after the Birds came home from their 11 day, 10 game road trip. That seems fair. “And now they want us to give up our off day, the only off day that we truly have as we’re coming home from Seattle, and we’re going to get to Toronto at 9 or 10 in the morning?”
Maybe Girardi should take a look at a newspaper before he complains to the Yankee press. Not only are the Birds returning from a long road trip, but they also came home to an emotional fanbase after Mike Flanagan’s death. I guess Joe wasn’t there for the pregame moment of silence or didn’t see the “Flanny” patches or “46” banners.
“We didn’t agree to play Sept. 8. They scheduled it, we didn’t agree to it, and I really don’t understand it,” he said. As Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun points out, the Yankees are one of the least flexible teams when it comes to scheduling their own home games. The Orioles requested April 12th’s rain out to be scheduled in September, but were denied by New York.
Baseball fans have a tough time feeling bad for Joe and the Evil Empire, especially while his own fanbase is being evacuated from their houses for Hurricane Irene.
Girardi ought to be complaining about the performance of A.J. Burnett, who can’t seem to put two solid innings of work together, instead of focusing on the schedule.
Typical crybaby Yankees.
Maybe the author would like to work on his spelling a little! Or even his English! And the Yankees get screwed on scheduling bc everywhere they go they draw such an enormous amount of fans that all the other teams want to make sure they get their money’s worth from the yankees being in town. As far as them being insensitive to mike flanagans suicide, Ken singleton, a former oriole, spent a great deal of time during the Yankees broadcast remembering him and what a great guy he was….
Hey Kathryn,
Blow it out your kazoo.
I don’t believe there are any typos or grammatical errors in that statement.
Well said Carl,,,,,,,we all mess up the english language from time to time , the reason we read these blogs is for the content not to grade the paper,,,,,,,,,,,,Hey Kathryn===GRADE THIS BABY !
Kathryn, thanks for the feedback. Speaking as an author at BSR I can say that it is a fast and loose editorial process. Its a tradeoff but its the benefits outweigh the occasional typos or grammos. I’m sure you can be sympathetic to this. I am by no means an English aficionado but it doesn’t take a professional editor to find a run on sentence, capitalization error and overuse of exclamation points in your response. Its the internet, its a new medium, let’s live and let live. Please feel free to point out the errors in this response, I’m sure they are plentiful. The important point is that everyone understands my general sentiment.
@Kathryn – You need a man to loosen you up sweetheart… I’m just the answer. What you say?
A date with the “BSR Heartthrob”.
You in Kathryn?
I’m sure chumley will take you up on this offer , he like tummy stick…
Among all the commotion between AJ’s horrible performance and Hurricane Irene, I totally forgot about the pregame ceremony the Orioles had. I mean, seriously, Joe. Get over it. Once again, he has to find something other that AJ to bitch about. Wake up, man! Or else you can kiss the playoffs goodbye.
Actually, this article has some of the worst English I’ve ever seen in my life. And random punctuation marks, missing commas, horrible spelling, English, etc.
The person who wrote it could at least either know how to write or learn to re-read their own stuff before posting.
Kathryn’s response was spot on, and the author’s limp-wristed, defensive response painstakingly ducked her central point as well as Girardi’s. The Yankees are perennially the sport’s most schedule-challenged team because the franchises that whine the loudest about their unequal resources lobby the hardest to book the Bombers for their venues to boost their pathetic ticket sales.
Zach, try to whine a little less about the importance or relevance of video tributes (our storied club has at least one a week) and be a little more on the ball regarding the subjects you choose to scribble about. For your information, the internet is NOT a new medium, nor is old-fashioned ignorant Yankee-bashing.
You say the Yankees have a reputation for getting what they want and complaining when they dont, yet you provide zero evidence of the latter, nor can you. To the contrary, the fact the Yankees’ are MLB’s biggest box office draw in every city they play suggests you’re inventing or imagining things.
Meanwhile, the very fact the O’s — like all other franchises — chose a course that tasks the Yankees for the sole purpose of reaping an additional homefield payday to bolster their anemic fan base support makes quite the opposite case you attempted.
Like your favorite franchise, you’re a loser swinging alibis instead of bates — and missing badly.
P.S. Obviously, “bates” should be “bats” in my last line above….and please note I took no umbrage whatsoever with your grammar or punctuation in my post. As my own typo illustrates, this website is as handicapped by the lack of the standard self-edit button as the O’s are by the lack of ….well, everything.
P.S.S. Shouting “O” in the middle of our national anthem is an annoying, disrespectful and rude tradition, and your mock indignation over imagined disrespect by Joe G is comically hypocritical.
Talk about hypocritical. You obviously have a decent command of the English language, as evidenced by your post, yet you lose all credibility with the “middle school-like” name you’ve identified yourself by. So all of what might have been valid points was totally lost by the poor choice you initially made in identifying yourself by a sophomoric, immature moniker.
Translation: “I’m incapable of responding to your arguments so I’ll just to resort to an ad hominem instead.”
Well said, Dave. Thanks.
The Yankees skipper is wrong. They did not play a DH in Boston or Philly on Friday. I am not quite sure what he meant by Florida. They were playing in Philly.
While Joey G and all the northern Virginia bandwagon Yankee fans whine about the schedule, the lowly Orioles are taking it to the Yankees and have them staring at the wildcard. Maybe focusing on the task at hand would be better than crying about off days.
Man, looks like the spankees raise their fans well. Complainers through and through out.
Um, did someone forget their was a hurricane that affected the whole eastern part of the US this past week/end? People died as a result and all the Yankees – as well as their whining fans – care about is playing a silly baseball game so they can fit their rotation to play Boston. How stupid are you guys?