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Goose Gossage Has Had Enough Of Your Tomfoolery

rickchand — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:30:31 EDT

I guess we're somewhat removed from the era in which Rich "Goose" Gossage dominated baseball; well, when he dominated the final three innings of it, anyway. The closer really hadn't been perfected until Gossage came along, and the game hasn't been the same since. Although the Hall of Famer spent just six of his 22 major league seasons with the Yankees (1978-83), that's where he enjoyed his best years, and it's obvious that his first allegiance will always be in New York. And as Yankee Badass Emeritus, he has a few words for current relief Wunderkind Joba Chamberlain.

At issue is an incident on Thursday in which Chamberlain became somewhat demonstrative — pumping his fist and so forth — after striking out the Indians' David Dellucci.

"That's just not the Yankee way, what Joba did. Let everyone else do that stuff, but not a Yankee," Gossage said by telephone on Saturday. ... "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."

Is Gossage predicting a similar collapse by the Yankees? Well, first they have to GET to first. I'm not sure where I stand on the concept of old players coming back and telling current ones how to behave. Isn't that the manager's job? Joe Girardi needs to put a clamp on those antics stat, if that's the kind of team he wants. On the other hand, it's Goose freakin' Gossage, who could still probably kill you with a fresh dinner roll from 20 yards away. I'd probably listen to what he had to say.

Klapisch: Goose Tells Joba To Act Like A Yankee [The Record]

Welcome To The Hall, Goose

Leitch — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:06:04 EST

We congratulate Goose Gossage on his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He earned 84 percent of the vote. Jim Rice, alas, didn't make it.

Rice garnered 72.2 percent, not quite enough to make it, but awfully close. He was followed by, in order, Andre Dawson, Bert Blyleven, Lee Smith, Jack Morris, Tommy John, Tim Raines, Mark McGwire, Alan Trammell, Dave Concepcion and Don Mattingly. Congrats to Goose, who finally got better in 2007. Excellent improvement there.

If Only Mike Cooper Called New York City Home...

mjdeadspin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:01:12 EDT

It's a sad commentary on the state of the summer sports scene that one of the most important things happening today (other than the Arena Football playoffs, of course) is this Mustache Madness tournament going on at Keyboard Quarterbacks.

Unfortunately, the contestants are limited to those who have had something to do with sports in New York City. And that's fine, NYC is a good place to start if you're looking for the best in hairy upper lips, but representatives from Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and much of the midwest would like to take on the winner. Rollie Fingers is just waiting to kick anybody's ass.

We're down to the Sweet 16 today, with 1 seeds Goose Gossage, Keith Hernandez, Bobby Nystrom, and Walt Frazier (my pick) still alive. Darkhorse candidate John Starks and his penciled-on mustache, I'm sorry to say, didn't survive the first round.

Mustache Madness: Sweet Sixteen [Keyboard Quarterbacks]