Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season - Deadspin Comments

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

The Sports Hernia — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:24:04 EDT

Girardi is right. Everyone can feast on it.

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Crookednose — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:02:48 EDT

Girardi would like it to be renamed Spring Walk-Through, since Training gives the impression that potential game situations might be practiced.

Crookednose

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

jiwill — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:20:46 EDT

Dan Hawkins says to go play intramurals.

jiwill

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Moobs — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:21:15 EDT

@Jefferson Short Bus: I wonder if that catcher needs a body massage.

Moobs

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Chief Wahoo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:49:24 EDT

@Casual33: Did they happen to mention how many times they blocked the plate in spring training and someone ran around them?

Chief Wahoo

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

GibbonJockey — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:52:23 EDT

Complainin' 'bout a little contact?

Elliot Johnson says, "That's rubbin' and rubbin's racin'

GibbonJockey

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Casual33 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:48:43 EDT

Well both Girardi and Yogi have said they never once in their career were hit in spring training. I can't say I know the ethics in the Spring but if neither of them ever had then it has to be something unusual

Casual33

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

IchiroSuzukiSamurai — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:08:17 EDT

The unwritten rule, as promulgated by Joe Girardi, with help from Hank Steinbrenner:

Yankee catchers are allowed to practice blocking the plate in spring training.
Opposing runners may not run into them.
Yankee runners are allowed to practice scoring runs in spring training.
Opposing catchers may not block the plate.

IchiroSuzukiSamurai

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Chief Wahoo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:31 EDT

@Al Czerviks Ride on the WMU Bronco Bandwagon: Could not agree more. If you don't want to get knocked down you probably shouldn't be in the baseline. Good to see Girardi likes the taste of the new "Yankee Douchewater" flavor Kool-Aid though.

Chief Wahoo

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Sir Hotbod Handsomeface — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:03:21 EDT

@Lady Andrea: yes, at work... so i don't really have a choice (i'm not tight with the IT people here)

at home I'd have Safari... if time warner didn't suck ass so much - i've been without the ebays for a week waiting for a technician

Sir Hotbod Handsomeface

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Whitey Fisk — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:52:34 EDT

The New York Yankees and Rhode Island Orioles are required to turn in their uniforms after each game.

Whitey Fisk

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

elwood — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:51:26 EDT

@Lady Andrea: Some of us wish we could use Mozilla at work. The first half of my day was horrendous, I couldn't check Deadspin or Jalopnik, both staples of my work-wasting repertoire.

And I don't see the big deal about bowling over the catcher. Spring training or no, if you don't wanna get hit, don't block the plate. I feel even less sorry because its the Yankees too.

elwood

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Mr. Pennsylvania — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:49:03 EDT

maybe spring training should be played with a wiffle ball and bat...would that be alright Girardi/yankee broadcasters?

pansies

Mr. Pennsylvania

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

cowbell204 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:47:48 EDT

"Bucs fill receiver hole with Antonio Bryant"

hehe

cowbell204

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

GreatOdensRaven — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:42:37 EDT

Yankees' manager Joe Girardi disagrees, however. And Don Zimmer disagrees with the disagreement.

We apologise again for the fault in the disagreement. Those responsible for disagreeing with the people who have just been disagreed with have been disagreed with.

GreatOdensRaven

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Lady Andrea — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:48 EDT

@The Fan's Attic: yikes. He's like Mr. Potato Head.

@Sir Hotbod Handsomeface: do you use IE? B/c I use Firefox and I haven't had any problems today.

Lady Andrea

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

ABrown — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:35:06 EDT

this is a bigger story if i'd actually heard of the guys involved in the play. Girardi is as assclown to try to play the "spring training" card along with the YES broadcasters.

I'm guessing since I've never heard of Elliot Johnson he's fighting to make the team. you think it's a "meaningless spring training game" to him?

ABrown

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Sir Hotbod Handsomeface — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:33:58 EDT

complaintjack/

wow! I finally got titles! now I just need my homepage link in the banner back and I might be all set

/complaintjack

Sir Hotbod Handsomeface

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

The Fan’s Attic — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:33:42 EDT

@The Fan's Attic: [locomomo.com]

The Fan’s Attic

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

MenaceIISobriety — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:30:12 EDT

then all the Puerto Ricans stab each other. yes, even the pregnant one.

MenaceIISobriety

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

ky-jellydonuts — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:30:10 EDT

Robin Ventura's limping around behind Zimmer and nodding.

ky-jellydonuts

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

The Fan’s Attic — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:30:09 EDT

@Lady Andrea: I think Zimmer understands that his head is so gargantuan that it has its own gravitational pull making not grabbing his head all but impossible.

The Fan’s Attic

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Lady Andrea — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:27:15 EDT

Don Zimmer also thinks it is highly appropriate to grab octogenarians by their heads and slam them to the ground.

Lady Andrea

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

SlantedAndDisenchanted — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:23:18 EDT

Oh god. So I guess all we're going to hear again from ESPN is "Yankees and Rays, Yankees and Rays" blah blah blah. The same fucking thing every single season.

SlantedAndDisenchanted

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

MenaceIISobriety — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:21:50 EDT

was he wearing the cushy black ninja turtle mask?

MenaceIISobriety

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:19:37 EDT

I love the idea of putting spikes on catchers shin guards. As long as it will stop the unnecessary breaking of an innocent catchers wrist I say we put it into action.

gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Nationalcoholic — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:19:26 EDT

Mr. Plow? Christ, even Rick has the Simpsons' reference bug.

At least his was in context...

Nationalcoholic

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

MenaceIISobriety — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:18:16 EDT

...unwritten rule...POPPYCOCK!
baseball nerds don't scratch their sacks without scoring it. rattle that cunt's teeth!

MenaceIISobriety

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Yinka Double Dare — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:17:22 EDT

Totally called for in Girardi's mind: blowing out the arms of Hughes, Joba and Kennedy in the next two years.

Yinka Double Dare

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

1980 David Bowie From The Music Video Ashes To Ashes — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:16:42 EDT

The catcher referred to them as the "Devil Rays".

He had it coming.

1980 David Bowie From The Music Video Ashes To Ashes

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Al Czerviks Ride — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:16:35 EDT

You dont wanna get hurt, dont block the plate.
Simple.

Al Czerviks Ride

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

Jefferson Short Bus — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:14:49 EDT

Nice catch, blanco nino. But too bad your ass got saaaaaaaaacked!

Jefferson Short Bus

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

racistmascot_inc — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:13:01 EDT

Pete Rose doesn't know what the big deal is.
Ray Fosse sticks another pin into his Pete Rose voodoo doll.

racistmascot_inc

Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season

The Teufel Shuffle — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:12:14 EDT

You play to win the game. You hear that? YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!

The Teufel Shuffle