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ATTN: YANKEE FAN - cferneyh - 04-06-2005

THE BRONX (April 6) -- Major league baseball on Wednesday set April 8 as the date for the historic start of the conclave to elect a successor to Mariano Rivera, as the Yankees made final arrangements for the funeral of a great career that is expected to draw millions of Yankee fans and world leaders to the Bronx.

The decision came after the future Hall of Famer blew his second save in as many days against the team's biggest rival, the World Champion Red Sox, giving up five runs in the ninth, getting battered like a rented mule and ignominiously getting removed from the game in the middle of the inning, the fourth consecutive time he has blown a save to the Red Sox dating back to the 2004 ALCS. Fans at Yankee Stadium even booed the great closer on his way back to the dugout, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yankee fans are headed to hell.

Yankees GM Brian Cashman said the Yankees would be sequestered in the team offices in the early afternoon to start the decision process for the next closer. Candidates include Oakland's Octavio Dotel, Detroit's Ugueth Urbina, current set-up man Flash Gordon, Rick Ankiel and Charlie Sheen. The Yankees will continue to use Rivera from the bullpen, but only in blowouts and games where the lead or deficit is 6 runs or more.

If none of the candidates gets the required two-thirds majority after about 12 days, the Yankee braintrust may change procedure and elect the closer by simple majority. The date was set on the third hour of preparatory meetings of Yankee front office people who have converged on the Bronx ahead of Friday's funeral and burial of Rivera's career.

Fans continued to flock to Yankee Stadium after Wednesday's game, jamming up streets as they waited to pay their final respects to Rivera, who has been lying in state of shock since the Red Sox hammered him off the field for the second straight day. More than 200,000 Yankee fans will have filed solemnly by the pinstriped body by the end of Wednesday night, at a rate of about 15,000-18,000 people an hour in a nearly around-the-clock procession, according to calculations by the Yankee front office.

- thedarkcanuck - 04-06-2005

now that was funny :thumb:

- cferneyh - 04-06-2005

I can't take credit for the above post - I copied and pasted it directly from ESPN and Bill Simmons.

- thedarkcanuck - 04-06-2005

funny all the same

- j-monster - 04-06-2005

cferneyh Wrote:I can't take credit for the above post - I copied and pasted it directly from ESPN and Bill Simmons.

Damn, I was all set to congratulate you on your superb comedy writing.

Oh well, I'll congratulate you for your astute web-surfing instead. :thumb:

That was funny as hell! :lol:

Hey, how come our favourite Yankee fan hasn't responded yet?????

- The Darkest Canuck - 04-06-2005

a) nobody booed Rivera, in fact he was cheered as he left the mound

b) he'll be back in top form in no time

c) kiss my pin-striped ass, hell froze over last year, so this year we're gonna be even more ruthless (pardon the pun teehee), and heat things up...see ya on Monday :wink:

- The Horrible Esthete - 04-06-2005

The Darkest Canuck Wrote:a) nobody booed Rivera, in fact he was cheered as he left the mound

b) he'll be back in top form in no time

c) kiss my pin-striped ass, hell froze over last year, so this year we're gonna be even more ruthless (pardon the pun teehee), and heat things up...see ya on Monday :wink:

I think this would be a good time to just shut your gaping pie hole and take your well-deserved beating, you ignoramus.

- The Darkest Canuck - 04-07-2005

what beating? we won the first series!

- cferneyh - 04-07-2005

The Darkest Canuck Wrote:a) nobody booed Rivera, in fact he was cheered as he left the mound

Good God you are hopeless.

After walking Doug Mirabelli, Rivera was lifted -- a rare sight. He walked off the mound to a healthy dose of boos, but he thought those must have come from Red Sox fans.

"I think it's inexcusable if the boos were from Yankee fans because they wouldn't be crawling all over themselves to get into this ballpark if it weren't for him," New York manager Joe Torre said.

Pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre had a similar reaction.

"I was very surprised by that. Everything he's done here and in this ballpark, I was shocked. But that's New York," Stottlemyre said.

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So you don't think there were any boos, and Head Up His Ass Rivera thinks they came from Sox fans (yeah, I'm sure Sox fans would boo the guy that's blown four straight games against them - they'd give him a standing ovation).

Stottlemyre is the only honest guy of the bunch.

- beanmedic - 04-07-2005

The Darkest Canuck Wrote:what beating? we won the first series!

We?

- j-monster - 04-07-2005

The Darkest Canuck Wrote:c) kiss my pin-striped ass,

Why would you pin-stripe your ass? :?

- tragicallymike - 04-07-2005

The Darkest Canuck Wrote:a) nobody booed Rivera, in fact he was cheered as he left the mound

b) he'll be back in top form in no time

c) kiss my pin-striped ass, hell froze over last year, so this year we're gonna be even more ruthless (pardon the pun teehee), and heat things up...see ya on Monday :wink:

You didnt watch the game again. He was booed loudly. It was hilarious. Worst fans in baseball.

- tommygunn - 04-07-2005

tragicallymike Wrote:He was booed loudly. It was hilarious. Worst fans in baseball.
Worst fans in baseball? :roll:
Any player from any team deserves to be booed when you blow 4 straight save opportunities, let alone when it's done against your arch nemesis; and your salary is over $10 million/year.

- cferneyh - 04-07-2005

tommygunn Wrote:
tragicallymike Wrote:He was booed loudly. It was hilarious. Worst fans in baseball.
Worst fans in baseball? :roll:
Any player from any team deserves to be booed when you blow 4 straight save opportunities, let alone when it's done against your arch nemesis; and your salary is over $10 million/year.

Yup. Worst fans in baseball. Just like Torre said - given all that that guy has done for the Yankees, he doesn't deserve to be booed after a rough stretch.

- tragicallymike - 04-07-2005

tommygunn Wrote:
tragicallymike Wrote:He was booed loudly. It was hilarious. Worst fans in baseball.
Worst fans in baseball? :roll:
Any player from any team deserves to be booed when you blow 4 straight save opportunities, let alone when it's done against your arch nemesis; and your salary is over $10 million/year.

He won them 4 world series. He should get a free pass for a while.