Comments on: John Rodriguez delivers a big hit

By: bobr

bobr — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:58:21 +0000

Has there been any other evidence that Duncan plays dirty? If not, I would withhold judgment. It was a dirty play, but that does not make him a dirty player. Lots of players have had incidents. I may have mentioned this here before, but among the most famous involved a now consensus Hall of Fame pitcher and one of the most respected representatives of the game, Juan Marichal. In 1965, he hit catcher Johnny Roseboro over the head with his bat not once but twice, opening a cut that required, I think, 8 stitches. It was one of the most brutal acts ever seen on a ballfield. And he was both older and more established than Duncan at the time.

There have been plenty of others. For example, although he was terribly disappointing in TB (actually a no-show), by all accounts Roberto Alomar was a respected man. But the one spitting incident led many to assume he was a bad character. Not true and not fair.

We need to tone down the invective and focus on the games.

By: Scott Caruso

Scott Caruso — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:48:42 +0000

What I meant was that Shelley Duncan acting that way doesn’t necessarily mean that the Yankees as a whole are a dirty team, but rather than Duncan is a dirty player and that Girardi is also at fault for either chosing not to or being unable to control him, but I really don’t think you can say it makes the whole team dirty. I don’t like them, but Jeter and Pettitte and Posada and the like have always played a classy game of baseball. Duncan on the other hand is a tool who should get drilled in the back with a Kid K fastball.

By: CharlieRay

CharlieRay — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:24:10 +0000

Ok guys! I will be back on Easter. On my way to Amsterdam in two hours. Very little news about the Rays there. I will probably get ticked off at someone in Holland wearing a Yankee hat and never seen a game. “That’s life”

By: CharlieRay

CharlieRay — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:03:54 +0000

This guy doesn’t represent anything “dirty” The Yank & Shelly Duncan were “dirty” as Maddon & gomes said “What you saw today is a definition of a dirty play,” Maddon said. “There’s no room for that in our game. It’s contemptible. It’s wrong. It’s borderline criminal. I can’t believe they did that. “That was a blatant attempt to hurt Aki. And it was set up, it was planned, it was premeditated; it was all of the above. I don’t know what the difference is between that and a high stick in hockey. It was that bad.”

Gomes questioned Girardi’s decision to bring Duncan on the road trip given his comments.”Shelley Duncan went in the paper and said he was going to do this,” Gomes said. “This was premeditated on his part. He said if he had the opportunity to go in hard he was going to do it. To me, that makes it a little bit worse. It was uncalled for on his part.” we also don’t need another IF we have several players to fill in to benny gest back plus our 3rd baseman is Longoria is hitting .368 this spring with 1 homer 1 triple, 2 doubles, 7 hits, 4 BB, & five RBIs in nine games. He also has a 737 SLG and 520 OBP. I think outside the organization for outfield help and pick up free-agent Kenny Lofton.