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What a moron really as cashman said "...you have to keep your emotions in check." it was stupid and he jsut helped the sox win the division. I watched the YES postgame and TOrre and Cashman were clearly furious at him.
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Wow. I thought he would eventually overcome the injury bug that has plagued him for his entire career, but no. He goes and punches a wall.

 

Not the yankees are really REALLY screwed for the playoffs. Sucks for him though, breaking his hand and all. I hope he isnt in TOO much pain.

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Oh my god. Sox win 10 in a row, 11 straight at home, make up 8 games on the Yanks (and 1st place), and then the Yanks most intimidating pitcher breaks his hand. This could be the greatest 3 weeks of my life!!! Sorry for the bad karma (F-it, karma don't work, pitchin does), but damn. Wow.
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This is shocking. It sounds like something Jose Lima would do to himself. It keeps getting worse for the Yankees...

 

I am psyched about the recent Red Sox streak....

 

I will wait til the Red Sox finish the regular season to celebrate the AL East Division or Wild Card berth.

 

Right now the way the Twins and A's are playing, they both seem like tough possible opponents for the Sox, unlike last year's Twins.

 

Enjoy the ride....

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Kevin Brown is an immature, selfish *******. Always has been, always will be. I wish nothing but bad things for the man, and this has nothing to do with him being a Yankee. Ever since I heard the story about his destroying a toilet with a bat, I've loathed him. The bastard probably beats his wife too. Stupid motherf***er.
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Originally posted by RedSoxRooter@Sep 3 2004, 11:04 PM

I just read it's his "non-pitching hand". Could be propagana or not. Still quite interesting.... :D

You still need to put on a glove, right? :huh: Breaking a hand renders you unable to pitch, no matter which hand. I think.

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He broke 2 metacarpals when you break one you can usually pitch with a splint with 2 or more metacarpals are broken you usually have to have sugery.
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this makes an awful rotation even worse.

 

the new papers are screaming and the yankees arent talking. One article said what someone said here that brown was the most selfish and immature player in the league.

 

Once again, I'd say our team chemistry is extraordinary.

I'll take this bunch iof fun loving dirt dogs over those clowns any day of the week.

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from the daily news

 

Brown spoke to reporters without a wrap or brace on his hand, and said he intends to simply splint the broken bones and make his next start as scheduled. GM Brian Cashman said the Yankees hope hand specialist Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser can examine Brown today, at which point they'll be able to give a timetable for his return.

 

darn, well, it's still nice to see them implode.

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Here's the article from the yankees website:

NEW YORK -- Before Friday's game, Joe Torre said he hoped that the performances of Orlando Hernandez and Jon Lieber over the past two games would be a stepping stone for the rest of the starting rotation.

 

Kevin Brown didn't fall off the step, but he couldn't continue the trend, either, as the Yankees fell to the Orioles, 3-1, at Yankee Stadium.

 

The most disheartening news came after the game, when it was revealed that Brown broke his left hand after punching a wall in the clubhouse following the sixth inning.

 

"When he came in between innings, he broke his left hand by punching something," said manager Joe Torre. "We're obviously not very happy about it. We'll have to wait and see what happens from here."

 

Brown (10-4) allowed three runs over six innings, but the offense couldn't get anything going against Orioles right-hander Rodrigo Lopez, who was brilliant for 7 1/3 innings after allowing a first-inning home run by Derek Jeter.

 

"He changed speeds real well, kept his off-speed pitch down and we didn't mount anything," Torre said. "It was all about him tonight."

 

The loss snapped New York's two-game winning streak, and it was just the third defeat in 14 games against the Orioles this season. With Boston's win over Texas at Fenway Park, the Yankees' lead in the American League East now stands at just 2 1/2 games, the closest the two clubs have been since June 11.

 

New York looked like it would break the game open early against Lopez (11-8), loading the bases on a single and two walks after Jeter's one-out home run. But Lopez got Jorge Posada to ground into a hard, inning-ending 4-6-3 double play to escape the jam.

 

"We had him on the ropes in the first inning," Torre said. "Jorge hit the heck out of the ball, but it was right at the second baseman for a double play."

 

"The whole game changed on the ground ball that I hit. If that ball gets by, it's a different ballgame," Posada said. "It was a 1-0 game. That ball gets by, it's two more runs. That's the game of baseball. He did a pretty good job."

 

The Orioles came back with runs in both the second and third innings, using a pair of RBI sacrifice flies by Jay Gibbons and Brian Roberts to take a 2-1 lead against Brown.

 

Lopez settled in after his rocky first, retiring 12 of 14 Yankees from the second through the fifth. New York managed just two singles in that span, as Lopez struck out six.

 

Brown did his best to hold down the Orioles' offense, but it wasn't an easy outing for the right-hander. He appeared to injure his left knee while covering first base on the final out of the fifth, then got hit on his right hand while trying to get a hold of Miguel Tejada's RBI single up the middle in the sixth.

 

Those two plays apparently sparked Brown's temper, as he returned to the clubhouse after the sixth and punched a wall. Pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre went into the clubhouse to check on Brown's right hand, which had been hit by the ball, but when he learned of the damage to the left hand, his day was over.

 

"Getting hurt a couple of times during the course of the game, the frustration of the way things have gone this year, getting sick, getting hurt, I let it boil over and I did something stupid," Brown said. "I owe my teammates an apology for letting my emotions take over like that and not controlling myself."

 

Felix Heredia started the seventh, making his first appearance since working out some mechanical kinks in the minors. Apparently, he didn't work them out completely, as he walked both batters he faced before being yanked in favor of Paul Quantrill.

 

After a sacrifice bunt and an intentional walk to load the bases, Quantrill got Roberts to ground into a 4-6-3 double play, holding Baltimore's lead at two runs.

 

"I wasn't happy with it, but I thought some calls were close," Torre said of Heredia's outing. "Quantrill bailed us out in that situation."

 

Lopez continued to baffle the Yankees, as he worked through the seventh with ease. Miguel Cairo led off the eighth with a double to right, and after getting Kenny Lofton to fly out on a 2-0 pitch, Lopez was removed from the game.

 

Jason Grimsley needed just two pitches to retire Jeter and Gary Sheffield, stranding Cairo in scoring position.

 

"Kenny may not have been as selective 2-0 as he could have been," Torre said. "But when Grimsley has command, he's tough to hit. He made a couple of pitches, tricked Sheff and got the ball in on Jeter."

 

Lopez was charged with one run, giving up just six hits and two walks. He struck out seven.

 

Jorge Julio closed out the win with a scoreless ninth, earning his 20th save of the season.

 

And as far as Brown splinting his hand and returning. Whether its true about the double fracture and surgery or not, if he does come back I think it may be even better for us. There's no way he'll pitch at 100 percent with a broken hand weighing him down, and a beat up pitcher pitching when his team has a 2.5 game lead over the Red Sox sounds mighty appealing to me. Hopefully he can start his next game, get shelled, and then maybe be forced to stop for the season.

 

edit: Oy, crespo, shut it. None of that jinxing talk! There is no curse.

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the whole thing sounds very appealing. It has all the earmarks of a meltdown. What would be nice is some quotes saying what a selfish putz kevin brown is, some good old fashioned dissension, some steinbreenner lunacy and the papers piling on,

 

what is giambi up to. Wont talk to the press about his tumor.

 

I love it.

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Originally posted by YanksHater213@Sep 4 2004, 12:50 PM

too bad he didnt punch another person...

Hahaha. :lol: He punches Jeter, I can picture it now.

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