Yanks Curtain Call

[SchillingIsTheNatural]

It seems that EVERY HR the Yanks get they have a curtain call. Why is that???

[Sox fan in Tex]

Don't know. I just laugh everytime I see Tino do it. I guess now that a majority of their players are off the 'roids, it's tougher for them to hit homeruns, therefore they celebrate everytime a player gets lucky and smashes one.

 

Seriously though, when a guy like Sheffroids is doing it, in a sense it seems like a slap in the face to an opposing team because all you did was hit a HR...I mean he didn't do anything else great the rest of the night. If you want to showboat like that and taunt us when we're down, be our guests, I just hope we never go to that level.

[YANKEESRULE]

Don't know. I just laugh everytime I see Tino do it. I guess now that a majority of their players are off the 'roids, it's tougher for them to hit homeruns, therefore they celebrate everytime a player gets lucky and smashes one.

 

Seriously though, when a guy like Sheffroids is doing it, in a sense it seems like a slap in the face to an opposing team because all you did was hit a HR...I mean he didn't do anything else great the rest of the night. If you want to showboat like that and taunt us when we're down, be our guests, I just hope we never go to that level.

 

Yea but the curtain calls were for tying the game and the other was for the winning runs. we don't curtain call every homerun. Plus its a tradition in New York when you hit a big homerun the crowd chants your name and they don't stop til you curtain call. Its a New York thing.

[Sox fan in Tex]

Yea but the curtain calls were for tying the game and the other was for the winning runs. we don't curtain call every homerun. Plus its a tradition in New York when you hit a big homerun the crowd chants your name and they don't stop til you curtain call. Its a New York thing.

 

Nevermind about my comment then, I guess that's just another thing that's done differently in New York than Boston.

[stocker323]

The only curtain calls I remember in Boston were Nomar twice, once the game on his birthday when he hit 3 home runs, and the other time against Seattle when he had like 3 HR's and 10 RBI's so I think curtain calls are only after spectacular individual performances. Oh and the game I went to when Gabe hit like 2 HR's and 5 RBI's he got one too.

[SchillingIsTheNatural]

I think it really is a slap in the face to the opposing team. Whats wrong with just hitting a HR and being professional about it. Curtain calls are for great moments of recognition...a moment when a player does something heroic...you have to earn it. Robinson Cano, Gary Sheffield, Tino Martinez....these are not heroic moments they are simple plays throughout the game that every team makes on a consistant basis. I don't know I think its lame and shows a lack of class....kinda like the constant garbage that is thrown on Yankee field.

[Sox fan in Tex]

^ I agree with that 1,000%

[soxie thefangirl]

ditto that.

[Are U Kidding Me]

I think curtain calls are pretty cool. The yankee fans select who and when they give them and they have been giving them an awful lot lately but I dont think it is overdone. Cano and Sheff deserved them last nite because well, cano is a rookie that tied the game and sheff drilled an upper deck shot to take the lead. Tino is and has always been a fan favorite in NY. Everyone was pissed so see him go and delighted to see him come back. He his liked by Yankee fans just as much as Mattingly, Bernie and Jeter.

[Sizzlin22]

I agree but it's also a Yankee tradition thing so I don't mind it so much. IF that's what they do that's what they do I really don't mind it.

[Sox fan in Tex]

Actually, I asked another Yankees fan and he gave me this explanation:

 

The only reason he got a curtain call was because it was against the Red Sox. In these games every out seems like the last out of the World Series and every hit seems crucial. So for Sheffield to put the Yankees up with that monster shot, New York fans went crazy, most likely because it was against Boston. Against anyone else I doubt he would have gotten a curtain call.

 

It sounds like WE are their World Series now, since they can't get back.

[schillingouttheks]

I was gonna say it was because its the Red Sox...

 

Whatever though. Whatever floats their boat let them do it. Who cares? I can see why they did it to Cano though...he is only a rookie who had a key HR last night to tie the game. Don't let it get to you, just let them do it and move on. I don't think its a slap in the face...they try to make it one, but they fail to.

[Sizzlin22]

I actually like the idea of giving Canoe one it must make a rookie feel good to get a curtain call after tying the game in the greatest rivalry in baseball.