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  1. Youk Of The Nation
    Exactly. Like I said, regular Yankees fans.
  2. Youk Of The Nation
    On the top right of the screen, click "settings". On that page, there is a link on the side for changing your avatar. Click that, then either paste a link or upload a picture from your computer.
  3. Youk Of The Nation
    After Bradley's second triple, someone on the NYYfans gamethread suggested subtly that he might be on PEDs. I wish I'd checked this site out years ago, this is truly hilarious. Also, Yankees suck.
  4. Youk Of The Nation
    Holt with a Youkian-level at-bat.
  5. Youk Of The Nation
    After yesterday's game, I decided I was curious as to how the Yankees fans are reacting to this. All I have to go on is jacko, who is, as we all know, not really representative of most of the Yankees fans in the world. So I created an account to lurk on the gamethreads at NYYfans. It's awesome. They have completely given up. It's April, and they've completely bypassed rationalizing, rage, and unfounded optimism and jumped straight to sullen acceptance and sarcasm. It's like Christmas in April!
  6. Youk Of The Nation
    I'm going to move this thread about Gamethreads into a gamethread in the Gamethread Forum. Gamethreadception!
  7. Youk Of The Nation
    Oookay, let's all take a step back here. There's no reason for an argument like this to spawn from a disagreement about baseball. You were, in fact, being a little obnoxious. Telling people "I am right, you just can't defeat my argument" is not the way to discuss things. Just take a break from attacking each other's attitudes, BOTH of you, and argue about the opinions themselves. Key word: Opinions.
  8. Youk Of The Nation
    Oops.
  9. Youk Of The Nation
    I can't remember the last time the Yankees consistently trotted out a guy this bad on a nightly basis. This isn't a crappy backup, this is one of their starting infielders, and he has yet to get an extra-base hit after a full month of the season. That's just garbage, and I feel all warm and tingly when I think about how much Yankees fans must hate this guy right now.
  10. Youk Of The Nation
    2 groundouts. Encouraging start.
  11. Youk Of The Nation
    No, I wasn't even alive when that happened. Hell, my parents were barely old enough to have clear memories of those years. His last year was 1973 and that would have made my dad 9 or 10 and my mom 5 or 6.
  12. Youk Of The Nation
    When I think about how the great ones sometimes hang on a little too long, the first thing I think of is Mays' last two seasons when he was with the Mets.
  13. Youk Of The Nation
    In all seriousness, I agree. As much as I joke about wanting him to come out of retirement to surprise the Yankees' rotation, this is the key issue. Papi seems like the kind of guy who would rather go out on top, with what he knows might be the last season where he can produce at a DH level. I don't think he'd particularly like his last season ending up like the last seasons of so many of the greats. 10HR, .230 average, only 100 games, et cetera.
  14. Youk Of The Nation
    Well, now I want him to only come back to play the Yankees. Can the Sox sign him to an 18-game contract at the beginning of 2017?
  15. Youk Of The Nation
    There's nothing wrong with using a hook for a thread title. But you could have used the entire quote, i.e. "Ortiz: If I Get Bored, They Can Reactivate Me." Just using the first few words of a quote isn't a hook, it's just confusing to people who see it, because this is the Sox discussion forum and your thread title did not appear to have anything to do with the Sox. No one is trying to stifle your creativity, we're just trying to make sure the forum stays an uncluttered and consistent place for Red Sox discussion. I didn't delete your thread, I changed the title. I also didn't threaten to ban you if you didn't post the way I or anyone else wants you to. All I'm asking is that you give your threads clear and understandable titles so as to facilitate discussion and debate.
  16. Youk Of The Nation
    Which brings them up to almost 1% likable!
  17. Youk Of The Nation
    I agree that a better title was needed, so based on the subject of the initial post, let's make this the Official David Ortiz Retirement Discussion Thread. On the actual subject of the thread, I don't see Ortiz coming back no matter how well he is playing at the end of this season. Not after a full season of standing ovations, farewell gifts, and Jumbotron slideshows.
  18. Youk Of The Nation
    It's one of those words that stops sounding like a real word when you keep repeating it.
  19. Youk Of The Nation
    Very close. Flyout, groundout, k. You just got it backwards! EDIT: I see UN? beat me to it. I guess I should have refreshed. Still, nice call Ted!
  20. Youk Of The Nation
    Haha! f*** yeah.
  21. Youk Of The Nation
    The Yankees may be leading by a run, but they are putting on a clinic in "What Not to Do". Strikeout/caught stealing double play, fly-ball-home-plate double play, they are just terrible.
  22. Youk Of The Nation
    I can't argue with that. Luckily, bench guys are a lot easier to find, especially when the deadline rolls around.
  23. Youk Of The Nation
    I love Brock Holt, not least of all because his name sounds like an 80's action hero or the protagonist from a spy thriller novel, but I'm a little wary of him. He's been great for the Sox, but so was Daniel Nava in the beginning. There are a few parallels, despite Holt having superior skills to Nava's in most areas. Both guys were never seriously looked at in the minors as potential starters, both guys were brought in to fill spots and produce as well as they could, and both guys soared above and beyond all expectations. Nava turned into a pumpkin, eventually, after a great 2013. Will Holt? Only time will tell, but as much as I love the guy, I'm not counting on him producing at the level he did in 2015 and has in early 2016 indefinitely.
  24. Youk Of The Nation
    That's always been my policy when it comes to underpeforming players. I've been on the site since I was 17. If you read back through all of my old posts, you'd see that basically after the age of 19 or 20, I haven't really had strong negative opinions about players. I give them a lot of slack because of the length of a baseball season and the tendency to have bad years followed by good ones. Unpredictability is part of baseball. No one could have expected Carl Crawford or Edgar Renteria to be as bad as they were for the Sox, just as no one could have expected Daniel Nava to be so good for the team in the beginning before he reverted to what he was (a quadruple-A player). That being said, I don't really care one way or the other about Young. I don't expect him to have a significant impact on the team, positive or negative, and I would be perfectly fine if they could find some other use for his roster spot.
  25. Youk Of The Nation
    Welcome to the forum! I'm not sure, but I think this may be the first time we've had harmony here.
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