Happy New Year, especially to my fellow Yankee fans! The Yankees have made some clever moves and non-moves this off-season, and have remained the pre-season favorite to win yet another AL East title. Of course, our goal is for the Yankees to win their 27th World Series crown!

For a recap of their off-season signings, here are the new Yankees going into the 2006 season:
Johnny Damon--center field
Octavio Dotel--relief pitcher
Kyle Farnsworth--relief pitcher
Mike Myers--relief pitcher
Ron Villone--relief pitcher
Kelly Stinnett--catcher (back-up)

LET'S GO YANKEES!

Happy New Year to all Yankee fans. As I mentioned in last year's thread, I liked the moves that the Yankees made this off-season than the last off-season. If the Yankees can keep the injuries to a minimum, they should have an excellent year.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

HAPPY NEW YEAR Outsporters!

Here's to another great year of hangin' out on the boards and posting with my fellow Yankee fans. I'm not as up on the stats, as you guys, but I do like how things are shaping up. I do have a question though, who's gonna catch for Johnson?

Cheers,
Keith

LET'S GO YANKEES!

Shut up! LOL

Happy Noo Yeer!

[ January 02, 2006, 04:27 AM: Message edited by: Merloni26 ]

Happy New Year to my fellow Yankee fanatics. May 2006 be the year of peace, a world championship, and fewer trolls.

Keith, I believe Kelly Stinnett, who was with the Diamondbacks last season, will be the personal catcher for Randy Johnson this season.
His 2005 stats: .248 AVG, .419 SLG, .317 OBP, 6 HR, 12 RBI (59 games)

Don't count on it, MM. If I learned anything on the Yankee thread this past season (especially after we lost one mid-season series to the White Sox and the ALDS to the Angels), the Yankee-hating trolls just get more stupid, more vicious, and apparently now more bigoted every year. Since we are supposed to be here discussing the Yankees and enjoying ourselves, I suppose the best we can hope for is that they finally get interested in their own teams instead of trashing ours. Otherwise, I suppose we will just try to ignore them if they still haven't learned.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

Can I comment in '06? And I don't mean with troll-like responses

M26 (give me time to adjust to your "chilling" new name), you know I was not talking about you ! ...and I expect to read some interesting stuff on that icky red team's thread once you guys start it up.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

Based on what I read here, your Yankee-haters are nothing compared to the Eagle-haters on this board. wink

I did start one last week or so for '06, but since Larry Lucchino has single handedly screwed every member of RSN, there's nothing to talk about yet, so I gotta bump it back up

Quick explanation of "Chill"

As you know, my name is billy (technically William) my sister was home from school sick a long time ago, she was watching cartoons, Chilly Willy the penguin was on, and since then I'm Chill, Chilly, Chilltrick....etc...

cute, eh?

[ January 02, 2006, 12:38 PM: Message edited by: Chill-Trick ]

While I don't want to harp on this, Joe, I think the big difference is that the Eagle-haters are mostly folks that are at least fans from NFC (your own conference) teams. Most of the crap we get is oddly from fans of NL teams or the fans of the AL flavor of the month. Fans of the Blue Jays, Orioles, Devil Rays, and yes, even the red team, basically just stay out of it.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

Well, it could have been something worse like changing it to "FireMikeT...". Oops, sorry George .

LET'S GO YANKEES!

[ January 02, 2006, 12:47 PM: Message edited by: Cattledog ]

Hmmm. I'm thinking I should change my handle. Nah. Especially since it has a very subtle Yankees reference.

I like your handle, Pat125. Oh, you meant something else ...

LET'S GO YANKEES!

When are you two getting married?

Um... How 'bout those Yankees?

I can see it now...the entire wedding party in pinstripes...

LOL

I suggest that if you don't want any Twins trolls in here that you don't bait them. :mad:

Anyway FireMikeTiceNow is gone forever! Maybe I should have changed my name to Shirley'sBrother?

Is 125 the number of posts Cattledog makes to this thread each week? wink

Care to share what the reference is? Is it the most wins they've had in a year?

George, your second guess is correct. Including postseason wins, the Yankees won 125 games in 1998.

Joe, pinstripes would be the preferred fashion choice, but no red would be allowed.

Sorry, I didn't think there was any room for me in that scintillating "X-Mas in the Desert" thread .

oh, I thought you might be getting married on Jan. 25th

The difference is that Yankee fans don't deserve the hate.

BTW, are we doing a road trip to Philly for a Yankee-Phillies game? If so, JIP you got some work to do.

Otherwise let's pick a date for an Outsports outing to Yankee Stadium.

Oh, yeah... That's right. But, I am sure the series must be sold out :confused: ?
I know that every weekend series in the Bronx is sold out. I only have tickets to an interleague game with the Marlins.

Individual game tickets haven't gone on sale yet. The website says mid-to-late February. The first day they do (or if there's a presale for season ticket customers) I think we should be able to get tickets without a problem.

Group sales begin January 25th -- I don't know if we'll have enough interest to qualify as a group or not. Maybe scottie knows what the minimum number would be.

My suggestion would be to have those coming in from out of town decide which of the three games we should go to. (Perhaps a separate thread is in order.) The 3 games are: Tues. 6/13 and Wed. 6/14 at 7:05 PM and Thurs. 6/15 at 1:05 PM.

[ January 02, 2006, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Joe in Philly ]

For group sales, we would need a group of 20-25. However, the individual ticket pre-sale for season ticket holders starts in early February. I agree with JIP, pick a date, come up with a body count, and then we'll take it from there.

Chill - let me know if you want to come down for a Red Sox game.

I forgot it was a weekday series between the Yanks and Phils. After talking about it tonight, Pat125 and I agreed that the Tuesday game would be best for us. However, if you want to set up a thread separately from the Yankees and the Phillies threads to see if others are interested, that would be a great idea. Munson Man, any chance of getting a group together at the Stadium like last year? You always seem to have connections wink . It doesn't have to be the Angels or Massachusetts red team or anything, I think we could settle for a Tampa Bay or Detroit or whatever. ...and of course we would expect you to bring your dishy boyfriend even though he doesn't like sports wink .

LET'S GO YANKEES!

scottie, that could be fun....I'm due for a mini-vacation

And those dates are right after Pride weekend here...is there an Eagle in Phila?

Funny numbers game for Bubba Crosby...
He originally wore #19 with the Yankees until Al Leiter came back. Crosby offered #19 to Leiter (which Leiter has worn virtually his whole career) and just took #18. Now that Johnny Damon is with the Yankees, Crosby offered #18 (Damon's uniform number in Massachusetts) and is now taking back #19 since Leiter is no longer with the Yankees and is retired.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

There are lots of Eagles, but they're all in green. wink If you mean a bar, the comparable equivalent would be the Bike Stop.

Just as long as T.O. ain't one-uv-em

HAPPY 35th BITHRDAY!

JASON GILBERT GIAMBI

Gilbert? eek!

Ick....

...I know.

Rewarding a 10-0 and 3.20 ERA last season, the Yankees signed Aaron Small to a one-year/$1.2 million contract, with an additional $80,000 in performance bonuses. This now leaves only one of last year's Yankees left in salary arbitration. The Yankees have offered Shawn Chacon $3.1 million--he wants $4.15 million. Hopefully the two sides will come together.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

Both Shawn Chacon and Aaron Small both had less than mediocre careers before they both had very good seasons with the Yankees in 2005. They both deserve a chance next season. Nice to see that Small is getting the chance, and hope to see a deal is worked out with Chacon. Looking forward to see them do well in the starting rotation or in long relief.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

Hey guys this is my 1st post on Outsports

now come on guys...whats wrong with the name Gilbert????? I think that name is great (not because thats my name ) its not really a common name that alot of people have, So give us gilbert's a break

Jason Gilbert Giambi you rule

-Gilbert

They're Yankee fans. What do they know? Oh wait, you must be one too so maybe it's what do you know? wink

You damn right I'm a Yankee Fan, hell I live just up the Block from Yankee Stadium so I kind of have no choice but to be one hehe.

I'll cut those 2 some slack...even though they think the name "Gilbert" sucks

-Gilbert

Sorry, Gilbert and welcome to the boards. Didn't mean to offend. I don't think the name sucks, I just don't think it's a fitting name for Mr. Giambi. I'll take it up with his parents wink .

I am \"concerned\" about a comment you made in the \"SuperBowl Parties\" thread

eek! eek!

Hey Keith

yeah Gilbert really isnt a good middle game.. I was just kidding around I wasnt offended by yours or Munson Man comments.

Now about my friend,, well that didnt turn out good. He was sick with a cold and the same with me, we were both coughing while watching the game hehe and plus I lost out of 50 bucks but he won 500 bucks so he was happy about that but of course he has to give his wife half the money

its a long complicated story with me and him!

talk later
-Gilbert

Hideki Matsui once again had to defend his decision not play the world baseball thing:
"At the same time, being a member of the Yankees, the real part of professional baseball is Major League Baseball and trying to win a championship. This time of the year is a very important time to prepare for the season and that can decide how the season is going to go. It was a very difficult decision for me, but I have no regrets with my decision." Once again, I agree with the decisions of Mariano Rivera and Godzilla, and am very pleased that they are putting the Yankees first. The focus for all Yankees should be solely on winning a 27th World Series Championship.

LET'S GO YANKEES!

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

It's great to have something important to talk about with the guys at work! and of course this forum. Even the newspaper has come to life again!

LET'S GO YANKEES!

I know, Keith - even here in Florida Yankee training camp is front page news. The other day the lead story in the sports section was that George Steinbrenner had dyed his hair!

Gosh, the Yankee thread has gone awfully quiet. Anyway, in today's NY Times there is a men's fashion supplement, and it contains a Jhane Barnes ad featuring none other than the hunkalicious Tino Martinez. I went on the website looking for the image and found not only the one in the Times, but a whole campaign featuring Tino. See it here:

Tino Tino Tino

Any butt shots? wink

I read this in the Phila. Daily News the other day. You Yankee fans will appreciate it...

You say that like it's a bad thing.... eek!

But I have to agree with Joe, where are the butt shots? wink

And we Yankee haters (er...non fans...) are distraught