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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Shelley Duncan watched video of his hard slide in the Yankees' game Wednesday against Tampa Bay and still doesn't think it was a dirty play.
The New York first baseman's slide into second base with his spikes raised sparked a bench-clearing scrum that resulted in two players and two coaches being ejected during the second inning of Wednesday's contest with the Rays.
"I saw it a couple times," Duncan said Thursday. "I still don't understand why they were as upset as they were."
Duncan, who had hinted at the prospect of retaliating for the Rays' Elliot Johnson barreling over New York catcher Francisco Cervelli last Saturday, spiked second baseman Akinori Iwamura in the right thigh and was immediately tossed.
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Let's see if we can't clear this up for the seemingly baseball retarded Shelley Duncan.
You "hinted" at retaliation for the previous games dust up.
Then after your team, presumably with the input of the new manager Joe Girardi, brushes back Evan Longorian (a time honored baseball practice) you take it upon yourself to perform a mid-game, middle of the field cup check on the Rays second baseman by sliding with your spikes somewhere in the proximity of said second baseman's genitals.
Do I have it right so far genius?
I have to tell you, even in a beer league softball game, a slide like that invites, check that encourages, a stinging right cross to your jaw. Got it, douchebag?
Way to wear the usually classy Yankee pinstripes with class and dignity. You're really sending a message to the other team all right. Look out, we're the Yankees.
Good for Johny Gomes, for attempting to knock your sorry ass into left field.
I guess it's "look out world, we're the Yankees". Nobody bowls over our catcher, even if he is blocking the plate.
Maybe your manager, a former catcher, should put one of those red shirts that the QB's wear in training camp so they don't get hit. If not I'm sure you fellas can borrow a skirt from the A-Rod collection.
HAHAHAHAHA.
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UPDATE: A fish rots from the head down
New York Post: Hank Steinbrenner: We're not Going to Take It!!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03152008/sports/yankees/hank__were_not_going_to_take_it_102070.htm
Hank using the "we pay these guys revenue sharing dollars, therefore they should be our bitches" argument. This demonstrates why the revenue sharing/revenue disparity problem is one of the biggest integrity of the game issues baseball faces.
Steinbrenner's exact quote from the article:
"I don't want these teams in general to forget who subsidizes a lot of them, and it's the Yankees New York Yankees , the Red Sox, Dodgers, New York Mets ," he said. "I would prefer if teams want to target the Yankees that they at least start giving some of that revenue sharing and luxury tax money back. From an owners point of view, that's my point.
When the owner is an insufferable twit, is it any wonder that it flows through the organization, down through the manager and inevitably to the players as well?
Kudos to the Yankee veterans who reportedly took Shelley Duncan aside and hopefully told him about the Yankee way. Maybe because he has a girls name he has a subconscious need to overcompensate and prove his "manhood" to the fellas, but c'mon dude.
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