The Hardball Times has set up a memorial fund for John Brattain's family. He left behind a wife and two teenage daughters.
Four years ago, I found from personal experience how generous the online community can be to its own in their hour of need. I am now literally begging you to be even more generous than you were to me.
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Look what people have to say about Larry Mahnken's commentary!
"Larry, can you be any more of a Yankee apologist?.... Just look past your Yankee myopia and try some objectivity." - Bernal Diaz
"Mr. Mahnken is enlightened." - cordially, as always,
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"Wow, Larry. You've produced 25% of the comments on this thread and said nothing meaningful. That's impressive, even for you." - Anonymous
"After reading all your postings and daily weblog...I believe you have truly become the Phil Pepe of this generation. Now this is not necessarily a good thing." - Repoz
"you blog sucks, it reeds as it was written by the queer son of mike lupica and roids clemens. i could write a better column by letting a monkey fuk a typewriter. i dont need no 181 million dollar team to write a blog fukkk the spankeees" - yan
"i think his followers have a different sexual preference than most men" - bob
"Boring and predictable." - No Guru No Method
"Are you the biggest idiot ever?" - Randal
"I'm not qualified to write for online media, let alone mainstream media." - Larry Mahnken
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NEW YORK—A nasty cough and fever quarantined Joe Girardi behind closed doors in his Yankee Stadium office. What transpired up the dugout runway couldn’t have made him feel much better.
With bench coach Rob Thomson pinch-hitting at the controls, Ian Kennedy struggled with his control and joined his manager in the clubhouse by the third inning. Shawn Riggans had the early blow, a three-run double, and both Cliff Floyd and Carlos Pena later homered as the Rays trounced the Yankees on Friday, 13-4.
It was the first ugly game of the 2008 season for the Yankees. Hopefully, they got it out of their system. Same for Girardi’s flu.
SG is away for the weekend and I’ll be traveling as well. I will try to post the Game Chatter for tomorrow’s 1:05 start in the morning if the lineups are in early.
