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Revision as of 04:21, 22 April 2005 by Kingturtle (talk | contribs) (Reverted edits by 24.59.110.207 to last version by Viriditas)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Someone commented "What happened to NPOV?" I've read this and the other revisions, and can't decide whether its too pro or too anti Yankees (and I know which side the authors loyalties lie.) Whats up with it, exactly?
There were several points where there was plenty of opinion, e.g. "... well-paid asses ..." "... a team with heart, ... no heritage ... "
- Good call on those. You're right. GWO
"... restored that team to brilliance ..." Also, the word "dominance" seemed to me to be awfully strong. Feel free to edit that back if you feel otherwise. -- Taral
- Much as it pains me, I think "brilliance" and "dominance" does fairly describe some periods of their existence... GWO
Excuse me...what's the source for their having started in MINNEAPOLIS? As I understand it,the Yanks were originally the Indianapolis farm team of the Cincinnati Reds,and moved from there to Baltimore. Louis Epstein/le@put.com/12.144.5.2
- Trying to track down anything about possible origins Minneapolis, I haven't found anything. Yes the Western League had a team there, but I've seen no evidence so far that that team was moved to Baltimore. -- rbs, 2004-02-09 01:32 UTC
- After more reading today, I can't see that the Western League's Minneapolis team became the Orioles/Yankees. A check of the player roster for the 1901 Baltimore Orioles (baseball-reference.com) shows no overlap with the Minneapolis Millers of 1900. Most of the Orioles seemed to have been raided from National League teams (no surprise). Also, a biography of Ban Johnson in the Journal of Sports History simply indicates that the five-year Western League Agreement expired at the end of 1900 and the league simply re-organized, dropping three teams and adding three. Then again (opening a new can of worms) it may be fair to say that the Highlanders of 1903 were not the Orioles of 1901-1902; I could see some sense in arguing that one team simply ceased to exist at the same time as another was established. - Rbs 00:12, 2004 Mar 6 (UTC)
removal of hyperbole
The article claimed that 26 Championships in 80 years was unchallenged in U.S. sports. Well, the Celtics won 16 championships in 30 years. That is a better rate. Rather than leave the issue up for debate, I removed the claim from the artlce. Kingturtle 09:05, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Andy's Hawkin's Losing No-Hitter
More information is available at the following Retrosheet URL: http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B07010CHA1990.htm. The runs were scored in the top of the 8th on three errors and a walk. colinjohnson 01:00, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Apiece
Are people incapable of using a dictionary?
apiece
adv : to or from every one of two or more (considered
individually); "they received $10 each" [syn: {each}, {to
each one}, {for each one}, {from each one}]
FFS . . . Varitek 19:22, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Anti-Yankees
It is amazing how many hate the Yankees that are not Red Sox fans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=New_York_Yankees&diff=6765453&oldid=6763472.
Have we forgotten the team of Ruth and Gehrig? 170.35.224.63 15:48, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
i hate yankees.
I HATE THE YANKEES please don;t take this personally, I'm a die-hard red sox fan!!! WE WON IN 2004!!!!- bostonbabe
Curse of Clay Bellinger
According to the VfD debate for Curse of Clay Bellinger that article should be merged somewhere here. Here is the complete text, I have redirected that page to this one for the time being, an someone please do the merge in the appropriate place? Many thanks. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 12:51, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Added a discussion of theories for the Yankees' lack of world series titles since 2000 to 21st century section, including the "Curse". Will move biographical details for Bellinger to his page User:erall 08:28, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC).
The Curse of Clay Bellinger is a tongue-in-cheek explanation proposed by sportswriter Larry Mahnken for the New York Yankees' failure to win the World Series since 2000. By analogy with the Curse of the Bambino, Mahnken points to the departure of utility player Clay Bellinger from the Yankee roster following the 2001 season and asserts that the Yankees will never again win the World Series until either they make amends to Bellinger or they win the championship anyway. The tautology is part of the joke.
Bellinger, meanwhile, played for the Greek baseball team in the 2004 Olympics. Bellinger is an American born with Greek grandparents, like most of the rest of the team.
External Link
ALS
Does anyone have information about ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease???)
See ALS, or http://www.als-ma.org/curtspitch/ for Curt (Schilling)'s Pitch For ALS.. (this explains the silver "K ALS" on his boot during the Literal Red Sock games in the ALCS/WS, for those who may have wondered) -Rethcir 04:28, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)