Comments on: Sherman: Pettitte would have come back if the Yankees had signed Lee http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:13:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: purdueman http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128708 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:40:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128708 isaid… excellent point and just all the reason more that Yankee fan bravado about the number of championships the franchise has won is total horsecrap and irrelevant to ANY argument about what’s happening now in the standings and season.

When one of my teams makes a questionable roster move and and the fan base in turns gets all bent out of shape, I ALWAYS reply back: “Chill; unless the GM directly solicited your input or opinion, we just all have to grin and bear it and hope for the best because we are just fans”.

Exactly!

]]> By: isaidallo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128686 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:13:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128686 “Anything that happened prior to you being about six years old is history that occurred in the past that you had absolutely nothing to do with”

No fan has anything to do with a team winning any championships, unless said fan is an owner/player/baseball ops employee.

]]> By: purdueman http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128662 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:47:38 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128662 Great post, philly!

The lame taunt that “the Yankees have xx championships, “nah-nah-nah-nah-nay” has no relevance to what will play out over the course of this baseball season (or for that matter any other). Different eras, different rivals, different players, etc..

That’s like saying: “My German Shepard (Yankees), could eat your Puggle (Rays) for lunch” b.s. bravado. If I happen to like Puggle’s why should the fact that you prefer a much bigger dog have any relevance for the love that I have for mine?.

]]> By: ricofoy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128653 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:30:56 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128653 Pettite lied about only taking HGH once – why wouldn’t he lie about his reason for coming back. Let’s face it – he’s a cheater and a liar. Also a hypocrite.

]]> By: phillyirishman87 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128637 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:07:58 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128637 I find it so funny that yankees fans only comeback is 27 rings. new york is the definition of arrogance. You buy championships. u dont make the playoffs in 08 when we won it all. 2 people in ur division did, u finished 3rd. then what do u do? 2 biggest free agents that year in CC and Burnett. $160 mil for CC and 82 mil for Burnett. That’s $240 million u spent in the offseason to win ur championship that year cuz ur pitching was so terrible the previous years. Congratulations on that. Congrats on being the one team with the capability to LITERALLY buy a championship. new york is an embarassment…and the guy a few comments above me is right…. they r in love with buying cliff lee and as soon as he doesnt wana come they say he couldnt make it there. gimme a break ur a true embarassment.

]]> By: purdueman http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128541 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:19:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128541 rapmusic… here we go with the false bravado again (ugh!). Exactly how many Yankee Championships were you alive and/or old enough to remember? Anything that happened prior to you being about six years old is history that occurred in the past that you had absolutely nothing to do with, and is therefore not relevant when used as an instrument of bravado when engaging fans of other teams.

]]> By: Kevin S. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128399 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:15:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128399 Funny, I don’t remember Cliff Lee being part of the lineup that bludgeoned AJ Burnett into submission in Game 5. Cliff Lee sucked less in that game. The Yanks hit him just fine.

]]> By: purdueman http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128375 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:25:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128375 Bottom line? Hank and Hal are CHEAP; they are NOT their old man… not by a long stretch! No, it’s not about the money not being enough to sign Cliff Lee, it’s about the Yankees then going on the cheap by signing a whole bushel of over the hill aging retreads to fill out their pitching staff instead of trading prospects for proven veteran starting pitching.

Fortunately for Hank and Hal though, Boston’s overpaying for John “I’m A” Lackey and Dice-K are now coming back to bite their biggest rivals big time!

]]> By: irishjackmp http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128338 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:53:22 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128338 Yeah… Cliff Lee would have wound up as another Carl Pavano. Keep telling yourself that sport. This is the same Cliff Lee that beat the Yankees twice in the World Series two years ago.

Why do Yankees fans feel the need to morph in to petulant little children who throw a tantrum when they are spurned by a free agent and resort to the tired, old “he couldn’t handle it here anyway” cliche?

Yankee Fan: “We’re gonna get Cliff Lee!!! We’re gonna get Cliff Lee!!!…

… 5 minutes after Lee signs elsewhere…

Yankee Fan: “Screw Cliff Lee!!! We didn’t want him anyway!!!

Waaaaahhhh!!!!!!

]]> By: rapmusicmademedoit http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128265 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:01:38 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128265 xmatt0926x – Apr 13, 2011 at 6:32 PM
was that before or after he stomped the Yankees at Yankee stadium in the playoffs?

and then what, did he win something else after that, like the Yankees did 27 times before.

]]> By: xmatt0926x http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128246 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:32:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128246 was that before or after he stomped the Yankees at Yankee stadium in the playoffs?

]]> By: yankeesfanlen http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128234 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:19:34 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128234 A True Yankee would not do this. Ergo, the story is false and Mr. Fiddley-Fart is a True Yankee.

]]> By: rapmusicmademedoit http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128220 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:11:15 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128220 I don’t believe any of this garbage, it all sounds like bullcrap.
I bet the Yankees finish better than the Phillies do, screw
Cliff Lee, he wasn’t man enough to play in New York, he would
have been another Pavano.

]]> By: rapmusicmademedoit http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128211 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:59:11 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128211 don’t go throwing the word writer around so loosely when referencing the Post,they could be reading
this and get ideas.

hehhehehehehehhe

I have pointed out to Craig for about a year now about the Post and he continues to ignore the negativity, I guess he will do anything to get traffic, oh boy.

]]> By: rapmusicmademedoit http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128208 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:54:20 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128208 Craig, nobody in New York reads the Post,the am and the metro are more credible.

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128200 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:46:52 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128200 Should we put Joe Blanton on notice?

]]> By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128196 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:41:43 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128196 If we believe Sherman and his source, shouldn’t Pettitte be pitching in Philly with Cliff Lee AND his close buddy Oswalt?

This is what happens when there are 2 days without baseball in the Bronx…writers get restless and start making shyte up.

]]> By: Mike Luna http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128177 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:08:56 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128177 It’s entirely possible that this “friend” of Andy Pettitte was just a sock on Sherman’s non-typing hand.

]]> By: heffmessina http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128159 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:34:01 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128159 Kind of ironic that Cliff Lee didn’t come to the Yanks because he didn’t like their chances this year and Pettitte may have not come back because he didn’t like their chances without Lee.

]]> By: yankeesjetsknicksrangers http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128152 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:25:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128152 It hurts me to read this.

]]> By: Kevin S. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128141 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:06:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128141 Joel Sherman: Come for the scoops, but don’t bother sticking around for the analysis.

]]> By: bigharold http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128136 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:59:56 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128136 Craig, .. you are aware that the Post is a newspaper only in the loosest broadest sense? Sort of like homo sapians and apes being related. And, I mean on offense to all those apes reading Craig’s blog out there.

]]> By: bloodysock http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128125 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:28:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128125 “Andy Pettitte is my friend. He was my friend before this. He will be my friend after this and again. I think Andy has misheard. I think he misremembers.”

]]> By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128119 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:23:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128119 I’m sure Pettitte knows who Sherman is, but calling himself a ‘friend’ seems a bit strong.

]]> By: kellyb9 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128118 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:19:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128118 He seemed like all Philly talked about after he left last season. It was good to not have him for that short stint… now I know how New York feels every day.

]]> By: Jonny 5 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/13/sherman-pettitte-would-have-come-back-if-the-yankees-had-signed-lee/comment-page-1/#comment-128115 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:13:25 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=51189#comment-128115 Yeah, and Werth would have taken less money if he knew about Lee coming to Philly too. How do I roll my eyes over the internet tubes?

What’s with always talking about Cliff Lee? I think women aren’t the only people obsessed with him.

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