Tag: New York Yankees

Aaron Boone’s in-game interview reaction to Giancarlo Stanton’s Game 5 homer was priceless

BANG!

New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton kept the homers coming during Game 5 of the 2024 World Series.

In the bottom of the third inning, Stanton slammed a homer run into the stands at Yankees Stadium to get his team up 5-0 over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

New York manager Aaron Boone was giving an in-game interview with Fox Sports when Stanton was at the plate, and he let out an excited “Bang!” right as the homer went on the board.

Boone channeled his best Mike Breen here, giving fans such a cool moment to see a manager react to such a huge swing right when it happens.

Is that Pat Sajak behind home plate at World Series Game 5?

We’d like to solve this puzzle

Hey, did you notice that familiar-looking gentleman sitting behind home plate at Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night?

He kinda, sorta looked like former Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak. Wait a second…that is Sajak!

The now-retired game show personality has been a fixture at the 2024 World Series, watching his Los Angeles Dodgers on both coasts. Sajak was spotted behind home plate at Dodger Stadium earlier in the series before popping into frame on Wednesday.

Clearly Sajak knew the answer to the prize puzzle to score those seats…or he just used any of the millions he earned over his illustrious television career to purchase them himself. We can probably solve this puzzle ourselves.

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The Yankees had the best response after the banned fan complained about losing his World Series tickets

Well done, Yankees.

Everything we have learned about 38-year-old Yankees fan Austin Capobianco these past 24 hours has been against our will. But that should be expected when a fan aggressively tries to pry a ball away from Mookie Betts during the World Series.

Yet, the Yankees deserve some credit here. For how unlikeable Capobianco appears to be, the team certainly knew how to win a PR battle.

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As Capobianco — who was banned from attending Wednesday’s Game 5 of the World Series — made his media rounds to soak up his 15 minutes, he complained to Newsday about how the Yankees not only banned him from the game but also confiscated his tickets. He would have liked to give the tickets to his brother and friends. Instead, he was forced to settle for a refund.

Capobianco deserved zero sympathy even before those comments, and the Yankees couldn’t have responded better. The team decided to redistribute those tickets to a pediatric cancer patient and his family.

Well done, Yankees.

And that’s one way to get Capobianco out of the spotlight — that time can’t come soon enough.

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What is MLB’s fan interference rule for the 2024 World Series?

Fan interference is nothing new in baseball, but you better know the rules!

Whew, there sure have been a lot of fans interfering with baseballs during the 2024 World Series. First it was a Dodgers fan pulling a reverse Jeffrey Maier in Game 1, then Mookie Betts nearly had his glove ripped off by Yankees fans in Game 2.

MLB Fans: 5 infamous interference moments in baseball history

In both cases the fans were ejected, but what about the actual game itself? What happens when a fan becomes involved in a live play? Major League Baseball has a pretty clear rule on this.

Per the MLB rulebook:

In every case of spectator interference with a batted or thrown ball, the ball shall be declared dead and the baserunners can be placed where the umpire determines they would have been without the interference. When a spectator clearly prevents a fielder from catching a fly ball by reaching onto the field of play, the batter shall be ruled out. But no interference is called if a spectator comes in contact with a batted or thrown ball without reaching onto the field of play — even if a fielder might have caught the ball had the spectator not been there.

Now you know!
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The Yankees fans who grabbed Mookie Betts have been banned from Game 5, which is the right call

MLB made the right call by banning the two Yankees fans who grabbed Mookie Betts for Game 5.

In a better world, the reaction coming out of the Yankees’ Game 4 victory in the 2024 World Series on Tuesday would have focused on New York staving off elimination with a sparkling offensive performance.

Instead, all the air has been sucked out of the room thanks to a pair of doofus Yankees fans who grabbed Dodgers’ star Mookie Betts while the outfielder was going up for a foul ball. The fans were ejected for their actions, but seemingly showed no remorse for the whole affair when asked after the fact. Even though the memes coming out of the moment are funny, the whole thing is incredibly embarrassing amidst an overall a poor showing from Yankees fans during the game.

In the fallout from it all, there were questions as to if the two Yankees fans would be allowed back in the building for Game 5. While it was first reported they would be, the New York Post and ESPN both confirmed the pair are banned from Wednesday’s game and will have their tickets refunded.

All in all, this is the right move. Putting your hands on a player — or honestly, anyone — like that is dangerous behavior. Collisions between players and fans can happen in any sport, just ask photographers on NFL sidelines, but the actions by these two Yankees fans crossed the line into unacceptable territory.

MORE: 5 infamous fan interference moments in MLB history from Jeffrey Maier to the Mookie Betts incident.

Even the Yankees put out a statement on Wednesday calling the actions “egregious and unacceptable”.

In all honesty, MLB should ban these two fans for life, as a dismissal in the final Yankees home game of the season — and a refund of their tickets — feels like a slap on the wrist here. Actions like these should have consequences but, at the very least, the pair will have to find someplace else to watch Game 5 than Yankee Stadium.

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Awful Yankees fans are making it easy to root against their team

Come on, Yankees fans. Be better.

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Good morning, Winners! Thanks so much for reading the Morning Win today. We appreciate you giving us a bit of your time.

The World Series continues! After Freddie Freeman hit another home run to start the game off (his sixth straight World Series homer!), I feared the series was over. It was so easy to fall into the “here we go again” trap. And, with how quiet it was in the ballpark afterward, you could just feel that the fans were beginning to fall into it, too.

But the Yankees’ offense came to life after an Anthony Volpe grand slam gave them a 5-2 lead. New York never looked back from there. They put up 11 runs, three homers, three doubles and five stolen bases on a Dodgers defense that seemed unflappable until Game 4.

That said, as a neutral observer, it’s hard to feel good about that win for the Yankees yesterday. Not because of anything the players did — they played their hearts out and earned a Game 5.

But the fans sucked! They completely ruined what was otherwise a really fun game.

Everybody saw when two fans tried to rip a ball from Mookie Betts’ glove. Obviously, fan interference was called. The fans were also rightfully removed from the game. But the fact that they actually tried this is mind-numbingly stupid.

One of the fans is a season-ticket holder, with seats in the front row at the foul line. That’s not cheap. Yet, still, they were willing to try this and get banned anyway? Yeah, sorry. But that’s not smart.

BAN THEM FOR LIFE: Charles Curtis makes the case that they shouldn’t be allowed to return to Yankees Stadium.

But that’s not even the most dastardly that happened last night.

When the World Series stopped to hold its annual Stand Up to Cancer moment of silence during Game 4, a fan thought it was the perfect time to heckle Freddie Freeman.

As my colleague Charles Curtis writes, Freeman lost his mom to cancer when he was 10 years old. This is something that likely means a lot to him. Yet, that fan decided it was the perfect time to scream “You suck, Freeman!” for everyone to hear.

It was uncalled for. It was classless. And Yankees fans should be better than that. Have some sense, y’all. What are we doing here?

Look, I get the stakes and the circumstances here. It’s the World Series. Emotions run high. The home team is down 3-0 and the fans are hanging all of their hopes on this one game. But that’s no excuse to act like this. That’s gross behavior.

I won’t pin the bad behavior of a handful of fans on an entire fanbase. I’m sure plenty of Yankees fans out there were just as uncomfortable seeing all this as the rest of us.

To those fans, please convince your homies to cut it out. Because, right now, this looks terrible.

Why Anthony Richardson is heading to the bench

Oct 13, 2024; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson (5) looks up into the stands as he walks off after warmups against the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium.
Mandatory Credit: Steve Roberts-Imagn Images

The Colts naming Joe Flacco as their starting quarterback over Anthony Richardson is puzzling to me.

Richardson was drafted to be the future of the franchise. If you believe in him, start him. If he’s not worthy of starting just yet, devise a plan that gets him there. This doesn’t feel like a plan — it just feels like a benching. He hasn’t been great, sure. But don’t you want to get him the reps he needs to get better?

The answer to that is likely yes. But, as our Robert Zeglinski writes, the Colts can’t really afford to do that and risk things blowing up in their faces.

“There are 52 other players on the Colts roster who expect their leadership to make pragmatic decisions that are best for everyone. Yes, quarterbacks take the lion’s share of precedence over other positions for good reason, but that setup only happens for established stars. All changes are on the table for rusty anchors like Richardson that mostly drag everyone down. So, at this specific moment in time, Flacco is unquestionably a better option for Indianapolis than Richardson. While a journeyman, Flacco is someone other Colts veterans don’t have to worry about pulling his weight.

Because, for the most part, he probably will.

It’s shortsighted and cruel to Richardson’s overall development because it probably never happens without injury. But the Colts can’t afford to center his needs at the expense of everyone else’s or risk a not-so-subtle mutiny.”

There’s no question that Joe Flacco gives the Colts the best chance of winning here. But you just have to wonder if it’ll come at the cost of the team’s future.

We’ll find out down the road, I guess.

Starting 5 Season 2 is underway

After seeing the hype following the first season of Netflix’s NBA docuseries, Starting 5, the streamer announced that season two is already underway.

They’ve even given us the names they’re following!

The stars included this time:

  • Jaylen Brown
  • Kevin Durant
  • Tyrese Haliburton
  • James Harden
  • Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

If we don’t get a James Harden party scene, it’s not real. All jokes aside, this seems like a pretty solid group. I will say I kind of wish it wasn’t so star-driven. I’d love some contrast here. Can we get a rookie here? What about a role player, maybe?

I won’t complain too much, though. These players are all super interesting in their own ways. This should be a fun watch.

STARTING 5 SEASON 2 IS HERE: And NBA fans should love it, writes our Bryan Kalbrosky.

Quick hits: The World Series prediction from 2016 … Replacing Stefon Diggs … and more

— Somebody called yesterday’s Yankees blowout over the Dodgers … all the way back in 2016. Incredible. There’s really a tweet for everything.

— Cory Woodroof has five wide receiver options for the Texans now that Stefon Diggs has torn his ACL.

— Christian D’Andrea has his Week 9 QB rankings ready to go with Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson and … JAYDEN DANIELS at the top.

— Here’s Robert Zeglinski with his latest studs, duds, and sleepers column, where he says he still doesn’t quite believe in Jalen Hurts’ recent play.

— Here’s your NFL trade deadline tracker from Christian with evaluations of all the big trades we’ve seen so far.

— Here’s Charles Curtis on why the fans who tried to remove Betts’ glove deserve a lifetime ban.

-Sykes ✌️

The Yankees fans who grabbed Mookie Betts need a lifetime ban

These Yankee fans need to be banned for life.

We need to talk seriously what really happened on Tuesday night at the New York Yankees’ Game 4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Bronx.

Two Pinstripes fans decided that it was perfectly OK to grab Mookie Betts’ glove as he made a catch in foul ground and rip the ball out of there. They were rightfully removed from Yankee Stadium.

Now, that was all awful on its own. In case you need to be told: those actions from those fans are NEVER OK. It’s dangerous and disgusting behavior. But it gets worse thanks to the quotes from one of the fans.

ESPN’s Jesse Rogers caught up with Austin Capobianco and John Peter. Capobiano said they had planned for the possibility of a foul ball coming their way in this manner: “We’re not going to go out of our way to attack. If it’s in our area, we’re going to ‘D’ up.”

That’s right, they thought about this. Ahead of time. Really?

And on top of that, Capobianco claimed they were told by the Yankees “they would be allowed back for Game 5 on Wednesday” (Capobianco is a season-ticket holder). Rogers didn’t get a response from the Yankees whether that was true or not.

Let’s just cut to the chase: his season tickets should be revoked, and he and Peter should be banned for life. In what world should that be rewarded? How would Betts feel showing up in right field again to see those fans there again? What if the same situation comes up and he doesn’t try to make the catch because he’s worried about fans ripping his arm off?

This is simple, Yankees franchise and Major League Baseball. Do the right thing.

 

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Classless Yankees fan heckled Freddie Freeman during a moment of silence

Not during the Stand Up to Cancer moment of silence.

Freddie Freeman has spoken often about his mom, Rosemary, and how he’s honored her over the years, which has included playing for Team Canada at the World Baseball Classic.

She died due to melanoma skin cancer when the Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman was just 10 years old. So when the World Series stopped for a moment during Game 4 for the annual Stand Up to Cancer moment of silence in which players, fans and everyone else thinks of loved ones who have dealt with the disease with placards held up.

Freeman wrote “my mom” on his. It was that moment that the Fox broadcast captured someone yelling “You suck, Freeman!”

Come on. Yell all you want at players, but not then. And especially not at Freeman.

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Did a 2016 tweet eerily predict the Yankees-Dodgers World Series so far?

If this is real, WOW.

OK, look: I’m no programmer or anything, but we know people can manipulate things on social media.

So I’m going to take this tweet from 2016 with a large grain of salt: it’s from @Hayden_Carlson4, and it says the following: “2024 World Series, Yankees v dodgers, Game 4 Yankees with a blow out.”

That would obviously be some Nostradamus-level prediction right there, given what just happened on Tuesday night — a blowout in Game 4.

So, again: if the person was somehow able to write that tweet, change the date and present it as if it was a prediction, we wouldn’t be surprised.

Or … wow. Here you go:

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