Heidi to Ellen: Gotta Love Them Balls!

46. YankeesRule, Don't like Ellen much. I find her voice irritating. What I know about Heidi I like but I don't really know much about her either except that she seems to be really in love with her husband and that's always a good thing.

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I apologize to the rest of the people here for hijacking the thread for a baseball discussion but I cannot ignore a direct challenge to my team loyalty.

Sports is always a "what have you done for me lately" game. The Sox have taken 2 championships in 4 years, the Yankees haven't made it past the ALDS since we whipped your asses in 2004, coming back from a 3-0 deficit to win 8 straight games which had never been done in baseball before. Did it with 7 straight in 2007. At this rate, we'll catch up to you in no time.
As far as Mitchell report, yeah, right, I'm not surprised a Yankees fan tries to pull that stupidity out of the hat. Do you honestly think Mitchell was stupid enough to put something fake in front of the US Senate. That would border on perjury. Just like Roger Clemens.
And when you have as many good rookies and Gold Glove veterans as we have, then we'll talk. Or are you forgetting Kevin Youkilis, Dustin Pedroia, Mike Lowell, Jacoby Ellsbury, Josh Beckett, Curt Schilling (okay so he's injured and probably won't pitch much this season), Tim Wakefield (the premiere knuckleballer in MLB), Jon Papelbon, Manny Ramirez (he acts flaky but check out his stats), David Ortiz, Jason Varitek, Hideki Okajima and Mike Timlin among many others.

In case you hadn't noticed, Santana went to the Mets. We didn't want him either. In fact we pulled out of that race even before you did. We had no intention of dealing away our good young prospects like Ellsbury who I mentioned above, Jon Lester, Clay Bucholz (who pitched a no-hitter in his very first major league game. How many Yankees can you say that about) among others.

I'm not denying you have some good players. ARod won the MVP for good reason. He had a career season last year. Jeter is a very good shortstop. Jorge Posada is one of the best catchers around, Matsui and Abreu are good but Damon can't throw worth a hill of beans. Rivera's still a good closer, Chamberlain has some serious prospects I would expect good things from him in the future, Wang started to lose it near the end of the season, Mussina is iffy at best, etc.

Go Sox

Posted at 1:58PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Baseball Junkie

47. Team BJ! Yankees suck ! LOL I came back to. :)

Posted at 2:08PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Kelli

48. As long as they aren't Alec Baldwin's "big, schweaty balls!"

Posted at 2:57PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Sarah

49. I read about Heidi explaining her first meeting Seal and how she was the one to approach him. She explained that he was wearing some skin tight (bike riding type) pants and "you could see his whole package!" The glee in her eyes and utter joy on her face when she emphasized the "package," Oh Baby! Gotta love the girls honesty! She's nasty but in an oh so cute way!

Posted at 3:10PM on Feb 27th 2008 by sealisoneluckyman

50. Hey Baseball Junkie... As I expected, and almost like a politician... your debate was WEAK!!!! You avoided every topic. Unlike my rebuttal, which definitively cross examined each and every trite point you had, as I answered all of your absurd arguments. You just basically replied with your team roster. Try just once to "put me in my place" by backing up your ridiculous points. So, I'll be waiting for quite some time, because you can't. You should change your screen name because you know nothing about baseball.

And know this... Your band wagon ride is over. I'll talk to you again in October, and we'll see who gets the last laugh. :) And that goes for you TOO Kelli! HaHaHa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ellen RULES, to stay on the topic!

Posted at 3:22PM on Feb 27th 2008 by YankeesRule

51. Ellen is adorable, and I get the biggest kick out of her blushing! Such a charmer.

Posted at 4:05PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Mama

52. LOL, I don't even follow baseball. Could care less. :) Ellen is ok.

Posted at 3:33PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Kelli

53. SHE'LL BURN IN HELL ON JUDGEMENT DAY A LONG WITH THE REST OF HER KIND

Posted at 3:55PM on Feb 27th 2008 by WHO CARES

54. Come out and play Kelli, my sweet lonely cat lady.

Posted at 3:54PM on Feb 27th 2008 by HaHaHa

55. Your talking to a dude! Go play with yourself! I'm not gay, sorry.

Posted at 4:04PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Kelli

56. YANKEE RULES...U R HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!!! HAHAHA

Posted at 4:23PM on Feb 27th 2008 by 21 more days until spring!!

57. The reason i am not here on the weekend is because i am home and have things to do other than be on here LOL!!! so chill #28 its a free country people can say what they want

Posted at 4:34PM on Feb 27th 2008 by nuff_said

58. after seeing heidi at the oscars....
we really hate her!
and seal is kinda of an as too!

Posted at 5:13PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Russell

59. Seal's skin is scarred because of lupus. Give him a break.

Posted at 5:45PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Think before you leap.

60. I loved the SNL “Schweaty balls sketch” myself but I was the only one in my family who did. Opinions differ.
YankeesRule:
So we disagree about Ellen, big deal. I still don't see why you started this long argument because you disliked my standard sign-off. Seems to me that you're the one with the inferiority complex if you have to stoop so low for a reason to comment. This isn't the first time you've done this but it was just as ridiculous that time too. As far as October, Yeah, we'll see who's laughing best.

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Which points did I fail to address? Your dig about the Boston accent? I didn't see any point in stooping that low. I pointed out your errors on the Santana deal, your errors in your argument about the Mitchell report (BTW, I think the other teams would object to your calling their players, nobodies. Brian Roberts comes to mind for example). I dealt with your insistence that you have a better team by comparing the players, perhaps not head-to-head but I didn't think the rest of the site needed that. I countered your argument about the number of World Series you have won very simply. The distant past is far less important than the recent past and present. Yes, our payroll is high but our team is producing, the Yankees payroll is higher but the production? Not so much lately. Matsuzaka is expensive but he's young.
No, you did not answer my every point, merely the ones you thought you could win on. For example, you ignored my statement that Steinbrenner was an idiot for firing Joe Torre. You might note we've had the sense to extend Tito's contract and increase his salary. You ignored my comment that “Yankees suck” is a cheer throughout the MLB but I didn't think that needed a response so I didn't worry about the lack.
If you call my response politic, well I don't see any point in becoming angry and nasty about it. This is baseball. It's my drug of choice but that doesn't make it the most important thing in the world.

Go Sox

Posted at 6:00PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Baseball Junkie