Breaking News: Tension Escalates as Lohudders Close to Revolt !

While the offseason for Major League baseball hot stove rumors always seems to take a break on Sundays in the winter for the NFL, tensions were high and rage was in the air over the last thirty-six hours in the comment section of the Lohud Yankees blog.

Trouble was percolating after Peter Abraham, the Bard of Lohud, announced these tidbits in in his "Random Thoughts (mostly) on the Yankees" post:

"Free advice for the Yankees: Now that the team is going into the new Stadium, try something new with the in-game entertainment. YMCA and Cotton-Eye Joe have reached the end of their usefulness and are far more cliche than fun at this point. It’s also time to dial back God Bless America to Sundays only. Fans express their patriotism by standing for the Star-Spangled Banner and that should never change. Are the Yankees somehow better Americans by playing a second song? If that’s the case, than there should be a patriotic song between every inning."

"Joel Sherman of the Post had a good take on Mike Mussina on his blog. Moose was tough for reporters to deal with when he first arrived in the Bronx. He left as a “go-to guy” and garnered a lot of respect. Fans, meanwhile, benefited from his insight and his popularity grew. There’s a lesson in there somewhere for players like A-Rod. The energy spent distancing yourself from the press and public can be turned into a positive if you’re willing to loosen up."

"Barak Obama picked his entire cabinet in three weeks. It has been three months and Mike Francesa still doesn’t have a partner for his radio show. Kim Jones is obviously the best choice based on what I heard. Meanwhile Chris Russo has vanished off the face of the earth as far as his impact goes. If I’m listening to talk radio in the car – satellite or otherwise – I need to get some New York-centric updates and traffic mixed in."

Loyal blogger 'randy I' responded within 26 minutes of the writing of the post, sending a rocket over the bow of SS Abraham with this:

"Barak Obama picked his entire cabinet in three weeks. It has been three months and Mike Francesa still doesn’t have a partner for his radio show. Please do not discuss politics here. I want this to be for baseball only, although I certainly understand if other sports get in the conversation. huh?lol."

And no more than five minutes later did P-Abe respond, dropping some Andy Dufresne on 'randy I':

"Randy: Please don’t be obtuse. You know exactly what I am talking about. Making an off-hand reference in a post is not discussing politics. There were people debating the New Deal in the last post. That’s not what this blog is about or will ever be about. Please abide by the wishes of the community. Thanks."

Exactly 24 minutes later, 'randy I' retorted with this beauty:

""Randy: Please don’t be obtuse." “obtuse” ?
now i’ve been called a lot of things , but’s there’s line that shouldn’t be crossed. no one can call me a pythagorean angle and get away with it.
on the other hand,maybe i should google”obtuse” first before getting my dander up:
"lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : insensitive , stupid b: difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression”
ok, no problem. just don’t call me a part of a triangle. amazing how my vocabulary expands from blog participation.
peter, by the way, have a nice thanksgiving ."

(Please forgive the grammatical errors, I just C&P'd it on here, had no time to get it copy edited)

At 3:35 p.m. EST, 'EdWhitson', a relative newcomer in the gated Lohud Comment Community, had this to say about Abraham's views on God Bless America:

"With the exception of Peter, I have never heard anyone complain about “God Bless America” in the 7th. In fact, most seem to enjoy it. Watch Section 39 – American flags are on display and a chant of U.S.A. can be heard. Nobody seems to have a problem except Peter – not sure what his issue is. Frankly, he’s never explained his thiking, but I would be interested in hearing an argument. His argument – “if it is so patriotic, than do it every inning” is what people do when they do not have a cogent argument; they take an extreme position that is untenable. Textbook move if you can argue the facts and also totally JV. A semi – intelligent person can see through it. Peter, you are better than that."

To which Abraham has yet to respond to.

'Clare', a long time hair across Abraham's ass (it's amazing he hasn't banned her yet!) read into the subliminal Mrs. Madonna bashing and opened up on P-Abe like a can of Spam:

"Peter’s ARod/Mussina crack is yet another example of Peter’s complete delusion about ARod.

The biggest differenc between how ARod and Mussina are portrayed in the media is more a function of the media, than how either players deals with the media.

It’s particularly galling that Peter is now saying ARod needs to be more open with the media when he has repeatedly said that ARod should just shut up and play. For example, Peter was one of the people who jumped all over ARod’s fairly innocuous WFAN interview in spring training 07.

If Peter had any self-awareness about this, he might take a moment to reflect on the “aliens in central park” incident. He was so sure that ARod would never come back to the Yankees, despite ARod’s words all year that he wanted to be a Yankee. Peter could have had the scoop on this story (he had Miller’s IP address, he could have tried to track it down), but instead he mocked the idea and made the aliens prediction. Why? I think it’s a reflection of how his antipathy towards ARod makes him unreliable on this subject.

Of course, Peter is much more likely to make personal cracks about his commenters than to question his own biases."

To which Abraham has yet to respond to.

In addition to the multiple whackings the 'Blogfather' took yesterday, there was also some 'Lohudder on Lohudder' violence.

After numerous postings of the most ridiculous trade proposals and ideas for the Yankees' 2009 roster, newcomer 'bru' ate a little ass from the blog's resident old-timer, 'GB7', the elusive 'GreenBeret7'.

Things kicked off when 'bru' (I swear it's George Steinbrenner) made this comment at 12:12 a.m.:

"arod is a good defensive third baseman but he is not great.
i like arod.i think he is the best or second best player in the game but i do not think he fits in with the yankees and believe it is a terrible contract.
the yankees turned into an old,one dimentional team with a bunch of bad contracts.
they should unload as much of the big contracts as they can.damon,matsui,posada & be carefull not to make the same mistakes going forward.
if arod’s contract pays for itself wich i hear is the case then he might be an exception.i just hope when jeters contract is up they don’t overpay him or give him 3 years.
these players got filthy rich and it is time they take a discount instead of ripping the yankees off."

(Again, I apologize for the grammatical errors due to 'bru's' lack of an education)

'GB7' at 1:09 a.m.:

"Gotta love how he thinks that Rodriguez is a bad third baseman, but, suggests replacing him with a worse defensive 3rd baseman. Of course, he doesn’t explain how the Yanks would obtain Wright and at what cost. Reyes would go on the market before Wright does. I have seldom seen anybody consistantly post more bad trade proposals than this guy, does."

'bru' at 4:56 a.m. (Wish I could find drugs like the ones this kid is taking):

"gb,you are smarter than that.
i am using wright as an example.i also did not say arod is a bad 3rd baseman.
my point is that if there is an option to sign or trade for a 3rd baseman instead of signing tex.
do you remember how well the brosus signing worked for us,also boggs,hayes.
those trades along with the swisher one have always worked out better for us.
this allows us to spend elsewhere like pitching and debth.it is always the deals that you can’t see coming that usually work but most people posting here are too simple minded and rather insult and critisize everyone else just for the sake of it."

'GreenBeret7' at 6:18 a.m., obviously right before he downs seven raw eggs, a la Rocky, and goes for his morning run around the military base:

"I still stand by it…You say Rodriguez isn’t great but, he’s good…but, you want to move him and bring in Wright, who is worse than not good…he’s average at best. Please just stop with the ridiculous non-sense trades. My 6 year old granddaughter can come up

with better.

In case it has avoided your attention, there are no third basemen available that’s better than Rodriguez. There are, however, better first basemen than he is. Nobody is going to trade a good center fielder for Nady and Kennedy straight up. Why would anybody trade for Matsui until shows that he’s healthy? Now you want to DH Podada and have who catch? Molina? A .220 hitter? That’ll really improve the lineup."

Imagine that. His six-year old granddaughter...

I remember the old days, when the only contact with elderly people would be when they would cut you in line at the grocery store and movie theater, back out of there driveway too fast in the Caddy El Dorado and almost run you over on your bike, and stay way too long at a poker table in a casino.

Now, they get online at six a.m. and yell at you.

More to come as things heat up at Lohud. Of course, one has to think that if the Yankees could ink CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira in the next hour or two, things may settle down over at Lohud.

Or, SJ44 could show up and just fuck everything up...

UPDATE:

And of course, SJ44 just weighed in with this comment:

"Arod has played on the left side of the infield his entire career. Its not easy to make a smooth transition to first base. Nor, should he have to move to first.

He’s a better defensive third baseman than David Wright and he hasn’t played that position his entire career. As Wright has.

These kind of plans always crop up on blogs when there isn’t any real news to discuss."