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:: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 ::

Of course, Jim Caple is blind to the facts

ESPN.com - Baseball Index:

From the homepage:

"Kevin Brown's all busted up. Jason Giambi's still a mystery. The Hunt for October is getting treacherous for the Yankees, Bob Klapisch says. Sure, they used the F word (forfeit) but the truth is MLB left them out to dry, Jayson Stark writes."

Next line:

"Caple: Letter to commish"

Don't you think that Jim Caple would check his fellow writers, who have backed off of the Yankees as the facts came out. Not so.

"Commissioner Selig,

This letter is a formal request for Major League Baseball to award the Yankees a victory by forfeit due to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' failure to show up on time for a scheduled Labor Day doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. The Devil Rays claim they could not reach New York on time due to Hurricane Frances. We do not consider that excuse sufficient."

And it continues, "The infamous Hurricane of 1938 that struck New York and New England killed 700 people, left 63,000 homeless and registered winds as high as 120 miles at the Empire State Building. But it didn't postpone the Yankees game or stop Lou Gehrig's playing streak. Granted, the Yankees were playing in Chicago that day, but the point remains: A hurricane wasn't enough to stop Gehrig and the Yankees then, and it isn't a sufficient excuse to postpone a Yankees game now."

Yeah, well the D'Rays were playing in New York - as the Yankees were playing in Chicago.

The drivel continues, and is "signed" by Randy Levine, Yankees president.

He then details Baltimore reliever Jorge Julio's box score line where he walked in the winning run. And as a parting jab drops the line "It wasn't the worst performance at Yankee Stadium last week, though. After all, Julio somehow avoided breaking his hand afterward."

What a schmuck. His tagline should be "Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com, and an ass."

See Karen's post on Gammons begrudingly agreeing with John Kruk on how the Yankee players and coaches weren't involved.

Later.
:: Matthew 4:26 PM [+]    ::
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