September 30th, 2007 headline-
Dice-K to Yankees: "Season's over, asshole!"

This is really funny, my Dad who lives in Ft. Myers walked by a table at his residential club house with Dice-K and all these reporters yukking it up. Didn't think it would make it to Fark. :)

Amazon.com Invoice:

To: Daisuke Matsuzaka c/o Fenway Park

From: CheddarPants

(1) Scarface DVD
(1) N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton CD

Enjoy!

Apparently Matsuzaka hasn't found out how the '03 ALCS ended.

I can see "Lethal Weapon" but "Cliffhanger"? I wonder if he has even seen an American film made in the past 16 years.


"I'm too old for this shiat!"
Come on, you know Dice-K has had to made that joke at least once watching the Zimmer vs Pedro bruhaha.



Dice-K approved!

Dice-K: You want a shot at the title?
Jeter: Sure.
Dice-K: I want your title.

What kind of socks does Dice-K wear? I must know!!!!!



/sarcasm off

Robsul

Well, I don't think he was picking best game based on victory. If he wanted to pick best momment based on victory it would obviously be Roberts stolen base in 04 ALCS. Or Papi's walkoffs, or Schilling's sock, or celebrating in the Yanks house after game 7, or beating the Cardinals. But see, he didn't accomplish any of those and has no prior allegence to the Sox or Yanks so he was just picking the most amusing momment, which that was. Come on, remember watching that live on TV or in Fenway? "Oh, shiat! Zim is chargin' Pedro, what the fark!" Plus, did you see Dice-K's taste in movies? If you like "Cliffhanger" you're gonna love seeing a Dominican with a Jerry curl bodyslamming a 109 year old!

/My fav Red Sox momment was when Drew & Jimmy bopped up and down to celebrate with the team...actually, no, that is one momment I wish never ever happened.
//Was at Arod-Tek fight game. Drop Kick Murphys played afterwards and f'n Mueller won the game

Yeah, I figured he picked that because someone told him it'd be funny to make fun of Zimmer being an asshole.

/favorite Red Sox moment, probably when I doubled my bet on the Yankees in Game 7 of the '03 ALCS when Grady sent Pedro out in the 8th and was mocked heavily by surrounding Sox fans from down the hall
//they were from Maine and Connecticut, none were actually from Boston, come to think of it
///then my prediction of "Pedro's got nothing left and Grady Little will be run out of town on a rail" came true, and they were sad
////they were happier the next year

My favorite Sox/NY moment: the last three innings of Game 7 in 2004, when Fox kept showing crowd shots of Yankee fans who looked like their wife just washed the pants with the winning lottery ticket in the pocket.

17 years of anguish (for me) were all wiped out when they showed Billy Crystal near tears in the luxury box.

Dice-K mania really irritates me... right in the "most of America doesn't give two craps about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry" spot.

Hey, that's one of my favorites too! Maybe we can be best friends.



Pedrowned!

Well, BunkoSquad, the next year I was surrounded by the same guys, actually, and they said my face, when Damon nailed Game 7 down, was "like a 5-year-old questioning the existence of God when their grandmother dies."

NorvGroidley: right in the "most of America doesn't give two craps about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry" spot.

I hadn't realized this was one of those mandatory Fark threads you need to post in to keep your account active.

BunkoSquad: 17 years of anguish (for me) were all wiped out when they showed Billy Crystal near tears in the luxury box.

You mean the same Billy Crystal who wore a Mets hat throughout the whole movie City Slickers? Oh...right, that was 1987.

If you ask me, he's a font runner. I bet he wasn't crying in 2001 when Gonzales hit that blooper...

/can't wait for Dice Mat to get shelled a couple times so the hype goes away
//might not happen
///we'll see

ugh...front runner.

As Jack Nicholson refused to wear a Red Sox hat while filming The Departed, I know I wouldn't wear a farking Mets hat, even in a Daniel Stern comedy.

That's a classic picture.

/gravity IS a biatch.

robsul82: As Jack Nicholson refused to wear a Red Sox hat while filming The Departed, I know I wouldn't wear a farking Mets hat, even in a Daniel Stern comedy.

He wouldn't wear a Red Sox hat? I knew he refused to do/wear anything Celtics-related, but I hadn't realized his territoriality went to baseball as well.

My favorite Red Sox moment..

I think my favorite Yankees/Red Sox moment was last year when Boston imploded and Detroit when into Ruth's House and told everyone to STFU and go home, your season's done.

I wonder if Kid Mojo is going to come in here and call Dice-K a "Red Sox troll"?

I also wonder why NorvGroidley came in this thread in the first place. You get at least one of these guys in every single Sox-Yanks thread. There is practically a Sox-Yanks thread everyday from Spring to Fall, get used to it or at least ignore it because it isn't going anywhere. On top of that, if you like a team that has a century old rivalry you'd care to start a thread about, well go ahead and submit headlines concerning it.

Finally, the Ichiro for Manny thing came on Fark after I'd already left work and I have not really reqad anything more about it since...but, a trade I wouldn't mind would be:
Mariners trade: Ichiro & J.J. Putz
For
Sox: Manny & Hansen or Delcarmen (Hansen is a freaki' bust but maybe they'll want him)

We get a closer and Papelbon can begin his career as a starter

/The Papi won't be able to hit without Manny thing is overblown. If you're getting Ichiro and or Youk on base, what are teams going to do? Walk a runner into scoring position on 1 or 0 out innings? If JD stay healthy he gets hits, Lowell gets hits, Tek may or may not get hits...
//Manny may approve this trade as he has listed the Mariners as a location he'd go to.

robsul82 As Jack Nicholson refused to wear a Red Sox hat while filming The Departed, I know I wouldn't wear a farking Mets hat, even in a Daniel Stern comedy.

BunkoSquad: He wouldn't wear a Red Sox hat? I knew he refused to do/wear anything Celtics-related, but I hadn't realized his territoriality went to baseball as well.


It always slays me when I hear of stupid actors that demand that their movie character take a back seat to their real life team allegiances. Ben Affleck did that too, in a movie where his character was supposed to be a Yankee fan. These guys act like putting on a different team hat or shirt for a movie will stain their souls for all eternity. You're a f'kn actor, fer chrissakes. So ACT like a damn Bostonite, which means you wear your stupid RedSox cap to absolutely every place you go.


Jesus, nobody is going to think less of you for it (though really, it's not sure to think less of Ben Affleck).

"Matsuzaka said he watched movies to help him learn English - 'Lethal Weapon' with Bruce Willis..."

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister. I'm too old for this.

Yippee-ki-yay, you really are crazy!

"Matsuzaka said he watched movies to help him learn English - 'Lethal Weapon' with Bruce Willis..."


Lethal Weapon was Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Does he actually mean Die Hard? Those were better movies, anyway.

Well, SNL Guy, I figure Nicholson had a good acting choice in choosing to refuse to wear a Boston hat - he's a gangster drunk on his own power, right? I think Nicholson's character would certainly go around his area of influence in a Yankee hat, rubbing it silently into the faces of those he rules and daring anyone to say anything.

But in general, if they don't want to to wear something, they shouldn't. It'd only be a detriment to their performance if, like you say, Affleck is trying to play a Yankee fan. The audience will be taken out of it, as Affleck's now well-known as the media-appointed Spokesperson for Red Sox Nation, and you know Affleck will be looking incredibly uncomfortable trying to play a Yankee fan.

In any case, thank Xenu Tom Cruise had no problem putting on a beat-up Yankee hat in War of the Worlds, as the entire setup of Cruise being a Jersey dockworker seemed to hinge on "he's a Jersey dockworker, see - look at his Yankee hat!"

robsul82: The audience will be taken out of it, as Affleck's now well-known as the media-appointed Spokesperson for Red Sox Nation, and you know Affleck will be looking incredibly uncomfortable trying to play a Yankee fan.

As a Red Sox fan, let me state for the record that I'm uncomfortable with the idea of Ben Affleck representing us. Front-running, Lou-Merloni-bashing prettyboy.

Donnie Wahlberg flies up from LA to go to Celtics-Kings games in Sacramento. I'd much rather he be the celebrity spokesman for local fandom (that's assuming we need one, which I wonder why we do).

Bunkosquad

Well, Robsul did say "media appointed". He's been in enough of these threads and spoken to enough Boston people to realize that calling him "fan appointed" would be an utter joke.

Yeah, a 30-something-year-old athlete throwing a 70-something year-old to the ground is funny! Also, Pedro proved himself a man.

/my favorite Red Sox-Yankees moment: "Deep to left! Yaz won't get it, it's a home run!"

GimpyNip: He's been in enough of these threads and spoken to enough Boston people to realize that calling him "fan appointed" would be an utter joke.

That wasn't for him; it was for any lurkers who might have been concerned that I'd let that go without a violent denunciation. Robsul and I have gone 'round this merry-go-round more than once.

But in general, if they don't want to to wear something, they shouldn't. It'd only be a detriment to their performance if, like you say, Affleck is trying to play a Yankee fan. The audience will be taken out of it, as Affleck's now well-known as the media-appointed Spokesperson for Red Sox Nation, and you know Affleck will be looking incredibly uncomfortable trying to play a Yankee fan.


a couple points:

1) Ben Affleck couldn't look more uncomfortable acting if you put a hundred piranhas down his pants


2) the whole point of acting is to immerse yourself in that character, and make people believe that's who you are. Though Ben Affleck is incapable of getting in front of a camera and doing anything except talking the same way in every movie, the best actors can separate their own personas from their on-stage character. If Nicholson or Affleck TRULY believed that their characters would be compromised by wearing a BOS or NYY hat onscreen, then they should have demanded that be removed from the script. Because when you act, it's all about the art. Otherwise, STFU and put on the damn hat. Nobody in the f'kn world is going to come out of the theater after Changing Lanes and say "hmm, I thought Ben was a RedSox fan, but he wore a Yankee hat in the movie. I guess he's actually a Yankees fan."

baorao: I think my favorite Yankees/Red Sox moment was last year when Boston imploded and Detroit when into Ruth's House and told everyone to STFU and go home, your season's done.

Oh the suspense! Then what happened?

How did this turn into a thread about actors, anyway?

robsul82: I think Nicholson's character would certainly go around his area of influence in a Yankee hat, rubbing it silently into the faces of those he rules and daring anyone to say anything.

wow. the thought of Whitey Bulger heading down Broadway in a Yankees cap, huh? I get your point, but it would be easier to see a Jamaican in his native country with a full body case of frostbite.

How did this turn into a thread about actors, anyway?


If you want to get news about either the RedSox or Yankees, you'll have to turn on ESPN between the hours of 12am and 12am.

FARK is all about actor discussions.

H31N0US: You mean the same Billy Crystal who wore a Mets hat throughout the whole movie City Slickers? Oh...right, that was 1987.

If you ask me, he's a font runner.

Billy Crystal, as it happens, has been a longtime supporter of the Los Angeles Clippers, who until a few years ago were an NBA laughingstock.

His explanation for the Mets hat in 'City Slickers' ...

Crystal played a Yankee fan in When Harry Met Sally, but in City Slickers, he wore a Mets hat.

At the time, Crystal approached the Yankees to do Comic Relief Night at Yankee Stadium. Comic Relief was created by Crystal and fellow comedians Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg in an effort to raise money for America's homeless. The Yankees turned down the request, but the Mets did not. The Mets donated a large sum of money to Comic Relief and let the three comedians come out to Shea Stadium.

"We made a lot of money for the charity," said Crystal. "I said, 'You know what? I am going to wear this hat for them because they did this for a great cause.' And that's why I wore the Mets hat in that movie."

Mr Pibb and Red Vines equal Crazy Delicious: If you want to get news about either the RedSox or Yankees, you'll have to turn on ESPN between the hours of 12am and 12am.

ugh, another country heard from

so, what, ESPN should spend more time covering the great Santa Barbara sports scene? what is that besides horse racing? yachting?

you could, of course, see that the headline has to do with the Sox-Yanks, and simply not click on the link, right?

Bunko, I've said many times that I know real Red Sox fans can't stand Affleck sticking his nose in front of a camera anytime someone wants a comment from a Red Sox fan on something Red Sox-related. As Gimp pointed out, "media-appointed" acknowledges that.

Some people say Whitey Bulger went to go see The Departed and the cops missed him by 10 minutes, actually. That certainly qualifies as a guy who would be brazen enough to take ridiculous chances. Plus Frank Costello was based on the guy, but it's Hollywood and you can change a character as you want.

I haven't seen Changing Lanes in a while, but I don't remember Affleck's character's baseball allegiance being integral to the plot at all.

so, what, ESPN should spend more time covering the great Santa Barbara sports scene? what is that besides horse racing? yachting?


ESPN is losing viewers and internet readers because people are sick of their coverage. Last month was the first time in history that ESPN.com wasn't the #1 read sports webpage, and I know countless people that don't even bother with it anymore.

If ESPN thinks they can make more money by focusing solely on things like Yankees, Sox, Duke, UNC, and Terrell Owens riding an exercise bike, then more power to them. But I doubt it. People are jumping off the bandwagon at an alarming rate, and it's gotten to the point that they have to extend PTI into the 6pm est sportscenter just to get more viewers.

So I'm not alone in my sentiments that ESPN is garbage nowadays. Not by a long shot.

robsul82: Plus Frank Costello was based on the guy

I thought the Departed was a remake of a Hong Kong movie...

Mr Pibb and Red Vines equal Crazy Delicious: So I'm not alone in my sentiments that ESPN is garbage nowadays. Not by a long shot.

I've got a fever...and the only prescription is...more Vitale

I thought the Departed was a remake of a Hong Kong movie...



It was. A Chinese movie called "Infernal Affairs," and it was awesome. Highly recommended.

Yessssss, the film was based on Infernal Affairs, but in ADAPTING the work, the character of Frank Costello was based on Whitey Bulger. He was an actual Boston-area gangster.

Nowhere does it say that the Pedro-Zimmer thing was Matsuzaka's "favorite moment" of the rivalry.

i can tell you my favourite and least favourite moment of the yankees-sox rivalry. i'm guessing this will never change either.

favourite: right after game 3 of the '04 alcs when i pretty much sealed up the $1000 bet i made with my buddy.

least favourite: nearly every moment i hang out with that buddy since then.

/fark the sox

Some people say Whitey Bulger went to go see The Departed and the cops missed him by 10 minutes, actually.

What, the cops didn't have moviefone? How do you miss a guy coming out of a theater by 10 minutes?

as a Sebui Lion's fan:
Nani-o dice-K?

new flash:
the 'yanks just nick-named Kei Igawa Buka-k!