Gossage Tells Joba to Act Like a Yankee

Greg C. posted 5/11/2008 from slidingintohome.blogspot.com [flag]

In my post about Cashman and Girardi defending Joba’s fist pump yesterday I ended it by writing, “OK, I'm down talking about this fist pump nonsense. . . Well, at least until the next idiot complains about it.” Well, we’ve found our next idiot; former Yankees and soon to be Hall Of Famer Goose Gossage. From Bob Klapisch : "I'm on Dellucci's side. That's just not the Yankee way, what Joba did. ... [link]

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Locally Blogged Baseball Insights - May 12th
Published 5/12/2008 by Rudy Gamble at Fantasy Baseball Blog at Razzball
... Sliding Into Home - Does it make you an old fart if you think Joba Chamberlain shouldn’t celebrate after striking out a schlub like David Delucci? Sure feels like it. FYI, Grey and I like to chest bump after a particularly good blog post. ...

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