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I think that Hashem is making the Yankees lose so they’ll be knocked out of the playoffs and our heads will be clear for davening on Yom Kippur…
Yeah yitay it has nothing to do with with questionable starting pitching and an aging team i think this is more about Justin Verlander than Hashem.
I didn’t know He was such a baseball fan.
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Wow. The “world revolves around New York” mentality that some people have is amazing. And what about the Jews in Detroit?
Wow. The “world revolves around New York” mentality that some people have is amazing. And what about the Jews in Detroit?
The Lions are 4-0 , Who says Miracles dont occur anymore
I didn’t know He was such a baseball fan.
I do know He loves the human race, or He would not have created baseball in the first place.
That said, I would hope that He would be smart enough not to interfere with individual games, and would just let them be fair athletic and strategic contests between teams trying their hardest to win.
Anything else would just ruin the game.
Wow. The “world revolves around New York” mentality that some people
Almost all of the really great Jewish ball-shpielers of all time played for “out-of-town” teams.
Can’t think of any greats who played in NY offhand.
so what happened did Hashem change his mind?
I didn’t know He was such a baseball fan.
Of course He is. In fact, He’s such a huge fan that He started off the bible with baseball.
Genesis 1:1 “In the big inning…”
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yitayningwut,
your book must have been VERY incorrect because if I recall correctly, Ron Bloomberg was a jew and I know for sure that Ken Holtzman was a jew too!
The Empire Strikes Back.
10-1 with a big 8th inning.
If the Tigers don’t finish them off Thursday, the Rangers will have to do the task.
Interestingly enough, I actually had a book once that listed all of the Jewish baseball players ever, and it noted that the Yankees have never had a Jewish player. This was a little while ago however, and they may have had one or two since then. The Mets have had a couple though, including Scott Schoeneweis and Sean Green.
Must be a very old book. Off the top of my head, I thought of Ron Blomberg, who played with the Yankees in the 70s.
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Now that I give it further thought, the book’s author missed Jimmie Reese, who played with Babe Ruth in the 30s (and who, IIRC, was the last surviving teammate of Ruth’s).
Other pre-1980s players include:
Elliot Maddox, a convert* who played for the Yankees in the 70s.
Ken Holtzman (1970s)
For the record, my favorite Jewish-themed baseball nicknames are:
Mike Epstein (SuperJew)
Moses Solomon (The Rabbi of Swat)
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* I have no idea about the halachic validity of Elliott’s geirus. However, I doubt that yitayningwut’s book would have been too worried about that either.
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Yanks are gonna kill Detroit on Thursday.Only reason they lost Monday night was bec Yankees (especially Jeter) didn’t hit. Not bec of CC- CC’s one of the best pitchers in baseball!
The Mets have had a couple though, including Scott Schoeneweis and Sean Green.
Ike Davis is Jewish (His FATHER is NOT-Jewish)
Side note Alan “Shlomo” Veingrad was an Offensive tackle for the Packers and Cowboys and became a Chabbadnick after he retired . You would never know he was a Pro Football player the way he looks now.
He organized the first Glatt Kosher Tailgate at Lambeau Field
The fact that most Jewish players played for OOT teams means diddly-squat – in a league with 30 teams, 28 of which would be considered out of town (although Blue Jays fans try to be more in-town than Yankees or Mets) odds are that most players will end up with OOT teams. Signing players to appeal to the local demographic generally doesn’t work – the Atlanta Thrashers had by far the most African-American players of any NHL team last year in an attempt to draw more minority fans, and, well, MinyanGal can tell you how that turned out.
I was really thinking of the greats of the game, such as Greenberg and Koufax. Of course, Koufax did play for Brooklyn in his early years, before moving with the Dodgers to L.A. He didn’t do much playing though, spending most of the time on the bench as a pitcher who was too wild to pitch regularly.
There was also Art Shamsky who played for the NY Mets in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
Currently, Kevin Youkilis who plays for the Boston Red Sox is Jewish. He was recently voted “Jewish Player of the Decade.”
His family name was changed from Weiner several generations ago. He started his career in the Jewish Community Center fast-pitch softball league.
The Baseball Prospectus player page of Youkilis accidentally named his page “You Kike.” They named pages like this: take the first five letters of the player’s last name and the first two letters of his first name to create the unique URL for information on the player. In this case, the URL for Youkilis spells “Youkike.”
In 2006 the Red Sox had three Jewish players on their roster at the same time, Youk, Gabe Kapler and Adam Stern.
It’s an old tradition in NY to compose teams of players of various ethnic groups — just ask Branch Rickey who did it better than anyone else. A Jew or two, an African-American or two, an Irish Catholic, an Italian Catholic . . . . That filled up the seats at Ebbets Field.
I am not sure Gabe Kapler is actually jewish, I heard his mother wasnt.
I also heard Ryan Brauns mother was not jewish either
It could be that Amare Stoudamire of the Knicks is jewish, His mother has jewish roots, but not sure what those roots are
Three Jews walk onto a major league diamond . . . . sounds like the start of a funny joke.
apropos of this baseball season, but not perfectly on topic, I am bursting to tell this, while it is still mildly topical:
You may recall the comedy team ‘Bob and Ray’ who were on NY radio in the 60’s on WOR and on Boston radio before that.
They also played the voices of Bert and Harry Piels in the Piels beer commercials.
They were originally from Boston and were big Sox fans, particularly Ray.
I recall the last line of Ray’s obituary, which I believe he wrote himself: “Cause of death: Boston Red Sox”
This just doesn’t seem right tonite is erev Yom Kippur and the Yankees are starting a lox (Ivan Nova)
tonight’s game looked like a fair contest. No sign of divine intervention in that game.
Its all over Yankees fan’s im afraid i can’t feel any sympathy for you guys my team hasn’t been to the world series since 1945.
The Tigers have been granted MODERATOR status and have closed down this thread in advance of Yom Kippur.
That was a painful end! Oh well, at least we won’t have to worry about the score during Yom Tov this year.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes it rains.
That’s what baseball is all about.
YANKS ARE’NT LOSEING!! THEYRE WINNING!! DON’T JUST GIVE UP ON THEM!!
We gave up on them.
DON’T!! they’re the best BB team out their!! GO YANKS!!
In the words of the wise Reb Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over til it’s over.”
It’s over. Wait til next year.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
– Rogers Hornsby
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