Tuesday, October 21, 2003
NELLIE
Yankee reliever Jeff Nelson made an appearance today on the Softy show on KJR. Softy warned everyone beforehand that Nelson didn't want to talk about the bullpen incident (due to possible legal ramifications and compromises), but amazingly he was quite candid about it. Basically, Nelson said he gave the media his story right afterward, but as he says, the real story doesn't sell papers/get ratings. Result: media spin and blowup.
One thing he also said was that baseball is a tough sport to talk trash or make guarantees and back it up, unlike football and basketball, where there's direct offense vs. defense and one-on-one confrontation. He basically pointed out the Red Sox and the whole Cowboy Up thing, and the Twins and everyone else who was saying that it wasn't the Yankees' year. The thing that really hurt was that he brought up when Lou Piniella said that the Mariners were going to bring the 2001 ALCS (against the Yanks) back to Seattle for Game 6. That really hurt. Bottom line is, everyone mentioned ended up losing to the Yankees.
One thing he also said was that baseball is a tough sport to talk trash or make guarantees and back it up, unlike football and basketball, where there's direct offense vs. defense and one-on-one confrontation. He basically pointed out the Red Sox and the whole Cowboy Up thing, and the Twins and everyone else who was saying that it wasn't the Yankees' year. The thing that really hurt was that he brought up when Lou Piniella said that the Mariners were going to bring the 2001 ALCS (against the Yanks) back to Seattle for Game 6. That really hurt. Bottom line is, everyone mentioned ended up losing to the Yankees.
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