Kevin Youkilis Won’t Return Joba Chamberlain’s Phone Calls
BOSTON (CBS) — It’s only January, but the Yankees already have some drama for their clubhouse. According to the New York Daily News, reliever Joba Chamberlain called his newest teammate, Kevin Youkilis, to welcome him to the team. The two have a history of some bad blood on the field, so the 27-year-old Chamberlain was likely trying to be proactive in taking the first step to mending that relationship now that the two are teammates. “It was just, ‘I’m glad you’re on our team, glad you’re on our side and I look forward to seeing you and hopefully we can win one over here for the good guys,’” Chamberlain told the paper of the nature of his message for Youk. There’s just one problem: Youkilis hasn’t called Joba back. “No, not really,” Chamberlain told the newspaper when asked if he was surprised about Youkilis’ silent treatment. “I’m bound to run into him at some point, sooner rather than later. We’ll see what happens. We’re grown men.”
Aw how cute! Its like I’m watching an episode of Gossip Girl or Mean Girls or something. Next thing you know Youkilis is gonna call Joba fat and pull his hair. Then Joba will post something mean on facebook and Kevin Youkilis will tweet out some Taylor Swift lyrics about how they are never gonna be friends.
Big off season for the Yankees! A bunch of short term contracts for old ass dudes and the biggest news is a cat fight between a couple washed up has-beens. Over the course of like 1 month the goddam Blue Jays added an entire pitching rotation including a Cy Young winner and a 1-2 punch at the top of their order, and the Yankees are pinching pennies like Wilpon took over. I mean you look around the diamond and aside from Robbie Cano, 200 singles from Jeter, and a handful of home runs from Granderson and Tex, what does this team have to offer? Its gonna be a long season of more empty seats at Yankee Stadium if this is the team they’re gonna trot out.
youre best outfielder is lucas duda
We’ll still have a better record than the Mets.
Comparing the Yankees to the Mets is completely delusional.
No reason to be blogging about baseball in January..
I’m not a strasser fan by any means, but Jesus H Christ leave the yankee blogs to him. CLEARLY, the home run philosophy doesn’t work in october, besides 2009 when Arod sold his soul and Matsui and Damon were true as clutch as it gets. So how can I bash the moves that were made this offseason? The yankees have one of the best defensive outfields in baseball with gardner, granderson, and ichiro. (ichiro, who looked like old ichiro as soon as he got out of Seattle) Youk at third, Jeter, cano, tex, i don’t see what the problem is besides catcher? Our pitching was NOT the problem last season, it was 100% the offense. And you like to talk about teams on paper??? How many people picked the marlins to win the east last year? Being the best on paper doesn’t mean shit. I would tell you how much your mets fucking suck, but i wouldn’t be telling you something you don’t already know.
don’t know where the word “true” came from in there…..
It’s too bad Jeter has to play on the same team as himself and A-Rod/Youk. He could have 4 ground ball singles to left field every time he played.
Why is this news?
Just listing what position each player plays is not an argument for why its a good lineup.
a handful of homeruns from granderson is such an outlandish statement it ruined the validity of this entire post.
pretty sure that’s not what i did. Just pointing out that your hard-hitting “analysis” is way off, as it usually is whenever you make a fledgling attempt to pretend you know what the fuck you’re talking about when it comes to the yankees. You think Yankee fans are honestly worried about the Toronto Fucking Blue Jays?? Fuck no. Great, they added a knuckleballer who will NEVER duplicate what he did last year. A SS whose knee will explode after 20 games on turf. Josh Johnson, who has not looked like the old Josh Johnson for going on 2 years now. My point was that this team has a lot to offer. Still more than many other teams. You don’t want me to list positions? Fine. We have a top 5 staff, and will probably still be between 1-4 in total offense / runs scored. Anything else KFC?
kfc, you clearly don’t know a thing about baseball. keep to writing about the drama of joba vs. youk. you should be good at it by now being a jets fan and all
I just realized that only the areas directly around the bases are dirt in Toronto. That’s ludicrous, right? Why don’t they make the entire infield dirt?
Right now I’d take the Blue Jays lineup and rotation over the Yankees. I’m not saying the Jays are gonna run away with the division or anything. I don’t think there is much of a gap between the two. Just that the Blue Jays improved by leaps and bounds in the off season and the Yankees stayed put and just got a year older and a year worse.
Lol at Joba being washed up at 27. Fucking idiot. And Youk is the only problem here, acting like the Boston asshole he’s seemed to have become with all that time spent up there. He’s known to be a prick while Jaba is known to be a nice guy. Hopefully Youk’s swollen ego will start to shrink after he’s humbled by splitting time with Nuney and only batting .240.
The Marlins were supposed to improve by leaps and bounds last year too. Yes, yankees got a year older, but also got better. We will see whose right in about six months.
You’re a fucking Mets and Jets fan, don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house. Also, RA dickey will never have a season like last ever again, so fuck the Blue Jays.
@28ontheway How exactly did the Yanks get better over the off season? Aside from getting Grandy back, they are the same squad. All of the already old players have now gotten older and you are banking on Mo coming back and picking up right where he left off. May or may not happen.
sorry. meant getting gardner back. not grandy.
The blue jays added 2 NL pitchers you want us to shit our pants? You dont even know enough about your shitty team to comment on so why bring up the Yankees. Stick to eating donuts, and having a lazy eye you Jew fuck.
Best pitcher on the Yankees staff just came from the NL