Bobby Valentine Should Probably Go Ahead And Just Shut The Fuck Up Now
Yesterday: Let it be said that during the time from 9/11 to 9/21, the Yankees were (not around),” Valentine told Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts on Wednesday. “You couldn’t find a Yankee on the streets of New York City. You couldn’t find a Yankee down at Ground Zero, talking to the guys who were working 24/7.” He added: “Many of them didn’t live here, and so it wasn’t their fault. And many of them did not partake in all that, so there was some of that jealousy going around. Like, ‘Why are we so tired? Why are we wasted? Why have we been to the funerals and the firehouses, and the Yankees are getting all the credit for bringing baseball back?’ And I said ‘This isn’t about credit, guys. This is about doing the right thing.
Today: “It was an emotional day,” Valentine told Erik Kuselias on the NBC Radio Network. “I don’t know if I was trying to take credit for the team. I was trying to make a fact. After 12 years of hearing what was done and hearing it reported incorrectly, I just thought I’d state for the record that there weren’t any Yankees out there that week.” It got worse from there. “And if there were, Mr. Levine could just come up with a photograph of someone who was at a funeral or someone’s house,” he continued. “All I remember is people asking for the Yankees and me making excuses for them not being there.”
“Sorry,” Valentine wrote to Newsday. “I must have missed that. If it was between the 11th and the 20th (of September) it was my mistake. I might have missed it. I will follow Randy’s lead and be silent.”
I wasn’t gonna blog about this if I didnt have to. I particularly chose to ignore it yesterday because on the anniversary we should be honoring those who died or busted their asses to help others in those attacks. Should try to focus on some of the positives like the new Freedom Tower, or the inspiring moments like the Piazza Home Run or GWB’s First Pitch Strike. I didn’t even want to put a 10 star rating on that Goosebumps because I thought it was petty to pit the Yankees and Mets against each other and declare one a “winner” or a “loser” for 9/11 heroics. And then here comes Bobby V babbling like a goddam idiot. Claiming the Yankees were nowhere to be found in the days after 9/11, and that the Mets were doing all sorts of community service and weren’t getting “credit” for it. I don’t know which part of that is more absurd. The Yankees “not being around” is just completely factually irrelevant. There’s all sorts of stories and articles about them interacting with the community. And I have no fucking clue why he feels the Mets were slighted in their efforts to help the city. Everyone remembers the Piazza home run. Everyone remembers them wearing NYPD and FDNY hats. Everyone appreciated everything both organizations did. Just a really bizarre line of thinking here.
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And then just when you think it can’t get worse, he goes and reiterates the same lunatic points again today. On some crusade for credit for who consoled the most people and supported the most first responders. You all know me – I am the first to jump at a chance to shit on the Yankees and pump up the Mets. But not only is this just factually wrong, its stupid, its petty, and its all circulating around the most sensitive subject in New York City history. Wrong place, wrong time, wrong facts, wrong message. I love you Bobby, but you’re just flat out wrong on this one. Apologize and just pipe down for a couple days my man.
Keith Olberman summed it up pretty nicely: