Yanks Go Yard » Double Standards http://yanksgoyard.com A New York Yankees Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Thu, 23 May 2013 02:50:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Yankees And Double Standards http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/06/28/the-yankees-and-double-standards/ http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/06/28/the-yankees-and-double-standards/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:57:40 +0000 Andrew Corselli http://yanksgoyard.com/?p=6743 On the heels of the events of the last week or so I thought I’d take a look at how the Yankees and double standards have come into play in MLB.

The first thing that caught my attention was Rafael Soriano and Untuckgate. I couldn’t fathom how a guy who untucked his jersey after he recorded a save garnered so much attention from the media. Who cares if he does that? MSM does, I soon realized. He was vilified by baseball purists as a player who broke the sacred “unwritten rules” by showing up an opponent. OK, whatever. Manager Joe Girardi said he had his closer’s back and that it didn’t bother him, which seemed to quash the controversy. (more…)

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