Hall-of-Famer Rice rips Yanks.....No Wonder it took him so Long to Get into the HOF

Rice slams Jeter, A-Rod to Little Leaguers

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Hall of Fame outfielder Jim Rice added another grenade to the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry when he included Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez in a rant to Little Leaguers about how today's ballplayers "cannot compare" with the stars of Rice's era.


"You see a Manny Ramirez, you see an A-Rod, you see Jeter ... Guys that I played against and with, these guys you're talking about cannot compare," Rice said on Friday in Williamsport, Pa., according to The Associated Press.
"I didn't know I was like that," Jeter responded, according to the New York Daily News.
A-Rod and Jeter told New York reporters that they don't know Rice very well, only enough to say "hello" in passing. "I say hello to everyone and I have respect for everyone," the Daily News quoted Rodriguez. Rice, 56, played his entire career — 1974-89 — for the Red Sox. He led the American League in homers three times and in RBIs twice and was the 1978 AL MVP. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer.

Rice also criticized the appearance of today's players.


"We didn't have the baggy uniforms. We didn't have the dreadlocks," Rice said. "It was a clean game, and now they're setting a bad example for the young guys."
"I don't wear baggy pants or have dreadlocks," the New York Post quoted Jeter.
Rice said he thinks current Hall of Famers who did not cheat don't want players who took performance-enhancing drugs to join them in the Hall. Flexing the muscles in his right arm, Rice said, "That's all the steroids you need. ... It's called God-given talent."

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All the Yankess are mercenaries except for Jeter and Posada...play for pay....

VIEJO DINOSAUR said:

All the Yankess are mercenaries except for Jeter and Posada...play for pay....

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And, The Phillies ?? @)

Rice is right..The Yankee payroll could feed the poor in New York for 3 years.

2009 / New York Yankees

Player Salary Position
Albaladejo, Jon $ 403,075 Pitcher
Bruney, Brian $ 1,250,000 Pitcher
Burnett, A.J. $ 16,500,000 Pitcher
Cabrera, Melky $ 1,400,000 Outfielder
Cano, Robinson $ 6,000,000 Second Baseman
Chamberlain, Joba $ 432,575 Pitcher
Coke, Phil $ 403,300 Pitcher
Damon, Johnny $ 13,000,000 Outfielder
Gardner, Brett $ 414,000 Outfielder
Jeter, Derek $ 21,600,000 Shortstop
Marte, Damaso $ 3,750,000 Pitcher
Matsui, Hideki $ 13,000,000 Outfielder
Molina, Jose $ 2,125,000 Catcher
Nady, Xavier $ 6,550,000 Outfielder
Pena, Ramiro $ 400,000 Infielder
Pettitte, Andy $ 5,500,000 Pitcher
Posada, Jorge $ 13,100,000 Catcher
Ramirez, Edwar $ 422,450 Pitcher
Ransom, Cody $ 455,100 Third Baseman
Rivera, Mariano $ 15,000,000 Pitcher
Rodriguez, Alex $ 33,000,000 Third Baseman
Sabathia, CC $ 15,285,714 Pitcher
Swisher, Nick $ 5,400,000 Outfielder
Teixeira, Mark $ 20,625,000 First Baseman
Veras, Jose $ 432,975 Pitcher
Wang, Chien-Ming $ 5,000,000 Pitcher


The total payroll of the Pirates is less than Arod and Jeter alone for 2009. Granted Boston's payroll is high at $121M but still $80M less than the Yankees total of $200M.


$33Million for one player for one year is ridiculous. The entire Florida Marlins team earns $36,834,000 this year. About a Demaso Marte more than Arod alone makes.

All team payrolls in baseball for 2009.

New York Yankees $ 201,449,189
New York Mets $ 149,373,987
Chicago Cubs $ 134,809,000
Boston Red Sox $ 121,745,999
Detroit Tigers $ 115,085,145
Los Angeles Angels $ 113,709,000
Philadelphia Phillies $ 113,004,046
Houston Astros $ 102,996,414
Los Angeles Dodgers $ 100,414,592
Seattle Mariners $ 98,904,166
Atlanta Braves $ 96,726,166
Chicago White Sox $ 96,068,500
San Francisco Giants $ 82,616,450
Cleveland Indians $ 81,579,166
Toronto Blue Jays $ 80,538,300
Milwaukee Brewers $ 80,182,502
St. Louis Cardinals $ 77,605,109
Colorado Rockies $ 75,201,000
Cincinnati Reds $ 73,558,500
Arizona Diamondbacks $ 73,516,666
Kansas City Royals $ 70,519,333
Texas Rangers $ 68,178,798
Baltimore Orioles $ 67,101,666
Minnesota Twins $ 65,299,266
Tampa Bay Rays $ 63,313,034
Oakland Athletics $ 62,310,000
Washington Nationals $ 60,328,000
Pittsburgh Pirates $ 48,693,000
San Diego Padres $ 43,734,200
Florida Marlins $ 36,834,000

You could pay the Nationls, Pirates, Padres and Marlins combined for the entire year with the Yankee payroll and still have enough money left over to sign Johhny Damon.


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wil.

I don't think, anyone can say the Yankees Don't spend Money !!

Each Year, they are the Biggest Spenders.

But Remember.....Who Gives Up a Big Piece of the Pie to the Small guys

VIEJO DINOSAUR said:

All the Yankess are mercenaries except for Jeter and Posada...play for pay....

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...and Cano,Cabrera, and Rivera.

The Death Star is almost in place.

yankees strive to put a winning product on the field every yr, other owners and management should strive to do the same.

It took Rice so long to make the Hall-of-Fame because he never deserved to make it

The man is 100% wrong. The best players from every era are comparable. The ability to play the game of baseball did not suddenly vanish from the species in 1990

While I have a lot of respect for people who choose to have a lifetime income of zero, Yankees players aren't the only ones in the world who have ever earned a paycheck

kidman232 said:

yankees strive to put a winning product on the field every yr, other owners and management should strive to do the same.

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Easy to do when you have largest population to draw from. Also, easy to do when companies such as Goldman Sachs and other Wall Streeters are right their for the taking.

What the fuck is he talking about.


Jeter hustles on every play and is as classy as they come.


Rice is just jealous.

Tell em' how you feel Jimmy. Don't hold back.

And while your at it, why not come out of the closet? Really give them old die hard Sox fans a reason to drown themselves in the Charles river.

Go Yankees!

Ask Jonathon Keane what he thinks of Jim Rice

An Ideal Seat

Tom Keane, like so many New Englanders, liked baseball but truly adored the Red Sox. He coached his kids through Little League and, occasionally, took them to one of his favorite places on earth, Fenway Park.

On Aug. 7, 1982, Keane drove from Greenland, N.H., with his sons Jonathan, 4, and Matthew, 2, for a game against the Chicago White Sox. Through a friend, he had gotten three tickets from Red Sox executive vice president Haywood Sullivan. When the usher showed them their seats, in the second row of Field Box No. 29, just to the left of the Red Sox dugout, Keane was amazed. The lush lawn, the Green Monster -- they were so close.

"You were actually right there," Keane remembered recently. "It was a seat that everybody would dream of when they had little kids and you wanted to get them close to the action. It was just ideal."

The Red Sox, in the heat of a spirited pennant race, were 2½ games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League East. Earlier in the game, Rice had hit a two-run double and the score was tied at 2-2 in the fourth inning. Second baseman Dave Stapleton -- Jonathan's favorite player -- came to the plate against Chicago pitcher Richard Dotson. Stapleton swung late and slashed a foul ball into the stands to the right of home plate.

Keane didn't see the ball, but heard a cracking sound. He thought the ball had hit the side of the dugout.

Until he heard the slightly delayed scream from his son.
"I immediately turned and blood was coming down Jonathan's face," Keane said, tearing up at the memory.

Jim Rice rushed into the stands to scoop up critically injured (fractured skull) Jonathon Keane and rushes him into Red Sox dugout where Red Sox Team doctor Arthur Pappas was waiting.

Rice, standing with his left foot on the top stair of the dugout, couldn't see exactly where the ball had gone but he heard the sickening crack, the "oooh" of the crowd -- and the awful silence that followed.

"You try to raise up and see if it hits anyone," Rice said, "and then when it hits someone that's when you react, especially when blood is involved."
In retrospect, Rice believes, he negotiated the distance in about one dozen steps and less than 10 seconds.

"Jim Rice was right there with his arms immediately," Keane said, "I mean immediately."

Rice, a father of two young children, was thinking of one thing.
"My child," he said. "Just someone, myself, just taking care of my child, picking my child up and taking him to the clubhouse."

Rice, without hesitation, scooped up Jonathan and carried him briskly into the dugout. Red Sox team doctor Arthur Pappas, who was sitting on the other side of the dugout, rushed from his seat to the trainers room, where he met Rice.

"I saw a boy that was nonresponsive," Pappas remembers. "There was blood on his face, his head, there was blood coming from his nose and his mouth, so these are all indicative of a significant head injury."

Within minutes, Jonathan was taken by ambulance to Children's Hospital -- only a mile away. His skull was fractured and he had lost a lot of blood. Jonathan underwent delicate surgery and was released five days later after visits from Stapleton and Tony La Russa, who was then the White Sox manager.

In today's litigious world, Rice might not have acted so quickly. In fact, he was later chastised by trainer Charlie Moss, who feared Jonathan might have suffered cardiac arrest and believed that any sudden movement might have brought on seizures. By the time emergency medical technicians or ambulance attendants arrived at the scene and worked through their protocols, it might have been too late.

"Obviously, as we sit here today, what [Rice] did saved [Jonathan's] life," Keane said. "I mean you had a young child, his left skull is fractured open, it is bleeding profusely. If it continued to bleed, God knows what would have happened.

"The worst could have happened."

Eight months later, Jonathan was reunited with Rice. On April 5, he threw out the first pitch at Fenway to open the 1983 season.

More Than Talent

Jonathan Keane is 31 years old now. He is an engaging fellow, lives in an airy townhouse in Raleigh, N.C., and works for an Internet concern. He says there are no lingering effects from the accident.


Ask him if there is any evidence of the ball that split his skull and he leans forward and pulls back his light brown bangs. There, barely visible just above his left eye, is a slight smudge of a scar.

"He's a hero in my mind," Jonathan said of Rice, though he admits that he does not remember anything of that August day 27 years ago. "He is somebody that saved my life, and I thank God for him being there."

Which begs the question: With more than 32,000 people in attendance -- fans, players, Red Sox employees -- why was it that Rice alone responded? What is strewn through his DNA that he would thrust himself into that dreadful circumstance?

If you are looking for some context, consider this: During his career, Rice twice picked up fallen teammate Jerry Remy after he suffered a knee injury -- after sliding into home plate at Yankee Stadium and playing right field against the Cleveland Indians -- and carried him to medical attention.
No video exists of Rice's rescue of Jonathan and only a single image has survived; an enterprising photographer for the Boston Herald caught the grisly-but-poignant moment. Rice, cradling little Jonathan in his big arms, carries him toward the dugout.

The look on Rice's face is sad, but determined. This, his demeanor suggests, is what must be done.

These days, Rice is employed as an analyst by NESN, the flagship station of the Red Sox. When he returns to Fenway Park, Rice almost always remembers to visit the home dugout, where the photograph hangs. He never fails to be moved.

In Florida, he was shown the photo again.

"I see me carrying my kid," he said softly. "I see me being a parent, being a father, being someone that is able to think about others. If that was my child, I would want somebody to react the same way.

"Playing baseball was more of a talent than a gift. The reaction to save somebody's life, that's entirely different."


Greg Garber ESPN.com

carl spackler said:

...and Cano,Cabrera, and Rivera.

The Death Star is almost in place.

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hno: all 3 from the yankees farm system not free agents

I Never had a problem with Jim Rice...I'm sure he was a Good guy.
And I Believe, it took Rice a long time to get into the HOF because he wasn't Liked by the Writers..Etc...

Anybody can talk about the "Real" Players of the 50's,60's,70's,80's, etc..

And I Hate A-Fraud !! But when Rice Talks about Jeter ?? I could Only think Rice has a Screw loose or something !

We're Not talking about the Greatest Player of all time or Anything like that.
Rice is talking about a 100% ALL CLASS of a guy !

Baggy Pants ?? Can't Compare ? To What ??
Jeter is as Clean Cut as American Pie ! Always Gives it his ALL !
Does So Much for the Community ! Does So Much for the Kids !

Someone Tell Mr. Rice to Just Google Turn 2 Foundation !
And see What Mr. Jeter is all about !

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