Gary Sheffield Throws Yanks Under the Bus

"I know who the leader is on the team. I ain't going to say who it is, but I know who it is. I know who the team feeds off. I know who the opposing team comes in knowing they have to defend to stop the Yankees."

Leadership, huh? So would that be Jeter? But the team is feeding off the player and the opposing team must defend him to stop New York, so maybe it's Alex Rodriguez, who has a team-leading .316 and also leads the Yankees in home runs (30) and RBIs (85)? No, that's not it either. So, could it be.........SATAN?!?! Gary Sheffield, resident dickheaded malcontent?

If you're looking for yet another reason to hate Sheff, lend yourself to this article in the NY Daily News. It's a preview of quotes from an explosive interview with Gary Sheffield that will be featured in the next issue of New York magazine. Sheff blasts A-Rod and Jeter, though not by name, by saying that the media has a love affair with them, portraying the duo in a positive light while the rest of the squad is "garbage." Could it be that the media doesn't portray the rest of the squad as such because it only hates a certain throbbing penis known as Gary Sheffield? I don't recall Hideki Matsui being garbage, do you? Sure, he has a porno collection unrivaled by anyone but Kim Jong Il [that is the only international affairs reference ever to be found on this blog] but a taste for watching the nasty doesn't make one rubbish. So maybe Giambi is in the trash heap. That was definitely the case from April - June but since he mysteriously bulked up and had the best month of his career (including tying Mickey Mantle for HRs in one month with 14), the media has been in love with Mr. July. Can you think of anyone else that's been treated like garbage? I can't. But apparently Sheff is telling the truth because "I ain't trying to get no Pepsi commercial."

Other issues:

• The Yanks are not only lacking in class, they also have no respect for family. Apparently, this is a stark contrast to the Dodgers, where the wives are allowed to ride on the team plane and also get together for wifey-functions that create unity. Maybe we should ask Trinka Lowe how family-oriented the Dodgers are.
• Sheff concedes that he'll never pull a Jeter and dive headfirst into the stands. Boo and thumbs down on injury, says Sheffield. It might force him to do steroids again to heal up.
• Cashman insulted him by only offering a two-year, $18 million contract after a 39 HR, 132 RBI season.
  
• The Yankees have no chemistry and it's all the media's fault. No one hangs out in the clubhouse because the media vultures are clamoring for interviews. "This is the first team I've been on where no one sits at their locker. It's where you build your chemistry from, how you get to know each other, just talking about life. I'm used to having six chairs around me, but here if there are six chairs, then there's going to be 20 reporters around me."

And in an added tidbit, Sheff blames the media for his reputation as a sphincter.

"It happens because you're white and I'm black. My interpretation of things is different. You don't see it the way I see it. You write how you understand it, how you would articulate it, not how I, as a black man, would articulate it."

Oh, I see. Well here's the interpretation of an Apache Jewess with questionable articulation skills: Scientists could transform Gary Sheffield into an Aryan Nation looking, master race jackoff [if I start getting hits from psychos looking for Stormfront, I'm going to be really depressed] but if they were stupid enough to let him keep his personality in the process, he'd still be a dysfunctional, self-important brat that the masses would treat like garbage.

Thanks for the leadership, Sheff.