HAPPY ANNIVERSARY WARRIORS
Today we celebrate our 1 year anniversary and look forward to eventually claiming our place as the most analytically taut, the funniest, and the best written Yankees blog on the planet. With your loyalty and increased participation in the coming year, I think we can made headway toward our goal.
In the past year, however, we've had ups and downs, but have made it through. We've seen friends come and go. Garbowski came and went, and Tattered Standard came and went and came and went. Adam Cohen and the Blog itself came and went and came. Phil Rizzuto came.
Our best discussions over the past year certainly centered on The Apostle Joe Torre (TAJT). Early last year we debated whether he was a great manager, and then again whether he should be fired this October. Our discussion about whether to sign Mike Piazza was also heated, as was our stuff on the fantasy league.
So I urge all of you to spend the day sharing memories and anecdotes about your favorite conversations and/or posts on Steiners Warriors!
My favorite post title: "Randy Johnson is growing breasts" on April 30.
Have at it!
-Steiner
In the past year, however, we've had ups and downs, but have made it through. We've seen friends come and go. Garbowski came and went, and Tattered Standard came and went and came and went. Adam Cohen and the Blog itself came and went and came. Phil Rizzuto came.
Our best discussions over the past year certainly centered on The Apostle Joe Torre (TAJT). Early last year we debated whether he was a great manager, and then again whether he should be fired this October. Our discussion about whether to sign Mike Piazza was also heated, as was our stuff on the fantasy league.
So I urge all of you to spend the day sharing memories and anecdotes about your favorite conversations and/or posts on Steiners Warriors!
My favorite post title: "Randy Johnson is growing breasts" on April 30.
Have at it!
-Steiner
posted by Anthony at 8:50 AM
17 Comments:
I'd like to say as a casual reader (every time Steiner begs me to), that this blog is adequate given my standards and practices of blog hawking.
Congratulations on still existing. May your decent site carry on, being neither glorious nor disappointing, much like Fred McGriff's career.
I have many fond memories looking back over this past year.
One that stands out was the resurrection of wrestling legend Koko B. Ware and Polly. Once in a while I check back and look at that article and it makes me feel young again.
I can recall dozens of emails between Tony and myself where he's told me that perhaps humor is not the way to go with this blog (my Anna Benson haikus didn't make much of a splash). The great TAJT debates will continue long after this blog is dead and buried. That seems to be the polarizing issue of Yankee fandom in this generation. But in the end this blog is a comfort, it's always nice to see the pre-trading deadline poll posted in July 2006 that is STILL ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS BLOG!
Steiner's Warriors is like someone's basement: it's filled with unwanted treasures, but mostly it smells funny.
Dozens of emails!? Haha.
I'm sensing from the participation in our special day that the best policy might be to rip her down again and this time leave her dead.
(I just made a long comment and for some reason got screwed out of it posting.)
Congradulations on making it 1 year
As someone who was asked to join, this blog got me interested in baseball again. (Long story = do not like pro sports)
I enjoy the discussions as there are many opinions that all want the same result - Yankees winning the World Series.
I would like to thank you folks for the interesting reads should the powers that be decide the time to leave is now. Let me know what's going on.
And on that note:
I raise my imaginary glass, tip my imaginary cap and salute the Steiner's Warriors.
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Adam,
Always nice to read about the Birdman.
On a sad note the great Rowdy Roddy Piper has Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Shocking.
Where the blazes is Scooter?
Seriously, he's been a rock for this blog, and now... now he leaves us at our most vulnerable hour? This stinks of Rosenwasser!
Wow, that's creepy. You posted just before I submitted my comment!
Welcome to the party, Scooter.
I just watched Roddy Piper in 1988's classic thriller "They Live!" Sad news. He played a scruffy drifter like no other.
I'm here and not going anywhere (figuratively.) I plan on posting as usual if you guys do the same.
I did not want to post anything in anticipation of the anniversary post. I thought anything posted will get lost rather quickly.
Steiner started it by setting the tone that the blog is closing. Now I'm in shock.
I'm heading out for the day. I'll post tomorrow, if anyone's still here.
The possibility of this blog closing reminds me of the commercial of the Native American seeing all the litter and a tear going down his face. (Though he was actually Italian I think.)
The point is I would prefer this site to live on - but if it dies, it dies.
This site isn't going anywhere, but I hope we can get participation levels back up to where they were a month ago.
We need Steinbrenner to do something insane.
This is the deadest time of the baseball year. No trades, no spring training, just a wasteland of nothingness. Other baseball blogs are suffering the same drought.
It will get better. But in the meantime, is anyone up for an Anna Benson haiku?
I'd love to see Anna's Tats again.
Tomorrow, a new haiku!
I will not step on the anniversary article until post-midnight.
Re: the new poll
By "participate" what do you mean?
I was going to post something but there's nothing going on.
Since nobody else is posting/commenting I'll have to keep the blog going.
Me: What's going on?
Me: Not much just blogging and listening to Dodgeball.
Me: That's a funny movie.
Me: Yeah. I saw it a plethora of times.
Me: Plethora? That's hilarious. Reminds me of the Three Amigos!
Me: I know. I like to throw it in now and then. That movie is a classic.
Me: You're telling me. I'm going to head out if you don't mind.
Me: No, go ahead. I know you got stuff to do. Talk to you later.
Me: Take care and stay in touch. Bye.
I'm just saying hello and leaving. It's another day of no news.
Hello
Any news on Bernie?
Only 23 more days until pitchers and catchers report. Let's up Posada's legs hold up.
Since this post still has the Koko and Piper comments, I'm putting this in as well. I know it's not Yankee news but if it keeps the blog going until there is so be it.
The great Bam Bam Bigelow passed away this past Friday.
Who could forget his tattooed head? Or his flame wrestling outfit?
Bigelow was defeated by Taylor at WrestleMania XI in a match for which Bigelow was paid $250,000 and Taylor $1,000,000.
In his death, Bigelow is considered to be one of the best and most agile "big men" in the history of professional wrestling. He is, also, by many natives, considered to be a hero to the state of New Jersey and a pioneer to the New Jersey professional wrestling explosion. In his most profitable years, he earned between $750,000 and $1.2 million.
In 2000, a story was floated that Bigelow had heroically saved children from a burning home. Bigelow had been returning home from an ECW show in Japan and discovered a house on fire near his home. Hearing children screaming inside, he burst into the house and rescued three kids, burning 40% of his body with second degree burns in the process. He spent two months recovering in a hospital.
Upon his retirement, Bigelow moved to Allenhurst, Pennsylvania and opened the eponymous Bam Bam Bigelow restaurant, located in nearby Hamlin Township along State Route 590, which later closed down.
On a side note another restaurant was set to open not too far from my house. A local newspaper even did a story about it. The restaurant was said to offer a 5 lb. hamburger or something to that gigantic effect.
Bam Bam, you will be missed.
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