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Jersey Yankee
03-17-06, 06:49 PM
Tho shalt not fault me twice! :gulp::O

If it's a repeat, then sue me, dammit!!! :P

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/03/14/sports/14yanks.1841.jpg
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Yogi Berra, 80, spends his time
with the Yankees in spring training,
as he has for years. He frequently
drives with Manager Joe Torre,
and helps the players.

Yankees Can't Help Laughing and Learning With Berra (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/sports/baseball/14yanks.html)

BRADENTON, Fla., March 13 — It was 8:30 on Monday morning, and the greatest living Yankee was watching a DVD in his underwear.

Yogi Berra, two months from his 81st birthday, had the seat at Joe Torre's desk in the manager's office at Legends Field in Tampa. He was wearing a gray Spalding T-shirt, white undershorts and navy blue baseball socks pulled up to his knees. It is the clubhouse apparel of a baseball lifer, and Berra is still in his element.

As players filed in for a bus trip to McKechnie Field here, Berra and others watched a collection of highlights narrated by Mickey Vernon, a star of Berra's era for the Washington Senators. Berra was enthralled.

"I've got to get a copy of that," he said. "It's got old guys and presidents throwing out the first ball and everything. That was a tradition — you open up with the president. I saw Truman, I saw Ike, I saw them all on opening day. We're going back, though."

Casey37
03-17-06, 07:27 PM
I'm not gonna register to read the NYT, but Yogi can say and do whatever he wants simply because....he's Yogi. :gulp:

Jersey Yankee
03-17-06, 07:35 PM
I'm not gonna register to read the NYT, but Yogi can say and do whatever he wants simply because....he's Yogi. :gulp:
Yogi's always been a classic. We need more guys like Yogi around. :)

Tifoso
03-17-06, 07:45 PM
I really want to meet Yogi...he seems like such a gentleman.

obsessedyankeefan
03-17-06, 08:00 PM
From the same article:


There is always a funny side to Berra's visits. A couple of years ago, Berra told Torre he was leaving for Washington to film a television advertisement. Torre asked which company Berra was endorsing. "Amtrak," he replied. He meant to say Aflac, the insurance company.


"I stayed in baseball, until I quit," Berra said.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Classic Yogi.

Tifoso
03-17-06, 08:05 PM
"I stayed in baseball, until I quit," Berra said.

You said it:D
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

glenel
03-17-06, 10:33 PM
... I can't imagen the dayw/ out Yogi.... He's the best of Jersey Yankees !!!

Jersey Yankee
03-18-06, 03:55 AM
... I can't imagen the dayw/ out Yogi.... He's the best of Jersey Yankees !!!
I'll second that!!! :gulp::O

-JY

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“There was a great, dark mystery about [Yankee Stadium] when I first came here from Oklahoma. I still get goose pimples walking inside it. Now I think this is about the prettiest ball park I ever saw.”
–Mickey Mantle (1931-1995)

“Geez! Whatta big place!”
–Yogi Berra