Comments on: Griffey Deserves To Be Booed At Stadium

By: Raf

Raf — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:20:37 +0000

Why did those morons at the Stadium give him a loud cheer yesterday?
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As you say, they admired his talent.

We can appreciate greatness. You have to admit he was a hell of a ballplayer

By: June 22nd vs. The Reds : WasWatching.com

June 22nd vs. The Reds : WasWatching.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:48:47 +0000

[...] Speaking of bummers, I can’t believe that Kid Griffey got a standing-ovation from the Yankee Stadium crowd after he homered in the eighth. He didn’t deserve it. [...]

By: baileywalk

baileywalk — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:08:41 +0000

Why did those morons at the Stadium give him a loud cheer yesterday? Even if you admire his talent, he’s killed this team verbally and he was on the Seattle team that booted the Mattingly-led Yanks. It was ridiculous.

By: Corey

Corey — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:49:45 +0000

On the one hand this reeks of racism and being singled out.
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don baylor is black dude

By: butchie22

butchie22 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:11:40 +0000

This is a double edged sword. On the one hand this reeks of racism and being singled out. That really stinks big time! On the other hand, Griffey get a grip . That was many years ago and Martin is no longer in the organization (the guy,jerk or not is dead). I don’t think that the Yanks are the same team, they were back then.

By: Raf

Raf — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:26:39 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/6k3t5l

…While he was rounding the bases, he was remembering a different time, 1983, when the Yankee killer in him was born. Dispute With Billy Martin

Back then, his father, Ken Griffey Sr., was an outfielder out of favor with the manager, the late Billy Martin. During and after a blowout defeat at Yankee Stadium, Ken Jr. and his younger brother, Craig, were among a group of 14 youngsters running up and down the hallways, tossing a ball and playing tag. They were a bit rowdy, all of them, but less disruptive than the loony storms that brewed inside the Yankee clubhouse of that time.

“Martin told one of his coaches to go up to my dad,” Griffey Jr. recalled. “He wanted us out of there. Just me and my brother, nobody else. Not Lou Piniella’s kid. Not Graig Nettles’s kid. Not Don Baylor’s kid.”

Ken Griffey Sr. refused to order his children out of the corridor that day. He did not tell his two sons anything until later that night, when the kids were back home. Then, the family stored the incident away for later motivational use.

“I hold it against them and I will always play harder against the Yankees,” Griffey Jr. said yesterday. “It’ll never change. Every time we play these guys, I try a little extra. When I hit the grand slam, it was a great feeling.

“I’m no different than anybody else. If somebody treated your dad wrong and you had a chance to stick it to them, you’d do the same.”