Tyler Clippard Is Feeling the MySpace Love

Tyler Clippard -- who should forever be referred to as "Yankee Clippard" -- has had an interesting and generationally telling influx of support from his friends after his first career win for the Yankees Sunday night. Like so many in our hip little millenial generation, Tyler has received much of his love via his MySpace page, which is currently open and available to the public.

Most of the comments are the standard stuff, some congratulations from some friends and some (usually attractive) ladies. (Nice work, Tyler.) Instead, what's most interesting about this, as Jim Baumbach writes on Newsday, is that this is in many ways a signal of the entry into sports of those who have grown up with the internet as an indispensable communication tool. That's a trend that's not going away, and that's changing the way we access our favorite players teams just as much as the television did in the middle of the 20th century.

Then again, some comments are interesting, especially this one:

hey dude,
thanks for driving the other night, it was good seein ya. ill be back in a week, annnnd the ill be legal to drink and it will be a lot sweeter. ha.
anyway, have a good one in training, see ya next week hopefully.
stefs

Um, yeah. I'm all for the open-air ethic of the internet ... but Tyler might want to consider deleting that sort of thing. Just a suggestion, Yankee Clippard.