Comments on: Ace of Cakes

By: seamus

seamus — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:24:20 +0000

[12] question: maybe a few of those would have been homeruns last year with the way the ball was flying? But now maybe they are triples that are hitting the top of the wall and bouncing around.

By: RIYank

RIYank — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:21:56 +0000

[13] And their call-up catcher, J.P. Arencibia, homered on the first pitch he saw in MLB, in the second inning. Then in the third, he took a pitch, and then doubled. In the fifth, he took three pitches, and then singled. He came up again in the sixth and hit his first pitch for another homer. And then in the seventh he finally took a swing without getting a hit: Arencibia fouled out, dropping his OPS to a mere 3.000.

By: OldYanksFan

OldYanksFan — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:01:17 +0000

Totonto with EIGHT HRs (or field goals) yesterday. The biggest bombing in 3 years since:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200707310NYA

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:29:24 +0000

[11] Big difference at home.

2009: 5 triples
2010: 11 triples (so far)

By: RIYank

RIYank — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:15:10 +0000

Via LoHud: Granderson’s triple was the Yankees 24th of the season. Last year they had 21. And Cano is hitting .400 against the Red Sox this year.

By: kenboyer made me cry

kenboyer made me cry — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:04:47 +0000

[6] For some reason as a kid, the names Rocky Colavito and Andy Etchebarren intrigued me.

Rance Mulliniks is a good one. He sounds like an appliance company in France.

Rusty Kuntz was unfortunate.

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:38:34 +0000

8) I don’t remember it personally, but I heard that he had a painfully long batting ritual (adjust the gloves, step out, etc etc). Basically, Joe West’s worst nightmare.

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:35:22 +0000

[6] Yes, I always liked Inky. Any reason you know of why Mike Hargrove was nicknamed The Human Rain Delay?

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:30:42 +0000

So, with ARod day-to-day and tomorrow (AJ starting) being Frankie’s turn in the rotation, does that mean we see the 8-9 duo of Peña-Cervelli?

Woo-hoo!

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:28:11 +0000

[4] Another one of my all time favorite baseball names: Billy Jo Robidoux. Pete Incaviglia was in the second tier.

I’m not sure why I decided to share this info, but I know you and I appreciate great baseball names (Rance and Candy).

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:06:04 +0000

1) Those two don’t make it easy, do they? And yet, I’d probably choose them over Morgan and Miller on Sunday Night (or Fuckface and Diarrheahead, as my wife refers to them).

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:52:00 +0000

[2] Numbers do lie. We all know that there are no existing numerals beyond 0′s and 1′s. And lets not get into imaginary numbers and pi…

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:47:24 +0000

[1] Tim McCarver: The Fed Ex/Ex-Lax of Sports Broadcasting!

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:45:12 +0000

1) Numbers don’t lie.

Yes, but you can’t predict baseball, so it all balances out. Go AJ! go Yanks!

By: Yankee Mama

Yankee Mama — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:21:44 +0000

When McCarver said that you had to do the routine spectacularly, not be spectacularly routine (please forgive me if I botched it), my husband sighed, grunted, got up and left.

AJ and hope are an unrealistic combination. Numbers don’t lie. I’ll settle for the possibility that the talented AJ shows up.