A few weeks back, I was hanging out with my six-year-old nephew over at his house. He was sitting on the floor, working on a puzzle when his mother started singing “Empire State of Mind.” At first, he sang along, and then, by the middle of the son, he stopped and looked irritated. “I KNOW that song already!” he said. You know you’ve reached a certain stage in life when you get annoyed by a song because you’ve heard it too much.
Well, I’ve had no need to hear “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas again, ever, in my life, until our own Hank Waddles dubbed Dustin Moseley, “Dustin, the win” Moseley.
That’s Alonzo, who?
Ol’ Mosie’s on the hill in KC tonight.
Let’s Go Yan-Kees!
such irony - i'm listening to kansas RIGHT NOW!!! been on a kick these last coupla weeks. i had to teach a student "carry on my wayward son" and realized how great a tune it really is, beyond just knowing it so well, on the surface only, as an old hit song.
i've basically been spinning all their 70's cd's, including the live record. they were an excellent 70's prog rock band! that said, i can skip 'dust in the wind', too. hank's title was great. i believe i already mentioned kansas in the comments before that game, though not in a clever way! RI and i had a few posts on it and diane mentioned "point of know return", as well. great record!
someone here also mentioned (vicente) padilla, which reminded me of the 1st part of Magnum Opus (from Leftoverture): Father Padilla Meets The Perfect Gnat
i'm glad cliff's tweets are still here. and i see the schedule is back (though off-centered) and i dig the "brain" bannister! : )
GO YANKS!
per Mark Feinsand:
Pettitte threw 50 pitches in his simulated game, but said he could only push off at 75%. Girardi: "It didn't go as well as we wanted."
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Moseley may be with us for a while ...
[0][1] Oh man, 70s arena/prog rock has not aged well at all...I can't listen to Kansas, Boston, Styx or Journey without cringing now...though I will always have a soft-spot for Emerson,Lake & Palmer's live album, where they each took 25-minute solos (Thank you, Mary Jane! , Greg Lake played barefoot on a shag rug on stage, and they each had their own 16-wheeler tour truck for equipment...ahh, the 70s...
Hey, no Swisher.
Heat exhaustion yesterday, I guess he's getting a little recovery time.
Good lineup, anyway.
Cool start.
Go go Granderson...
Pull your weight, Centaur.
seats right behind home plate in KC ... $240 per game
[7] Outfield assist: priceless.
C'mon Bluto!
Late to the party, listening on the radiophone tonight. Seems like LIAB had a rocky first inning.
[10] He's having trouble throwing strikes.
Ah .... the lovely Kim Jones ...
Beckett is following in Papelbon's footsteps.
Wow, and Big Game James is getting shelled, too.
[2] "Moseley may be with us for a while …"
Probably not tonight...
Yeah, good night to stretch out Kerry Wood a little.
Uh-oh...somebody find the stopper and put it back in the bottle.
[16] How long have you been saving that one up? ; )
Shields is gone. 5+ innings, four runs, leaves two runners for Cormier.
Hello,
Let it rain, rain, rain.
Let's play two tomorrow.
Tonight Moseley needs to be put out of his misery.
And might be a stolen base record if this game continues.
Good ol' Wilson Betemit.
[21] Or better, put out of our misery.
Tommy Henson is now throwing gophers galore. Ortiz, Beltre, Drew, consecutive homers.
Sorry, Tommy Hunter, Rangers pitcher. (Who is Tommy Henson? Anybody?)
New Swing!
This is how it's supposed to go. No selfish, rally-killing home runs like the idiot Red Sox.
[27] That Kevin Long is really invaluable to this franchise.
Wheels Posada.
BLUTARSKI!!!
[23] Now now MP, Moseley has been ok as a replacement number 5. I kind of like him. And the Yankees need inning eaters.
Lance makes it all new.
OIIIIIIIIIIIII, as my Brazilian friends would say.
Thought RA Dickey would have a no-no, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Midnight Run, I like that movie. Didn't realize it's like 3 hours long.
[31] I like him too, but this game has been brutal to listen to so far.
And for the record, that's Lance Berkman, Professional Hitter™.
And I get in just in time to see Puma line a game tying 2b down the 1b line
Hm.
Maybe one home run would have been helpful.
Strike three Austin. The Yankes already got a blown call break from the 1st base ump that inning.
Beckett is getting some fierce run support. I guess he'll survive his early shakiness.
[31] Also, as much as I have taken a shine to LIAB, let's not dub him an innings eater just yet. For his career he has averaged almost exactly 5 INN per start. We'll see if his (relative) success (for a number five starter...who is actually replacing the #2) the last few starts can last.
Hey, I can watch Little League again! Florida vs. Georgia.
Carl Pavano has 14 wins .... this SEASON!
[38] We'll see. This delay looks like about an hour as best as I can read the radar. Moseley will probably not return.
Boston now leads 8-2 bottom of the fourth. Becket does not look sharp and the game could be a run-fest. After what happened last night to the BSox, if Texas can come back tonight the Sox will be zombies.
Rangers now get a HR from Mitch Moreland (his first career). Now 8-2.
[42] If 2=4.
I can't see the Rangers winning, but at least Beckett continues to struggle.
Ooops. [43] My mistake, it is 8-4.
[45] Are you watching it? What happened to Ellsbury? (I was watching but it wasn't fun to watch.)
[43] If.
Dude, you make no sense sometmes.
[47] If sometmes = sometimes, and if "/i" is inserted somewhere in there.
[46] Dunno what happened to ribsy.
[47] I now try to "if" at least once per thread. I call it, "Kipling". I think to myself, "I haven't kipled yet this evening," this type thing.
Anyone watching the Birds (5) / TB (0) game? TB with bright WHITE unis with avantegarde lettering and a T on their caps. Kinda nice. Meanwhile, the Birds unis have BRIGHT ORANGE shirts and pants with black socks. Hard to look at. Historically ugly.
[48] You were missing two is, then! You were blind as Jim Joyce.
Young goes Boom. 8-5. TB game in the 9th. TB kinda choking lately. Six could make the PS.
Oops.... I MP'ed. SOX could make the PS.
And Hamilton homers! Beckett melting down.
Josh H. with a BIG BOOM. 8-6.
Now 8-6 in Texas, Hamilton goes back to back with Young.
Yanks back on. Moseley is back
Oh, hey, the Yankees are playing again.
Wow, Moseley seems fine.
And the O's finish off the Rays.
And David Murphy triples off Beckett (with two outs).
Go go Gardner! Now he doesn't have to steal second.
Oh, goody, a play.
Unacceptable.
Why can't major league players bunt anymore? Mickey Mantle got 10 bunts hits every year in his prime, and it kept the defense honest. Is it beneath their dignity today? If Gardner could bunt, he would have prolly 20 extra hits per year.
[64] Don't know, but as long as I have followed baseball, people have complained that players can't bunt anymore. My guess is that bunting has always been somewhat difficult and few players actually mastered it. That said, it seems pretty certain that players were called on to bunt more in the old days. Whether they were successful more often, I have no idea.
The Rangers IBB V-Mart with a man on second and nobody out. Stupid. But Ortiz lines one right to second and the move works out.
I think stupid moves still work out most of the time.
btw, that play last inning by Tex was something. The cliche' "he makes it look easy" applies. From what I've seen this year, he is the best at 1B.
That was a putrid half inning.
The report on the Ellsbury departure is "left side pain". Same side as his rib thing. Remy sounds pretty sure it's the same injury acting up again.
[68] Last year, that liner by Arod would have gone out, the way he squared up on it.
As usual, when catching up with the comments I suspected this game was an epic fail for us. Interesting how a 3-3 tie can hurt so many people if they followed from the beginning >;)
ARod's loss of power is disturbing. Very disturbing.
Uh-oh, tarp time, times 2x.
[70] LOOK AT YOUR CALENDAR.
No, that's not quite right is it?
That's probably it for Moseley, and maybe the game. Will they bother to come back, or call it an official game?
Oh, I see it's 4-3 them. That does kinda leave a bad taste in your mouth, considering it's KC and all; like... like... ?
[75] Not official until after the last out of the fifth?
I think that since the visiting team was able to bat in the 5th and the Royals have the lead, they would get the win, but I might be wrong...
[78] KC Wins if they call it. No bottom of the 5th necessary.
[79] But the HR came in the bottom of the fifth and it wasn't completed. Does that matter? I'm not sure...
Now 9-7 in Texas.
Now 9-8 in Texas. Nancy misplayed a liner by Molina.
9-8 Boston .... JD Drew flys by line drive hit towards him ...
Here it is..., official MLB rulebook stuff...
KC wins...
As I am tasked with recapping this game ... I'd like to see SOME resolution to this prior to say, 1AM.
All tied up in Texaz
knotted at nines!!!
nice 8 pitch inning from feliz. if it goes to extras, he should certainly be able to pitch the 10th...
TheCarMan gets through the 9th. Free baseball in Texas, 9-9.
Tarp coming off the field in KC.
game expected to resume at midnight, as per Kim Jones
Feliz dealing. Boston goes quietly in the 10th. Let's go Rangers...
game on at the witching hour. perfect for friday the 13th! (though i guess technically, it'll be saturday, but whatever...)
17 pitches, 2 innings for netfali!
hell, he can go a 3rd if tex-ass doesn't win it here in the 10th. let's not find out...
GO RANGERS!!!
midnight is like noon for me. in fact, i'm making dinner right now...
(musician hours...)
Meanwhile Deroit continues to suck, although Fat Miggy C. has surprised me and turned it around. He leads MLB in OPS with the following line: .338 .427 .625. He may be the best hitter in Baseball.
Although J. Hammy is right behind at .362 .409 .633 (or maybe slightly ahead after this game?)
i thought elvis was supposed to lead off w/ a triple...
um, tarp is back. maybe not so soon on the game...
Yahoo says it's cooled down to 88 in Arlington after a high of 105.
Sphincter walks Hamilton, 2 outs, it's up to Vlad.
papelbitch wisely danced around hamilton. vlad's outta the game, so it's on... christian guzman.
Doesn't the weatherman know I have to be somewhere at 10AM this morning ... sigh.
only 13 pitches for papelbitch.
this one goes to 11
Sphincter impales Vlad, SO. We go to the 11th.
[100] Unless it's all staged on MLB, Vlad was still in the game.
[103] it was cristian guzman. he either pinch ran for vlad in teh eighth, or he's hurt...
[104] huh, cool. i'm just following on gameday and it had guzman in for vlad. well, at least my expectations weren't high last frame, so it wasn't as much of a let down!
[105] K
[106] Now I'm not so sure...
14 pitches for o'day
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Boston blows and 8-2 lead.
Cruz ends it ... 10-9 Texas
Tim Wakefield in to start the eleventh. 8th Boston pitcher. 1st pitch walk off HR, Nelson Cruz! Rangers win!
Ha! Wake throws ONE pitch. It's OVAH in Texas!
Nelson Cruz does his Aaron Boone impression off of Wakefield.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200310160.shtml
Wakefield's 1st pitch in 11th inning then ...
Wakefield's 1st pitch in 11th inning tonight ...
The Sox have a big lump to swallow, after that flight from Toronto yesterday and now tonight. The ride to the hotel will be brutal...too bad.
hell yeah!!!
nelson cruz!!!
dammit, i shoulda typed it before. i had a feeling he'd go yard. i like that guy. 20-20 power/speed, good defense. hit a floater. beautiful!!!
pavano has 20 freaking wins since last Aug. 7th. CC's the only one with more. (23, methinks)
i really hope we get the chance play tonight - tie it up, go ahead, and ... WIN!!! would be nice to gain a game on everyone...
[118] Fuck Pavano. He couldn't shine even Gaudin's shoes if he pitched in NY. I look forward to the Yankees embarrassing his ass in a future "important" game. Punk Porsche driver.
[120] i hear ya, man. and that godforsaken 'stache. ugh... : /
lohud:
UPDATE, 12:25 p.m.: I think they’re actually going to play this time.
though i think chad meant to say "AM"!
[119] That would make the night (and early morning) complete. But considering what happened already, even if the game is called with a KC win, this was a successful night.
...and we're back!
it's go-dan
according to lohud,
2:10 min. delay
25 degrees cooler.
This will be a late night for KC. As Yogi said, it gets late early there.
walk...strikeout...wild pitch...strikeout.
yeah! 5th inning finally over. took a little while...
7-6 Yanks ... 13 innings ...ending at 3:05... I'm calling it.
Got to get away from the computer, and listen to the end of the game on the radio. Keep up the good fight everyone.
well, we better make somethin' happen here in teh eighth, otherwise it's soria...
bettermit makes a booboo. po on, nino into run for him...
fat elvis at the dish.
puma lined to left.
swish in for kearns.
c'mon nicky baby!!!
pena should run...
follies on the bases
well, pena ran...but swish swished...
gritner needs a base hit here to tie this biatch up...
boone strikes out 2. 16 pitches for his 3 outs. joe brings in joba to finish teh 8th...
joba gets an easy fly out.
tough task ahead - score a run of soria.
let's do it!
What happened the Yankees offense?
if gamecast is to be trusted, soria pounded jeter down and in. jete's ended up singling to left.
grandyman up. let's see some results, baby!
Damn, I thought Granderson got that one.
Great AB by Granderson, but no cigar. Yankees running out of time.
unproductive out.
let's go Tex!
The Royals have given the Yankees so many chances in this game. At some point, they have to cash in, right?
No contest for Tex...major letdown there. He is the only Yankee who has been hitting lately.
not a good ab by tex.
always comes down to a-rod...
Would have loved to see Jeter try to steal 2B ahead of that hit.
Let's go Robbie.
christ, a-rod's obp is .331. that's like below average. yuck.
nice, a-rod.
[145] me too. me too...
c'mon robbie!
fuck.
if only grandy or tex moved jeter over. or he stole...
sucks, but at least we didn't lose any ground in the division...
Cano has been struggling lately. The offense has really been weak in August. Four losses now when giving up 4 or fewer runs. With Rays and Sox losing, kind of awful to get shut down by a team as bad as the Royals. If the Rays and Sox didn't have problems of their own, I'd be very worried about this team, especially with the bad news on Pettitte.