Today's lineup, a Mattpat special!

Derek Jeter DH
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Andruw Jones LF
Eduardo Nunez SS
Francisco Cervelli C

OK, CC looking sharp.

Dammit.
Okay big guy, do your stuff. Let's hold on to this tiny lead, please.

jack wilson, gimme a break. Sit the fuck down.

CC missing the corners in this inning.

Thank you.

Big performance from big man.
Big.

Good eye, Jetes, good eye.

It's a nice day today, AB. (Though apparently not in Seattle.) I guess our banter buds are outside, where we should prolly be too.

Jetes doing a good job getting on base!

Let's go dickheds, time to capitalize.

9) prolly. But at least we have each other. LOL

Dickheds, is that one of those Dutch Belgian words? Sounds insulting.

Ah, the ol' swinging bunt. OK, Alex, time to drive home a pair.

Shit.

lol my bad that's dickheads!

[11] A great comfort to me! (But now I feel terrible that I have to go drive my kid somewhere. Let's hope Sterling has a good call or two while I'm driving him!)

horseshit.

There you go, Robbie. Fuck Jason Vargis.

Robbie Wheels.

3-2 count for Swish, runners on second and third...

Ooof, Vargis gets squeezed and walks him. Fourth walk of the game for Vargis. Bases juiced. Score Truck, where art thou?

[9] i've been in the studio all day. per usual. finished my marimba tracks for cd #2. wahoo!!!

now, i have tons of other (indoor) music work to tackle over the next coupla days. i have what frank zappa hilariously calls a "studio tan"!

plus, it's at least 130 degrees here in hotlanta...

c'mon Andruw!!!

YES! Jones clears the bases with a shot down the right field line!

ANDRUW!!!

YEAH!!!

back-to-back triples!!!

i loves it : )

HAHAHAHA.

Ugly flop from Nunez.

Looks like Jiminez tagged Swisher at the plate, but FUCK IT!

Then Nunez with a triple and a bellyflop into third!

That flop was GREAT! Especially with a 6-0 lead.

82 pitches for Vargas through 3. Time to go to work, CC.

Short day for Vargas.

Grandy with a one out double off the wall. Missed another homer by a foot or two.

Teixeira promptly singles him home.

Oy, Alex swung right through that.

I did get some fun calls from Sterling! Back now. Thanks, thelarmis, for keeping our host company.

[34] anytime. please take now of how we scored lots of runs when you left and i showed up. that's what i bring!

Busy ass weekend. These are the first pitches I've seen in Seattle. Cone's killin' it with the defensive metrics. lol.....What's his handle on the Banter? ; )

36) Williamny23?

Shit. And CC in a spot of trouble. Bases loaded, 1 out, for Ichiro.

WOW. Don't see that everie day.

1-2-3 dp!

huge dp by the very large man!

40) And some days, shit just works out fuh ya.

20.

Well, I thought it was LONG gone too, so I'm not gonna give DJ grief over that one ...

[35] I got this from Sterling, by the way:

"It is high, it is far, it is... off the wall..."

Granderson's double.

Wow, Smoak crushed that.

Looks like I missed the score truck delivery while I was cooking.

0-2 base hit. Nertz.

[44] don't you have another kid you can drive somewhere? ; )

[48] The other ones drive themselves, dammit. I could drive someone else's kid.

SIddown, Moose.

[49] haha! well, i've been driving myself too hard, working all the time. i'm gonna duck out for a little nap. i need to recharge so i can actually enjoy some ale later tonite! : )

hold down the fort.

GO YANKS!!!

Sleep well, thelarmis.

"Line drive in the gap...aaaaand, HE'S DANCIN'." Kenny Singleton calling Alex Rodriguez's base hit.

51) Sweet dreamz, Hoss.

I know Swish missed two fat pitches there but good to see him draw the walk.

By the way, that Andruw bases loaded double is my favorite Yankee hit in weeks. Slurp.

Alex, I'm making a tortellini salad, and I think I'll mix up a couple of champagne cocktails for me and the missus. (Kids are all off at friends' places.) How's supper looking at the Belth residence?

I do so love David Cone ...

Nice Paul Simon reference by Cone... "must be a lack of sleep, I've had that song stuck in my head for a couple of days."

57) Not sure yet, I think it'll be something light. The wife took me out to dinner last night for my b'day and we had a ridiculous meal at an Italian place in the west village called L'Artusi. It was really special. For an app, we shared roasted morel mushrooms covered with a fried egg. Em had a wonderful and light pasta stuffed with fresh peas, they were little pockets. And I had orchiette with sausage and tomatoes.

We had a side dish of crisp potatoes with a horseradich cream sauce on the side. The potatoes were small guys that were smashed down, salty and crisp but tender inside. They were really great. I also had a side of snap peas with chilies. They were fine but the least satisfying thing we tried.

And for dessert, bro, I had a piece of olive oil cake that was served with a creme fraische mousse and some golden raisins that were cooked down with some kind of liquor. There was no alcohol taste in the raisins, they were sweet, but not syrupy, and the raisins retained a little tartness that was appealing. The cake was moist, and it was, well, shit, man, I'd go back just for dessert alone. The place is a little on the pricey side, but not enough to break the bank and if you are ever in New York, man, I couldn't recommend it more.

I'll accept either "The Goose" or "The Lemmy" as the proper moniker for that 'stache ...

[61] Or, "The Megan's Law".

Depends on the owner, I suppose ...

Here's the cake:

http://bit.ly/mTRwD0

L'Artusi, I will not forget.
Italians have a way with potatoes, don't they? It makes me embarrassed that I sometimes think of potatoes as dull.

There's a little place in Providence I went to a couple of weeks ago that served tiny crisp ones with brussels sprouts and aioli. Man.

Oh, hey "just desserts"! The theme for this evening.

Fuck yeah!

Yeah, and you really need to use salt properly with potatoes. If you don't use enough, they just can be bland.

Here's the menu (which had some alterations last night due to seasonal changes):

http://bit.ly/71pUaf

[65] Mm, mouth-watering.

Hey, speaking of food in the West Village, last month I had my first meal at Aqua Grill. I had a great time (I was eating with people I like a lot and hardly ever get to see, so that was part of it). Huge piles of shellfish and lots of (overpriced but good) white wine.

And cult, feel free to chime in. (Or rbj or just fair, if you guys are still reading.)

Champagne cocktail in hand. Yum. (What other uses are there for Angostura bitters? I must have had this tiny bottle of bitters for three years.)

[67] I'm here. Now you've got *me* wondering what I should do for dinner. I'm thinking I might wander down the street to the local Carneceria and pick up some carne asada to throw on the grill.

Jebus, Granderson is SMOKING hot.

Man, how i wish I had a grill...sigh...the downfall of city life.

FAAAAAAAAAARGH.

Well, that inning was a giant pile of BULLSHIT, 7-1 lead or not.

[72] No inning in which Rob doubles is a giant pile of bullshit.

I'm not saying it was carne asada or a champagne cocktail, but.

Uh, Curtis. Not Rob.
Wishful thinking.

Man... that is one UGLY car.

[65],[66] Guys, the Cooking Channel is always looking for fancy-shmancy new shows to impress the gentry, you should audition now >;)

[73] Curtis, you mean?

But it was, lead off double (that probably should have been a triple) and then: overswing, baserunning blunder, overswing.

0 runs scored.

*Exactly* the same sort of BULLSHIT we've become used to watching from this team the last month or so ...

[77] Yes, Curtis, see [74]. That would be infuriating if the Yanks didn't have a big lead. But, they did!

[76] Takes more than that to impress you, though, huh Will?

And there ya go.
Lance Pendleton.

Well, that would have been a lot tastier if it was the broom game of a sweep, but, fuck, at least we salvaged ONE game of that series ...

[78] It's never to late to sweep the leg ...

[67] Still here, nice win. Just been eating din-dins (Omaha steak w/ a biscuit, with some Pinot Grigio. I like that wine in the warmer weather.

Nice win.

RI, pictures of the L'Artusi in the game recap above!

[78] Well, I certainly hope that's not a problem >;)