Ooooooh, looks like Pena is down and Laird is up.

Awesomesauce!*

*even if Laird isn't much of anything, it's always good to give somebody a chance, especially when it means punting on Ramiro Pena ...

[1] Hmmmm, from over at RAB, Pena is out 4-6 weeks after an emergency appendectomy.

As much as I think Pena is as useless as "tits on a boar", that's still a scary situation and I wish him a speedy and successful recovery.

What shall we see tonite? YAY-J or NAY-J?

Scary news about Pena. Let's hope the Rays are worn out from playing 16 innings last night

Curtis with the bunt & the steal!

Those guys look tired.

Blargh. Not so hot Robbie.

Ha!

This is not good.

Holy fuck.

In fact it's downright horrible

Bad AJ night?

I see AJ's strategy. He's trying to get quickly to the bottom of the order, figuring it will be easier to get those guys out. Very clever.

Yeah, you might want to let an expert take that one, AJ.

Hm, maybe Rob couldn't have got to it in time.

Wow. This inning is just AJ Burnett in a nutshell.

Good pitch, good play, half-assed terrible throw to waste everything that happened before it.

Fucking AJ ...

That was a painful inning.

Seems like the Rays should have about six runs.

[18] Yeah, I feel kinda lucky it's only 3.

Steal Brett, steal.

Dr. AJ is the Cure for what Ails you!

[3] I think we have the answer.

Anyway, congrats kid.

Gulp.

Ayala for the fourth?

[24] Is this something we want to watch? (I don't even mean to dis Ayala -- just that this game is excruciating.)

[25] Having my wisdom teeth pulled was more fun. Now what's worse, watching a journeyman reliever who's going to give up runs, or a $100 million pitcher do the same.

I think I'm going to do some channel surfing. AJ + URP is not a good formula.

Whats up gang? Playing on my sisters iPhone as I drive with her back to Texas. Somewhere in Kentucky now. Aj sucks here too. This took about 10 mins to write. : )
Go Yankees'

Missed the whole weekend, tonight too. AJ..he is what he is..really don't see this team winning in the playoffs with only one good starter.

The Bright Spot (Brett).

How the hell does Teixeira get an infield hit into the teeth of the shift? That's amazing.

Oh oh... no more AC at the Trop...

Oh, power problem. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.

[32] In the Trop? Gamedy was stalled, I thought..
That stadium is a joke for so many reasons. How did anyone think it would be a good place to put a team??

C'mon Robbie, bring some thunder!

Or not.

Big out here in the 6th...

Bases juiced, aw jeez.

Nicely done. Sit down B.J.

C'mon.....CURTIS!

Okay, 3-2 Cutis, good eye, good eye...now square one up!

Well worked Curtis!

Fine! We'll take the walk. Feels like Tex, well, feels like he shouldn't be hitting as poorly as he has been. Need some hot sauce from the man. Let's GO MARK!

Yow, that first pitch was close.

Well that sucked.

[44] Whole game sucks. I shoulda shut it down after the third inning, like I said I was gonna do.

I love the verb 'variate', which I believe David Cone made up. Used only when the object is 'his delivery'.

Meh.

Meat!

Farnwhackattack!

Gritty Gutty!

Good ol' Farns!

Geez, everyone is hitting it too hard to allow runners to advance two bases.

Good hustle, Nuñe5. (And Brett.)

Hm, why on earth is Brett batting 8th?

So Jeter can lead off?

Sweeeet!

Lovely takeout slide there from GGBG.

"And it would have been Ball 4".

Oh, man. Good pitch by Farns, dammit. Two good ones, in fact, since that high cheese was very hard to lay off.

Wait, Robertson's got a changeup now?

That's just not fair ...

Is David Robertson who we thought Joba was? (Is that in any way grammatically correct? No English this weekend make Mr. OK Jazz funny speaking again..)

A walk from Russell and his Manstache!

St. Mariano in to drop some Flaming Mo's on this ragtag Rays bunch!

Mo be praised.