Get it in gear, Fuckos.
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Robinson Cano 2B
Alex Rodriguez DH
Raul Ibanez LF
Nick Swisher RF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Eric Chavez 3B
Russell Martin C
That’s the line-up should they even start this one. Been raining all day and it is supposed to rain all week. Never mind the malaise: Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Fernando Scianna]
Right now, with Ibby hot and Teix cold, that's a good lineup. Gotta give Joe credit for having the balls to bat Teix 7th.
[1] Tex is so under-the-radar, its not even likely to be a big deal. He also seems like the kind of guy to just nod his head, say "OK", and realize its probably to help him as much as the team. Less pressure from the 7th spot, no?
[0] AB, between the picture and your first line, I'm still laughing. Let us hope they do!
Man, Teix down to seventh!
Kenny finally on Twitter. WHOOOO!
So they're going to play through the rain.
How on earth are they playing in that rain?
I'm always happy to watch a Yanks game, but this is one of those nights they'd have to pay me to sit in their seats and drink their beer.
I wouldn't do it for less than $400 plus travel, and parking expenses. Everybody has their price. That's mine.
This is why I hate the way games are shot. We have no idea what kind of jump Ibanez got. They literally couldn't show us the whole play.
[7] hahhaahha
If it stops raining my price gets cut in half.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Yankees are losing. This is familiar.
Day-um!
Fuck a duck!
I'll pay Kuroda $400 not to throw that pitch again.
If Gritner is in LF, there is no score in this game. It's not only that Raul is bad, but that Gritner is great. His glove is sorely missed.
Man, Derek's down to .347.
He is in total free fall.
[16] Yes.
[17] In the last 11 games, Jeter is batting just under .250 with ZERO XBHs.
[16] At the Mud Hens - SWB game Friday night, there was a fair amount of Yankee gear being worn, one woman even had an 11 Gardner t-shirt on.
Raining tengus and fugus here too. Excited to watch Darvish vs. King Felix later.
Yanks losing already? Sigh..
[17] Yep, Derek has lost his mojo just like the rest of his teammates.
I am trying not to let the Yankees get me down, but they suck at the moment. Come on, it is the Royals.
Another RISP fail.
Score truck interuptus
[24] Is there such a thing as Score Truck viagra?
Jerry Garcia, alive and two rows behind home plate
Hahahahahh!
I see him!
Robbie! One of the few bright spots this year.
The Yankees play a boring enough brand of baseball without all the intentional walks.
Maybe this game will be washed away.
back to back hits!
Look what I'm reduced to cheering about.
You know what's perverse?
I'm getting nervous about the prospect of bases loaded no outs because that seems a situation doomed to disappoint.
And there it is.
Now what?
Bases loaded no one out.
Do they score?
Bases Loaded!
Nobody Out!
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.
.
We're dead!
Good job, RObbie...
Nice easy swings...
And there's one.
Here comes the double play.
Now comes the double play
No worries, that was just our best hitter whiffing
Has the Umping always been this bad?
Just hit the ball in the fucking air.
[40] Does it matter?
No... ARod will come through.
[43] Or swing through
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus motherfucking christ on a goddamned motherfucking cracker.
No worries, that was just our second best hitter whiffing
What a terrible, boring baseball club.
Ra-ra-ou-la-la!
Oh fuck. Warning track.
YANKEES SUCK YANKEES SUCK YANKEES SUCK YANKEES SUCK
Well.... AT LEAST SOMEONE HIT THE FUCKING BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sigh. That should have come with the first two outs not the third.
I've lost all standing when the wife wants to change the channel
I mean seriously. This isn't even fun to watch.
Kuroda liucks into an out
I'm traveling to Oakland to watch this traveling sideshow this year. I wonder if they'll refund my plane ticket
Watching MLB.com Gameday, strike three to Cano was wayy outside.
Great now we can strand him on 3rd
Sweet
How about a couple of polls?
1) Date of next hit with RISP
2) Date of next hit with RISP and 2 out (please include year).
Kay's Showalter gushing is kind of embarrassing.
And no two out hit. Now hitting 6 for 65 in that situation. Mendoza line looks like Mt. Everest.
[60] 3) Date of their next win
Guess it didn't rain hard enough.
sigh.
Are we all wearing fucking hair shirts this season?
[61] Glad I am not listening..appreciate Buck for his amazing work with the Yankees but..
I'm really not enjoying Yankees baseball much this year
I'm really beginning to think that at some point in this season, one of our pitchers will hit the 100-pitch count in the 1st inning - and all of us schmucks will still be following that game as if we have a chance to win it.
Kuroda"s stopped bleeding runs. (yawn) Release the puppets.
[69] LOL
Is it only me, or is Kuroda beginning to look like a fat toad?
Yankees are so fucking boring that the announcers are barely even paying attention anymore.
I'm really praying that one morning soon I'll wake up and realize that this has all been extended Spring Training and that the regular season is about to start
Were we not allowed to bat in the fifth? Is the tarp on the field? What did I miss?
Lets all send a case of booze into the broadcast booth and see how Kaye sounds when he's really fucking fueled up!
[77] Wait, you mean he isn't?
Wtf was that?
What the fuck is WRONG with this team?
Outs! We don't need no stinkin' outs!
WTF were you thinking Mark? This team is playing horseshit ball.
78) we're stricken with the swine Falu.
I hate this
[73] Too true. BORING.
Sorry for being absent - I'll admit, part of this is that if the team is this disinterested, so am I.
Mostly, though, I've been busy with a pro and a college team in the playoffs (although one of those is currently shitting the bed, as they do every other game...)
But this team is a disaster. They've had some smaller injuries, and of course, the huge ones, but this season hasn't looked good to me from the get go.
I hope Hal is delighted with having his beans in order.
Dear shithead - the economics of it doesn't work if the product is shitty. If we hear you whining about decrepitude in the Bronx in a year or so, no one's going to fucking hear it from you, because you have zero goodwill banked. Great team they've put together. And it's outstanding to have the steady guiding hand of Cashman at the helm, who can't keep it in his pants with a crazy lady. And I mean an honest to goodness, terrifying, crazy popping out of the eyes real deal crazy woman. Terrible.
They're bound to rally one of these times.
Let the comeback begin...
Ballsy, A Rod.
[84] Don't be sorry for being absent, the team has mentally checked out.
Luck sob.
Damn you Swish.
83) Think you misused disinterested there. Otherwise, that's a funny ass comment!
Holy shit
Just a terrible fucking baseball team.
It looks as if the Yankees are aiming for one of those Everyone Who Participates Wins A Trophy awards at the end-of-season banquet.
Alex just wanted to be closer to his position after the 3rd out I s'pose. A parade of fucking fail and suck.
.500 and dropping like a rock.
I'm sure Joe's remedy is going to be more rest.
I can't watch anymore. Good night all.
[94] He's not playing third. Alex played third yesterday. He's not allowed to play in the field twice in a week!
[95] That's hysterical and horrible at the same time.
Also, Clay Rapada sucks.
They're going to be tied with the Red Sox in last place after this game. Well done, boys!
This team is terrible.
Now they're just rubbing it in...is there a Mercy Rule for MLB?
[87] That's what it seems like.
[90] Did I? I have to think about it. Uninterested, disinterested, whatever it is, it's feckless and shitty...
103) Disinterested means impartial, uninterested means what you meant it to--feckless and shitty.
Just wondering - if the Yanks finish last, do they have any shot at drafting Andrew Luck? RG3? Any Kentucky hoopster?
Even Kay is bored. Ripped has become "redirected." oi!
Yay - two more chances to strand a runner in scoring position!
[104] I am both disinterested and uninterested in following this game any longer. Is that a contradiction?
108) Indeed it is. I don't think the Yankees are boring. I think they are just horseshit. But they've had worse starts and rebounded. Do like Jesse Jackson: Keep Hope Alive!
(104) (108) wanted to leave a comment but I don't give a flying fuck
The only chance we'd have at this stage of the game would be if Eli Manning was at QB
Here comes the three run bomb.
This is my first attempt at a youtube video starting at a specific point. At least I learned something tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXaqDcb51tI#t=00m22s.
Dem is some die hard fans sitting in the rain on a Monday night watching a feckless, uninteresting, boring, horseshit team. Hey, if they are sitting in the rain watching this slop I sure as shit aint' turning my TV off.
[114] Fly the flag brother! I'm switching over to Rangers - Mariners soon as that starts. Losing to the Royals is never acceptable.
Remember we used to call Felix Herdia the Run Fairy? What's that make Freddy Garcia? All I can think of is the Beatles singing....Here Comes the Run King...
Although I apologize for the shitty quality. But I guess it goes with the theme.
He was safe.
Finally found a saving grace for this evening - my plasma big-screen went out and, thank Mickey, I was able to reboot it and solve the problem. The bad news is that it was still tuned to YES.
Awesome.
This is a disgrace.
Masochists for Fat Freddy - Unite!!!!
Hey, at least we've got each other. Cause if there is anything less sympathetic than a bunch of Yankee fans bitching about their sorry-ass, boring, horseshit follies team I'd like to know what it is.
i so rarely get to catch any games this season, let alone follow along on the banter. i come home to this?! feh.
so... we'll be a .500 ballclub (until we lose tomorrow) and tied for last place. meanwhile, the shit sox have scored 8 runs and are beating the first place oreo's. ugh...
[116] Hahhahaha!
Except everybody's NOT laughing, nor are we happy!
124) Well, at least the Yanks won't lose another game to the O's...
Man, those are some empty-ass stands.
i tried buying tickets for the yanks game in atlanta on monday, june 11th. last time they were here, i sat in left field, so i could be near Mo. that was 2 games in a row. i can only go to 1 game this year and Mo's not pitching (sigh/cry), so i wanna sit by the Yanks' dugout. couldn't get 2 seats next to each other. sucks. i'll figure something out.
i might actually go see the braves/yanks at The Stadium the following Monday! : )
wieters with a chance to tie the game. runners on corners, no out...
Greatest comeback of the year, coming up!
Can't just be a fair weather fan. Need to watch THIS in the rain.
Now's the time is to celebrate any win, not expect to always win.
Jesus, Alex, that swing is so fucking long.
(130) Rangers?
[108] That got a lol out of me. [104] Thanks for the correction. Must have "disinterested" on the brain from reading about arbitration all day (where they are rarely "disinterested," even though they always claim to be), which is really my best excuse, as I'm trying to finish up my final law school paper.
[110] Really summed it up for me, though. Le sigh.
on that horrifying trip to KC the other week, didn't we face - and get shut down by - paulino? you would think we'd figure him out this time around. 8 k's, 2 bb's, ZERO runs???
total bollocks.
[130] Damn, AB. I need some of that healthy organic shit you blog abotu sometimes, makes you so optomistic!
[132] He's done, man. He's done. May not even make 700.
all this "feckless" reminds me of dennis hopper's character "Feck" in "River's Edge". i loved that movie as a kid!
8-6. 1st & 2nd, still no outs. chris davis up for ball-tumor.
And it's supposed to rain all week.
[136] My typing/spelling no est beuno..
136) Well sometimes when a team is going bad, and everything is going the wrong way--every well hit ball is at somebody, everyone slumping, not just A Rod and Tex but Swisher, Martin, etc--there's a point where you just have to shrug and realize we've got to ride it out. Don't know how long it will last but you've got to laugh--or try and stay cheery--to keep from crying.
[137] Feck weed!
[141] It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry.
[137] FECK! I love that movie.
Gosh that movie was creepy. If that's what tonight's game leaves us with, memories of Crispin Glover ranting like a maniac then this might be worse than I thought. Shudder...
[143] Ain't it the truth, Matt. Ain't it the truth.
[143] nice dylan reference!
clarissa was hot in that flannel shirt in the park.
And I can't help it now if this train gets lost.
Are the Yankees trying? I think so. And if so, there's a good chance they'll start hitting and snap out of this weird vortex of suck with runners in scoring position. And if not, they don't make it this year and our Octobers open up for other shit. That would be less fun than usual, but 2008 wasn't so bad that they couldn't win the whole damn thing the very next year.
I POKED AT IT WITH A STICK!
[144] funny - i thought you'd be pessimistic about the Yanks and would love that movie!!! i'm 0-2, kinda like a yankee... ; )
[144] Hahhahaha!
I don't remember that movie at all, except for the tone and pacing (creepy, indeed) and Dennis Hopper and the kids having no pot but saying they could just go get some Feck weed.
damn. padilla came in and got an important out. 2nd & 3rd, 2 outs now...
fuck. boids couldn't do anything else.
8-6 going to the 9th.
i'm listening to the braves' post game show. reds hit 4 solo homers and beat the bravos...
(Can't stop singing now: "And if I die, on top of the hiiiiiiilllllll!"...)
Misery loves company: last place here we come.
[144][151] Am I missing the whole Crispin Glover and Dennis Hopper thing? Both them guys totally overrated..though to be fair, Glover was brilliant as George McFly..
[156] Don't start knockin' Dennis Hopper. A truly unique cat, for good or ill.
I can't say I liked "River's Edge." I didn't hate it either. I just remember it being bugged out.
Hey, Teix! I do have a question though. If the guy has a brutal throad, chest problem and they give him two days off, why was he at the ballpark? Whey wouldn't he stay home? And if he's really that sick why oh why would he be playing on a rainy night like tonight?
Man, I love horrible movies. I thought I'd seen most of them from the 80's. I had to youtube River's Edge, though, and definitely missed that one. Rats! It looks like a keeper.
[157] "had to be there" kind of guy? Like The Kinks or Plato's Retreat, things you look back on and say "why?"?
[158] Take a look at it again, Alex. Really smart and yes, definitely disturbing, film. Probably the only time I've ever liked Keanu Reeves.
156) He sure had his moments.
i totally love river's edge - great soundtrack, too - but yeah, it was creepy as fuck. definitely a disturbing flick. hopper was pretty unreal.
last place will be all to ourselves very soon. our run differential will be negative, too. that really sucks...
[158] Girardi said the other day something like, "when you have young kids you often get more rest at the ballpark."
161) No, thanks. Saw it about three years ago. Still creeped me the hell out. Never need to revisit it again. I agree with you on Keanu, though. He was convincing in that one.
[160] Talented guy, spent too much time a victim of his addictions, but a really unique presence on screen. Good photographer, too. He's really great in Blue Velvet.
And you don't like the Kinks? I thought everyone likes The Kinks.
[159] oh yeah, man - definitely a keeper! you gotta watch the whole thing. you'll love it!
ever see "Near Dark"?
[165] See, that's one place we differ - I *like* revisiting films that freak me out!
i don't dislike the kinks, but i wouldn't say i *like* them. coupla cool songs. i definitely definitely definitely dislike iggy pop & lou reed, depeche mode & erasure. i also don't like ac/dc...
[166] Hard for me to get past the "Hopper" persona..
Never liked The Kinks, E.Costello, Joni Mitchell..a lot of folks that their fans are super protective of. I'm that way about Van Morrison though, go after him and you got an angry Mr. OK Jazz to deal with :)
vulture in to save it for the shit sox.
go o's!
168) I can do it with some dark movies but not all. "Blue Velvet" I can watch again, though. Man was that ever good.
The Kinks! First concert I ever saw. Roseland Ballroom, May 1983.
0-12 with RISP can I hear 0-13? YES.
[170] I like all those people, especially Van.
I honestly don't mind when people don't like stuff I like (hell, I love the Grateful Dead, so you have to accept that a lot of your friends are never gonna go with you on that one), but I do get surly if anyone trashes Dylan.
Hey, on a sunny note, today was Fats Waller's birthday. That dude is underrated. Makes me happy as pie when I hear him sing. Hey Matt, remember that revival show they had of his music on Broadway when we wuz kids in the '80s, "Ain't Misbehavin."?
[167] I just watched the trailer. Near Dark seemed vaguely familiar
[175] Yup. There's a cool anecdote about Waller in Robert Stone's "Damascus Gate," if I recall correctly.
[175] My parents loved that..am sure I resisted going with them infavor of staying home to watch The Jeffersons and then the Yankee game on WPIX..
[174] I'm convinced that people who don't respect Dylan just don't like music in general..elitist, perhaps. But true!
last place. +1 run diff. losing record on the road. lowest playoff %age in the division.
feh.(k)
Jaguar said you aint won this race yet, and pulled back around the bird like a sabre jet.
I'm calling it now. Tex finds his way, Arod mashes 5 in one week, Gardner comes back hot, Swish sees the ball again, Derek gets back to two hits a game, Cano loses the mystery, and more.
The Yanks in first by July.
Dennis Hopper was great in Apocalypse Now and great in Blue Velvet.
What else do you want?