Comments on: Color By Numbers: Tales from the Road

By: RIYank

RIYank — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:23:38 +0000

This is OT, but I thought youse might want a brief pre-series Red Sox Nation update.

First, this will be a Pony-Free weekend: Pedroia is on the DL with a strained hoof. (Thumb, actually.)

Second, Dan Bard announced a couple of days ago that he had “figured it out”, but yesterday he faced four batters: two of them hit him, and he returned the favor, hitting the other two. He is a serious head case.

Crawford and Ellsbury are on their way back but won’t make it this weekend. Crawford is hitting very well in AA (there’s some good reason he isn’t playing for Pawtucket but I can’t remember what it is).

And finally, here’s a very nice Pete Abe piece about David Ortiz’ discontent. I don’t think RSN appreciates what they have in Pete, honestly.

By: Ara Just Fair

Ara Just Fair — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:33:59 +0000

I enjoyed the article. Lots of neat tidbits. Scott Brosius playing for the bad guys. The Athletics winning 31 of their last 42 games with the Yankees, including 16 in a row at one point. Yikes. And that’s what’s great about baseball. We can hate a manager for about 30 years now. Eff LaRussa. : )
Good stuff above, William.

By: Bruce Markusen

Bruce Markusen — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:45:36 +0000

Thanks for putting that up, Ara. Those were some cool memories. Man, that LaRussa can be infuriating.

By: Ara Just Fair

Ara Just Fair — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:20:13 +0000

[2] I liked your story and hit the google machine. Check it out. : )
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/18/sports/baseball-showalter-cocks-fist-yanks-provide-punch.html

By: Bruce Markusen

Bruce Markusen — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:02:55 +0000

I remember those Yankee struggles against Tony LaRussa’s A’s. As I recall, the turning point was a game at the Stadium in which LaRussa continued to verbally taunt Matt Nokes from the bench. Buck Showalter told Nokes that if LaRussa did it again, Nokes was to tell Buck, who would then take matters into his own hands. Sure enough, LaRussa kept up with the nonsense, Showalter then responded with a verbal assault of his own, and the two benches emptied.

The announcers wondered how the A’s would match up against Frank Howard, who was one of the Yankee coaches at the time. The Yankees seemed to do better against the A’s after that.

By: rbj

rbj — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:08:05 +0000

Surprised Seattle wasn’t on the list. It seemed the Yankees always lost in the Kingdome in the 70s & 80s.