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The return of the Big Fella.

1. Jeter SS
2. Granderson CF
3. Teixeira 1B
4. A-Rod DH
5. Cano 2B
6. Swisher RF
7. Jones LF
8. Nix 3B
9. Stewart C

Give it up for C.C. y’all and…Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Via SI.com]

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83 comments

1 thelarmis   ~  Jul 17, 2012 4:03 pm

A-Rod's actually at DH tonight. 2 players at the hot corner would mean we're really in the 3rd basement! ; )

2 thelarmis   ~  Jul 17, 2012 5:02 pm

the Darnell McDonald era in pinstripes is now over. (or ovah.)

3 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:15 pm

Big guy remembers how to do it.

4 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:15 pm

Nice start for CC

5 Simone   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:16 pm

How cute was CC?! Aaaawww!

Welcome back, C.C., go get 'em.

6 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:18 pm

Youk scores in the top of the first. Jon Lester not looking good (four batters, three hits).

7 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:18 pm

Another lead off hit for Derek.

8 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:22 pm

Lester about to throw his 25th pitch, only one out so far...

9 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:24 pm

A K/CS DP gets Lester out of the inning, oy veh. 27 pitches, two runs, but it could have been worse (a disaster, in other words).

10 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:36 pm

Damn, Rob.
Glad he's on our team, is all.

11 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:37 pm

Philip Humber (he of the perfect game in April and many piles of crap since) also struggles. Jacoby (I'll call him by his first name just for you rbj) and Crawford each single and steal, and A-Gon singles too, and the Vermilion Hosiery are tied with the Wan Hosiery.

12 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:38 pm

[11] Thanks!

13 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:42 pm

Lucky 7 spot indeed.

14 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:42 pm

He do, Mr. Jones!

15 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:42 pm

SAVE THE BONES!

16 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:43 pm

Another 3 or more game to add to the Yankee streak.

17 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:43 pm

[16] That's runs.

18 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:45 pm

WTF?

NO PLAYS.

NO PLAYS.

DO NOT PUT ON ANY PLAYS.

19 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:47 pm

[18] World Tennis Federation?

20 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 6:56 pm

Good work big boy.

So Hughes and CC pitched (so far) 10 innings these two days, and gave up six hits between them. All six hits for extra bases.

21 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:03 pm

Oh, uh, great base running, Mark.

Jesus. They need base running camp.

22 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:06 pm

Nice hit Alex, but hit 'em where they ain't.

23 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:12 pm

Looks like CC is right on the beat after his 20 days off. He's got a lot of groin to pull...

24 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:15 pm

The extra base hit streak ends.

25 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:23 pm

A play that worked.

26 Chyll Will   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:25 pm

[15] I keep thinking that was either inspired by Nat King Cole or Zorak from SGC2C...

27 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:32 pm

The Greek God of Walks takes one over the Monstah for a 3-run dingah.

No "yooooooook" from the Fenway Faithful this time.

Aw my gawd, Lestah.

28 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:33 pm

[26] I know who Nat King Cole was.

29 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:46 pm

Lester's all done after four innings.

30 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:56 pm

CC is in cruise control.

31 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 7:57 pm

[29] Aww. Am glad I can go back to not caring about his pitching.

32 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:09 pm

CC doesn't want to come out. But in this case I approve of Joe's move.

33 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:09 pm

Taking the big man out of the game now was the right thing to do. The bullpen has to hold it for his win.

34 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:12 pm

CC..he's just really good. When is the last time the Yanks had an "ace" like him..Gator? Of course, Guidry was about half the size of CC..

35 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:13 pm

[34] Clemens?

36 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:13 pm

Welcome to the Show, Gose. Ugh, mix'n'match.

37 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:18 pm

[34] Clemens..but he was much older. I mean an in his prime "ace".

Oh, and Clemens was a total d-bag, asswipe, blockhead. CC & Gator "seem" like really good guys.

38 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:24 pm

[36] Yes, the game was going much too fast.
But, it worked out nicely. Boone looks good.

[37] Oh, you didn't specify non-asswipe. (Always reminds me of that SNL sketch with Nick Cage.)

39 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:27 pm

Uh.
O'Neill thinks if there were a team in Mexico City, maybe all the Latino players would want to be on that team instead of the Yankees.

Paul was very good at baseball.

40 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:27 pm

HA!

41 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:30 pm

Derek shoulda tried for third. We don't need the run and a triple would have been cool!

42 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:31 pm

Jays defense exposed this inning.

43 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:31 pm

Join the party, Curtis!

44 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:32 pm

[39] Oh dear..Paulie was indeed good at baseball.

Can't they just make it a Kay/Cone/Singleton booth for next season?

45 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:32 pm

RIYank, I remember that skit too. Wouldn't mind a Caribbean team, playing in Puerto Rico, Cuba (with a change in government) and the D.R.

46 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:33 pm

[39] Cone needs to be there to up the IQ in the booth. Where's Singleton been?

47 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:33 pm

Wow, our win expectancy is 1, according to the historical data!

48 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:41 pm

[45] The flights (the airports), the heat, the infrastructure. It will be a long time before Cuba, the DR, or even Puerto Rico could support a competitive MLB team. Just the salaries alone.

I think Mexico City might be first to reach that level. But even there, the best soccer players are poached for the European leagues.

49 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:41 pm

Lots of insurance this inning.

50 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:44 pm

[48] Mexico City: sure, but that's because the European leagues are the best leagues in the world. We're talking about a baseball team that would be in the best league in the world. There would be no team to poach the players.
Mexico City would also sell a lot of tickets (it's an enormous city).

51 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:44 pm

Oh, good, Chad Qualls.

52 monkeypants   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:45 pm

[50] Forget Mexico City..it's inexcusable that MLB has essentially given up on Montreal, given the size, uniqueness, and long baseball history of the market.

53 monkeypants   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:46 pm

[51] What is the apparent fascination with Qualls? Is this a sneaky effort to get Soriano a save chance?

54 rbj   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:47 pm

[48] I was thinking of a 20-41-20 home schedule, which is Brutal, but we've gotten so many good players from the islands that I'd like to reward them somehow.

55 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:50 pm

[52] Well, all the Canadian players would want to play there instead of on the Yankees. Especially the Francophones. I don't want to lose Russell! [53] I don't know. It's inexplicable.

Hanging Chad. Well, he gets away with just one run, so that's a success. I'm going Mattpat on this one and wishing he'd given up two.

56 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:54 pm

Carl Crawford has three hits tonight. It's a good night for CCs. (But Carl's teammates have sucked. I think Papi is pleased, actually. "What are you motherfuckers gonna do without me, huh? One-year-contract this, bitches.")

57 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:54 pm

[50] I concede your point about the European leagues being the best, but futbol is huge in Mexico with a lot of competitive teams. The stadiums are full, but the teams can't compete with the European salaries and the players follow the money.

It would take the super-rich elite in Mexico to run the baseball team at a big loss to keep pace with the US teams.

58 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 8:59 pm

Crimson Hosiery score three in the eighth to close the gap to two. Kelly Shoppach pinch hitting for Saltalamacchia hits a two-run homer!

59 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:01 pm

[57] You really think so? I don't agree. I think they'd have more revenue than the Twins. Of course, they'd get all the profit-sharing, and I bet they would get big television revenues -- yes, the tube-watchers there have a lot less disposable income than Minnesotans but there are waaaaaaaaay more of them. And they would sell a shitload of merchandise.

60 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:02 pm

Hanging Chad Qualls, ladies and gentlemen.

61 monkeypants   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:04 pm

Ah, Soriano is warming. [53] Sneaky, sneaky Chessmaster!

62 Mattpat11   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:07 pm

Can we be done with Chad Qualls now?

63 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:08 pm

[61] Rapada still has to put somebody on base.

64 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:09 pm

[59] Could be. I guess a Harvard Business School study is in order. There are 25+million people in the Mexico City market, but how many can afford $10 beers and $30 t-shirts?

In Pesos, Arod would be making about 450 Million a year.

65 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:10 pm

There it is!
Soriano must be pleased.

66 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:12 pm

[64] They couldn't hire A-Rod. But neither can the Twins.
Right, probably not many $10 cervezas, but maybe they could sell twice as many at $6.

67 Mattpat11   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:12 pm

[65] I'm not sure I've ever seen pleased Soriano

68 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:14 pm

[67] He likes to take his clothes off. But as Jermaine Stewart says, "we don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time".

69 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:16 pm

Easy peasy.

70 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:18 pm

[68] Oh..you just made me spit out my wheat tea as I convulsed in laughter. Beautiful!

71 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:23 pm

[70] Wheat tea! Breakfast of Champions!

72 Boatzilla   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:24 pm

[68] "We can laugh and sing and drink some cherry wine."

What the hell is "cherry wine"?

73 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:25 pm

[70} Between the wheat tea, the raw horsemeat, and that weird fermented porridge, I would get skinny in Japan.

74 Boatzilla   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:25 pm

[70] Wheat tea? You me mugicha? I thought it was barely tea. I love mugicha.

75 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:26 pm

[71] 麦茶!
[72] Wondered about that for years. I'm thinking it can't cost more than $4 a gallon?

76 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:27 pm

[72] A Boone's Farm flavor?

77 RIYank   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:28 pm

Maybe he meant 'sherry'.

78 Boatzilla   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:30 pm

[73] Horse sashimi is pretty good, with chopped garlic and soy sauce. Very tasty.

79 Mr OK Jazz Tokyo   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:36 pm

[73][78] Well..i think horse anything is terrible.
But yes, bewteen the smaller protions and super healthy Japanese food (and walking everywhere rather than driving) most people do lose weight over here.

80 Chyll Will   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:38 pm

[72] It's a song on the new Nas album which is collecting rave reviews around the country. That particular song includes a little bitter irony in that there is a jazzy inset by the late Amy Winehouse...

81 kenboyer made me cry   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:40 pm

[79] And live longer.

82 Boatzilla   ~  Jul 17, 2012 9:44 pm

[79] I've been gaining weight lately. No doubt I'm biased, but this country has the best food in the world, and that includes all cuisines.

L8er, dudes.

83 BobbyB   ~  Jul 18, 2012 9:24 am

If Chad Qualls had been allowed to stay in last night I am positive we would have lost that game. Why is he on a Major League roster, yet alone our roster?

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