Yanks get another crack at the Jays tonight in Toronto. Nice match-up of soft-throwing control pitchers. If Phelps is off even a little bit they’ll cream him. Buehrle will get tagged if he’s off but he’s been good this year. And the Yankee hitters have not, as a whole, been productive, especially lately.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alfonso Soriano RF
Carlos Beltran DH
Brian McCann C
Brian Roberts 2B
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Never mind the meat:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Steve Perille via MPD]
Happy Midsummer Day!
How on earth was that Teix "calling out his teammates?"
Firs of all, doesn't "calling out" by definition entail naming names?
Second of all, "we've all got to get better" is hardly like Mussina complaining about how he can't hit for the guys, that he can only do so much from the mound, or saying that Mo really isn't all that and it's all his fault Moose didn't get a ring.
Good job Phelpsie.
That certainly is a bright green.
Yes.
Thank god we got through the top of the fourth without getting any tiresome base runners. I feel it was wearing the boys out.
Uh, fourth=third.
No, wait, I was right the first time.
Two runs in what, 31 innings now?
Tough to win games like that, n'est-ce pas?
That fucking motherfucking foghorn.
Fuck Toronto and fuck this fucking lame-ass can't-score-a-fucking-run ball club.
Fuck!
This is going to be another blowout, isn't it?
3-0 does feel like a blowout. Hell, one run is a blowout when you can't score any fucking runs.
Of course.
Hahhahahaha!
And he's safe and the run scores!
[15] It's official now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
What the hell Derek? Kid isn't for long in this league.
Oh Jeez.
Derek Jeter just had his Old Man Willie Mays '73 Mets moment. Could be the worst fielding sequence of his career.
OK, so who fucked up that rundown.
[21] --> [22] Aha.
[15] I know. I began to include something like that in a parenthetical but I was so demoralized I couldn't articulate the thought.
That's great, then he hits a homer.
[25] Well hey, that's what you do when you get played on one end. Two more of those and we'll forget that ever happened...
Oh, a run. Had to step away & missed it.
[26] Though honestly I'd only be even more mad at myself rounding the bases.
Hey gang chill! No team that employs Kelly Johnson, Brian Roberts, Sori and Ichiro (10rbis) can possibly win. Joe Girardi should be manager of the decade for keeping this bunch close.
Wait, is this allowed? Scoring more than one run a game?
[29] I know, it's just the fact that someone actually assembled this team on purpose that bothers me. Girardi could be the next coming of Joe McCarthy for all that's worth.
Hmm, getting a little closer to "frustrating win" perhaps...
[29] Hey! Any team that has made such great signings like Johnson, Roberts, Hafner, Youkilis, Overbay and Mark Reynolds must be on the right track! ( I kid, I kid..Cashman, for all his mistakes, consistently fields winning teams..)
[32] That Cashman, he's got tiger blood I tell you...
Well, we haz a sitchiashun.
How's about that!
Wow!
Thanks for the gift, Reyes!
Nice hot-dogging!
Don't like seeing that though.
Ouch.
Tiger Blood, I say...
A few more errors and we are home free.
It's kind of amazing more pitchers don't twist their ankles covering first.
Got to find a way to win this game, fellas.
I got Ma & Pa on the iPhone here at ACME,Inc. Sterling just said 'It's a fly into center and...Rasmus he caught it..no, looks like he dropped the ball and trapped it!..they're calling it out..let me have a look at that again...not sure what happened there.'
???????????????????????
Hard to root against Adam Lind. Saw a game earlier this year in Dunedin when he was rehabing. His wife and little kids were sitting right behind the screen. He tried to talk to them between at bats but, of course, the kids had no idea what was going on. Mom, however, was glued to the field when she wasn't chasing them. Guess she was anxious to get back to Toronto.
whaaaa? It was 6-1 when I was at the bar. Nice to see a tie score.
"They're calling it out."
Jesus.
They are totally unlistenable.
I just got cable a couple weeks ago for the first time in a long time and so now I can follow the team.
Before I got cable, I really tried to listen to the games but I literally couldn't, at least, not as my primary and exclusive access to the team.
It's just an unlistenable broadcast.
[45] Yankees reversed the space-time continuum by flipping the polarity of the tachyon particle beam. Or some such ST:TNG explanation.
I was half watching this game in a bar after a softball game. Holy shit.
Take Edwin out and go to the hospital.
[47] Nothing to do with egyptian pyramids? wait, that was SG1.
When did Dioner Navarro become Johnny Bench?
nice snag.
Nice!
Onions!
One more strike. And there it is!
Dancin' Betances! 45 pitches but he made it!
pretty sweet finish there.
If nothing else we have had the chance to watch Dellin this year. Damn he's fun to watch.
gritner!
[58] and tanaka too. Two guys worth the price of admission.
OK, just call that a bunt.
Now need a hit, WP or PB
Blergh!
Ugh.
OHHHH!
JESUSFUCKINGCHRIST.
Somehow, I saw that happening before he threw the baseball.
omg that was ugly.
Fuck.
We needed to cash gritner in last frame...
Sigh..
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
FUCK!! You happy now wordpress?
And there it is...
Fuckin bollocks.
Wait--did the Blue Jays just win the pennant? Jeez.
Lousy loss.
Going back to watching Casshern Sins for a nice cathartic pick-me-up, see you all in the morning...
Grrrrr.