Lincecum no-no through 7

Through 8 now.

Yeah, just started looking at that game in time to see the last out of the (top of the) eighth.

I think ESPN is going to show the top of the ninth live.

Did Torres just walk Lincecum on purpose????

[5] That would be cruel.

One down.

Two down

C'mon, mustache!

one more strike!

Oooooh, just missed that one.

YEAH!!!

Three down!

TIMMEH!

Impressive!

thanks for the heads up, rbj.

tuned in just in time to mlb network.

i'm completely drowning in wedding preparation. oy and fucking vey!!!

congrats, timmy. keep lettin' that hair grow!

only ONE walk. damn.

leadoff double!

cap bunt.

please score. please.

pitcher made a nice clean play on jeter's bunt. That would have been a single I think.

ouch

Just sticking my head in to say: hated that bunt. I'm sure it was Jeter's own call. Hate it.

fuck you, reyes.

[23] you don't even have to say it anymore. I assume that's what you are thinking.

And that's why you don't bunt in the first inning.

boo!

stoopid fucking bunt.

Oy.

Here we go.

this sucks.

[24] Make it a double.

Shite.

[26] Actually, that's why you don't bunt a man from second to third even in the eighth inning in a tie game. It's not like the Yankees scored but missed out on a crooked number. They didn't even score.

Grrrrrrr.

yeah, fuck you reyes!

Jesus Christ.

This is humiliating.

(This asshole belongs with all those other Boston facial assholes from a decade ago.)

Which asshole?
Oh, Lind. Goddam, he's hitting .342. Nobody hits .342. That's like a 1949 thing.

[37] they still have a bunch of facial assholes.

cult calls them the "douchebeards," which is rather fitting.

[39] ha, i do like that. very appropriate.

[39] Their fans are really miserable, in case that helps. I would say about half of RSN has bailed. My favorite is that the team decided to pay Drew, and now his OPS is .348. Not his OBP, his OPS. He's batting .133. He'd have to get red hot to sniff the Mendoza line from below.

Nice job, Brett.

Douchebeards, indeed.

Facial douchebeard assholes.

The Padres are hitting .218.
Not to detract from Lincecum's gem, of course.

[38] Good old Mattingly hit .343 in 1984. God, those were the days. That man could play baseball.

Wow, nice shot, Brian. I thought that was extra bases.

Is is high. It is far. It is caught. Thanks, john. Your lack of enthusiasm couldn't
fool me anyway.

[45] Do I exaggerate? Very well then, I exaggerate. I am large, I contain multitudes.

[48] I just wanted a pretext for invoking Mattingly (of Blessed Memory).

A lead off hit...
For Juan Francisco
High in the air, it flew to me...

Wtf was that?

Does Kawasaki practice that?

[51] Toronto chop, eh?

Man, Alex said it, re: "Old Man Willie Mays moment."

Damn, that was brutal. Doddering, even.

Hah. Easy-peasy.

That's a nice break.

No bunting, please. NO BUNTING.

Yay!

Brains!

A run!

Yay! Not a bunt at all!

Wow, that kind of took me by surprise.

Frankie!

nice!

I'm kind of surprised they sent Kelly

[59] Not in any way, shape or form. The only similarities were that a ball was involved, and a bat, and it all happened in the context of a baseball game.

Jacoby comes through!

Another run!

Yay, Ellsbury!

I'm confused. The number by the Yankees runs is larger than the one by th Blue Jays.

[62] It was hit-and-run, so it seemed like a good bet.

A home run!!!

Holy shit!

This is happily surprising. Happily.

Sweet, Yay, Teix!

Is this legal?

[66] Maybe this is Yankee Stadium. Doesn't look like it. No, because we batted first.
Hmmmmmm.

very nice indeed.

Jesus, they are just pounding him.
I would say it's like batting practice, but I'm pretty sure the Yankees don't hit this well in batting practice.

Damn. Great play.

Nice play, ya bum, ya.

looks like i missed the fun. maybe i should cook dinner more often...

That blonde had a big bag of popcorn.

A one-two-three inning!

Let's win this motherfucker!

Damn, what a beautiful day. I just brought my laptop outside on the deck, with a bourbon and soda. It seems wrong -- I should have the radio instead, old school.

[78] damn, i missed it.

2 big bags of 'popcorn'?! ; )

[80] come hang out on my deck and patio...and help set everything up for the wedding. there's a TON to do!

see you manana, ~1:30pm

[82] I thought the wedding was Saturday.

Heh.
Did he drop it on purpose?

[83] it is. 5pm.

it's crunch time right now. it's in our backyard, so we're setting up everything on our own. everything. it's insane...

Oh, Jeter. Made up for it, though.

I really want to think that Jeter did that on purpose, to get the DP.

[85] party on garth! Good luck this weekend!

[84] my laptop feed is slow.

[88] thanks, pal!

right now, we're worrying about, well, pretty much...everything. but, this weekend, our only real worry is rain.

[81] Behind home plate. One of the staff. But you're nearly a married man now. Watch yourself. ; )

OK, so the announcers (for the Jays" just said "I know it's sacrlegious to say this, but for the first time in 20 years it looks like Derek Jeter is making mental mistakes. Last night he made a menatl mistake that led to three runs, and there he just dropped the ball..."

I can't say that I disagree with them, and it pains me to say so.

[84] [87] Exactly.

[85] Man. I think we had about 30 family members working at ours. (That was... some years ago.)

[91] HA!

but i'm still "single" and i'm not having a bachelor party ; )

You know, it's sacrilegious to say so, but for the first time I can remember Monkeypants' comments are loaded with typos. I like to think it's his iPad. I really hope so.

Well, that was some mental alertness by Derek, right there.

Cash 'em in, Carlos!

[93] my entire family is in NY. everyone is working and teaching and won't be down until late friday night.

and it's a small wedding. we're having a second reception in NY six weeks later. that way extended family and friends can make it. much easier than flying down, renting a car, paying for a hotel, etc. there will end up being 10 more people at that party than the main wedding here.

we have some of her family and my friends/students helping out. tomorrow is a huge day...

[90] yeah that's to be expected. Only bit of advice I can give you is to know that something unexpected will go wrong and to just roll with it. Happens every time.

[92] That's the general them around here I believe. The first time I felt bad for Jeter this year was when he screwed up that short fly ball that Gardner slid and missed it. Several weeks ago. Ball landed in fair territory and Jeter had no clue. Ugh. I think tonight's line drive either snuck up him or was a wicked ass knuckler.

Well, it serves you right for, uh. Having employed relatives.

Our relatives are all hippies, so it was no problem.

Fucking Reyes!

Bit of a break there

Goddam it. Damn. Just exactly what Ichiro couldn't do last inning.

Damn you Melky!

Melky, too. FFS!

Melky really getting his payback for getting traded from the Yankees

[99] so far, billions of things are going wrong. sad thing is, i'm expecting it at this point...

[95] Cut me some slack, I'm juggling kids, the game and work at the same time, and I'm not exactly a touch-typist to begin with.

[108] at least you are prepared for it. it'll be great regardless.

Oh wow, thelarmis, congratulations!!!

Wow, Dennis Rasmussen is still playing?

[109] Hm, kid-juggling is illegal in America. Good thing you're up in the Hat.

[112] Yeah, he's 55. Looks good, doesn't he?

don't fucking bunt, derek.

Ouch.

Better than a bucking funt!

[110] [111] thanks, guys.

i'm about to lose my fucking mind.

HBP is much better play.

[114] He does! Maybe they ought to test him.

This dude's dangerous.

WP is good too.

Is Rob Rasmussen related to Dennis Rasmussen?

And BB as well

c'mon jeter. run!

[123] Hm, baseball-reference says no...oh well, that would have been fun [114][112].

[123] No.

I see what our mistake has been. The Yankees have to stop putting the ball in play. It's much easier to get on base if you never put the ball in play.

All right, I'll take that.

Okay, that's a run. Even though we put the ball in play (always a mistake).

Dear Lord.

Ball four.

That's more like it.
Okay, now how about three wild pitches?

Good job Ichiro. Now a HBP Brian.

Yanks need to increase their BABIP

Crud.
One run.

No, Brian.

Well, that's that.

I guess one run is better than zero runs.

no hits!

[137] Let me just check that in my Sabermetrics for Dummies.

Yep.

I guess Kuroda and then some stomach-turning mix-and-match, right? For the next six outs.

:)

[139] ;)

Please don't let Kuroda pitch to Reyes.

Fuck!

Nope, safe. Damn almost a hit n run DP.

Excellent, bring in Kelley to get Reyes. That always works.

Whew.

Now just get Melky. Please.

Ah, a lefty to face Lind. That's almost guaranteed to work. This is the [140] stomach-turning part.

Well, according to the Jays' announcers, Girardi has been moving chess pieces around just to get this Thornton-Lind matchup. So presumably Kelley alowing a hit to Reyes was all part of the plan.

Jesus F Christ, Frankie.

Now that deserves a "WHEW".

God.

"He does the job."

I guess, but that was scary.

Mr. Spacely is busting my chops about this Vanderlay Industries report, I'm just tuning in to the game..what I miss?

[149] Yeah, Lind is slugging .111 against lefties this year. (And pretty bad for his career too.)

Phew

Oh, a play.
How I love plays.

[153] Yankees can score runs, just don't put the ball in play.

[153] Kuroda good enough, 6 1/3. Scary relief pitching. A little timely hitting, though not quite as much as you'd like (Ichiro robbed of a pair of RBI with two out by a diving stop by... somebody, can't remember. Kawasaki?).

Not conclusive

[157][158] Thanks, gents. Did a speed read of the game thread, everyone on top form!

thelarmis, you can do it! Don't worry about getting things perfect, just have a over-stocked bar and a good DJ. The rest will take care of itself!

[160] the overstocked bar is already all set! and i'm buying 3 more cases of excellent ale tomorrow.

i'm the DJ. assembled the playlist and put together the live portion, some of which i'm playing...

also, have about 600 pictures on the slideshow...

Atta boy, Captain!

[162] Legend has it that one day Lou Gehrig made a play off the bag at first and two team mates gave him pats on the back saying 'nice play big fella'. Lou was devastated, as he knew they were complimenting him on the most routine of plays.. :(

("A overstocked bar"="Can it core a apple?")

[160] plus, i'm a perfectionist if you haven't noticed. ; )

nice play, dude who's almost my age...

[163] That's a sad story.

Pulling a Mo. 5 out save

[63] Heard that to. That's when he sat out.

NAILED.

Nice pitch.

NAILED.

[167] Uh uh. No no. Sorry. No such thing as "pulling a Mo."
There is no Mo but Mo.

[164] Are you the chef of the future?

NNNNNNNNAILED.

D-Rob in fine form.

D-Rob. Now insurance please.

Ells on fire tonight.

[154] I've long had a soft spot for Lind. Back c. 2008 the Jays looked like they had a nice core of young players with Wells, Rios, Lind, and Hill, among others, and basically none of them worked out. They all got signed to big and longterm (or at least medium term) contracts, and pretty much all of them turned out poorly. For some reason, Lind has stuckk around. He was a beast in 2009, the pretty stinky, but he's had a couple of nice seasons the last two years. Go figure.

Oh, fer gods sake.

Bullshit!

He was safe!

Dammit!

Blergh

Wait, wtf is the rule?

Why couldn't that be appealed?

[173] Chef of the future!

Well, win expectancy = .93 going to the bottom of the ninth.

[182] After the seventh it's up to the umps.

NAILED {3}.

one down

I prefer the K, but that will do.

One more, Hamma.

Lets strike Reyes out to end this...

2 down
Why was one down not a duplicate comment WP?

[185] That don't make no kinda sense.

Good win.

Yay!

A win!

A win!

Yaaaayyy!!!

Hell yes.

Needed that one, baby.

Beautiful job by D-Rob.

A third down!

Night all

That'll do...hurray.

Gosh, I love it when Jose Reyes makes the last out in a Yankee win.

I'll like the olde tyme save.

[190] Capital 'O'? And the period.

[197] You never liked him but I always wanted Yanks to sign him!
Nice win, let's keep the pressure on the BJs. Sox & Rays are dust so division could be wide open for the Good Guys..