HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JETES!!!

let's keep that average above .300 and put another W up on the board!

GO YANKS!!!

Hm, I've had about as much as I want of Chris Stewart and Dewayne Wise.

Oh well.

Yeah, happy birthday, Cap. I predict some birthday hits.

[2] Didn't Wise make that incredible catch to preserve Mark Buehrle's perfect game in 2009? Maybe he can do the same for Hughes...

Wise had a great game yesterday and deserves another start.

Happy birthday Derek.

[3] Yeah. He might. And he did have a great game yesterday.

But he isn't a good player, and he doesn't deserve another start.

And no gopher balls tonight Phil.

[6] I think he heard you and is determined to throw nothing in the strike zone.

Actually, his fastball looks good.
If he has something else working, he could have a nice game going.

Jays strike first, on a throwing error by Young Will Middlebrooks.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOK!

Happy Birthday Jeter! We're the same age and are similar in so many ways! Except for the 3000+ hits and $189 million contract. And the supermodel girlfriends. And universal respect from his peers. But Mrs. Jazz doesn't think he's all that, so I got that going for me.

Go Go Hughes! Keep the gopher balls to solo shots please.

I'll take that.

[2] "I've had about as much as I want of Chris Stewart and Dewayne Wise." What a moron that guy is.

Quit whining Indians announcers.

Curtis!

This is better than that other thing we used to do with the bases loaded.

[12] Hey, have some sympathy. Poor guy has to live in New England, can't be easy on him.

[15] You mean like that?

[16] 誰もが日本に住んでしたいと考えています。

[17] That's it! I recognized it immediately.

Really needed that DP, nice.

Way to make it look easy, Swish!

Adventures in the Outfield with Nick Swisher.

Aaron Laffey is stifling the Red Sox.

(18) Nice! Though I suspect some Babelfish/Googletranslate grammar there :)

Do the Yanks resign Swisher?

[23] I would, but 2-3 years.

[23] Guilty.

HUUUUUUUUGHES!

[5] No stuffies and coffee milk for you tonight.

I missed the scoring, and can't watch until 9 (again the wife has to watch the Olympic swimming trials...every night 8-9 this week). Watching on MLB Gameday. Seems like fun.

[26] Hah! Now everyone else reading is going, "coffee milk?"

Hey RIyank, hook me up with the knowledge. Was reading on Fangraphs that Joe Mauer was 'back' and the contract not an albatross. I see a catcher who walks a lot with 3 home runs..

I love this edition of Hughes. So efficient.

[28] Oh, right. But 16 doubles. And I mean, that's Mauer -- except for his MVP* season he's right about where he is in good years.

A catcher with a .400 OBP! That's very valuable.

Let's go, Rob, extend the lead, I think Bat Masterson is tired.

[31] "They call him Bat, Bat Masterson" I think you're revealing a generation border there.

nice hit Nick.

[30] Yeah but..$184 million for a catcher that walks a lot? Jason Kendall had a .400 OBP once too...that contract seems crazy.

[32] Not getting that one at all.
Speaking of Bat's though, I found out yesterday that Liberace was once on the 60s Batman TV series. Liberace!

[34] Yeah, Jason Kendall had a really good year. But Joe Mauer has had a really good career. Sure, they may be overpaying him, I agree with that.

HUUUUUUUUGHES!

[32] There was a TV western about the real life western figure Bat Masterson that aired in the late 50's early 60's. That line was from the theme music. Bat Masterson actually died I think in the 1920's and finished his career as a newspaper columnist in NY.

And Liberace was the criminal Fingers on Batman. It was a popular culture high point of the show. From tots to Grandma, everyone liked Liberace.

[34] Is Justin Masterson pitching tonight? That would explain it... (Bat Masterson was a colleague, contemporary and pal of Wyatt Earp.) Also a TV show from a forgotten era if I recall...

[36] I remember that episode from reruns. Liberace and Adam West's Batman? C'mon, who wouldn't have thought of that...

That shot of Rob and Dewayne Wise is just heart-melting.
How can anybody not like the Yankees? It seems impossible.

[36][37] Nice, thanks.

[38] I really got to check out those episodes.
I know it was a more "innocent" era but..how is possible that millions of ladies swooned over Liberace?

[39] Following online now, what were they up to?

Bullpen action, please.

[40] In the dugout, Rob chewing his sunflower seeds with his arm around Dewayne, talking seriously. Dewayne nodding and listening intently.

Jeterian!

Holy smokes.

I bow down before Dewayne Wise.

[40] I don't think there's a safe-mode answer to that first question.

Oh, he didn't catch it. That's hysterical.

Meanwhile, Bronson Arroyo was or is throwing a no-hitter through seven in Cincy... a no hitter...

Awesome, Papi doubles off the Monster but My Little Pony can't trot around the bases fast enough and gets thrown out at home. God that was cool. (I'm flipping back and forth, not abandoning the Yankees!)

[40] The closet was a very dark place, and unknown to most. They certainly swooned over Rock Hudson, and laughed at Danny Kay, and the youngsters (as Ed Sullivan called them) rocked out to Little Richard with no prejudice.

I didn't see that. But more calls for replay.

Much better than a weak grounder to short stop.

Damn.

[51] Well, sure, because nobody was on base.
Back to his selfish ways.

[49] As a kid, I watched Paul Lynde on Match Game. Had no idea. . .

[45][49] Sure but Rock Hudson was "manly" and Danny Kaye not overtly feminine. (Little Richard..well...) But my god, looking at some of those Liberace clips..the feathers! The jewelry! It's like a Tokyo hostess bar on acid.

[42] Interesting as Robbie is young than Wise, isn't he?

[53] Heh.

[54] No, Hollywood Squares. Right?

[55] but robbie is Wise beyond his years!

[hi everyone.]

[55] Indeed, but Wise is pretty clearly in awe. Well, who wouldn't be?

[58] Oh, what an entrance!

"brandon" arroyo's no-no is no longer. shutout's gone, too. in fact, so is the lead and the man (with the straight leg kick) himself.

[60] that's how i roll.

phil thru 8!!!

Clap clap clap! What an excellent game for Phil.

More than a few Banterers were writing him off in mid-May, as I recall. Not naming any be-panted primate names, of course.

[55] The schtick was still new...it was showbiz. When I see old clips of Liberace I wonder what inebriate he seems to be glowing on.

There are funny clips of Louis Armstrong and Liberace together. They seem to be having a ball together.

[54][57] I was the same about Charles Nelson Reily.

[57] Actually both. And then there's Charles Nelson Reilly. . .

[55] "I wish my brother George was here."

I missed it, why was Hannahan ejected?

[23] michael bourn's a free agent, though he won't be free...

[65] Armstong smokes pot every day of his adult life until he died. Helps to explain the huge smile.

Phil for the ninth?

[70] Well, he definitely won't be as free as the wind blows.

111 pitches. doubt it.

has the chief pitched 2 days in a row?

2 for 5 on his birthday.

[73] Another '60s reference? You must be feeling nostalgic today.

Jete's keeps the average above .300 on his birthday!

Saltalamacchia ties it up with a solo homer.

[76] Yeah! Only that one I actually do remember. It might have been the first movie I ever saw, actually.

[77] fuck.

c-wade for the 9th

[78] How about The Legend of Billy Jack?

[76] Hey you kid, get off my damn lawn. I remember listening to the radio when the Beatles broke up.

wilson betemit has 10 homers.

fuck. i wanted the shutout...

Toronto bullpen loads the bases with two out after the homer. Big moment for Little Pony...

Jebus!

midget fucker gives the shit sox a 2-run lead.

i knew that was gonna happen in the late innings at the fens...

Pedroia scoots one up the middle, two runs score and the runner from first is thrown out at third. But the Sox are looking good, 3-1 after 7, in the Battle for the Basement.

holy motherfuck.

get this joker outta there.

and to think i wanted the shutout. i'll settle for the fucking win...

Uh oh, maybe I was watching the wrong game, huh?

Save situation.

Time for another prayer meeting, Thelarmis.

I really do not like the no Mo policy.

[82] Paul is the walrus.

[91] Me neither. No Mo, no mo, but Ro So can Go!

Honestly, this calls for D-Rob more than Soriano. But I guess it doesn't matter.

Untuck that shirt.

[90] i'm available via skype.

Easiest S ever.

untucked.

I wonder what old George would have thought, and said, and might have done about the untuck ritual?

good night all.