Happy 4th you guys.
Today marks the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s retirement speech.
Over at the Daily Beast, check out this excerpt from Ray Robinson’s fine Gehrig biography, The Iron Horse.
Game this afternoon.
Let’s hope our boys make it 2-in-a-row.
Never mind the diet:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Peter Patau]
Last night, Masahiro Tanaka gave up 4 runs for the first time this season and what happens? The Yanks win, anyway.
Carlos Beltran’s 3-run home run started it as the Bombers tagged their old pal Phil Hughes for 7 runs, enough to give them a 7-4 win.
The best part of the night was that Zelous Wheeler, called up in place of the struggling Port Jervis Solarte (Zelous for Yanjervis, that alone makes it memorable), got 2 hits in his first MLB game. The first hit–a homer. Wheeler is a squat guy–since the Yanks were in Minnie, a Kirby Puckett analogy came up–had reason to smile, and his teammates did too. Sometimes, a team will mess with a rookie when they get their first hit or home run, ignoring them for a moment when the kid returns to the dugout. The Yankees didn’t do that. They greeted Zelous’ grin with big smiles of their own as if to say, “We needed that.”
And they did.
[Photo Credit: Jim Mone]
Don’t write when you’re angry, don’t write when you’re angry, Rays 6, Yanks 3, awwwww, five-game losing streak, don’t write when you’re angry, don’t write when you’re angry.
A Game Thread. Gardner with a first inning dinger… Let’s Go Yank-ees! [Picture by Bags]
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Harry and Tonto, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Moscow on the Hudson, Down and Out in Beverly Hills. The man made some choice movies.
Should be a mess o strike outs tonight as things don’t get any easier for the Yankee offense as they face David Price. At least our man Hiroki’s on the hill.
Gardner LF
Jeter SS
Ellsbury CF
Teixeira 1B
Beltran DH
Soriano RF
Roberts 2B
Cervelli C
Solarte 3B
Never mind the heat:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Painting by Heather Horton]
USA vs. Belgium.
Herge.
Got 7 cups of duck fat? Then you too can make fries the way they’re supposed to be made.
Hey, Now.
[Photo Via: The Sun Break]
We’ve seen this before, man. Decent starting pitching, good job from an overworked bullpen, little to no offense. The home run Brian Roberts hit in the 9th inning was good enough to send the game to extras but served only to prolong the inevitable as the Yanks lost, 4-3 to the Rays.
The Yankees offense has been horseshit, the injuries to the starting pitchers can’t be patched-up too much longer. How long can the bullpen hold themselves together?
Yeah, the rest of the league–both leagues, really–are in a similar boat and that gives us perspective. But since when is being a fan about being rational?
I don’t think the team is horseshit. I don’t get the feeling that they aren’t trying. Still, how about shaking things up? Time for Brian Cashman to give Girardi and Company some help.
Let’s see what our so-so Yanks have in store for us this week.
First up, gives the Rays.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann C
Carlos Beltran DH
Kelly Johnson 3B
Brian Roberts 2B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Never mind the mediocrity:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Rob Kalmbach]
Twenty-five years ago today I saw the second showing of Do The Right Thing over on 8th Avenue in a theater that no longer exists. I’d just graduated high school and I went with two classmates to see Spike’s new movie on opening day. A few few years earlier we’d seen School Daze on its opening day in Times Square. On both occasions we were the only white people in the theater. I remember the cheers at the end of Do The Right Thing when a passage from Malcolm X was shown on the screen.
Oh, Watch Out Now.
Did you know there was such a thing as Popsicle Week? Neither did I. Dig.
And check out this lovely-looking variation: Smoked peaches and cream.
The thought of Chase Whitley against the Red Sox is not a calming one. I don’t care how much the Sox hitters have struggled this year. Ortiz sees him some Chase Whitley and he’s going to want seconds. But…Chase has also pitched well. Sure be nice to see him come up with six solid innings tonight.
And the Sox have Lackey, ugh, that guy again. The gunslinger. Always a pain in the ass.
How about s’more from McCann and Kelly Johnson? Maybe Carlito breaks out of his slump.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann C
Carlos Beltran DH
Kelly Johnson 3B
Brian Roberts 2B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Never mind the idiots:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Moebius]
It’s Tanaka Time, again.
Only trouble is, Lester’s starting for the Sox. Maybe Sori or Port Jervis run into one…Maybe Beltran turns one around.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Carlos Beltran DH
Alfonso Soriano RF
Brian McCann C
Brian Roberts 2B
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Never mind the tough southpaw:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Bags]
Man, oh, man, what a pleasant win for the Yanks.
Nuno pitched well–hell, everyone pitched well–and a couple of lefties finally got off the schneid, as Kelly Johnson and Brian McCann hit impressive home run.
[Photo Credit: Rob Kalmbach]
