As someone who works on Saturdays and lives on the west coast, I HATE Saturday night games. They start right when I am leaving work (at 4:30 here) and by the time I get home, settled in etc, I've missed a whole bunch of it, if I even remember to watch it at all. Most Saturdays I look forward to a day game to get me through the dead hours in the middle of the day.

Oh wells, here's hoping for a rebound for CC!

[0] I'm with ya'. I remember hearing a comic say, "you know you're old when it's 10 o'clock on Saturday night and you're wondering if it's too early to go to bed." : ) Drew Carey, I think. I hope CC is on his game tonight. Another 7 IP if 1 run ball sounds about right.

Inexplicably, Mike Soscia actually fails to call for a bunt with a man on second, down 1 in the bottom of the 9th and no outs, resulting in a Juan Rivera ground out that doesn't advance the runner. I don't get it...

People talk about how boring baseball is. I'm convinced these people only see Yankee/Orioles and Red Sox/Angels games.

Joe Saunders and Brad Penny veeeeery sloooowly got into about three three ball counts every inning. It was excruciating.

Hey, I like bridge!

I'm pretty sure it cost me more than a few points of GPA when I was in college.

What the hell are all these damn kids doing on the lawn?

Is Horacio Ramirez one of those shitty pitchers we hit or one of the shitty pitchers we dont?

[7] I think you just got your answer.

Boom Boom Bloomquist is the Rightfielder?

Is this man's bat really something that you need to get in the lineup by any means necessary?

THE SABATHIA STRIKEOIUT DROUGHT IS OVER

Bring dat' funk. Nasty.

Our long national nightmare is over!

That's my line.

Kay is such a failure.

I hope we never see <.500 again after today. Or .500 for that matter. Lets hit the ground running this year.

David Cone sums up the Mussina case.

Now there's the CC we've been looking for

Oh come on, Joba, throw the kid some real heat. Don't baby him.

Swish!

The Royals don't seem to be all that good.

No, not all that good. Can we play them 36 times this season, please? I know Jorge would enjoy it.

Now this is entertainment.

[7] the former

Willie Bloomquist is embarrassing himself in right field. This is like when Joe Torre threw Enrique Wilson to the wolves to send a message to the front office.

Now we don't have to worry about the superstition.

[0] Alex, I got your solution right here..been watching MLB baseball games in the morning over here for years now. I now associate Yankees games with coffee, cake and whatever objectionable foods my lady might have ready in the morning (Japanese food at breakfast doesn't work for me..)

Even better, Japanese baseball games start at 6:30 latest and move MUCH faster thank MLB. Early to bed it is!

Early but..Big Papi is hitting .125 so far..Could the Sox offense be merely "good" this year?

[26] Youkalis is raking, though.

Teixeira having a mysterious wrist injury can only lead to lewd jokes.

Ya know, I kind of like this new Yankee philosophy of playing well against bad teams.

Unless I am mistaken, this is the second time in as many days that you've used the word 'philosophy' in that way, rbj.

[27] He'll have a good year but not as good as last season.

[30] Uh oh, I'm repeating myself, and saying the same thing over again. I blame it on being sober. Best go off and grab a beer.

Ransom whiffed by H-Ram..yuck..

Good evening for a beer.
I have a glass of Zinfandel, myself.

Albert Pujols with the granny and 3-run dinger today, 7RBIs..what a player! Wonder if the age rumors are true..

Nice.
I'm starting to like the big fat guy.

[28] He got a hold of Matsui's stash.

[37] With hi's riding the bench tonight, I hope Tex doesn't lose his stroke.

I just now grasped the concept of a "no-doubter".
That was a serious slug.

Tex who?

Holy crap. Swisher is en fuego.

Nick's got the hard half of the cycle out of the way.

Swish!

[38] He can pine-tar his handle while on the bench

A little bit of a floating strikezone going on.

Well that was ugly.

That was no good.

[43] Yikes, did I clear the room with that one??

The Royals lineup is awful..how could anyone have picked them as a "sleeper" this year?

[47] The division does nothing for me. The pitching staff might be enough to sneak by.

Well at least Cody's pulling his weight at the plate. cack.

Don't walk Bloomquist

Kay is screaming about the soul of a pitcher or something

Also, don't let Bloomquist hit the ball 350 feet

[47] Maybe it was someone who misunderstood what 'sleeper' means?

[50] Royals radio feed on here..really funny commercials about "catching the Royals fever this year!"..symptoms must include low .OBP and questionable free-agent signings..

Who do you guys pick for the AL Central? I'd probably go with Minnesota, but I have no idea.

Phew!

I hope this is CC's version of a bad inning this year.

[50] I don't get to see to many Yankees games, but I'm getting the Yes feed tonight. So, it is pretty clear that O'Neill really, really does not like Kay.

I'm trying to remember another announcing team where there was clear animosity in the booth. Maybe the classic old MNF days, with Cosell?

If I was commissioner I would fine Crisp $10,000 every time he steps out of the box to redo his batting gloves. (and everyone else for that mattter) Kinda bugs me.

[54] Crapshoot..Twins offense stinks, Indians look awful so far..ChiSox maybe? Tigers offense nice so far but that pitching..

[54] I guess I'd go with the White Sox. Better pitching than KC, and much better line-up.

[57] Really? I get the impression though that O'neil is the kind of guy who doesn't like anyone.

[58] Didn't the league try to crack down on that sort of thing a year or three ago? I guess that never really worked out.

[61] That may be correct.

[54] Not KC, probably not Tigers, and with a 0-5 start I doubt Indians. Toss up between Twins and White Sox again.

Chicago's starters are quite a bit better than Minnie's.

Royals' fans have to be screaming, "NO, DO NOT WALK BRETT GARDNER YOU IDIOT."

[61] Maybe, but there's special animosity between him and Kay. I've been really stunned by some of the things they've said to each other in the booth.

Actually, I think they've been getting along much better lately.

[67] Really?? That sounds kind of fun, need to listen to YES more often maybe..
I was impressed by the Orioles tv team the other day, mellow but good analysis.

9-pitch walk.

Like seeing Jeter do that

Must be some golf fans on the Banter..I personally can't get into it. Is golf even a "sport"? Seems more like darts or billiards to me, hard to do but..Masters coverage here on local tv is extensive. They lurrrrrrve golf over here! Between golf and the new Tampa Bay love on tv, I've yet to see a Yankees game live..sigh..

[71] I would chime in here, but "Is golf a sport?" is a favorite topic on Bonehead Sportstalk Radio New England, so I feel like I lose 40 IQ points when I say anything about it.

[71] I've only played miniature golf. To me it is more of a skill game, like darts or pool. Just about to do a practice round of darts here. One of the first things I did once I bought my house was to finally have a real dartboard. Can't really do that in many apartments.

[72] Hah, that's good. A guy I know here tried to convince me that golf and judo were the worl's "purest" sports..had no idea what he was talking about..

Speaking of "sports" they need to get nonsense like synchronized swimming out of the Olympics and keep baseball in.

Oh, Swish, nice job.

Okay, CC can definitely start the seventh.

Bat and glove, is there anything Swisher can't do?

Oh boy, he's leading off and it's a odd inning, so the Yankees should score 2 runs. (Did it in 1st, 3rd, & 5th)

Double or single, Nick.

87 pitches..easily can go to 7th and 8th.

"Oh, there's a New Mexico!" - Homer Simpson

[79] Huh?? Cracked me up though!

[78] i would expect 1 more inning unless he throws less than 10 pitches maybe.

Absent a batting around inning, no cycle for Nick.

No way CC pitches the 8th. They won't want him to throw more than 100, and even a quick inning would get him too close to start the 8th.

Oh come on, Rob. Patience.

Tejada had 6 Ks..good stuff?

Just a reference to Alex's wife returning from his sister-in-law's... is all...

;)

[85] Yes, deceptive, changing planes, etc.

Good point by Cone on how to manage Chamberlain's innings. (That is Cone, right?)

He says it makes more sense to have him go fewer starts but let him go deeper into games.

Those 1-3's are an adventure. : )

So who pitches the 9th? I can't imagine sending CC out for the shutout this early in the season.

Edwar?

What, you don't enjoy seeing Sabathia leap cat-like off the mound and pounce on the ball? You don't appreciate his whirl-and-fire? You don't love the Swisher scoop?

[90] Uh.
You're getting ahead of yourself. Someone still has to pitch the 8th.
Veras, I figure.

[92] D'oh! I'm also keeping track of the Mudhens' game. They'll be heading to the ninth.

Oh, okay. I was just thinking what an interesting philosophy you had!
;)

Looks like it's Veras for the eighth.

Holy cow. Still CC. Veras must be for the 9th.

Wow, was I [83] wrong!

That's a good bounce back by Sabathia... really established the fastball early, and it was more than adequate, even from the stretch!

[94] I'm still working on the "Ninth inning comes before the eighth inning" philosophy. Pretty hard to do, and theosophy is no help either.

A ha!

I'm not sure what the point of that was