The Yankees and Red Sox last met for a two-game set in the Bronx in mid-May. At the time, the big story surrounding the Red Sox was their poor start. In splitting those two games, the Sox held tight at .500. Almost immediately after, they finally found their groove. Including that last win against the Yankees, the Red Sox went 30-12 coming out of that series. That’s a blistering .714 pace that brought them within a half-game of the first place Bombers on July 3. Since then, however . . . meh, not so much. The Sox have gone 13-15 since that high-water mark, and seem to be rotating through the disabled list more often than they’re rotating through their lineup.
You might have heard that the Red Sox have been dealing with some injuries this season. Prior to returning Wednesday night, Jacoby Ellsbury had played just nine games all year due to various problems related to broken ribs suffered in an April collision with Adrian Beltre. He’s back, but he might have been the worst hitter in their opening day lineup and was moved to left field this spring because the Red Sox had major concerns about his defense in center. However, Mike Cameron, his intended replacement in center, is back on the DL for the second time this season with an abdominal strain, making Ellsbury the team’s center fielder and leadoff hitter, which may or may not be any better than having Ellsbury back on the DL. That also leaves J.D. Drew, who routinely misses games with a strained this and a sore that, as the only Boston outfielder having a “healthy” season.
Among those who have joined Ellsbury on the DL this season were Dustin Pedroia and Jason Varitek (both still out with broken feet), Victor Martinez (recently returned), Kevin Youkilis (more than countering Martinez’s return by hitting the DL the day before Cameron with a thumb injury that will require season-ending surgery), Daisuke Matsuzaka (of course), Josh Beckett and Clay Buchholz (both recently returned), and Manny Delcarmen (returned, but to low-leverage innings). Did I miss anyone? Boof Bonser doesn’t count, and I’m not sure Mike Lowell does either, though he’s suddenly become a very important player in the wake of Youkilis’s injury.
The good news for Boston fans is that, assuming Jon Lester’s Wednesday night leg cramp isn’t anything, the rotation is back at full strength. Buchholz and Beckett, who start tonight and Sunday, respectively, each enter this series coming off a pair of quality starts. Less encouraging has been the fact that Lester, who pitches Monday, has been off his game for four straight outings, and John Lackey, who faces CC Sabathia on Saturday, has been little more than a league-average-innings eater in his first season with the team. The Sox’s bullpen has been as problematic as the Yankees’, and the pitching staff as a whole, which has surely been undermined by the drop in the quality of team defense resulting from the many injuries to the starting lineup, something unlikely to be helped by Ellsbury’s return, has been below average in keeping runs off the board.
Whatever winning the Red Sox have been doing this season has been due to a few stretches of sharp starting pitching and their lineup, which has been buoyed by David Ortiz’s rejuvination and by a fantastic season by Adrian Beltre, but Youkilis has been the team’s best hitter, and Pedroia was in the top four, and without those two bats, this is a very different ballclub.
The best-case scenario for the Red Sox this weekend is to sweep a four game set in the Bronx and pull within two games of the Yankees for the Wild Card. I don’t see that happening, though the Yankees would be advised to win at least one of the first two as the pitching matchups become more favorable for Boston as the series progresses. The Sox will have 50 games left after this series, enough to overcome any deficit, but if the Yankees simply split, they will have robbed the Sox of a prime opportunity to make up ground and will take control of their rival’s fate by having a six-game lead over the Sox with just six head-to-head games left to play. All of that may take the edge of this series, but it’s worth noting that beating the Rays does the Yankees little good as both teams are likely to make the postseason. It’s burying the second place team in the Wild Card chase that will secure the Yankees’ playoff berth, and that second-place team is the Boston Red Sox.
Boston Red Sox
2010 Record: 61-47 (.565)
2010 Pythagorean Record: 60-48 (.556)
Manager: Terry Francona
General Manager: Theo Epstein
Home Ballpark: Fenway Park
Bill James Park Indexes (2007-2009):
LH Avg-108, LH HR-85
RH Avg-107, RH HR-95
Who has replaced whom:
- Ryan Kalish (minors) has replaced Kevin Youkilis (DL)
- Jed Lowrie (DL) has replaced Dustin Pedroia (DL)
- Jacoby Ellsbury (DL) has replaced Jeremy Hermida
- Eric Patterson has replaced Jonathan Van Every (minors)
- Kevin Cash has replaced Jason Varitek (DL)
- Scott Atchison and Dustin Richardson (both minors) have replaced Ramon S. Ramirez and Scott Schoeneweis
25-man Roster:
1B – Mike Lowell (R)
2B – Jed Lowrie (S)
SS – Marco Scutaro (R)
3B – Adrian Beltre (R)
C – Victor Martinez (S)
RF – J.D. Drew (L)
CF – Jacoby Ellsbury (L)
LF – Ryan Kalish (L)
DH – David Ortiz (L)
Bench:
R – Bill Hall (UT)
R – Darnell McDonald (CF)
L – Eric Patterson (OF)
R – Kevin Cash (C)
Rotation:
R – Josh Beckett
L – Jon Lester
R – Daisuke Matsuzaka
R – Clay Buchholz
R – John Lackey
Bullpen:
R – Jon Papelbon
R – Daniel Bard
L – Hideki Okajima
R – Manny Delcarmen
L- Dustin Richardson
R – Scott Atchison
R – Tim Wakefield
15-day DL:
1B – Kevin Youkilis (right thumb)
2B – Dustin Pedroia (broken left foot)
CF – Mike Cameron (abdominal strain)
C – Jason Varitek (broken right foot)
60-day DL:
RHP – Junichi Tazawa (Tommy John surgery)
Typical Lineup:
L – Jacoby Ellsbury (CF)
R – Marco Scutaro (SS)
S – Victor Martinez (C)
L – David Ortiz (DH)
R – Adrian Beltre (3B)
L – J.D. Drew (RF)
R – Mike Lowell (1B)
L – Ryan Kalish (LF)
S – Jed Lowrie (S)
Wow, the game is on TV here again tonight. I'm living the high life.
It's a real shame how bad the Sox have been banged up this year.
Wa-waaaaa. This series just does not have the juice as last year. For better or for worse. But if Javy spits the bit and AJ does his bedshitting I'll be yellin' down a well. Go Yankees!
This is the 31st anniversary of the night Bobby Murcer drove in 5 runs to beat the Orioles after Thurman Munson's funeral, still my favorite game ever played.
Let's go Yank-ees, for Thurman!
[1] Keep an eye out for any beer delivery guys who may take away your high life.
Unfuckingbelievable. not.
Papi's back.
[2] Actually, looking at the matchups, tomorrow is the only day we have an advantage. A split would be just dandy with me, which probably means winning the first 2.
Considering their injuries, the Sox have played VERY well... whereas I think the Yankees have played below their talent, mainly due to ARod, Jeter, AJ, and early Teix.
Waddayasay? Is a split the best we can reasonable expect?
The strategy here MUST be to look for walks. Patience is the keyword for tonight.
Jeter getting a second wind?
[7] I'm down with a split.
If they ever make a movie and they need to cast a tall, laptop stealing hobbit, Bucholz is their man.
Nice liner for Jeter
The captain!
Wow I love these mlb announcers -- costas and kaat.
Surprised Jeter isn't standing on 2nd by now
Nice. A cheapie.
Whoo-hooo. Another 2 run job. Ya' just can't predict.. : )
A Teix message to the bleachers... :P
Teix > Papi.
4th game in a row with a 2 run HR inthe first, Bad omen?
No splits. We need 3 out of 4 to keep Tampa at bay (pun intended). Boston has pitching and some good hitters but they're a shadow. Hell this is a home series after all. Take 3 of 4. Fuck splitting.
[11] We have Singleton, Leiter and Kay on commentary here...
And another game where the Yanks score in the 1st inning.
Oh, and Teixeira asked me to apologize to OYF [8] for his impatience.
[18] If you're going to say fuck splitting at least ask for a sweep. : )
Christ, Javy is a fucking chump.
17) first inning HR jinx is over...first inning HR jinx is over...I believe...first inning HR jinx is over...
Spluck fitting.
Spuck flitting.
Fluck spitting.
I'm in just no mood and I've got a bad feeling about this stupid weekend so I'm not in my right mind right now.
How do you throw a cookie to Ortiz? And did you see how long it took that fat bastid to round the bases?
19) I'm getting the NESN feed. Whatever...at least they're not too bad, especially with no Eck.
6) What a testament to hard work, determination and a positive outlook on life. God bless him.
[21] sweeps in 4 game sets are rare. I won't mind winning 3 of 4.
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Man, it's amazing Lowell is just a few months older than Jeter. He looks older than George Clooney. (I actually saw Lowell in person once and he is exceedingly handsome and looks more like Clooney in real life than he does on TV with a helmet and uniform on...
Saw that play developing soon as both of them congregated...
FUCKING CHRIST. Javy, you are a fucking idiot.
WE WANT POSADA...
Cervelli just dropped that on his own, without help from Vasquez. Now, imagine if that had been Po...
Now, get out of this, you dipshit.
3-0, genius.
[34] Still, it would've been nice if Vazquez either called for the ball, or spun away.
36) remember, it's all a chess match, and Javy is four moves ahead of the likes of you and me.
Lowrie getting some good swings
Jed Lowrie, ladies and gentlemen.
This. Does. Not. Feel. Good...
I called used to call off my catchers all the time to catch pop ups when I pitched. I use to tell my coaches I trusted myself more than the catcher. So why the hell shouldn't I catch it. This whole nonsense of the pitcher being specator on those is fucking infuritating.
Fucking Javy.
fucking piece of shit.
This is gonna be a long one tonight.
Atta boy, Javy! You the man. Ozzie is smiling somewhere.
Fucking cervilli
[42] I let the catcher catch it, unless it was like a humpbacked liner to the mound. I'm exerting myself enough on the mound :)
That's the first time Jacoby has been on base since... well, for months.
Getting late early for Jav.
49) remember, in chess sometimes you sacrifice a piece to make a big move. Javy is just toyomg with them now.
bases clearing double...
Eat shit, Javy.
How do you walk lowrie And the grossly overrated jacoby Ellsbury
[51] I don't know, the queen sacrifice may not be called for here.
You have got to be kidding me.
fucking jagoff
Javy keeps missing his spots, and now this is shaping up to be one of "those" games
I guess I was wrong.
I'm sick to my stomach
So? To make this shit sammich complete, whadda ya say a grand slam?
Martinez is going to hit a granny.
Oh, brilliant. A pitcher who can't throw strikes, so let's load the bases to face V-Mart.
Seriously, someone explain that IBB to me. It's just fucking stupid.
I really feel like taking a two-hour walk right now. I'd probably get back just in time for the top othe 6th. This is just crap baseball right now -- giving the Redsox an error and two walks.
(I"m watching NESN, by the way.)
[63] Understandable, since Ortiz is liable to park one again
This inning is a Fucking abortion.
Maybe laptop boy won't be sharp after sitting for an hour.
Javy will wall Vmart.
[64] Announcers mentioned that V-Mart has struggled against Vazquez. Who is now getting squeezed
[67] And Martinez is chopped liver?
66) they've been fairly tolerable, all things considered.
Whew.
Fuck you, Javy. Oy and Bollocks!
Love your Tim Redding impression.
Girardi is a genius.
[71] They're fine. I like them. It's not Remy and Orsillo that I'm having a problem with in this game...
Javy is crapping the bed for sure...but am I the only one who is fed up with the Frankie Cervelli experience?
Hey, Curtis, you are cute and all, and I like you just fine, but how about not being a useless automatic fucking out, huh?
[70] Compared to Ortiz? Certainly.
Hey Curtis, you running?
Come on Frankie, make me dislike you less.
Hurray. The pony sticks around to cheerlead. What a guy!
79) OK, that's a start!
Luis Sojo cheap shit motherfucker.
How bout we pinch run for Frankie here?
83) with Posada? Hahahahahah...
[77] Okay, if you say so.
I think that move backfires a lot more often than it succeeds. You trust Vazquez not to walk V-Mart there? If he goes to 3-1, Martinez knows the pitch has to be a strike.
Terrible choice; it worked out okay this time.
[78] Hopefully, Frankie is
Larry David's there. I wonder if he's with a prostitute.
Gardner had bettern be fucking running.
[84] I'm kinda kidding but kinda not.
[85] You trust Ortiz not to go deep, or hit one hard somewhere?
I'd send Brett on the 1-0 pitch.
[90] I think a walk is much, much more likely than a home run, yeah. Much.
Good thing Brett stole. God fucking bless.
I don't know. When I was younger, it was pretty much automatic that if the nine hitter got on with two outs and had any speed, he would run...it probably didn't make a difference there, but I don't know why Gardner was not running on first move, or at least at 1-0.
Nice.
Giambiesque.
How bad are those folks to miss the the ball by that much? boooooooo : )
[92] Vs RHP
VM: .232/.297/.343(.640)
DO: .279/.407/.642(1.049)
Add in that Martinez is a couple of weeks removed from injury
[98] Hm, those are pretty big spilts. That does make it more reasonable, I admit.
[74] I think they are the best in the game.... except Vin and Uecker of course.
[94] agreed. Victor Martinez is a lousy catcher and couldn't throw out Gardy.
I think the 3B ump rang him up just to speed the damn game up.
Okay, better Javy.
Now we need a run. Crooked inning better, but a run will satisfy me.
[94] Yep, at the very least, if he's thrown out, Jeter leads off the next inning.
Now, Buch settling in...great.
Quickly and quietly...
Oooh, the meat of the order looking scary there.
[105] You think? Two balls hit pretty hard there. He looks shaky to me.
The truth is this team needs ARod to hit. Jeter and our DH could help, but I always felt in the game when ARod was hitting. Now, I have little faith in our O.
Wow... Eucker has a career batting average of .200
Defensive specialist I guess.
The game has changed just bit.
Brains was born 40 years too late.
109) they could use someone to hit. Cervelli and Granderson have been a toilet combined, Jeter's recently been hot, but Gardner has been scuffling. ARod has been slumping. Berkman has yet to hit. That's a lot of gaps in the lineup.
JV sucked that inning, but all 3 runs were unearned.... REALLY Unearned.
[111] As Cliff pointed out today, it wouldn't be wise to hold your breath waiting for Berkman to hit.
113) hey, i'm just waiting for someone not named Robbie (and Mark) to start hitting ( or start hitting again).
Rocket Robbie. Get back on track, brother.
[114] Swisher.
Nice play, douche.
RUN PREVENTION, BABY!
That was ugly.
Jesus christ, slide you lazy fuck.
Granderson is fucking useless right now.
[121] He hit it hard, but right at Lowell
116) yes, i forgot, add Nick to the list of names.
122) i didn't see. I looked down for a moment, looked up and the Yankees had two outs. OK he hit it hard.
Yeah, it was a very hard grounder.
I can't get over Berkman walking into the tag at second.
soft cerv
Turns out this wasn't a good day to rest Posada.
[127] yeah, but it's a night game after a day off, so it had to be...
Vazquez been hanging out with Padilla?
JV goes at least 7 if not for the Charle Brown antics of Cervelli.
Sit down, Beltre. Nice Reggie swing. Let's score some friggin runs.
It's pissing me off a lot that our battery puked up those three runs. JV is pitching extremely well now. It would have been so easy to be on top of this game.
Javy hasn't looked too bad outside of that one disastrous inning (yeah, I know, unearnerd runs...but seriously).
Let's go offense!
[130] - [132] I'd say we have a consensus.
shut the fuck up. Michael.
not in the mood
Make him pay, Nick.
NOW can we start running?
There ya go.
Hit someone else, Laptop.
Swish is a goddamn goofball. That much I know.
fuck em up, Tex...
133) the Banter, bringing folks together.
Oh for...
And Teix goes down after a long, tough at bat.
Ok, Rodriguez
Remy says Buchholz "really jammed him" (Teixeira), but isn't that right in Mark's wheelhouse? Low and inside?
Double steal or something. This is torture.
[142] It was epic
whaddaya say, Centaur?
They should probably walk Mr 600 to get to the middle infielder.
Specially Marked Balls!!
Maddon would've squeezed
Attaboy.
[148] Toldya.
thank you
Good. Hit one in the gap, Robbie. 3fer3.
[150] No doubt in my mind.
Maddon would actually have squeezed the specially marked balls.
149) he would have squeezed specially marked balls??
154) damn you!
Somewhat disappointing. One run was the bare minimum in that situation (corners, one out).
[129] Father Padilla Meets The Perfect Gnat!
You know what, monkeypants: just don't bother. What's the point?
Hey, it's the specially marked drummer! Wazzup.
Welp, if Jav can get three more outs without giving up a run, he'll have done a decent job.
Who's up in the bullpen? The NESN guys aren't saying.
159) Grit means never giving up. I'm gritty.
By the lunching shortstop.
If JV confounded the Yanks with his slop while with another team I'd go bonkers. Is Joba the new 6 and 2/3 inning guy?
Ah, Joba is the one up in the pen.
[161] I blame you, Alex.
You are f ucking terrible.
162) interesting...it looks like Girardi is planning on playing the eighth inning very early tonight.
go away, Javy.
[160] hey man! trying to catch up on the game, yankee news of the day, and baseball in general.
of course. same fucking no-name asshole that wrecked santana's knee. i hate every last inch of the entire shit sox organization. i wish they were contracted...
Every low pitch, middle of the plate by Javy has beem pounded tonight. Not that this should be a surprise.
Eaay to second guess, but I guess he should have pulled Javy after Lowell's hit.
b double o. Papi's homer and the rookie bullshit homer. Not good. Not good at all. My hightlight was JV's 63 mph changeup to Martinez. Fucking Bollocks!
Kalish...he's the one who mangled Carlos Santana's knee, isn't he? (Er, the catcher, not the musician.)
I was asking too much. Just good enough to lose.
167) I'll take the heat.
Now, here comes the gasoline.
[175] yup. see [171] : )
[175] Santana takes more blame than Kalish methinks. He had his leg stuck straight out over the plate. Terrible outcome all around but his technique really screwed him.
Remy notes that Rob has a very strawng throwing ahm.
speaking of music...
my [158] Padilla post, was an obscure reference to an old Kansas tune. someone mentioned Padilla (vicente, i presume), earlier. i haven't gone thru the whole thread...
[175] "Hope Your Feeling Better"...
180) my wife was laughing at him diwcussing Gardner during his first ab: Gahdnah batting two nahnty in the nahn hole...
[181] Whoa.
Mine [182] is much less obscure!
I had one Kansas album as a kid. I wore it down pretty good.
nice Zhaba.
Score Truck time.
Berkman = Groundzilla.
[184] yeah, decent prog rock in the 70's. Leftoverture, from 1976. last track - Magnum Opus, 6 parts. the one i referenced was the first 'movement'... the lead track on that record is "Carry On My Wayward Son", which everyone knows. forget the fact that it was a big hit single, it's a tremendous song. really great writing and playing.
[186] Would be nice if he worked the count
fuggin Ingrid Berkman
[187] Wayward Son I know, of course. The album I had was the eponymous one.
...sigh...
2-1 Jays over Rays in the eighth.
Hi, my name is Curtis Granderson: I used to be worth a shit.
I hate to say it, but Kerry Wood would be my call here, too.
Wood would.
189) That's GREAT! LOL. Let's just hope the Jays can hold it together but with that chump Gregg closing, I ain't holding my breath. And now Kerry on to serve up a dinger or two....
Monkeypants, how do you like Heidi Watney?
Big Fat ass looks like he dropped about 50 lbs.
what a frustrating game... 1-0 (sucks), then they get the lead 1-2 (high fives all around, here we go!), stupid error 4-2 (turn the TV off), 4-3 (yes!, we're back in business, Javy settled down!), 6-3 (TV off... for good).
the only hope is TB losing
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Clank.
Nick Swisher. Not a good outfielder.
How in the fuck in any world can that be ruled a hit. Gimme a break.
196) to be honest, i dislike each and every one of what I refer to, offensively, as the "useless sideline bimbos." I don't really have an opinion beyond that, except she looks a little less manly than the one YES employs...what's her name?
Kerry Wood my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
[190] ah, the "John Brown" album, their debut. good stuff!
i once got called to possibly record a Steve Walsh solo album. it never came to pass and they ended up hiring an international drum star. oh well...
I like Wood's make-'em-hit-line-drives pitching style.
Jesus, they sure are squaring it up against Kerry, ain't they?
[203] Kim Jones.
But Heidi isn't really a bimbo. She does look like one, I admit.
[196] i think you know how i feel about her...
take a wild guess!
Where the hell was that pitch?
[205] Wait, you don't have an international reputation???
[209] I wasn't going to ask you. But you aren't watching her now, are you? You have NESN on?
I really hope this doesn't encourage Girardi to use Wood in important situations. It won't right? Joe saw that there were four deep liners from four batters.
Longoria lead off single in the ninth.
Gregg goes 0-2 to Aybar, then Aybar works the count full.
Strike three looking!
One down.
214) i'm tempted to switch over to rogers sportsnet ontario and watch that game, but i figure i would just jinx the jays.
Zobrist flies out, two away. Runner still on first. Here comes Bartlett...
This game S.U.C.K.S. Maybe laptop can get a complete game in under 100 pitches.
Perhaps Jeter's doing some sort of tribute to Wang?
[212] neh. i've looked her up before...
fuck Laptop Buttholz. assfuk.
Jays win.
Break his ankle.
Oh Mark, take one for the freaking team there!
Teix was clearly looking for something else
Not one of those four pitches was in the strike zone.
i could very well be wrong, but i could swear i girardi said kerry would not pitch more than 1 inning at a time. 1.2 innings, 30+ pitches. i mean, i don't give a shit, i'll take it...
Bologna One!
NYC -> Scranton is not a long ride.
[229] Dunder Mifflin execs do it a lot.
Rem-dog really is impressed by Robbie.
Bawl hit very hahd.
His arm is a rocket. And he hits rockets. Rocket Robbie.
time to earn your stripes, puma!
Heah's Dan Bahd.
Oh, you're kidding.
Well, hats off. Jeez.
[234] spearshaker
Finally hits the ball hard, but right at a fielder
Poor Berkman.
Ellsbury must have grass stuck in his teeth after that one.
[236] RIght, that guy. One ER in his last 17 innings.
[237] Not even "right at".
I blame Seamus for not being here to ward off the first inning two run home run jinx.
Don't like this Ortiz - Gaudin matchup
[242] that's the feeling i had with kerry...
Ye gods. And only one base on all that.
[242] You just knew he'd leg out an infield hit!
What constitutes an error nowadays? Am I the only one who gets annoyed over errors that are not ruled thusly? : )
245) speed kills.
So Posada PH in the ninth, right?
[245] Better outcome than I had in mind
[246] I would've given him a base hit on that.
That pitch was a strike to Teix...
Lowell needs to retire and get back on that evolution poster where he belongs.
[251] Joe West texted the home plate ump.
246) i used to be, but i've fiven up. My new position is that there should be no errors at all...just eliminate the E dorm scoring. If a batter hits the ball and he ends up on basewhether the ball was dielded or nor, it should just fo as a hit. It's a much more elegant system than relying on the home team's scorer to determine which batted ball should be a hit or not. And it would also encourage the adoption of more advanced defensive metrics by the media and general public.
[254] Autocorrect, FTW
I remember doing a certain amount of E dorm scoring in college.
Well, there's hope. It's Papelbon.
255) be nice.
Anyway, i would just get rid of errors.
Hello All,
This game should be tied right now, Brains failed himself early.
Why does Berkman remind me of Nick Johnson without the walks? I know he's had a great career, and A Professional Hitter (tm) but not everyone can thrive in the pressure cooker here.
And Granderson looks lost at bat, in the field, and on the bases the few times he's on base.
We have to at least split this series with the Sox. At least the Rays lost alread tonight.
And...Kim Jones is not a Bimbo, She is a sporting girl who paid dues since she was Penn State. Now, Heide...
Now, let's get to spincter face.
[254] fiven and dielded. you rock, monkeypants! : )
It's important to make Papelbon work, even if we can't mount a comeback. He pitched yesterday, so we can take him out of tomorrow's game.
[259] yes, kim jones is a hottie and Penn State RULES!!! : )
i got my lion pride!!!!!!!!!
260) i aim to please.
[258] Starting in the booth, no doubt
Not exactly making him work.
Come on, Jetes!
bases empty. if anyone can hit a grand slam now, it jeter!
[259] "Pressure" isn't the problem with Berkman
[254] I am not a fan of that, unfortunately. I just want to become the offical scorer of all time. : )
My dad thinks golf should simply get rid of par. What's the point really? Low score should win. End of story.
This game was an epic failure.
268) maybe MLB could get interactive: fans could text in and vote their ruling, error or hit, for a small fee of course.
[269] FIrst 50 entries win specially marked balls.
This game has left a mark on my balls.
I mean this in the most heterosexual way possible.
Brett Gardner has very blue eyes
[272] Brett says you have nice hair.
That looked like a pretty good pitch.
Wow. Hell of an AB from Derek. He's been looking pretty good since the break.
Awesome.
That should do it, Papelbon unavailable tomorrow.
[273] I thank him.
[265] jetes made him a work a good bit. there's that...
273) and specially marked balls.
Git your ass back behind the plate, blue
Might have been low, but Paps kind of has a point.
But Jetes earned it.
Teix will need another HR as ARod is ADud
[272/3] i have both nice hair and very blue eyes (if i may say)! : )
Jeter being gritty! (looked like a strike to me).
20 pitches for Papsmear
Hm, if Swish gets on, the game gets really interesting all of a sudden.
I would also eliminate defensive indifference. You move up on the bases, you get a stolen base.
[283] and specially marked balls?
[268] i vote you official scorer of all-time. can you now go back to a-rod's last "defensive indifference" and give him a "stolen fucking base", so he can have 300?
it's the only way he's getting there... thanks, man!
When Collin Curtis goes for a milestone hit sometime in the future, will he have specially marked ball?
(sorry for that)
[287] I would eliminate the fly out. Any batter must be thrown out at first base or it's a safety.
[287] yes, agreed. thank you. i think jeter feels the same way. i remember reading him say that. i think it was a kirkjian piece at espn on stolen bases. coulda been over this past offseason...
FUCK!!!
we best at least split this series...
3 1/2 hours of garbage.
Oh well. This one is on Javy.
At least the Rays lost. Lets go out and beat the Sox tomorrow.
[291] i would eliminate the shit sox. period, end of.
[i'm dead fucking serious. i loathe them.]
291) now you're just being silly.
[295] I would eliminate the hemiola.
Spincter stretched, but did not yield. We'll get them tomorrow.
Yeah, that was awful. I'll have to detox with some west coast canadian football. See y'all tomorrow.
[297] NEVAH!!!
3:2 forevah!!!
[299] and a labatt's blue ribbon!
[300] Okay, okay.
Love me some Brahms, anyway!
[302] nice, me too. brahms is very very good.
i LOVE me some shostakovish. shosty is *amazing*. mahler, too.
debussy/ravel = french impressionism.
but now, it's all about KANSAS!!!
[303] No kidding. Huh. Yeah, you're kind of into the Romantics, huh? Shostakovich is too sarcastic for me. (Not really, I just like to say that.)
Wagner? (Not his, you know, politics.)
huh, that was granderson's 1st double play this year. i wouldn't have guessed that. rather inopportune time for it... : /
Hey, you would like Messiaen. If you haven't listened to him, do it.
Not Romantic, and not Impressionistic, but if you like Debussy and Ravel and Mahler and Shostakovich, and of course cool rhythms, then this is your guy. Olivier Messiaen.
[304] well, i do talk in my sleep! no, jus' kiddin'. that drummer sang. i stopped that in 8th grade, during a live performance and my voice cracked. everyone made fun of me. i mean, they already did, but now they had even more fuel. like they needed it... weh.
that's ironic about Shosty. he actually *was* sarcastic! i have musical comedy he composed - cheryomushki - and his maniacal smile on the cover is quite sarcastic. if i were more of a book reader, i'd read his biography. but it's a MASSIVE book - simply titled Dmitri.
[306] hilarious, i thought you meant the band The Romantics. hahaha!!! that rocks.
i'm actually a Baroque guy. Bach is my biggest Classical hero. i LOVE him. if i had a son, i'd name him Sebastian. or Jacob Sebastian, for the J.S. i'm not kidding. (i kinda need a girlfriend before that can even become a possibility...)
of course, i know - and dig - Messiaen. i don't have much though, if any. screaming headless torsos and bill stewart both reference ol' oliver. he's excellent and i do need to check out more. cool you know of him!
i'd like for you to hear my 20th century nocturne. i orchestrated it for a symphony. it's under 3 minutes, but quite episodic. it has a ton of influences from all different periods/genres...
Oh, I'm more of a Baroque guy too. Well, I'm eclectic, but if I had to choose, then Baroque. Bach first. Handel and Scarlatti next.
Cool, I'm impressed that you know Messiaen. I know, Shostakovich was sarcastic, and his music too. The only "kidding" is that nothing could really be too sarcastic for me!
Oh, wait, you have a nocturne?? You don't seem like the praying type :-)
Has anyone ever heard it?
[309] well, i do have two degrees in classical music.
yes, i'm the same. baroque/bach first. and very sarcastic (and silly).
i'm also a penderecki fan. so, yeah, eclectic!
And that reminds me, Monteverdi is also a favorite of mine, esp. the Vespers. (The counterpart of a Nocturne, is why I thought of it.)
[311] Oh, uh, hm. He's American, right? And is he alive?
(Penderecki, not Bach.)
I don't think I know any of his work.
[310 well, i'm vampire boy, so night music suits me well!
yeah, lotsa folks have heard it. the official cd should be out this fall. got my copyrights, waiting on the publishing to come through...
i actually played it to diane the other night. she mentioned film scoring, which lotsa folks have...
i hope to have a choreographer write a dance part to it. if so, i'll have it filmed and put it up on the eventual website. i can think of nothing cooler for a composer. i hope that happens...
[314] Oh, how did that go, with Diane?? I really want to hear her side of the food part!
Wow, so you got a symphony orchestra to play your nocturne. That's impressive.
[312] monteverdi - that's old school! i do like regular verdi. you know, giuseppe verdi. = joe green! : )
[313] no, penderecki is polish. i think he's still alive, yeah. born in 1933. he's taught here in america. krzysztof penderecki = pronounced Christ-Off Pender-etski. as weird as he is! crazy ass, unique avant-garde. not for the weak-stomached! his main piece is "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima". it's out as fuk.
[315] you'd be disappointed. i ate every last bit of my excellent dish! even had the house salad. no problems ordering, no special requests, no hassles. i was easy-peasy and ate very well, thank you very much! : )
nocturne = separate post. on its way...
[316] Yeah, it is kind of old school. Very early Baroque. I once sang in the Vespers, and it really ripped me up. The Duo Seraphim. (That's the source of my love of sackbuts!)
[315] nocturne:
i composed it on piano. heard a symphony in my head. i recorded it on a digital piano. then i hired a MIDI engineer for the library of symphonic sounds. i assigned every note i played to an orchestral instrument and...voila - a symphony!
or...a - symphony. but, what's a poor boy ta do? i can't hire a 'real' orchestra. most of it sounds very authentic. in a few spots, it sounds like a fake symphony, 'coz it's, well...a fake symphony.
but i'm very very proud of it. moreso than any of the drumset, mallet or percussion playing on the album. 'coz it's... not percussion. there's a little percussion in the piece, but very little. it's more about the composition, performance (piano) and orchestration.
in the libretto, there'll be a 3-stanza poem i wrote to go with it...
[318] dude, if we were in-person pals, (which would be cool), i'd call you "sackubut(t)" from here unto eternity!
speaking of sackbuts... just a few comments ago, impressed with your musical knowledge, i was thinking you'd be a trombone player. i can't remember if that's what you played growing up, or it just popped in my head. either way, that's really ironic!
i dated a trombone player in college. frueling posaunens, was the festival. i even had a t-shirt. man, she was amazing... : (
Sorry to interrupt the music symposium...new thread up for those interested. Maybe I'll take my unique brand of typographical humor up there. Meanwhile it's Toronto 12 Edmonton 4. Gotta love the CFL.
i mean, "sackbutt" with 2 t's. like, "tutti". : )
Oh, cool. Sure, that makes sense. And if it sounds "fake" in some spots, the real point is that you get to hear it, and so do other people. (Trombones always sound a little 'fake' to us sackbut aficionados, you know.)
I know some composers, and they are always incredibly excited when they can get an orchestra to perform their work. (Even the really successful ones are excited.)
Hm.
Okay, I know two composers. ('Some' is technically accurate but rather misleading.)
[321] ha! i was just about to write - "i was channeling my inner monkeypants, when i spelled the misspelling of "sackbut" wrong!"
thanks for the heads up. i'll stick around here for a minute, see if the sackbutt from rhode island is still around! : )
Oh, no, I never played trombone. I have no chops at all. (My sons do play horns of various sorts.) I only sang and played the piano.
You can call me "Cosi fan two-Ts" if you want.
Okay, off to the new thread (and probably not for too long, in my case).
[323] well, now you know a third! : )
yes, the point is to get the damn thing out of my mind and inner ear and onto disc. what an amazing feeling!
the spots that sound the fakest (not a word, but you follow me...), are indeed the chords that are a brass quintet. it sounds very "organ"-like. this bothers me, but there's nothing i can do. we messed with the velocity in there to take out any waves that an organ couldn't make, so it's authentic in that regard, but it still sounds more like an organ than a brass quintet. i know in my heart, it's all brass instruments. you can hear it in there, but it does blanket like an organ.
overall, i'm really happy with how it came out and the engineer is too. he's a genius and i'm honored to work with him. he's recording my eight new pieces next month. all drums/mallets/percussion. there's tributes to my grandpa in there, as well as "shadow games" for todd drew...
[325] trombone is a really difficult instrument. so's the french horn. but, it's french, so... it has strings, ya know! (really, it does.)
break up the oreo's! fightin' showalter's 4-0 under the buck!