Back from the bullpen, Javier Vazquez gets the nod this afternoon on a bright and sunny day in New York. I’m taking the wife to the ballgame where we’ll be root-root-rooting for the home team.
Let’s Go Yan-Kees!
Monday
November 18, 2024
Since 2002
"This ain't football. We do this every day."
--Earl Weaver
--Earl Weaver
Javy + Blue Jays' HR swingin' = potentially ugly afternoon. Hopefully Vazquez keeps them mystified.
Both pitchers have 2 Zs in their last names .... that can't happen too often ...
Marcus Thames will have at least 2 atrocious moment in right field today.
Go JV! Don't suck.
[2] Wow. no kidding. This must be the highest-scoring Scrabble match-up of the season, at the very least.
Yay, Javy!
I won't be able to stick around for much of this game, so please do all necessary rooting and chess moves in my absence.
[2] All those zzzz's are making me sleepy.
Brett the Jet
We actually have a genuine real life leadoff batter now. Cool.
Brett's losing steam. He was out.
Cano needs a day off
Jason Taylor dwarfs A-Rod. Holy shit!
Kay actually knows a little football
[10]
Taylor is listed as 6-6. 255
Shocker. Keep swinging that leg, Javy.
[9] Immediately, if not sooner.
2 HR minimum returns.
[0] What did wifey possibly do to you to make her watch a JV start?
And Javy is back in the rotation because of...why?
Jome Run Javy is back at it.
But really... can't be pissed at balls hit 301'.
21 MPH winds and flyball pitcher .... oops.
17) except the one hit 301' was a rocket, not a dinky pop fly down the line.
Nice play by MacDonald.
Kim Jones is having a birthday this Tuesday ... guess how old she'll be ...
If this keeps up, it may be nap time.
holy cow ... Moseley up in the pen already
Javy. You are fucking terrible. Go back to Atlanta.
[23] I think I'd rather see Mitre at this point, Moseley hasn't been any good either.
Hey, Diane,. I just ripped this from LoHud.
Has there ever been more (Scrabble) value in two opposing pitchers? They BOTH have two Z’s in their last names and Javy has a Q to boot. Rzepczynski has 40 points to his last name. Vazquez has 37 points. I have no idea how to search for higher scrabble point totals by last name — baseball-reference does not yet have that feature. But I find it hard to imagine you could find another matchup in MLB history worth more than 77 points.
Javy is still battling it seems....
For what it's worth, and maybe I'm way wrong, but I'm not really sure this is a mental thing with him. I think it's just injury related/lack of stuff. Only a select few can survive the AL East with seriously diminished stuff.
[26]
gracias
Yay!
Lucky > good. Hells Bells.
Some ground balls > other ground balls.
Good work, Robbie. New ballgame.
Highest-Scrabble scoring players in history
Marc Rzepczynski 40
Jim Czajkowski 39
Carlos Velazquez 39
Freddie Velazquez 39
Gil Velazquez 39
Now .... technically, you can't spell any of those last names with a standard English Scrabble set without blanks.The highest-scoring last names that CAN be spelled with a standard English Scrabble set, without blanks:
Steve Wojciechowski 37
Mike Jerzembeck 36
Lucky >> Good.
Cervelli catching fire all of the sudden. Very nice.
[36]
well .... he can handle heaters up in the zone ...
Dear Joe ... when A-Rod comes back, give Robbie a couple of days off ...
Mike Hampton is back in the majors (if you count Arizona anyway)?!? Wow. Former Yankee farmhand Zach Kroenke made it up too, after a couple different rule 5 selections.
[39]
and Mark Prior got signed to a minor league deal
No win for you Javy.
Its always nice to get away for a few days and come home to Javy Vazquez
[40] I saw that, with Texas. Sounds like he was throwing in the lower 90s, so there might be something there still.
[40] I thought he had retired
Really? Moseley here? This is where stuff like "8th inning guy" can really bite you in the a..
Well, that went well.
[44] He was pitching for an indy team in Orange County.
Why did Thames throw the ball to Cano???
[45] See!
The Yankees aren't going to offer Vazquez arbitration, are they?
[49] Yup.
And *now* Coffee Joe gets Logan up.
*Now*.
Fucking brilliant.
[50] No chance. He'd take it.
So, in happier news, Cooperstown was actually so much better than I was expecting. Awesome little getaway
[52] Exactly. And I certainly hope the Yankees realize that.
[54] I'm sure they do, they didn't offer it to Damon last season for the same reason.
[53] I'll have to get up there someday.
Joe was not asleep at the wheel. He played the #'s and lost. What are you going to do?
[51] Sheer fucking incompetence.
This one is inexcusable.
The failure to understand the compromised meaning of small sample sizes is unfathomable.
[53] Cooperstown is as great as it gets. Grab a sandwich, enjoy lunch at the little ballpark... is Gabriella's still there?
[57] But those are not numbers with any meaning you can rely on.
Seven isn't even close to a requisite sample. It's FAR from close.
[60] Neither is 4. So what's the point? It was a coin flip and he lost.
Sorry about the all bold. Lost a symbol by typing too fast.
[61] The point is that because neither sample size is remotely close to sufficient, you use your pitcher who has been great in the spot that may decide the game instead of your pitcher who is totally mediocre.
It's not complicated.
Oh, and I should have added - with neither sample size telling you anything, using your own two eyes to see not only that Logan has been murder on lefties, but why he's been mirder on lefties, you use THAT guy.
"mirdir" - I'm all monkeypantsed.
[57] Uh, bring in the LHP to get the LHB out before giving up the tying runs?
Seriously, Moseley is literally the last pitcher that Girardi should have brought in there. (well, Gaudin would have been just as bad)
*Any* of the short relievers would have been a better choice, since they're used to warming quickly *and* entering with runners on base.
If he absolutely had to use a "long" man, Mitre would have been a far better choice.
Mostly, it just looks like Girardi had decided Moseley was the 1st one in, regardless of the game situation
Hello All,
Just got in from yard work. Was listening. Cheapie home runs, and Vazquez eeking it out. Maybe Logan should have come in the 5th, but the plan was for Moseley to give a few innings. Not today.
[53] Love Cooperstown, besides the obvious day at the Hall of Fame, there is the NY State Farm museum with really nice stone buildings and working demonstrations, the Fenimore Museum with the largest collection of Native American artifacts east of the Mississippi and great Hudson School paintings, the lake to frolic in and the scenery everywhere. Foods pretty good too, especially this time of year with the local produce. A great place for a long weekend.
These umps need to be publicly executed.
Joba really caught a break there,
Man, terrible call.
The pitch was curving and had a lot of movement. Was it a ball, yes, but too close to take. Yanks get a break, but not a huge one. It's easy to see with multiple camera angels and slow motion that it's a ball, but at real speed, the oitch could have been perceived to clip the corner.
[70] I don't know about that. The first pass it looked clearly outside to me; I was shocked when it was called a strike.
I mean, sure, it wasn't literally a foot outside, but I think that would qualify as a huge break. It wasn't borderline.
[64] I hear ya'. Joe played a hunch, hoped Mosely would get out Overbay, then go a couple of shut out innings. Backfire. Now it's to time to go root for The Irish.
THEY CALL ME, MR. THAMES!!!!
Wow, Scott Proctor is back in the bigs too, with Atlanta. This September is filled with surprising names being called up.
Nice to see Fat Elvis coming alive with the bat.
Thames is not messing around. Dude has really turned it on at the perfect time.
How great has Marcus Thames been in this role? Where would the Yankees be without him with Arod down, and Jeter scuffling?
Good stuff!
Can anyone remember the last time Jeter's bat significantly dontributed to a Win? ('m talking 2010 here).
[78] Last big hit I remember was the inside the park homer against KC that killed David DeJesus dead. Seems like that was a go-ahead deal.
[78] Likey the word, dontributed. Kind of sums it up.
Goodness, but it's fun to watch Teixeira play 1stbase.
Sox down to their last out in their first game today.
Wow.
Perfect throw from the knees.
If we Win today, I declare the next Sox loss as their swan song.
Their POFF% currenty stands at 2%
I'd be curious what it will be after a Yankee Win and a Sox loss.
P.S. Time to root FOR Texas and AGAINST Minnesota.
And the Sox lose.
[85] I gave up on that after I rooted for the Yanks to play Detroit in 2005. That backfired, big time!
Here's a scary stat .... Carlos Marmol has struck out 118 in 65.1 innings this year.
[88] Speaking of people named Carlos, Delgado is done for the year after experiencing another hip injury. Not much has went right for Boston this year, although he was always a gamble.
Rivera's K/9 has dipped from 9.8 to 7.1 from 09 to 10 ... but he's still getting it done.
One down.
two down.
On the other hand, Rivera's 5.1 hits per 9 this season is a career low.
three down. Another Yankee win. Plus my last Mud Hens game tonight.
He just keeps MO-ing them down.
Praise be.
Mo better than ever?
Eight in a row. Who misses Arod?
In other news, Javy tied James Shields for the lead in homers allowed in the AL. In three less starts and thirty less innings.
[72] Yeah, that's what I'm saying (which I know you already get) - with samples that small, it is just a hunch. What you worry is that managers think it's something more than just a hunch - that they have some statistical backing.
I'm enough of a traditionalist that if a manager thinks he's seen something particular in those seven at bats, I can live with that. I would really hope that Girardi was going on something like that - that Overbay had looked particularly bad against Moseley - but I kind of doubt that's what it was.
All lefties have looked pretty weak against Logan for the longest time - which is why I wanted him there.
Glad things ended well.
I think Bautista's an ass, and deserved to get run, and was even dumber than Jorge the other day, but I do feel terrible about getting that call. That was just an embarrassing whiff by the umpire.
I love Marcus Thames.
Mo was nasty in the 9th.
Oh no.
I am having all sorts of typing problems today.
Please move along and don't stare too long at the wreckage.
I feel shame.
Help! Now everything is in italics!
Is this fixed? One man wreck! Yikes...
Javy apparently thinks he pitched too well to be taken out
Did he seriously say that?
I would have yanked him 100 times out of 100 opportunities before letting him face Overbay.
[102] "It could have been a better outing, but the fact that I got taken out....that wasn't good."
Petulant Javy. He should shut up, and be glad if he makes the post season roster.
100) how did you do that?
By the congratualtions: even I have never managed something like this!
WOW!
JJ Italicized the Banter. Powerful Dude!
AND I UN-ITALICIZED IT!
(should I drink a little more?)