Got Bagel Standard (http://bagelstandard.com/) and some coffee ready to go..Rain, Rain Go Away!

The weather is okay right now. It's still a little sketchy, but my bet is the rain holds off long enough.

Bleah, can't stand graff that spells something yet is totally illegible. What does it say?

Great random ad, btw: "Enter now for a chance to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field or win other Mets prizes." Feh!

[3] I think it says Cervelli is batting third?
Wack, man.

[5] A young, smiley Japanese Christian stopped me on the street yesterday, asked if I knew about Jesus..I said yes, but Cashman won't bring him up..got the usual polite, befuddled smile in reply.

[6] Heh.

Girardi thinks it's not a good idea to bring him up as a BUC, because it would be asking too much of Jesus to "learn the staff".

Great, 4 hours of My Litle Pony fellatio coming up..I hate ESPN

Good thing they at least got Grinch's pitch count up to 17 in the first.

Quiet game thread for BoSox..what's going on, no one has 4.5 hours to spare on a sunday night?

NO Pasta for you, Dusty!!

[7] ::facepalm::

Of course, Cashman was willing to trade Fistpump for a lefty reliever, so who knows how this works out.

[8] I'm here, but my participation will be sporadic.

[8] I'm here for a while, then have to run to the airport.

The standing-and-watching strategy worked for Curtis, but not so much for Swish and Brett.

Fuck

... and I just finished dinner...

Finally! Finished someone!

[8] is that a hershiser joke?

[6] Well played!

WTF Jeter? And wasn't that a little deep for the infield fly rule?

Well, if Posada's going to be benched, it's only a matter of time before The Jesus is called up. Yanks need to do something about the DH spot.

All in all, Fabulous Freddy Freak Brother.

[13] You should drive... hee yuk yuk yuk

I'll take it. We're going to see Phil before too long at this rate, though.

Well done Chief, holding them to only one there is huge.
Curt W. Schilling in booth for top 3rd means time for Mr. OK Jazz to do some laundry! Let's GO YAN-Kees!!

looks to me like beckett's a bit off with his command, don't know what schilling's seeing

Laundry done! I'm willing to bet $100 I already missed some 2004 LCS talk?
C'mon Jeter! Single can score Coltrane..

FUCK.

AAAARGH! Two well struck balls by Jete, no result.

[29] yeah frustrating in a game where every at bat counts.

Geez, is this game on NESN? I can't bear listening to Schilling anymore.

Nice play by jetes!

[31] biggest blowhard ever.

Alright, nice job Fat Freddy!

Schilling seems to have mellowed out a bit..I feel bad for mocking him.

Hey, the fat fuck is out of the booth, how about shutting the fuck out about him and talking about the damn game?????

Thank MO that Sox shill-er is out of the booth. Enough of the Boston love-fest.

Freddy is making it work.

Come on score truck!

[36] I was talking to Orel and the rest, if that wasn't clear.

[38] Clear to me.

[6] That's a good one. : )

Why are they not sending Granderson against Captain Facemask?

C'mon Robbie!!! Bring Curtis home!

haha valentine basically says a pitchout is a bad idea because it's giving a ball away and there's a good chance you don't get the runner out anyway, but that he would sometimes use it just to show the other team that he might

wait how did teixeira get out???

[41] all runners must go against facemask.

This ump sounds like he's saying sieg heil on the strike calls.

Plus the Nazi sound alike is squeezing Freddy.

This ump sounds like he's saying sieg heil on the strike calls.

Plus the Nazi sound alike is squeezing Freddy.

[43] Peer behind the mask of a Chessmaster!!!

Ah...the dreaded double post. How do I do it?

[44] K.

[43] I hate to say it, but that actually makes sense to me.

[50] i guess i zoned out

[52] You were distracted by the steal.

GaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH.

Geez, another stolen double.

[51] if you want the other team to think you might pitch out sometimes, wouldn't you choose times when you think the runner might be going anyway? i guess that could be what he meant, but the way he said it made it seem like he'd only do it for show, never to try to get a guy out, because that would be a waste.

Mother fucker!

Well, that's a kick in the fucking balls.

Bad luck for Swisher, he crushed that one.

Are you kidding me?

This game fucking sucks.

Beckett's been more lucky than good. Well, he's been both.

[56] Oh. I thought he meant, it's just not worth giving away the ball for the extra chance of getting the runner, but then if you also factor in that the other manager might get worried about your pitch-out, that makes it worth doing sometimes.

I think that's probably correct. (Something like that is the view defended in The Book.)

[58] Kick in the baal, master?

[62] They're going to score off him. Just need the Chief to hold off the Greatest Offense of All Time (how do I make that copywright sign on my Mac??)

[63] that could be what he meant

[65] Oh, boy. You just made me use google. ™ Option +2
Man, there's all kinds of crazy stuff you can do.

Oh Freddy...walking the weakest hitter in their lineup

This is gotta be Mo. † The dagger!

Martin Scutaro fucking sucks.

Wanna give more importance to winning the division? Take away the wild card. But that won't make as much money...

[67] Well done, Just Fair! You've created a monster though, I'm going to bust out my Generation Tres™ t-shirt and shout "Cowboy Up™ THIS, Boston!" while dancing to Cotton Eyed Joe™. (well, maybe a different song..)

And that was the wrong decision ...

[72] It's funny. I've been seeing a lot of those signs around the intertubes and was never curious enough to find out how their done. Now we know. Bolllocks©

uh no one touched that in the stands????

Martin forgot he was a catcher

YEAH!!!!!

NUNE5!!!

That was gone off the bat.

[74] They are or they're. Not their. D'oh!
NUNEY!

[75] It hugged the wall

Nune5!

Ha! Too bad Martin went for two. (not that it would have necessarily played out the same, or that going for two was a bad idea.)

Noonyez!

[76] I guess he thought it would've bounced into the stands too.

[80] seemed to bounce up to a bunch of hands reaching out and slow down dramatically, but couldn't see it clearly on the replay

If the red sox hit that they never would have said it wasn't well hit. Just saying...

[47] Ump really DOES sound like he's saying "Sieg Heil!"

Ya know, I've just about heard enough of the Sox bias from this crew. Fuggin Valentine and Horseface are ridiculous. ESPN sucks!

Nunez hit that ball just fine.

Eduardo really puts some good ab's together. In my mind's eye he swings at mostly strikes. Once he de-Meacham's his defense I think he's a keeper.

Hope that hurt.

Good. Break his shin.

[86] I was just about to second this. So, I'll third it.

[90] Schilling's in the stadium, I'm sure he can supply some red dye for his uniform.

Alright, Cap'n, time to come through!

I love seeing Varitek fail.

[87] Imagine Pedroia hit one over the monster, would be another 3 innings of praise. He's a great player but he's becoming Jeter-like in the over-praise by sports announcers dept.

[88] Once If he de-Meacham's his defense I think he's a keeper.

Orel is giving little pony oral. Ugh.

[97] Well done, sir!

shoulda hopped

Nice throw by Martin, even better tag by Jeter

I really love seeing my little pony fail.

Wow...Pedroia hits a Baltimore Chop for an infield single. What a playa! And Three MVP candidates! There has never been a team like this one! How lucky you viewers are to be privvy to this game on ESPN.

What? How can they call Pedroia be called out on the steal? His feet didn't even get wet walking on the water to second.

[99] exactly! Best bunny rabbit in baseball he is.

I kenew they would somehow turn that into isn't shorty awesome spiel.

400 Bad Request

It is not a valid request!
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Am I the only one getting this error?

what fire he must have in his belly to slap a bench with those tiny little hands of his!

Alright, airport time, will be rooting in the car!

[105] I haven't had that error.

[108] I only get the error when I refresh the page.

[109] been doing nothing but refreshing and have had no issues. FYI.

[105] I don't get it... >;)

Love those Sox fans doing the wave with the game in the balance.

Damn..that was a huge missed chance.
C'mon Son of Donnie!!

[110] I've switched browsers, that may solve the problem.

Wow, 3-2 curve

That sucked.

That was a wicked 3-2 curve. Damn.

Chavez should not have missed that 3-0 pitch.

Why not save Logan for A-Gone in later innings? Chief could have gone one more..

Fucking Boone Logan

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone.

Boo...ne.

[119] Lefty-heavy hitters up

Crawford hit that ball twice on the bat. Very lucky. That probably should have been a DP grounder.

Hello. I'm a loogy. I am good at waking the leadoff lefty and then giving up a hit to the next lefty. I've been on fire since Cincinatti.

[118] huh? he was trying to swing and miss. don't you learn anything from bobby v?

Mixing and matching for Jason Varitek seems silly.

in fairness it looked like ortiz took 2 strike 3s at the knees.

What I've learned from Bobby V is that he still hates the Yankees.

[125] And some people think what this team needs is another lefty

[127] Day off tomorrow.

"Joe Girardi has stated he wants to win this series." The kind of hard hitting analysis you can expect from ESPN Sunday Night Baseball

Oh for the love of fucking fuck, its Jason Varitek!

lucky

Atta boy, varitek. Douche.

Giving Tek the 3-0 Green Light? What a break for us. Looked like Ball 4 high.

Captain swing at ball four and pop it up. Great leadership.

Ah, Cap' ba fail bails out wide Wade.

[130] A healthy and effective Marte sure would be useful.

[135] (l)-tek needs a douche.

[130 Maybe another as in "not Boone Logan"?

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WTF was that..

How much infield slop will they get tonight?!

stupid keyboard fail...

That was Jeter's ball.

[139] A healthy and effective Marte will lead to the type of frantic over managing we saw the last two times Joe Girardi had two lefties.

This could be the game here..I would use D-Rob but it's Wade-ahoy..

if girardi wants to win this so badly why is wade still pitching??

cdx.;,l/

throw a g====== strike!

bobby v says a lot of counterintuitive shit

You know, perhaps Cory Wade was overmatched in the situation

This will not end well.

Or perhaps not.

Another flyout by committee!

Wade escapes. He must be hanging with D-Rob.

Exactly.
Mucho ballso for faling behing 3-0 and getting snozzberry. Phhhhewwwwwwwww..

Love that ESPN dickhead announcing sounding like he dropped his ice-cream cone there.."..and they leave them loaded.."

[158] Does he taste like Snozzberry?

I'm going to bed, early call tomorrow morning. Here's to Mixmaster Joe and the Lucky™ Strikes...

[159] Right? They sound like Homers in Pittsburgh. What bullshit.

I understand there are gonna be Yankee haters out there, even or especially in the ESPN booth. But at what cost? Rooting for the Red Sox? Is it really worth it??

Did Bobby Valentine just say "And it is truly an advantage to the pitcher but I don't know if its an advantage to the pitcher?"

Beckett needs that extra time between pitches to work up his douche face.
It's not even up Orel you fucking asshole The ball is just a ball The stirke went for a fucking out you twit!

YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

WHOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. LIl' G! Hot Damn!

Yippie! Gardner sows his seed!

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!
I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray!

I was just saying to myself how I love the Yankees suck chant when Gardner slammed that. How sweet!

Strangely, I had a feeling that might happen.

Ha ha, just as the crowd was getting into their "Yankees Suck chant!

Gardner hit that to the "Yankees Suck" serenade.

If snozzberry had hit that the booth would be blowing their shit. Fuck heads.

Gritner hits the ball 400'. Over the RF BP is quite a shot.

Don't think that was intentional, but Timmons went 1/2-way to the mound to deliver that ball

[176] yep crushed that.

Hell yeah Gritner

Bucky Fuckin' Dent,

Brett Fuckin' Gardner.

I mistakenly thought the Fan Cave was something fans could visit

At least his move to 1st is pretty obvious. Still think it's a balk

Bean eaters strangely quiet...

It would be nice to Win when we get home runs by ARod Nunez and Teix Gritner.

Robbie... TAKE THE FUCKING FIST PITCH!!!!!!!

Fist pitch... HA!

Little bingo, Robbie!

Bah

fuck

That sucks. Robbie just refuses to wait for a good pitch.

*sigh*

Fucking horseshit.

[190] the 1-0 pitch that he let go was about as hittable as it gets

So-Ro-Mo?

[194] I assume so

Now they're ragging on Soriano. Nice.

I missed some innings. Why did Beckett leave so early?

[197] 101 pitches.

YES!

Hahaha ugly missed!