The Yanks have lost four games in a row. Couple of dumb ones against the O’s, couple of tough ones against the Angels. Be nice if they win one today.
Scoretruck–on the low–anyone?
Never mind the angst: Let’s Go Yanks!
[Photo Credit: Someone that Understands]
speaking of McFly, you see these?
http://tinyurl.com/44xc6wh
From LoHud:
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano DH
Jesus Montero C
Eric Chavez 3B
Andruw Jones RF
Eduardo Nunez 2B
Brett Gardner LF
The Yankees also just announced their rotation for the Seattle series.
Monday: Phil Hughes
Tuesday: A.J. Burnett
Wednesday: Ivan Nova
Posted by:Chad Jennings Sunday, September 11th, 2011 at 1:37 pm.
Francisco Cervelli’s locker was just cleared, and his nameplate was replaced with a hand drawn tag for Austin Romine.
Looks like Romine will be here today, wearing No. 71.
No word on a move to make room on the 40-man.
Rays up 3-0 in the bottom of the 1st and have forced Lester to throw close to 40 pitches so far ...
Shields is struggling in the third now. Pedroia just helped him out by waving at a few pitches, but he's still in a jam.
Hoo boy, Papi steps in with the bases loaded and one out...
Gets him to fly out short to LF.
Here's Scarlet Penis with two out...
C'mon Jimmy, wriggle free!
Oh, whoops. Sorry, I can see why that one is awaiting moderation'!
Well, anyway, Shields retires Papi on a short fly, now goes 3-1 to Reddick (ball three looked pretty good to me)...
And Reddick pops out to end the threat.
WRIGGLED!
Now, Devil Fishies, SCORE MORE RUNS!
Ah, it passed moderation. Good, because I have a whole load of nicknames for Josh Red_dick and I would hate to lose all of them!
[10] =)
[10] Injun Cock!
Meanwhile, SWEEP THE LEG JOHNNY!
[12] And yes, that was horrible, I was just guessing along with [10].
I'll be quiet on that subject now.
Go Rays!
Damn, they are just pummeling Lester. Pummeluh pummeluh pummeluh.
Oh, man, that really is dreadful, cult.
But there are many shades of red, and lots and lots of words for the other thing, so just mix and match!
I'm now watching the World Cup. Rugby Union. I only understand part of it. But it's awesome.
[15] Well, when I go off the rails, I prefer to do so on a bridge, for maximum effect!
4-1 Rays!
Hm, apparently in Rugby Union we are not exactly a world power.
[19] What's the difference between Rugby Union and Aussie Rules?
So what shitty reliever do we put in a close game today?
I picked a good weekend to go camping. Looks like I missed nothing good. Yikes. : (
[20] Hm, a bunch of differences. The overall feel is much more open and loose in Aussie rules -- in Rugby there are a lot of scrums and piles and less kicking.
Our side have earned a try! (That's good. But we're losing by a bunch, this is just for respectability.)
[24] There is no try! Do, or do not!
Well, that was one fucking terrible at bat from Teixeira.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND here we go.
Nap time. Fuck You Howie!
Ballgame.
This isn't going well.
GRAND SALAMI for Upton!
8-1 RAYS!
Salami for BJ Upton. 8-1.
Wait, are we on?
No! Dammit. I didn't realize I had to type fast.
[33] In a manner of speaking.
Is there a real chance it'll be us vs the Red Cocks for the wild card?!?! WTF
[32] =)
Beatyabythismuch!
Well, at least we got a clean hit.
Tampa beating Boston would be a lot more fun if the Yankees game plan wasn't "wait for Tampa to eliminate themselves"
I forgot what its called when a Yankee crosses home plate
[40] An aberration.
I don't HATE any team, not even the Red Sox, but good GOD, I sure do DISLIKE the dink-and-dunk Angels ...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.
How sad is it that Eduardo Nunez is such a horrendous fielder than I even panic when he goes to back a play up?
But he's TOO BIG to catch!
This game just isn't going to ... FUCK YEAH, ROOK!
Blargh.
[31/32] BJ is now 20-20! J-Up is already there. i wonder if they're the only brothers to reach 20-20 in the same season. (i care about this stuff!) there are 8 20-20 so far this season and prolly a coupla few more before the month is up...
Chipper just passed Yaz on the all-time homer list. 453, #33 (i think)
[42] oh, i very much hate a team very Very VERY much. hate Hate HATE the shit sox. hate them. a lot. more than a little...
so, jesus threw out a runner. he and sado!
well, that frame sucked.
[47] I can't think of any other good base-stealing brothers.
[47] But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will ...
motherfucking halos.
My Little Throwing Error on the DP pivot.
Would-be DP.
TB plates another. 9-1 after 7.
[50] will Maiden be the house band on the dark side? if so, i'm there dude! ; )
Whoopsie, that one's on HeyZeus ...
[54] I dunno. No women on the Dark Side. Certainly not Natalie Portman.
[52] hilarious!
braves just got swept (again). switched over to phils-brew crew.
[55] That boy is our last hope...
[54] More likely to be someone to the dark side of Slayer, don't ya think?
oh, for fuck sake. enough with wild pitches, errors, infield hits, bunts and overall total fucking bollocks. goddamn it!
Oooo, Garcia wanted that first pitch
Eli - leading rusher
[59] yeah, prolly so. then, i'm definitely not going...
i still can't still watching k-rod pitch. his follow through has to make him the worst fielding pitcher this side of the Tigers in the '06 WS...
Am I wrong... or has Teix NOT contributed to this team winning in quite a while?
Wow, that was worse than his last AB
Robbie!!
[65] i'd say that's pretty accurate. grandy & gritner have been scuffling, as well...
ROBBIECANODONTCHAKNOW!
right on, robbie!
Our savior not doing so well today ...
25 blasts for robbie
So far, Chavez, Rob, and a bunch of midgets.
Um, no offense to midgets intended.
[74] They can't hear you. They're all the way down there.
[75] It went over their heads!
please get a big hit. please.
[76] nice!
C'mon GGBG, we kinda, sorta, really need this AB ...
Sigh.
beltre hit his 300th homerun. he recently racked up his 2,000th hit. he's a little shy of 1,000 runs and 1,100 rbi. 32 years old...
[80] That's MY line!
I give up.
*bangs head against desk*
Ugh.
Women's tennis is on.
Are they even trying?
I assume King Felix is pitchin during the next 3 games so is there a real chance at an 8 game losing streak?
Wow... this last week has been like a bad dream for NY and Boston, and a wet dream for TB.
Fat Freddy's got FUCK ALL today ...
Meh.
i go to my car to get a cd and...this?!
: /
Hmmmmm.... when things go badly, we lapse into midget jokes. How the brave have fallen....
[85] any hot blonde russians playing???
[92] There's a cute Australian. And Serena, who I love, though admittedly not the way I like looking at hot blonde Russians.
Curtis! there ya are!!!
Don't get my hopes up.
Grandyman!!!
Well, wouldja look at that. Somebody besides Rob and Eric brought a bat!
[87] yeah man, i think the King throws tomorrow night...
Fucking Tesh.
Even worse than the other Test you're thinking of ...
Rays sweep. Big Game James was two outs shy of a CG.
err, Tesh you're thinking of.
HeyZeus is going rocks here ...
i was just thinking that the curtis for MVP wagon has skidded to a halt, then bang.
Wow. Oops, guess not.
fuck. my thumb hits the stupid built-in mouse pad on my laptop. i hate that thing. any way to disable it?
anyway, sometimes the screen starts changing sizes. this sucks. now, my scoreboard page is tiny and i can't get it back to normal.
any one know anything?
[100] he throws a lot of them.
[102] i was thinkin the same thing. still, the voters aren't gonna like the .266 avg.
[105] We'll just have to settle for him being *our* MVP ...
[104] ???
The whole screen changes sizes? Some window in particular?
Oh good, looks like we're going to give back those runs. Wouldn't want to actually try and win a game.
[107] yeah, kinda. it's like all the text. it can happen on any window. i have NO idea how/why/when this happens. it just does. something with that built-in mouse...
Blech.
[108] I don't know if we're not trying, we're just not playing very well right now ...
Jesus, Jesus!!!
You've got to block that.
Why the fuck is Fat Freddie stlll in?
You know I kinda like it when an NHL playoff-bound team that's underperforming changes coaches shortly before the playoffs. Wish the Yanks would ax Girardi right about now.
Jesus Christ, don't let Nunez call you off anything
Oh, fer FUCK'S sake Freddy!
(113) Oh, now I get it
Wait, we didn't give up a run there?
Never mind.
Sheesh.
What is it with our pitchers and leaving the bases loaded??!!?!?!?
[107] i fixed it! something with the "zoom" feature...
we're going to win this game.
[121] From your lips to our ears, Nostra!
And the skins just tied the G-men.
Safe.
Lovely.
Alright, Gritner, shove their small-ball down their throats!
Don't.
Fucking.
Bunt.
Enough with the fucking bunting
Oh yeah, Cap'n!!!
This could be THE at bat a legit MVP candidate has to come through in
Alright, guys, THIS ... THIS is the inning that separates the men from the boys, the pudding from the ... uh ... cheesecake!
EXCELSIOR!!!
[129] Indeed.
C'mon Grandyman!
And now a dp for Tex and inning over
Fuck.
Nasty.
Yikes.
Ugh.
[132] Hey now. He might strikeout or popup.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
Wow.. Just, wow...
WOW.
I mean, WOW.
Finally, a break for the Yankees!
Is it just my tv or was the sound way out of sync with the pic?
Or, er, do that.
Wow, the MVP candidates do zilch
Damn, that should have been an out, 100%.
TOTAL CLANK.
C'mon, Chavey!
So is it Proctor, Ayala and Noesi for the 7th 8th and 9th?
Hey, awesome, I went and cooked and came back to a lead!
Wait, I obviously missed something cool. What was the "wow, just wow" stuff?
Sweet, some Romine time!
Oh, the Angels CF muffed a fly ball, I get it.
Thelarmis, do you have a Mac laptop?
[145] The fact that Bourjos just dropped a ball that hit him in the mitt.
100% out ... just, dropped.
[143] Ha! actually might be brackman, kontos and pendleton. hell, i don't even think pendleton is with us any longer. still, he'll pitch. maybe tanyon sturtze, if it goes to extras...
Soriano - worth every dollar
[150] We OWE Sturtze, just like Proctor!
[148] nope. just a regular dell laptop. studio, i think. 15", maybe...
You know, for all the ragging on Montero defensively, I didn't see anything I don't regularly see from Cervelli
Ugh.
Blech.
Seriously, Bodie, lose the chew ...
I bet Russell could spit a guy out stealing second.
[150] Pendleton is with the Astros now.
Ugh, dammit.
We need a new SIG.
Pesky these flippin Angels are...
Hate fucking sori
i really dislike soriano.
Why is that weird, Kay???
Why are you SO FUCKING dense!??!?!?
Markakis fucking lowered the boom on Cervelli as if he was leveling a kick returner ...
It wasn't baseball, it was the worst aspects of that other game ...
[160] [161] Why it's practically a fan club!
Yeah, dude, it's probably the ball.
[159] This and {160} that and [161] the other ...
Robbie now!
Hunter's not catching up to the FB
What???? How could he be safe???
What the hell was that?
Batter interference
Romine would've pegged Hunter had he thrown...
Oh, he was safe. I'll be. Didn't look safe.
[167] He was. Wow.
How is that NOT interference?!?!?!?
Fucking Nunez can't catch or tag
Yeah, it was batter interference. I wonder why it wasn't called.
Anyway, no harm.
[174] How quickly we forget that he can't throw either.
[174] But he's good at other things.
[176] Well, yeah. But other things.
[178] He looks just like one of my sister's friends.
God bless her, not the prettiest thing.
It's Hamma Time.
Hmm. Defensive replacement for Nunez
[181] And Scott Proctor is warming up.
Can't predict baseball.
If Scott Proctor comes into this game before Mariano ... I will KILL Joe Girardi.
No.
Really.
"Scott Proctor warming in the bullpen" is the scariest phrase Kay has uttered since Jody Applegate said "I do" (I know it's illogical but go with it)
Nice cover, D-Rob.
NICE play by Tesh and Robertson!
YOU HAVE BEEN HAMMERED MOTHERFUCKER.
[183] I wouldn't worry, figure it's a throw day or something.
[184] Still trying to figure out the Applegate-Kay union...
[187] I prefer ... YOU LOOKED LIKE A NAIL, MOTHERFUCKER!
[188] Isn't it obvious? One is the Keymaster, one is the Gatekeeper. Keep an eye out for a vagrant giant marshmallow man strolling down Fifth Avenue...
[190] i have a new composition called "Gatekeeper" : )
[191] Kay is the "Gatekeeper" >;)
Mo gets to work without a net
(189) Maybe all of Kay's heads are huge
Meant (188)
I hate the Angels.
That was impressive.
Huzzah!
All Rise!
Thanks be to Mo.
In Mo I trust.
our long national nightmare is over
The Hammer of God descendeth once again!
[121] told ya.
Boy do the Giants ever suck - 4-12 if they're lucky
The Red Sox are now equidistant between us and the Rays.
Praise be to Mo.
So it is written, so it shall be done ...
I think my favorite part of that game was: after seeing our crappy relievers for so long, we got to see the right way to finish a game. D-Rob and Mo, FTW.
And speaking of pitching, just imagine this feeling:
Your Best Team Evah is in free fall. Your ace just got clobbered by the Rays. And you have Wakefield up next, and Andrew Miller after him.
There's a name for that feeling.
We have the Father (Mo), the Son (Montero) on this team. Who is the Holy Ghost? Could it be the increasingly invisible Tex? Girardi actually praised Tex's long fly error, saying that he hit it far, in his game post interview. Jeesh.
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. Yankees have been hung over from the crazy hurricane schedule and the flights. If they lost today, with King Felix tomorrow, they could have been facing a six game losing streak. This is much better. Maybe a detour to Vegas is in order.
The Angels will probably overtake the Rangers. The Yankees must take the devision to prevent a first round PS series against the Angels.
[209] The Holy Ghost is Jorge. Girardi is Pontius Pilate. Jeter is Simon Peter and A-Rod is Judas. Oh, and Swish is King Herod.
Over the last week, the Yanks PS chances went from 99.8 to 99.1. Still not much to worry about The Sox went from 99.6 to (currently) 88.2. It's been a tough week, but we are still in good shape.