as crazy as it seems, the lineup actually kinda makes sense tonight...

i guess you could flip-flop ichiro & casey, but whatevs...

GO FREDDY! GO YANKS!!!

With the Chief pitching, let's hope the score truck makes it past border patrol and up to Toronto.

Nice, Freddy.

Robbie swung at ball four so that he'd have a chance to rip one up the middle.

I hate the circus but I liked that play.

Gift run!

More presents.
Let's make this Hanukkah.

Casey McGehee << Mark Teixeira.

That's why you should score more than one flippin' run when you have the bases loaded and 1 out. grrrrrrrr......

A 2-1 lead seems safe.

Asdrubal took Laptop yard in the first, 1-0 Spiders.

[11] I read an article today about about the Sox loss last night. This was the part that made me laugh. "Lackey was so busted up after the latest defeat that he was strutting around the clubhouse with a can of Bud Light in each hand, or what is known as “double-fisting” on every college campus in the history of mankind."

Well done, Blue Jays. Well done.

Well, waddyaknow. That shift against Teix got us a run one batter later!

[12] Yeah, everyone is talking about that article. And the thing is, Joe Haggerty, who reported it, isn't a Sox beat writer at all. He's kind of a fill-in for Sean McAdam. Good scoop for Haggerty.

[10] But 3-1 is better.

I just noticed that Kay isn't in the booth. Doesn't go to Toronto, ever.

[17] What's the point of being a foreign country if you can't exclude Michael Kay.

Hold the fort. Going to dinner. : ) Go Yankees!

[18] Hm, good point. But is Canada a foreign country? I guess technically it is, but I just consider Canadians to be very unpatriotic Americans. (They love that.)

Not good.

[20] I tend to think of Canada as our attic.

Huge K.
Well, maybe. We shall see.

[21] Yes, but it's not warm like an attic.

Yay, Fred! Not bad.

Buchholz 53 pitches through 5 innings, 1-1 game at the Jake. Or I guess it's Progressive Field.

[23] Drafty old attic that doesn't keep the cold out in winter.

Nice quick 4 pitch inning.

[26] Wow, no kidding? Yeah, I went to mix a gin and tonic, and got back and I'd missed the whole thing! I mean, the whole half.

Did Kenny and Coney say why Fred was done? I had the Jays' crew on.

Okay, they don't know. Interesting. Interesting.
This may work out, however...

Huh.
Is it just that Joe is in one of those moods? He just wants to play a little chess?

Wait, now I go for a vodka tonic and Freddy is done?

Heh, Rob was like, "Relax, man, I have it."

Buchholz at 77 pitches through seven innings, two runs (1 earned). I bet he gets a CG.

Welcome to the game, Mr. Delabar!

[32] And double fists beer afterwards.

Ouch!

[34] He's actually one of the very few players the fans haven't turned on. (Even though he did play golf with Beckett that time...)

Ouch. The Jays suck at fielding.

Hey, I was going to make a soccer joke, but Coney beat me to it! That's why I love Coney.

Ichiro!

And Wheels Martin!

Seriously, that was a superb slide by Russell. And as Coney says, a catcher doesn't wanna bowl over the catcher. Good man, Russell.

I'm really happy to see Joba back.

Btw..professional baseball players are large men, generally in very good shape as athletes..why on earth would they drink Bud or Bud Lite? Surely not for the taste, and being very weak beer, men of that size would need to drink two six-packs to even feel a buzz..are these guys just a) ignorant of real beer existing in the world or b)just a bunch of jocko d-bags who think skulling cans of Bud Lite is really "partying"? As a baseball lover and beer fanatic, this topic really bothers me.

Thinking about the ball that seemed to be lost in the lights.
Wonder if it's possible for a stadium operator to dim the lights on the first base or third base side according to the trajectory of the batted ball.
Not practical, I know... just would be cool to be capable of minimizing flukish occurrences.

Buchholz 89 pitches through 8, still 2 R, 1 ER 2 H, 0 BB, 5 SO, 1 HR. He's a lock for the CG.

[40] This is John Lackey we're talking about. He's a philistine. I promise you that Derek Jeter does not drink Bud, let alone Bud lite.

[40] And it's Boston, which is home of Sam Adams. Unless I'm in a dive bar, I don't touch Bud.
Glad we got those two extra runs.

By stealing both bases, Goss raised the Jays' win expectancy by 1%. If he had been caught, he would have dropped their chances by 3%.
Huh, I guess that's approximately the ratio of the average stolen base. I would have thought those were low-value bases, compared to the potential cost. But I guess the win expectancy was pretty low.

Rising, though...

Gose, not Goss, sorry. But that was a big play, dropping the Jays' chances from 8% to 3%.

[43] Jeter must have a well stocked wine cellar for when he's "entertaining".

A-Rod likely has a good selection of juice boxes in his fridge.

[45] Dude can fly though, easily stole those two.

Looks like O's, TB and Sox are all Winners tonight.

Maybe this will be a turning point for D-Rob. Good outing (except for the BB).

[49] You figure Clay will shut down the Spiders in the ninth, huh?

You can't be worried about the Red Sox. I mean, you can't.

What??? Did Kenny just say that Kay would be there tomorrow?

Oooooh, swishalicious. A booming double RBI. Lovely.

Jorge at the Olympics? Cool.

Buchholz finishes his CG. Superb outing for him. Under team control until 2016, cheap.

[53] If you had $100,000,000, you'd be there too, right? (I wonder if huge sums of money enables you to avoid traffic -- it's supposed to be hellish this summer.)

[55] So cool! Always amazes be at the lack of imagination many ballplayers. You make $20million a year and take your kids, can literally go ANYwhere on the planet and take your family to Disney? And then drink Bud?

I'm Mr. CrankyOKJazz this morning, sorry..

The Werewolf howls!

[56] Where would you go? (When you aren't cran

ky, I mean.)

[Sorry, my keyboard is flaky.)

[55] Yup, I'd be there. Serena has the golden slam now, right?

[58] With unlimited funds? Everywhere! Even on my limited budget was lucky enough to take the Jazz Kids to the Great Wall of China, easy flight from here.

Love this Singleton & Cone Twitter talk going on now. Not cranky anymore :)

[60] Career, yeah. In fact she has it in both singles and doubles! (I believe she is the only player ever to do this.)

She was scary against Sharapova. I can't remember ever seeing such a one-sided match in a final.

Oh goody, another Jays pitcher used.

Hey, double-digits, so Hanukkah [7] for thelarmis!

[61] Nice. But everywhere would be exhausting.

But I agree, I also am happy to have taken my kids great places. (Uluru, for one.)

[62] That beats Stefi. Not bad for a kid from Compton.

[64] Wow, Uluru looks amazing! I want to do an Indonesia, north coast of Australia trip at some point. This damn thing called "work" keeps interrupting my jazz and travel habits. RIYank, unless your taxes have gone up in RI due to Schilling's Folly, how about a donation to the "Jazz Fund"?

[65] Stef and Serena are my two favorite tennis players, ever.

[66] Yeah, that would be a great trip. I haven't been to Western Australia, or even the top near New Guinea, even though I lived there for two years. Perth is closer to Djakarta than it is to Sydney.
Big, sunburned country.

Heh. I figure they should be taxing the millionaires to pay off the Schilling debt -- doesn't that make sense? But I've already made a Jazz Fund contribution! Just ask Eric...

Cone is exactly right, it's a very stupid rule. They should do away with the balk rule entirely.

Also, I forgot to mention: in Australia you can drink really good wine for pennies. It's amazing. Americans think of Australians as beer-drinkers, but beer is a very distant second, in fact.

[68] Was amazed reading about Schilling's company. Some venture capitalist took one look and zipped closed his pocket book right away rather than invest.

[70] No wine for me, allergic.. :(

About time.

[71] Ohhhhh. My condolences! Allergic to grapes?

Well, yeah, it would have been a very, very bad investment. Oy.

Okay, good work Cody.

Good game, team.

Good night all.

Damn, 5 RBI for Ichiro tonight, I didn't realize that.

[73] Red Wine in particular. One glass = vicious migraine.

Go Go Yankees! Good night/morning everyone!

[66] Uluru IS fucking amazing. There is really no way to imagine the scale of it even when you are standing right next to it. We didn't climb up it because the Aborigines believe it is disrespectful.