It's a decent lineup at least.
Is ARod now the permanent DH?

And while we're asking for things:

How about two wins a row?

for fecks sake, this team has got to play better.

Last night may have been the worst of the year. Not worst in that we played sloppy, not worst in blowing a big lead.... but worst in HOW DO YOU LOSE TO SUCH A SHITTY TEAM THAT WAS 2-10 in their last 12 games.

Really... I'm a die-hard fan, but I almost don't want to watch tonight.

And how bad to we have to be before Jeter has a meeting and starts ripping new assholes?

I just realized Cano only has 75 rbi. That is unimpressive.

[4] i'm right there with you.

I'm not fucking looking forward to this

grandy just sucks right now

That was quick

Go Yankees. Go Irish!

Now no one can hit Aaron Cook.

[1] So long as we have a DH who can play a little OF, it's all good.

Wow, either these are two great pitchers, or two weak line-ups.

I wonder which.

This team is both hopeless and boring.

Lead off double. Pffftttttt......

[14] Hopelessly boring?

I know this team has a winning record vs. Texas, but IF they meet them in the playoffs, how will they compete the way they look now?

Not even Jeter. This offense is offensively bad.

[16] Helplessly hoping?

[16] Boringly hopeless.

[19] Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless.

I mean seriously. Did anyone think Chavez was gonna score?

[21] Did he hear a goodbye, or even a hello?

At least Phelps is dealing.

What a boring home run.

Damn. I missed Curtis' homer. Over the bullpen. Big fly!

This is getting better

blasts are supposed to come after bloops. Not before.
Like that. Robbie!

Saw that one! Atta boy, Robbie!

This is less boring.

Mood rings are changing all over the NY area.

[27] Exactly.
Curtis was just being selfish. Fortunately this is one of those rare occasions on which the homer did not kill the rally.

[30] And a small part of little RI.

[30] Changing from blue blue to yellow moon?

Heh. Yes, a tiny part of a tiny place.

Woo-hoo. Those are my Yankees.

And, dare I mention it, and elusive, magical RISP hit! Boo-yah!

OK. Calm down, lots of ball to play.

Chavy smoked that one. Kaboom to the wall.

I can almost here Eric calling, "Guys? Hey, guys? I'm here on second base. Again. Now I'm on third base! Can anyone help me out here? Guys?"

Alright Mr. Phelps. You're mission is to now shut these mfs down. Do it!

If pony doesn't score I may need to eat a hat.

I can't stand it.

Good shut down inning, Phelps. Goddamn Fucking Bollocks!

[38] IMPOSSIBLE

Hey, their second time through the order, but they only got one. Phelps is still on task.

[38} MFs? Mother Figures? or MoFos?

Hard to blame Phelps for that. He had Pedroia struck out, but his strike three was called a ball.

Let's Cook up a few more, just to be safe.

Yo! My blimp from the hood!

Yay!

Mattpat, Mays distance, please?

[43] Whatever works for you. : ) Damn! Curtis JUST missed it.

Heads up baserunning

They may as well replace second base with a thousand foot deep pit. Nobody's going anywhere.

Jeez how did he make that play?

Wonderful. Leadoff triple from that slob.

Catcher triple?
I missed the Curtis and Robbie taters, damn! More, please.

YEAH

[51] The third base pit is even deeper than the second base pit. Although Eric fell into the second base one twice -- hey, maybe it's Chavez Ravine!

Well shiver me timbers and blow me down.

Mr. Phelps, you have earned your pinstripes.

Salty left stuck on the pretzel.

[54] The ol' Chavez Ravine. : ) Uh, oh. Swisher with the lead off double. Hide the women and children.

[58] Yes, it's base-clogging double. Damn. Maybe he can get picked off or something.

[58] The amazing thing is that after Wrigley and Fenway, Dodger Stadium is the third oldest in MLB. Really great park. Too bad 30,000 Latinos with generations of roots in the area were eminent domained/evicted to build it.

Joe Girardi with a 40-man roster. Oy.

Girardi looking for some 6th inning binder magic.
[60] I'd love to see it someday but I really have no reason to go to L.A. Ever.

What a chess match! I bet Maddon is watching on tv.

[62] I highly recommend Santa Monica in the winter.

Out of curiosity, if a pitcher goes to a three ball count and *then* decides to intentionally walk the batter, is the batter credited officially with an IBB?

Is this the same Rich Hill that feuded with Ozzie?

[62] What if you need to get your poodle clipped in Burbank?

[64] I'm pretty sure he is.

[62] I have the same feelings about Comerica.

I have zero desire to ever go to Detroit.

[64] I am fairly certain the answer to that is yes.

Dammit Ichiro. You should have kicked the ball it into right field.

Ichiro seems to be not very good any more at the offensive part of baseball.

First pitch fly ball. Sigh

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. If this team makes the post season I don't see them scoring unless a homer is hit. Seriously.

[60] Didn't Ry Cooder make a recent album about that?

[71] :(

10.14(b)
The official scorer shall score an intentional base on balls when the pitcher makes no attempt to throw the last pitch to the batter into the strike zone, but purposely throws the ball wide to the catcher outside the catcher’s box.

Nothing says "demands a lefty specialist" like James Loney

[74] Yeah, but time sure flies, that was over 5 years ago.

Robinson was pissed, and doubled up the speedy Siriaco.

[76] Really? Ouch..seems like I just heard him on a podcast talking about it..I'm not a huge Ry fan but do like some of his stuff and I had never heard about the building of D Stadium before. Certainly changed my view of the place, that's for sure.

[75] aha.

[77] Ciriaco.

A lot of people think it's an 'S', for some reason. Maybe because he runs like a desert wind?

MATCHUPS!

TB/O's tied 2-2 after 5-1/2.
I would like TB to win.

No confidence in Phelps to get out Loney?

[84] Loney is lefthanded.

Swish!

Bullpen rouxlette...we have a winner!

[80] You are correct, thanks. Sometimes I spellz em like I heerz em.

Phelps did well. Hurrah!

Wow. Who needs Tex?

[84] Plus Phelps had thrown, like, 89 pitches...that gets Girardi a little itchy.

[80] Isn't that a Chinese hot sauce that's popular in the States now? Rooster on the label.

Joe's a genius.

[80] He may run like a desert wind but he hits like shit (except against the Yankees) And that is my Major League quote for the nigh.

According to RAB:
Via Erik Boland, Joe Girardi said that Ivan Nova will return to the rotation and start on Saturday.

“I’m ready,” said the left-hander to reporters after today’s workout. “Can I give you 100 pitches? No. But I feel my stuff has been crisp … Just let me go out there and compete.”

The Yankees have already indicated a willingness to bring Pettitte back before he’s fully stretched out, and the guess here is that he will start next Tuesday’s game (they’re off on Monday) with David Phelps piggybacking out of the bullpen.

It can't hurt.

The midget is having a midget!

Ooooh, it's "hot-head" time.

[93] It can't hurt.

I commend your optimism.

I went all day thinking the Yankees were 1 game behind the O's. So I I was actually pleasantly surprised to find out they weren't. I wonder if pony's new baby will be taller than him.

Knock knock knocking on Willie's door.

Who's this Jeter kid? He seems to be able to hit a little.

Selfish bastard.

Kaboom! That was a beauty. Curtis!

Oh, Curtis.

We missed you so!

All if forgiven Curtis!! BOOM!

BORRRRRRRRRINNNNNNNNNNNG!

That'll do.

By the way, Jeter is one hit away from tying Willie Mays

"Who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream"

COME ON TAMPA

well i hope curtis is back on track. i'm tired of watching him flail. let's go yankees!

[107] Jackie Gleason?

[106] Thank you. About [46] time.

[107] The IRS can...

CORNFLAKE!!!

Uh oh, a black hole double.

[106] He'll get a chance to tie the Say Hey kid tonight.

Meanwhile, Aceves looks a little toasted.

Well if Curtis is unsucking lately and Swisher continues to defunk his 0 for 50 then that spells good news.

[114] A BHD. WIth 2 outs no less. Somebody fetch that man his glove.

[108] Can't they just end the game tied?

[114] et al . . . Did any of you see Sam Miller's article at Baseball Prospectus a few weeks ago?

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17807

Clearly he missed a pit or two.

[116] I'll start calling him Sir Nose when he does...

[97] Well, when Mighty Mouse's wife, Minnie, has her baby, we can only hope it's better looking than Bullwinkle.

I've been jostling between my upstairs office (MLB tv on the PC) and the downstairs living room (NHK on TV). Fucking NHK just switched to the Dodgers.

God damn Japanese programming. There's on rhyme or reason to it.

So what we got now Co-So?

[118] That was awesome. Thank you. So many funny lines in it. "A pit in front of the third baseman would provide an offensive boost without turning baseball players into massive humanoids, as each well-placed bunt would land in the pit and become a home run. Teams would sign the grittiest, scrappiest bunters they could find. Kids would work on bunting drills instead of swinging for the fences or smoking salvia. “Let’s Get America Scrapping Again.”

[118] Didn't see that, but this is more Grand Canyon that a pit.
[117] New acronym!

[120] That would be a bit of a surprise to Mickey Mouse, no?

Oh yeah, Cody-Cody action!

Uh oh, everyone's favorite arsonist is starting to warm ...

[128] Sadly, that can be any number of people

Oakland is playing some sick baseball.

I really can't stand that SOB! Blast!

[127] [128] Mike Stanton came out of retirement so Girardi could have a 4th lefty out of the bullpen!?!?

I gotta pay more attention . . .

[123] [124] You're welcome! Someone is bound to avoid the pit/Grand Canyon/black hole eventually . . .

[129] It would be wonderful if the A's passed the Rangers in the West, and Texas ended up having to fight TB/Baltimore in the play in game.

Oakland Team Offense:
RS: 603, 18th Overall
BA: .236, 29th Overall
OBP: .308, 25th Overall
SLG: .399, 18th Overall

How the fuck can they have a better record than the Yankees???

O's and Rays on ESPN 2. There is a lot of orange in the stands. It looks like every road crew south of Philadelphia is at the game.

Atta boy, Boone! Make it interesting. Nobody likes shit easy!

MATCHUPS!!

[133] Insanely good run prevention plus easier schedule?

Satalamacchia has second-to-third speed.

[133] Nearly identical run differential, identical pythagorean record. So, good pitching.

Bullpen rouxlette...no winner.

[136] Girardi really can't help himself, can he? I can feel the desperation from here - "must . . . do . . . something . . . what can I do? Play matchups!"

I don't think its good for anybody. What's the point? These guys suck, why use your 10th best pitcher just because he throws with one hand over another?

Dear Joba,

Please don't suck.

KTHNKS,

Me

Nix with his best Nune5 impression ... THANKS CORNFLAKE!

Thank Mo Swisher picked that one.. Yikes/

MATCHUPS!!!!!

Nothing's easy.

Joba's back to form, I see.

I picked a bad month to give up drinking.

Remember 2007 when Joba had the best stuff of any Yankees pitcher since Ron Guidry???

I do.

=(

Sigh.

"Putting out the fire with gasoline."

[148] If I were your lawyer, I'd recommend you took up sniffing glue ...

[142] We really need to consider handcuffing him to the bench. It may be the only way to stop him.

[150] "They call him the diamond dog".

Clearly the black hole is closed when the Sox are at bat. Girardi should protest the game immediately.

It's all good...Jeter will pick them up.

Well, we, uh ... held serve!

Can RoSo go duo?

So, actually, Joba was okay.
Well, maybe not okay, but not horrible.

[154] Home field advantage.

[148] I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Just two more innings. Oh Mo, I promise to be good if...

The Mike Aviles RBI double is pretty lousy, RI

You just can't predi.......
I only recognize one voice in the booth tonight. I usually know who is broadcasting. I thought one of the 3 was Francona. But then I realized that none of them sound like a marble mouth. Does anyone know? And they haven't shown them on tv all game. It's nice I suppose.

A run or 10 would be nice here.

[151] How about self flagellation?

[159] If I was your lawyer, I'd recommend starting to drink heavily.

Disclaimer: this does not constitute legal advice.

Here we go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5Sa2Yq-2g

This is gonna be one of those pinch runners that stands there and waits for the inning to end, isn't it?

Maybe not

Take that.
Our C-Dick is better than your Longname.

[165] Way ahead of you. Vodka on a Wednesday night simply because I've got no faith in this team.

Oh, lord help us.

Of for fuck's sake Stewart. Get 'r done.

If it takes this much to beat an awful Sox team that started Aaron Cook..why would anyone expect the Yankees to progress in the postseason? I'm no longer expecting any flags.

This is why Ichiro should be batting 9th.

I smell double play.

[170] An excellent idea, though I'd go with whiskey.

Runs, runs, we want runs!

This is going to be interesting.

[173] Cheer up, Jazz, we're winning. You want blood?

I'm having gin, by the way. It's that time of night. It's that time of the game. It's that time of history.

And Jeter is hurt. Fucking shoot me.

Well that was no good

oh fucking perfect.

[176] Scotch is a Sunday thing. Bourbon fine for Thursday and other days during a frustrating season. Oh Fuck!

%$&*)()(*#$.

I blame rbj.

[173] Don't be glum. There is no dominant team in baseball this year. Anything can happen.

Shit, Oh Mo, please keep Jeter healthy.

[178] On second thought, start crying now.

Losing Jeter would be a double blow because of who would replace him.

Glue, people ... this season requires glue.

Or some other industrial strength inhalant that kills brain cells ...

[184] I accept the double play, not the Jeter injury. Cussing not good enough right now.

What happened for those of us not in front of the TV? If Jeter is hurt . . .

What happened to the Captain????

[190], [191} He came up limping after trying to beat out the dp. He might have hit the bag funny. Out of the game.

HAMMERED.

Man, oh, man, praying hard for DJ right now.

[192] Dammit. Thanks for the news . . . not good.

[190] Maybe hamstring.

[191] You don't wanna know. But he tried to beat out a double play with a long last stride and came up limping bad.

I suspect hamstring or calf strain. Time for another drink. Very unhappy.

Jeter has a had a bum wheel for a week or so now. Whether his misstep on first for hustling is related who knows. But I bet he's on the field tomorrow.