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Everything is Up-to-Date in Kansas City

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I’ve found myself watching Met games more often this season because I enjoy the company of their announcing team, especially Keith Hernandez. Ron Darling and Mex are smart, cultured guys as well as good baseball men. I don’t always enjoy the company of the Yankee announcers but I really like watching a game when David Cone is in the booth. (He’d be a scream paired with Mex, wouldn’t he?) He’s funny, has a student’s knowledge of baseball history, and is keen on the modern analytical part of the game, too.

Cone is what I liked most about last night’s game. Oh yeah, it helped that Brian McCann finally got a big hit, Chase Whitley pitched 7 innings and that the Yanks won, 4-2, but Cone is why I didn’t flip the channel.

Heart of the Country

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Four games in K.C.

Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Brett Gardner LF
Carlos Beltran DH
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann C
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Brian Roberts 2B
Brendan Ryan SS

[Photo Credit: Harry Gruyaert]

Right Here on Our Show

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Mark Teixeira feels funny.

Kick Save and a Beauty

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We’d seen this before. The offense not able to score. The bullpen trying to hold on to a slim lead. With the tying run on second base and one out in the 9th, David Robertson kicked a ground ball that was headed to center field. It looked to be a sure base hit. The game was going to be tied. But the ball knocked off Robertson’s foot and shot over toward first base. Mark Teixeira took a great angle to it and fielded it cleanly. Robertson sprinted to first and Tex flipped the ball to his pitcher for the second out. It was one of those plays that usually never turn out well for the fielding team. This time it did. Robertson struck out the next hitter and the Yanks had a 2-1 win.

Six strong from Tanaka. He wasn’t dominant. The A’s battled him with some long at bats. But Tanaka was good enough. Betances in the 7th, Warren in the 8th, and then Robertson in the 9th.

With a little bit of luck.

[Picture by Bags]

Little Help?

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The Yanks turn to Masahiro Tanaka once again to stop a losing streak. This afternoon, they hope to avoid being swept by the A’s.

Beltran is back.

Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Carlos Beltran DH
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Brian McCann C
Alfonso Soriano RF
Brian Roberts 2B

Never mind the rain:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Painting by Wayne Thiebaud]

Zim

zim2 The Yanks had a 4-0 lead after Jacoby Ellsbury hit a 3-run home run but then the A’s scored 7 unanswered runs as they beat the hapless Yanks, 7-4. But the game was overshadowed by the news that Don Zimmer passed away. The Forrest Gump-like baseball character had a memorable run in New York during the Joe Torre years. He was something else.

Here’s Vin.

zime [Photo Credit: Linda Cataffo]

Snap Out of It

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Time for the Yanks to get a win. Enough of this losing shit. I know they’re playing the best team in the league but still, they should have won last night. Now, go out and get a “w” tonight, fellas.

Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann DH
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Brian Roberts 2B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
John Ryan Murphy C

Never mind the odds:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Beat of the Day

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Screw off the top of a bottle of wine…

[Photo Credit: James K. Lowe via MPD]

Afternoon Art

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Herge.

Ya Slippin’

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Man, and Hiroki pitched such a nice game, too. But then reality bite Dellin Betances in the 8th and Adam Warren in the 10th as the best team in the American League beat the Yanks, 5-2.

Quelle dommage, man.

“I think they’re frustrated,” Joe Girardi said. “I don’t notice them coming to the ballpark and having a different approach than they would have if they scored six or seven runs the night before, but I think they’re frustrated when they don’t come through. I think that’s the nature of the business, and that’s the competitive nature in guys. I think our pitchers have done a good job handling it. I don’t think we’ve seen them really get away with what they do, and they’ve given us opportunities to win games.”

[Photo Credit: Gordon Parks]

Tuesday Night in the Bronx

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The A’s are in town for 3 games. The tough Oakland A’s. Our man Hiroki’s on the hill.

Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter DH
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Yangervis Solarte 2B
Alfonso Soriano RF
Scott Sizemore 3B
John Ryan Murphy C
Brendan Ryan SS

Supposed to storm tonight.

Never mind the lightning:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Picture by Bags]

Taster’s Cherce

recipe_tarako-spaghetti_750x814 Tarako Spaghetti? Yes, please. [Photo Credit: Andre Baranowski]

Where & When: Game 54

Well I guess it’s about time for another Where & When.  The last couple of games have been pretty interesting if I do say so myself, here’s hoping I can keep that ball rolling (as opposed to what the Yanks defense did last night) with his, as it turns out, rather dour entry to the canon.  I dedicate this one to our rather illustrious Gloomy Guses of the Banter:

Where & When Game 54I’m going to spare you a whole lot of drama on this one, because unless you’ve got a real eye for details you’re likely not going to get a clue within this picture of where this can be.  It’s in New York, in a place that would become very well known and lit up with activity starting a few years after this picture was taken (in fact, it was sort of already lit up at this point, but not nearly as much as it would be in the ensuing years).  In the direct center of this picture, a person who would become world renown and whose works would become synonymous with the neighborhood was born in a room in the building to the left of the lamp post. The picture was taken about nine years after his birth. Also, relative to what yesterday’s game ultimately was, the region would change it’s name in a few years and in time begin a tradition that endures to this day.

I’m tasking you with naming this region and the year this picture was taken.  I know it’s a long shot, but if you consider the clues I’ve given you, you won’t suffer as much.  Bonuses to whomever determines (my logic for one) the name of the person I refer to being born in the building I pointed out, the name of that building in particular and how this is relative to the people I dedicated the game to today (in jest, naturally).  It’s a long season as we fairly predicted it would be, so we gotta keep each other up until reinforcements arrive (and hopefully not by postponing the future yet again).  Root beers, cream sodas, floats and brownies, all that.  You know the routine, let’s do this like Leeroy Jenkins.

PEACE!!! >;)

[photo credit: MCNY Blog]

You Need Coolin’

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Marc Myers on the making of “Whole Lotta Love.” 

Ah-hem:

[Painting by Antoine Renault]

Welcome to Hard Times

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Yanks vs. King Felix. They didn’t stand a chance, right? Well, Hernandez wasn’t in top form and the score was tied at 2 going into the 7th inning. But the Yankees made bad plays in the field (et tu, DJ?) and by the end of the inning the M’s had a 4-run lead. They’d add another 4 and won, 10-2. Really, the less said about this one, the better. But if you want the gory details, Chad Jennings’ got ’em for  you. 

[Photo Credit: Horacio Coppola]

Kiss and Make Up

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It’s Phelps vs. King Felix in a make up game at the Stadium.

Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Brian McCann C
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Alfonso Soriano DH
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Brian Roberts 2B
Kelly Johnson 1B

Never mind the crown:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos]

Million Dollar Movie

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Dig this post over at Cinephilia and Beyond. It hips us to a great BBC 4 radio show, Desert Island Discs. Check out interviews with Michael Caine, Stephen Frears, Mel Brooks, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Bob Hoskins and many more.

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